You really really don't get it. Can you step out of your arrogance for a second there? OK, you, personally don't see the point. We get that. Can you admit that you lack godlike omniscience? Is it mathematically possible there would be some privacy interest served here?
You seem stuck in geek-OCD "it's perfect or it's worthless" mode. Stop that. Sometimes privacy from someone less competent than the NSA is important. Some important whistle-blowers only need to be anonymous to their employer. Some people can benefit from just HTTPS (hiding the content only) to protect from dumb, automatic searches.
Wow, you have a quite bizarre notion of the influence of religion over the GOP. No, there is far less influence now. Most of the religious right would like to see a small government: that's the old basis for the coalition of "social conservative" and "fiscal conservative". But that was mostly finished by 2000: the religious crazies are aging out, and there is simply no "fiscal conservative" left in the traditional Republican party, and the grassroots power of the religious right has dissolved.
It used to be, under Reagan and for about a decade after, that the campaign "ground game" for the GOP --- the folks who staff the campaign offices, knock on doors, man the telephone banks, and so on -- was dominated by the religious right. The was nearly gone by 2000. Karl Rove tried to revive it with some of his tactics, but had very limited success (and we can see how he totally misjudged 2010).
Plus, if you really believe that 34% of Democrats believe in creationism, you seriously need to stop eating what the press is feeding you. The press is nothing but scare-mongering, and whether it's ginning up fears that the terrorists will kill you, or that the creationists will take over, the press is mostly fiction.
Get out there and talk to people - talk to people who believe different things than you do! You'll find that very few people on either side of the political spectrum are crazy or stupid, but that they just don't care about stuff like "creation vs evolution", it's not important to them, one way or the other, and so you can craft a poll question that will produce whatever results you desire. (Much like if someone asked me about a Kardashian,- I'd likely be easily led to whatever answer the pollster wanted, unless they meant the Star Trek kind).
Why does that make you want to disagree? Oh, I see. You're still clinging to some outdated notion that there's some difference between government and corporations. How quaint.
Government is the most powerful entity in our mixed society precisely because it's the "end boss" of all the large corporate entities.
You might pause to consider why one might write an anonymous "letter to the editor" to be published, all public-like, in the paper. You might pause to consider how that applies to HTTPS. Or you might bull on ahead blindly with no consideration for anyone's circumstances but your own. Or you might admit that you're not omniscient, and thus there might be some need for privacy that you just don't happen to see, and so advocate for as much privacy as possible, everywhere, all the time.
Just because you don't understand someone's desire for privacy, you argue he has no need for that privacy? Attitudes like that are why TFA had to be written in the first place.
Don't ever argue for less privacy. This is just like security - you take the least privilege you can and offer the best security you can; it's not a question of why. Give the user the most privacy you practically can in every way that you practically can - it's not a question of why, that's a broken mindset.
Oh no, it does a lookup to Google+ to see how much Google+ account activity has occurred from the current device. The more you've used a Google+ account to post to youtube or gmail etc from the device, the more sure it is that you must be a human.
It's just their latest subtle way to push more use of Google+ across their products.
Nah, they could just use their employee database for that, since the only humans who use Goggle+ are Google employees.
The references and social media aspects are pretty useless. It's just a place to put your resume online, like that other site, starts with a "D", hmm, something.
Legitimate recruiters (plus the other kind) search it for candidates worth contacting. That what it's for: to help make that first contact. Just like a resume, once you're talking to a human it's done its job and you're past it.
Different police states have different shapes, and any difference we have from the others is a different in degree, not a difference in kind.
For example, we don't have a network of informants, no neighbors squealing nor children tattling on parents, instead we have a government agency that records every phone call made in the country, and every email. The IRS openly targets political groups that oppose the party in power. Administration officials call people who oppose their plans "economic traitors", and while, no, they aren't being shot yet, the president maintains his right to unilaterally order assassinations.
Are we in the top 3 worst police states? No. We don't even have a fleet of execution vans. We can still pull back from the edge, maybe, if people wake up in time. Maybe.
We have 2 pro-corporate, pro-big-government parties. But each president moves just a bit further over the line than the previous. Each makes the water just a little bit hotter. Will Snowden prompt any frogs to jump yet? Half of/. still bitterly defends big government as a shield against corporations, as if that wasn't just hiring more foxes to guard the henhouse.
Would we really be at any higher a risk from terrorism?
Yes, we certainly would. We make it harder for terrorists to plan attacks, because they must resort to very low-tech approaches to escape surveillance. But still, the risk is so very low to start with! If it, say, tripled from "less than one attack per year" to "less than one attack per year", it would be well worth the benefit, IMO.
The wii sells nearly as many games-per-console as the others. It is simply not a console for "hard core gamers", wasn't intended to be, never will be, and Nintento is just fine with that. So, yeah, your typical "hard core gamer" who bought one for some reason likely has it gathering dust on a shelf, but that's just not the majority of the market.
We saw the same arc in the MMO market with WoW. Pre-WoW, MMOs were quite focused on the "hard core MMO gamer", and success meant a few 100k subscribers. WoW was designed to appeal to more casual players, and for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the "dumbing down of the market", it reached the other 95% of the market and did quite well.
I have no idea about the future of big-box consoles, but Nintendo's problem with handhelds isn't that they focus on more casual games, and target a younger market. Plenty of money there to be made. The problem is portable gaming is moving to phones and tablets, and Nintendo's locked-in model is really hurting them there. Where's the small "USB d-pad attachment" I clip to my phone? Where's the vast backlibrary of great Nintendo classics to play with it? Get with the times, Nintendo!
That's quite a reasonable comment, actually. (Somebody mod the AC up?)
Most consumer-level internet resources are in the US because the datacenters are. The datacenters are mostly in the US because it's still a nice place to start a company, and most of the companies have their HQ here. I'm not sure whether the key is where the corporate HQ is located, or where the datacenter is located, but I'm thinking either makes you vulnerable. Many countries' governments are seeing a problem with this.
That being the case, it presents a real risk for fragmentation of the internet. Countries won't want their people all going to a foreign company and datacenter just to escape spying (better to be spied on by a foreign power that doesn't share with your government), and breaking the internet along government boundaries would be tragic.
Maybe a better answer is to just fix the US. What if we just defunded the NSA, fired everyone, scrapped all the datacenters, demolished the buildings, and salted the earth? OK, we'd be at somewhat higher risk of terrorism because of the loss of SIGINT, and we wouldn't want to lose that forever, plus we'd need SIGINT again before some major power goes to war again (sure to happen inevitably), but I think the cost might be worth the value of the object lesson about government overreach.
Maybe Europe could create a super Navy to defend them from foreign evil like the USA.
Europe doesn't have the money (though France's military is larger than most people realize). On the other hand, the US doesn't have the money either, and the coming decade will see massive cuts to all this sort of thing: military, NSA, spying in general, you can cut all of it with less squawking than cutting social programs, so we will.
Well, there's always the chance you'll grow apart. But from what I've seen among my friends, once there's agreement in principle that "it's important to save real amounts of money", couples become more in tune on the details over the years - it's that first agreement that's the sticking point.
Well, you can't vote without government participation, and while you can get married without the government, you can't do the act of registering that marriage without government participation, so I'm not sure how good those examples are. No government participation is implicit in the status of owning a gun.
But most gun fans object to even registration because of fears that's a list the government will use to collect those same guns later when the government crosses that line. Since that's actually happened in a couple of cases, I can't call them paranoid.
Down for whom? Google makes the news when their down for anyone, but AFAIK they're still running 5 9s average across the user base (I guess they have had 1 5-minute outage for everyone). Microsoft is similar (without the "down for everyone" moment). Most of the newsworthy outages have only affected a portion of the user base. Amazon EC2 had that one really bad outage due to a storage FW update, so I think they're under 5 9s.
If you're saying "but my personal server in my command center (Mom's basement) is perfect, I tell you!", well, sure - good for you. Have fun with that. Most people can't do that, nor would they care do.
If you're saying "my IT department has better than 5 9s uptime for the intranet services", well, frankly I'm skeptical.
If you're using Windows, Skydrive is worthwhile. It's actually a great service -- easy to use from within Windows and the account recovery stuff in TFA is all well thought out -- but really needs more cross-platform-ness to replace dropbox.
Except that 95% uptime is better than some of the internal stuff I've dealt with at large companies, and 95% is just terrible for a cloud service provider. The probabilities are not simply chained - whatever the cloud provider does for you, you stop doing internally, or what's the point?
The only point of the cloud is that the economy of scale allows for a better service. If it doesn't, it's just a buzzword. The only way I can see local service having better uptime than a worthwhile cloud service is if the local service can have planned downtime with no negative impact at all (which is true far less than IT seems to think, but does exist, especially for personal stuff). Any worthwhile cloud service never has a planned outage, which already puts it far ahead of any internal corporate IT service I've used.
Accept that the price of using a framework is probably re-writing everything every few years. Don't lie to yourself about it. This is the fundamental problem with frameworks: even if they don't go away, mature projects often hit their limits.
I don't think that any framework is a good plan for a well-funded successful project - for the few projects that make it there. So I'd say: take the framework that gets V1.0 done quick and easy. Probably the framework will die, but that's OK because probably your project will die first. If the project is one of the very few that really takes off and is a big deal 2-3 years later, then you'll have the resources to do it right.
Yes, that's right. But remember laws have their own rules, and one basic rule for reading laws is that the part that "explains why" has no legal force, only the part that "explains what".
I disagree. If the number of things you want easy access to is small enough to fit as tiles in the first place (the big assumption), then "right, right, right" is just fine. A menu is just an N-dimensional tile system instead of a 2-dimensional tile system, after all. Plus both voice and controller can be either set up as "right, right, right" or as direct pointing, depending on dexterity.
If you really want menu trees, radial menus are better anyhow, and an analog stick is a great way to navigate those (not that the Xbone is likely to support that). But I don't think menus are particularly relevant to a console.
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You really really don't get it. Can you step out of your arrogance for a second there? OK, you, personally don't see the point. We get that. Can you admit that you lack godlike omniscience? Is it mathematically possible there would be some privacy interest served here?
You seem stuck in geek-OCD "it's perfect or it's worthless" mode. Stop that. Sometimes privacy from someone less competent than the NSA is important. Some important whistle-blowers only need to be anonymous to their employer. Some people can benefit from just HTTPS (hiding the content only) to protect from dumb, automatic searches.
Wow, you have a quite bizarre notion of the influence of religion over the GOP. No, there is far less influence now. Most of the religious right would like to see a small government: that's the old basis for the coalition of "social conservative" and "fiscal conservative". But that was mostly finished by 2000: the religious crazies are aging out, and there is simply no "fiscal conservative" left in the traditional Republican party, and the grassroots power of the religious right has dissolved.
It used to be, under Reagan and for about a decade after, that the campaign "ground game" for the GOP --- the folks who staff the campaign offices, knock on doors, man the telephone banks, and so on -- was dominated by the religious right. The was nearly gone by 2000. Karl Rove tried to revive it with some of his tactics, but had very limited success (and we can see how he totally misjudged 2010).
Plus, if you really believe that 34% of Democrats believe in creationism, you seriously need to stop eating what the press is feeding you. The press is nothing but scare-mongering, and whether it's ginning up fears that the terrorists will kill you, or that the creationists will take over, the press is mostly fiction.
Get out there and talk to people - talk to people who believe different things than you do! You'll find that very few people on either side of the political spectrum are crazy or stupid, but that they just don't care about stuff like "creation vs evolution", it's not important to them, one way or the other, and so you can craft a poll question that will produce whatever results you desire. (Much like if someone asked me about a Kardashian,- I'd likely be easily led to whatever answer the pollster wanted, unless they meant the Star Trek kind).
Why does that make you want to disagree? Oh, I see. You're still clinging to some outdated notion that there's some difference between government and corporations. How quaint.
Government is the most powerful entity in our mixed society precisely because it's the "end boss" of all the large corporate entities.
You might pause to consider why one might write an anonymous "letter to the editor" to be published, all public-like, in the paper. You might pause to consider how that applies to HTTPS. Or you might bull on ahead blindly with no consideration for anyone's circumstances but your own. Or you might admit that you're not omniscient, and thus there might be some need for privacy that you just don't happen to see, and so advocate for as much privacy as possible, everywhere, all the time.
Just because you don't understand someone's desire for privacy, you argue he has no need for that privacy? Attitudes like that are why TFA had to be written in the first place.
Don't ever argue for less privacy. This is just like security - you take the least privilege you can and offer the best security you can; it's not a question of why. Give the user the most privacy you practically can in every way that you practically can - it's not a question of why, that's a broken mindset.
Oh no, it does a lookup to Google+ to see how much Google+ account activity has occurred from the current device. The more you've used a Google+ account to post to youtube or gmail etc from the device, the more sure it is that you must be a human.
It's just their latest subtle way to push more use of Google+ across their products.
Nah, they could just use their employee database for that, since the only humans who use Goggle+ are Google employees.
Amazing how many posts their are in this story saying "if you use Dice's competitor, you're an idiot". Makes one wonder.
The references and social media aspects are pretty useless. It's just a place to put your resume online, like that other site, starts with a "D", hmm, something.
Legitimate recruiters (plus the other kind) search it for candidates worth contacting. That what it's for: to help make that first contact. Just like a resume, once you're talking to a human it's done its job and you're past it.
I notice you didn't include an actual parachute in that loadout. Probably for the best.
Different police states have different shapes, and any difference we have from the others is a different in degree, not a difference in kind.
For example, we don't have a network of informants, no neighbors squealing nor children tattling on parents, instead we have a government agency that records every phone call made in the country, and every email. The IRS openly targets political groups that oppose the party in power. Administration officials call people who oppose their plans "economic traitors", and while, no, they aren't being shot yet, the president maintains his right to unilaterally order assassinations.
Are we in the top 3 worst police states? No. We don't even have a fleet of execution vans. We can still pull back from the edge, maybe, if people wake up in time. Maybe.
We have 2 pro-corporate, pro-big-government parties. But each president moves just a bit further over the line than the previous. Each makes the water just a little bit hotter. Will Snowden prompt any frogs to jump yet? Half of /. still bitterly defends big government as a shield against corporations, as if that wasn't just hiring more foxes to guard the henhouse.
Would we really be at any higher a risk from terrorism?
Yes, we certainly would. We make it harder for terrorists to plan attacks, because they must resort to very low-tech approaches to escape surveillance. But still, the risk is so very low to start with! If it, say, tripled from "less than one attack per year" to "less than one attack per year", it would be well worth the benefit, IMO.
The wii sells nearly as many games-per-console as the others. It is simply not a console for "hard core gamers", wasn't intended to be, never will be, and Nintento is just fine with that. So, yeah, your typical "hard core gamer" who bought one for some reason likely has it gathering dust on a shelf, but that's just not the majority of the market.
We saw the same arc in the MMO market with WoW. Pre-WoW, MMOs were quite focused on the "hard core MMO gamer", and success meant a few 100k subscribers. WoW was designed to appeal to more casual players, and for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the "dumbing down of the market", it reached the other 95% of the market and did quite well.
I have no idea about the future of big-box consoles, but Nintendo's problem with handhelds isn't that they focus on more casual games, and target a younger market. Plenty of money there to be made. The problem is portable gaming is moving to phones and tablets, and Nintendo's locked-in model is really hurting them there. Where's the small "USB d-pad attachment" I clip to my phone? Where's the vast backlibrary of great Nintendo classics to play with it? Get with the times, Nintendo!
That's quite a reasonable comment, actually. (Somebody mod the AC up?)
Most consumer-level internet resources are in the US because the datacenters are. The datacenters are mostly in the US because it's still a nice place to start a company, and most of the companies have their HQ here. I'm not sure whether the key is where the corporate HQ is located, or where the datacenter is located, but I'm thinking either makes you vulnerable. Many countries' governments are seeing a problem with this.
That being the case, it presents a real risk for fragmentation of the internet. Countries won't want their people all going to a foreign company and datacenter just to escape spying (better to be spied on by a foreign power that doesn't share with your government), and breaking the internet along government boundaries would be tragic.
Maybe a better answer is to just fix the US. What if we just defunded the NSA, fired everyone, scrapped all the datacenters, demolished the buildings, and salted the earth? OK, we'd be at somewhat higher risk of terrorism because of the loss of SIGINT, and we wouldn't want to lose that forever, plus we'd need SIGINT again before some major power goes to war again (sure to happen inevitably), but I think the cost might be worth the value of the object lesson about government overreach.
Maybe Europe could create a super Navy to defend them from foreign evil like the USA.
Europe doesn't have the money (though France's military is larger than most people realize). On the other hand, the US doesn't have the money either, and the coming decade will see massive cuts to all this sort of thing: military, NSA, spying in general, you can cut all of it with less squawking than cutting social programs, so we will.
Yes, that's exactly what I said, isn't it.
Well, there's always the chance you'll grow apart. But from what I've seen among my friends, once there's agreement in principle that "it's important to save real amounts of money", couples become more in tune on the details over the years - it's that first agreement that's the sticking point.
Well, you can't vote without government participation, and while you can get married without the government, you can't do the act of registering that marriage without government participation, so I'm not sure how good those examples are. No government participation is implicit in the status of owning a gun.
But most gun fans object to even registration because of fears that's a list the government will use to collect those same guns later when the government crosses that line. Since that's actually happened in a couple of cases, I can't call them paranoid.
Down for whom? Google makes the news when their down for anyone, but AFAIK they're still running 5 9s average across the user base (I guess they have had 1 5-minute outage for everyone). Microsoft is similar (without the "down for everyone" moment). Most of the newsworthy outages have only affected a portion of the user base. Amazon EC2 had that one really bad outage due to a storage FW update, so I think they're under 5 9s.
If you're saying "but my personal server in my command center (Mom's basement) is perfect, I tell you!", well, sure - good for you. Have fun with that. Most people can't do that, nor would they care do.
If you're saying "my IT department has better than 5 9s uptime for the intranet services", well, frankly I'm skeptical.
If you're using Windows, Skydrive is worthwhile. It's actually a great service -- easy to use from within Windows and the account recovery stuff in TFA is all well thought out -- but really needs more cross-platform-ness to replace dropbox.
Except that 95% uptime is better than some of the internal stuff I've dealt with at large companies, and 95% is just terrible for a cloud service provider. The probabilities are not simply chained - whatever the cloud provider does for you, you stop doing internally, or what's the point?
The only point of the cloud is that the economy of scale allows for a better service. If it doesn't, it's just a buzzword. The only way I can see local service having better uptime than a worthwhile cloud service is if the local service can have planned downtime with no negative impact at all (which is true far less than IT seems to think, but does exist, especially for personal stuff). Any worthwhile cloud service never has a planned outage, which already puts it far ahead of any internal corporate IT service I've used.
Accept that the price of using a framework is probably re-writing everything every few years. Don't lie to yourself about it. This is the fundamental problem with frameworks: even if they don't go away, mature projects often hit their limits.
I don't think that any framework is a good plan for a well-funded successful project - for the few projects that make it there. So I'd say: take the framework that gets V1.0 done quick and easy. Probably the framework will die, but that's OK because probably your project will die first. If the project is one of the very few that really takes off and is a big deal 2-3 years later, then you'll have the resources to do it right.
Yes, that's right. But remember laws have their own rules, and one basic rule for reading laws is that the part that "explains why" has no legal force, only the part that "explains what".
I disagree. If the number of things you want easy access to is small enough to fit as tiles in the first place (the big assumption), then "right, right, right" is just fine. A menu is just an N-dimensional tile system instead of a 2-dimensional tile system, after all. Plus both voice and controller can be either set up as "right, right, right" or as direct pointing, depending on dexterity.
If you really want menu trees, radial menus are better anyhow, and an analog stick is a great way to navigate those (not that the Xbone is likely to support that). But I don't think menus are particularly relevant to a console.
It costs someone, whether taxpayer or student, to have a live professor involved. It also wastes 4 years of your life, which is a huge cost.
For everything non-vocational, a MOOC done in one's own time is just a better approach.