Nice way to stick that one in... How about tax cuts for ALL Americans? Or just tax cuts for AMERICANS. Instead, you're complaining about people making $XYZk a year as being the reason the next update to general relativity isn't made.
The nice thing about tax cuts is it put the money back in the hands of the person whose money it is.... the Taxpayer. If you feel that the blue-sky R&D is important (like I do), then go cut a check (like I do). Don't confiscate from others to venture on your own (cf the Electric Car story above)
Not that I'm expect much in the way of impartiality here, but...
"During the Bush Administration"? There's a subtle bit of tweaking going on there... it was passed by a Democratically-controlled Congress (albeit with a Republican pushing it, who has now mea culpa'd and is leading the drive to repeal it) and stuck in a 300 page energy bill.
I generally support just about any kind of scientific work, but I really don't see the value in studying how people use facebook. We all know it is for the most part a tremendous waste of time; I'm not sure what we have to gain by looking into how people use it.
I don't know if I'd say that. I have a lot of FB friends, about 80-90% of whom I've met in person at one point or another (I travel a lot and meet a lot of people, plus former classmates and colleagues, and people I'm attempting to connect with for the first time that I *should* know... Alumni from a group that I'm the Alumni outreach coordinator for).
Facebook in particular, and social networking in general, is the most efficient way known to man to maintain contact and a semblance of a relationship to a large number of people at once in a back-and-forth, interactive manner.
It's a time-waster if you sit there and just play social network games on it (Skinner Boxes). For the most part, I don't. I'm keeping up with the feed, commenting, liking, sharing, and re-posting. (It also helps that I have a job where I can keep a FB window open all day in-between other activities.
Maybe I just have more interesting friends than you? Or would otherwise work harder at keeping up with them? Don't know... But FB isn't a "tremendous waste of time" for me.
The moral of this story is - friends on Facebook shouldn't be professional relationships. That's what LinkedIn is for, if you must.
Absolutely. All current work contacts are slightly limited in that they can't see my wall (by default) nor past mobile pics. I still post things (like links) with permissive permissions sometimes, but they're definitely limited in what they see. After we're no longer colleagues, I remove their restriction and we can be "real" friends. Works well for me.
LinkedIn is for professional contacts. My bosses and their bosses are on there.
What they have done is no different that the cable company demanding root level access to your computer in order to go online. People would be outraged there, why should a game console (which is just a dedicated computer) be any different?
No, actually it's more akin to the cable company demanding firmware access to manage your cable modem. Except, oh wait... they do! (Well, at least Cox Cable -- my provider -- does.) And there's nothing wrong with that. I paid $150 for my DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem at Fry's and it's absolutely my property. I can stick it on my desk and pry it apart with a voltmeter all day long if I want. But if I want to hook it up to Cox's network they demand that they be able to validate/update/verify code on it. That's no different than Sony wanting to validate/update/verify code on the machine when I want to hook it up to Sony's PS Network.
If you don't like it, don't use the PSN. The fact that the PS3 is more powerful than your cable modem is irrelevant. If you're using the PS3 as a "dedicated computer" then you're not going to (be allowed to) connect it to the PSN. Sony never made a representation that it would let unsupported/unvalidated/unverified/out-of-date/third-party/hacked/modded/custom hardware+software combos connect to the PSN any more than Cox lets me connect a NetBSD firmware'd cable modem up.
I love tinkering; I love electronics; I'm a ham radio operator. I also realize that there's a reason we pay for commercial reliability and one of the conditions for using that reliability is verifiability and security. If you're not using official firmware *I DON'T WANT YOU* on the PSN because for all I know you may now have an unfair advantage over me. Use the PS3 as an expensive paperweight for all I care; but Sony wants to verify that you're using official firmware before using its service, and as a fellow user of its service, I want them to too. Between the company and the 99.999+% of users who support it (or would if they cared at all) and the 0.001% of users QQ-ing on message boards, guess who's going to have their desires implemented?
Note: I speak only for myself and for no other entity; these words are my own only.
I seem to remember reading something about this in an old National Geographic picture book when I was like... 7. A slightly-overweight kid standing akimbo in front of an old Apple with a representation of him on the screen.
Man, we remember the weirdest, most random things sometimes...
I'd much rather read something focusing more closely on computer incident (and NOC operational) response and its similarities to ICS principles. I'm sure there are places that run coordinated responses to events (especially cross-departmental events) along the lines of an Incident Command System, and I'd be curious what their experiences are and how other groups can transition to something similar.
I have to imagine that any cyber-response being handled at the national level is going to follow NIMS to some extent as well.
Let's have the internet operated by people working in autonomous groups of varying sizes, working to build group-to-group connections that work independently, and are controlled by terms totally independent of administrative and policymaker regulation.
Oh wait...
Newsflash: The Internet is a series of (mostly) privately-owned and privately-operated tubes. Keep your regulations off my tubes. If I want to purchase services from a provider available to me that prioritizes YouTube and Netflix over Torrent traffic, why the heck shouldn't I be able to?
Quite frankly, this is actually a really important point.
Now... can I get an apology from the "quarter of the population [that's] retarded" and accused neoconservatives, Bush/Cheney, PNAC, Republicans of being behind a 9/11 Government conspiracy? Kthxbye.
I like how he mentions perl, but completed neglects to mention Perl6.
One of the most derided or most lauded features (depending on your POV) in perl6 is the copious use of additional syntax operators in the interests of further Huffman coding. There are certain operators (for example, the "hyper" operators that are defined in terms of unicode symbols ("") and use ASCII digraphs as an alternate form (">>").
So, it's there now in a mostly stable form... you can program in unicode-laced form all you like at this point.
But others, such as the ETC group, an environmental and social advocacy group, fear simply blocking the sun is a bandage, meant to cover up the problem, and allow humans to continue using fossils fuels.
In other words, even though this would provide a fix to the problem, we don't think it's a good idea because it conflicts with our ideology (that fossil-fuel burning is wrong). This is a classic example of why the Left is out of step with the country.
What's the problem here? Is it global warming (or climate change in general) or is it over-consumption, convenience, and basically living the luxurious life of an American. If the problem is the unpleasant effects of climate change, then lets fix that. But many on the left want to enact more broad social change/social justice/social whatever... When Tea Partiers (and others) complain vaguely about "hidden agendas", this is what they're referring to.
If your "friends" refuse to respect your request, then they're not really your friends. If they're not really a friend, why are they a "friend"?
Facebook to users: We give you tools with which to communicate with people you trust. If you don't trust them, don't allow them to use those tools with you.
This used to be considered something that was potentially a Good Thing. To help prevent link rot and redesigns from breaking links, people thinking a lot about Hypertext came up with initiatives like PURL's: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/
Now that the primary usage of these redirects are simply to shorten links to something more convenient, we're using the same tech (a 301) and using it in different ways. One question is, how many people use the "custom link name" feature of tinyurl.com vs, simply let a random string of text be used? And, will a service start letting us update link destinations after the fact (like the original purl site did)? If so, how do you prevent nefarious uses of this (like moving it to goatse after it's memeing about)?
In terms of the filtration-for-tracking-purposes? That horse has left the barn already; I'm more concerned with final destinations not being recorded over time for posterity. These redirect services are totally interchangable anyway... as soon as one starts using interstitals, people will move to another one.
By aligning itself with a political movement, we now have a political entity of a foreign state aiding and abetting our enemies. I don't think we're going to be invading Sweden any time soon, but now we have someone to yell at when people are killed thanks to this info getting leaked out. Heckuvajob, Swedes... the Afghan informants' blood is on your hands now!
Oh man, AIM. Let me tell you, seeing AIM running on someone's computer allows you to instantaneously gauge them as a total ignoramus. Very handy.
If you must have "instant messaging" then go with XMPP. Meanwhile anyone who's anyone is still using IRC, forever the greatest and only text chat for netizens.
Well, the point is... having an AIM account, not necessarily using the AIM client. But then, a true geek recognizes there are different tools for different jobs:) FTR I use both IRC and AIM (and MSN, and ICQ)... and I hate integrated clients.
Everyone with an AOL account is automatically added to the social network, with all privacy defaults set to "disallow all but my friends".
Just to clarify... that would include AIM-only accounts. I know plenty of people that were never full AOL members but still have (or have access to) AIM accounts. And the more FB chat sucks, the more people are returning every once in a while to the dedicated IM land of buddy lists.
Good reason to buy back ICQ... Oh, and maybe make an investment in Skype too.
The posting of the classified info via Wikileaks was a crime. A large number of Afghan informants had their names exposed and will probably be killed (and/or have family or friends killed or used for extortion) before we can safely (and expensively) extricate them.
Quit whining and start taking responsibility for your actions. And understand that when your associates do illegal things, you're going to get questioned about it on re-entry into the US.
In a nutshell, wPCIe enables a PCI Express switch with local and remote components linked by a 60GHz connection. The first applications, which will start sampling next year, will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to have something operating at 60GHz sitting in my lap, thanks... I'll stick to super-long HDMI or DVI cables if I need to route a monitor signal.
Then there is the secular side of greed and corruption. The people who put money and wordily goods in front of everything else, including annoying facts based in reality. These are the people who say smoking causes no significant damage. Or oil is not fossil-fuel and therefore there will be an endless supply. Or that McDonalds is food.
Thank you for including this last example... I was actually taking you seriously until you gave this tell-tale sign: the liberal douchebag shibboleth of attacking McDonald's.
Now I don't have to read the rest of your comment; efficiency at work! woot!
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
See that FBI/INTERPOL message in the front of every video or DVD? When you copy it, you're making a risk assessment that if you get caught they're not going to put the full weight of the statutory limit against you --- but that's a risk.
If you really want change, push for a change of the law and sentencing guidelines. $2250/song is still high, but it's within the realm of reason. Hell... in California you get fined $1000 for littering on the freeway; and I'm sure some judge has tried to make that "per item" instead of "per distinct offense".
If it does so in a discriminatory fashion, then it's discrimination.
Is the prohibition against "marriage" between two persons of the same sex an instance of sex discrimination or is it an instance of sexual orientation discrimination.
I'm not sure why it matters? What is your point?
My point is that you don't get to simply declare that something "is discrimination" (much less equate it to racism) if you can't define what type of discrimination you're talking about -- namely, what you're discriminating against.
Super Adventure Club Head Explorer: [Our founder, Phinehas] discovered that children have things called marlocks in their bodies. And when an adult has sex with a child, the marlocks implode, feeding the adult receptive cavity with energy that causes immortality, so saith the ruler of Bethos. Phinehas traveled the world, loving many, many children, and he lived for eternity. Until he was hit by a train in 1892. Kyle: Do you realize how retarded that sounds? Super Adventure Club Head Explorer: Is it any more retarded than the idea of God sending his son to die for our sins? Is it any more retarded than Buddha sitting beneath a tree for twenty years? Stan: Yeah. It's way, way more retarded.
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Nice way to stick that one in... How about tax cuts for ALL Americans? Or just tax cuts for AMERICANS. Instead, you're complaining about people making $XYZk a year as being the reason the next update to general relativity isn't made.
The nice thing about tax cuts is it put the money back in the hands of the person whose money it is.... the Taxpayer. If you feel that the blue-sky R&D is important (like I do), then go cut a check (like I do). Don't confiscate from others to venture on your own (cf the Electric Car story above)
Not that I'm expect much in the way of impartiality here, but...
"During the Bush Administration"? There's a subtle bit of tweaking going on there... it was passed by a Democratically-controlled Congress (albeit with a Republican pushing it, who has now mea culpa'd and is leading the drive to repeal it) and stuck in a 300 page energy bill.
Background:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-10/need-a-light-bulb-uncle-sam-gets-to-choose-virginia-postrel.html
And for more of the right-ward/libertarian spin on why this is a dumb idea, just keep scrolling:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=bulb
I was writing in in Applesoft Basic in 3rd grade on the //e's in our classroom, and it compiled! =P That puts me at 6/7..
There's a picture somewhere of me reading http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Programming-Basic-Henry-Simpson/dp/0830626506/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308770040&sr=1-1 with a stuffed animal next to me. /nerd
Two words: Jon Postel
A legend who contributed more to the operational structure of the internet than probably any other person. These techno-trustees are Greats.
I generally support just about any kind of scientific work, but I really don't see the value in studying how people use facebook. We all know it is for the most part a tremendous waste of time; I'm not sure what we have to gain by looking into how people use it.
I don't know if I'd say that. I have a lot of FB friends, about 80-90% of whom I've met in person at one point or another (I travel a lot and meet a lot of people, plus former classmates and colleagues, and people I'm attempting to connect with for the first time that I *should* know... Alumni from a group that I'm the Alumni outreach coordinator for).
Facebook in particular, and social networking in general, is the most efficient way known to man to maintain contact and a semblance of a relationship to a large number of people at once in a back-and-forth, interactive manner.
It's a time-waster if you sit there and just play social network games on it (Skinner Boxes). For the most part, I don't. I'm keeping up with the feed, commenting, liking, sharing, and re-posting. (It also helps that I have a job where I can keep a FB window open all day in-between other activities.
Maybe I just have more interesting friends than you? Or would otherwise work harder at keeping up with them? Don't know... But FB isn't a "tremendous waste of time" for me.
The moral of this story is - friends on Facebook shouldn't be professional relationships. That's what LinkedIn is for, if you must.
Absolutely. All current work contacts are slightly limited in that they can't see my wall (by default) nor past mobile pics. I still post things (like links) with permissive permissions sometimes, but they're definitely limited in what they see. After we're no longer colleagues, I remove their restriction and we can be "real" friends. Works well for me.
LinkedIn is for professional contacts. My bosses and their bosses are on there.
What they have done is no different that the cable company demanding root level access to your computer in order to go online. People would be outraged there, why should a game console (which is just a dedicated computer) be any different?
No, actually it's more akin to the cable company demanding firmware access to manage your cable modem. Except, oh wait... they do! (Well, at least Cox Cable -- my provider -- does.) And there's nothing wrong with that. I paid $150 for my DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem at Fry's and it's absolutely my property. I can stick it on my desk and pry it apart with a voltmeter all day long if I want. But if I want to hook it up to Cox's network they demand that they be able to validate/update/verify code on it. That's no different than Sony wanting to validate/update/verify code on the machine when I want to hook it up to Sony's PS Network.
If you don't like it, don't use the PSN. The fact that the PS3 is more powerful than your cable modem is irrelevant. If you're using the PS3 as a "dedicated computer" then you're not going to (be allowed to) connect it to the PSN. Sony never made a representation that it would let unsupported/unvalidated/unverified/out-of-date/third-party/hacked/modded/custom hardware+software combos connect to the PSN any more than Cox lets me connect a NetBSD firmware'd cable modem up.
I love tinkering; I love electronics; I'm a ham radio operator. I also realize that there's a reason we pay for commercial reliability and one of the conditions for using that reliability is verifiability and security. If you're not using official firmware *I DON'T WANT YOU* on the PSN because for all I know you may now have an unfair advantage over me. Use the PS3 as an expensive paperweight for all I care; but Sony wants to verify that you're using official firmware before using its service, and as a fellow user of its service, I want them to too. Between the company and the 99.999+% of users who support it (or would if they cared at all) and the 0.001% of users QQ-ing on message boards, guess who's going to have their desires implemented?
Note: I speak only for myself and for no other entity; these words are my own only.
I seem to remember reading something about this in an old National Geographic picture book when I was like... 7. A slightly-overweight kid standing akimbo in front of an old Apple with a representation of him on the screen.
Man, we remember the weirdest, most random things sometimes...
I'd much rather read something focusing more closely on computer incident (and NOC operational) response and its similarities to ICS principles. I'm sure there are places that run coordinated responses to events (especially cross-departmental events) along the lines of an Incident Command System, and I'd be curious what their experiences are and how other groups can transition to something similar.
I have to imagine that any cyber-response being handled at the national level is going to follow NIMS to some extent as well.
I have new found respect for Twitter.
You must have picked up the respect for them I lost. =/ Please just mail it to me when they grow up... thanks!
Let's have the internet operated by people working in autonomous groups of varying sizes, working to build group-to-group connections that work independently, and are controlled by terms totally independent of administrative and policymaker regulation.
Oh wait...
Newsflash: The Internet is a series of (mostly) privately-owned and privately-operated tubes. Keep your regulations off my tubes. If I want to purchase services from a provider available to me that prioritizes YouTube and Netflix over Torrent traffic, why the heck shouldn't I be able to?
Quite frankly, this is actually a really important point.
Now... can I get an apology from the "quarter of the population [that's] retarded" and accused neoconservatives, Bush/Cheney, PNAC, Republicans of being behind a 9/11 Government conspiracy? Kthxbye.
I like how he mentions perl, but completed neglects to mention Perl6.
One of the most derided or most lauded features (depending on your POV) in perl6 is the copious use of additional syntax operators in the interests of further Huffman coding. There are certain operators (for example, the "hyper" operators that are defined in terms of unicode symbols ("") and use ASCII digraphs as an alternate form (">>").
So, it's there now in a mostly stable form... you can program in unicode-laced form all you like at this point.
Did you catch that?
In other words, even though this would provide a fix to the problem, we don't think it's a good idea because it conflicts with our ideology (that fossil-fuel burning is wrong). This is a classic example of why the Left is out of step with the country.
What's the problem here? Is it global warming (or climate change in general) or is it over-consumption, convenience, and basically living the luxurious life of an American. If the problem is the unpleasant effects of climate change, then lets fix that. But many on the left want to enact more broad social change/social justice/social whatever... When Tea Partiers (and others) complain vaguely about "hidden agendas", this is what they're referring to.
If your "friends" refuse to respect your request, then they're not really your friends. If they're not really a friend, why are they a "friend"?
Facebook to users: We give you tools with which to communicate with people you trust. If you don't trust them, don't allow them to use those tools with you.
This used to be considered something that was potentially a Good Thing. To help prevent link rot and redesigns from breaking links, people thinking a lot about Hypertext came up with initiatives like PURL's: http://purl.oclc.org/docs/
Now that the primary usage of these redirects are simply to shorten links to something more convenient, we're using the same tech (a 301) and using it in different ways. One question is, how many people use the "custom link name" feature of tinyurl.com vs, simply let a random string of text be used? And, will a service start letting us update link destinations after the fact (like the original purl site did)? If so, how do you prevent nefarious uses of this (like moving it to goatse after it's memeing about)?
In terms of the filtration-for-tracking-purposes? That horse has left the barn already; I'm more concerned with final destinations not being recorded over time for posterity. These redirect services are totally interchangable anyway... as soon as one starts using interstitals, people will move to another one.
Now we have someone to bomb! /kidding
Well... /halfkidding
By aligning itself with a political movement, we now have a political entity of a foreign state aiding and abetting our enemies. I don't think we're going to be invading Sweden any time soon, but now we have someone to yell at when people are killed thanks to this info getting leaked out. Heckuvajob, Swedes... the Afghan informants' blood is on your hands now!
Oh man, AIM. Let me tell you, seeing AIM running on someone's computer allows you to instantaneously gauge them as a total ignoramus. Very handy.
If you must have "instant messaging" then go with XMPP. Meanwhile anyone who's anyone is still using IRC, forever the greatest and only text chat for netizens.
Well, the point is... having an AIM account, not necessarily using the AIM client. But then, a true geek recognizes there are different tools for different jobs :) FTR I use both IRC and AIM (and MSN, and ICQ)... and I hate integrated clients.
Everyone with an AOL account is automatically added to the social network, with all privacy defaults set to "disallow all but my friends".
Just to clarify... that would include AIM-only accounts. I know plenty of people that were never full AOL members but still have (or have access to) AIM accounts. And the more FB chat sucks, the more people are returning every once in a while to the dedicated IM land of buddy lists.
Good reason to buy back ICQ... Oh, and maybe make an investment in Skype too.
The posting of the classified info via Wikileaks was a crime. A large number of Afghan informants had their names exposed and will probably be killed (and/or have family or friends killed or used for extortion) before we can safely (and expensively) extricate them.
Quit whining and start taking responsibility for your actions. And understand that when your associates do illegal things, you're going to get questioned about it on re-entry into the US.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to have something operating at 60GHz sitting in my lap, thanks... I'll stick to super-long HDMI or DVI cables if I need to route a monitor signal.
Then there is the secular side of greed and corruption. The people who put money and wordily goods in front of everything else, including annoying facts based in reality. These are the people who say smoking causes no significant damage. Or oil is not fossil-fuel and therefore there will be an endless supply. Or that McDonalds is food.
Thank you for including this last example... I was actually taking you seriously until you gave this tell-tale sign: the liberal douchebag shibboleth of attacking McDonald's.
Now I don't have to read the rest of your comment; efficiency at work! woot!
Isn't that still way more then most people can reasonably pay and completely disproportionate to the actual damages caused? He'll probably still have to declare bankruptcy.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
See that FBI/INTERPOL message in the front of every video or DVD? When you copy it, you're making a risk assessment that if you get caught they're not going to put the full weight of the statutory limit against you --- but that's a risk.
If you really want change, push for a change of the law and sentencing guidelines. $2250/song is still high, but it's within the realm of reason. Hell... in California you get fined $1000 for littering on the freeway; and I'm sure some judge has tried to make that "per item" instead of "per distinct offense".
If it does so in a discriminatory fashion, then it's discrimination.
Is the prohibition against "marriage" between two persons of the same sex an instance of sex discrimination or is it an instance of sexual orientation discrimination.
I'm not sure why it matters? What is your point?
My point is that you don't get to simply declare that something "is discrimination" (much less equate it to racism) if you can't define what type of discrimination you're talking about -- namely, what you're discriminating against.
Is having the country run by Christians or oil magnates really any more sensible than pirates?
Yes. And, as usual, South Park puts it best: