...think of the awesome power of this tool when used on children. Screaming in the back seat? Being asked a third time for candy before dinner? Grocery store tantrums that everyone notices? Not anymore!
This kind of thinking makes me afraid for children. I have 3 kids of my own, ages 8, 5, and 1. Believe me -- I fully understand how tempting it would be to, if I had this tool, turn the volume down on whining, fighting, yelling, etc.
The problem is using this tool against children is open to extreme abuse. Remember that movie Click with Adam Sandler? The concept there is he had a remote that could fast-forward through parts of his life deemed unimportant. Imagine what would happen if parents could "mute" their children whenever they wanted to. I'm sure it would begin with good intentions as Sander's character did in the movie. But it would quickly turn into an addiction.
The worst part is the potential psychological effects it could have on children later in life. They would learn to devalue their own voices and opinions. Self esteem would suffer. The effects would mirror that of other forms of child abuse.
I'm sure this technology can be useful for a lot of things but please don't even suggest the idea of putting into the hands of parents. Most of them wouldn't be able to handle it ethically, and children would surely suffer.
Wouldn't you like a place where you and a few like-minded amateur lawmakers could get together and do it right?
We already tried that. The result was Congress.
Yes, our federal Congress. But there are other legislative bodies that have taken the career income incentive out of the equation, such as New Hampshire. Their state senators make $100/yr (not a typo -- one hundred dollars per year) and it has been that way for nearly a century. Compare to California where the average salary was over $113k (as of 2007).
If we take the pay incentive away from career politicians you're left with those who actually care about their constituency -- otherwise they have no other reason to be there.
"But it's the GPS equipment that bleeds into LightSquared's proposed network, and not the other way around. LightSquared paid for this spectrum and had a legal right to use it, but were stopped by these interference concerns. The GPS industry actually had years to patch up its equipment to avoid these issues, but largely chose to ignore it."
This byte ignores the original intent of how the spectrum was to be used (satellite based vs terrestrial) but it is the first claim I've read that GPS equipment is what's jumping spectrums here.
Based on the vague discussion details and how the FBI sent out an email with the conference call number and password, it sounds more likely to be a setup by the FBI to lure Anon into the call so they could glean more location data off of them.
"But Google's petition to the appeals court over the email is also in the way, according to Alsup's ruling Thursday. "If Oracle will waive reliance on that email, then this roadblock would vanish," he wrote."
It's interesting to me that the judge is the one assisting in negotiations between Oracle and Google instead of general counsel. It seems obvious to Alsup even before trial that neither the clumsy infringer nor the litigious patent troll will otherwise meet in the middle.
Android allegedly infringes on Microsoft patents and Apple patents (among others). Microsoft decides to license its technology. What does Apple do? Sue the crap out of everyone. Sounds to me like MS is taking the smarter approach here -- partnering with manufacturers, creating a steady income stream, and not looking looking like an iDouche.
TFA quotes the text of the bill as consisting of the following 3 lines:
"No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that:
(1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or
(2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."
At least it's a blatantly visible abuse of our lobby system as opposed to one buried at the end of a completely unrelated congressional effort.
FTFA:
"BG Group... accused him of including confidential information in his CV, such as details about how he had reduced the firm's rate of staff attrition."
His dedication to this goal only went so far, apparently.
I can understand Microsoft wanting to shift more units...
I'm just glad MS plans on supporting XP for a total of 13 years. Thank God they don't adopt Intuit's forced upgrade plan. If you don't buy a new version of Quicken at least every 3 years the software dumbs itself down to virtually useless.
I'm sure things are a bit different nowadays, but here's my college cost rundown:
Attended a CA community college for 5 semesters @ $300 ea plus about $150 ea in books = $2250
Transferred to Cal Poly SLO for 11 quarters @ $750 ea plus about $250 ea in books = $11,000
Add in various school fees over the years (parking permits, student ID), no rent (lived at home)... was out for about $15k. Got a BS-CSC from a great school and never had a student loan.
P.S. I graduated in '02.
I think of a stock that doesn't pay dividends similar to precious metals such as gold. Gold doesn't actually do anything... it just sits there. It's a store of value. That's pretty much how stocks like Apple are. As tbannist said, you only get a benefit once you sell it.
MS might then claim their implementation of ODF is "standards compliant" - and even provide test results that "prove" it - but would somehow work differently in practice. Now THAT sounds like IE!
A cute punishment would be making ODF compliance mandatory in the EU. It would be interesting to see how MS would react to such an order. Given the ODF spec is a fraction the size of OOXML's and MS has billions to throw around, who's to say MS couldn't implement the entire ODF spec in a short time period? Hell, they probably already did it "just in case". Any company willing to spend the cash to play with Singularity...
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TSA is just pissed someone exposed a known design flaw in the hardware they use and now they're trying to minimize public knowledge of it.
...think of the awesome power of this tool when used on children. Screaming in the back seat? Being asked a third time for candy before dinner? Grocery store tantrums that everyone notices? Not anymore!
This kind of thinking makes me afraid for children. I have 3 kids of my own, ages 8, 5, and 1. Believe me -- I fully understand how tempting it would be to, if I had this tool, turn the volume down on whining, fighting, yelling, etc.
The problem is using this tool against children is open to extreme abuse. Remember that movie Click with Adam Sandler? The concept there is he had a remote that could fast-forward through parts of his life deemed unimportant. Imagine what would happen if parents could "mute" their children whenever they wanted to. I'm sure it would begin with good intentions as Sander's character did in the movie. But it would quickly turn into an addiction.
The worst part is the potential psychological effects it could have on children later in life. They would learn to devalue their own voices and opinions. Self esteem would suffer. The effects would mirror that of other forms of child abuse.
I'm sure this technology can be useful for a lot of things but please don't even suggest the idea of putting into the hands of parents. Most of them wouldn't be able to handle it ethically, and children would surely suffer.
Wouldn't you like a place where you and a few like-minded amateur lawmakers could get together and do it right?
We already tried that. The result was Congress.
Yes, our federal Congress. But there are other legislative bodies that have taken the career income incentive out of the equation, such as New Hampshire. Their state senators make $100/yr (not a typo -- one hundred dollars per year) and it has been that way for nearly a century. Compare to California where the average salary was over $113k (as of 2007).
If we take the pay incentive away from career politicians you're left with those who actually care about their constituency -- otherwise they have no other reason to be there.
Sources:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/New_Hampshire_State_Senate#Salaries
http://www.empirecenter.org/html/legislative_salaries.cfm
http://freestateproject.org/
Put it on eBay: "Create your own black hole!" Starting bid: $1 (no reserve)
Just read another article today about the subject. The author suggests something I hadn't seen elsewhere:
(source link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57378764-94/lightsquared-blew-it-and-heres-why/)
"But it's the GPS equipment that bleeds into LightSquared's proposed network, and not the other way around. LightSquared paid for this spectrum and had a legal right to use it, but were stopped by these interference concerns. The GPS industry actually had years to patch up its equipment to avoid these issues, but largely chose to ignore it."
This byte ignores the original intent of how the spectrum was to be used (satellite based vs terrestrial) but it is the first claim I've read that GPS equipment is what's jumping spectrums here.
It's definitely the latter. They pulled the same stunt when they released the iPhone, a name already belonging to Cisco/Linksys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone#Apple_iPhone_and_trademark_dispute
Based on the vague discussion details and how the FBI sent out an email with the conference call number and password, it sounds more likely to be a setup by the FBI to lure Anon into the call so they could glean more location data off of them.
Perhaps I should have been more specific...
HDCP has evolved since DVI and it depends on the version of HDMI as to whether it fully supports it.
"According to HDCP Specification 1.2 (beginning with HDMI CTS 1.3a), any system that implements HDCP must do so in a fully compliant manner."
Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDCP
I suspect the driving force toward HDMI-only is anti piracy efforts in the form of mandatory HDCP on any new display hardware.
I predict the only thing left of the middle east will be radioactive waste and sand.
FTFA:
"But Google's petition to the appeals court over the email is also in the way, according to Alsup's ruling Thursday. "If Oracle will waive reliance on that email, then this roadblock would vanish," he wrote."
It's interesting to me that the judge is the one assisting in negotiations between Oracle and Google instead of general counsel. It seems obvious to Alsup even before trial that neither the clumsy infringer nor the litigious patent troll will otherwise meet in the middle.
Android allegedly infringes on Microsoft patents and Apple patents (among others). Microsoft decides to license its technology. What does Apple do? Sue the crap out of everyone. Sounds to me like MS is taking the smarter approach here -- partnering with manufacturers, creating a steady income stream, and not looking looking like an iDouche.
TFA quotes the text of the bill as consisting of the following 3 lines:
"No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that:
(1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or
(2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."
At least it's a blatantly visible abuse of our lobby system as opposed to one buried at the end of a completely unrelated congressional effort.
FTFA: "BG Group ... accused him of including confidential information in his CV, such as details about how he had reduced the firm's rate of staff attrition."
His dedication to this goal only went so far, apparently.
I can understand Microsoft wanting to shift more units...
I'm just glad MS plans on supporting XP for a total of 13 years. Thank God they don't adopt Intuit's forced upgrade plan. If you don't buy a new version of Quicken at least every 3 years the software dumbs itself down to virtually useless.
I'm sure things are a bit different nowadays, but here's my college cost rundown: Attended a CA community college for 5 semesters @ $300 ea plus about $150 ea in books = $2250 Transferred to Cal Poly SLO for 11 quarters @ $750 ea plus about $250 ea in books = $11,000 Add in various school fees over the years (parking permits, student ID), no rent (lived at home)... was out for about $15k. Got a BS-CSC from a great school and never had a student loan. P.S. I graduated in '02.
I think of a stock that doesn't pay dividends similar to precious metals such as gold. Gold doesn't actually do anything... it just sits there. It's a store of value. That's pretty much how stocks like Apple are. As tbannist said, you only get a benefit once you sell it.
Good point.
MS might then claim their implementation of ODF is "standards compliant" - and even provide test results that "prove" it - but would somehow work differently in practice. Now THAT sounds like IE!