Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Season 5 finale of The Office when Dwight asks "How many people need to get hurt before we learn a lesson?" (or something) "One? Two? Three?" "Dwight..." "No, let me finish. Four? Five? Six?"
Why should anyone care? Because that company is not the only victim if their weak network becomes compromised. Their customers are at risk, and likely won't ever know what happened to their compromised data. Also, hacked company networks could be used to run botnets. The company at fault is rarely the only victim of lax security policy.
Except the bridge to nowhere would have actually been useful for transporting a few people a day. This will be canceled halfway through and never get anything anywhere.
The problem here is how that profitability threshold is calculated. Trying to sell media in the traditional way, without considering other options, is stupid. Some industries, like film, seem to be doing just fine because their model (get people to come see films in theaters, merchandising) is successful (the home movie thing still sucks though).
Now, look at, say, academic journals - demand copyright from authors, maintain a stranglehold on publishing rights, and then keep raising fees as fewer people pay. This is a bad model that piracy will eventually destroy, and replace with a better one.
Or take record sales - the RCA/sony types have trouble profiting from their old model. As a result, smaller producers are emerging that lower costs and pay artists more, making it easier to produce music. Or, small production companies specialize in a genre, so people can learn of new bands they'd like based solely off the producer.
Piracy helps destroy outdated business models. Much like carriage-drivers during the emergence of cars, there will always be someone trying to legislate, pressure, coerce, or do anything necessary to prevent being run out of business.
What that really depends on is whether multiple strains infect the same individual. If, as you suggest, each individual is infected by 1 strain, then this solution indeed would cure 90% of the population (assuming it works). However, if each individual is infected by 500 strains, this solution will cure a tiny fraction of 1% of the population.
At my university (considered to have one of the highest workloads in the country), we complete 3 or 4 classes in 10 weeks + 1 week for finals. My physics classes required approximately 10-15 hours of homework a week, plus 3 hours lecture plus 4 hours lab.
Math, on the other hand, generally required 5 hours to complete 50% of the assignment, 15 hours to complete 80%, and between 20-30 to complete 90%. On my first analysis midterm the average was a 14/40, and this was a class only taken by math/science majors.
And I didn't even take the hardest classes. Honors analysis required 30 hours a week, minimum...
Then again, oil is lighter than water, so fish living on the bottom of the ocean are probably more likely to survive, than say, those who live nearest the top.
Well, if you are being precise in terms of millions/billions, then there is only a 26% chance that millions of gallons implies ONLY millions of liters, as 263.85 millions of gallons = billion of liters. And, given the odds that 1 million gallons is far less likely than, say, 50 million gallons, the odds are even higher that there are, in fact, billion(s) of liters. To get that extra s, you need 527.70 millions of gallons.
1. Cause devastating disaster on ocean floor.
2. Get Big Corporations to send in robots with cameras.
3. Review camera footage to discover new(ly extinct) creatures.
4. ????
5. Profit (Obligatory)
I'm inclined to agree; while he is responsible for the pressure that eventually trickled down the management chain resulting in the cost-cutting measures leading to the spill, he bears no personal responsibility. That lies with the management in charge of the well.
You can't deny its convenience - plus, Firefox is not a default browser on any OS run by people who can't make that distinction.
Then again, to play devil's advocate it is nice being able to see the terms you searched for in the same page. Plus, it also doubles as a way to save a string of text without opening up anything else.
Incorrectly modded troll. That really IS how things are done. When the police pull you over, you pay them before you start discussing the ticket, and then possibly pay them again. That is how Russia works.
I don't twitter, but couldn't google be used to check twitter updates? I read a lot recently about google archiving twitter comments, so a simple search for that user's twitter page, filtered by time could allow as many data calls as one wanted.
I don't understand why facebook, twitter, and social media in general isn't explicitly banned by the army. Given access to the average person's facebook page (even as a non-friend, and especially with the "suggested" privacy settings) any slightly skilled user can quickly discern who their good friends are, what they do, where they work, where they live, and most importantly, what they look like.
Think of how easy it would be to get the intel to kidnap the good friend/significant other of important military personnel- and think of what the ramifications are.
"Maximize economic and personal freedom and reduce the role of the government in everyday society"
While I agreed with that sentence for most of this past decade, I believe the recent troubles with trading derivatives and the like will require regulation. Libertarians are on the right track, and I believe that platform would get 90% of everything right, but the other 10% would be damaging.
On the other hand, those currently in power seem content with getting it right 20% or less of the time.
The day that someone designs a laser that goes a fixed distance and stops, creates an opaque beam, and is capable of reflecting other light is the day that I'll accept George's copyright claim. Sadly, he will be able to keep lawyers on retainer that long. Sorry, great*10 grandchildren.
Also, sorry about the environment. We screwed that up too.
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Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Season 5 finale of The Office when Dwight asks "How many people need to get hurt before we learn a lesson?" (or something) "One? Two? Three?" "Dwight..." "No, let me finish. Four? Five? Six?"
If 4chan were satirizing spy posters, I think that those would fit right in.
Why should anyone care? Because that company is not the only victim if their weak network becomes compromised. Their customers are at risk, and likely won't ever know what happened to their compromised data. Also, hacked company networks could be used to run botnets. The company at fault is rarely the only victim of lax security policy.
"Obama doesn't think of the children, more at 11."
f) a and b only?
Except the bridge to nowhere would have actually been useful for transporting a few people a day. This will be canceled halfway through and never get anything anywhere.
As an aside, replace "NASA" with "useful government program" of your choosing and the sentence still works.
You would really be willing to pay the government $1000 to permanently document your retinal prints? I certainly would not.
Now, look at, say, academic journals - demand copyright from authors, maintain a stranglehold on publishing rights, and then keep raising fees as fewer people pay. This is a bad model that piracy will eventually destroy, and replace with a better one.
Or take record sales - the RCA/sony types have trouble profiting from their old model. As a result, smaller producers are emerging that lower costs and pay artists more, making it easier to produce music. Or, small production companies specialize in a genre, so people can learn of new bands they'd like based solely off the producer.
Piracy helps destroy outdated business models. Much like carriage-drivers during the emergence of cars, there will always be someone trying to legislate, pressure, coerce, or do anything necessary to prevent being run out of business.
What that really depends on is whether multiple strains infect the same individual. If, as you suggest, each individual is infected by 1 strain, then this solution indeed would cure 90% of the population (assuming it works). However, if each individual is infected by 500 strains, this solution will cure a tiny fraction of 1% of the population.
Math, on the other hand, generally required 5 hours to complete 50% of the assignment, 15 hours to complete 80%, and between 20-30 to complete 90%. On my first analysis midterm the average was a 14/40, and this was a class only taken by math/science majors.
And I didn't even take the hardest classes. Honors analysis required 30 hours a week, minimum...
Then again, oil is lighter than water, so fish living on the bottom of the ocean are probably more likely to survive, than say, those who live nearest the top.
Well, if you are being precise in terms of millions/billions, then there is only a 26% chance that millions of gallons implies ONLY millions of liters, as 263.85 millions of gallons = billion of liters. And, given the odds that 1 million gallons is far less likely than, say, 50 million gallons, the odds are even higher that there are, in fact, billion(s) of liters. To get that extra s, you need 527.70 millions of gallons.
1. Cause devastating disaster on ocean floor. 2. Get Big Corporations to send in robots with cameras. 3. Review camera footage to discover new(ly extinct) creatures. 4. ???? 5. Profit (Obligatory)
I'm inclined to agree; while he is responsible for the pressure that eventually trickled down the management chain resulting in the cost-cutting measures leading to the spill, he bears no personal responsibility. That lies with the management in charge of the well.
Then again, to play devil's advocate it is nice being able to see the terms you searched for in the same page. Plus, it also doubles as a way to save a string of text without opening up anything else.
If implanted in a person with 20/20 vision, what would be the effects?
1. You get pulled over. Frequently, you don't know why.
2. You pay the officer an amount at least half the cost of what you'd expect the official cost to be.
3. The officer talks about your infraction, or talks about larger possible crimes you committed.
4. You pay the fine, or, if the officer is talking about other crimes, GOTO 2
Incorrectly modded troll. That really IS how things are done. When the police pull you over, you pay them before you start discussing the ticket, and then possibly pay them again. That is how Russia works.
I think at this point the Google shareholders just sit around and clap with glee every time google does anything.
"making engineering and science 'cool' to girls" was probably deemed too lofty a goal.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Think of how easy it would be to get the intel to kidnap the good friend/significant other of important military personnel- and think of what the ramifications are.
"Maximize economic and personal freedom and reduce the role of the government in everyday society"
While I agreed with that sentence for most of this past decade, I believe the recent troubles with trading derivatives and the like will require regulation. Libertarians are on the right track, and I believe that platform would get 90% of everything right, but the other 10% would be damaging.
On the other hand, those currently in power seem content with getting it right 20% or less of the time.
Also, sorry about the environment. We screwed that up too.