So what your saying is that comparing iPads to PCs is like comparing apples and oranges?
An interesting comparison would be thin, light-weight laptop that's powerful enough for "real work" but mobile enough for "meetings" versus a beefy Desktop PC (for "real work") mated with an iPad (for "meetings"). The high end laptops run about $1500... less power at the desk, but more power in meetings. Desktop PCs run about $1000 and the iPads are selling for $600.
There's also a debate that most people can print 5-10 pages or bring notebooks to meetings so they can get by with only a Desktop PC.
Ultimately, different users get their work done most efficiently with different sets of tools. Finding the most efficient configuration for each individual user without breaking the bank is a key goal of managing an organization.
I've spent upwards of 20 minutes at various lights all over the downtown area because I had the bad luck of being at that intersection during change of classes and the 12,000 students in the building started streaming across the street whether there was a WALK symbol or not.
Where I went to college they did a pedestrian footbridge at the major road that runs through campus. Granted, our school only had 6,000 total students, but it was nice to be completely disconnected from worrying about cars/traffic walking 10-15 minutes back-and-forth to class everyday.
1. Develop a manner where a person could support themselves legitimately anywhere in the world. (ie: generate legit income from fair labour) 2. Develop a manner where a person could know what organizations to support and which to avoid. 3. Help inform people about what they do that is positive. 4. Cultivate talent. 5. Grow numbers. 6. Maintain their own security. 7. Shun asshats. 8. Give and get some lulz that are positive. Remember sometimes the lulz are funny. 9. Create some technologies and give them away to the planet. 10. Develop a future for Anonymous. What is Anonymous in 20yrs? Is it still an underground group of loosely affiliated people? Is it every human being on the planet? What are the goals of this group? What should the goals be? What shouldn't the goals be?
1. This currently falls under the jurisdiction of education / apprenticeship / schools. There are too many varied industries that any advise you get from a single one of them is going to end up being terribly biased. 2. http://www.charitynavigator.com. 3. Anonymous has carried a good track record of punishing groups who sorta deserve it. That's a good thing, to me. 4-7. Gonna skip these b/c they are too general. 8. Practical jokes are actually really hard to pull off without causing damage... so this would indeed be something to see. 9. LOIC ? 10. I think the goal is that Anonymous will only exist if it has to. The end goal is for the organization to not need to exist 20 years from now.
Let's not pretend that public transit is a good alternative either because in a lot of places (like Phoenix where I live) it's a joke.
If public transportation fucking sucks in Arizona and taxation that punished single-occupancy commuters did manage to get passed through the Federal level, it sounds like Arizona costs of living would increase and the companies there would either need to grin and bare it by paying their employees higher rates or risk losing those employees to states that have actually fucking invested in good public transit.
I don't see this happening with either a Republican or Democratic Congress (Reps wouldn't want to hurt the oil companies, Dems wouldn't want to hurt the people in shitty-public transportation states). So enjoy living in a state which doesn't invest in itself where your local taxes presumably are low! I'm happy paying a higher fee to my local overlords so they can provide reasonable services.
Banning anonymity without thinking about the negative consequences for true expression of the unpopular, embarrassing, and taboo.
It's possible to express unpopular, embarrassing, and taboo ideas without being anonymous. Problem is it just takes a heck of a lot more conviction to put your name behind these sorts of beliefs. The ability to be anonymous definitely empowers people to push the limits of what is appropriate.
That being said, anonymity is important when you need to spread a message that would put your own personal safety at risk.
Specifically, the quotes from Terrell Harris from the Executive Office
of Public Safety does not make it seem like the state is doing anything
to respect the privacy of law-abiding citizens. My understanding is that
data retention for the data gathered by ALPR scanners is not under any
reasonable level of control.
I believe it would be appropriate to place limitations on the level of
access given to law enforcement and also limitations on how long
the commonwealth can archive the information that it collects on
law abiding citizens.
If you know of any work being done so that ALPR can help to make
the streets safer without compromising personal privacy, it would be
good to share that with the world. If no work is being done to limit
ALPR, it's worth noting that personal privacy is an important issue
in the commonwealth and it would be wonderful to see you take up
this cause.
This link to help people contact MA government officials took WAY to long to find from the state's website, mass.gov. I hope people get good use out of it.
If I order something by mail or drive up to New Hampshire and buy an item, I am responsible for paying the tax here in Rhode Island.
Problem is that the State of Rhode Island would have a very heavy burden on their shoulders to setup a system of gates at their border crossings to allow them to enforce the "bought in New Hampshire by resident of Rhode Island" system of responsible sales taxing. The fact that people DON'T honestly report these purchases is why this legislation is necessary in the first place. As a greater percentage of taxable purchases are made online, states are forced to evolve. This works great for states like New Hampshire where property taxes are already really, really high. Other states that rely more heavily on sales and income taxes aren't properly equipped to handle the interstate nature of online business.
Also, by definition, state laws legislated by state legislatures cannot be unconstitutional. IIRC, the constitution says Congress can't make laws the place any restrictions on interstate commerce. The states are free to do whatever the fuck they want.
I have an idea whose argument is intellectually bereft, and it's not Amazon's.
State laws were written during a time where individuals couldn't easily conduct interstate business. The fact that Amazon makes purchasing goods trivial means that States need to adapt their laws to replace the lost sales taxes or adapt to live without those lost sales tax (and offer less services to their residents).
How do they determine if code from an open source program was used from the binary program?
This would be determined by isolating a version of the executable used in competition and then asking the developers to run through a procedure using only the source code to create an exact duplicate of the competition binary. Comparing that the 1's and 0's in two different executables are identical is fairly trivial.
shitty and hacked-up Linux 'distros' which appeared on the first netbooks certainly didn't help
Yes! Exactly!
I am a "Linux Guy". Linux has been my main OS for the last decade. The version of Ubuntu on my 10" Dell Netbook somehow missed the QA process. When application vendors design windows that are taller than 600 pixels (which can't be resized) and the laptop screen is 480 pixels, the OS must include a capability to deal with it. Also, for whatever reason they replaced the Firefox icon with a blue orb.
I'm a big fan of the Netbook itself, though. It's a great Internet / E-mail / Word Processor system. Warts be damned, it's the best $200 minus $50 gift card computer I've ever gotten. And the 4GB hard drive hasn't slowed me down since cheap USB drives are easily obtained.
Is it possible that the private sector has realized it needs to stop leaning on the judicial branch of the government as a crutch? This proposal at least seems better than their response to extort settlements from people in courts, so that's a step in the right direction.
The "copyright awareness" program seems like a worthy response. If they assume that their customers are innocent when they decide to take action, a course about securing your wireless connection and teaching their kids about not downloading stuff would be useful. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to then throttle the Internet for customers who ignore the awareness program. However, there WILL be hell to pay if they start blocking everything but the top 200 websites.
In the end, it's there goddamn network and they can do whatever they want with it. If these "antipiracy" networks are unpopular, other "more expensive" options will form in niche markets. Customers will *probably* be happy to pay more to companies who provide the premium service of not being the Internet police for the RIAA/MPAA.
Full disclosure... I'm not a pirate. I'm a strong supporter of Creative Commons. I believe the real path to freeing our culture isn't going to be achieved by ignoring copyright infringement laws, but rather by ignoring artists who continue to release their work with restrictive copyrights.
I can imagine a circumstance that redacting the information would be appropriate. Imagine Sarah signs up for some service that is important for her job. The company she signs up with will create a username for her. Imagine she forgets her password and they send her Xdfsi432A%3 as her new password. Now, any self-respecting service would require that she change this password as soon as she attempts to login. Any self-respecting person reviewing these documents who strike out the password, though, even though it is very unlikely to be useable. It is hard to make an argument that this temporary password wasn't a private piece of information that only Sarah should ever be given access to use.
And just for the record... I *do* want to generally state that I think Sarah is an idiot who shouldn't be trusted more than we can throw her. I'm not entirely convinced that printing the e-mails is easier than putting them on a DVD. I just want to provide a voice to defend the action of the government since every other aspect of this discussion seems to be outraged that the government is behaving so stupidly. It's not stupid. Sarah has the right to some minimal level of privacy while she was acting as the governor. It is *good* that gaining access to electronic records is limited to records which affect state business.
I understand that they redacted certain personal parts from the e-mails. It is easier to print e-mails and draw a black line through text and then make a photocopy to eliminate the previously printed part than to eliminate it electronically. In the past, government has been laughed at for trying to electronically delete information from electronic files and having those deleted passages available through various "change tracking" mechanisms. Alas, the printed copies are truly the easier to deal with option until electronic means to purge individual bits of information reliably is created. And though this is not going to be a popular opinion, kudos to the Alaskan government for offering the printed versions of the (presumably redacted) e-mails to private industry so that taxpayers don't have to pay for the digitization of 24,000 pages in communication from the former governor.
In that case, ripped off content of sites that Google scans hourly will get credit while real authors who maintain sites that are scanned less frequently won't get the credit they deserve. The new SEO will be "use blogger" which gets scanned (at least by Google) when you press "Publish". Unless Google can collaborate with other sites which allow users to publish data for the "first published" data? Does WordPress have hooks for such a collaboration? Would such a system be able to track plagiarism that is changed/tweaked a bit by a derivative author? I believe derivative content creators already have ways of giving credit to where it's due. I'd sure love to see original content (if such a thing exists in this day and age) and credit-where-its-due content get promoted while the copiers and derivative cheapskates get buried.
Consider that they removed all picture, video, and audio clip clues from Jeopardy because Watson was designed to interpret and contextualize digitized, written human language including (but not limited to) subtle nuances.
I think A LOT of diagnosis from Watson will come from Jeopardy-style inputs. "Patient is a 37 year-old married male Caucasian with no history of heart disease who is suffering from chest pain in the morning when he wakes up and whenever he attempts rigorous activity."
Extremely experienced doctors can contextualize those sorts of "case details" to get thinking along the lines of what issues they would expect to see in this situation. Watson should be able to diagnose at least as well as an extremely experienced doctor because of its ability to understand the difference between a middle-aged man with chest pain versus an older woman or a young child. Nuances. Theoretically, Watson is already more experienced than the most experienced doctor in the world for frequently occurring, normal medical conditions.
I'd guess that hospitals will use Watson like the team on House uses their office to brainstorm for ideas. Oftentimes the point isn't to figure out the diagnosis. The point is to figure out the test that will verify a correct diagnosis and eliminate all the other possibilities.
This seems to be one of the offending edits. The point earlier was that any edits had been cleaned up by the mob. Wikipedia is working. Order has been restored to the galaxy.
Re: Find of page? Really? -- Do you know a better way of describing the menu that pops up when you type "/" in Firefox (or Vi, which is where the keystroke originates)? Instead of reading the whole page, I did this quick search for a target word "gun" and found no references to any of Palin's antics.
The doorbell for my apartment calls a Google Voice number which is forwarded to myself and my soon-to-be-wife. Both of us being able to let people in with our phones is pretty handy. Also, programming the contact in our phones to be "Doorbell" is a handy way of answering the buzz.
Income taxes would be easy to figure out if people only got paid from one source and never got to take any deductions. People don't get paid from a single source, and more importantly deductions are pretty entrenched into the system. But many people and corporations are very happy with their deductions that they don't mind having the extra paperwork so that others who aren't entitled to those deductions get to pay a higher effective tax rate. Trillions of dollars from the real estate market are dependent on one particularly meaningful deduction which puts thousands of dollars into new homeowners pockets every year.
The list of people who "earn a living" publishing content with copy-friendly licenses is surprisingly short. A far greater amount of people can "earn a living" publishing content through the traditional distributors. I'm not saying this is the way it will always be, but it would take a seriously well informed argue to convince me that the pendulum is actually shifting from "traditional distribution" to "copy-friendly distribution" and that the people doing this are making money.
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+1STR, +1CON(Side effects may include; but are not limited to, -1DEX, +1d6 illusory CHA, -1d6WIS).
More Strength, More Confidence, Less Dexterity, More Confusion, Less Wisdom. Yeah... that sums up being drunk.
So what your saying is that comparing iPads to PCs is like comparing apples and oranges?
An interesting comparison would be thin, light-weight laptop that's powerful enough for "real work" but mobile enough for "meetings" versus a beefy Desktop PC (for "real work") mated with an iPad (for "meetings"). The high end laptops run about $1500... less power at the desk, but more power in meetings. Desktop PCs run about $1000 and the iPads are selling for $600.
There's also a debate that most people can print 5-10 pages or bring notebooks to meetings so they can get by with only a Desktop PC.
Ultimately, different users get their work done most efficiently with different sets of tools. Finding the most efficient configuration for each individual user without breaking the bank is a key goal of managing an organization.
I've spent upwards of 20 minutes at various lights all over the downtown area because I had the bad luck of being at that intersection during change of classes and the 12,000 students in the building started streaming across the street whether there was a WALK symbol or not.
Where I went to college they did a pedestrian footbridge at the major road that runs through campus. Granted, our school only had 6,000 total students, but it was nice to be completely disconnected from worrying about cars/traffic walking 10-15 minutes back-and-forth to class everyday.
Seems like the justification is that iPod Touch is more durable than Nintendo DS.
1. Develop a manner where a person could support themselves legitimately anywhere in the world. (ie: generate legit income from fair labour)
2. Develop a manner where a person could know what organizations to support and which to avoid.
3. Help inform people about what they do that is positive.
4. Cultivate talent.
5. Grow numbers.
6. Maintain their own security.
7. Shun asshats.
8. Give and get some lulz that are positive. Remember sometimes the lulz are funny.
9. Create some technologies and give them away to the planet.
10. Develop a future for Anonymous. What is Anonymous in 20yrs? Is it still an underground group of loosely affiliated people? Is it every human being on the planet? What are the goals of this group? What should the goals be? What shouldn't the goals be?
1. This currently falls under the jurisdiction of education / apprenticeship / schools. There are too many varied industries that any advise you get from a single one of them is going to end up being terribly biased.
2. http://www.charitynavigator.com.
3. Anonymous has carried a good track record of punishing groups who sorta deserve it. That's a good thing, to me.
4-7. Gonna skip these b/c they are too general.
8. Practical jokes are actually really hard to pull off without causing damage... so this would indeed be something to see.
9. LOIC ?
10. I think the goal is that Anonymous will only exist if it has to. The end goal is for the organization to not need to exist 20 years from now.
cathedral (LinkedIn) and a Bazaar (Facebook)
I thought cathedral was "They Control It" and bazaar was "You Control It".
Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn are all Cathedrals.
Diaspora is a Bazaar.
Let's not pretend that public transit is a good alternative either because in a lot of places (like Phoenix where I live) it's a joke.
If public transportation fucking sucks in Arizona and taxation that punished single-occupancy commuters did manage to get passed through the Federal level, it sounds like Arizona costs of living would increase and the companies there would either need to grin and bare it by paying their employees higher rates or risk losing those employees to states that have actually fucking invested in good public transit.
I don't see this happening with either a Republican or Democratic Congress (Reps wouldn't want to hurt the oil companies, Dems wouldn't want to hurt the people in shitty-public transportation states). So enjoy living in a state which doesn't invest in itself where your local taxes presumably are low! I'm happy paying a higher fee to my local overlords so they can provide reasonable services.
Banning anonymity without thinking about the negative consequences for true expression of the unpopular, embarrassing, and taboo.
It's possible to express unpopular, embarrassing, and taboo ideas without being anonymous. Problem is it just takes a heck of a lot more conviction to put your name behind these sorts of beliefs. The ability to be anonymous definitely empowers people to push the limits of what is appropriate.
That being said, anonymity is important when you need to spread a message that would put your own personal safety at risk.
And what the hell... right? A form letter for anybody who wants to write their state rep:
Representative,
I have voted for you in the past. I am very curious if you have any comments about the subject of this recent news item:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1353264
Specifically, the quotes from Terrell Harris from the Executive Office of Public Safety does not make it seem like the state is doing anything to respect the privacy of law-abiding citizens. My understanding is that data retention for the data gathered by ALPR scanners is not under any reasonable level of control.
I believe it would be appropriate to place limitations on the level of access given to law enforcement and also limitations on how long the commonwealth can archive the information that it collects on law abiding citizens.
If you know of any work being done so that ALPR can help to make the streets safer without compromising personal privacy, it would be good to share that with the world. If no work is being done to limit ALPR, it's worth noting that personal privacy is an important issue in the commonwealth and it would be wonderful to see you take up this cause.
Best Regards,
*signed*
This link to help people contact MA government officials took WAY to long to find from the state's website, mass.gov. I hope people get good use out of it.
If I order something by mail or drive up to New Hampshire and buy an item, I am responsible for paying the tax here in Rhode Island.
Problem is that the State of Rhode Island would have a very heavy burden on their shoulders to setup a system of gates at their border crossings to allow them to enforce the "bought in New Hampshire by resident of Rhode Island" system of responsible sales taxing. The fact that people DON'T honestly report these purchases is why this legislation is necessary in the first place. As a greater percentage of taxable purchases are made online, states are forced to evolve. This works great for states like New Hampshire where property taxes are already really, really high. Other states that rely more heavily on sales and income taxes aren't properly equipped to handle the interstate nature of online business.
Also, by definition, state laws legislated by state legislatures cannot be unconstitutional. IIRC, the constitution says Congress can't make laws the place any restrictions on interstate commerce. The states are free to do whatever the fuck they want.
I have an idea whose argument is intellectually bereft, and it's not Amazon's.
State laws were written during a time where individuals couldn't easily conduct interstate business. The fact that Amazon makes purchasing goods trivial means that States need to adapt their laws to replace the lost sales taxes or adapt to live without those lost sales tax (and offer less services to their residents).
How do they determine if code from an open source program was used from the binary program?
This would be determined by isolating a version of the executable used in competition and then asking the developers to run through a procedure using only the source code to create an exact duplicate of the competition binary. Comparing that the 1's and 0's in two different executables are identical is fairly trivial.
shitty and hacked-up Linux 'distros' which appeared on the first netbooks certainly didn't help
Yes! Exactly!
I am a "Linux Guy". Linux has been my main OS for the last decade. The version of Ubuntu on my 10" Dell Netbook somehow missed the QA process. When application vendors design windows that are taller than 600 pixels (which can't be resized) and the laptop screen is 480 pixels, the OS must include a capability to deal with it. Also, for whatever reason they replaced the Firefox icon with a blue orb.
I'm a big fan of the Netbook itself, though. It's a great Internet / E-mail / Word Processor system. Warts be damned, it's the best $200 minus $50 gift card computer I've ever gotten. And the 4GB hard drive hasn't slowed me down since cheap USB drives are easily obtained.
Is it possible that the private sector has realized it needs to stop leaning on the judicial branch of the government as a crutch? This proposal at least seems better than their response to extort settlements from people in courts, so that's a step in the right direction.
The "copyright awareness" program seems like a worthy response. If they assume that their customers are innocent when they decide to take action, a course about securing your wireless connection and teaching their kids about not downloading stuff would be useful. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to then throttle the Internet for customers who ignore the awareness program. However, there WILL be hell to pay if they start blocking everything but the top 200 websites.
In the end, it's there goddamn network and they can do whatever they want with it. If these "antipiracy" networks are unpopular, other "more expensive" options will form in niche markets. Customers will *probably* be happy to pay more to companies who provide the premium service of not being the Internet police for the RIAA/MPAA.
Full disclosure... I'm not a pirate. I'm a strong supporter of Creative Commons. I believe the real path to freeing our culture isn't going to be achieved by ignoring copyright infringement laws, but rather by ignoring artists who continue to release their work with restrictive copyrights.
Paying for porn is like paying for kittens.
How so? And exchange of dollars for a little bit of pussy?
I can imagine a circumstance that redacting the information would be appropriate. Imagine Sarah signs up for some service that is important for her job. The company she signs up with will create a username for her. Imagine she forgets her password and they send her Xdfsi432A%3 as her new password. Now, any self-respecting service would require that she change this password as soon as she attempts to login. Any self-respecting person reviewing these documents who strike out the password, though, even though it is very unlikely to be useable. It is hard to make an argument that this temporary password wasn't a private piece of information that only Sarah should ever be given access to use.
And just for the record... I *do* want to generally state that I think Sarah is an idiot who shouldn't be trusted more than we can throw her. I'm not entirely convinced that printing the e-mails is easier than putting them on a DVD. I just want to provide a voice to defend the action of the government since every other aspect of this discussion seems to be outraged that the government is behaving so stupidly. It's not stupid. Sarah has the right to some minimal level of privacy while she was acting as the governor. It is *good* that gaining access to electronic records is limited to records which affect state business.
I understand that they redacted certain personal parts from the e-mails. It is easier to print e-mails and draw a black line through text and then make a photocopy to eliminate the previously printed part than to eliminate it electronically. In the past, government has been laughed at for trying to electronically delete information from electronic files and having those deleted passages available through various "change tracking" mechanisms. Alas, the printed copies are truly the easier to deal with option until electronic means to purge individual bits of information reliably is created. And though this is not going to be a popular opinion, kudos to the Alaskan government for offering the printed versions of the (presumably redacted) e-mails to private industry so that taxpayers don't have to pay for the digitization of 24,000 pages in communication from the former governor.
In that case, ripped off content of sites that Google scans hourly will get credit while real authors who maintain sites that are scanned less frequently won't get the credit they deserve. The new SEO will be "use blogger" which gets scanned (at least by Google) when you press "Publish". Unless Google can collaborate with other sites which allow users to publish data for the "first published" data? Does WordPress have hooks for such a collaboration? Would such a system be able to track plagiarism that is changed/tweaked a bit by a derivative author? I believe derivative content creators already have ways of giving credit to where it's due. I'd sure love to see original content (if such a thing exists in this day and age) and credit-where-its-due content get promoted while the copiers and derivative cheapskates get buried.
Consider that they removed all picture, video, and audio clip clues from Jeopardy because Watson was designed to interpret and contextualize digitized, written human language including (but not limited to) subtle nuances.
I think A LOT of diagnosis from Watson will come from Jeopardy-style inputs. "Patient is a 37 year-old married male Caucasian with no history of heart disease who is suffering from chest pain in the morning when he wakes up and whenever he attempts rigorous activity."
Extremely experienced doctors can contextualize those sorts of "case details" to get thinking along the lines of what issues they would expect to see in this situation. Watson should be able to diagnose at least as well as an extremely experienced doctor because of its ability to understand the difference between a middle-aged man with chest pain versus an older woman or a young child. Nuances. Theoretically, Watson is already more experienced than the most experienced doctor in the world for frequently occurring, normal medical conditions.
I'd guess that hospitals will use Watson like the team on House uses their office to brainstorm for ideas. Oftentimes the point isn't to figure out the diagnosis. The point is to figure out the test that will verify a correct diagnosis and eliminate all the other possibilities.
According to Watson Toronto is the ONLY American city with one airport named after a WWII Soldier and another airport named after a WWII Battle.
This seems to be one of the offending edits. The point earlier was that any edits had been cleaned up by the mob. Wikipedia is working. Order has been restored to the galaxy.
Re: Find of page? Really? -- Do you know a better way of describing the menu that pops up when you type "/" in Firefox (or Vi, which is where the keystroke originates)? Instead of reading the whole page, I did this quick search for a target word "gun" and found no references to any of Palin's antics.
Paul Revere page. Presently (using "Find on Page" techniques) it says nothing about the vandalism described.
The doorbell for my apartment calls a Google Voice number which is forwarded to myself and my soon-to-be-wife. Both of us being able to let people in with our phones is pretty handy. Also, programming the contact in our phones to be "Doorbell" is a handy way of answering the buzz.
Income taxes would be easy to figure out if people only got paid from one source and never got to take any deductions. People don't get paid from a single source, and more importantly deductions are pretty entrenched into the system. But many people and corporations are very happy with their deductions that they don't mind having the extra paperwork so that others who aren't entitled to those deductions get to pay a higher effective tax rate. Trillions of dollars from the real estate market are dependent on one particularly meaningful deduction which puts thousands of dollars into new homeowners pockets every year.
The list of people who "earn a living" publishing content with copy-friendly licenses is surprisingly short. A far greater amount of people can "earn a living" publishing content through the traditional distributors. I'm not saying this is the way it will always be, but it would take a seriously well informed argue to convince me that the pendulum is actually shifting from "traditional distribution" to "copy-friendly distribution" and that the people doing this are making money.