In the long run, Japan is going to prove to the United States of Armed-erica that not having to support a pork-barrel military has its advantages. The Japanese are able to divert their funds and ingenuity to real science and productivity. This will prove superior to the USian approach of science and technology as a side-effect of learning better and more efficient ways to blow people up.
The real irony is the way the United States imposed this condition on the Japanese after World War II. While the US may have enjoyed several decades of military and industrial masochistic dominance, the seeds of her destruction were already planted.
The US knows this, of course. That's why several of the hardline "America-First" groups are suggesting its time to let Japan build its own military. The more realistic amongst us know that a Japanese military would almost certainly do more with less and become unbeatable within 25 years. Indeed, experts project Japan could have a working missle defense system within 10 years -- a concept that makes the US Bushies decidedly uneasy.
Japan is the superpower of the future. The US is on its way to being a has-been.
I don't blame them for selling out. Seems all serious science journals eventually go the route of pop science. How much money can you really make selling ad space for digital multimeters after all? At some point, you have to go a little mainstream and start selling space to General Motors.
You can't do that with articles that don't appeal to the general public. More specifically, the part of the general public who thinks they're several notches in intelligence above the "rest" of the general public.
So SciAm strokes their ego with headlines about diamond cores. Maybe they give them some nice sidebar explanations of the unfamiliar (to them) astronomy terms. It's stuff the quasi-average reader can relate to. At the same time, many of us long for the days when the magazine covered hard science. You know, the kind of stuff you didn't even try to grasp without a PhD.
So Scientific American is dead. Long live Scientific American.
Aside from the technology, this is is no different from the standard profiling they do in airports. We all believe technology will make our lives easier. Well, it makes the DEA's lives easier too.
Let me explain:
As part of their training, DEA agents take courses in Constitutional Law and proper arrest, search, and seizure. They are well-acquainted with what constitutes probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Do you know the difference? Do you know what a "Terry" stop is? They do. If anyone is going to be careful not to run afoul of Supreme Court case precedent, it's the feds.
An agent from the DEA standing around in the airport knows what constitutes suspicious activity and/or a suspicious appearance. They know which nationalities courier what drugs. They know what kind of "cargo" to look for. They know nervousness and evasiveness when they see it.
The exact same thing applies with cyber activity. The profile they get of an Amtrak passenger is not fundamentally different from what they could get standing around the station observing people. The only difference is they are looking at data on a screen rather than faces and clothes.
In fact, this form of profiling has the potential to be less racially biased than face-to-face observation. When you get over the knee-jerk reaction and think about it, it really is preferable to the current system. The current system being basically "stop people with brown skin".
So technology is improving our lives, just not always in the ways we expect.
Lately, I've been more of the opinion that fun projects have no potential to ever be profitable. Once upon a time, guys (and they were all guys) did interesting things in their garages for grins and later found out they could get rich. The stories of Wozniak, Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds seem like legends of a bygone era -- a rare cosmic convergence of being the right place at the right time doing the right thing.
Clearly, this tracking technology has commercial uses. The rogue hackers in this story can almost certainly expect phone calls from the likes of General Motors, Daimler-Benz, and Kia.
disrupted school activities or otherwise willfully defied the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.
Way to go. Get an early start preparing the kid for the kind of open-ended "don't interfere with authority" laws he will experience as an adult. In 15 years, when the no-knock warrantless search comes based on the flimisiest excuse for probable cause, he'll already know just how far over to bend.
Kudos to jamie for actually going out and doing the research. Mainstream media is so preoccupied with declaring everything a "crises" they pay no attention to actual facts.
Given those numbers and the supposed "increase" in exposure to violent entertainment, one could logically conclude that violent entertainment actually LESSENS crime.
It seems like such a simple, logical, obvious contradiction -- leaders take credit for decreases in crime rates, while at the same time demanding greater restrictions on personal freedoms in order to combat the "crises". Well, which is it?
The fundamental problem is that Americans get their impression of the rest of the country through their televisions. One horrible incident (such as Columbine) creates the impression that the same thing is happening all over the place. "We have to act!"
Result -- Absurd zero-tolerance policies that get kids suspended for carrying keychains with 1" models of guns.
Ain't nothing like it, a cruddy machine.
Take some old Pentiums and a Red Hat CD.
NIC cards, buy 'em by the crate and save.
Got some 100-base running through my bedroom.
(spoken)
Yeah, we're running a little bit hot tonight.
I can barely see the screen from the heat comin' off of it.
I reach down, between my legs....
Pop the CD tray....
You're flustered. I'm clustered.
Like a Cray running in my closet now.
Got the boxes. Alan Cox's.
Mips a floppin', ain't no stoppin' now!
Does anyone know what version of Perl will be shipping with this version of Red Hat? The last time I actually *bought* a Red Hat distro, the Perl version was a few revisions out of date. I updated it with no problems, but I hate having to do that kind of hand-updating and the RPM system makes it painful.
Several posts have pointed out the foreshadowing of this technology in the fictional works of Stephenson and others.
While there are certain similarities, no one has yet mentioned the book Go At Secopholix by Donald Kunch.
Actually, I'm not too surprised. It was an utterly forgettable book. Where it not the only thing I had in the lab during a long summer internship, I would have never bothered with it. Kunch is respectable physicist but, quite frankly, a horrible story teller.
Nevertheless, this exact technology played a pivotal role in the storyline. Now that it is quickly becoming science fact instead of science fiction, I'm interested in re-reading the book. Perhaps old Don knew more than it seemed at the time.
I've checked FatBrain but can't find it. I'd hate to use Amazon.... Does anybody know somewhere else I might look?
Ahhh.... but the ephemeral and non-localized nature of cyberspace means that they might not have any choice in the matter. It will be like tightening their fists around jell-o. The more they squeeze, the more freedom and indepence-minded individuals will slip bewteen their fingers.
The key for such an organization is to not APPEAR to be an organization -- merely a loose collection of like-minded individuals. If the powers that be view them as disconnected fringe elements, they will miss the threat. First one of us, then two, then pretty soon they call it a movement.
Unfortunately, under a so-called "free market" system, Amazon has the right to raise or lower prices at whim. They can charge more when they find out you're a regular, but lower the price just enough to beat barnesandnoble.com if they think they might lose your business.
It's unethical. It's wrong. And it's not fair to consumers.
Government regulation has such a bad rap to USians, but it's undeserved. Really, who is better suited to determine fair market value than our own democratically-elected leaders? It's time for we the people to take control of the market and bring some fairness to the table.
We already grant these companies welfare in the form of loans and tax incentives. Look how they treat us in return. We have to regain control.
"Privileged little brats" is an ad hominem name-calling tactic. When you are trying to persuade people with your brilliant reasoning ability, you might want to avoid using such techniques.
In the U.S. at least, "government" has many levels. Police and Fire Departments are most commonly local. Of course, police agencies exist at county, state, and federal levels. It is still the city police officer or deputy sheriff who usually responds, "...when they need them".
Of course, the Clinton administration takes credit for providing funding to put "100,000 officers on the street". Setting aside Clinton's obvious ignorance of police equipment and training costs, one wonders why that money had to go through the federal government before it found its way back to local departments. Would it not have been more efficient just to reduce federal taxation and let the money flow directly to the local governments? Perhaps it's because there would have been no strings attached except to the citizens.
Lumping local government services in with FDIC is a pretty absurd argument. I can write letters, hold rallies, go to the local paper, and generally get noticed when something is wrong with the local P.D. If I find something wrong with the FDIC, I have about as much impact as a gnat on a brick wall. The issue is control and accountability of my money and yours. The higher up the government ladder one goes, the less accountability there is and the greater opportunities one finds for fraud, sloth, and misuse.
Since you've taken it upon yourself to enlighten all of the "privileged little brats" who don't subscribe to your worldview, would you care to expound more on the "harder side of real life" with which you are so intimately familiar? Exactly which government program brought you to the soft side where all of pathetic whiners reside?
I mean, we all know what Linux is good at and where it falls short.
The people who matter (IT managers, sysadmins, programmers) already know the truth. These people are paid to know what's going on. Their jobs depend on it. I doubt that some talking head on ABC is going to make them change their minds.
I submit that anyone who gets scared off by this probably shouldn't be using Linux anyway. They'll give up the first time they have to set up X anyway.
While the person posting this is probably a troller, the Bill of Rights is at the very core of this issue. Trollers can be on-topic and insightful sometimes -- even if it's an accident.
I'm glad to see the Bill of Rights in this thread. It's very relevant.
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If you're looking for the "best phone experience", I know a few numbers you can call.
137 unfunny "AC means Anonymous Coward" posts on this thread. The only halfway original comment gets moderated down.
I'll see your asses in metamod.
I always said Apple needs an emena.
Amazing how such unoriginal anti-American flamebait consistently gets modded UP.
It's not flamebait, just simple economics.
In case you haven't noticed, the post started at 2 and has been modded down to 1.
Anonymous moderation has brought more harm to Slashdot than anonymous posting ever did. Gotta stick with that groupthink, folks.
In the long run, Japan is going to prove to the United States of Armed-erica that not having to support a pork-barrel military has its advantages. The Japanese are able to divert their funds and ingenuity to real science and productivity. This will prove superior to the USian approach of science and technology as a side-effect of learning better and more efficient ways to blow people up.
The real irony is the way the United States imposed this condition on the Japanese after World War II. While the US may have enjoyed several decades of military and industrial masochistic dominance, the seeds of her destruction were already planted.
The US knows this, of course. That's why several of the hardline "America-First" groups are suggesting its time to let Japan build its own military. The more realistic amongst us know that a Japanese military would almost certainly do more with less and become unbeatable within 25 years. Indeed, experts project Japan could have a working missle defense system within 10 years -- a concept that makes the US Bushies decidedly uneasy.
Japan is the superpower of the future. The US is on its way to being a has-been.
Did they look between the sofa cushions?
I don't blame them for selling out. Seems all serious science journals eventually go the route of pop science. How much money can you really make selling ad space for digital multimeters after all? At some point, you have to go a little mainstream and start selling space to General Motors.
You can't do that with articles that don't appeal to the general public. More specifically, the part of the general public who thinks they're several notches in intelligence above the "rest" of the general public.
So SciAm strokes their ego with headlines about diamond cores. Maybe they give them some nice sidebar explanations of the unfamiliar (to them) astronomy terms. It's stuff the quasi-average reader can relate to. At the same time, many of us long for the days when the magazine covered hard science. You know, the kind of stuff you didn't even try to grasp without a PhD.
So Scientific American is dead. Long live Scientific American.
Aside from the technology, this is is no different from the standard profiling they do in airports. We all believe technology will make our lives easier. Well, it makes the DEA's lives easier too.
Let me explain:
As part of their training, DEA agents take courses in Constitutional Law and proper arrest, search, and seizure. They are well-acquainted with what constitutes probable cause or reasonable suspicion. Do you know the difference? Do you know what a "Terry" stop is? They do. If anyone is going to be careful not to run afoul of Supreme Court case precedent, it's the feds.
An agent from the DEA standing around in the airport knows what constitutes suspicious activity and/or a suspicious appearance. They know which nationalities courier what drugs. They know what kind of "cargo" to look for. They know nervousness and evasiveness when they see it.
The exact same thing applies with cyber activity. The profile they get of an Amtrak passenger is not fundamentally different from what they could get standing around the station observing people. The only difference is they are looking at data on a screen rather than faces and clothes.
In fact, this form of profiling has the potential to be less racially biased than face-to-face observation. When you get over the knee-jerk reaction and think about it, it really is preferable to the current system. The current system being basically "stop people with brown skin".
So technology is improving our lives, just not always in the ways we expect.
I understand she intends to sue herself over rights to the domain name.
Amazon patenting One-Click shopping and therefore triggering a boycott by the geek contingent.
The effects of which were dramatic in their insignificance.
The security system destroys a document if it thinks someone is trying to access it illegally?
:)
So what your saying is... my kid can blow up my dissertation by sitting at the keyboard and banging random keys?
That's kind of why I password-locked my computer in the first place, fellas.
It reassures me to see stuff like this.
:)
Lately, I've been more of the opinion that fun projects have no potential to ever be profitable. Once upon a time, guys (and they were all guys) did interesting things in their garages for grins and later found out they could get rich. The stories of Wozniak, Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds seem like legends of a bygone era -- a rare cosmic convergence of being the right place at the right time doing the right thing.
Clearly, this tracking technology has commercial uses. The rogue hackers in this story can almost certainly expect phone calls from the likes of General Motors, Daimler-Benz, and Kia.
My advice? Get your patents now, fellas.
disrupted school activities or otherwise willfully defied the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.
Way to go. Get an early start preparing the kid for the kind of open-ended "don't interfere with authority" laws he will experience as an adult. In 15 years, when the no-knock warrantless search comes based on the flimisiest excuse for probable cause, he'll already know just how far over to bend.
Kudos to jamie for actually going out and doing the research. Mainstream media is so preoccupied with declaring everything a "crises" they pay no attention to actual facts.
Given those numbers and the supposed "increase" in exposure to violent entertainment, one could logically conclude that violent entertainment actually LESSENS crime.
It seems like such a simple, logical, obvious contradiction -- leaders take credit for decreases in crime rates, while at the same time demanding greater restrictions on personal freedoms in order to combat the "crises". Well, which is it?
The fundamental problem is that Americans get their impression of the rest of the country through their televisions. One horrible incident (such as Columbine) creates the impression that the same thing is happening all over the place. "We have to act!"
Result -- Absurd zero-tolerance policies that get kids suspended for carrying keychains with 1" models of guns.
Geez America. Grow up.
--To the tune of Van Halen's "Panama"
Jump back, what's that sound?
Here it comes, case open power down.
Cold boot, running through the fs check.
Awesome parallel. Running on Intel.
Don't ya know I'm gonna 0wn SETI?
I'm gonna factor primes.
I'll find pi....
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf
Ain't nothing like it, a cruddy machine.
Take some old Pentiums and a Red Hat CD.
NIC cards, buy 'em by the crate and save.
Got some 100-base running through my bedroom.
Don't ya know I'm gonna 0wn SETI?
I'm gonna factor primes.
RC5....
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf
(spoken)
Yeah, we're running a little bit hot tonight.
I can barely see the screen from the heat comin' off of it.
I reach down, between my legs....
Pop the CD tray....
You're flustered. I'm clustered.
Like a Cray running in my closet now.
Got the boxes. Alan Cox's.
Mips a floppin', ain't no stoppin' now!
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf!
Beowulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf-ulf
Does anyone know what version of Perl will be shipping with this version of Red Hat? The last time I actually *bought* a Red Hat distro, the Perl version was a few revisions out of date. I updated it with no problems, but I hate having to do that kind of hand-updating and the RPM system makes it painful.
Several posts have pointed out the foreshadowing of this technology in the fictional works of Stephenson and others.
While there are certain similarities, no one has yet mentioned the book Go At Secopholix by Donald Kunch.
Actually, I'm not too surprised. It was an utterly forgettable book. Where it not the only thing I had in the lab during a long summer internship, I would have never bothered with it. Kunch is respectable physicist but, quite frankly, a horrible story teller.
Nevertheless, this exact technology played a pivotal role in the storyline. Now that it is quickly becoming science fact instead of science fiction, I'm interested in re-reading the book. Perhaps old Don knew more than it seemed at the time.
I've checked FatBrain but can't find it. I'd hate to use Amazon.... Does anybody know somewhere else I might look?
Ahhh.... but the ephemeral and non-localized nature of cyberspace means that they might not have any choice in the matter. It will be like tightening their fists around jell-o. The more they squeeze, the more freedom and indepence-minded individuals will slip bewteen their fingers.
The key for such an organization is to not APPEAR to be an organization -- merely a loose collection of like-minded individuals. If the powers that be view them as disconnected fringe elements, they will miss the threat. First one of us, then two, then pretty soon they call it a movement.
Sillies -- Sega gives them options if they promise to stop. Hence "stop options".
.duh"
"I am the dot in
Unfortunately, under a so-called "free market" system, Amazon has the right to raise or lower prices at whim. They can charge more when they find out you're a regular, but lower the price just enough to beat barnesandnoble.com if they think they might lose your business.
It's unethical. It's wrong. And it's not fair to consumers.
Government regulation has such a bad rap to USians, but it's undeserved. Really, who is better suited to determine fair market value than our own democratically-elected leaders? It's time for we the people to take control of the market and bring some fairness to the table.
We already grant these companies welfare in the form of loans and tax incentives. Look how they treat us in return. We have to regain control.
"Privileged little brats" is an ad hominem name-calling tactic. When you are trying to persuade people with your brilliant reasoning ability, you might want to avoid using such techniques.
In the U.S. at least, "government" has many levels. Police and Fire Departments are most commonly local. Of course, police agencies exist at county, state, and federal levels. It is still the city police officer or deputy sheriff who usually responds, "...when they need them".
Of course, the Clinton administration takes credit for providing funding to put "100,000 officers on the street". Setting aside Clinton's obvious ignorance of police equipment and training costs, one wonders why that money had to go through the federal government before it found its way back to local departments. Would it not have been more efficient just to reduce federal taxation and let the money flow directly to the local governments? Perhaps it's because there would have been no strings attached except to the citizens.
Lumping local government services in with FDIC is a pretty absurd argument. I can write letters, hold rallies, go to the local paper, and generally get noticed when something is wrong with the local P.D. If I find something wrong with the FDIC, I have about as much impact as a gnat on a brick wall. The issue is control and accountability of my money and yours. The higher up the government ladder one goes, the less accountability there is and the greater opportunities one finds for fraud, sloth, and misuse.
Since you've taken it upon yourself to enlighten all of the "privileged little brats" who don't subscribe to your worldview, would you care to expound more on the "harder side of real life" with which you are so intimately familiar? Exactly which government program brought you to the soft side where all of pathetic whiners reside?
IANAL, but I think that's a good idea.
Yes. But only the web on localhost.
I mean, we all know what Linux is good at and where it falls short.
The people who matter (IT managers, sysadmins, programmers) already know the truth. These people are paid to know what's going on. Their jobs depend on it. I doubt that some talking head on ABC is going to make them change their minds.
I submit that anyone who gets scared off by this probably shouldn't be using Linux anyway. They'll give up the first time they have to set up X anyway.
While the person posting this is probably a troller, the Bill of Rights is at the very core of this issue. Trollers can be on-topic and insightful sometimes -- even if it's an accident.
I'm glad to see the Bill of Rights in this thread. It's very relevant.