Share of what? I think there are plenty of chances that you already have your share in the wasted effort and, if you are employed, a small share of the wasted money (it is called wages).
In other words, don't equate the effort to the results: you can still work very hard (in terms of effort intensity) to produce waste (in terms of achieved results) - chances are, though, you'll have a better share (in absolute terms, even if not as a percentage) if your efforts result in something that's useful.
My sincere opinion on your contribution to/. above: -1 Flamebite (I admit my current post as being irrelevant/redundant as well, but FYI the second char of my nick is a 'zero'). Have a nice day.
I get it, but your chosen analogy was too awesome.
Thank you for the compliment, but it is not me to take the merit for the analogy. The OP made it, by commoditizing her/his rights and selling them cheap for the potential bit of excitement brought in by fresh news.
I think that what OP fails to understand is that, unlike underwear, one doesn't have enough rights to trade them cheap and, when one loses a right, is not as easy to regain it as it is to wash the underwear.
Let me explain, then. I think I have the right to see news report, and this right is as strong as the right to wear my underwear clean. I consider the takedown notice from Universal (who is not the owner of the copyright) as breaching my right and very similar with shitting my underwear while I'm not looking. Therefore, the post on/. is a signal to me that "Maybe somebody is shitting your underwear?"
Clearer now why I consider this fragment of news worthy to be posted on/., in disagreement with the OP?
Seriously this isn't news, this is happening everyday to lots of people from lots of companies
The fact that somebody else shits my underwear while I'm not looking is interesting to me. The fact that you keep changing your underwear and chose to not care who shits in it is is, indeed, of little relevance to me.
Your sarcasm aside, this actually would be a big problem. After all, think about how wikipedia works as a research aid--you can't cite wikipedia, but it works well because it links primary sources. With a major, accredited University, a diploma means that some level of validation has already taken place--that's what accreditation is for. Without that, you'd have to research each candidates classes individually, probably by talking to the professors.
If this ever does become the norm, there will definitely be a huge increase in HR positions. I wonder if we can start a rush for MBAs with this information, like the rush for CS degrees when the internet was going to be the "next big thing"...
On the other side, as long as many unis don't teach useful knowledge, the fact that' the uni is accredited is irrelevant.
And no, talking to the professor is not the only thing you can do, but I do agree that you'll need to speak with each candidate.
And again, no, the number of position in HR doesn't need to increase, the guys will only need to do it smarter ('cause my experience says that they are relying on degrees only and sending shitty candidates to me for interviews... ).
As commander in chief of the armed forces, he can force a couple million personnel to do certain things. They dance to his drum (just as I had to follow Army orders in the early 90s)
He could theoretically order that the concentration camp in Guantanamo bay be closed, or order all the troops out of the mideast, or order Iran's nuke facilities to be destroyed, or order troops posted on the Mexico border, or...
Claiming the commander of the worlds largest, most expensive, and most powerful military is powerless is a wee bit ingenuous.
Yeap, and with all the troops at home, use them to implement the health care reform faster!!! It is just a matter of figuring how to use the army for it. Suggestions?
Result: the heat created by the humans is at most 0.04% of what the Earth dissipates into space naturally
I wonder if this takes into account the heat produced by the human population's biological processes, such as digestion of food.
And heat produced by biological processes of pets and livestock farmed to feed humans
Are you (or your pets) eating food that is Mb>millions of years past the expiration date?
If not, and since what you dissipate now comes from what we eat, the most is included in the 11 % of energy not dissipated by Earth last year (and, in smaller proportion as you go further in the past, 2 years, 3 years and so on. I reckon that the proportion contributed by a crop 10 years back is already too negligible).
Right now, "Global Warming" is a 2 factor beast-- the consumption of energy resources produces a biproduct that is energy intensive to recycle by mother nature, which also has the added effect of reducing the rate at which the earth expels waste heat into space. This has the net effect of causing the earth to heat up.
That's BS - the second "byproduct heat" is negligible. Computations on the back of a napkin:
the power the world currenlty consumes = 15 TW. Assuming a 20% efficiency in producing electicity results in 75 TW of heat being produced (15 TW goes in electricity which, consumed, generates all-heat, 60 TW is directly heat only and lost - assume all electricity via thermal).
the solar constant - I'll take the minimum of 1.321 kW/m. With an Earth radius of 6371 km, results a value for incoming EM radiation from Sun of 168449 TW.
Part of the 168449 is "captured" by the plants. The photosynthetic efficiency is somewhere around 11%. Assuming all the Earth surface is used by plants which perform photosynthesis at maximum efficiency, still results in an excess of 153288 TW which the Earth "dissipates" back in space.
Result: the heat created by the humans is at most 0.04% of what the Earth dissipates into space naturally.
So it's costing Microsoft essentially squat, but potentially improves human rights in said countries.
Commendable, but not exactly as philanthropic as MS probably wants to come across as....
Not philantropic at all, even on the short term... The chinese govt., which pedals quite strongly on the RedFlag Linux, is set on the track of: "What to see what is contained in the docs these pesky disdents exchange? Buy some licenses from us!"
"Compared to normal spider silk, it's not as strong," said Malcolm Fraser, a scientist from the University of Notre Dame. "But we are confident that, this being our first attempt, that we will be able to tweak the system to bring the system closer to the strength of true spider silk.">
Double the points if the silk worms will start catching flies instead of eating 104 kg of mulberry leaves for each kilo of silk.
And that'd be different from the current situation... how?
For once, this is a proposal from the security theater industry that isn't batshit insane. You DDOS us, we null-route the offending nodes, or we politely ask whoever supplies your country with connectivity to do it on our behalf.....
Dr Julius No here: I'm about to set up a botnet. Once I'm done I'll send a command to all the zombies in US to DDoS and I'll shut down my command center. Good luck, America, in null-routing in your own network and/or sending LART-s on your own soil (crazy laugh).
Its such a great idea. The first cold war was so successful, lets have another...
Not only that, but now there are some other specific differences to make this a piss-poor idea:
the other party can spend much less in provoking a disproportionate response - it is so cheap that even private initiatve can manifest (i.e. doesn't take that much to be a Dr No... Mhwa-ha-ha)
the response in itself may have impact on the responding party - network congestion, etc.. It's not like you send in a missile in open skies, you'd be using the same tubes to respond
From the point of view of a site under DDoS originated from a botnet, I don't think the "relative percentage of zombies to the total number of computers in a certain country" matters too much - a pwned computer is a pwned computer no matter if it is "one in two" or "one in 1000".
I wonder how long until Sony will start to feel the cannibalistic effects (on PSP) of having Android able to support games... One can only hope for a revival of "entertainment value over 3D effects", Indie producers and so on. How fast would be Valve reacting? I'd be worried about Sony arresting their incarnation of Android... like keeping a very strong control of the App market their TV can access for a while, at least... (until enough competition will emerge... Samsung for instance won't be that fussy).
i predict google TV will be integrated into most TV's in the next 3-5 years which means every TV will soon ship with Flash
no need to fire up the computer for the porn tube sites
No worries. Jobs will follow with his release of iGoogleTV (err... ooops... I mean, iTV), without flash and with tight control over access to porn. By that time, the fanboys/girls will already have children of their own, be interested in protecting them (from exposure to Flash) and still look kool when having guests.
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In other words, don't equate the effort to the results: you can still work very hard (in terms of effort intensity) to produce waste (in terms of achieved results) - chances are, though, you'll have a better share (in absolute terms, even if not as a percentage) if your efforts result in something that's useful.
Then protect it with a firewall.
My sincere opinion on your contribution to /. above: -1 Flamebite
(I admit my current post as being irrelevant/redundant as well, but FYI the second char of my nick is a 'zero').
Have a nice day.
I get it, but your chosen analogy was too awesome.
Thank you for the compliment, but it is not me to take the merit for the analogy. The OP made it, by commoditizing her/his rights and selling them cheap for the potential bit of excitement brought in by fresh news.
I think that what OP fails to understand is that, unlike underwear, one doesn't have enough rights to trade them cheap and, when one loses a right, is not as easy to regain it as it is to wash the underwear.
... use the GPL v3 license.
I think I have the right to see news report, and this right is as strong as the right to wear my underwear clean.
I consider the takedown notice from Universal (who is not the owner of the copyright) as breaching my right and very similar with shitting my underwear while I'm not looking. Therefore, the post on
Clearer now why I consider this fragment of news worthy to be posted on /., in disagreement with the OP?
4) your site detects the evercookie + new registration, 5) verify and ban again (unless the user suddenly becomes a good user, of course).
Good-bye posting from Internet cafe's from a guest account.
Seriously this isn't news, this is happening everyday to lots of people from lots of companies
The fact that somebody else shits my underwear while I'm not looking is interesting to me.
The fact that you keep changing your underwear and chose to not care who shits in it is is, indeed, of little relevance to me.
Your sarcasm aside, this actually would be a big problem. After all, think about how wikipedia works as a research aid--you can't cite wikipedia, but it works well because it links primary sources. With a major, accredited University, a diploma means that some level of validation has already taken place--that's what accreditation is for. Without that, you'd have to research each candidates classes individually, probably by talking to the professors.
If this ever does become the norm, there will definitely be a huge increase in HR positions. I wonder if we can start a rush for MBAs with this information, like the rush for CS degrees when the internet was going to be the "next big thing"...
On the other side, as long as many unis don't teach useful knowledge, the fact that' the uni is accredited is irrelevant.
And no, talking to the professor is not the only thing you can do, but I do agree that you'll need to speak with each candidate.
And again, no, the number of position in HR doesn't need to increase, the guys will only need to do it smarter ('cause my experience says that they are relying on degrees only and sending shitty candidates to me for interviews... ).
It's not like there's a lot he can actually DO.
As commander in chief of the armed forces, he can force a couple million personnel to do certain things. They dance to his drum (just as I had to follow Army orders in the early 90s)
He could theoretically order that the concentration camp in Guantanamo bay be closed, or order all the troops out of the mideast, or order Iran's nuke facilities to be destroyed, or order troops posted on the Mexico border, or ...
Claiming the commander of the worlds largest, most expensive, and most powerful military is powerless is a wee bit ingenuous.
Yeap, and with all the troops at home, use them to implement the health care reform faster!!! It is just a matter of figuring how to use the army for it. Suggestions?
Buddy... you'd better start using them yourself. They are already doing it for some time now.
Result: the heat created by the humans is at most 0.04% of what the Earth dissipates into space naturally
I wonder if this takes into account the heat produced by the human population's biological processes, such as digestion of food.
And heat produced by biological processes of pets and livestock farmed to feed humans
Are you (or your pets) eating food that is Mb>millions of years past the expiration date?
If not, and since what you dissipate now comes from what we eat, the most is included in the 11 % of energy not dissipated by Earth last year (and, in smaller proportion as you go further in the past, 2 years, 3 years and so on. I reckon that the proportion contributed by a crop 10 years back is already too negligible).
Right now, "Global Warming" is a 2 factor beast-- the consumption of energy resources produces a biproduct that is energy intensive to recycle by mother nature, which also has the added effect of reducing the rate at which the earth expels waste heat into space. This has the net effect of causing the earth to heat up.
That's BS - the second "byproduct heat" is negligible. Computations on the back of a napkin:
Result: the heat created by the humans is at most 0.04% of what the Earth dissipates into space naturally.
So it's costing Microsoft essentially squat, but potentially improves human rights in said countries.
Commendable, but not exactly as philanthropic as MS probably wants to come across as....
Not philantropic at all, even on the short term...
The chinese govt., which pedals quite strongly on the RedFlag Linux, is set on the track of: "What to see what is contained in the docs these pesky disdents exchange? Buy some licenses from us!"
...makes the military and the entire chain of command look like a bunch of incompetent boobs.
I'm pretty convinced of already they don't just play the fool, but they actualy are. Probably because they played it for too long (under Bush).
"Compared to normal spider silk, it's not as strong," said Malcolm Fraser, a scientist from the University of Notre Dame. "But we are confident that, this being our first attempt, that we will be able to tweak the system to bring the system closer to the strength of true spider silk.">
Double the points if the silk worms will start catching flies instead of eating 104 kg of mulberry leaves for each kilo of silk.
It's the most cutting edge technology in the world..
For this specific case, I reckon qualifying this as the "best-protection-against-cutting-edges technology" would apply.
And that'd be different from the current situation... how?
For once, this is a proposal from the security theater industry that isn't batshit insane. You DDOS us, we null-route the offending nodes, or we politely ask whoever supplies your country with connectivity to do it on our behalf. ....
Dr Julius No here: I'm about to set up a botnet. Once I'm done I'll send a command to all the zombies in US to DDoS and I'll shut down my command center. Good luck, America, in null-routing in your own network and/or sending LART-s on your own soil (crazy laugh).
Its such a great idea. The first cold war was so successful, lets have another...
Not only that, but now there are some other specific differences to make this a piss-poor idea:
2. Australia has to handle the legal matters in that case: arresting, judging and punishing him, not the USA.
IANAL, but I think Australia has to handle the legal matters if and only if the breach of law happened on Australian teritory.
How many computers total are in the US compared to other countries of the world?
If your site is under attack from a botnet, do you care much if a zombie is Canadian or in US?
From the point of view of a site under DDoS originated from a botnet, I don't think the "relative percentage of zombies to the total number of computers in a certain country" matters too much - a pwned computer is a pwned computer no matter if it is "one in two" or "one in 1000".
I wonder how long until Sony will start to feel the cannibalistic effects (on PSP) of having Android able to support games... One can only hope for a revival of "entertainment value over 3D effects", Indie producers and so on. How fast would be Valve reacting? I'd be worried about Sony arresting their incarnation of Android... like keeping a very strong control of the App market their TV can access for a while, at least... (until enough competition will emerge... Samsung for instance won't be that fussy).
Happens to me as well with Chrome on Win. Doesn't happen with other browsers (IE on Win, FF on Linux).
i predict google TV will be integrated into most TV's in the next 3-5 years which means every TV will soon ship with Flash
no need to fire up the computer for the porn tube sites
No worries. Jobs will follow with his release of iGoogleTV (err... ooops... I mean, iTV), without flash and with tight control over access to porn. By that time, the fanboys/girls will already have children of their own, be interested in protecting them (from exposure to Flash) and still look kool when having guests.