"I want this to be combined with a well-informed debate characterised by openness, rather than mere opinion, by reason and reasonableness," she told the IPPR.
Good luck with that!
People already have there mind made up over how they feel about this issue. However, to me this seems like not a big deal. This information is already stored for long period of a time. It's administration is just changing hands from private to public sector. As long they keep the promise to not allow trawling of the database without probable cause or whatever equivalent they have across the pond, I'm not seeing the big deal. The actual context of the e-mail is off-limits still. I definitely see a distinction between something like this and say COINTELPRO or MI-5 tapping your phone and having you under 24 hour surveillance.
Gore got one for peace. He did not receive one for any of the hard sciences. The peace prize has always been subjective and controversial. I'm not real sure why you are upset he used political rhetoric to get one either. Whether or not he met your subjective standards for promoting peace enough to earn a Nobel, rhetoric is an acceptable means to peace, probably the most preferable.
The ones for physics and such, however are still very much prestigious. You can be sure that it takes a lot of hard scientific work to get one. So beat up on Gore all you want, but leave the scientists alone. (disclaimer: I am not a supporter of Mr. Gore.)
There was even more agitation over the chemistry prize, awarded jointly to rival teams - one from the United States which determined Coca-Cola to be an effective spermicide and one from Taiwan which proved it is not.
I don't see how any self-respecting scientist can sleep at night until this situation is rectified. I know I can't!
Well the submission system already does this for url's submitted outside of the main body of the article summary. In short, it would be cumbersome to sort of blacklist url's as you suggest, because a previously used url could be relevant again. If you are thinking that why don't the editors actually check the url's... well then my friend... you must be new here.
Well this is the whole problem. We have adjusted to having such easy access to credit and capital and money in all its forms that once the credit markets seized up, the resulting deflationary pressure would be multiplied and reek havoc. The thing about the market though is that it sort of gets itself into spirals, or apparent spirals, where the exact thing that caused a problem is what we expect to solve it. Inflation of the currency and ungodly overspending results in a deflationary bomb, well the only thing that can save us is... uh more inflation of the currency and more ungodly spending. Maybe pork is the cure? I don't know anymore.
You have hit the nail right on the head. Thinking no further than the next quarter is what got the US financial markets into the grand mess that they are in. We here a lot of political grandstanding about how the American worker is the most creative and productive on the planet, but I mean you know that statement's worth is debatable, but I know something for absolutely certain, American CEO's and stockholder's are the most short-sighted and unimaginative on the planet.
I agree with your disappointment in this phone. Personally, this sounds like a big mistake on Google's part. I haven't followed the phone market actively, but I am aware of the general goings on. Android has the potential to make a big splash, but being tied to this handset wastes that initial release PR boost. When you are fighting the gods of marketing and "hip" over at Apple, you gotta play the game right. I still have faith that Android will provide a good alternative for mobile platforms, but I think this release will take a toll. It may be more of an uphill battle than it had to be.
Oh I don't know... "Yeah... ummm that picture that was tagged of me on facebook while "I" was supposedly snorting cocaine while setting fire to a kennel full of puppies... ummm that was definitely a smear campaign!" It just sort of has that ring of unbelievability to it.
A little known fact, there is no China on the moon. Therefore, you do not have to worry about the China Syndrome. You can run a nuclear reactor any way you want.
Yeah... as a Virginian, this makes me proud. The open sourcing of education is just awesome. I can't wait for my kids to learn how Albert Einstein delivered the ten commandments that brought the enlightenment of the time cube to the world, and other things of this nature. I also wish upon the experience of needing critical information for a research paper only to find the project killed because of rampant forking and infighting amongst educators. They'll be better people for it./kidding... mostly that is
Well, if you are going to be pedantic nothing is really live because relativity precludes true simultaneity. I think we all understand what he means.
All in all, it does my heart well to see such mainstream coverage of the event. My parents, who are sort of aloof to anything scientific, are even paying attention to it on the 24 hour news. It's these sort of things turning into moments that reach across all of society that inspire new generations of kids to become scientists.
Coming out with a new book service. Only this time it's bundled with the OS and a pain to remove. Also adding Google books to the list of apps that UAC applies to.
What do you think: is the Netflix Player a game-changing product that bests Apple TV? Or is the selection too lackluster to be worth even its $100 asking price?
Selection will improve. It may a commercial mistake to release without the full library behind it, but I think it will still find some measure of success. Either way, this is a win for customers. Something this cheap is really going to threaten the other players. For starters, the streaming quality is a non-issue for most, which makes the price difference look all the more appealing. The scant library is a downer, but again that will be fixed. The only problem I see in the system is ISP's mucking things up. They scream about taking down net neutrality to augment this sort of thing, but in the end people actually using the bandwidth they payed for will make them much angrier.
I like that netflix is jumping into the mix. Still, I would prefer the Internet not to be hijacked by video on demand when we have such an expensive cable system already available. However, I've come to the realization that video on demand is already moving forward on the net, and the best I can hope for is video on demand platform be the most customer friendly one as possible.
I don't know if you are aware or not of a little thing called twitter. They proved without a doubt that seemingly mundane and otherwise disinteresting that one finds in everyday conversation is worth a lot. So this database is, in other words, one big giant socialized twitter.
Socialism is evil. Just say no to socialized twitter!! It's a government cash grab and an affront to the free market!!
Actually, "attack" isn't really an appropriate term. It was not really an attack or a hijack or even identity theft. For one thing, these terms imply the existence of both a victim and a villain. In this story, the villains are not obvious and there might not have been any victims.
How do we go from this to a headline reading Identity Theft Hits the Root Servers?
There is no reason to believe that it was malicious at all. We all are familiar with that black hat turned grey or white that wants to help out by demonstrating vulnerabilities in the system. That is just as plausible as anything else. Maybe it's the free-masons!! The Illumanati, maybe!!! The only certain thing about this is the need to secure name service. We should be glad even though it was compromised, there is no apparent damage done.
I don't know if I would mod this up or not. Here is a little more info on the program. There are a lot of obvious holes. For one, gaming national security is always a downside, and markets can be gamed. Another is the fact that government intelligence agencies would have great sway over which way the market went. With that in mind, think about how often cronyism and nepotism crop up in government. There would be huge risks in such an investment. In the end, it may be a unique idea, but I don't think it would have worked.
The important point in all of this though is that, for all the pork and excess, DARPA does foster innovation. Bringing new ideas to important problems is a good thing. If only we could create a DARPA project to lead to a solution for cutting government wastefulness.
If specialized hardware returns to vogue, then there problems will crop up with the new specialized hardware. Dude face it, if you are a sysadmin, God will provide you with your share of things to complain about. It is the natural working order of things.
Developed to power gaming systems, the Cell chip...
That's just what we need to introduce to enterprise computing, the flame wars and invectives of the console world.
Admin #1 cell totally rockzorz!!!11!!!1 u n00bs using virtualization are in the past Admin #2 IBM SUCKS!!! YOU KNOW IT!!! YOUR WHOLE BUSINESS IS TOTALLY GAY FOR THEM!!!!
So it's a trick super-hyped announcement! They're telling us that they only discovered a supernova, which is ok. What they are actually telling us through this feigned mistake, is that they've discovered ftl technology!
Either that or they made an error converting AD years to light years. I hear they have problems with conversions.
Dodge's interest in space law grew from an early fascination with space exploration that was based mostly on science and history.
Most kids interested in space want to be astronauts. When you think about it, space is this massive unexplored frontier full of adventure and wonder. Juxtapose that against the minutia sifting and pedantry of the field of law, and that tells me one thing; this kid must be really bitter.
What we need are some big charts that say something along the lines of "Increased space funding shows historical link to lower gas prices." It's technically correct, the best kind of correct. We used to spend more on space. We used to have lower gas prices. Is anyone seriously worried that the public at large will understand correlation isn't causation or statistics at all. It would work, and you all know it would!
Hmmm... historic trans-Atlantic journey by sea. Seems history is repeating itself.
If the white men hadn't done enough to the natives already... well then the coming robotic horde will mop up the rest. To all my indigenious friends out there, they say they come in peace now, but remember the last time you heard that.
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"I want this to be combined with a well-informed debate characterised by openness, rather than mere opinion, by reason and reasonableness," she told the IPPR.
Good luck with that!
People already have there mind made up over how they feel about this issue. However, to me this seems like not a big deal. This information is already stored for long period of a time. It's administration is just changing hands from private to public sector. As long they keep the promise to not allow trawling of the database without probable cause or whatever equivalent they have across the pond, I'm not seeing the big deal. The actual context of the e-mail is off-limits still. I definitely see a distinction between something like this and say COINTELPRO or MI-5 tapping your phone and having you under 24 hour surveillance.
Gore got one for peace. He did not receive one for any of the hard sciences. The peace prize has always been subjective and controversial. I'm not real sure why you are upset he used political rhetoric to get one either. Whether or not he met your subjective standards for promoting peace enough to earn a Nobel, rhetoric is an acceptable means to peace, probably the most preferable.
The ones for physics and such, however are still very much prestigious. You can be sure that it takes a lot of hard scientific work to get one. So beat up on Gore all you want, but leave the scientists alone. (disclaimer: I am not a supporter of Mr. Gore.)
There was even more agitation over the chemistry prize, awarded jointly to rival teams - one from the United States which determined Coca-Cola to be an effective spermicide and one from Taiwan which proved it is not.
I don't see how any self-respecting scientist can sleep at night until this situation is rectified. I know I can't!
Well the submission system already does this for url's submitted outside of the main body of the article summary. In short, it would be cumbersome to sort of blacklist url's as you suggest, because a previously used url could be relevant again. If you are thinking that why don't the editors actually check the url's... well then my friend... you must be new here.
Dude, don't worry God will just be there with a 700 quadrillion ton slab of dark matter to bail... I mean patch the hole right up.
Well this is the whole problem. We have adjusted to having such easy access to credit and capital and money in all its forms that once the credit markets seized up, the resulting deflationary pressure would be multiplied and reek havoc. The thing about the market though is that it sort of gets itself into spirals, or apparent spirals, where the exact thing that caused a problem is what we expect to solve it. Inflation of the currency and ungodly overspending results in a deflationary bomb, well the only thing that can save us is... uh more inflation of the currency and more ungodly spending. Maybe pork is the cure? I don't know anymore.
You have hit the nail right on the head. Thinking no further than the next quarter is what got the US financial markets into the grand mess that they are in. We here a lot of political grandstanding about how the American worker is the most creative and productive on the planet, but I mean you know that statement's worth is debatable, but I know something for absolutely certain, American CEO's and stockholder's are the most short-sighted and unimaginative on the planet.
I agree with your disappointment in this phone. Personally, this sounds like a big mistake on Google's part. I haven't followed the phone market actively, but I am aware of the general goings on. Android has the potential to make a big splash, but being tied to this handset wastes that initial release PR boost. When you are fighting the gods of marketing and "hip" over at Apple, you gotta play the game right. I still have faith that Android will provide a good alternative for mobile platforms, but I think this release will take a toll. It may be more of an uphill battle than it had to be.
Oh I don't know... "Yeah... ummm that picture that was tagged of me on facebook while "I" was supposedly snorting cocaine while setting fire to a kennel full of puppies... ummm that was definitely a smear campaign!" It just sort of has that ring of unbelievability to it.
A little known fact, there is no China on the moon. Therefore, you do not have to worry about the China Syndrome. You can run a nuclear reactor any way you want.
Yeah... as a Virginian, this makes me proud. The open sourcing of education is just awesome. I can't wait for my kids to learn how Albert Einstein delivered the ten commandments that brought the enlightenment of the time cube to the world, and other things of this nature. I also wish upon the experience of needing critical information for a research paper only to find the project killed because of rampant forking and infighting amongst educators. They'll be better people for it. /kidding... mostly that is
I'm personally hoping they find something much more sinister! Cthulhu fhtagn! (see sig for a clue)
Well, if you are going to be pedantic nothing is really live because relativity precludes true simultaneity. I think we all understand what he means.
All in all, it does my heart well to see such mainstream coverage of the event. My parents, who are sort of aloof to anything scientific, are even paying attention to it on the 24 hour news. It's these sort of things turning into moments that reach across all of society that inspire new generations of kids to become scientists.
Your monkey has become tiresome. Ehhh.
more sustainable strategies
Coming out with a new book service. Only this time it's bundled with the OS and a pain to remove. Also adding Google books to the list of apps that UAC applies to.
What do you think: is the Netflix Player a game-changing product that bests Apple TV? Or is the selection too lackluster to be worth even its $100 asking price?
Selection will improve. It may a commercial mistake to release without the full library behind it, but I think it will still find some measure of success. Either way, this is a win for customers. Something this cheap is really going to threaten the other players. For starters, the streaming quality is a non-issue for most, which makes the price difference look all the more appealing. The scant library is a downer, but again that will be fixed. The only problem I see in the system is ISP's mucking things up. They scream about taking down net neutrality to augment this sort of thing, but in the end people actually using the bandwidth they payed for will make them much angrier.
I like that netflix is jumping into the mix. Still, I would prefer the Internet not to be hijacked by video on demand when we have such an expensive cable system already available. However, I've come to the realization that video on demand is already moving forward on the net, and the best I can hope for is video on demand platform be the most customer friendly one as possible.
I don't know if you are aware or not of a little thing called twitter. They proved without a doubt that seemingly mundane and otherwise disinteresting that one finds in everyday conversation is worth a lot. So this database is, in other words, one big giant socialized twitter.
Socialism is evil. Just say no to socialized twitter!! It's a government cash grab and an affront to the free market!!
Actually, "attack" isn't really an appropriate term. It was not really an attack or a hijack or even identity theft. For one thing, these terms imply the existence of both a victim and a villain. In this story, the villains are not obvious and there might not have been any victims.
How do we go from this to a headline reading Identity Theft Hits the Root Servers?
There is no reason to believe that it was malicious at all. We all are familiar with that black hat turned grey or white that wants to help out by demonstrating vulnerabilities in the system. That is just as plausible as anything else. Maybe it's the free-masons!! The Illumanati, maybe!!! The only certain thing about this is the need to secure name service. We should be glad even though it was compromised, there is no apparent damage done.
I don't know if I would mod this up or not. Here is a little more info on the program. There are a lot of obvious holes. For one, gaming national security is always a downside, and markets can be gamed. Another is the fact that government intelligence agencies would have great sway over which way the market went. With that in mind, think about how often cronyism and nepotism crop up in government. There would be huge risks in such an investment. In the end, it may be a unique idea, but I don't think it would have worked.
The important point in all of this though is that, for all the pork and excess, DARPA does foster innovation. Bringing new ideas to important problems is a good thing. If only we could create a DARPA project to lead to a solution for cutting government wastefulness.
If specialized hardware returns to vogue, then there problems will crop up with the new specialized hardware. Dude face it, if you are a sysadmin, God will provide you with your share of things to complain about. It is the natural working order of things.
Developed to power gaming systems, the Cell chip...
That's just what we need to introduce to enterprise computing, the flame wars and invectives of the console world.
Admin #1 cell totally rockzorz!!!11!!!1 u n00bs using virtualization are in the past
Admin #2 IBM SUCKS!!! YOU KNOW IT!!! YOUR WHOLE BUSINESS IS TOTALLY GAY FOR THEM!!!!
So it's a trick super-hyped announcement! They're telling us that they only discovered a supernova, which is ok. What they are actually telling us through this feigned mistake, is that they've discovered ftl technology!
Either that or they made an error converting AD years to light years. I hear they have problems with conversions.
Dodge's interest in space law grew from an early fascination with space exploration that was based mostly on science and history.
Most kids interested in space want to be astronauts. When you think about it, space is this massive unexplored frontier full of adventure and wonder. Juxtapose that against the minutia sifting and pedantry of the field of law, and that tells me one thing; this kid must be really bitter.
What we need are some big charts that say something along the lines of "Increased space funding shows historical link to lower gas prices." It's technically correct, the best kind of correct. We used to spend more on space. We used to have lower gas prices. Is anyone seriously worried that the public at large will understand correlation isn't causation or statistics at all. It would work, and you all know it would!
Hmmm... historic trans-Atlantic journey by sea. Seems history is repeating itself.
If the white men hadn't done enough to the natives already... well then the coming robotic horde will mop up the rest. To all my indigenious friends out there, they say they come in peace now, but remember the last time you heard that.