that fines companies for failing to do their due diligence in checking prior arts when applying for a new patent. The fine should be large enough to deter the complete abuse of the patent system.
The music industry in general needs to adapt to the changing technology, and DRM is and never was the answer in the digital world. With the extreme low cost of copying bits and bytes, the law of supplies and demands in ECON 101 tells us that the old business model in which the music industry used to operated by is no longer viable. Just like any other type of businesses, they necessarily change with the times.
I think in your situation, it would have been wise to get some sort of certifcation in management. If management has always been your goal, a MBA is probably the best bet. With your years of experience though, you should probably try to apply to management type of position with other companies.
Optical network? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises Some countries in Asia, Europe, South America, Ocenia, Middle East and Canada already have them available in some major cities. It seems like the U.S. carriers are fairly behind in that regards. I am not sure how the regulations are setup in the U.S. and whether it allows new companies to offer FTTH (fiber to the home). Because when this is available, who is going to care about some broadband service cap?
... Both of these two men's ideas are not that far off, in a way the ENTIRE internet is this database that they wanted to create and search engines like google is the "A.I." that can make some sense out of it. In many, many ways, the amount of intelligence achived by the internet is already astonishingly. It contains more information than generations of human, has almost instant recall ability, is constantly evolving... yet you might still scold at this notion since you might not think of the internet with a search engine as 'intelligent', but can you imagine the response if you had asked anyone 20 years whether something like this can even exist. And can you imagine what another 20 years can bring?
And this is only the beginning. In fact, I have read that one of the goals of the google founders are to one day able to read minds across the internet... And it might not be that far off if we can solve the problem of neuron-machine interface, which is a complex but ultimately analog-to-digital problem. Uploading persona might be still far, far off but simple mind control for motion is already here NOW.
Not that I agree with some of his rather eccentric remarks, but Mr. Fischer is definitely an interesting person. Although in this new century, with the dominance of AI it is hard to see any human champion beating the computer.
Pure speculation here, but it would make a great material for building a Dyson Sphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere AND IF that's the case, there is at least another plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
Exactly, if jobs are not providing the (mainly financial) incentives, then what reasons are there to stay? Employers have expectations, and employees also have expectations. IT, not unlikeable other professions also have expectation. When companies fail to provide their end of the bargain, it is only RATIONAL to expect workers to live. Young workers are singled out because they have higher mobility without being tied down by mortgage, kids, SO, etc.
I really think they need to re-think the whole concept of data security, basically the current, "traditional" way of protecting data security is a form of 'Security by obscurity'. I think most of us know how well that method works. (To be fair, in the past this method was somewhat effective, if only because information was never that readily available to be transferred and copied (and stolen).)
Instead, I think they have to design sensitive data based on the assumption that it WILL be stolen at some point. Encryption of data goes a long way, but the encryption needs to be built-in since the system breaks down as soon as someone forgot to encrypt (and that is bounded to happen). Perhaps some sort of public-key cryptography will be used, and your only *personal* information will be your private key, which you never need to give out.
If such systems are implemented, it will at least go a long way to address the obvious deficiency of current *obsolete* system we implemented for personal data.
They need a new category: either "The Fellow IT tech" or "The Slashdoter"
I work in IT for IBM and a call from me went like this last night:
I "uninstall" Ubuntu from my dual-boot with Vista. Went to the Ubuntu forum/google, knew to get rid of the GRUB but saw that some users ran into issues... Went ahead anyway but ran into issues so...
I actually decide to call the HP-Help Desk to see if they ever get calls like this, if the slim chances that maybe some of their team lead/2nd level support may know... anyway the agent answered couldnt help me but I didnt really expect him to either. Had to explain to him what Ubuntu is/bootloader does etc.
Anyway long story short, I told him dont worry about it. Got off the phone, hack around for 10 minutes later and I lived to experience the pleasure of living through making a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntua and back to Vista laptop! ^_^
It is pretty sad, but this doesnt even surprise me anyway because the frequency of this type of incidents. I applied for a Canadian Passport this April, so I guess I'm screwed...:(
As I recall from my high school experience, getting a C requires me to do absolutely no studying at all (except half-listening in class). Is there any motivation when the goal set is so LOW? If we truly want the brilliant students to succeed, they need to be challenged, not bored to death...
Where I work now, I actually like the cubicle as it gives me a bit of privacy. Also my current job (and most likely future jobs) doesn't require that much interaction with other co-workers.
Open-concept could be useful in certain environments, like in a team environments that require a lot of interaction but otherwise it is not necessarily better... Also it is dependent on your co-workers too, I mean if it was some attractive co-workers I definitely wont mind going Open office but it can also work against you if you have some rather annoying or unattractive co-workers.
So let's see... so you've decided to bring in your computer and drop it off to some companies for repair and data back-up, and somehow I am supposed to be remotely surprised that these underpaid techs would actually browse the data content? First of all, I'd never need to bring my computer to be fixed by anyone but myself, but I would NEVER expect the data to be secure if the most basic and important of all security measure, namely that of physical, is already given up.
The morale of the story is not one of ethnics, but one of having the common (or rather uncommon, it seems) sense to protect yourself and know what and in what ways security can be compromised. Surely, companies should be better, the government should be better, the world should be better, but one still need to face the reality of what actually IS out there.
My 2 cents.
Fear me... the Overlord of Warcraft and Starcraft. A master criminal, I am.
But seriously, if someone is drawn to violent videogames, could it possibly it that the person was already drawn to violence in the first place? Cause and effect, seems like some 'researchers' are confused on that. It is fairly simple really: Person like A, therefore the person would be drawn to A-related stuffs (As opposed to: Due to A-related stuffs, therefore person like A). Or put it another way, there are different genes of videogame, there must already be a reason why someone is drawn to violent games.
For example, I'm drawn to Warcraft and Starcraft because my type of personality was drawn to RTS (real-time strategy) games, instead of claming I liked RTS because Warcraft and Starcraft.
The article is fully titled "How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social Not Electronic". The article itself is utter garbage, it is confusing the role that technology played in warefare with the ones that strategic and psychological thinking played. Technology didn't lose the war, if anything it won it. Just ask the dead Iraqi in their tanks, cut off from their communications and were smart-bombed...
No, the problem with the Iraq war does NOT lie with technology, it lies with piss-poor strategic thinking. Read the Art of War, the first principle is that it is best to archieve victory without fighting. This is where the US army is utterly failing, they failed to gain any good-will with the Iraqi people, and for good reason too. If anything, the administration had a serious lack of interest in properly re-building Iraq, and more interest in selling out military and construction contract.
While I definitely agree that the critical networks to work with in Iraq right now is social, the purpose of the technology mentioned--namely network-centric warefare, was designed to tackle a completely different problem. It takes a completely different tools--namely much better and focus foreign policy, to tackle the problem in Iraq.
Finally, the U.S. needs to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, they really have no business there to begin with in the first place, they need to focus on re-build the infrastructure that they destroyed and let the Iraqis govern their own country.
I disagree, it is entirely inappropriate for Universities to outsource their emails, since all their students' communications would then be in the hands of 3rd parties. Also Universities would be undoubtly influenced by even more corporate interests. That is definitely a step toward the wrong direction. If anything, Universities need to spend more $ on IT and hired more competent people instead of giving all the $ to the administration.
Why does Mark Cuban said on internet traffic even matter?
Esp. when all he cares is how to make more $ for himself, he'd probabaly want to charge you $ just to watch NBA video online.
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that fines companies for failing to do their due diligence in checking prior arts when applying for a new patent. The fine should be large enough to deter the complete abuse of the patent system.
The music industry in general needs to adapt to the changing technology, and DRM is and never was the answer in the digital world. With the extreme low cost of copying bits and bytes, the law of supplies and demands in ECON 101 tells us that the old business model in which the music industry used to operated by is no longer viable. Just like any other type of businesses, they necessarily change with the times.
I think in your situation, it would have been wise to get some sort of certifcation in management. If management has always been your goal, a MBA is probably the best bet. With your years of experience though, you should probably try to apply to management type of position with other companies.
Optical network? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises Some countries in Asia, Europe, South America, Ocenia, Middle East and Canada already have them available in some major cities. It seems like the U.S. carriers are fairly behind in that regards. I am not sure how the regulations are setup in the U.S. and whether it allows new companies to offer FTTH (fiber to the home). Because when this is available, who is going to care about some broadband service cap?
... Both of these two men's ideas are not that far off, in a way the ENTIRE internet is this database that they wanted to create and search engines like google is the "A.I." that can make some sense out of it. In many, many ways, the amount of intelligence achived by the internet is already astonishingly. It contains more information than generations of human, has almost instant recall ability, is constantly evolving ... yet you might still scold at this notion since you might not think of the internet with a search engine as 'intelligent', but can you imagine the response if you had asked anyone 20 years whether something like this can even exist. And can you imagine what another 20 years can bring?
And this is only the beginning. In fact, I have read that one of the goals of the google founders are to one day able to read minds across the internet... And it might not be that far off if we can solve the problem of neuron-machine interface, which is a complex but ultimately analog-to-digital problem. Uploading persona might be still far, far off but simple mind control for motion is already here NOW.
Not that I agree with some of his rather eccentric remarks, but Mr. Fischer is definitely an interesting person. Although in this new century, with the dominance of AI it is hard to see any human champion beating the computer.
Pure speculation here, but it would make a great material for building a Dyson Sphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere AND IF that's the case, there is at least another plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
Surely this teenager deserve a mention http://www.daily-times.com/ci_7938831... DA you insensitive clod!
Exactly, if jobs are not providing the (mainly financial) incentives, then what reasons are there to stay? Employers have expectations, and employees also have expectations. IT, not unlikeable other professions also have expectation. When companies fail to provide their end of the bargain, it is only RATIONAL to expect workers to live. Young workers are singled out because they have higher mobility without being tied down by mortgage, kids, SO, etc.
... who misread the title as "Goodbye Cruel World". Thought it was going to be a /. suicidal note... God I NEED COFFEE!
I really think they need to re-think the whole concept of data security, basically the current, "traditional" way of protecting data security is a form of 'Security by obscurity'. I think most of us know how well that method works. (To be fair, in the past this method was somewhat effective, if only because information was never that readily available to be transferred and copied (and stolen).) Instead, I think they have to design sensitive data based on the assumption that it WILL be stolen at some point. Encryption of data goes a long way, but the encryption needs to be built-in since the system breaks down as soon as someone forgot to encrypt (and that is bounded to happen). Perhaps some sort of public-key cryptography will be used, and your only *personal* information will be your private key, which you never need to give out. If such systems are implemented, it will at least go a long way to address the obvious deficiency of current *obsolete* system we implemented for personal data.
Personally I'd pick my laptop over any e-reader out there, or even a PDA would be a better choice than any e-reader.
They need a new category: either "The Fellow IT tech" or "The Slashdoter" I work in IT for IBM and a call from me went like this last night: I "uninstall" Ubuntu from my dual-boot with Vista. Went to the Ubuntu forum/google, knew to get rid of the GRUB but saw that some users ran into issues... Went ahead anyway but ran into issues so ...
I actually decide to call the HP-Help Desk to see if they ever get calls like this, if the slim chances that maybe some of their team lead/2nd level support may know... anyway the agent answered couldnt help me but I didnt really expect him to either. Had to explain to him what Ubuntu is/bootloader does etc.
Anyway long story short, I told him dont worry about it. Got off the phone, hack around for 10 minutes later and I lived to experience the pleasure of living through making a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntua and back to Vista laptop! ^_^
the book is still better.
It is pretty sad, but this doesnt even surprise me anyway because the frequency of this type of incidents. I applied for a Canadian Passport this April, so I guess I'm screwed... :(
As I recall from my high school experience, getting a C requires me to do absolutely no studying at all (except half-listening in class). Is there any motivation when the goal set is so LOW? If we truly want the brilliant students to succeed, they need to be challenged, not bored to death...
Where I work now, I actually like the cubicle as it gives me a bit of privacy. Also my current job (and most likely future jobs) doesn't require that much interaction with other co-workers. Open-concept could be useful in certain environments, like in a team environments that require a lot of interaction but otherwise it is not necessarily better... Also it is dependent on your co-workers too, I mean if it was some attractive co-workers I definitely wont mind going Open office but it can also work against you if you have some rather annoying or unattractive co-workers.
So let's see... so you've decided to bring in your computer and drop it off to some companies for repair and data back-up, and somehow I am supposed to be remotely surprised that these underpaid techs would actually browse the data content? First of all, I'd never need to bring my computer to be fixed by anyone but myself, but I would NEVER expect the data to be secure if the most basic and important of all security measure, namely that of physical, is already given up. The morale of the story is not one of ethnics, but one of having the common (or rather uncommon, it seems) sense to protect yourself and know what and in what ways security can be compromised. Surely, companies should be better, the government should be better, the world should be better, but one still need to face the reality of what actually IS out there. My 2 cents.
Fear me ... the Overlord of Warcraft and Starcraft. A master criminal, I am.
But seriously, if someone is drawn to violent videogames, could it possibly it that the person was already drawn to violence in the first place? Cause and effect, seems like some 'researchers' are confused on that. It is fairly simple really: Person like A, therefore the person would be drawn to A-related stuffs (As opposed to: Due to A-related stuffs, therefore person like A). Or put it another way, there are different genes of videogame, there must already be a reason why someone is drawn to violent games.
For example, I'm drawn to Warcraft and Starcraft because my type of personality was drawn to RTS (real-time strategy) games, instead of claming I liked RTS because Warcraft and Starcraft.
The article is fully titled "How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social Not Electronic". The article itself is utter garbage, it is confusing the role that technology played in warefare with the ones that strategic and psychological thinking played. Technology didn't lose the war, if anything it won it. Just ask the dead Iraqi in their tanks, cut off from their communications and were smart-bombed... No, the problem with the Iraq war does NOT lie with technology, it lies with piss-poor strategic thinking. Read the Art of War, the first principle is that it is best to archieve victory without fighting. This is where the US army is utterly failing, they failed to gain any good-will with the Iraqi people, and for good reason too. If anything, the administration had a serious lack of interest in properly re-building Iraq, and more interest in selling out military and construction contract. While I definitely agree that the critical networks to work with in Iraq right now is social, the purpose of the technology mentioned--namely network-centric warefare, was designed to tackle a completely different problem. It takes a completely different tools--namely much better and focus foreign policy, to tackle the problem in Iraq. Finally, the U.S. needs to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, they really have no business there to begin with in the first place, they need to focus on re-build the infrastructure that they destroyed and let the Iraqis govern their own country.
I disagree, it is entirely inappropriate for Universities to outsource their emails, since all their students' communications would then be in the hands of 3rd parties. Also Universities would be undoubtly influenced by even more corporate interests. That is definitely a step toward the wrong direction. If anything, Universities need to spend more $ on IT and hired more competent people instead of giving all the $ to the administration.
Why does Mark Cuban said on internet traffic even matter? Esp. when all he cares is how to make more $ for himself, he'd probabaly want to charge you $ just to watch NBA video online.
And what are they smoking (or how much are they getting paid by Microsoft)?
Tell me again why I would want this device when my laptop already fills that role (plus more, and it is mobile enough for me)?
I, for one, welcome the Ghost in the Shell Universe (and ghost hacking etc).