Thank you for a well-written comprehensive expansion on my point. Much of the description in TFA is of what is common, accepted, even desirable in that culture; assured they hear "horror stories" of Americans living/working/eating/sleeping in ways that shock/outrage them yet are normal to us. In neither culture are conditions Utopian, but they are indeed in large part what participants accept - even desire - as normal.
It may surprise many people who don't take naps, but there are in fact a lot of people who do - even in full view of others. Not much different from eating lunch at your desk while checking/. - shocking to some, normal to others.
Now the world knows/assumes that a top Apple hot-shot engineer is, or soon will be, on the market. No doubt this guy is getting a lot of lucrative offers now.
If there's one thing history teaches about rumors regarding upcoming Apple products, it's that nobody talking knows anything. If anyone gets any Apple-product prediction right it's because enough monkeys pounding on typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare.
Remember how the iPad was supposed to have a front-facing camera, an awesome chess game, full 1080p HD video, solar charging, biometric security, etc. - and wasn't going to just be a fat iPod Touch? Yeah.
Sure the next iPhone will be an improvement. Duh. Anything more than that is pure rampant rabid speculation.
I had the exact same complaint when "my team" controlled the government.
Doesn't matter whose "team" is in power, the point is that it's none of their business, and the Constitution (4th Amendment) prohibits them from demanding such information without a warrant.
You want to make it about teams? Your "team" just raised the fine for not answering from $100 (which was never levied) to $5000. Now, pray tell, why is it so important to your "team" to get that information that they upped the non-compliance fine 50x to FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?
People are "stupid" for getting suspicious when faced with a $5000 fine for not reporting name, race, and number of toilets? Ya know, I'd like very much for Uncle Sam to just leave me the he11 alone - but no, your "team" just got more in-my-face about it to the tune of $5000 if I don't obey.
Those "protections" can be reversed. Your submission of personal data can not.
In 1940, those who responded to the Census as requested felt "protected" by the rule of law prohibiting the government from confiscating personal possessions and incarcerating individuals without cause, trial, and conviction. In 2010, "protections" which prohibit the government from using Census responses to do something which it is already prohibited from doing - confiscating personal possessions and incarcerating individuals without cause, trial, and conviction - are a small comfort.
"Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Pretty cool." "Power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat." - people who actually had such power.
Consider the last 100 years - upper end of human lifespan and a convenient period of recent history. That is 10 censuses. Most people counted are counted in more than one census, actually a lot more. Each person is counted on average maybe 5 times during that period. We can reasonably ballpark (please feel free to generate more precise numbers) that the US Census process has counted about 600,000,000 individuals in the last century. Some 110,000 people were "interned" during WWII. In 4 days flat one Census count went from "private" to "list of people declared illegal for no good reason". Ergo, that "only case of census information being used to locate individuals" works out to an average, over a century, of a roughly better than 1 in 5000 chance of an individual's life being absolutely wrecked by filling out a Census form as requested.
1 in 10 chance of a Census being used for horrific purposes. 1 in 5000 chance of completing a Census form leading to wrongful imprisonment and confiscation of all personal belongings. I'd say their record is pretty awful.
Compare and contrast these "concentration camps" with the Nazi version of "concentration camps".
Ah, so we're to compare and contrast "stripped of all worldly possessions and incarcerated for no wrongdoing whatsoever", vs. "stripped of all worldly possessions and incarcerated for no wrongdoing whatsoever, plus torture & death". OK, so one is bad and the other is worse - that does not relieve the former of being bad.
So if 1940 is the only case of census information being used to locate individuals, I'd say their record is pretty good.
1940 is a case where census information was used to round up an entire ethnic population and relocate them and strip them of all belongings despite assurances that census information would remain "private", which I'd say pretty much destroys any credibility of such assurances forever.
Of all the people counted by the Census over the last century (not including re-counts of same people), that's a pretty intolerable percentage of lives wrecked by abuse of Census data over the last century.
"Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Pretty cool." "Power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat." - people who actually had such power.
Keep government out of the doctor's office. The doctor/patient privilege is one of the few sacrosanct sociopolitical relationships (along with husband/wife and clergy/parishioner). As for who pays for it, that's between the patient, doctor, and any insurance company the two VOLUNTARILY choose.
You have a touching anecdote? come up with legislation which helps that situation, without interfering with the >250,000,000 cases where there isn't a problem.
Any "democracy" which passes legislation without voting on it isn't.
Yes, I trust Tufte will do an admirable job of rendering such information clear and concise. The truth will be unassailable.
At which point the Obama will realize that the waste and futility of the "stimulus package[s]" will be crystal-clear to voters, the graphs & explanations will be suppressed, and Tufte quietly shown the door.
Wrong guy for the job. Tufte and Chicago-way politics is like oil and water.
There are others up late for non-insomniatic reasons. Here's a vote for "new parents"*, cast while feeding the little bugaloo at 4:40am (after 1:30am, after going to bed 'round 11:00pm, night after night for 3 months so far). Oh yeah I could/would/should sleep right now no problem, save for "[nudge] honey, the baby's hungry."
* - yes, some/.ers are proof geeks can... 'nuff said.
I did, I'm just looking to mine/. for anything unique or insightful not otherwise obvious to those on my ask-first list.
FWIW: My cardiologist did go thru a long list of things to avoid. Earphones dangling center-of-chest or in left shirt pocket, car repairs near the alternator or other induction areas, etc., pretty much anything causing a strong rotating electromagnetic field... when he got to "chain saws" he started chuckling at the humor of guessing what would kill me first: lack of pulse, or blood loss from falling face-first into a still-running chainsaw.
As a genuine cyborg, my first concern about such "electrical storm/attack" fears & warnings is their impact on pacemakers and other life-sustaining electronic devices.
I don't want a projector in my phone. I want my phone to be a phone. Make it a videophone before adding some non-personal-communications projector app.
I want the projector in my iP*d, or other super-small computing device which IS designed for visual display of information.
There's 10^16 m in a light year. There's 1 atom of hydrogen per cm^3, aka 10^-24g/cm^3, aka 10^-18g/m^3. A 1m x 1m x 1-light-year swath of space contains 0.01 grams of hydrogen.
To gather fuel out of the interstellar medium, you'll need a ram scoop 11.3m diameter just to get 1 gram of hydrogen on a 1 light year journey, or a 357m scoop to get 1kg.
To parent's observations, you'll have to gather over 6000 tons of matter per light year for his 9600 light year trip, which will require a ramjet scoop 840km wide - just to move 1 ton. Unless I screwed up the math somewhere (probable), you'll have to make a half-million-mile-wide scoop which weighs less than one ton - ain't happening.
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The choices:
- the government decides what's fair
- private companies decide what's fair
At least the latter gives me a choice.
Thank you for a well-written comprehensive expansion on my point. Much of the description in TFA is of what is common, accepted, even desirable in that culture; assured they hear "horror stories" of Americans living/working/eating/sleeping in ways that shock/outrage them yet are normal to us. In neither culture are conditions Utopian, but they are indeed in large part what participants accept - even desire - as normal.
Apple really needs to cut their losses with the iPad fiasco.
Why? Since when is moving a half-billion dollars of new product in the couple months, with a very high profit margin, a bad thing?
It may surprise many people who don't take naps, but there are in fact a lot of people who do - even in full view of others. /. - shocking to some, normal to others.
Not much different from eating lunch at your desk while checking
Move along.
Now the world knows/assumes that a top Apple hot-shot engineer is, or soon will be, on the market.
No doubt this guy is getting a lot of lucrative offers now.
Canada - leading the world in being just north of the USA.
Because moving upwards of a billion dollars' worth of product in the first few weeks on the market isn't "completely worthless".
How much $$$ has your whining about the iPad made you, Mr. A.C.?
If there's one thing history teaches about rumors regarding upcoming Apple products, it's that nobody talking knows anything. If anyone gets any Apple-product prediction right it's because enough monkeys pounding on typewriters will eventually write Shakespeare.
Remember how the iPad was supposed to have a front-facing camera, an awesome chess game, full 1080p HD video, solar charging, biometric security, etc. - and wasn't going to just be a fat iPod Touch? Yeah.
Sure the next iPhone will be an improvement. Duh. Anything more than that is pure rampant rabid speculation.
I had the exact same complaint when "my team" controlled the government.
Doesn't matter whose "team" is in power, the point is that it's none of their business, and the Constitution (4th Amendment) prohibits them from demanding such information without a warrant.
You want to make it about teams? Your "team" just raised the fine for not answering from $100 (which was never levied) to $5000. Now, pray tell, why is it so important to your "team" to get that information that they upped the non-compliance fine 50x to FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?
People are "stupid" for getting suspicious when faced with a $5000 fine for not reporting name, race, and number of toilets? Ya know, I'd like very much for Uncle Sam to just leave me the he11 alone - but no, your "team" just got more in-my-face about it to the tune of $5000 if I don't obey.
Those "protections" can be reversed.
Your submission of personal data can not.
In 1940, those who responded to the Census as requested felt "protected" by the rule of law prohibiting the government from confiscating personal possessions and incarcerating individuals without cause, trial, and conviction.
In 2010, "protections" which prohibit the government from using Census responses to do something which it is already prohibited from doing - confiscating personal possessions and incarcerating individuals without cause, trial, and conviction - are a small comfort.
"Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Pretty cool."
"Power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat."
- people who actually had such power.
Yes, I'd say a 1 in 2857 chance of having one's life ruined is a pretty intolerable percentage.
Let's do a really rough calculation.
Consider the last 100 years - upper end of human lifespan and a convenient period of recent history. That is 10 censuses.
Most people counted are counted in more than one census, actually a lot more. Each person is counted on average maybe 5 times during that period.
We can reasonably ballpark (please feel free to generate more precise numbers) that the US Census process has counted about 600,000,000 individuals in the last century.
Some 110,000 people were "interned" during WWII. In 4 days flat one Census count went from "private" to "list of people declared illegal for no good reason".
Ergo, that "only case of census information being used to locate individuals" works out to an average, over a century, of a roughly better than 1 in 5000 chance of an individual's life being absolutely wrecked by filling out a Census form as requested.
1 in 10 chance of a Census being used for horrific purposes.
1 in 5000 chance of completing a Census form leading to wrongful imprisonment and confiscation of all personal belongings.
I'd say their record is pretty awful.
Compare and contrast these "concentration camps" with the Nazi version of "concentration camps".
Ah, so we're to compare and contrast "stripped of all worldly possessions and incarcerated for no wrongdoing whatsoever", vs. "stripped of all worldly possessions and incarcerated for no wrongdoing whatsoever, plus torture & death". OK, so one is bad and the other is worse - that does not relieve the former of being bad.
So if 1940 is the only case of census information being used to locate individuals, I'd say their record is pretty good.
1940 is a case where census information was used to round up an entire ethnic population and relocate them and strip them of all belongings despite assurances that census information would remain "private", which I'd say pretty much destroys any credibility of such assurances forever.
Of all the people counted by the Census over the last century (not including re-counts of same people), that's a pretty intolerable percentage of lives wrecked by abuse of Census data over the last century.
"Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Pretty cool."
"Power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat."
- people who actually had such power.
Keep government out of the doctor's office.
The doctor/patient privilege is one of the few sacrosanct sociopolitical relationships (along with husband/wife and clergy/parishioner).
As for who pays for it, that's between the patient, doctor, and any insurance company the two VOLUNTARILY choose.
You have a touching anecdote? come up with legislation which helps that situation, without interfering with the >250,000,000 cases where there isn't a problem.
Any "democracy" which passes legislation without voting on it isn't.
And no, this isn't a suitable topic for /.
To make the C program which displays "Hello, world!" smaller, don't display "Hello, world!" and use a different language.
I appreciate the obsessiveness, but it kinda misses the point.
Yes, I trust Tufte will do an admirable job of rendering such information clear and concise. The truth will be unassailable.
At which point the Obama will realize that the waste and futility of the "stimulus package[s]" will be crystal-clear to voters, the graphs & explanations will be suppressed, and Tufte quietly shown the door.
Wrong guy for the job. Tufte and Chicago-way politics is like oil and water.
There are others up late for non-insomniatic reasons. Here's a vote for "new parents"*, cast while feeding the little bugaloo at 4:40am (after 1:30am, after going to bed 'round 11:00pm, night after night for 3 months so far). Oh yeah I could/would/should sleep right now no problem, save for "[nudge] honey, the baby's hungry."
* - yes, some /.ers are proof geeks can ... 'nuff said.
Does adding oxygen somehow affect the blood-thinning properties of alcohol?
For that matter, how DOES alcohol act as a blood thinner, and for how long?
Those on Warfarin (aka Coumadin) want to know...
I did, I'm just looking to mine /. for anything unique or insightful not otherwise obvious to those on my ask-first list.
FWIW: My cardiologist did go thru a long list of things to avoid. Earphones dangling center-of-chest or in left shirt pocket, car repairs near the alternator or other induction areas, etc., pretty much anything causing a strong rotating electromagnetic field ... when he got to "chain saws" he started chuckling at the humor of guessing what would kill me first: lack of pulse, or blood loss from falling face-first into a still-running chainsaw.
As a genuine cyborg, my first concern about such "electrical storm/attack" fears & warnings is their impact on pacemakers and other life-sustaining electronic devices.
Anyone have meaningful commentary thereon?
I don't want a projector in my phone. I want my phone to be a phone. Make it a videophone before adding some non-personal-communications projector app.
I want the projector in my iP*d, or other super-small computing device which IS designed for visual display of information.
Rough calculations...tell me where I'm wrong...
There's 10^16 m in a light year. There's 1 atom of hydrogen per cm^3, aka 10^-24g/cm^3, aka 10^-18g/m^3. A 1m x 1m x 1-light-year swath of space contains 0.01 grams of hydrogen.
To gather fuel out of the interstellar medium, you'll need a ram scoop 11.3m diameter just to get 1 gram of hydrogen on a 1 light year journey, or a 357m scoop to get 1kg.
To parent's observations, you'll have to gather over 6000 tons of matter per light year for his 9600 light year trip, which will require a ramjet scoop 840km wide - just to move 1 ton. Unless I screwed up the math somewhere (probable), you'll have to make a half-million-mile-wide scoop which weighs less than one ton - ain't happening.
Apple will reject the app
Apple can't reject what hasn't been submitted.
"We have not submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App store".
Maybe people should read them before commenting on how easily said rules can be beaten.
Oh, that's right, this is /., where posters* comment on the story they want to comment on, not the one they're actually replying to.
(* - mea culpa, I'm feeling extra snarky today.)