In the 80's every press article about drugs rose straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by drug dealers. In the 90's every press article about school violence rose straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by homicidal teenagers. There was a brief break in there somewhere where I was scared OJ was going to kill me. Now we're in the naughts or whatever the hell you want to call it, and every press article about terrorism rises straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by terrorists.
It's all crap. One incredibly shocking event later (9/11, colombine... what was the news maker in the drug war? probably stars dying from drugs or the violence in Columbia) and the press does a Gilligans Island bit and they go from a three hour story to a multi-year obsession with the same topic. If you want to see flocking behavior, don't watch the birds, watch the press. Canada and the US had about the same levels of drug use in the 80's, but it was first on the American list of problems and somewhere in the twenties for Canada. Why? The press. Or maybe the Canadians have some good sense.
The ironic thing is that if you're reading for content, reading to try to figure out major trends in the world, the press was more informative about terrorism before 9/11 than after. Before 9/11, genuinely important terrorism-related news was the only news that would make the papers. If you saw terrorism in the news, it was a big deal - the government had thwarted something major or there had been an embassy bombing. World changing stuff. Now, if it has a terrorism angle it's front page material - even if the angle is something like "a man who might be a terrorist might have been caught at the airport. he might have had a nail file. there might be more news at 11." By and large each terrorism story is space filler in a space that has a proverbial "reserved for terrorism related news, regardless of if there's news or not" stamp on it.
It's like wheat and chaff. When it comes to terrorism, the press prints both these days.
Oh, well. At least the fact that our civil liberties are being used like an inflatable sex toy is coming to light. And, who knows? Five years down the road, something else Really Bad will happen and the press will be obsessed with something else. We should have a betting pool on the next big press fad. Personally, I'm predicting it'll be mega-storms caused by climate change. Some kind of giant hurricaine will level a nation to the dirt, and the press will drop terrorism like yesterday's news - which it already is.
Have you *ever* seen v1 of a system work flawlessly?
There's lots of code out there in the world that has to work right the first time it's fielded. Code for things you launch into space. Banking software better be pretty damn close. Nuclear power plant and other machinery control code. All of these things have to be a cut above normal code, and they are.
Code for voting needs to be held to the same standards. Instead we have a bunch of nny-come-lately goofballs who think that thier buggy ecommerce product can, with a few tweaks and a few political connections, be voting software.
I realize the current protection is being offered by Microsoft, but would it be too much to ask for this to NOT be hacked?
Yes. You could create a site at pandora.org, wire it to a good intrusion detection suite, wire that to a series of nuclear weapons that would sink the eastern seaboard of the USA into the ocean, and hackers would be racing for that zero day hack that gives everyone from Maine to Florida a salt-water bath... just because they can.
the money from pirate videos supports drug smugglers
Drug dealers don't need to make money on the side from pirating videos. For gods sake, they're in the most lucrative buisness on the planet, and any time the US increases it's intercepts they just increase outgoing shipments. Get together all the money made by movie pirates and it would just be a tiny drop in the bucket when it comes to drugs.
You won't see nearly this much money in piracy untill hardware DRM comes in. Then street dealers will sell crack, coke, weed, and video cards with the DRM disabled or black market TV out jacks wired in.
Patent claims are judged individually. If EBay violates one claim and it is decided that said claim is valid, then EBay is at fault. The claims do not have to all fit, or even all be valid.
These people assume that the busses will always be interceptable, which is not true. MS and other hardware vendores are hard at work at their secure OS which would effectively halt any attempts to read anything but encrypted bits. From what I've read, I feel the secure platform is a reality and will very easily stop cracking/hacking dead in it's tracks.
People will hack the trusted os to run on untrusted hardware. Palladium XP will cost $30 bucks... when you buy it hacked, mail order from taiwan.
One thing that would have to be overcome before you could hit mainstream: Trailers tend to decrease in value over time, unlike tradtional homes. The only reason people accept 100,000+ debt slavery is because some slick real estate agent sells them on the fact that it's an investment.
If you're going through your act, and you're in the last 5 minutes, and you hit a bit in your routine that has the audience rolling, then you say "Thank you, good night!" and get off the stage. Nothing is worse than finishing on a bit that doesn't get a laugh. Always leave them laughing, even if it means leaving the last bit of your routine undone.
Unfortunately, recent political figures seem to have adapted this strategy.
[the article] quotes an IBM VP who says, 'There is a backlash against Red Hat from many consumers and government agencies, who fear it is increasingly becoming the Microsoft of the Linux world with respect to its dominance and attitude,'
IBM and Red Hat are competitors, so IBM has some hefty motivation to say not-nice things about Red Hat. Both companies provide Linux services. Call back when Red Hat's employee count and profit margin competes with IBM and I'll consider taking you seriously.
Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance x, there is an elapsed time t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
The hole (which I'm embarassed to say that it took me entirely too long to spot) is that Savain is playing some seriously nasty games with calculus jargon.
Conglomeration? mid-sized con? I bet I could go back to that hotel next weekend and it would be just as crowded without a convention. Selling Conglom as a mid-sized con is a large-size con(game).
You spend 75 of your working hours on four patents. Now, in the last 5 hours, you have to approve or deny a last patent.
If you deny a patent and it turns out to have been a bad patent, you did the right thing, but only by accident.
If you deny a patent and it turns out to have been a fair patent, you did the wrong thing, and you're probably going to get in trouble when the company bitches about your denial of thier perfectly reasonable patent.
If you allow a patent and it's a fair patent, then you did the right thing, but only by accident.
If you allow a patent and it's a bad patent, you did a bad thing. But you met your quota, and the patent applicant sure as hell isn't going to get you in trouble. You can rest easily knowing (or hoping) that the patent will be shot down later. You've met the quota and kept your job by deftly shifting the burden to the legal system.
Thus, the patent reviewers are encouraged by the system to approve bad patents when they are short on time. Furthermore, if I had to pick between a sort of bad one and a really, really bad one, then I'd pick the really, really bad one because there's less chance that it'll stand.
Systems build the world we live in. Can anyone think of a different system that doesn't reward the patent examiner awarding bad patents?
Like a typical patent, they move from less specific to more specific. Few people expect for all of the claims to be accepted, the first one is almost always something along the lines of "I patent breathing."
ActiveBuddy disputed McClelland's claims. "I am fairly confident, there were no interactive agents on IM at that point when the application was filed (August 22, 2000). I'm certainly not aware of any," said Kay, who doubles as ActiveBuddy's chief technology officer.
Didn't somebody set up an ICQ bot posing as female to flirt with people, then put the logs on the web a long time ago? I can't seem to dig it up.
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In the 80's every press article about drugs rose straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by drug dealers. In the 90's every press article about school violence rose straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by homicidal teenagers. There was a brief break in there somewhere where I was scared OJ was going to kill me. Now we're in the naughts or whatever the hell you want to call it, and every press article about terrorism rises straight to the front page to give me the impression that I'm surrounded by terrorists.
It's all crap. One incredibly shocking event later (9/11, colombine... what was the news maker in the drug war? probably stars dying from drugs or the violence in Columbia) and the press does a Gilligans Island bit and they go from a three hour story to a multi-year obsession with the same topic. If you want to see flocking behavior, don't watch the birds, watch the press. Canada and the US had about the same levels of drug use in the 80's, but it was first on the American list of problems and somewhere in the twenties for Canada. Why? The press. Or maybe the Canadians have some good sense.
The ironic thing is that if you're reading for content, reading to try to figure out major trends in the world, the press was more informative about terrorism before 9/11 than after. Before 9/11, genuinely important terrorism-related news was the only news that would make the papers. If you saw terrorism in the news, it was a big deal - the government had thwarted something major or there had been an embassy bombing. World changing stuff. Now, if it has a terrorism angle it's front page material - even if the angle is something like "a man who might be a terrorist might have been caught at the airport. he might have had a nail file. there might be more news at 11." By and large each terrorism story is space filler in a space that has a proverbial "reserved for terrorism related news, regardless of if there's news or not" stamp on it.
It's like wheat and chaff. When it comes to terrorism, the press prints both these days.
Oh, well. At least the fact that our civil liberties are being used like an inflatable sex toy is coming to light. And, who knows? Five years down the road, something else Really Bad will happen and the press will be obsessed with something else. We should have a betting pool on the next big press fad. Personally, I'm predicting it'll be mega-storms caused by climate change. Some kind of giant hurricaine will level a nation to the dirt, and the press will drop terrorism like yesterday's news - which it already is.
So go find a site that has better moderation. You know they are out there. They don't hide or anything.
Have you *ever* seen v1 of a system work flawlessly?
There's lots of code out there in the world that has to work right the first time it's fielded. Code for things you launch into space. Banking software better be pretty damn close. Nuclear power plant and other machinery control code. All of these things have to be a cut above normal code, and they are.
Code for voting needs to be held to the same standards. Instead we have a bunch of nny-come-lately goofballs who think that thier buggy ecommerce product can, with a few tweaks and a few political connections, be voting software.
With IMAX, the actors and thier egos will be of the same size!
Intel is working with privacy groups...
Shouldn't that be "Intel is working over privacy groups?
I realize the current protection is being offered by Microsoft, but would it be too much to ask for this to NOT be hacked?
Yes. You could create a site at pandora.org, wire it to a good intrusion detection suite, wire that to a series of nuclear weapons that would sink the eastern seaboard of the USA into the ocean, and hackers would be racing for that zero day hack that gives everyone from Maine to Florida a salt-water bath... just because they can.
the money from pirate videos supports drug smugglers
Drug dealers don't need to make money on the side from pirating videos. For gods sake, they're in the most lucrative buisness on the planet, and any time the US increases it's intercepts they just increase outgoing shipments. Get together all the money made by movie pirates and it would just be a tiny drop in the bucket when it comes to drugs.
You won't see nearly this much money in piracy untill hardware DRM comes in. Then street dealers will sell crack, coke, weed, and video cards with the DRM disabled or black market TV out jacks wired in.
Patent claims are judged individually. If EBay violates one claim and it is decided that said claim is valid, then EBay is at fault. The claims do not have to all fit, or even all be valid.
That all sounds expensive. It'd be better to stick with copper than to pay somebody to set all that up for you.
This afternoons events in the restroom.
The events eluded to are funnier than an outright statement of what happened would be.
These people assume that the busses will always be interceptable, which is not true. MS and other hardware vendores are hard at work at their secure OS which would effectively halt any attempts to read anything but encrypted bits. From what I've read, I feel the secure platform is a reality and will very easily stop cracking/hacking dead in it's tracks.
People will hack the trusted os to run on untrusted hardware. Palladium XP will cost $30 bucks... when you buy it hacked, mail order from taiwan.
One thing that would have to be overcome before you could hit mainstream: Trailers tend to decrease in value over time, unlike tradtional homes. The only reason people accept 100,000+ debt slavery is because some slick real estate agent sells them on the fact that it's an investment.
I can see it now. Automatic moving walls. If you're living on the dole, then the longer you live on the dole, the smaller your flat will get.
Wait a minute. That sounds like a cubicle. 'Cubicle' and 'dream cyber home' do not belong in the same article, ok, guys?
These people should be in rocketry.
And humor stories don't generally make it there.
If you're going through your act, and you're in the last 5 minutes, and you hit a bit in your routine that has the audience rolling, then you say "Thank you, good night!" and get off the stage. Nothing is worse than finishing on a bit that doesn't get a laugh. Always leave them laughing, even if it means leaving the last bit of your routine undone.
Unfortunately, recent political figures seem to have adapted this strategy.
[the article] quotes an IBM VP who says, 'There is a backlash against Red Hat from many consumers and government agencies, who fear it is increasingly becoming the Microsoft of the Linux world with respect to its dominance and attitude,'
IBM and Red Hat are competitors, so IBM has some hefty motivation to say not-nice things about Red Hat. Both companies provide Linux services. Call back when Red Hat's employee count and profit margin competes with IBM and I'll consider taking you seriously.
Here's the core of Savain's argument:
Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance x, there is an elapsed time t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
The hole (which I'm embarassed to say that it took me entirely too long to spot) is that Savain is playing some seriously nasty games with calculus jargon.
Conglomeration? mid-sized con? I bet I could go back to that hotel next weekend and it would be just as crowded without a convention. Selling Conglom as a mid-sized con is a large-size con(game).
Everybody understands that this is the traditional accepted way of asking Microsoft for a discount, right?
You spend 75 of your working hours on four patents. Now, in the last 5 hours, you have to approve or deny a last patent.
If you deny a patent and it turns out to have been a bad patent, you did the right thing, but only by accident.
If you deny a patent and it turns out to have been a fair patent, you did the wrong thing, and you're probably going to get in trouble when the company bitches about your denial of thier perfectly reasonable patent.
If you allow a patent and it's a fair patent, then you did the right thing, but only by accident.
If you allow a patent and it's a bad patent, you did a bad thing. But you met your quota, and the patent applicant sure as hell isn't going to get you in trouble. You can rest easily knowing (or hoping) that the patent will be shot down later. You've met the quota and kept your job by deftly shifting the burden to the legal system.
Thus, the patent reviewers are encouraged by the system to approve bad patents when they are short on time. Furthermore, if I had to pick between a sort of bad one and a really, really bad one, then I'd pick the really, really bad one because there's less chance that it'll stand.
Systems build the world we live in. Can anyone think of a different system that doesn't reward the patent examiner awarding bad patents?
Like a typical patent, they move from less specific to more specific. Few people expect for all of the claims to be accepted, the first one is almost always something along the lines of "I patent breathing."
Right. Thanks.
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ActiveBuddy disputed McClelland's claims. "I am fairly confident, there were no interactive agents on IM at that point when the application was filed (August 22, 2000). I'm certainly not aware of any," said Kay, who doubles as ActiveBuddy's chief technology officer.
Didn't somebody set up an ICQ bot posing as female to flirt with people, then put the logs on the web a long time ago? I can't seem to dig it up.