Removing the ability to search for numbers would probably be a lot easier than removing links to some sex pages you don't want google to show anybody anymore.
Not saying it would be effective in fighting credit card fraud. Just looking at the technical aspect.
The main reason credit card companies don't care that much is the same reason you probably wouldn't crawl under a car for a quarter that you dropped.
The value ain't worth the time spent.
If you have to spend 1% of your time/money fighting fraud, well once the amount of fraud drops below that 1%, it isn't worth fighting fraud.
To you.
The problem is that a company might loose only.05% to fraud and seriously, that's irrelevant.
But to the.05% of the customers who are subject to fraud, especially identity theft, they lose 100% of their stuff.
The incentives for the corporations are different from those for individuals. Imagine that.
It does depend on what you're trying to do.
America could take North Korea easily. But it couldn't take China which was one of the reasons the peninsula is split in two today.
If you're China, the American soldier's radio and cameras are interesting artifacts but inconsequential.
There are a million armed Russian soldier on China's northern border at all times.
That sounds like a lot of people to everyone except the Chinese.
Try it
All Monsanto has to do is put a labeled product in the stores at a lower price.
It will sell.
I call it the Walmart-China effect. Most folks call it basic economics.
Not sure what the slam against I Robot is.
imo, it is one of the few movies, and the only one I use as an example, where the movie was better than 'the book.'
In this case, I know the movie was actually an amalgam of several different short stories.
That's one reason it was good. You can't really do a good movie of a novel. Short stories seem to translate better.
Asimov's writing was wooden (that is a common opinion) and the movie smoothed it out.
I have not seen Ender's Game the movie but have read the book several times. It is one of my favorites even tho Card is also a somewhat wooden writer.
The background stories I have read tho said he dropped the Demosthenes garbage from the movie.
Great. That imo opinion detracted from the novel. It was just basic heavy-handed preaching because the writer wanted to make an obvious point.
I remember reading an interview with John Grisham when his first novel The Firm was made into a movie.
They asked him which was better, the book or the movie.
A. The book. The book is always better because more is left to the imagination.
And he had not seen the movie (which had a completely different ending than the book).
At some point when they were extremely profitable, half of BlockBuster's money came from late fees.
For some reason, I suspect that was the beginning of the end.
That wasn't a model you could use by mail.
I thought Texas and most of the southern US already passed a law against evolution...
Exactly.
And the reason it hasn't worked is because not _everybody_ is on board.
Once there is a clear majority of homo sapiens worldwide who believes evolution will stop, then it will.
Isn't that how ideology works?
Despite the myth of Ayn Rand's _fiction_ ,
1. The market cannot regulate itself (the government is what regulates it and enforces contracts and legitimizes the money exchange)
2. Adam Smith's free market book talks about how competitive markets lower prices for consumers.
Monsanto does NOT want to be competitive. They say people won't buy GMO-labeled food when what they mean is people won't buy GMO-labeled food at the same price as already-familiar food. If Monsanto is forced to label it, they are also forced to pass the cost savings on to consumers in exactly the way Adam Smith--the god of free market enterprise--postulated.
Like most, they want all the benefits of the market without having to follow the rules that actually keep the market working for society as a whole.
We need to pass a law stating that it was great evolution got us this far but now it needs to stop.
If antibiotic resistance is spreading amongst 'wild' pathogens, perhaps Roundup-resistance will start spreading amongst weeds.
Who'da thunk?
Let's pass a law against evolution. Monsanto will surely be onboard with that.
How is spying on foreign diplomats the same as mass surveillance of the ordinary citizens of your own country?
They aren't the same.
Brazil however doesn't give a shit if America spies on its own citizens.
Brazil was upset because America spied on Brazilian citizens.
Different perspectives.
Damn, now I lost my train of thought, instead I'm thinking about a sex bot that reacts to me before I even make a move.
'Thinking' is probably the wrong term.
The servers were shutdown because no one was there to monitor them for break-ins. It's part of our security stance and something we aren't really allowed to ignore.
Some of the most successful IT shops I've ever worked in have been 'build' vs. 'buy' shops. They get tremendous cost advantage from having internally-developed tools that exactly meet the needs of their business.
Done right, it works very, very well.
The done right is the tricky part. And that requires actually knowing the needs of the business.
Most execs 'need' SAP because they want an enterprise system. They don't talk about buying it to fix a particular problem, then spend more exec time analyzing the problem to decide what a profitable fix would look like. Businesses that actually do that don't have too much of a problem implementing SAP (because they do it bit by bit) nor do they have much problem writing a solution in-house.
But most folks don't understand the problem and are really, really surprised when the solution doesn't work, whether developed in-house or purchased.
Maybe they exist, but have you ever seen a company that actually could deploy or upgrade SAP faster than building something in house?
Depends how complete their understanding of their immediate, short term and mid-term requirements are.
My take away from all the articles I read about SAP implementations (most of which have failed just like most large IT projects):
The successful implementations actually revised or at least analyzed their business processes.
In my own experience, I see people complaining all the time about how bad the inventory system.
But whenever I've been tasked to fix it, I can't find any computer problems. It's not like someone entered 5 widgets and the computer changes the number to 6 or 65 or changes the item to pencils or paper instead of leaving it as widget.
Inventory systems fail because they aren't kept up-to-date.
They aren't kept up-to-date because updating the records is too difficult.
The usual fix is to write a brand-new inventory system with too many fields for anyone to want to waste time tracking.
However, the new system does fix the inaccuracy of the inventory (for a while).
That is only because during implementation, everything is counted and entered.
Keeping things up-to-date is a lot gnarlier problem and at minimum, it requires having fewer fields to track and management buy-in to make sure employees follow the process.
Most SAP implementations fail the same way. Too much crap to track and no management buy-in for the process.
Should we expect it to take much time to post a new notice or change some text on the front page of a website?
Exactly. I am one of the government workers who 'shut down' our website.
All I did was replace the index page and altered the security program to prevent working even if you still had a valid cookie.
It took me 30 seconds to log in (from home) and undo the fixes (and most of that time was spent logging in).
Shutdown means different things to different people. For the last shutdown, we were given two conflicting orders:
1. Turn off the web servers
2. Display a web page to visitors announcing we are shut down.
/* for you manager types, I cannot serve up a web page if I have shut my web server down */
That isn't a problem of government; it is a problem of non-techie managers freaking out and trying to one-up each other.
I have seen similar things happen in private industry.
It's a sad day indeed when you're judged by you're social skills when applying to a tech job.
Unlike a job interview? (sarcasm). Seems to me most of the questions asked face-to-face are about social skills.
I'm not saying that's good or bad; I'm simply observing that it _is_ that way already.
Searching your fBook and g+ profiles is just another way of putting lipstick on that process.
Aren't they gonna miss a hell of a lot of loners this way?
If you wanna have a second-rate tech force, go ahead, Google. Make sure all your elites have lead water pipes like ancient Rome did.
Google has an edge over the competition because they hire people two different ways.
One is with interviews, job fairs, big data searches (which are a good option. Joel Spolsky has noted that the very best workers are rarely looking for a job).
The other way to 'hire' people is just to buy their damn company. This is how Google gets many of the hotshot loner types.
Other companies cannot do that.
Google considers Google Apps a viable replacement for Microsoft Office, so I can see where they would think Googe+ circles are a replacement for real interviewing and hiring skills.
That is really funny.
However, examine assumptions and you end up with a sclerotic defense of Google.
Good interviewing and hiring skills _are_ extremely rare. There are thousands of articles about trying to fix the process.
The fakiness of the entire situation is why they are in sync. Most of the current companies aren't actually companies. They aren't profitable and are just holding on in the hopes of being bought out by someone else with too much money and nothing to do with it because private people cannot invest in roads, bridges, and other governmental infrastructure.
Excellent insight except for thinking it is a Google problem.
"echo-chamber hiring" is a new term. The classic term in sociology, probably politically incorrect now, was called 'homosexual reproduction.'
The Bush administration's use of Condeleeza Rice was an example of that. On the outside, she was a Black woman, but on the inside, she thought exactly the same as all the other Republicans and thus you don't get to take advantage of having different thought patterns and insights in your group.
I think the downward spiral of American auto manufacturing was caused by this. You had a bunch of old rich white men WHO DON'T EVEN DRIVE THEIR OWN VEHICLES ANY MORE building cars. It's a good way to lose touch with the market place.
There are 6000 different taxing entities in the United States.
Each one of them charges different taxes on different categories of goods.
Each one of them can use a different categorization, each one can charge different taxes on different categories or items, and the tax rate can change at pretty much any time.
And none of them have an obligation to inform anyone about outside the State/County/City about the rate change.
Now go write me some code that works.
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Removing the ability to search for numbers would probably be a lot easier than removing links to some sex pages you don't want google to show anybody anymore.
Not saying it would be effective in fighting credit card fraud. Just looking at the technical aspect.
The main reason credit card companies don't care that much is the same reason you probably wouldn't crawl under a car for a quarter that you dropped.
.05% to fraud and seriously, that's irrelevant. .05% of the customers who are subject to fraud, especially identity theft, they lose 100% of their stuff.
The value ain't worth the time spent.
If you have to spend 1% of your time/money fighting fraud, well once the amount of fraud drops below that 1%, it isn't worth fighting fraud.
To you.
The problem is that a company might loose only
But to the
The incentives for the corporations are different from those for individuals. Imagine that.
It does depend on what you're trying to do.
America could take North Korea easily. But it couldn't take China which was one of the reasons the peninsula is split in two today.
If you're China, the American soldier's radio and cameras are interesting artifacts but inconsequential.
There are a million armed Russian soldier on China's northern border at all times.
That sounds like a lot of people to everyone except the Chinese.
Try it
All Monsanto has to do is put a labeled product in the stores at a lower price.
It will sell.
I call it the Walmart-China effect. Most folks call it basic economics.
Not sure what the slam against I Robot is.
imo, it is one of the few movies, and the only one I use as an example, where the movie was better than 'the book.'
In this case, I know the movie was actually an amalgam of several different short stories.
That's one reason it was good. You can't really do a good movie of a novel. Short stories seem to translate better.
Asimov's writing was wooden (that is a common opinion) and the movie smoothed it out.
I have not seen Ender's Game the movie but have read the book several times. It is one of my favorites even tho Card is also a somewhat wooden writer.
The background stories I have read tho said he dropped the Demosthenes garbage from the movie.
Great. That imo opinion detracted from the novel. It was just basic heavy-handed preaching because the writer wanted to make an obvious point.
I remember reading an interview with John Grisham when his first novel The Firm was made into a movie.
They asked him which was better, the book or the movie.
A. The book. The book is always better because more is left to the imagination.
And he had not seen the movie (which had a completely different ending than the book).
At some point when they were extremely profitable, half of BlockBuster's money came from late fees.
For some reason, I suspect that was the beginning of the end.
That wasn't a model you could use by mail.
I thought Texas and most of the southern US already passed a law against evolution...
Exactly.
And the reason it hasn't worked is because not _everybody_ is on board.
Once there is a clear majority of homo sapiens worldwide who believes evolution will stop, then it will.
Isn't that how ideology works?
Despite the myth of Ayn Rand's _fiction_ ,
1. The market cannot regulate itself (the government is what regulates it and enforces contracts and legitimizes the money exchange)
2. Adam Smith's free market book talks about how competitive markets lower prices for consumers.
Monsanto does NOT want to be competitive. They say people won't buy GMO-labeled food when what they mean is people won't buy GMO-labeled food at the same price as already-familiar food. If Monsanto is forced to label it, they are also forced to pass the cost savings on to consumers in exactly the way Adam Smith--the god of free market enterprise--postulated.
Like most, they want all the benefits of the market without having to follow the rules that actually keep the market working for society as a whole.
We need to pass a law stating that it was great evolution got us this far but now it needs to stop.
If antibiotic resistance is spreading amongst 'wild' pathogens, perhaps Roundup-resistance will start spreading amongst weeds.
Who'da thunk?
Let's pass a law against evolution. Monsanto will surely be onboard with that.
...Kind of like when your measure your pecker in centimeters rather than inches...
Just one more reason to move to the metric system.
That's fer sure. In America you can drive to such fascinating places as the Grand Canyon, Utah, or Pittsburgh.
How is spying on foreign diplomats the same as mass surveillance of the ordinary citizens of your own country?
They aren't the same.
Brazil however doesn't give a shit if America spies on its own citizens.
Brazil was upset because America spied on Brazilian citizens.
Different perspectives.
Damn, now I lost my train of thought, instead I'm thinking about a sex bot that reacts to me before I even make a move.
'Thinking' is probably the wrong term.
The servers were shutdown because no one was there to monitor them for break-ins. It's part of our security stance and something we aren't really allowed to ignore.
I disagree.
Some of the most successful IT shops I've ever worked in have been 'build' vs. 'buy' shops. They get tremendous cost advantage from having internally-developed tools that exactly meet the needs of their business.
Done right, it works very, very well.
The done right is the tricky part. And that requires actually knowing the needs of the business.
Most execs 'need' SAP because they want an enterprise system. They don't talk about buying it to fix a particular problem, then spend more exec time analyzing the problem to decide what a profitable fix would look like. Businesses that actually do that don't have too much of a problem implementing SAP (because they do it bit by bit) nor do they have much problem writing a solution in-house.
But most folks don't understand the problem and are really, really surprised when the solution doesn't work, whether developed in-house or purchased.
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech fails. It's nice when it pays off...
Most SAP initiatives also fail. Most small businesses fail at business within two years.
Maybe they exist, but have you ever seen a company that actually could deploy or upgrade SAP faster than building something in house?
Depends how complete their understanding of their immediate, short term and mid-term requirements are.
My take away from all the articles I read about SAP implementations (most of which have failed just like most large IT projects):
The successful implementations actually revised or at least analyzed their business processes.
In my own experience, I see people complaining all the time about how bad the inventory system.
But whenever I've been tasked to fix it, I can't find any computer problems. It's not like someone entered 5 widgets and the computer changes the number to 6 or 65 or changes the item to pencils or paper instead of leaving it as widget.
Inventory systems fail because they aren't kept up-to-date.
They aren't kept up-to-date because updating the records is too difficult.
The usual fix is to write a brand-new inventory system with too many fields for anyone to want to waste time tracking.
However, the new system does fix the inaccuracy of the inventory (for a while).
That is only because during implementation, everything is counted and entered.
Keeping things up-to-date is a lot gnarlier problem and at minimum, it requires having fewer fields to track and management buy-in to make sure employees follow the process.
Most SAP implementations fail the same way. Too much crap to track and no management buy-in for the process.
Should we expect it to take much time to post a new notice or change some text on the front page of a website?
Exactly. I am one of the government workers who 'shut down' our website.
/* for you manager types, I cannot serve up a web page if I have shut my web server down */
All I did was replace the index page and altered the security program to prevent working even if you still had a valid cookie.
It took me 30 seconds to log in (from home) and undo the fixes (and most of that time was spent logging in).
Shutdown means different things to different people. For the last shutdown, we were given two conflicting orders:
1. Turn off the web servers
2. Display a web page to visitors announcing we are shut down.
That isn't a problem of government; it is a problem of non-techie managers freaking out and trying to one-up each other.
I have seen similar things happen in private industry.
It's a sad day indeed when you're judged by you're social skills when applying to a tech job.
Unlike a job interview? (sarcasm). Seems to me most of the questions asked face-to-face are about social skills.
I'm not saying that's good or bad; I'm simply observing that it _is_ that way already.
Searching your fBook and g+ profiles is just another way of putting lipstick on that process.
Aren't they gonna miss a hell of a lot of loners this way?
If you wanna have a second-rate tech force, go ahead, Google. Make sure all your elites have lead water pipes like ancient Rome did.
Google has an edge over the competition because they hire people two different ways.
One is with interviews, job fairs, big data searches (which are a good option. Joel Spolsky has noted that the very best workers are rarely looking for a job).
The other way to 'hire' people is just to buy their damn company. This is how Google gets many of the hotshot loner types.
Other companies cannot do that.
Google considers Google Apps a viable replacement for Microsoft Office, so I can see where they would think Googe+ circles are a replacement for real interviewing and hiring skills.
That is really funny.
However, examine assumptions and you end up with a sclerotic defense of Google.
Good interviewing and hiring skills _are_ extremely rare. There are thousands of articles about trying to fix the process.
The fakiness of the entire situation is why they are in sync. Most of the current companies aren't actually companies. They aren't profitable and are just holding on in the hopes of being bought out by someone else with too much money and nothing to do with it because private people cannot invest in roads, bridges, and other governmental infrastructure.
Excellent insight except for thinking it is a Google problem.
"echo-chamber hiring" is a new term. The classic term in sociology, probably politically incorrect now, was called 'homosexual reproduction.'
The Bush administration's use of Condeleeza Rice was an example of that. On the outside, she was a Black woman, but on the inside, she thought exactly the same as all the other Republicans and thus you don't get to take advantage of having different thought patterns and insights in your group.
I think the downward spiral of American auto manufacturing was caused by this. You had a bunch of old rich white men WHO DON'T EVEN DRIVE THEIR OWN VEHICLES ANY MORE building cars. It's a good way to lose touch with the market place.
There are 6000 different taxing entities in the United States.
Each one of them charges different taxes on different categories of goods.
Each one of them can use a different categorization, each one can charge different taxes on different categories or items, and the tax rate can change at pretty much any time.
And none of them have an obligation to inform anyone about outside the State/County/City about the rate change.
Now go write me some code that works.
They may or may not cover different timescales, but the process is generally the same, both code AND coders get better over time.