I don't see how this is a privacy issue. The system would be attached to existing CCTV networks. If it flags something, then a real person looks at it. Contrast this with a system where real people attempt to watch 8-20 or whatever screens and make any sense of it...
1) There already are CCTV cameras going, this doesn't make more. 2) It doesn't automatically summon the police when it flags something. I can't imagine police who would respond to a computer, can you?
I'm married with two happy children. I know several people who have gotten divorced and have shared custody of children. None are IT professionals.
The high instance of divorce in the US is much more related to materialism, disconnectedness (also called "independence") and ideas of "self", attitudes towards relationships and the myth of satisfaction than any scapegoat, popular (homosexuality) or unpopular (IT professionals).
I always tell my single friends that finding a spouse and marriage is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
Good luck on your thesis. I hope it's well researched and well received. Obviously there's more to it than you could put in an "Ask Slashdot."
My first tech job was for an application that ran for multiple clients. Each had their own url at our domain name. To protect the guilty here, let's refer to the company as ScholarApp.com.
URLs included APS.ScholarApp.com, ACM.ScholarApp.com, and IEEE.ScholarApp.com.
We regularly got calls from users who had received the URL by mail or in the appropriate medical journal who just couldn't get the page up.
"What URL are you typing in?" I would ask.
"I'm typing www.aps.scholarapp.com."
We'd never thought of adding extra DNS entries for the URLs with www prepended! So I'd ask them, "Please try it again without the double-u, double-u, double-u."
"No double-u, double-u, double-u?" ALWAYS. They ALWAYS asked this. "Yes," I would think, "there is such a thing as a web page with no www on it."
"No," I had to clarify again and again, "no double-u, double-u, double-u."
Sometimes this would be repeated 3 or 4 times a call. It didn't take long for "www" to start sounding like complete alien gibberish in my ears.
Okay I did buy the bottom of the line Best Buy special, but my Toshiba Satellite didn't get past the video recognition on the Ubuntu live or install cd.
So, it's still running XP and my wife is using it...
My next portable will be selected based on compatibility, not only on price...;)
> "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends" - Koran 5.51
Thanks for putting this line in your sig. It's an excellent example of how misleading it can be to take advice out of context. For example a few lines later the advice is repeated: "O you who believe! do not take for guardians those who take your religion for a mockery and a joke, from among those who were given the Book before you and the unbelievers;"
So we can understand from the further refinement of the advice that "the Jews and Christians" referred to here aren't "anyone calling himself a Jew or a Christian" but rather "those Jews and Christians around you now who don't respect you." Good advice, don't make friends with people who mock your religion. Don't think they're going to help you out if you need it just because you've been friendly with them.
You need to shop for a better calling card. These days you can find calling cards on the Net with targeted areas: calls to China, calls to Brazil, calls to Eastern Africa, etc.
In 1997 the best per minute rate available from the Continental US to Malawi was $3.55. In the last ten years we watched the price we were paying drop through $1.25, $0.90, $0.75, $0.35, $0.125... Today I pay $0.07 with no "connection fee".
I haven't been able to find a VOIP solution that comes close to that. (PC to PC calls are not an option since folks in Malawi still have expensive "pay for every minute of every call you make" phone service and dial up Internet. PC to PC would mean free for me, but my in-laws would pay about $0.06/min to be online. And when I say dial up, I mean "Oh my word, could it be any slower".)
That's it! I'm going to download the slashcode and hack in an auto-dupe-check using diff... If you are too similar the article get's an automatic first post of "DUPE!"
Seems like every time the OLPC project comes up, someone brings this up. Fact is, there ARE people working on improving supplies of drinking water and irrigating crops. The MIT Media Lab isn't going to be involved in that. They do stuff like come up with technology that can be used in classrooms where the school budges barely pay the teachers, let alone buy books for the students. That's awesome. The problem has lots of aspects, let's look at as improving as many as we can
Are you saying that this project won't succeed because there are parts of developing countries that don't have close access to clean drinking water? Or are you suggesting we only look at one aspect of the problem at a time? Because, that hasn't worked very well, yet.
I wish I had a book or something to suggest as reading for folks who don't "get" international Social and Economic Development. Best I can suggest is calling your local Peace Corps recruiter or Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Association.
Wilson is writing another book called "Where's My Jetpack?"
on scientific predictions for the future that never panned out.
Once that is finished, it is back to the all-too-human work of
looking for a robotics research job, while still promoting his book.
Let me quote They Might Be Giant's 2004 song The World Before Later On which includes the phrase "Where's my jet pack?"
I'm trapped in a world before later on, I'm trapped in a world before later on,
Where's my hovercraft? Where's my jet pack? Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?
We're trapped in a world before later on, We're trapped in a world before later on,
Where's our telray? Where's our space face? Where are all the complications we won't see around?
Hey, that makes sense. Is this one of those silly details I would know if I'd read the article?:) It's getting t'ward the end of a long day here... phew...
yeah it's faster than my Dial up, faster than my current DSL. But the stories about WiMax refer to 50-100 Mbs. And it should take less investment to add a WiMax transmitter to current cell towers than to invent a way to keep blimps at 24km reliably, without storm clouds providing interference. I mean, 11Mbs is one more than the 10 in good old "10 base T", right? I say, not fast enough to bother... blah.
What's happening? Uh... we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPM reports.
Mmmm... yeah. You see, we're putting the coversheets on all TPM reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo about this?
Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that will be great. And uh, I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo mmm'k?
Sorry to be the language police here, but the terms 1st, 2nd, 3rd world are out dated. Here's what they used to mean: 1st world: Developed democracy 2nd world: quasi-developed communist 3rd world: neither 1st nor 2nd world.
The standard terms these days are: Developed nation Developing nation and occasionally Undeveloped or Underdeveloped nation.
The reason for this is exactly the spectrum you describe.One finds great disparities in levels of development within developing countries these days. One region or urban area may have a sophisticated economy with reliable communication, water and electricity, but due to lack of roads or other factors, 50 miles away in a rural region, you may find subsistence farmers with no access even to basic health care. And even in that urban area, there are rich neighborhoods with pools and two car garages, and slums with tin shacks, outhouses and a community spigot. Think of the US in the late 1800s.
1. Article is about a hotel that DOES this. Therefore, we're talking about it happening.
2. Snopes article has been revised a few times over the last several years. So, some of the information is older than other parts of the information.
3. "One of the difficulties in dealing with crime-related warnings is trying to distinguish between common occurrences to which the average person is likely to fall victim, and circumstances which are possible but have rarely (or never) played out in real life." from the Snopes article.
4. The Snopes article quotes a security expert who tested 6 cards at a security conference. 3 contained personal information, including one with a credit card number.
My experience at Walt Disney World is that the room key can be used in a credit card swiper and charges the card used to reserve the room. I still have this key card. If I ever get a stripe reader, I'll check.
The point of the Snopes article isn't that you will never find a CC number on a key card. The point is that they are not aware of this as an ACTUAL security threat. There's no reason that can't change in the near future, of course.
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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it stronger...
I don't see how this is a privacy issue. The system would be attached to existing CCTV networks. If it flags something, then a real person looks at it. Contrast this with a system where real people attempt to watch 8-20 or whatever screens and make any sense of it...
1) There already are CCTV cameras going, this doesn't make more.
2) It doesn't automatically summon the police when it flags something. I can't imagine police who would respond to a computer, can you?
I'm married with two happy children. I know several people who have gotten divorced and have shared custody of children. None are IT professionals.
The high instance of divorce in the US is much more related to materialism, disconnectedness (also called "independence") and ideas of "self", attitudes towards relationships and the myth of satisfaction than any scapegoat, popular (homosexuality) or unpopular (IT professionals).
I always tell my single friends that finding a spouse and marriage is more about being the right person than finding the right person.
Good luck on your thesis. I hope it's well researched and well received. Obviously there's more to it than you could put in an "Ask Slashdot."
Is the laptop give-out paid for with tuition or taxes?
My first tech job was for an application that ran for multiple clients. Each had their own url at our domain name. To protect the guilty here, let's refer to the company as ScholarApp.com.
URLs included APS.ScholarApp.com, ACM.ScholarApp.com, and IEEE.ScholarApp.com.
We regularly got calls from users who had received the URL by mail or in the appropriate medical journal who just couldn't get the page up.
"What URL are you typing in?" I would ask.
"I'm typing www.aps.scholarapp.com."
We'd never thought of adding extra DNS entries for the URLs with www prepended! So I'd ask them, "Please try it again without the double-u, double-u, double-u."
"No double-u, double-u, double-u?" ALWAYS. They ALWAYS asked this. "Yes," I would think, "there is such a thing as a web page with no www on it."
"No," I had to clarify again and again, "no double-u, double-u, double-u."
Sometimes this would be repeated 3 or 4 times a call. It didn't take long for "www" to start sounding like complete alien gibberish in my ears.
Use this technique with a showing of "Snakes on a Plane". ...
"Snakes on a Plane on a Sphere"
You'd get
Okay I did buy the bottom of the line Best Buy special, but my Toshiba Satellite didn't get past the video recognition on the Ubuntu live or install cd. ;)
So, it's still running XP and my wife is using it...
My next portable will be selected based on compatibility, not only on price...
> "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends" - Koran 5.51
Thanks for putting this line in your sig. It's an excellent example of how misleading it can be to take advice out of context. For example a few lines later the advice is repeated:
"O you who believe! do not take for guardians those who take your religion for a mockery and a joke, from among those who were given the Book before you and the unbelievers;"
So we can understand from the further refinement of the advice that "the Jews and Christians" referred to here aren't "anyone calling himself a Jew or a Christian" but rather "those Jews and Christians around you now who don't respect you." Good advice, don't make friends with people who mock your religion. Don't think they're going to help you out if you need it just because you've been friendly with them.
Again, thanks for the example!
Okay, I'll bite. You spelled it that way three times. What's a labtop?
see, that's funny because, um, it's a theory and uh, science, and uh, scientifically you can't, like, prove a negative
You need to shop for a better calling card. These days you can find calling cards on the Net with targeted areas: calls to China, calls to Brazil, calls to Eastern Africa, etc.
In 1997 the best per minute rate available from the Continental US to Malawi was $3.55. In the last ten years we watched the price we were paying drop through $1.25, $0.90, $0.75, $0.35, $0.125... Today I pay $0.07 with no "connection fee".
I haven't been able to find a VOIP solution that comes close to that. (PC to PC calls are not an option since folks in Malawi still have expensive "pay for every minute of every call you make" phone service and dial up Internet. PC to PC would mean free for me, but my in-laws would pay about $0.06/min to be online. And when I say dial up, I mean "Oh my word, could it be any slower".)
That's it!
I'm going to download the slashcode and hack in an auto-dupe-check using diff... If you are too similar the article get's an automatic first post of "DUPE!"
Perhaps they've concluded that Firefox will continue to erode IE's market share?
CafePress.com is an easy way to make a single unique tshirt. Not expensive either.
Enjoy!
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Seems like every time the OLPC project comes up, someone brings this up. Fact is, there ARE people working on improving supplies of drinking water and irrigating crops. The MIT Media Lab isn't going to be involved in that. They do stuff like come up with technology that can be used in classrooms where the school budges barely pay the teachers, let alone buy books for the students. That's awesome. The problem has lots of aspects, let's look at as improving as many as we can
Are you saying that this project won't succeed because there are parts of developing countries that don't have close access to clean drinking water? Or are you suggesting we only look at one aspect of the problem at a time? Because, that hasn't worked very well, yet.
I wish I had a book or something to suggest as reading for folks who don't "get" international Social and Economic Development. Best I can suggest is calling your local Peace Corps recruiter or Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Association.
http://corporate.honda.com/environment/fuel_cells. aspx?id=fuel_cells_fcxr e_pow.html (chassis)
f irstcat=false&kw=05familyfcx (image gallery)
http://www.honda.co.jp/FCX/ (Flash in Japanese)
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/10/hondas_mo
http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html (with family)
http://www.hondanews.com/CatID2045?view=p&page=1&
Enjoy!
Let me quote They Might Be Giant's 2004 song The World Before Later On which includes the phrase "Where's my jet pack?"
I wonder why msn.com and start.com give you different results when you search for Linux?
Hey, that makes sense. Is this one of those silly details I would know if I'd read the article? :) It's getting t'ward the end of a long day here... phew...
yeah it's faster than my Dial up, faster than my current DSL. But the stories about WiMax refer to 50-100 Mbs. And it should take less investment to add a WiMax transmitter to current cell towers than to invent a way to keep blimps at 24km reliably, without storm clouds providing interference.
I mean, 11Mbs is one more than the 10 in good old "10 base T", right? I say, not fast enough to bother... blah.
-- Mr. Curmudgeon...
That site says:
Vocals: Shek Baker
Trumpet: Kurt Stockdale
Music: Chris Messick
IE: "We're just pretending it's Louis Armstrong, we really did it."
What's happening? Uh... we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPM reports.
Mmmm... yeah. You see, we're putting the coversheets on all TPM reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo about this?
Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that will be great. And uh, I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo mmm'k?
Sorry to be the language police here, but the terms 1st, 2nd, 3rd world are out dated. Here's what they used to mean:
1st world: Developed democracy
2nd world: quasi-developed communist
3rd world: neither 1st nor 2nd world.
The standard terms these days are:
Developed nation
Developing nation
and occasionally Undeveloped or Underdeveloped nation.
The reason for this is exactly the spectrum you describe.One finds great disparities in levels of development within developing countries these days. One region or urban area may have a sophisticated economy with reliable communication, water and electricity, but due to lack of roads or other factors, 50 miles away in a rural region, you may find subsistence farmers with no access even to basic health care. And even in that urban area, there are rich neighborhoods with pools and two car garages, and slums with tin shacks, outhouses and a community spigot. Think of the US in the late 1800s.
1. Article is about a hotel that DOES this. Therefore, we're talking about it happening.
2. Snopes article has been revised a few times over the last several years. So, some of the information is older than other parts of the information.
3. "One of the difficulties in dealing with crime-related warnings is trying to distinguish between common occurrences to which the average person is likely to fall victim, and circumstances which are possible but have rarely (or never) played out in real life." from the Snopes article.
4. The Snopes article quotes a security expert who tested 6 cards at a security conference. 3 contained personal information, including one with a credit card number.
My experience at Walt Disney World is that the room key can be used in a credit card swiper and charges the card used to reserve the room. I still have this key card. If I ever get a stripe reader, I'll check.
The point of the Snopes article isn't that you will never find a CC number on a key card. The point is that they are not aware of this as an ACTUAL security threat. There's no reason that can't change in the near future, of course.