No. An army of acid belching mutant ponies. With cyborg riders designed to override all of Asimov's laws on command from central in an undisclosed island fortress, accessible only via private submarine.
As long as the contract specifies. If the contract doesn't specify, you're a dufus and should make sure that it does from now on. For the clients with which you are a dufus, you must weigh the potential loss of good will against the expense of billable hours. That's a PiTA, which is why you specify support in the contract. Duh!
Actually, the real problem is that while "the authorities" can work around this by issuing a new note, a person at a cash register can't. You don't want every clerk to have the power to create money. This is less of a problem if the money is digital, sent to a central authoritative server for verification, destroyed there, and re-issued. Then the clerk doesn't have the power to create money; just the central authority. Yep, it's easier if the whole thing is digital; although probably not BitCoin (TM).
The problem is also solved if the "note" is actually a little computer with qbits on it. Then the money is in the bits, not the little computer itself. You can send the bits to the central authority, destory, replace, etc.
Their ultimate punishment is to be presiding over an increasingly lawless nation. Rulings bought and paid for in this manner will command no respect from the people. This may or may not result in a breakdown so severe as for them to be physicly harmed. They are old men anyway. If they receive any punishment this side of eternity, it will most likely be to toss and turn on many a restless night, knowing that they destroyed the Republic.
Full agreement. Let me add that this is the same problem that Google has: trying to copy Microsoft of all people, by Bing-ifying the search experience. I'm pointing my finger at you, Google image search. Remember when it just gave you... images? Now it's all AJAXy, and if you are using IE, forget about viewing more than 2 pages of image search results on older hardware. We used to have the simple, straightforward "click to see more" links, now we have this stupid dynamic crap, and the worst part is that it captures the pointer if you hover over it. The only way to get the page you want is to minimize the search results, and THEN you have to click again to get the page instead of the page with a stupid AJAXy image layered on top of it.
In other words, Google made themselves less Googly because they feared MS, just as MS is making itself less Wintelly because it fears Apple. Sheesh! Just be yourselves! But in a world full of boardrooms where CEOs lie about things like... having CS degrees... what should we expect?
Even people who are glued to devices still pick up dead tree editions of our local free papers. You can find out things there that you wouldn't otherwise know--like the fact that the local bowling alley is going to be replaced with a condo.
They're online too, and they're advertiser supported in both cases. What does Buffet think is unsustainable about this? Advertiser supported media isn't going anywhere. Local advertiser supported media with "stringer" reporters are alive and well. I don't look at it much, but there's been a lot of buzz about Patch.com lately. Even if that particular site doesn't survive, I don't see free advertiser supported, or even volunteer (community supported via donations) news going away.
That's right Mr. Buffet, people can just volunteer to throw up a server. Retirees, students, anybody with time on their hands. You know, like college radio or PBS?
Maybe what he means is that you aren't going to make big money with free news. Yeah, that might not be sustainable; but local free news ain't going away, and when you aggregate it from Indonesia to Iowa, you've got world news for next to nothing, with more reporters than the old model could ever dream of hiring, and probably with better objectivity.
Companies are run by people. People are NOT rational. Alan Greenspan cited this as a problem, although IMHO Greenspan's bigger problem was to accept that corporations are people and then to assume that they were rational.
Rational actors maximizing profit is theory. Reality is insane people "managing" things into oblivion. If the HDD manufacturers try to squeeze the market to the point where solid state displaces HDD everywhere, and they fail to extract maximum profit because they are greedy, that will not surprise me one bit.
Advertising is still only worth anything if the people seeing the ads actually buy stuff
Now let's chew on that a bit more. They can target the ads precisely. In theory they can determine whether or not you actually buy the good or service in question. Then, they can correlate the advertising with the purchase.
I doubt anybody knows the answer yet; but we soon will. Like searching for ET, the implications are staggering regardless of the answer.
If advertising is worthwhile, then you will see ads increasingly honed to match you perfectly, based on everything they know about you.
The other alternative that should scare the bejezus out of advertising agencies, is that we only need to know about a product once or twice a year. Perhaps we only need to know about a category of product, and don't care about branding for certain things. Perhaps the consumer trend is towards actually evaluating product and not caring very much about brand. Perhaps the pool of people who persist in caring about brand is diminishing, strapped with student debt, and not worth marketing to.
In other words, the data miners might tell us that most marketing just isn't worth it and from the PoV of people in that business, it would be like finding hostile aliens with death rays on the nearest star, and seeing their ships 1 light month away in a telescope.
If you follow the links to the abstract, it actually explains what they measured. Apparently, certain types of DNA damage leave easily measured chemical signatures. They also dosed them with the same radiation total over a short period of time and observed damage.
This is akin to turning your thermostat up 10 degrees for a few weeks as opposed to heating your house up to 500 degrees for a minute.
I'm not saying I want to invest in cheap Fukushima real estate. I'm just saying that maybe this science isn't as junky as some Slashdotters think.
They already have it, as long as your comment is only in your.sig. This is why I have decided that I am "stuck" with my.sig. Changing it would lead to too many nonsequiturs strewn throughout the archives. Obviously you wouldn't want this problem with comments in general. Picture somebody posting something decent, getting general agreeement, and then substituting racist flamebait just before archiving. What do you do? Annotate all followups with the fact that they are replying to a modified post? Maybe a limited form of modification would work, with the original post displayed with strikethrough and/or limits on how many lines of diff you can have. It's still messy though, and I think they have their hands full as it is. Now, would Slashdot please fix it so that the.sig is archived as plain text rather then being dynamicly generated in archived posts?
Bluto: Hey! What's all this laying around stuff? Why are you all still laying around here for? Stork: What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron? We're all expelled. There's nothing to fight for anymore. D-Day: [to Bluto] Let it go. War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one. Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: [to Boon] Germans? Boon: Forget it, he's rolling. Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [thinks hard of something to say] Bluto: The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [Bluto runs out, alone; then returns] Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer... Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic... but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part! Bluto: We're just the guys to do it. D-Day: [stands up] Yeah, I agree. Let's go get 'em. Boon: Let's do it. Bluto: [shouting] "Let's do it"! [all of the Deltas stand up and run out with Bluto]
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Like math on a blackboard? Before computers, newlines were the standard terminator. We would use elipsis if the line was too long.
Newline and backslash is a perfectly acceptable approach, even if it's not your favorite.
I think I saw Bob on the Metro. They spent a lot on his ticket. Give them some time to realize the train is stopping in the ghetto.
No. An army of acid belching mutant ponies. With cyborg riders designed to override all of Asimov's laws on command from central in an undisclosed island fortress, accessible only via private submarine.
As long as the contract specifies. If the contract doesn't specify, you're a dufus and should make sure that it does from now on. For the clients with which you are a dufus, you must weigh the potential loss of good will against the expense of billable hours. That's a PiTA, which is why you specify support in the contract. Duh!
Actually, the real problem is that while "the authorities" can work around this by issuing a new note, a person at a cash register can't. You don't want every clerk to have the power to create money. This is less of a problem if the money is digital, sent to a central authoritative server for verification, destroyed there, and re-issued. Then the clerk doesn't have the power to create money; just the central authority. Yep, it's easier if the whole thing is digital; although probably not BitCoin (TM).
The problem is also solved if the "note" is actually a little computer with qbits on it. Then the money is in the bits, not the little computer itself. You can send the bits to the central authority, destory, replace, etc.
They'll issue you a new quantum note when they verify the old one.
I'll believe that guns kill people when the gun is convicted instead of the person.
Is your gun a corporation?
I think we should hire a PI to investigate this.
"Work is the curse of the drinking class" --Oscar Wilde.
Their ultimate punishment is to be presiding over an increasingly lawless nation. Rulings bought and paid for in this manner will command no respect from the people. This may or may not result in a breakdown so severe as for them to be physicly harmed. They are old men anyway. If they receive any punishment this side of eternity, it will most likely be to toss and turn on many a restless night, knowing that they destroyed the Republic.
Great. Now let's go antiq--BOOM!
Full agreement. Let me add that this is the same problem that Google has: trying to copy Microsoft of all people, by Bing-ifying the search experience. I'm pointing my finger at you, Google image search. Remember when it just gave you... images? Now it's all AJAXy, and if you are using IE, forget about viewing more than 2 pages of image search results on older hardware. We used to have the simple, straightforward "click to see more" links, now we have this stupid dynamic crap, and the worst part is that it captures the pointer if you hover over it. The only way to get the page you want is to minimize the search results, and THEN you have to click again to get the page instead of the page with a stupid AJAXy image layered on top of it.
In other words, Google made themselves less Googly because they feared MS, just as MS is making itself less Wintelly because it fears Apple. Sheesh! Just be yourselves! But in a world full of boardrooms where CEOs lie about things like... having CS degrees... what should we expect?
Even people who are glued to devices still pick up dead tree editions of our local free papers. You can find out things there that you wouldn't otherwise know--like the fact that the local bowling alley is going to be replaced with a condo.
They're online too, and they're advertiser supported in both cases. What does Buffet think is unsustainable about this? Advertiser supported media isn't going anywhere. Local advertiser supported media with "stringer" reporters are alive and well. I don't look at it much, but there's been a lot of buzz about Patch.com lately. Even if that particular site doesn't survive, I don't see free advertiser supported, or even volunteer (community supported via donations) news going away.
That's right Mr. Buffet, people can just volunteer to throw up a server. Retirees, students, anybody with time on their hands. You know, like college radio or PBS?
Maybe what he means is that you aren't going to make big money with free news. Yeah, that might not be sustainable; but local free news ain't going away, and when you aggregate it from Indonesia to Iowa, you've got world news for next to nothing, with more reporters than the old model could ever dream of hiring, and probably with better objectivity.
Companies are run by people. People are NOT rational. Alan Greenspan cited this as a problem, although IMHO Greenspan's bigger problem was to accept that corporations are people and then to assume that they were rational.
Rational actors maximizing profit is theory. Reality is insane people "managing" things into oblivion. If the HDD manufacturers try to squeeze the market to the point where solid state displaces HDD everywhere, and they fail to extract maximum profit because they are greedy, that will not surprise me one bit.
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The whole summary is just a perfect setup.
Advertising is still only worth anything if the people seeing the ads actually buy stuff
Now let's chew on that a bit more. They can target the ads precisely. In theory they can determine whether or not you actually buy the good or service in question. Then, they can correlate the advertising with the purchase.
I doubt anybody knows the answer yet; but we soon will. Like searching for ET, the implications are staggering regardless of the answer.
If advertising is worthwhile, then you will see ads increasingly honed to match you perfectly, based on everything they know about you.
The other alternative that should scare the bejezus out of advertising agencies, is that we only need to know about a product once or twice a year. Perhaps we only need to know about a category of product, and don't care about branding for certain things. Perhaps the consumer trend is towards actually evaluating product and not caring very much about brand. Perhaps the pool of people who persist in caring about brand is diminishing, strapped with student debt, and not worth marketing to.
In other words, the data miners might tell us that most marketing just isn't worth it and from the PoV of people in that business, it would be like finding hostile aliens with death rays on the nearest star, and seeing their ships 1 light month away in a telescope.
"You're useless, SIRI." ...
(15 seconds later) I found Congress.
OK, you brought me out of the woodwork. Everybody knows it's "for all in tents and purchases".
If you follow the links to the abstract, it actually explains what they measured. Apparently, certain types of DNA damage leave easily measured chemical signatures. They also dosed them with the same radiation total over a short period of time and observed damage.
This is akin to turning your thermostat up 10 degrees for a few weeks as opposed to heating your house up to 500 degrees for a minute.
I'm not saying I want to invest in cheap Fukushima real estate. I'm just saying that maybe this science isn't as junky as some Slashdotters think.
Quantum News is the first two. Even before my first cup of coffee, I always end the day with QN.
When is Slashdot going to get a comment "edit"?
They already have it, as long as your comment is only in your .sig. This is why I have decided that I am "stuck" with my .sig. Changing it would lead to too many nonsequiturs strewn throughout the archives. Obviously you wouldn't want this problem with comments in general. Picture somebody posting something decent, getting general agreeement, and then substituting racist flamebait just before archiving. What do you do? Annotate all followups with the fact that they are replying to a modified post? Maybe a limited form of modification would work, with the original post displayed with strikethrough and/or limits on how many lines of diff you can have. It's still messy though, and I think they have their hands full as it is. Now, would Slashdot please fix it so that the .sig is archived as plain text rather then being dynamicly generated in archived posts?
So they were hit with a 5% fine
So, from the PoV of a scammer the government is on par with real estate agents.
Bluto: Hey! What's all this laying around stuff? Why are you all still laying around here for?
Stork: What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron? We're all expelled. There's nothing to fight for anymore.
D-Day: [to Bluto] Let it go. War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard of something to say]
Bluto: The tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[Bluto runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic... but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: [stands up] Yeah, I agree. Let's go get 'em.
Boon: Let's do it.
Bluto: [shouting] "Let's do it"!
[all of the Deltas stand up and run out with Bluto]
The free market was not allowed to function because of government coercion
The government was not allowed to function because of the free market coercion.