Certainly Bill Gates doesn't want -ME- to build a nuclear reactor all on my own. He clearly mentions its a project that has to be undertaken by a lot of governments, not just a corporation or a few individuals.
He has even actually gone out of his way to fund some projects of the like. But he knows that he alone nor Microsoft could accomplish the goal. It requires a unilateral push by many countries across the planet.
His talk was more directed to those in political power, or to give a direction to the people who vote. Not once did Gates tell me to turn off my lightbulbs or recycle more. Go watch his talk and you'll see that he wasn't saying what you're assuming he was saying.
It's not censorship when someone doesn't do something. It's censorship when someone DOES something to stop access.
The App was on the Best Sellers list - as in, it made it past Apple Approval and was in full swing. Which is like winning the lottery.
And then Apple snuffed it for reasons that apply to MANY Apps.
This is like Walmart starting to sell cars, and when that business starts bolstering, stopping the selling of Toyotas (when they are a best seller) because cars are involved in car accidents, yet still selling GM vehicles.
From the article: While there are still some final design issues that need to be resolved with the City of Seattle, we should not let last-minute objections undermine the hard-won agreements already in place for the rest of the project. Doing so would cause yet more delay, increase the cost to taxpayers, and put this vital transportation and economic corridor at risk. The current bridge is 47 years old, and state engineers warn that it could sink in a major storm or earthquake.
So its not like Microsoft is against it because they love to emit Carbon Dioxide. In fact, closing the bridge for construction will cause people to go around, emitting more CO2.
Microsoft is mostly against it because it highly affects their employees in a negative way. It means more lates, or more inconvenience. Will the CO2 offset from more buses balance out the increased amount created during its upgrade? Who knows.
Bill's Ted talk was actually great. He promoted the design and development of the new Nuclear reactors that burn the 99% of uranium - essentially the old toxic waste that we have sitting around. Yeah, everyone was afraid of nuclear technology partly because of the waste produced, and with modern super computers we've simulated that we can actually burn the waste produced by regular nuclear reactors. We just need to jump on it. Bill Gates goes through how Solar power and Geo power are great alternatives but they aren't as solid, as such they will only work towards extending our deadline to meet the Carbon 0 goal.
These two events, the Ad and the Ted talk, are totally exclusive and neither are really about the other, and this isn't them butting heads. Bill Gates goes on about how the entire world needs to come together on a new project. This is one company against adding bus lanes to a bridge. Whoever lumped those two together didn't really look at the big picture.
I've actually often wondered that myself, since it apparently helps with her headaches when I give her massages (though that could just be her using my kindness to get massages) and I am by no means a licensed Chiropracticioner. Though my massages only aid during the length of the massage, and a headache can return quite quickly, whereas she says the Chiropractor makes it disappear for days.
However - its apparently free while you are a student at the University. So I don't press on it too much. Come Graduation time - if she starts spending money on that kind of stuff, I'll tell her to get it checked properly.
I suppose that depends on what your Chiropractor is claiming to fix.
For example, my girlfriend visits a chiropractor because one of her spinal discs pinches a nerve in her upper back and that causes backpain and headaches.
She says it helps - and I take her word for it that someone cracking the back is helping the issues aligned with her spine.
I suppose then why would we care if any site made any random change to any part of its infrastructure?
Twitter is a -very- busy site.
They are changing their infrastructure to accomodate. Here's what they looked at, here is what they chose. If you are looking for something with equal performance, you don't have to shop around.
I wouldn't really consider any censorship "evil" in that regard, as most of it is done with "Good intentions".
I mean, to think that censoring internet sites is a violation of Free Speech is stretching your rights so much that you could think that Apple removing an App from their store is just as valid of being called Censorship.
What - the only difference is that one is a private company doing it for their own interests? It's their product?
So - in the same light, Internet Service Providers (being a private company and all) filtering searches for their own interests (friends with the gov't) is not "evil censorship" at all.
I think we've just blurred the lines and created so many double standards that we need to redefine censorship - or start applying the rules properly - or drop them altogether. I haven't decided which of those 3 would be the worse.
Unless of course, the App was only for the iPhone, and it was accessible at one point. Now it is not. Thus, Apple is the third party, restricting you from accessing something you once could. Yes?
I'd say taking down a best seller App based on its "Risque-ness" is censorship, any way you want to slice it.
Apple can stock and sell whatever products it wants to choose from. Yes. It is still censorship - but we've come to terms that private companies have the right to censorship. Apple is fine with censoring, its their product. And I agree - there's nothing wrong with that. But to say it isn't censorship is like saying the Chinese government isn't censoring web searches, they are just choosing to provide what they think is best, not censorship at all.
the non-publication of the URL constitutes "security", or an expectation of privacy, or whatever terms they need to feel good about filing charges
That will be a scary day indeed.
All I will need to do is make a popular mis-spelling, claim my site was meant to be secured, and any and all visitors are intruders seeking to steal my private data, and then sue everyone listed in the logs.
There in lies the problem though - some smartphones are designed with a very specific Droid OS In mind, so upgrading your droid could be over writing whatever open sourced hack was written to make features work.
Are there no IT Pros that work for the government?
I read stories like this and I think "Theres no way they could be monitoring my traffic, they can't even set up basic login authentication for their websites"
You obviously have not been to many of the bars in Calgary.
There is blatant Ageism, Racism, even uglyism.
It's common knowledge that such and such a bar doesn't let in Asians. Such and such a bar hates hispanics. This bar is for 14 year olds pretending to be 18. This bar doesn't allow anyone over 40.
Not a single lawsuit to follow any of these. The bouncers can always say "Its your shoes" or come up with any excuse they want.
Except the issue isn't so much in energy consumption as it is CO2 emissions and Renewable energy sources.
I hope you aren't suggesting that -EVERY- US citizen get optical implants to reduce the US Energy usage. There are so many flaws with that, medical costs, production costs, feasability.
I would much rather them spend their money on getting a decent nuclear project going than better eyesight. Don't get me wrong, it has its advantages, but eyesight should not be our current priority.
Well you gotta be careful you know. You can buy the $20 cable, but we can't guarantee it has no analogue holes. Now imagine yourself sitting down to watch the latest rental. Do you want to have to get up in the middle of it to realize you're leaking analogue all over the floor?
It is crazy and it won't fly. The amount of data in a single screenshot, at the resolutions that gamers are accustomed to (even original CS Source) is more than the info transfered to and from the server regularly, by at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.
If you are expecting 30 FPS (as most FPS gamers do) and a typical Screenshot being about 1 megabyte in size (or 8 Megabits) means you need 240 Megabit download speed.
Believe me, I've seen people so inept with computers that both the mouse and the keyboard seem like tools of frustration. And I daresay voice recognition, while getting close, is still not quite at the level for full operability.
And also - you CAN write badly written software for Linux. I once wrote an encryption tool that used random number generation, and not actually a key or passphrase supplied by the user. Needless to say, they were a little disappointed when their password didn't work to decrypt. Luckily I provided them with a brute force solution, that tried every possible combination, in order.
If these games are so unplayable with cheating enabled, perhaps the designers shouldn't have put those features in
I think I love this part the most. It shows exactly how little people understand hacks.
An aimbot is not using any other features than those used to calculate where a shot is headed, and basic hit-test rigor. God Mode can basically be achieved by activating the medics uber, over and over again.
Basically, in order to prevent cheating, you must make the game unplayable. Genius.
(I know you were joking, but I couldn't help myself)
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Certainly Bill Gates doesn't want -ME- to build a nuclear reactor all on my own. He clearly mentions its a project that has to be undertaken by a lot of governments, not just a corporation or a few individuals.
He has even actually gone out of his way to fund some projects of the like. But he knows that he alone nor Microsoft could accomplish the goal. It requires a unilateral push by many countries across the planet.
His talk was more directed to those in political power, or to give a direction to the people who vote. Not once did Gates tell me to turn off my lightbulbs or recycle more. Go watch his talk and you'll see that he wasn't saying what you're assuming he was saying.
It's not censorship when someone doesn't do something. It's censorship when someone DOES something to stop access.
The App was on the Best Sellers list - as in, it made it past Apple Approval and was in full swing. Which is like winning the lottery.
And then Apple snuffed it for reasons that apply to MANY Apps.
This is like Walmart starting to sell cars, and when that business starts bolstering, stopping the selling of Toyotas (when they are a best seller) because cars are involved in car accidents, yet still selling GM vehicles.
I'd consider that a form of censorship.
From the article:
While there are still some final design issues that need to be resolved with the City of Seattle, we should not let last-minute objections undermine the hard-won agreements already in place for the rest of the project. Doing so would cause yet more delay, increase the cost to taxpayers, and put this vital transportation and economic corridor at risk. The current bridge is 47 years old, and state engineers warn that it could sink in a major storm or earthquake.
So its not like Microsoft is against it because they love to emit Carbon Dioxide. In fact, closing the bridge for construction will cause people to go around, emitting more CO2.
Microsoft is mostly against it because it highly affects their employees in a negative way. It means more lates, or more inconvenience. Will the CO2 offset from more buses balance out the increased amount created during its upgrade? Who knows.
Bill's Ted talk was actually great. He promoted the design and development of the new Nuclear reactors that burn the 99% of uranium - essentially the old toxic waste that we have sitting around. Yeah, everyone was afraid of nuclear technology partly because of the waste produced, and with modern super computers we've simulated that we can actually burn the waste produced by regular nuclear reactors. We just need to jump on it. Bill Gates goes through how Solar power and Geo power are great alternatives but they aren't as solid, as such they will only work towards extending our deadline to meet the Carbon 0 goal.
These two events, the Ad and the Ted talk, are totally exclusive and neither are really about the other, and this isn't them butting heads. Bill Gates goes on about how the entire world needs to come together on a new project. This is one company against adding bus lanes to a bridge. Whoever lumped those two together didn't really look at the big picture.
I've actually often wondered that myself, since it apparently helps with her headaches when I give her massages (though that could just be her using my kindness to get massages) and I am by no means a licensed Chiropracticioner. Though my massages only aid during the length of the massage, and a headache can return quite quickly, whereas she says the Chiropractor makes it disappear for days.
However - its apparently free while you are a student at the University. So I don't press on it too much. Come Graduation time - if she starts spending money on that kind of stuff, I'll tell her to get it checked properly.
Which car company do work for?
A major one.
I suppose that depends on what your Chiropractor is claiming to fix.
For example, my girlfriend visits a chiropractor because one of her spinal discs pinches a nerve in her upper back and that causes backpain and headaches.
She says it helps - and I take her word for it that someone cracking the back is helping the issues aligned with her spine.
I suppose then why would we care if any site made any random change to any part of its infrastructure?
Twitter is a -very- busy site.
They are changing their infrastructure to accomodate. Here's what they looked at, here is what they chose. If you are looking for something with equal performance, you don't have to shop around.
I wouldn't really consider any censorship "evil" in that regard, as most of it is done with "Good intentions".
I mean, to think that censoring internet sites is a violation of Free Speech is stretching your rights so much that you could think that Apple removing an App from their store is just as valid of being called Censorship.
What - the only difference is that one is a private company doing it for their own interests? It's their product?
So - in the same light, Internet Service Providers (being a private company and all) filtering searches for their own interests (friends with the gov't) is not "evil censorship" at all.
I think we've just blurred the lines and created so many double standards that we need to redefine censorship - or start applying the rules properly - or drop them altogether. I haven't decided which of those 3 would be the worse.
Unless of course, the App was only for the iPhone, and it was accessible at one point. Now it is not. Thus, Apple is the third party, restricting you from accessing something you once could. Yes?
Yep, Apple's got a good reason for everything that it does, and its reason is placing consumers and developers first!
What they didn't tell you is that its a 0 indexed Array, where Apple's Revenue takes up the 0 slot.
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Do you know what that dot is up there? Thats a tiny animated gif playing the worlds smallest violin.
I'd say taking down a best seller App based on its "Risque-ness" is censorship, any way you want to slice it.
Apple can stock and sell whatever products it wants to choose from. Yes. It is still censorship - but we've come to terms that private companies have the right to censorship. Apple is fine with censoring, its their product. And I agree - there's nothing wrong with that. But to say it isn't censorship is like saying the Chinese government isn't censoring web searches, they are just choosing to provide what they think is best, not censorship at all.
the non-publication of the URL constitutes "security", or an expectation of privacy, or whatever terms they need to feel good about filing charges
That will be a scary day indeed.
All I will need to do is make a popular mis-spelling, claim my site was meant to be secured, and any and all visitors are intruders seeking to steal my private data, and then sue everyone listed in the logs.
slashhdot.org! Why they accessed my secret files!
There in lies the problem though - some smartphones are designed with a very specific Droid OS In mind, so upgrading your droid could be over writing whatever open sourced hack was written to make features work.
Or, in certain cases
Yay I have the latest version of android!
How come my calendar lost all its appointments?
Are there no IT Pros that work for the government?
I read stories like this and I think "Theres no way they could be monitoring my traffic, they can't even set up basic login authentication for their websites"
You obviously have not been to many of the bars in Calgary.
There is blatant Ageism, Racism, even uglyism.
It's common knowledge that such and such a bar doesn't let in Asians. Such and such a bar hates hispanics. This bar is for 14 year olds pretending to be 18. This bar doesn't allow anyone over 40.
Not a single lawsuit to follow any of these. The bouncers can always say "Its your shoes" or come up with any excuse they want.
I didn't see anything that suggested fabrication would be easy.
I saw the headline but thats about all I read.
Except the issue isn't so much in energy consumption as it is CO2 emissions and Renewable energy sources.
I hope you aren't suggesting that -EVERY- US citizen get optical implants to reduce the US Energy usage. There are so many flaws with that, medical costs, production costs, feasability.
I would much rather them spend their money on getting a decent nuclear project going than better eyesight. Don't get me wrong, it has its advantages, but eyesight should not be our current priority.
That immediately jumped out at me too.
Shouldn't the Department of Energy be funding startups and projects to solve the looming energy crisis?
Well you gotta be careful you know. You can buy the $20 cable, but we can't guarantee it has no analogue holes. Now imagine yourself sitting down to watch the latest rental. Do you want to have to get up in the middle of it to realize you're leaking analogue all over the floor?
No, I work on a small project that tries to get FreeBSD to boot off of a series of IBM 80 Column Punch Card.
It is crazy and it won't fly. The amount of data in a single screenshot, at the resolutions that gamers are accustomed to (even original CS Source) is more than the info transfered to and from the server regularly, by at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.
If you are expecting 30 FPS (as most FPS gamers do) and a typical Screenshot being about 1 megabyte in size (or 8 Megabits) means you need 240 Megabit download speed.
My current ISP offers me up to 10.
Linux... For the inexperienced?
And its not even Ubuntu?
Believe me, I've seen people so inept with computers that both the mouse and the keyboard seem like tools of frustration. And I daresay voice recognition, while getting close, is still not quite at the level for full operability.
And also - you CAN write badly written software for Linux. I once wrote an encryption tool that used random number generation, and not actually a key or passphrase supplied by the user. Needless to say, they were a little disappointed when their password didn't work to decrypt. Luckily I provided them with a brute force solution, that tried every possible combination, in order.
If these games are so unplayable with cheating enabled, perhaps the designers shouldn't have put those features in
I think I love this part the most. It shows exactly how little people understand hacks.
An aimbot is not using any other features than those used to calculate where a shot is headed, and basic hit-test rigor.
God Mode can basically be achieved by activating the medics uber, over and over again.
Basically, in order to prevent cheating, you must make the game unplayable. Genius.
(I know you were joking, but I couldn't help myself)
You have no idea how much you just earned a downmod.
I think you got an offtopic, troll, flamebait, and over-rated all in one go.