Let's see: www.govtrack.us is not accessible. markey.house.gov is Joomla, ugh, definitely not accessible. How about showing the rest of us how it should be done [...]
Thumb up on this one.
[...] before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
Thumbs and all the other fingers down on this one. What makes you believe that people with vision deficiency are non-productive?
Both Google and Oracle are licensees of the OIN. The OIN patent agreement is meant to be a non-aggression pact between its members, with respect to "the Linux System".
Given that Android is a Linux distro...
I don;t see how Android being a Linux distro is relevant in an "aggression" conducted on Java-related patents. Would you please care to elaborate? Not saying that I do agree with software patents, not saying that OIN is a good or a bad thing, just saying that Linux != Java != Dalvik, thus the OIN issue have little relevance in my opinion. I mean, some (countries/govs) can agree to a non-proliferation nuclear pact and disagree on a carbon emission trading scheme, right?
... and, in the days you set aside for testing, the first thing in the morning when you drink your coffee and slip into Jerkyll skin, swear to God that you are going to break the code in the most imaginative ways possible, and derive your satisfaction from ridiculing the stupidity of the developer.
This is the only way I know to test my code... however painful, the advantage of the approach is that the stupidity of the developer gets known only among the two of me.
If you cannot get a split personality, then I don't think you are the appropriate person to test your code; even more, I think that testing your code is the most harmful for the future of the code... like any child, it might be OK and have a life, but will never be a great code.
The thinker is *naked*! For all we know he's thinking about how best to mix kiddy porn and clubbing baby seals.
Think of the children, and baby seals...
Oh come on, that can't be true. The best way to mix kiddy porn and clubbing baby seals is so straightforward that to hypothesize him 'thinking' about that is just ridiculous.
Why not? A possible interpretation is: "Mentally retarded thinking to the best way to mix...[etc]"
Which is exactly what potentially makes art so powerful: it reveals that, no matter what is your starting point (being brilliant or just an idiot), the thinking process is pretty much the same (even if the results are not). From which, a person with a normal IQ and a little bit of sensibility, should start thinking: "Gee, even if a moron, that person is still a human being".
Don't you think that a war that happened over half a century ago is a little different then a war happening today?
No, I think it is just the same: they fought and died for things that wouldn't help them or their children having a better life. I think that there were better means to reach the same (or even better) results in concerning the life-style today without fighting a war.
Just because something hurts your feelings, or goes against your moral, ethical or religious beliefs, does not make it illegal, at least not in America today.
And the fact that Karen Meredith expressed her point of view and feelings, is this to be interpreted as stop the company from publishing the game?
Just asking here your opinion: when do you think the game company (mostly a "virtual/corporate person") right to free speech trumps the mother of a dead soldier right to free speech?
Americans have many times raped little girls and boys of their enemy in war...
This has happened with every military force, in every conflict.
Every. Single. Time.
Obviously not saying this is right. But there is a difference between policy/law, and rogue troops.
More to the point, please! The original question was: would you like to see/play the above in a game?
The things is, I don't think there will be many stationary devices in the home and office environment of the future.
In the future I think many small businesses will use telco data services. They won't install their own networking gear.
Think again. I don't pretend to be representative, but I'm operating 6 computers at home.
The intelligent dishwasher which Abbot was talking about won't have a phone or data cable going to it. It will have a cheap cellular modem. Yeah, spectrum is finite, but we make such poor use of it now, and the wireless step only has to go from the street to inside the building.
It will be like sending a fax using telco's terminal (but installed in your home)?
Before NBN Telstra Smart Communities: as I live in one, I can tell you that the insanity feeels soooo goooood (phone, public TV and Internet on a single cable). I can't wait the NBN roll-out, though, will sure drive Telstra to lower the prices.
The last step is always wireless anyway
No, not in my case. Home with structural cabling - data socket in each room. Yes, I do have a WiFi router, but only my laptop connects to it (rationale: when it comes to transfer files in my LAN, 1Gbps over CAT6 sure beats 50-120 Mbps - at peak - over WiFi).
Speeding and then bragging about it is unacceptable. That's willfully risking the lives of other people. It is good that a young driver learns this lesson early, before he kills someone with that attitude. The road is not a race track.
<kidding>Cannot agree more: bragging on the road is risky and a killer, a very good lesson that the young driver just learnt.</kidding>
Seriously, do you really think the driver leant that speeding is a no-no or just that bragging about is stupid?
... the one that would be called "competition financial analyst"... given that it took quite a small effort to de-anonynimize a trivial "search log", I wonder how hard would it be to do the same with financial records of companies (which, I reckon, would show a higher regularity/better identifiable patterns). Once this is done, what an invaluable source of info to see on what the competition is spending money (not that this would help much... I mean, knowing better how your competition is spending money doesn't necessary mean that the CEOs would now better about the businesses they themselves manage).
Huh! My monkey-style kung-fu beats his iron hand pants-down. I bet I can close more steel mills and cement factories then... Wait... I'm posting on/. !!! Hmmm... this means I can't possibly be owning steel mills and cement factories, now can I?
Earlier this summer, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China promised to use an “iron hand” to improve his country’s energy efficiency,
While less energy/carbon intensive as the steel, to get the iron for the hand he'll still need to use carbon. Consequence: his grip on the problem will very likely be 20% softer to the end of this year and about 40% softer in 2020.
...I wonder what the reaction would be on this site?
Hmmm... please allow me to try.
<kidding> Yes... MS is so good on regards with privacy and Windows so bloatware free when pre-installed by an OEM. And sure it doesn't send any information to MS... no, sirree... the Windows activation and Windows Upgrade (only for copies certified as legit) use tele-hepatic means to communicate.
What... you don't know what telehepatic is? Well, it's like telepathy, but done using the liver - was mothered long ago as the brilliant and legitimate child of the freedom to innovate in the MS labs (the father is still unknown and, unfortunately, still at large).</kidding>
If anyone feels offended by the above, please don't be. The claim that MS isn't already doing it have exactly the same merit as my ramblings.
Why would they do this? It has to be something they can sell or bargain with. So does this mean they'll try to lower the price they pay to Dell for preinstalling Ubuntu (if, in fact, they're actually paying for this). Or are they planning to create an adware-version of Ubuntu?
Neither seems very likely, so... why?
M.
Hmmm. Let me try.. if they can show big numbers coming from Dell to other OEM, isn't more likely to convince them to drop the MS exclusivity? (i.e if a big corporate - usually very conservative in their approach - makes money from it and there is no catch, it means that is a low risk).
The good news for those concerned about privacy is that it appears for now Canonical is just interested in tracking the users of OEM installations -- those PCs that ship with Ubuntu by default such as from ZaReason, System76, and Dell.
Which means: this must be the start of the year of Linux on desktop. What else ubuntu-census can be but the seed of the future bloatware to grow strong under the close care of OEM-s, neh?
(peace brother, I'm not a fan boy in any gang, just kidding).
Cars don't need wireless sensors. In fact they don't need most of the electronics that gets built in at all. This may seem old-fashioned but for nearly a century a complicated non-electronic system called 'THE DRIVER" would monitor the state of the car and act appropriately when a deflating tyre is detected.
I'm not arguing if favour of sensors, be them wireless or not. Just pointing why we are in the situation of discussing over "tyre sensor hijacking" now, maybe there's something to learn.
From TFA:
The U.S. has required such systems in new automobiles since 2008, thanks to legislation passed after controversy erupted over possible defective Firestone tires in 2000.
A bit of google-ing around resulted into this, with the relevant section being:
Many outside observers tend towards blaming both parties; Firestone's tires being prone to tread separation and failure, and the SUVs being especially prone to rolling over if a tire fails at speed compared to other vehicles.
To summarize:
two corporation releases products "defective by design" (no anti-DRM, at least not yet). Put together and the driver would have little chance to avoid a sudden tyre deflating followed by the SUV rolling over
at least one overzealous government legislates an overcomplicated measure for the problem (another is to follow by 2012)
The moral of the story: common-sense is vanishing rapidly and we are living interesting times - yet another another mean for government to be aware of you and another branch of security research is born (with the correspondent hacking branch to follow). And no, the tin foil does no longer help, not when common-sense is so epically failing.
If I got two unsolicited emails a day from the same sender, day after day, it would really get on my nerves.
Maybe this is why you aren't getting elected? If you are not an MP, your "pissed-off of same person writing you twice a day" reaction is not relevant for the issue at hand, as legitimate as it is for the case of a private person and as much as I empathise with you (I really do, but this is also irrelevant)
For an MP (public person), the situation cannot be the same: I'm quite afraid that supporting the nuisance of receiving mails from a pressure group really does come with the position of MP. After all, a MP is supposed to represent the interest of the people that elected him or his party, I consider deliberately ignoring the email as a mission failure.
I enjoyed the game more than I thought I would. I had expected a dinosaur, something that felt outmoded and unevolved. Instead, I found a cave-painting, gorgeous in its primitive beauty and built with an intelligence that rendered mean conflict with a thrill it is hard to ignore — or forget.
Apologies, I thought the smiley-s would clearly indicate the post as meant to be on the funny side (and by no means offensive, flame-ing, much less trolling).
On the serious side, if the original poster thinks her/himself at risk, I wouldn't recommend the original poster to skip any Alzheimer's test just because of this piece of news: given the time required for FDA's approval it may be too late (granted, since it is a test only, the time to approval may be shorter than for a drug, but anyway...)
I hope that an easy text will be developed from this in the next few years. I couldn't imagine walking into a haze of Alzheimer's without knowing about it. This is one of those tests that I will ABSOLUTELY not be missing once I book it in.
:) Suggestion: make sure you make a note - actually, many of them - and post them all over in your home: this is to avoid the risk of forgetting about the test by the time it gets approved:)
If, recent, history tells us anything..... anything that is "social" that corporations jump on board with, will die a horrible fate.
While I tend to agree with you, it is not the Twitter that would die a horrible death: it is the experts that the PeerIndex will identify would they choose to hire their twitter-voice to the corporations.
To elaborate: the most influential persons are upright-standers. For example (without being limited to):
the "cool" persons (non-conformists, I-don't-give-a-damn-of-what-you-think)
persons which stand for some principles/values/etc, or which have expertise/wisdom/experience worth following (with no disrespect for any religious values, think Jesus and the apostles, if they would have used twitter;) )
What do you think would happen with their stand if they'd offer it for hire/sale to corporations?
Granted, if this would spread at phenomenon level (rather than in some isolated cases), Twitter's fate will be the death: as anything with the sole purpose to distribute advertising (i.e. corporate spam).
It even tries to make Infosys out to be not so bad (because the real bad guys are somehow Intel and Microsoft, for not highering as high a percentage of H1-B's?) even though Infosys has something like 70-80% H1-B employees.
What is the it in the it even tries? If, by it you designate:
my post, I'll reiterate my note/disclaimer: I'm not discussing or implying anything about the desirability of any situation
the title/summary: yes, I admit they are spin-work. Though, as I noted, the spin is still within the normal bounds of what would one expect from a spin: doesn't tell any lie (even if it doesn't say the whole truth). But if you choose to be frustrated by the spin and not focus on the reality, who's at fault you are wasting time (:) says I, posting on/.:) )
The target is obviously those companies who are using the H1-B program to hire cheep labor at rates Americans can't compete with (because of school loans and the like), of which Intel and Microsoft are not.
With all respect and not any intention to flame or enter in a controversy with you, if you really believe the above, then your problem is not with kdawson's spin, but with the price you (or any yet-to-graduate) pay for your education and, possibly, the recruiting process in the companies. My suggestions in regards with the two:
don't strive for the piece of paper called graduation diploma, learn by yourself the useful bits and avoid/reduce the costs (you can take some courses at a uni, but not necessarily all)
to compensate for the lack of diploma, start gaining experience (thus references) in alternative ways to a graduation diploma (for example, try some open source projects). Not only this brings the necessary experience, but if you choose carefully, you can finish with some good friends in your social network.
As far as I can tell, this isn't Microsoft and Intel "getting a pass", as the title states. No company is being singled out here
Formally, the title seems correct to me: since neither Intel nor MS are affected, they do get a pass, at least for now, isn't it?
In real-world terms, even if other companies would "get a pass too", the most affected will be: either the pure sweat-shops or small American companies for which one extra employees in H1B visa may mean the difference between paying or not paying an extra tax.
Does it make sense? (note: I'm not discussing or implying anything about the desirability of any situation. Just exploring, cold-minded, the summary/title, and also observing with respect the good/. tradition of not reading TFA).
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Let's see: www.govtrack.us is not accessible. markey.house.gov is Joomla, ugh, definitely not accessible. How about showing the rest of us how it should be done [...]
Thumb up on this one.
[...] before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
Thumbs and all the other fingers down on this one. What makes you believe that people with vision deficiency are non-productive?
Both Google and Oracle are licensees of the OIN. The OIN patent agreement is meant to be a non-aggression pact between its members, with respect to "the Linux System".
Given that Android is a Linux distro ...
I don;t see how Android being a Linux distro is relevant in an "aggression" conducted on Java-related patents. Would you please care to elaborate?
Not saying that I do agree with software patents, not saying that OIN is a good or a bad thing, just saying that Linux != Java != Dalvik, thus the OIN issue have little relevance in my opinion. I mean, some (countries/govs) can agree to a non-proliferation nuclear pact and disagree on a carbon emission trading scheme, right?
This is the only way I know to test my code... however painful, the advantage of the approach is that the stupidity of the developer gets known only among the two of me.
If you cannot get a split personality, then I don't think you are the appropriate person to test your code; even more, I think that testing your code is the most harmful for the future of the code... like any child, it might be OK and have a life, but will never be a great code.
The thinker is *naked*! For all we know he's thinking about how best to mix kiddy porn and clubbing baby seals.
Think of the children, and baby seals...
Oh come on, that can't be true. The best way to mix kiddy porn and clubbing baby seals is so straightforward that to hypothesize him 'thinking' about that is just ridiculous.
Why not? A possible interpretation is: "Mentally retarded thinking to the best way to mix...[etc]"
Which is exactly what potentially makes art so powerful: it reveals that, no matter what is your starting point (being brilliant or just an idiot), the thinking process is pretty much the same (even if the results are not).
From which, a person with a normal IQ and a little bit of sensibility, should start thinking: "Gee, even if a moron, that person is still a human being".
Don't you think that a war that happened over half a century ago is a little different then a war happening today?
No, I think it is just the same: they fought and died for things that wouldn't help them or their children having a better life. I think that there were better means to reach the same (or even better) results in concerning the life-style today without fighting a war.
Just because something hurts your feelings, or goes against your moral, ethical or religious beliefs, does not make it illegal, at least not in America today.
And the fact that Karen Meredith expressed her point of view and feelings, is this to be interpreted as stop the company from publishing the game?
Just asking here your opinion: when do you think the game company (mostly a "virtual/corporate person") right to free speech trumps the mother of a dead soldier right to free speech?
Americans have many times raped little girls and boys of their enemy in war... This has happened with every military force, in every conflict. Every. Single. Time. Obviously not saying this is right. But there is a difference between policy/law, and rogue troops.
More to the point, please! The original question was: would you like to see/play the above in a game?
The things is, I don't think there will be many stationary devices in the home and office environment of the future.
In the future I think many small businesses will use telco data services. They won't install their own networking gear.
Think again. I don't pretend to be representative, but I'm operating 6 computers at home.
The intelligent dishwasher which Abbot was talking about won't have a phone or data cable going to it. It will have a cheap cellular modem. Yeah, spectrum is finite, but we make such poor use of it now, and the wireless step only has to go from the street to inside the building.
It will be like sending a fax using telco's terminal (but installed in your home)?
No, he won't understand: according to him, he's not Bill Gates
The last step is always wireless anyway
No, not in my case. Home with structural cabling - data socket in each room. Yes, I do have a WiFi router, but only my laptop connects to it (rationale: when it comes to transfer files in my LAN, 1Gbps over CAT6 sure beats 50-120 Mbps - at peak - over WiFi).
Speeding and then bragging about it is unacceptable. That's willfully risking the lives of other people. It is good that a young driver learns this lesson early, before he kills someone with that attitude. The road is not a race track.
<kidding>Cannot agree more: bragging on the road is risky and a killer, a very good lesson that the young driver just learnt.</kidding>
Seriously, do you really think the driver leant that speeding is a no-no or just that bragging about is stupid?
... the one that would be called "competition financial analyst"... given that it took quite a small effort to de-anonynimize a trivial "search log", I wonder how hard would it be to do the same with financial records of companies (which, I reckon, would show a higher regularity/better identifiable patterns). Once this is done, what an invaluable source of info to see on what the competition is spending money (not that this would help much... I mean, knowing better how your competition is spending money doesn't necessary mean that the CEOs would now better about the businesses they themselves manage).
Huh! My monkey-style kung-fu beats his iron hand pants-down. /. !!! Hmmm... this means I can't possibly be owning steel mills and cement factories, now can I?
I bet I can close more steel mills and cement factories then...
Wait... I'm posting on
Earlier this summer, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China promised to use an “iron hand” to improve his country’s energy efficiency,
While less energy/carbon intensive as the steel, to get the iron for the hand he'll still need to use carbon. Consequence: his grip on the problem will very likely be 20% softer to the end of this year and about 40% softer in 2020.
...I wonder what the reaction would be on this site?
Hmmm... please allow me to try.
<kidding> Yes... MS is so good on regards with privacy and Windows so bloatware free when pre-installed by an OEM. And sure it doesn't send any information to MS... no, sirree... the Windows activation and Windows Upgrade (only for copies certified as legit) use tele-hepatic means to communicate.
What... you don't know what telehepatic is? Well, it's like telepathy, but done using the liver - was mothered long ago as the brilliant and legitimate child of the freedom to innovate in the MS labs (the father is still unknown and, unfortunately, still at large).</kidding>
If anyone feels offended by the above, please don't be. The claim that MS isn't already doing it have exactly the same merit as my ramblings.
Why would they do this? It has to be something they can sell or bargain with. So does this mean they'll try to lower the price they pay to Dell for preinstalling Ubuntu (if, in fact, they're actually paying for this). Or are they planning to create an adware-version of Ubuntu?
Neither seems very likely, so ... why?
M.
Hmmm. Let me try.. if they can show big numbers coming from Dell to other OEM, isn't more likely to convince them to drop the MS exclusivity? (i.e if a big corporate - usually very conservative in their approach - makes money from it and there is no catch, it means that is a low risk).
The good news for those concerned about privacy is that it appears for now Canonical is just interested in tracking the users of OEM installations -- those PCs that ship with Ubuntu by default such as from ZaReason, System76, and Dell.
Which means: this must be the start of the year of Linux on desktop. What else ubuntu-census can be but the seed of the future bloatware to grow strong under the close care of OEM-s, neh?
(peace brother, I'm not a fan boy in any gang, just kidding).
Cars don't need wireless sensors. In fact they don't need most of the electronics that gets built in at all. This may seem old-fashioned but for nearly a century a complicated non-electronic system called 'THE DRIVER" would monitor the state of the car and act appropriately when a deflating tyre is detected.
I'm not arguing if favour of sensors, be them wireless or not. Just pointing why we are in the situation of discussing over "tyre sensor hijacking" now, maybe there's something to learn.
From TFA:
The U.S. has required such systems in new automobiles since 2008, thanks to legislation passed after controversy erupted over possible defective Firestone tires in 2000.
A bit of google-ing around resulted into this, with the relevant section being:
Many outside observers tend towards blaming both parties; Firestone's tires being prone to tread separation and failure, and the SUVs being especially prone to rolling over if a tire fails at speed compared to other vehicles.
To summarize:
The moral of the story: common-sense is vanishing rapidly and we are living interesting times - yet another another mean for government to be aware of you and another branch of security research is born (with the correspondent hacking branch to follow).
And no, the tin foil does no longer help, not when common-sense is so epically failing.
If I got two unsolicited emails a day from the same sender, day after day, it would really get on my nerves.
Maybe this is why you aren't getting elected? If you are not an MP, your "pissed-off of same person writing you twice a day" reaction is not relevant for the issue at hand, as legitimate as it is for the case of a private person and as much as I empathise with you (I really do, but this is also irrelevant)
For an MP (public person), the situation cannot be the same: I'm quite afraid that supporting the nuisance of receiving mails from a pressure group really does come with the position of MP. After all, a MP is supposed to represent the interest of the people that elected him or his party, I consider deliberately ignoring the email as a mission failure.
I enjoyed the game more than I thought I would. I had expected a dinosaur, something that felt outmoded and unevolved. Instead, I found a cave-painting, gorgeous in its primitive beauty and built with an intelligence that rendered mean conflict with a thrill it is hard to ignore — or forget.
So it was... so still is.
Apologies, I thought the smiley-s would clearly indicate the post as meant to be on the funny side (and by no means offensive, flame-ing, much less trolling).
On the serious side, if the original poster thinks her/himself at risk, I wouldn't recommend the original poster to skip any Alzheimer's test just because of this piece of news: given the time required for FDA's approval it may be too late (granted, since it is a test only, the time to approval may be shorter than for a drug, but anyway...)
I hope that an easy text will be developed from this in the next few years. I couldn't imagine walking into a haze of Alzheimer's without knowing about it. This is one of those tests that I will ABSOLUTELY not be missing once I book it in.
:) Suggestion: make sure you make a note - actually, many of them - and post them all over in your home: this is to avoid the risk of forgetting about the test by the time it gets approved :)
If, recent, history tells us anything..... anything that is "social" that corporations jump on board with, will die a horrible fate.
While I tend to agree with you, it is not the Twitter that would die a horrible death: it is the experts that the PeerIndex will identify would they choose to hire their twitter-voice to the corporations.
To elaborate: the most influential persons are upright-standers. For example (without being limited to):
What do you think would happen with their stand if they'd offer it for hire/sale to corporations?
Granted, if this would spread at phenomenon level (rather than in some isolated cases), Twitter's fate will be the death: as anything with the sole purpose to distribute advertising (i.e. corporate spam).
It even tries to make Infosys out to be not so bad (because the real bad guys are somehow Intel and Microsoft, for not highering as high a percentage of H1-B's?) even though Infosys has something like 70-80% H1-B employees.
What is the it in the it even tries? If, by it you designate:
But if you choose to be frustrated by the spin and not focus on the reality, who's at fault you are wasting time (
The target is obviously those companies who are using the H1-B program to hire cheep labor at rates Americans can't compete with (because of school loans and the like), of which Intel and Microsoft are not.
With all respect and not any intention to flame or enter in a controversy with you, if you really believe the above, then your problem is not with kdawson's spin, but with the price you (or any yet-to-graduate) pay for your education and, possibly, the recruiting process in the companies. My suggestions in regards with the two:
As far as I can tell, this isn't Microsoft and Intel "getting a pass", as the title states. No company is being singled out here
Does it make sense? (note: I'm not discussing or implying anything about the desirability of any situation. Just exploring, cold-minded, the summary/title, and also observing with respect the good /. tradition of not reading TFA).