Expanding on the above post, if the US is installing and/or exploiting bug related backdoors in commercial software it would take relatively few to reach 99+% coverage. If you can get the OS's you're set as you can hit 99% with less than a half dozen. Likewise with cellular providers, handset makers, virus scanners, printer (driver) manufacturers, cpu manufacturers, router manufacturers, email clients, web browsers, office suites, etc.... Take any category of software or hardware most of which are dominated by only a few major players and if you can get your foot in the door with any of them then you have control of the computer or device. I'm not sure that linux even has that much advantage as there are few if any people who compile everything from scratch and even if they do, how hard would it really be to get an undocumented bug inserted into one of several hundred programs that run on a typical computer. If they're willing to throw enough time, money, and power behind it, there is no way someone can avoid being eavesdropped on.
I tend to be mostly on Snowden's side and I think he is fully justified to leak evidence of illegal activity but how does he justify leaking this new information? I find it interesting but is he now just leaking everything? He weakens his case as a "whistleblower" by leaking random stuff classified or otherwise that although interesting seems irrelevent to the illegal activities he supposably was trying to expose.
As a side note, I wonder how much of the money exchanging hands in these paywalls is just going back and forth between different people in the same field. By eliminating paywalls, the information is available to more people and researchers can stop trading money to read each other's papers.
If I was a real researcher with a real budget, I would be happy to fork over a couple bucks to read an article I needed to reference in my research but I would guess that there are alot more non-researchers like typical slashdot reader than actual real researchers. I also turn to google when I hit a paywall because it's usually more of a passing interest and I'm not going to pay $5 to $35 to read an article that I might only understand half of anyways but it would sure be nice if there was a way to give access to the non-professional general public as a way to pass on useful knowledge instead of hiding it behind a paywall where only a select few people in the same field are willing to pay for it.
How do you even know what he is using his talents for at his day job? This type of project is fun, allows a programmers to relax, reduce stress, and unwind but also allows them to hone their skills so that there actually are "talented technical folks" for you to hire. I have yet to meet a great programmer that doesn't do this sort of thing in their spare time and therefore I honestly believe that eliminating this sort of behavior would actually reduce your ability to hire qualified candidates.
> > A bar won't even guarantee my coat will be in check when I come back for it I sure as hell won't trust them with my house and car keys. >
At least where I live (Missouri) most bars take your driver's license and/or your credit card when you start a tab and hold on to it till the end of the evening which is not much different than your keys.
There are other things that probably need to go along with or instead of just lowering the limit. Some options are:
1) requiring bars to offer free breathalizers with printouts to customers.
2) requiring bars to test patrons and issuing notes/warnings.
3) requiring bars to test patrons and not return keys/license if over limit (maybe still allow the DD to retrieve it for them)
4) requiring bars to offer free transportation home if customer is over the limit.
5) making bars jointly liable so that they have a big incentive to implement their own solutions. etc...
They average person is stupid and doesn't know their limit, it would be easier to be more proactive on the bar side.
> >It really only works in small countries where people are much more politically involved and have a larger stake in the country as a whole >
If our country was ran like the founding fathers intended and states operated more like small countries and the federal government was restricted to a small set of limited powers, we could experiment with that here on a state by state basis and might actually figure out something that works versus large uncontrolled "too big to fail" federal experiments.
> > one week for men and 3 months for women sounds "fair" to me. >
This logic is the same logic that public schools used to pay men more than women. The logic was that men were the "breadwinners" so they needed to be paid more than women but single men still got the "breadwinner" bonus while single moms and women who were the sole providers still didn't. If you want it to be "fair" then it shouldn't be based on gender but based on what the person does not what the "average" person supposably does.
Amusing. I actually just discovered that there are third parties that make double capacity batteries and modified battery covers under the name "high-capacity" or more commonly "extended". For my phone the prices seemed to be only $10-$20 for the new extended battery and the free case. Not for sure why I never thought to search for this before.
I've considered several times trying to modify my phone to take a battery twice as large. If used heavily, my phone usually dies halfway through the evening which means doubling the capacity would be more than enough. I don't have a problem plugging my phone in every evening so I really only need 12-16 hours instead of the 8-10 I currently get but ideally I would want 40 hours (or a second battery) for the rare occasion I forget to plug it in. Either way, my phone is plenty thin and I would barely notice the extra thickness of a slightly larger battery which is easily obtainable with existing technologies. Too bad cellphones don't have battery options like laptops do.
My seven year old knows who Michael Jackson is or at least knows the name and I don't own nor do I listen to any of his songs. I find it very surprising that a teenager wouldn't at least know that he was a singer.
Not for sure I agree that debugging is harder than writing code. Writing GOOD code is hard. Debugging good code is easy. I've always enjoyed debugging and assuming the code is decently written, I usually find it fairly easy to track down and fix a bug.
This might actually be useful for a day if it encouraged people to create accounts but why am I still seeing rot13 after I log in? I don't mind logging in but I don't like to have to click on every article to read the summary even after I do log in.
I've never heard anyone use the word gasoline to refer to diesel fuel. Possibly the word gas as in "I need to go put some gas in my car" but never the word gasoline. I would think it would be more likely that someone would confuse the word petrol for diesel than the word gasoline for diesel.
I was never questioning your english or your proofreading skills. I was questioning the purpose of being a pedantic grammer nut on slashdot. If you are in the 99th percentile in english, it might be time for you to pick up a 2nd or 3rd language or head over to one of the many sites where people are asking for help learning english. Or to quote Sheldon's mom: "It's ok to be smarter than everyone else, it's just not ok to tell everyone". Unsolicited advice is seldom if ever welcome especially if it is splitting hairs. Knowing when to correct someone and when to let things slide is a more important skill than always having the right answer.
I had a roommate who would listen to music in a language he didn't understand when he studied. It easily blocked out any voices and wasn't distracting as it was in a different language so there was nothing to grab his attention. Probably more effective than white-noise or instrumental as it is still the human voice. If you get really desperate, try multiple streams of foreign voices at the same time.
I also tend to install qimo on top of standard ubuntu for a permanent install. It's unfortunate that it is possibly unmaintained as it's the only bootable cd I found that 'just worked' the first time. A bootable cd has the added advantages that your kid can't screw up your computer settings and it's also easy to give it away and introduce it to other parents.
Maybe it even teaches them that "a lot" is two words, if that's not too much to hope for.
Dude, you really need to get out more. There is alot more to life than trolling slashdot looking for pedantic grammer mistakes. I happen to like the word 'alot'. I also like the word 'googled', the word 'slashdotted', and using the word 'they' as a generic singular pronoun just to name a few. Oh, I've also been known to use extra parentheses to specify groupings and to avoid confusion and if I thought about it I could probably think of quite a few other examples where I take liberty in casual conversation so get over yourself and if you've mastered english as well as you apparently think you have then go learn a 2nd language or go proofread something that actually needs to be proofread like your local newspaper and do me and everyone else on slashdot a favor and don't attempt to proofread my (or anyone else's) casual off-the-cuff conversations.
It is especially good for younger kids but has alot of apps for older kids as well. http://www.qimo4kids.com/ All the other ones I personally tried out seemed to have problems with sound cards, booting, etc....
> >Today OCR of printed text is a solved problem. >
Are you kidding? OCR software still sucks. I have yet to get even marginal results from any piece of OCR software I have tried. My company would gladly pay thousands of dollars for a piece of OCR software that would actually work and companies like google and amazon would probably gladly give 100s of thousands of dollars for such a piece of software. Not to mention the library of congress, project gutenburg, etc...
If you know of a company who has "solved" OCR, by all means let me know, and if it actually works, I'll personally give you $100 as a referral fee.
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Expanding on the above post, if the US is installing and/or exploiting bug related backdoors in
commercial software it would take relatively few to reach 99+% coverage.
If you can get the OS's you're set as you can hit 99% with less than a half dozen.
Likewise with cellular providers, handset makers, virus scanners, printer (driver) manufacturers,
cpu manufacturers, router manufacturers, email clients, web browsers, office suites, etc....
Take any category of software or hardware most of which are dominated by only a few major players
and if you can get your foot in the door with any of them then you have control of the computer or
device. I'm not sure that linux even has that much advantage as there are few if any people who
compile everything from scratch and even if they do, how hard would it really be to get an
undocumented bug inserted into one of several hundred programs that run on a typical computer.
If they're willing to throw enough time, money, and power behind it, there is no way someone can
avoid being eavesdropped on.
I tend to be mostly on Snowden's side and I think he is fully justified to leak
evidence of illegal activity but how does he justify leaking this new
information? I find it interesting but is he now just leaking everything?
He weakens his case as a "whistleblower" by leaking random stuff classified
or otherwise that although interesting seems irrelevent to the illegal
activities he supposably was trying to expose.
Yeah, I noticed that but the article doesn't mention the cost to rent or the cost to manufacture either.
I don't see a price anywhere. What is the estimated cost of this thing?
As a side note, I wonder how much of the money exchanging hands in these paywalls is just
going back and forth between different people in the same field. By eliminating paywalls, the
information is available to more people and researchers can stop trading money to read each
other's papers.
If I was a real researcher with a real budget, I would be happy to fork over a couple bucks to read an
article I needed to reference in my research but I would guess that there are alot more non-researchers
like typical slashdot reader than actual real researchers. I also turn to google when I hit a paywall
because it's usually more of a passing interest and I'm not going to pay $5 to $35 to read an article
that I might only understand half of anyways but it would sure be nice if there was a way to give
access to the non-professional general public as a way to pass on useful knowledge instead of hiding
it behind a paywall where only a select few people in the same field are willing to pay for it.
How do you even know what he is using his talents for at his day job? This type of project is
fun, allows a programmers to relax, reduce stress, and unwind but also allows them to hone
their skills so that there actually are "talented technical folks" for you to hire. I have yet to
meet a great programmer that doesn't do this sort of thing in their spare time and therefore
I honestly believe that eliminating this sort of behavior would actually reduce your ability to
hire qualified candidates.
>
> A bar won't even guarantee my coat will be in check when I come back for it I sure as hell won't trust them with my house and car keys.
>
At least where I live (Missouri) most bars take your driver's license and/or your credit card when you start a tab and hold on to it till
the end of the evening which is not much different than your keys.
There are other things that probably need to go along with or instead of just lowering the limit.
Some options are:
1) requiring bars to offer free breathalizers with printouts to customers.
2) requiring bars to test patrons and issuing notes/warnings.
3) requiring bars to test patrons and not return keys/license if over limit (maybe still allow the DD to retrieve it for them)
4) requiring bars to offer free transportation home if customer is over the limit.
5) making bars jointly liable so that they have a big incentive to implement their own solutions.
etc...
They average person is stupid and doesn't know their limit, it would be easier to be more proactive on the bar side.
>
>It really only works in small countries where people are much more politically involved and have a larger stake in the country as a whole
>
If our country was ran like the founding fathers intended and states operated more like small countries and the federal government
was restricted to a small set of limited powers, we could experiment with that here on a state by state basis and might actually
figure out something that works versus large uncontrolled "too big to fail" federal experiments.
>
> one week for men and 3 months for women sounds "fair" to me.
>
This logic is the same logic that public schools used to pay men more than women. The logic was that men were the "breadwinners"
so they needed to be paid more than women but single men still got the "breadwinner" bonus while single moms and women who were
the sole providers still didn't. If you want it to be "fair" then it shouldn't be based on gender but based on what the person does not
what the "average" person supposably does.
Amusing. I actually just discovered that there are third parties that make double capacity
batteries and modified battery covers under the name "high-capacity" or more commonly
"extended". For my phone the prices seemed to be only $10-$20 for the new extended battery
and the free case. Not for sure why I never thought to search for this before.
I've considered several times trying to modify my phone to take a battery twice as large.
If used heavily, my phone usually dies halfway through the evening which means doubling
the capacity would be more than enough. I don't have a problem plugging my phone in every
evening so I really only need 12-16 hours instead of the 8-10 I currently get but ideally I would
want 40 hours (or a second battery) for the rare occasion I forget to plug it in. Either way, my
phone is plenty thin and I would barely notice the extra thickness of a slightly larger battery
which is easily obtainable with existing technologies. Too bad cellphones don't have battery
options like laptops do.
My seven year old knows who Michael Jackson is or at least knows the name and
I don't own nor do I listen to any of his songs. I find it very surprising that a
teenager wouldn't at least know that he was a singer.
Not for sure I agree that debugging is harder than writing code.
Writing GOOD code is hard. Debugging good code is easy.
I've always enjoyed debugging and assuming the code is
decently written, I usually find it fairly easy to track down and
fix a bug.
This might actually be useful for a day if it encouraged people to
create accounts but why am I still seeing rot13 after I log in?
I don't mind logging in but I don't like to have to click on every
article to read the summary even after I do log in.
I've never heard anyone use the word gasoline to refer to diesel fuel.
Possibly the word gas as in "I need to go put some gas in my car"
but never the word gasoline. I would think it would be more likely that
someone would confuse the word petrol for diesel than the word
gasoline for diesel.
I was never questioning your english or your proofreading skills. I was
questioning the purpose of being a pedantic grammer nut on slashdot.
If you are in the 99th percentile in english, it might be time for you to
pick up a 2nd or 3rd language or head over to one of the many sites
where people are asking for help learning english.
Or to quote Sheldon's mom: "It's ok to be smarter than everyone else,
it's just not ok to tell everyone". Unsolicited advice is seldom if
ever welcome especially if it is splitting hairs. Knowing when to correct
someone and when to let things slide is a more important skill than
always having the right answer.
I had a roommate who would listen to music in a language he didn't understand when
he studied. It easily blocked out any voices and wasn't distracting as it was in a
different language so there was nothing to grab his attention. Probably more
effective than white-noise or instrumental as it is still the human voice. If you get
really desperate, try multiple streams of foreign voices at the same time.
I also tend to install qimo on top of standard ubuntu for a permanent install.
It's unfortunate that it is possibly unmaintained as it's the only bootable cd
I found that 'just worked' the first time. A bootable cd has the added
advantages that your kid can't screw up your computer settings and it's
also easy to give it away and introduce it to other parents.
Maybe it even teaches them that "a lot" is two words, if that's not too much to hope for.
Dude, you really need to get out more. There is alot more to life than trolling
slashdot looking for pedantic grammer mistakes. I happen to like the word
'alot'. I also like the word 'googled', the word 'slashdotted', and using the
word 'they' as a generic singular pronoun just to name a few. Oh, I've also
been known to use extra parentheses to specify groupings and to avoid
confusion and if I thought about it I could probably think of quite a few other
examples where I take liberty in casual conversation so get over yourself
and if you've mastered english as well as you apparently think you have
then go learn a 2nd language or go proofread something that actually needs
to be proofread like your local newspaper and do me and everyone else on
slashdot a favor and don't attempt to proofread my (or anyone else's) casual
off-the-cuff conversations.
It is especially good for younger kids but has alot of apps for older
kids as well. http://www.qimo4kids.com/
All the other ones I personally tried out seemed to have problems
with sound cards, booting, etc....
>
>Today OCR of printed text is a solved problem.
>
Are you kidding? OCR software still sucks.
I have yet to get even marginal results from any
piece of OCR software I have tried.
My company would gladly pay thousands of dollars
for a piece of OCR software that would actually
work and companies like google and amazon would
probably gladly give 100s of thousands of dollars
for such a piece of software. Not to mention the
library of congress, project gutenburg, etc...
If you know of a company who has "solved" OCR,
by all means let me know, and if it actually
works, I'll personally give you $100 as a
referral fee.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=14511+prism+circle+
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there is even more layers.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=14511+prism+circle+
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