If the Whitehouse is putting more down in writing, on the Internet where it can easily be archived and searched through, will this lead to greater scrutiny from the public? Will they be more likely to be called on their backtracking?
Or, more likely, will they just make sure to never say anything of substance?
It doesn't really matter if they're scrutinized or called on for their backtracking. There are entire TV shows (Daily Show) dedicated to pointing stuff like that out. I remember watching an episode where they were talking about the bailouts and showing footage of congressmen talking about how good the bailouts were going to be and then cutting to another clip of the same person talking about how much they were against the bailouts and never supported them to begin with. People chuckle about it, but no one really cares. Its sad that it turned out like that, but short of forcing open revolt and exile, I don't know what can be done. Chances are the next bunch would be just as bad as the current, if not worse.
When I first read about this, I thought it was going to be some sort of spiritual successor to the original game, kind of side stepping Deus Ex 2. At least, thats what I hoped for. After watching the trailer, generic one liners and B movie plot is I suspect the entirety of it going play out to be. I'm not saying that they didn't put a lot of effort into it, but its sounds like it was a case of diminishing returns. I'll still download it and play, but I don't have high hopes.
For some reason, the line below kind of tells me where their loyalties lie:
Telephone companies want to recoup escalating costs by increasing prices for âoenet hogsâ who use more than their share of capacity.
I kind of think its just a justified precursor to metering.
At the risk of being horribly mistaken, I'm going to assume you're not flamebait and simply misinformed. I think that MrEricSir was attempting to crack a joke at the fact that "synergy" (or in this case, the pluralization, "synergies") was an incredibly overused buzzword that marketing types often times threw into a presentation with little to no regard to the actual meaning of the word just because it sounds intelligent (to them). I do not believe that he is trying to claim that the word is completely meaningless or not a real word; quite the contrary. I feel that it was his intention to say that others have taken the word and turned it into meaningless filler. I do not understand the analogy with the bytecode comment. To me, this is more like Hollywood saying something along the lines of, "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address".
Fine. Its stealing. Its now criminal rather than civil. It turns into innocent before proven guilty and all that. Now pay going rate for each song THEY CAN PROVE were downloaded, in complete, as damages. 0.99 USD per song is far more reasonable better than 100.00 USD.
Okay, I skimmed TFA. I still don't understand how this has even a 10% margin of success. Speaking in regards to myself, if I was doing anything that warranted the FBI singling me out that I was aware of, I would be much more paranoid than I currently am about going to strange links. Especially ones sent to me from people I don't know. Especially when I use one service and the reply is trying to bait me into going to somewhere I've never heard of. Most of the time I see stuff like that on blogs that is just rampant spam. The whole thing just feels too flimsy to actually be useful. I don't see how they're giving the real story.
CIPAV, is delivered through links to websites controlled by the FBI, and it silently reports back to a government server in Virginia.
But if it works based on clicking links that presumably take you to the installer, how on earth can you guarantee that your target is going to click on it at all? You'd either have to direct it specifically to the Mark, and hope that he responds, or you'd have to put it someplace so completely mainstream that hundreds of other people click on... oh, shit. I think I'm having an OS reinstall party this weekend.
I think that's what happened to my box. The hillbillies that live behind me were firing off fireworks and doing something strange with bright lights (I was sick and it woke me up, so my details are somewhat sketchy). The power was out when I woke up, and when it finally came back on, one of my boxes wouldn't come back up, so I pulled the power supply and took a look inside and every capacitor was blown. Later on when I was walking my dog, I noticed scorch marks all around a nearby transformer. I suppose technically that doesn't count for the numerology based anecdotal stories that are on topic, but whatever.
Oh I read the article (after the post) and saw that their reason is not in my listed reasons. I do apologize for jumping on the tinfoil hat bandwagon without checking my facts first. However, that is not really the point. My point is that if a tool does not properly perform under running conditions, the tool is not suitable for use. This is just another sad case of people trying to use (underperforming/inappropriate) technology as a means of combating a social issue.
If your anti-terrorist/pedo/freedom/whatever facial recognition software is so sketchy that it can not cope with eyeglasses or facial expressions, it is not doing its job, and neither are you.
There's a reason why it's patented, it's a completely original concept.
Now, I'm bad at understanding why one person can't have the same idea after someone else has had that same idea, so maybe I'm missing the point, but how about this?
I don't know if Radio Shack still sells them, but back in the day before they started pushing cell phones, they were an electronics store, and sold howto booklets and kits for building relatively simple hobbiest electronics. I remember my dad got me one that showed how to build an infrared transmitter/decoder. I won my eighth grade science fair with it showing that it was possible to transmit radio signal through infrared light and convert it back to audio. I think the hillbillies in the town I grew up in might have thought me to be a wizard Anyway, back to the point. It was one of the cooler things I'd ever gotten as far as gadgets come, because it required me to understand how it worked. Simpler projects (if you don't think a 13 year old should be soldering) might include a roll your own AM radio.
At the risk of burning karma, actually, I think I have the best idea ever! Maybe what Microsoft should just do is go into the hardware business. Then they could make almost all of their hardware proprietary, and since they manufacture and directly control the hardware, they can guarantee 100% compatibility! We DO love certain other companies for it, so why shouldn't they?
Really? On RHEL 5 it actually works:
[brad@icarus ~]$ which which
alias which='alias |/usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'/usr/bin/which
I think mine did. I don't remember having problems putting the key in. Of course, on the other hand, I don't remember putting the key in at all, so take that as you will. I will have to check it tonight and see what it looks like.
I've been wondering things similar to that myself. Not just republican supporters, but I'm thinking of the delightful racist communities scattered throughout the States. I do not look forward to hearing about foiled assassination attempts every other week on the news.
I actually liked it. I've played it online with a friend of mine quite a bit (we bought copies from the bargain bin at a store knowing that it could go under any minute). It was sort of a 3d post apocalyptic Diablo, that is, a game that did not require much involvement or depth, just login and start stabbing stuff. I would be excited to see this other company picking it up.
Actually, I could really see your (presumably hypothetical) analogy happening. As disgusting as it may be, it seems like going out of your way to help others in this day and age only puts yourself in liability.
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If the Whitehouse is putting more down in writing, on the Internet where it can easily be archived and searched through, will this lead to greater scrutiny from the public? Will they be more likely to be called on their backtracking?
Or, more likely, will they just make sure to never say anything of substance?
It doesn't really matter if they're scrutinized or called on for their backtracking. There are entire TV shows (Daily Show) dedicated to pointing stuff like that out. I remember watching an episode where they were talking about the bailouts and showing footage of congressmen talking about how good the bailouts were going to be and then cutting to another clip of the same person talking about how much they were against the bailouts and never supported them to begin with. People chuckle about it, but no one really cares. Its sad that it turned out like that, but short of forcing open revolt and exile, I don't know what can be done. Chances are the next bunch would be just as bad as the current, if not worse.
When I first read about this, I thought it was going to be some sort of spiritual successor to the original game, kind of side stepping Deus Ex 2. At least, thats what I hoped for. After watching the trailer, generic one liners and B movie plot is I suspect the entirety of it going play out to be. I'm not saying that they didn't put a lot of effort into it, but its sounds like it was a case of diminishing returns. I'll still download it and play, but I don't have high hopes.
For some reason, the line below kind of tells me where their loyalties lie: Telephone companies want to recoup escalating costs by increasing prices for âoenet hogsâ who use more than their share of capacity. I kind of think its just a justified precursor to metering.
At the risk of being horribly mistaken, I'm going to assume you're not flamebait and simply misinformed. I think that MrEricSir was attempting to crack a joke at the fact that "synergy" (or in this case, the pluralization, "synergies") was an incredibly overused buzzword that marketing types often times threw into a presentation with little to no regard to the actual meaning of the word just because it sounds intelligent (to them). I do not believe that he is trying to claim that the word is completely meaningless or not a real word; quite the contrary. I feel that it was his intention to say that others have taken the word and turned it into meaningless filler. I do not understand the analogy with the bytecode comment. To me, this is more like Hollywood saying something along the lines of, "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address".
Not to mention good old "Secure beneath the watchful eyes".(yes, they are actually serious. As in, that poster is not ironic.)
God. I want one of those posters SO bad!
Fine. Its stealing. Its now criminal rather than civil. It turns into innocent before proven guilty and all that. Now pay going rate for each song THEY CAN PROVE were downloaded, in complete, as damages. 0.99 USD per song is far more reasonable better than 100.00 USD.
Okay, I skimmed TFA. I still don't understand how this has even a 10% margin of success. Speaking in regards to myself, if I was doing anything that warranted the FBI singling me out that I was aware of, I would be much more paranoid than I currently am about going to strange links. Especially ones sent to me from people I don't know. Especially when I use one service and the reply is trying to bait me into going to somewhere I've never heard of. Most of the time I see stuff like that on blogs that is just rampant spam. The whole thing just feels too flimsy to actually be useful. I don't see how they're giving the real story.
CIPAV, is delivered through links to websites controlled by the FBI, and it silently reports back to a government server in Virginia.
But if it works based on clicking links that presumably take you to the installer, how on earth can you guarantee that your target is going to click on it at all? You'd either have to direct it specifically to the Mark, and hope that he responds, or you'd have to put it someplace so completely mainstream that hundreds of other people click on... oh, shit. I think I'm having an OS reinstall party this weekend.
I think that's what happened to my box. The hillbillies that live behind me were firing off fireworks and doing something strange with bright lights (I was sick and it woke me up, so my details are somewhat sketchy). The power was out when I woke up, and when it finally came back on, one of my boxes wouldn't come back up, so I pulled the power supply and took a look inside and every capacitor was blown. Later on when I was walking my dog, I noticed scorch marks all around a nearby transformer. I suppose technically that doesn't count for the numerology based anecdotal stories that are on topic, but whatever.
I really hope this was meant to be disingenuous.
Oh I read the article (after the post) and saw that their reason is not in my listed reasons. I do apologize for jumping on the tinfoil hat bandwagon without checking my facts first. However, that is not really the point. My point is that if a tool does not properly perform under running conditions, the tool is not suitable for use. This is just another sad case of people trying to use (underperforming/inappropriate) technology as a means of combating a social issue.
If your anti-terrorist/pedo/freedom/whatever facial recognition software is so sketchy that it can not cope with eyeglasses or facial expressions, it is not doing its job, and neither are you.
Its far better than dressing in tight clothes, playing with dolls and being sensitive.
There's a reason why it's patented, it's a completely original concept.
Now, I'm bad at understanding why one person can't have the same idea after someone else has had that same idea, so maybe I'm missing the point, but how about this?
I don't know if Radio Shack still sells them, but back in the day before they started pushing cell phones, they were an electronics store, and sold howto booklets and kits for building relatively simple hobbiest electronics. I remember my dad got me one that showed how to build an infrared transmitter/decoder. I won my eighth grade science fair with it showing that it was possible to transmit radio signal through infrared light and convert it back to audio. I think the hillbillies in the town I grew up in might have thought me to be a wizard Anyway, back to the point. It was one of the cooler things I'd ever gotten as far as gadgets come, because it required me to understand how it worked. Simpler projects (if you don't think a 13 year old should be soldering) might include a roll your own AM radio.
I don't get it, whats this one do? :)
At the risk of burning karma, actually, I think I have the best idea ever! Maybe what Microsoft should just do is go into the hardware business. Then they could make almost all of their hardware proprietary, and since they manufacture and directly control the hardware, they can guarantee 100% compatibility! We DO love certain other companies for it, so why shouldn't they?
Uh, I'm grasping at straws here, but how about alias ls='ls | rev | tac' for the win?
Really? On RHEL 5 it actually works: [brad@icarus ~]$ which which alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde' /usr/bin/which
I think mine did. I don't remember having problems putting the key in. Of course, on the other hand, I don't remember putting the key in at all, so take that as you will. I will have to check it tonight and see what it looks like.
I've been wondering things similar to that myself. Not just republican supporters, but I'm thinking of the delightful racist communities scattered throughout the States. I do not look forward to hearing about foiled assassination attempts every other week on the news.
"FEED ME SEYMOUR!!!"
In about 8 months, they'll have nothing but Real World, and you'll have to go to www.mtvmusic2.com if you want to actually see music videos.
I actually liked it. I've played it online with a friend of mine quite a bit (we bought copies from the bargain bin at a store knowing that it could go under any minute). It was sort of a 3d post apocalyptic Diablo, that is, a game that did not require much involvement or depth, just login and start stabbing stuff. I would be excited to see this other company picking it up.
Actually, I could really see your (presumably hypothetical) analogy happening. As disgusting as it may be, it seems like going out of your way to help others in this day and age only puts yourself in liability.