They ended collecting *so* much information, that they couldn't analyze it all:
The MfS infiltrated almost every aspect of GDR life. In the mid-1980s, a network of civilian informants, Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs, Unofficial Collaborators), began growing in both German states; by the time East Germany collapsed in 1989, the MfS employed an estimated 91,000 employees and 300,000 informants. About one of every 50 East Germans collaborated with the MfS â" one of the most extensive police infiltrations of a society in history. In 2007 an article in BBC stated that "Some calculations have concluded that in East Germany there was one informer to every seven citizens."
The lesson here is that if you are collecting a lot of data, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are collecting the right (and useful) data.
...your needs. I will be east European, um, professionals exporting, that your needs very well be meeting.
universal healthcare,
Yes, as you "Around the World" call.
other pubic services,
All already shaved.
or other services that are held by private sector in other countries work very well in europe,
No roughie stuffie, ok?
but SOMEHOW, goverment is always 'inefficient' in united states.
Our sales associates can be if needed Viagra providing. None 'ineficientiousness' no more; use only as directed.
i have to say this here - if, you are unable to make your government work more efficiently than european countries, its YOUR fault. its your country, government is YOUR corporation, you are the inalienable shareholder, you should f@cking stand up and demand your rights, and your rights to be protected from private interests, yourself. someone is not going to come and do it for you.
Yes, thank-you, thank-you very much, as our dear Elvis would have said. He was never for a bailout asking.
Sorry to poke fun at a serious post, but it's the Holiday Season, and as Kinky Friedman says, "Why not?"
A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct competition against the likes of Dell, HP and IBM, companies it partners with on their respective blade server offerings, for control of the enterprise data center.
I never really did think I understood what that film was really about.
Even if you look only at their own, "branded" journals (IEEE Transactions on Foo), they seem to be founding new ones ever other week, which range in quality all the way from well respected in their field, to kooky.
Don't criticize it, legalize it. Why not have an IEEE conference on Software-Generated Papers?
It may sound wacky, but it will probably solicit plenty of entries.
Hmmm... so then the peer reviewers would also have to be Software-Generated. And Software-Generated attendees?
I can see the host convention center manager saying, "These computer folks seem to get kookier every day."
I know of at least 3 bankers who have committed suicide recently, mostly from those banks whose funds have tanked.
I know a frequent mantra on Slashdot is, "Correlation does not mean causality." But, being that a butt-load of bankers are getting off free for the mess that they have created, and that they are now collecting millions in bonuses from taxpayer money, you might have a needed talent. Can I ask you a favor?
Can you please get to know more bankers?
On the serious side, Credit Suisse announced that their bonuses would be paid out in . . . toxic securities.
Mathematicians use all sorts of funky ancient Greek symbols to express their thoughts. It's like trying to read an APL program.
If mathematicians could represent their concepts in car analogies, maybe ordinary folks would be able to understand what all the fuss is about.
At least, here, on Slashdot, where the car analogy is the lingua franca.
And the mathematicians might have some fun with it. How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
. . . it looks to me like they are ramping up to sue ISPs. They are probably lobbying right now to get laws requiring ISP enforcement.
There is more money to squeeze out of them, compared to grandma.
Viable business model? More like a dieing business model. I would prefer to see a music industry in the future, that is comprised of artists and consumers, where the artists are payed fair prices for their work.
How come I have the sneaky feeling, that if the NSA discovered anything really spectacular... I wouldn't be reading about it on Slashdot?
"Cracking WPA2? No problem but it is patented by the NSA and documented by the USPTO"... so you can read about it, but you have to license it from the NSA, if you want to use it.
Hell, the American Big Three are desperately looking for some good PR, after getting spanked out of Washington. A reformed Rick Wagoner could say, "I've given up taking joy rides in the corporate jet, and am now saving babies."
TFA mentions that they rummage around in junk yards for parts: Detroit probably has butt-loads of new parts that they will never need. The UAW will clean up their image by using volunteers to do the assembly for free.
As soon as they do this, the German auto companies will respond with a better engineered model, and the Japanese with a fuel efficient hybrid.
Oh, remember to disable the airbag before you put the baby in.
This almost seems like an Ig Nobel coming in early. But being that this is the holiday season, I'll bite, at the expense of our Australian folks.
She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay.
Um, not for me to peck around at Australian dialect, but I think the proper word would be incarcerated.
Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses.
WTF?!?! Austrailian scientists: "Hey, what should we do this afternoon?" "Ah, let's show some video to the octopi." Try "Buckaroo Banzai," I think that they will like that one. It's kinda funny, if you understand octopi humor. "Miami Vice" is right out.
She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string.
After this treatment, I'd grab for the bottle in an instant.
A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence.
Just the other day I tossed a chick out of the bed, and said, "You *really* have a great personality, but you are so cold and slimy."
"I have questions for those of you who have written books: what writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right (so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and has not worked well for you?"
Learn from a master, Jack Kerouac, from Wikipedia, about his book "On the Road":
"He completed the first version of the novel during a three week extended session of spontaneous confessional prose. Before beginning, Kerouac cut sheets of tracing paper [11]into long strips, wide enough for a type-writer, and taped them together into a 120-foot (37 m) long roll he then fed into the machine. This allowed him to type continuously without the interruption of reloading pages."
Even if O'Reilly turns down your manuscript, they will laugh their asses off when that long roll lands in.
A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
The Monty Python folks referred to this as, "the other, other operation."
Profit?
Driving and politics . . . sounds like a deadly mix to me.
He'll have to figure it all out on his own, using a basic knowledge of bars and beers and so on, reasoning skills and an ability to understand certain parts of the world.
This strategy seemed to work very well for George W. Bush.
Newspapers have been declared dead every few years for the past 15 or so.
I see your 15, and raise you 10. When I started to work in 1985, the "paperless office" was "just a few days away." Hewlett-Packard begs to differ. Every time that I enter our printer room, I am amazed that a rubber boat full of Greenpeace protesters is not there; we seem to go through paper like nobody's business.
Look, they're still around. I guess they'll still be here in another 15 years.
Yepp, seems like FORTRAN and COBOL, rumors of their death have been grossly exaggerated.
Actually, why aren't we considering this... making gasoline from dead human bodies? If I could squeeze a gallon of high-octane out of granny and grandpa, why not?
Although, it might be a bit creepy, tanking up with your grandparents.
Of course, this would kill the zombie film industry: "There ain't no dead bodies in the graveyard, I done burned them up in my nitro-burning funny car!"
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I'd like to breed these critters, the size of SUVs, dress them up in Santa suits, get them liquored up, and teach them to yell, "Ho, ho, fucking ho."
Rampage in Christchurch, New Zealand follows.
How come ThinkGeek aren't offering an "Amateur Genetic Engineering At Home kit?"
Must be them "Homeland Security" bastards, again.
der heutigen Stasi.
. . . this means something like, "today's Stasi."
The Stasi were a nasty and creepy bunch of East German secret police: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi.
They ended collecting *so* much information, that they couldn't analyze it all:
The MfS infiltrated almost every aspect of GDR life. In the mid-1980s, a network of civilian informants, Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs, Unofficial Collaborators), began growing in both German states; by the time East Germany collapsed in 1989, the MfS employed an estimated 91,000 employees and 300,000 informants. About one of every 50 East Germans collaborated with the MfS â" one of the most extensive police infiltrations of a society in history. In 2007 an article in BBC stated that "Some calculations have concluded that in East Germany there was one informer to every seven citizens."
The lesson here is that if you are collecting a lot of data, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are collecting the right (and useful) data.
...your needs. I will be east European, um, professionals exporting, that your needs very well be meeting.
universal healthcare,
Yes, as you "Around the World" call.
other pubic services,
All already shaved.
or other services that are held by private sector in other countries work very well in europe,
No roughie stuffie, ok?
but SOMEHOW, goverment is always 'inefficient' in united states.
Our sales associates can be if needed Viagra providing. None 'ineficientiousness' no more; use only as directed.
i have to say this here - if, you are unable to make your government work more efficiently than european countries, its YOUR fault. its your country, government is YOUR corporation, you are the inalienable shareholder, you should f@cking stand up and demand your rights, and your rights to be protected from private interests, yourself. someone is not going to come and do it for you.
Yes, thank-you, thank-you very much, as our dear Elvis would have said. He was never for a bailout asking.
Sorry to poke fun at a serious post, but it's the Holiday Season, and as Kinky Friedman says, "Why not?"
A blade server offering would pit Cisco in direct competition against the likes of Dell, HP and IBM, companies it partners with on their respective blade server offerings, for control of the enterprise data center.
I never really did think I understood what that film was really about.
Now I think I am beginning to get an idea.
Apple?
Show us your iBlades!
Even if you look only at their own, "branded" journals (IEEE Transactions on Foo), they seem to be founding new ones ever other week, which range in quality all the way from well respected in their field, to kooky.
Don't criticize it, legalize it. Why not have an IEEE conference on Software-Generated Papers?
It may sound wacky, but it will probably solicit plenty of entries.
Hmmm ... so then the peer reviewers would also have to be Software-Generated. And Software-Generated attendees?
I can see the host convention center manager saying, "These computer folks seem to get kookier every day."
Why we need more Jobs? I think one instance is enough.
I'm thinking more like "The Matrix" agents, but Jobs, all with black pullovers. About 300,000 of them.
They could come up with butt-loads of innovative, high tech devices, that we never before realized that we really needed.
Like, the iNose (helps you to avoid bad oysters), the iCrotch (helps you to avoid . . . um, never mind). And iSo-on.
The problem would be at the MacWorld keynote, when the announcer asked, "Can one of you Jobs come up here and give a speech?"
All 300,000 would charge up, and create conditions that the Large Hadron Collider could only dream about.
I know of at least 3 bankers who have committed suicide recently, mostly from those banks whose funds have tanked.
I know a frequent mantra on Slashdot is, "Correlation does not mean causality." But, being that a butt-load of bankers are getting off free for the mess that they have created, and that they are now collecting millions in bonuses from taxpayer money, you might have a needed talent. Can I ask you a favor?
Can you please get to know more bankers?
On the serious side, Credit Suisse announced that their bonuses would be paid out in . . . toxic securities.
Mathematicians use all sorts of funky ancient Greek symbols to express their thoughts. It's like trying to read an APL program.
If mathematicians could represent their concepts in car analogies, maybe ordinary folks would be able to understand what all the fuss is about.
At least, here, on Slashdot, where the car analogy is the lingua franca.
And the mathematicians might have some fun with it. How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
Virgin Galactic? Pay a butt-load to fly up to outer space?
It looks like outer space is coming down to us now.
Well that business plan is now Blagojevich'ed.
. . . it looks to me like they are ramping up to sue ISPs. They are probably lobbying right now to get laws requiring ISP enforcement.
There is more money to squeeze out of them, compared to grandma.
Viable business model? More like a dieing business model. I would prefer to see a music industry in the future, that is comprised of artists and consumers, where the artists are payed fair prices for their work.
And no big record labels.
Maybe he would have talked?
Or maybe the poor critter is enjoying a vacation at a resort in Cuba now.
How come I have the sneaky feeling, that if the NSA discovered anything really spectacular ... I wouldn't be reading about it on Slashdot?
"Cracking WPA2? No problem but it is patented by the NSA and documented by the USPTO" ... so you can read about it, but you have to license it from the NSA, if you want to use it.
That business model ought to work.
So, like, if I am applying to also become, um, like a "Censorship Minister" somewhere, like, what needs to be on my resume or CV?
Spent college years with a big fat magic marker, blacking out a lot of stuff in the university library?
Maybe he duct-tapped up the mouths of protesting fellow students.
He should least have to pedigree to call himself the "Minister of Information" instead.
*During this time period, everything was competing. There were dozens of electric car companies; steam, ethanol, diesel, gasoline were all competing.
I'm waiting for one that is fueled by weapons-grade plutonium.
When that baby knocks, it's going to *KNOCK*, big-time.
Hell, the American Big Three are desperately looking for some good PR, after getting spanked out of Washington. A reformed Rick Wagoner could say, "I've given up taking joy rides in the corporate jet, and am now saving babies."
TFA mentions that they rummage around in junk yards for parts: Detroit probably has butt-loads of new parts that they will never need. The UAW will clean up their image by using volunteers to do the assembly for free.
As soon as they do this, the German auto companies will respond with a better engineered model, and the Japanese with a fuel efficient hybrid.
Oh, remember to disable the airbag before you put the baby in.
This almost seems like an Ig Nobel coming in early. But being that this is the holiday season, I'll bite, at the expense of our Australian folks.
She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay.
Um, not for me to peck around at Australian dialect, but I think the proper word would be incarcerated.
Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses.
WTF?!?! Austrailian scientists: "Hey, what should we do this afternoon?" "Ah, let's show some video to the octopi." Try "Buckaroo Banzai," I think that they will like that one. It's kinda funny, if you understand octopi humor. "Miami Vice" is right out.
She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string.
After this treatment, I'd grab for the bottle in an instant.
A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence.
Just the other day I tossed a chick out of the bed, and said, "You *really* have a great personality, but you are so cold and slimy."
"I have questions for those of you who have written books: what writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right (so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and has not worked well for you?"
Learn from a master, Jack Kerouac, from Wikipedia, about his book "On the Road":
"He completed the first version of the novel during a three week extended session of spontaneous confessional prose. Before beginning, Kerouac cut sheets of tracing paper [11]into long strips, wide enough for a type-writer, and taped them together into a 120-foot (37 m) long roll he then fed into the machine. This allowed him to type continuously without the interruption of reloading pages."
Even if O'Reilly turns down your manuscript, they will laugh their asses off when that long roll lands in.
A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
The Monty Python folks referred to this as, "the other, other operation."
Profit?
Driving and politics . . . sounds like a deadly mix to me.
He'll have to figure it all out on his own, using a basic knowledge of bars and beers and so on, reasoning skills and an ability to understand certain parts of the world.
This strategy seemed to work very well for George W. Bush.
What is the point if they only got one submission for the Hash contest?
Europe's top contenders in the hash competition were devastated by some new laws in Amsterdam, banning whores and space-cake cafes: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=683353
Well, duh, do you think people travel there to look at the wooden shoes and windmills? What have their politicians been smoking?
And yes it will take years to pick the winner.
If the stuff is good, and the judges supply of Doritos hold out, it could take decades.
Newspapers have been declared dead every few years for the past 15 or so.
I see your 15, and raise you 10. When I started to work in 1985, the "paperless office" was "just a few days away." Hewlett-Packard begs to differ. Every time that I enter our printer room, I am amazed that a rubber boat full of Greenpeace protesters is not there; we seem to go through paper like nobody's business.
Look, they're still around. I guess they'll still be here in another 15 years.
Yepp, seems like FORTRAN and COBOL, rumors of their death have been grossly exaggerated.
The cash burn must have been something beyond my comprehension.
Yeah, the only ones that can comprehend such cash burn, are running companies in Detroit.
Abit executives in Washington, in front of a Senate panel, looking for a bailout? You heard it here first.
Liechtenstein?
How is that a threat?
Follow the cash, dude: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/02/2177472.htm
Coincidentally, Germany is pissed off at Liechtenstein for the same reason that they are pissed off about Scientology. Taxes.
Actually, why aren't we considering this ... making gasoline from dead human bodies? If I could squeeze a gallon of high-octane out of granny and grandpa, why not?
Although, it might be a bit creepy, tanking up with your grandparents.
Of course, this would kill the zombie film industry: "There ain't no dead bodies in the graveyard, I done burned them up in my nitro-burning funny car!"