I hate microsoft as much as the next slashdot poster but have you ever met a state government employee?
Yes, I have actually met. If you speak of desk-chained ones, you are right. If you speak of the back-office guys, you are right most-of-the-time only. Granted: security is like a chain - strenght given by the weakest link (thus, it can be that all guys except one be brilliant in security matters and still have the chain broken).
On the other side: the motivation of a govt employee stays also in the fact that his very position (and possibly liberty) is at risk if data is lost/leaked (and most of the govt employees are risk adverse, otherwise they'd go into industry). Would the MS employees have the same reactions?
Right... but this doesn't quite explain "why there's enough matter for us to exist at all" ("us"... the rest of humanity).
Well... methinks that physicists are relying to much on Apple technology and – as any monoculture does – this is obviously impeding the progress in sciences... otherwise I can't explain why they are taking so long to discover the triple-X particles.
Until now, insects were thought to perform metabolism in an organ known as the fat body, which performs a similar function to the human liver.
Most of the fat body is in an insect's abdomen surrounding the gut, where it can quickly take up absorbed nutrients, though some is scattered elsewhere. "We have found that the main metabolic activity in the Oriental hornet is actually in the yellow pigment layer," says Dr Plotkin.
The full-text article, makes no mention of the "fat body" and doesn't get a hint by what reasoning this conclusion is to be derived?
The correlation between sunny conditions and hornet's digging activity is not quite a strong indication to me - I mean: ants are most active when the weather is hot, yet they apparently don't relly on capturing the solar radiation.
Ideas, yes (e.g. use of patterned capture surfaces, possible multiple reflections to increase the efficiency of a cell? Maybe not quite new).
New materials? The full text version of the article (posted by someone above), mentions a measured the conversion efficiency of a xanthopterin-sensitized TiO2 solar cell to 0.335% - clearly some more work needs to be done (e.g. other substate to senzitize?).
Poor employees... Lost in MS's cloud for eternity...
From the "Love the bureaucrats" dept...
That is a real progress: now they can pin-point in which cloud they are lost... in contrast with the current situation in which they are "Just lost in the clouds"
On the flip side, what happens in Wal-Mart banned all black people because they considered them racy and offensive?
An analogy of limited value. In this case, to correct your analogy: Wal-Mart refusing to stock merchendise from suppliers it doesn't like (which, I guess, it does already happen).
For your analogy to be valid, Wal-Mart would have to stop stocking black-people and continue... what... stocking/selling white people... because Wal-Mart consider them less offensive?
Ekstra Bladet today launched a campaign, which, according to Madsen, will expose Apple’s double standards. The paper is asking its readers to send in examples of other tabloids, such as German paper Bild and British The Sun, which are allowed to show topless girls on their iPad applications.
What would the US judges say about that? 'Cause I reckon Mr Neo would like to reserve his judgements only after carefuly examing the evidence (in Bild and The Sun) by himself.
I know nothing (yet) about this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
His name is Liu Xiaobo. He is currently imprisoned in China. He advocates democracy. But that is not why he is in prison.
He also advocates abolition of the hukou. That is why he is in prison.
A sincere thank you.
As usually, a good information creates more questions than answers, especially for an outsider or the system. Here would be 2 of them:
why would it be that, being imprisoned for other reasons, is China's govt so upset for his contributions on other lines are recognized?
what's so wrong with the abolition of hukou? (I'm not contesting China's right to create its own laws, by I'm on the principle that faulty laws create more troubles than solve).
WHOA receives an estimated 50-75 cases per week. If victims fill out the entire questionnaire, which includes demographic information, that is what we use to properly calculate our statistics.
Just how many peace prizes were created in the last couple of centuries? Of course, I'm somehow excluding "Confucius Peace Prize" - a strange association of a peace prize with words of bellicose connotations.
At this point I wouldn't be too sorry to see it go.
Won't it be better to be restored at its normal signficance (instead of seeing it go)? I know nothing (yet) about this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate... is it not a step in the good direction?
As a user of some Windows Live services, I can tell you that it to irritation defaults out to asking you to log in again - in stark contrast to the autologin of Facebook, and stealth "login" of Google (eg. tracking).
Good to hear it... Keep an eye on it, though, wouldn't hurt;) "it doesn't matter if you are paranoid or not, they are after you anyway";). And, mods, +1 informative please. I admit myself as coward enough not to even try Windows Live.
Yes, there are other ways. But I'm a little bit surprised you are actually blaming them to offer users extra privacy...
Don't take me wrong. I'm far from blaming them for this, but I was taught/conditioned by MS to be excesively paranoid when it comes with their motives. (not hateful, just paranoid)
How many companies even HAVE a Chief Privacy Strategist?
On the same line: how many companies use evanghelist warriors either? (just look in slightly other directions for increased employment chances, without diminishing too much the chances to have a six figures salary/year).
Sure, they would love to make big dollars on ads (Bing),
Can you explain me why the avalanche of "In the cloud" ad campaign I'm seeing recently? Join the WindowsLive and they won't need cookies or fancy HTML5 thingies to track you anymore. Does Facebook need cookies to sell your data or expose you to ads?
and no third party adserver can "snoop" what goes on between you and the server. Brilliant.
Except if you are tricked to loging on your WindowsLive account. Or Facebook. Or whatever "cloud".
While "inside the cloud", you won't see the trackers - but not because they don't exists.
Wanna bet that MS will offer you the option of "login in the cloud when computer starts"? (if they are not doing it already by default, with a very hard to find way to opt-out).
The server doesn't need to query anything. Enough info comes in by default to at very least track a household's web browsing in almost real time. Look into it in more detail.
What the hell are you talking about? Care to name some specifics, outside a possible temporary IP address that might mean something, that server side is able to track if client is blocking all client related info?
Yeap, I can imagine a number of things in here. E.g. sessionID, which can be passed as an HTTP POST/GET argument, or in the body of XML Ajax requests (as xml content). Granted, this info doesn't usualy survive between two different session, but it is not necessary to be so.
But let me ask you: with the cloud, who needs cookies anymore? Just login into your WindowsLive account and they don't need cookies to track you: what an incentive (by deception) for you - the consumer - to go for IE9. More than that: what an argument for Microsoft to pressure the advertisers to "join the MS cloud and have plenty of user habit statistics"!!!
Until smartphones and tablets displace the PC in being the platform where most of the work is done, I don't consider the PC Era to be over.
Recycling an old joke here: a train station is where the trains stop, a bus station is where the buses stop (and don't go further)... a workstation is...
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I hate microsoft as much as the next slashdot poster but have you ever met a state government employee?
Yes, I have actually met. If you speak of desk-chained ones, you are right. If you speak of the back-office guys, you are right most-of-the-time only. Granted: security is like a chain - strenght given by the weakest link (thus, it can be that all guys except one be brilliant in security matters and still have the chain broken).
On the other side: the motivation of a govt employee stays also in the fact that his very position (and possibly liberty) is at risk if data is lost/leaked (and most of the govt employees are risk adverse, otherwise they'd go into industry). Would the MS employees have the same reactions?
Alright, so IANAPP, but, FTA:
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Does this theory explain why "particle X" would rather decay into ordinary matter?
Does the quantum therory explains why fermions would (never/rather) not share the same quantum state with others?
What gives the X-Men their powers.
Right... but this doesn't quite explain "why there's enough matter for us to exist at all" ("us" ... the rest of humanity).
Well... methinks that physicists are relying to much on Apple technology and – as any monoculture does – this is obviously impeding the progress in sciences... otherwise I can't explain why they are taking so long to discover the triple-X particles.
Until now, insects were thought to perform metabolism in an organ known as the fat body, which performs a similar function to the human liver.
Most of the fat body is in an insect's abdomen surrounding the gut, where it can quickly take up absorbed nutrients, though some is scattered elsewhere.
"We have found that the main metabolic activity in the Oriental hornet is actually in the yellow pigment layer," says Dr Plotkin.
The full-text article, makes no mention of the "fat body" and doesn't get a hint by what reasoning this conclusion is to be derived? The correlation between sunny conditions and hornet's digging activity is not quite a strong indication to me - I mean: ants are most active when the weather is hot, yet they apparently don't relly on capturing the solar radiation.
New materials? The full text version of the article (posted by someone above), mentions a measured the conversion efficiency of a xanthopterin-sensitized TiO2 solar cell to 0.335% - clearly some more work needs to be done (e.g. other substate to senzitize?).
Poor employees... Lost in MS's cloud for eternity...
From the "Love the bureaucrats" dept...
That is a real progress: now they can pin-point in which cloud they are lost... in contrast with the current situation in which they are "Just lost in the clouds"
The cloud will solve all of our problems.
Including the State Dept. ones: in 5 years time Wikileaks will go out of business - the documents will be leaking directly from the source.
That would show all of the conspiracy theorists! (Well, not really of course, nothing can disprove a good conspiracy theory.)
True scotsman argument? ;)
Sorry, budy, I wouldn't know. I only own a workstation.
On the flip side, what happens in Wal-Mart banned all black people because they considered them racy and offensive?
An analogy of limited value. In this case, to correct your analogy: Wal-Mart refusing to stock merchendise from suppliers it doesn't like (which, I guess, it does already happen).
For your analogy to be valid, Wal-Mart would have to stop stocking black-people and continue... what... stocking/selling white people... because Wal-Mart consider them less offensive?
Yet another SLASHERTISMENT. I know, porn, geeks, porn, geeks... Seriously, why is this shit on Slashdot?
Keeping us informed with various attempts along/against the "information wants to be free"?
(hint: YRO category? Assuming that the tabloid would be granted the sentence against Apple, would this have an influence on the Turbo Hercules case?)
Ekstra Bladet today launched a campaign, which, according to Madsen, will expose Apple’s double standards. The paper is asking its readers to send in examples of other tabloids, such as German paper Bild and British The Sun, which are allowed to show topless girls on their iPad applications.
What would the US judges say about that?
'Cause I reckon Mr Neo would like to reserve his judgements only after carefuly examing the evidence (in Bild and The Sun) by himself.
I know nothing (yet) about this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
His name is Liu Xiaobo. He is currently imprisoned in China. He advocates democracy. But that is not why he is in prison.
He also advocates abolition of the hukou. That is why he is in prison.
A sincere thank you.
As usually, a good information creates more questions than answers, especially for an outsider or the system. Here would be 2 of them:
After reading this law...I have to ask myself, does ANYONE do this often? Is this really a problem that required a law?
And... what answer did you get from yourself?
WHO@ stats (one of the sources, may be others):
WHOA receives an estimated 50-75 cases per week. If victims fill out the entire questionnaire, which includes demographic information, that is what we use to properly calculate our statistics.
Just how many peace prizes were created in the last couple of centuries? Of course, I'm somehow excluding "Confucius Peace Prize" - a strange association of a peace prize with words of bellicose connotations.
Who's boycotting /.? China and which other countries?
At this point I wouldn't be too sorry to see it go.
Won't it be better to be restored at its normal signficance (instead of seeing it go)?
I know nothing (yet) about this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate... is it not a step in the good direction?
As a user of some Windows Live services, I can tell you that it to irritation defaults out to asking you to log in again - in stark contrast to the autologin of Facebook, and stealth "login" of Google (eg. tracking).
Good to hear it... Keep an eye on it, though, wouldn't hurt ;) "it doesn't matter if you are paranoid or not, they are after you anyway" ;).
And, mods, +1 informative please. I admit myself as coward enough not to even try Windows Live.
Yes, there are other ways. But I'm a little bit surprised you are actually blaming them to offer users extra privacy...
Don't take me wrong. I'm far from blaming them for this, but I was taught/conditioned by MS to be excesively paranoid when it comes with their motives. (not hateful, just paranoid)
Also, this just in, there are predictions for snowfall in Hell, this evening...
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Everything changes...
Hope the change worked well for you.
Because, a heads up message to you, we are moving into the cloud: we won't need cookies to track the users anymore.
Yours: S. Ballmer
How many companies even HAVE a Chief Privacy Strategist?
On the same line: how many companies use evanghelist warriors either? (just look in slightly other directions for increased employment chances, without diminishing too much the chances to have a six figures salary/year).
Sure, they would love to make big dollars on ads (Bing),
Can you explain me why the avalanche of "In the cloud" ad campaign I'm seeing recently? Join the WindowsLive and they won't need cookies or fancy HTML5 thingies to track you anymore.
Does Facebook need cookies to sell your data or expose you to ads?
and no third party adserver can "snoop" what goes on between you and the server. Brilliant.
Except if you are tricked to loging on your WindowsLive account. Or Facebook. Or whatever "cloud".
While "inside the cloud", you won't see the trackers - but not because they don't exists.
Wanna bet that MS will offer you the option of "login in the cloud when computer starts"? (if they are not doing it already by default, with a very hard to find way to opt-out).
The server doesn't need to query anything. Enough info comes in by default to at very least track a household's web browsing in almost real time. Look into it in more detail.
What the hell are you talking about? Care to name some specifics, outside a possible temporary IP address that might mean something, that server side is able to track if client is blocking all client related info?
Yeap, I can imagine a number of things in here. E.g. sessionID, which can be passed as an HTTP POST/GET argument, or in the body of XML Ajax requests (as xml content). Granted, this info doesn't usualy survive between two different session, but it is not necessary to be so.
But let me ask you: with the cloud, who needs cookies anymore? Just login into your WindowsLive account and they don't need cookies to track you: what an incentive (by deception) for you - the consumer - to go for IE9. More than that: what an argument for Microsoft to pressure the advertisers to "join the MS cloud and have plenty of user habit statistics"!!!
Until smartphones and tablets displace the PC in being the platform where most of the work is done, I don't consider the PC Era to be over.
Recycling an old joke here: a train station is where the trains stop, a bus station is where the buses stop (and don't go further)... a workstation is...