With Europe's increadible laws protecting personal privacy of data, this seems to go in exactly the other direction. It's like there is us and them and we are the government and we know whats best, on one side and the other, no one should have your data, you should be protected (but not from us). These are hard philosophies to resolve together consistantly.
Probably one of those Ultra Conservative Pot smokers that does not want to ask people not in his own circle what the good web sites to visit are. Another closet human being.
Incredibly there is lots of money in the Mapping, lots of income. Someone in Google probably saw OSM as a potential competitor and decided to do mischief. If you change the directions of one way streets that is dangerous. Especially if say Google was starting to use their map database to do not only directions but automobile autonomous control. Those kind of changes would sabotage anyone else's attempt at doing the same kind of project because the liability would be too high.
Bravo to whoever went in and knowingly changed essentially public map data. You have damaged Google's reputation to mightily and potentially killed some individuals that might have relied on that data in real life. We salute your intelligence, ethics, morals and good common sense, not to mention foresight and good long range planning for your company. You are a credit to all us IT folk and to your corporation. Let us know who you are so we can let the appropriate authorities recognize your contributions to society.
I just sent comment to Obama to let him know the bad international signals this sends and the too strong grip that the media has on the justice department.
Yes, but, the issue is who benefits from the work of the artist. Should the artist get 1% of the profits and the promoter 99%. Like most industries, the percentages are not that extreme on paper, but the promoter gets a salary and a salary for his friends, and charges for sevices and gets profits from that to and the percentages are after they have milked the process and then they get the lion share of what is left. You find more wealthy promoters then the people they promote typically. Like the lawyers that work on a commission of say 40% of a settlement , but wait we are not done, they take out their salary and the charges for document processing and filing and... all of which is profit for them, and what is left, they get 40%.
Not only are promoters good at their business of selling but also at selling the deals.
And promoters have been guilty of stealing the copyrights from artists for so many years so the artists work entirely went into their pockets. Don't think they are not out to get as much as they can with giving as little to the artist as they can possibly get away with.
In terms of Text books, the notes in the margin and the underlines and highlights are the most important feature of a text book, that you can go back to and get instance context and emphasis and memory of that topic. EReaders, until they have that feature (which they could) will be like distant memories.
There is a comfort to having a book shelf and you know where that book is and can go to it directly (hashed retrieval by the same algorithm used to store it). With EBooks, you loose that memory tagging and the internal memory tagging and can only see a page at a time of any book. I have that same problem with a screen that can only show one thing at a time (so I have two monitors, and another at work has 4). That 2 dimentionality is a heavy restriction to viewing data.
Second, the government and law enforcement would rather you did not encrypt communications. It makes it easier for their monitoring, and cheaper.
You would not generally encrypt something unless you had something to hide (or at least that would be the prosecutor's argument)
Privacy is assumed and trust is assumed (not correctly), but we all want to live in a trusting safe world and will find that or tell ourselves that to lessen the stress.
All these are social factors that can give some explaination why things are as they are.
The problem is, its not their data, but they have a business reputation to uphold so they can maintain a revenue stream. But lets say someone offeres them a lot of money to get at your data, well a business is to make money, right?
Then there are all those governement and security sights that have been hacked. If I were a hacker (which I am not) I would target large farms of computers where if I could get in would have a lot to choose from. Also If I could break the security of one of the hosted boxes, I probably could break them all because a large organization has consistant policies and standards and tools for security. Break one, break them all.
Then there are the secret government taps and accesses that they might have to honor and access your data without your knowledge.
The point being, your data is out of your shop and out of your control. You don't know if it has been comprimised and the company you are dealing with, if your data was comprimised might not want to tell you because it affects their bottom line.
Oh, and send it to another country, as if other countries have better more secure systems, or governments with more honorable practices.
Working for a bank and a trust company, the cloud computing solution scares, me.
Like Henry Fords second great invention after his assembly line innovations was to come out with different models every year to stimulate sales. A form a social engineering coupled with sales and profit motive. Sell people on the idea of having the latest and greatest. It churns the sales. This has been good for the economy for about a century. The other innovations to support that model which changed the way manufacturing has been thought of is "Planned Obsolescence". This made sure that you could use the flimsiest and cheapest materials to make sure that people had to buy new product. I worked for a specialty steel company that was approached by an automaker who wanted a stainless steel muffler. They made one that would outlast the car. They came back and said, no we want one that will only last 5 years.
As the junk piles up in our landfills and we start to run out of cheap energy that is wasted in the manufacture of goods planned not to last, and we wake up to the fact that our consumer society is in trouble, something will have to drastically change. I hope not catastrophically.
Anyway, it is the same economics that are driving the push to get the government to crack down on IP piracy that is driving people to re-invent the TV. They want to keep their business profits rolling in in the face of the steam roller of history starting to bear down on them.
And we need cool jobs making cool stuff and getting paid.
Here is the problem. Either you believe in the law of large numbers and equality and democracy that says that everyone is involved or your have select inner groups with the authority. Give them more power and lo and behold some special interest group will find its way in and leverage that power for their own agenda, then get entrenched and build more walls to protect their positions. We have seen it with governments and political parties. That is why we have elections, to clean the slate and reset that group on a regular basis.
Google posits that you get better scoring. I would claim that they are confusing consistant scoring with better scoring.
Not to sound snobish but there is value to a CS degree if you pay attention in class. I have a few degrees and taught for a few decades (CS courses part time), while working in industry. I have over some 40 years of working in the industry noticed a difference in the skill and depth of those that were self taught or learned on the job and those that had subjected themselves to college study on the topic. The difference can be very dramatic but not in every case.
Knowing syntax and being able to design a web site is really just surface knowlegdge. The real deep knowlege comes , as I have observed, in the knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms, and analysis of algorithms, Database structure and normalization, and exposure to different problem domains and the languages and patterns they have.
All of this knowlege can be obtained outside of the classroom and I would counsel you to pick up a good book or two and get that knowledge and exposure. Then show what you have done and studied along with your projects as part of your accomplishments. It would show that you were serious about gaining a depth of knowlege in the industry and probably give the companies some faith that you can understand and solve their problems in a determanistic way.
A deep understanding of Data Sturctures and Algorithms I feel is the most generally useful set of tools you can obtain and really is the difference between a hand crank drill and a drill press.
The apology is of course after they tried to bludgeon the exposer of their data collection service. They wanted to rely on anonymity to continue the hidden data collection service with the mobile community none wiser. They got caught, the reacted badly and have to do some PR repair. But their service and business model remains intact. They were of course apologizing for their actions not their business. Well that's halfway there I guess.
The major problem in the plans to keep fire out or terroist hands is the standard practice of dropping incendiaries on their houses, which essentiall gives them fire.
They are working on plans to combine blimp technology and water for a more childish approach. We will have to wait and see how that works out. It may spur innovation in the area of massive lift fans to lift the ballon and transport it over the hundreds of miles to target. Or the worlds lagest catapult. Either way new science and technology will expand to support the idiocy.
let them know this is not going un-noticed and how you feel about the long term issues and whether the government should be more deeply involved in keeping the recording and movie industrie's profits intact. There are laws and courts handling those things now.
I agree, illegal and reprehensible. I suspect some deals made with the existing intelligence and law enforcement communities on his arrival to start a cooperative environment instead of and adversarial one. Politics has to do with making compromises to get things done. But we may never know why he gave that support.
So to my point. If Obama does something that you applaud, applaud him, conversely if he has a practice or stance you disagree with let him know. That is how the thing should work If we don't lend our voices, only the voices of the large companies and Ultra wealthy will have his ear. There can be safety in numbers especially in a Democracy.
We need to let Obama know of our support for this action. You can kevetch and criticize other things or the timeing or the lateness, but you need to show your support (as in email to the White House) for things done right and that emboldens him to do more and take more postitive steps because he knows he is working from a supported position.
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With Europe's increadible laws protecting personal privacy of data, this seems to go in exactly the other direction. It's like there is us and them and we are the government and we know whats best, on one side and the other, no one should have your data, you should be protected (but not from us). These are hard philosophies to resolve together consistantly.
Probably one of those Ultra Conservative Pot smokers that does not want to ask people not in his own circle what the good web sites to visit are. Another closet human being.
Incredibly there is lots of money in the Mapping, lots of income. Someone in Google probably saw OSM as a potential competitor and decided to do mischief. If you change the directions of one way streets that is dangerous. Especially if say Google was starting to use their map database to do not only directions but automobile autonomous control. Those kind of changes would sabotage anyone else's attempt at doing the same kind of project because the liability would be too high.
Bravo to whoever went in and knowingly changed essentially public map data. You have damaged Google's reputation to mightily and potentially killed some individuals that might have relied on that data in real life. We salute your intelligence, ethics, morals and good common sense, not to mention foresight and good long range planning for your company. You are a credit to all us IT folk and to your corporation. Let us know who you are so we can let the appropriate authorities recognize your contributions to society.
I just sent comment to Obama to let him know the bad international signals this sends and the too strong grip that the media has on the justice department.
Let him know what you think.
I'll even document somebody elses code,,, just kidding. Bazinga
Yes, but, the issue is who benefits from the work of the artist. Should the artist get 1% of the profits and the promoter 99%. Like most industries, the percentages are not that extreme on paper, but the promoter gets a salary and a salary for his friends, and charges for sevices and gets profits from that to and the percentages are after they have milked the process and then they get the lion share of what is left. You find more wealthy promoters then the people they promote typically. Like the lawyers that work on a commission of say 40% of a settlement , but wait we are not done, they take out their salary and the charges for document processing and filing and ... all of which is profit for them, and what is left, they get 40%.
Not only are promoters good at their business of selling but also at selling the deals.
And promoters have been guilty of stealing the copyrights from artists for so many years so the artists work entirely went into their pockets. Don't think they are not out to get as much as they can with giving as little to the artist as they can possibly get away with.
via la competition, and Internet promotion.
In terms of Text books, the notes in the margin and the underlines and highlights are the most important feature of a text book, that you can go back to and get instance context and emphasis and memory of that topic. EReaders, until they have that feature (which they could) will be like distant memories.
There is a comfort to having a book shelf and you know where that book is and can go to it directly (hashed retrieval by the same algorithm used to store it). With EBooks, you loose that memory tagging and the internal memory tagging and can only see a page at a time of any book. I have that same problem with a screen that can only show one thing at a time (so I have two monitors, and another at work has 4). That 2 dimentionality is a heavy restriction to viewing data.
First, people want to communicate, easily.
Second, the government and law enforcement would rather you did not encrypt communications. It makes it easier for their monitoring, and cheaper.
You would not generally encrypt something unless you had something to hide (or at least that would be the prosecutor's argument)
Privacy is assumed and trust is assumed (not correctly), but we all want to live in a trusting safe world and will find that or tell ourselves that to lessen the stress.
All these are social factors that can give some explaination why things are as they are.
On a lighter note, after the Manhattan project, the secure safes were examined and I think the two top combinations were segments of Pi and E.
Gang aft agley
The problem is, its not their data, but they have a business reputation to uphold so they can maintain a revenue stream. But lets say someone offeres them a lot of money to get at your data, well a business is to make money, right?
Then there are all those governement and security sights that have been hacked. If I were a hacker (which I am not) I would target large farms of computers where if I could get in would have a lot to choose from. Also If I could break the security of one of the hosted boxes, I probably could break them all because a large organization has consistant policies and standards and tools for security. Break one, break them all.
Then there are the secret government taps and accesses that they might have to honor and access your data without your knowledge.
The point being, your data is out of your shop and out of your control. You don't know if it has been comprimised and the company you are dealing with, if your data was comprimised might not want to tell you because it affects their bottom line.
Oh, and send it to another country, as if other countries have better more secure systems, or governments with more honorable practices.
Working for a bank and a trust company, the cloud computing solution scares, me.
http://isikkim.com/2011-12-is-kapil-sibal-an-idiot-06-06/
I refer you to Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado.
Like Henry Fords second great invention after his assembly line innovations was to come out with different models every year to stimulate sales. A form a social engineering coupled with sales and profit motive. Sell people on the idea of having the latest and greatest. It churns the sales. This has been good for the economy for about a century. The other innovations to support that model which changed the way manufacturing has been thought of is "Planned Obsolescence".
This made sure that you could use the flimsiest and cheapest materials to make sure that people had to buy new product. I worked for a specialty steel company that was approached by an automaker who wanted a stainless steel muffler. They made one that would outlast the car. They came back and said, no we want one that will only last 5 years.
As the junk piles up in our landfills and we start to run out of cheap energy that is wasted in the manufacture of goods planned not to last, and we wake up to the fact that our consumer society is in trouble, something will have to drastically change. I hope not catastrophically.
Anyway, it is the same economics that are driving the push to get the government to crack down on IP piracy that is driving people to re-invent the TV. They want to keep their business profits rolling in in the face of the steam roller of history starting to bear down on them.
And we need cool jobs making cool stuff and getting paid.
Flashback to George Orwell.
Here is the problem. Either you believe in the law of large numbers and equality and democracy that says that everyone is involved or your have select inner groups with the authority. Give them more power and lo and behold some special interest group will find its way in and leverage that power for their own agenda, then get entrenched and build more walls to protect their positions. We have seen it with governments and political parties. That is why we have elections, to clean the slate and reset that group on a regular basis.
Google posits that you get better scoring. I would claim that they are confusing consistant scoring with better scoring.
Not to sound snobish but there is value to a CS degree if you pay attention in class. I have a few degrees and taught for a few decades (CS courses part time), while working in industry. I have over some 40 years of working in the industry noticed a difference in the skill and depth of those that were self taught or learned on the job and those that had subjected themselves to college study on the topic. The difference can be very dramatic but not in every case.
Knowing syntax and being able to design a web site is really just surface knowlegdge. The real deep knowlege comes , as I have observed, in the knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms, and analysis of algorithms, Database structure and normalization, and exposure to different problem domains and the languages and patterns they have.
All of this knowlege can be obtained outside of the classroom and I would counsel you to pick up a good book or two and get that knowledge and exposure. Then show what you have done and studied along with your projects as part of your accomplishments. It would show that you were serious about gaining a depth of knowlege in the industry and probably give the companies some faith that you can understand and solve their problems in a determanistic way.
A deep understanding of Data Sturctures and Algorithms I feel is the most generally useful set of tools you can obtain and really is the difference between a hand crank drill and a drill press.
Good luck.
The apology is of course after they tried to bludgeon the exposer of their data collection service. They wanted to rely on anonymity to continue the hidden data collection service with the mobile community none wiser. They got caught, the reacted badly and have to do some PR repair. But their service and business model remains intact. They were of course apologizing for their actions not their business. Well that's halfway there I guess.
Fix the bloody holes!!
Another red-flag is C++ and the need for productivity tools, or memory monitors to program in it at all.
I think this is an admission from Microsoft that their system can not be fixed, but only a little Dutch Boy included to plug the leaks.
Another big Wack a Mole hammer. I can never win at Wack a Mole why does the Defense Department think they will be able to?
The major problem in the plans to keep fire out or terroist hands is the standard practice of dropping incendiaries on their houses, which essentiall gives them fire.
They are working on plans to combine blimp technology and water for a more childish approach. We will have to wait and see how that works out. It may spur innovation in the area of massive lift fans to lift the ballon and transport it over the hundreds of miles to target. Or the worlds lagest catapult. Either way new science and technology will expand to support the idiocy.
actually 5 progressively harder puzzles. I count some 6k pieces in the last puzzle in 20 Tiff files.
An interesting problem and I am making progress.
let them know this is not going un-noticed and how you feel about the long term issues and whether the government should be more deeply involved in keeping the recording and movie industrie's profits intact. There are laws and courts handling those things now.
Try this, I have found it very exciting to get back to the bits and bytes.
http://www.shredderchallenge.com/
I agree, illegal and reprehensible. I suspect some deals made with the existing intelligence and law enforcement communities on his arrival to start a cooperative environment instead of and adversarial one. Politics has to do with making compromises to get things done. But we may never know why he gave that support.
So to my point. If Obama does something that you applaud, applaud him, conversely if he has a practice or stance you disagree with let him know. That is how the thing should work If we don't lend our voices, only the voices of the large companies and Ultra wealthy will have his ear. There can be safety in numbers especially in a Democracy.
But whatever you do, Vote!
We need to let Obama know of our support for this action. You can kevetch and criticize other things or the timeing or the lateness, but you need to show your support (as in email to the White House) for things done right and that emboldens him to do more and take more postitive steps because he knows he is working from a supported position.