I'd be pissed if they lost their side of the argument, but if Amazon could not legally bundle the software that reads the book aloud, I'm sure there's no law that can stop that software from existing somewhere, so plug it in, plug it in.
About transparency and promoting citizen participation in government, look at the way he ran his campaigns for the Democratic nomination and the presidential nomination itself. They showed incredible innovation in the use of technology to facilitate grassroots campaigning, so hopefully they can use those tools and procedures to address the monumental tasks at hand.
I think a lot of people neglect the difference an extra hour makes. Staying at work an extra hour has implications on traffic, eating times, exercise schedules, and the sense of balance in one's life.
It's nice to have flex-time and the OPTION of a 9/80, but my brains are on the floor if I'm truly working nine hours a day every week. Plus in the winter (right now), you're often inside for all the hours of daylight, which is rather depressing.
:( Additionally, watch Americans be completely surprised when these countries reciprocate the generosity.
I was horrified when I went to Japan recently and had to let them take my fingerprints and a picture. I was even more horrified when I complained to my Japanese friends and they let me know that America has the same practice.
When my Japanese ex- visited me, she complained about the brusqueness of U.S. customs and having her fingerprint taken and all that. 'Kowaii' (scary) was the word she used.
Last two times I've been to Japan, they've done the same to me: face photo, fingerprints. I want to say they did an optic scan, too, but maybe I'm just confusing that with the face photo. Either way, I'm unhappy about this measure because I don't want go through this shit every time I travel internationally. Time to write to the congressman...
Let's break this down into categories: 1)Blocking and Intercepting Communications 2)Intercepting and Sabotaging Development / Code
As far as a 'hot' war, how can #1 not be crucial? Even in simple games like baseball hand signals are used to hide communications. What would have happened in WW2 if the Germans knew where we would land for D-Day? What would happen now if China attacked Taiwan and knew where all the US military resources were?
Regarding #2, stealing code is a legitimate concern. Ask Valve (Half-life 2). Furthermore, to say that you can just create two networks is folly. You need procedural awareness and obedience among everyone using those networks. For instance, most secured areas do not allow flash drive use. Anyone remember a week or two ago when some malicious worms were found incubating on flash drives? And with hundreds of thousands of people using U.S. classified networks, there are going to be mistakes.
I'm inclined to agree that 99% of the stuff out there is panic and hyperbole. But for people who think this is all a joke, I imagine they've never experienced a DoS attack, hijacked an OS with a buffer overflow, etc. I'd like to point out that - to the best of my knowledge - computer security research is publicly funded and published. Really the only edge our government has is what's developed inside our think tanks.
As an aside, I wonder other countries stand to gain from spying inside China...
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In the 1970s, Robert Plant sang about smoking up with hobbits, and it was cool.
"Just as it is more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a patient, so it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than for a society to kill an idea."
"Criminal" is merely a label placed upon a human being by a society. Because that human being is a singular set of experiences and ideas long before society can label him as "criminal," it stands that it is more moral for his ideas to destroy the society than vice versa. If a society is absolutely RIGHT and the rules it is founded on are sound, should it not be able to answer his ideas on an intellectual level, as opposed to necessitating the man's murder?
You say that we're saying "citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land." Constituents of a society inherently DO have a right to determine the make-up and consistency of their society, but does that mean that their society is inherently just or that there are no limits a society cannot transgress? If a majority of society mandated that everyone should have their genitals surgically removed, does that mean you should be forced to do the same without the option of extricating yourself from that society?
Citizens have a right to determine their laws, but if I am not a citizen or choose not to be a part of society, then do you think society should have any jurisdiction over me?
I just use wikipedia for the pictures, man. "Ooooh, look, it's Kyotooooo!"
That said, I was using wikipedia to look at some Van Gogh paintings a few weeks back, and one that I loved was purportedly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Then I checked the museum archives itself, and I found out it's not there! What a load of hooey, I'm not even sure anymore that the painting is by our beloved half-eared expressionist, as it has disappeared from the wiki article, too.
The final word on veracity is to remember, folks, that "Dancing in the Moonlight" is not by Van Morrison!
>>>"modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring"
That makes no sense. Men have been marrying later (or not at all). Heck Romeo married when he was 16, and that was customary at that time... in the 1800s most americans married at 22.... you don't see that happening today. A lot of people are waiting until their 30s.
This tends to be in stable, first-world economies. Look to parts of Africa where AIDS is endemic and you'll see most people don't live past their twenties.
In the case of CDs, you're legally allowed to make one copy for backups.
I haven't check the law, but logic would follow that we have similar rights for DVDs. In such a case, DVD ripping software and hardware would be off the hook, as it has a legal purpose.
Though you could hack it in, it wasn't officially added until the iPhone 3G came out, at which point I think the old iPhones got the capability in a software update.
I believe said capability also included a non-qwerty interface. It could be that Apple was waiting to perfect that interface before unleashing the Asian language input.
My advice is to study body language and social psychology, and learn how to say, "Yes, I'd love to work overtime! But I can't tonight. Or tomorrow. Or ever, actually. =/"
The IT and CS industries are like anything else, where the relationship between employer and employee is most often a form of mutual exploitation. Get good at your part and figure out how to get out of the industry.
I have twenty sharp knives in my kitchen drawer. The idea and capacity for rape and murder are latent within me, but does that mean I should act upon them?
Just because this technology exists or its existence is "inevitable", does that mean anything? Is it not the use of technology, the action itself that we must consider?
"No civilized society, he adds, can endure 'purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture.'"
Flawed logic: he's implicitly arguing that artists make art for money.
Even were I to cut him some slack and read it as "artists need money so that they can quit their more economical endeavors and employment and solely pursue creation," I'd also point out how inherently flawed that argument is.
Long story short, this article is a waste of time.
The big question is "Why?" Japan and Korea aren't the only ones that far outclass American broadband speed
For starters, how many Koreans make their living off of Starcraft? And we've all heard of Chinese gold farmers in MMORPGs. A hilarious and sad wikipedia quote:
"According to estimates, around 100,000 people in China are employed as gold farmers, as of December 2005.[1] Chinese gold farmers typically work twelve hour shifts, and sometimes up to eighteen hour shifts. Wages depend heavily on location and the size of the gold-farming company. One gold-farming operation in Chongqing in central China with 23 gold farmers was reported to pay its employees the equivalent of about 120 U.S. dollars per month, while workers at a larger gold farm in Fuzhou earn the equivalent of about 250 U.S. dollars per month. The rising prevalence of gold farming has led to the creation of gold-farm brokerages.
There are gold farmers or gold farms in other countries as well, such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico. However, they do not approach the scope and scale of the Chinese farm industry."
Google is a company, a corporation whose end goal is implicity to turn a profit. Even given its humble, do-gooder beginnings, it's important not to be blinded by our fan-boy love.
I don't know Google's rationale, but it may be that they consider it a greater good to block the occasional video than to have the youtube service blocked for the other 99.9% of viewers in a certain country.
I think Google finds itself in ambiguous situations many times, and it's far easier for us to criticize them to actually consider their position and realize just how unclear it is what the 'right' choice is to make.
A steady paycheck looks good on paper and many people are perfectly happy working on someone else's ideas for their entire lives. Eventually though, people with a creative streak have to have an outlet or they go insane. Sometimes a part-time hobby is enough, sometimes it means quitting the steady job.
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I'd be pissed if they lost their side of the argument, but if Amazon could not legally bundle the software that reads the book aloud, I'm sure there's no law that can stop that software from existing somewhere, so plug it in, plug it in.
About transparency and promoting citizen participation in government, look at the way he ran his campaigns for the Democratic nomination and the presidential nomination itself. They showed incredible innovation in the use of technology to facilitate grassroots campaigning, so hopefully they can use those tools and procedures to address the monumental tasks at hand.
Daniel Craig did all right with Bond.
The new Batman was astonishing.
Point: beware of blanket statements.
I think a lot of people neglect the difference an extra hour makes. Staying at work an extra hour has implications on traffic, eating times, exercise schedules, and the sense of balance in one's life.
It's nice to have flex-time and the OPTION of a 9/80, but my brains are on the floor if I'm truly working nine hours a day every week. Plus in the winter (right now), you're often inside for all the hours of daylight, which is rather depressing.
:( Additionally, watch Americans be completely surprised when these countries reciprocate the generosity.
I was horrified when I went to Japan recently and had to let them take my fingerprints and a picture. I was even more horrified when I complained to my Japanese friends and they let me know that America has the same practice.
When my Japanese ex- visited me, she complained about the brusqueness of U.S. customs and having her fingerprint taken and all that. 'Kowaii' (scary) was the word she used.
Last two times I've been to Japan, they've done the same to me: face photo, fingerprints. I want to say they did an optic scan, too, but maybe I'm just confusing that with the face photo. Either way, I'm unhappy about this measure because I don't want go through this shit every time I travel internationally. Time to write to the congressman...
How long before the first law suit claiming the ad is responsible for whatever driving calamity happened?
That's why they play the ads after your calamity. Imagine being pulled over by the police at 2am, and across the dashboard flashes:
...Hello Dave...
...only $5...
Would you like to know how to pass a breathalyzer?
Interesting coincidence. Next Indiana Jones movie?
Let's break this down into categories:
1)Blocking and Intercepting Communications
2)Intercepting and Sabotaging Development / Code
As far as a 'hot' war, how can #1 not be crucial? Even in simple games like baseball hand signals are used to hide communications. What would have happened in WW2 if the Germans knew where we would land for D-Day? What would happen now if China attacked Taiwan and knew where all the US military resources were?
Regarding #2, stealing code is a legitimate concern. Ask Valve (Half-life 2). Furthermore, to say that you can just create two networks is folly. You need procedural awareness and obedience among everyone using those networks. For instance, most secured areas do not allow flash drive use. Anyone remember a week or two ago when some malicious worms were found incubating on flash drives? And with hundreds of thousands of people using U.S. classified networks, there are going to be mistakes.
I'm inclined to agree that 99% of the stuff out there is panic and hyperbole. But for people who think this is all a joke, I imagine they've never experienced a DoS attack, hijacked an OS with a buffer overflow, etc. I'd like to point out that - to the best of my knowledge - computer security research is publicly funded and published. Really the only edge our government has is what's developed inside our think tanks.
As an aside, I wonder other countries stand to gain from spying inside China...
In the 1970s, Robert Plant sang about smoking up with hobbits, and it was cool.
"Just as it is more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a patient, so it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than for a society to kill an idea."
"Criminal" is merely a label placed upon a human being by a society. Because that human being is a singular set of experiences and ideas long before society can label him as "criminal," it stands that it is more moral for his ideas to destroy the society than vice versa. If a society is absolutely RIGHT and the rules it is founded on are sound, should it not be able to answer his ideas on an intellectual level, as opposed to necessitating the man's murder?
You say that we're saying "citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land." Constituents of a society inherently DO have a right to determine the make-up and consistency of their society, but does that mean that their society is inherently just or that there are no limits a society cannot transgress? If a majority of society mandated that everyone should have their genitals surgically removed, does that mean you should be forced to do the same without the option of extricating yourself from that society?
Citizens have a right to determine their laws, but if I am not a citizen or choose not to be a part of society, then do you think society should have any jurisdiction over me?
[quote from "Lila" by Robert Pirsig]
I just use wikipedia for the pictures, man. "Ooooh, look, it's Kyotooooo!"
That said, I was using wikipedia to look at some Van Gogh paintings a few weeks back, and one that I loved was purportedly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Then I checked the museum archives itself, and I found out it's not there! What a load of hooey, I'm not even sure anymore that the painting is by our beloved half-eared expressionist, as it has disappeared from the wiki article, too.
The final word on veracity is to remember, folks, that "Dancing in the Moonlight" is not by Van Morrison!
And that common ancestor was what, a donkey?
Perhaps this explains some of the female motivation for the donkey show down in TJ. Now that's evolution right there.
>>>"modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring"
That makes no sense. Men have been marrying later (or not at all). Heck Romeo married when he was 16, and that was customary at that time... in the 1800s most americans married at 22.... you don't see that happening today. A lot of people are waiting until their 30s.
This tends to be in stable, first-world economies. Look to parts of Africa where AIDS is endemic and you'll see most people don't live past their twenties.
That shit's poetic. =]
In the case of CDs, you're legally allowed to make one copy for backups.
I haven't check the law, but logic would follow that we have similar rights for DVDs. In such a case, DVD ripping software and hardware would be off the hook, as it has a legal purpose.
Though you could hack it in, it wasn't officially added until the iPhone 3G came out, at which point I think the old iPhones got the capability in a software update.
I believe said capability also included a non-qwerty interface. It could be that Apple was waiting to perfect that interface before unleashing the Asian language input.
I feel you mate.
My advice is to study body language and social psychology, and learn how to say, "Yes, I'd love to work overtime! But I can't tonight. Or tomorrow. Or ever, actually. =/"
The IT and CS industries are like anything else, where the relationship between employer and employee is most often a form of mutual exploitation. Get good at your part and figure out how to get out of the industry.
I have twenty sharp knives in my kitchen drawer. The idea and capacity for rape and murder are latent within me, but does that mean I should act upon them?
Just because this technology exists or its existence is "inevitable", does that mean anything? Is it not the use of technology, the action itself that we must consider?
That's because there is no monogamy gene in women!
1) Indeed, it doesn't.
2) And so I'd like to take this opportunity to encourage all the male slashdotters out there to get paternity tests when you have kids.
Maybe I missed something, but isn't this just more reason for people to switch to linux?
I swear an article of this sort appears every so often. It ultimately amounts to geek gossip.
To paraphrase, Google was put on Earth "to show us what it's like to be really, really rich."
"No civilized society, he adds, can endure 'purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture.'"
Flawed logic: he's implicitly arguing that artists make art for money.
Even were I to cut him some slack and read it as "artists need money so that they can quit their more economical endeavors and employment and solely pursue creation," I'd also point out how inherently flawed that argument is.
Long story short, this article is a waste of time.
The big question is "Why?" Japan and Korea aren't the only ones that far outclass American broadband speed
For starters, how many Koreans make their living off of Starcraft? And we've all heard of Chinese gold farmers in MMORPGs. A hilarious and sad wikipedia quote:
"According to estimates, around 100,000 people in China are employed as gold farmers, as of December 2005.[1] Chinese gold farmers typically work twelve hour shifts, and sometimes up to eighteen hour shifts. Wages depend heavily on location and the size of the gold-farming company. One gold-farming operation in Chongqing in central China with 23 gold farmers was reported to pay its employees the equivalent of about 120 U.S. dollars per month, while workers at a larger gold farm in Fuzhou earn the equivalent of about 250 U.S. dollars per month. The rising prevalence of gold farming has led to the creation of gold-farm brokerages.
There are gold farmers or gold farms in other countries as well, such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico. However, they do not approach the scope and scale of the Chinese farm industry."
Google is a company, a corporation whose end goal is implicity to turn a profit. Even given its humble, do-gooder beginnings, it's important not to be blinded by our fan-boy love.
I don't know Google's rationale, but it may be that they consider it a greater good to block the occasional video than to have the youtube service blocked for the other 99.9% of viewers in a certain country.
I think Google finds itself in ambiguous situations many times, and it's far easier for us to criticize them to actually consider their position and realize just how unclear it is what the 'right' choice is to make.
A steady paycheck looks good on paper and many people are perfectly happy working on someone else's ideas for their entire lives. Eventually though, people with a creative streak have to have an outlet or they go insane. Sometimes a part-time hobby is enough, sometimes it means quitting the steady job.
Amen.