What would stop Google from adapting the same algorithms that determine which ads are shown to create a criminal profile of a user? If you're constantly searching for skillets and saute pans Google no doubt flags you a possible chef. Users could be flagged as any number of things, such as misogynist, sadist, interested in children, etc. There could be categories of flags such as "interest" (children), item (duct tape) and action (how to dispose of a body). Certain combinations of flags could paint a user as a potential offender with reasonable specificity, and they're location aware.
I don't see the police showing up at someone's house based on profiles alone, but when a kid disappears I do see Google feeding a short list of "suspects" to the department to give them a head start. While this doesn't sound like a bad idea on the surface and would be legal depending on Google's TOS, it would make for some uncomfortable husband-wife explanations after the knock on the door.
I think about 90% of programming is the skill of the programmer and 10% the language used. When you're good you can do pretty much anything with any language (within reason obviously), when you're bad you're out of luck regardless of which language you choose. Here's an example of tool versus fool:
GAMBAS is a hell of a lot nicer than a cargo van, I'm just addressing people's constant claims about language superiority/inferiority. The results are the only thing that really matters.
I'm writing an MMO with it: http://www.youtube.com/user/VasCorpBetMani
The users mailing list would probably be the best place to ask what the serious folks are doing with it.
You should report the details of the most interesting parts of the discussion, then. Could make a whole damn article if it reflected the general direction of the project.
Poverty, drugs, and now terrorism. At least there's an outlet for all the perverts since they can get hired by the TSA. Better publicly groping people than buying the windowless van.
Maybe they just saw Dangaioh for the first time and shit themselves over how high-quality the animation was. After they cross fought the bureaucracy of a functional government, perhaps they also realized that physics theories less than a century old wouldn't hold forever and that better mathematical models would emerge through mechanized observation and analysis rather than human introspection and creativity. Einstein is out, SETI is in. I guess their computers are faster and their lenses broader.
Perfectionists are never satisfied with their job.
If the money's good, stay there and keep your head down. Suppress your pride. I'm hypervigilant at work, whether it's UPS, Uncle Vito's New York Pizza or IT bullshit. That ravenous attitude of getting things done the best way, all the time and every time, makes everyone look up and take notice. Usually that's bad because no one else wants to work that hard, much less change anything. It's an instinctive gut response from laborers even if the improvement seems mundane (place wax paper behind the lettuce bin to divert the airflow from the cooling vent and subsequently prevent the lettuce from freezing). No change is mundane and most are rejected for insufferably stupid reasons.
Pacify your coworkers and bosses and do something at home that makes you feel like you're changing the world. I'm writing a game. You can write whatever your imagination and spirit have the capacity of envisioning.
They should immediately one-off send their data to multiple networks who would look for mirror candidates. Someone somewhere should always preserve the Usenet archive. No censorship allowed, only redundant preservation across distributed networks.
Someday there will be a public outcry against cooling the core and weakening the Earth's magnetic field by excessively mining geothermic energy. Everyone will laugh at first (like now).
Free energy could be the great equalizer of nations, who knows?
I get that certain sexual offenses can be horrifying and violent (although they usually include separate crimes such as kidnapping or aggravated assault), but where's the big push for the "I shot someone in the face for no good reason" watch list? I'd be MUCH more interested in which people in my neighborhood had murdered someone than which ones whipped their dick out in public or had a "no means no" incident.
What exactly is the benefit of creating an app that requires a browser which can exist on only one OS? If Metro apps require IE, and IE only works on Windows, then Metro apps will share the fate of ActiveX controls; a legacy annoyance which never should have been.
Newegg will either stop selling those motherboards or modify their return policy once the storm of returns from Linux users begins. They may even add a filter to separate the "Linux-compatible" boards from the "MS-only" boards. In the end they'll support both hopefully.
I'd love to know what daily life in the U.S. would be like if every bill had a 100% compliance/enforcement rate. We're bankrupt as it is with less than stellar execution. Would it be a paradise or a hell? It reminds me of my days writing spaghetti code in QuickBASIC. While certain parts worked alone, as a whole there was a lot of contradiction.
I think the Congress needs to clean up its shit-fest of a code base and keep things simple, as complexity is the work of the devil. There's a line in some law somewhere that will screw anyone for anything, and the lawyers will always find it.
I started with Debian and moved to Ubuntu some years ago. I preferred GNOME, because it was most like what I was used to with Windows and Debian. I now use Kubuntu 11.10 after playing with multiple other distros in an effort to escape Unity and GNOME 3.
No specific DE or interface style is inherently superior to another, as people's tastes, usage patterns and hardware vary greatly. That being said, there is a reason I suspect many people will be more productive and happier using a DE other than GNOME 3 or Ubuntu's Unity. Both environments are one size fits all. Customization options are almost non-existent. Whether it's main menus, window management, themes, panel sizing and positioning, panel applets, desktop management or what have you, it's just not there. Want a floating panel? Tough shit. Symlinks on the desktop? Too damn bad. Have a triple-head setup that's no longer effective? Just disconnect two of the monitors and you'll be fine.
Something I noticed about Kubuntu (and KDE in general obviously) is that it is INSANELY customizable. Incredibly I was able to set it up on my dual-head system to work exactly like GNOME 2.x. The only exceptions are that it looks absolutely beautiful and the depth and quality of its core tools are markedly superior.
I don't think Unity versus GNOME 3 versus GNOME 2.x is a valid argument. It's about how much room each offers to tailor the experience to your liking without having to take a hatchet to your system (Ubuntu is supposed to be easy, right?). Here's my setup:
I worked in IT at a mortgage company for three years and got laid off before one of my less senior co workers as the company began its slow implosion. I had been there longer than him and my boss.
I had been at a different mortgage company for three years when my boss left with a better job. He took me aside and said he had a position there for me and could set up an interview with his new boss if I liked. I interviewed and was offered the job for $6000 more than I was making. I told my employers and offered them the opportunity to counter-offer, expressing my love of the job and desire to stay. They declined and I put in my notice.
On my last day my employer came to me and said the execs had changed their minds because of everything I did around the place, that they'd bump me $6000. I was extremely pleased, and the raise was effective immediately. Three months later I was laid off with half the IT department. I tried to contact my old boss and got no response; that bridge had been burned by me staying on at my old job.
Obviously I think you should take the job without another thought. Believe me, no one cares about you but you.
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What would stop Google from adapting the same algorithms that determine which ads are shown to create a criminal profile of a user? If you're constantly searching for skillets and saute pans Google no doubt flags you a possible chef. Users could be flagged as any number of things, such as misogynist, sadist, interested in children, etc. There could be categories of flags such as "interest" (children), item (duct tape) and action (how to dispose of a body). Certain combinations of flags could paint a user as a potential offender with reasonable specificity, and they're location aware.
I don't see the police showing up at someone's house based on profiles alone, but when a kid disappears I do see Google feeding a short list of "suspects" to the department to give them a head start. While this doesn't sound like a bad idea on the surface and would be legal depending on Google's TOS, it would make for some uncomfortable husband-wife explanations after the knock on the door.
and the zombie apocalypse begins. We need a good extinction event.
I didn't care about Fox. Then they cancelled The Finder. Now I hate them.
I think about 90% of programming is the skill of the programmer and 10% the language used. When you're good you can do pretty much anything with any language (within reason obviously), when you're bad you're out of luck regardless of which language you choose. Here's an example of tool versus fool:
Part 1 (start at 3:00 mark): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQJKQjXpGQA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc
GAMBAS is a hell of a lot nicer than a cargo van, I'm just addressing people's constant claims about language superiority/inferiority. The results are the only thing that really matters.
Haha, never thought about that. Fish. Shrimp. If only CmdrTaco had posted my submission we could have had a real meal on our hands.
I'm writing an MMO with it: http://www.youtube.com/user/VasCorpBetMani The users mailing list would probably be the best place to ask what the serious folks are doing with it.
If all the military did was blow shit up the planet would look like an eight ball.
You should report the details of the most interesting parts of the discussion, then. Could make a whole damn article if it reflected the general direction of the project.
Poverty, drugs, and now terrorism. At least there's an outlet for all the perverts since they can get hired by the TSA. Better publicly groping people than buying the windowless van.
Maybe they just saw Dangaioh for the first time and shit themselves over how high-quality the animation was. After they cross fought the bureaucracy of a functional government, perhaps they also realized that physics theories less than a century old wouldn't hold forever and that better mathematical models would emerge through mechanized observation and analysis rather than human introspection and creativity. Einstein is out, SETI is in. I guess their computers are faster and their lenses broader.
Mod up. There are lazy military personnel, but they are disproportionately smaller in number than the number of lazy civilians.
That's true of all Earth military forces, but compare U.S. forces to other Earth forces and think of who the aliens might better identify with.
Perfectionists are never satisfied with their job.
If the money's good, stay there and keep your head down. Suppress your pride. I'm hypervigilant at work, whether it's UPS, Uncle Vito's New York Pizza or IT bullshit. That ravenous attitude of getting things done the best way, all the time and every time, makes everyone look up and take notice. Usually that's bad because no one else wants to work that hard, much less change anything. It's an instinctive gut response from laborers even if the improvement seems mundane (place wax paper behind the lettuce bin to divert the airflow from the cooling vent and subsequently prevent the lettuce from freezing). No change is mundane and most are rejected for insufferably stupid reasons.
Pacify your coworkers and bosses and do something at home that makes you feel like you're changing the world. I'm writing a game. You can write whatever your imagination and spirit have the capacity of envisioning.
I think more people use Linux than you think they use.
They should immediately one-off send their data to multiple networks who would look for mirror candidates. Someone somewhere should always preserve the Usenet archive. No censorship allowed, only redundant preservation across distributed networks.
Someday there will be a public outcry against cooling the core and weakening the Earth's magnetic field by excessively mining geothermic energy. Everyone will laugh at first (like now).
Free energy could be the great equalizer of nations, who knows?
I get that certain sexual offenses can be horrifying and violent (although they usually include separate crimes such as kidnapping or aggravated assault), but where's the big push for the "I shot someone in the face for no good reason" watch list? I'd be MUCH more interested in which people in my neighborhood had murdered someone than which ones whipped their dick out in public or had a "no means no" incident.
What exactly is the benefit of creating an app that requires a browser which can exist on only one OS? If Metro apps require IE, and IE only works on Windows, then Metro apps will share the fate of ActiveX controls; a legacy annoyance which never should have been.
Newegg will either stop selling those motherboards or modify their return policy once the storm of returns from Linux users begins. They may even add a filter to separate the "Linux-compatible" boards from the "MS-only" boards. In the end they'll support both hopefully.
I'd love to know what daily life in the U.S. would be like if every bill had a 100% compliance/enforcement rate. We're bankrupt as it is with less than stellar execution. Would it be a paradise or a hell? It reminds me of my days writing spaghetti code in QuickBASIC. While certain parts worked alone, as a whole there was a lot of contradiction.
I think the Congress needs to clean up its shit-fest of a code base and keep things simple, as complexity is the work of the devil. There's a line in some law somewhere that will screw anyone for anything, and the lawyers will always find it.
Impress me.
I started with Debian and moved to Ubuntu some years ago. I preferred GNOME, because it was most like what I was used to with Windows and Debian. I now use Kubuntu 11.10 after playing with multiple other distros in an effort to escape Unity and GNOME 3.
No specific DE or interface style is inherently superior to another, as people's tastes, usage patterns and hardware vary greatly. That being said, there is a reason I suspect many people will be more productive and happier using a DE other than GNOME 3 or Ubuntu's Unity. Both environments are one size fits all. Customization options are almost non-existent. Whether it's main menus, window management, themes, panel sizing and positioning, panel applets, desktop management or what have you, it's just not there. Want a floating panel? Tough shit. Symlinks on the desktop? Too damn bad. Have a triple-head setup that's no longer effective? Just disconnect two of the monitors and you'll be fine.
Something I noticed about Kubuntu (and KDE in general obviously) is that it is INSANELY customizable. Incredibly I was able to set it up on my dual-head system to work exactly like GNOME 2.x. The only exceptions are that it looks absolutely beautiful and the depth and quality of its core tools are markedly superior.
I don't think Unity versus GNOME 3 versus GNOME 2.x is a valid argument. It's about how much room each offers to tailor the experience to your liking without having to take a hatchet to your system (Ubuntu is supposed to be easy, right?). Here's my setup:
http://www.eightvirtues.com/misc/Kubuntu%2011.10.jpg
I worked in IT at a mortgage company for three years and got laid off before one of my less senior co workers as the company began its slow implosion. I had been there longer than him and my boss.
I had been at a different mortgage company for three years when my boss left with a better job. He took me aside and said he had a position there for me and could set up an interview with his new boss if I liked. I interviewed and was offered the job for $6000 more than I was making. I told my employers and offered them the opportunity to counter-offer, expressing my love of the job and desire to stay. They declined and I put in my notice.
On my last day my employer came to me and said the execs had changed their minds because of everything I did around the place, that they'd bump me $6000. I was extremely pleased, and the raise was effective immediately. Three months later I was laid off with half the IT department. I tried to contact my old boss and got no response; that bridge had been burned by me staying on at my old job.
Obviously I think you should take the job without another thought. Believe me, no one cares about you but you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbcVbcBobs&hd=1 Ballmer's next.
Usually through holes in the floor. Better answers welcome.