Now the fuel industry in the US will see this as a challenge to get back to the top of CO2 emissions by the end of the year.:S Should have kept quiet about this to help save the planet.:P
As far as I am concerned this is one of the only checks or balances we have remaining to protect human rights violations in the first world, let alone the protections you would want if you were caught for some political reason in some third world country. Yes he needs to face trial. No he does not need to face death or life in prison for journalism at large, sex without a condom, waking up a girlfriend for sex, and scorning two women(one of which has CIA ties). Those are not capital punishment crimes in my book.
What scares me most is the willingness the world seems to have to allow first the violation of Assange's human rights, then to threaten the 10+ international treaties (acts of hostility against a friendly nation) that the world has in place to protect people from such a situation. In the end we are left looking to a third world country, with a somewhat poor record itself, for those rights that should be universal. Australia should be ashamed of itself that he has to resort to Ecuador and not his home nation.
I think this is part of a bigger plan to replace first world toilets and harvest the old ones to send to third world areas that really could use some better sanitation.
Isn't obvious to everyone that this is for domestic or "friendly' spying? I guess it is to replace the "urban flies" that are in use today but really expensive to run for extended periods... I just don't get why it needs to be so big. You would think they would go small and many to enhance their chilling effect. Maybe this is just to scare unwitting populaces that the vorgons have arrived and they will destroy their pitiful sub-continent if they don't comply with their RIAA demands.
Mostly agree, except that you can actually watch the hand, replays could be detected as replays. More advanced systems could of course be created to mimic the angles, pression, velocity, torque, etc in a human way that mimics the original without exactly repeating itself, but then they still have to know the pin, change the pin, and all other factors change. Still I agree that is is vulnerable to someone with enough resources and the same access to the the person/machine that they require now to get access to the pin in the first place. In reality "chip" technology with a pin is probably much better.
Yeah, get rid of the card, use the fingerprint(s) to identify the account, change the keypad to read the fingerprints as you type, use a pin, and record the exact way that the pin is entered. As always you wouldn't have perfect security, but you could probably get a % accuracy that could be adjusted on a per user basis. Also you could weed out systems trying to game the system by honey potting them and checking for patterns that indicate automatic entry.
I can't count how many times I've wanted something like Aeroshot to inhale my caffeine so it could go straight to my blood stream, and here these fish are getting it for free! I wonder if they are breaking any patents? Sue the fish!
That doesn't matter. The fact is that if someone approached me and paid a wad of cash for doing something, unless there were some really weird circumstances at work, I'd probably do my best to please them--or at least, to not piss them off--even if they paid me up front and there were "no strings attached." Plus, if you're the company performing this study, you'd have to consider the possibility that the Wikimedia Foundation might want more studies done in the future, if the results you come up with are beneficial to them.
I've seen this in politics and in corporate studies as well. If at first you don't get a result you agree with, kill the messenger and find someone else to do another study that gives you more favorable results. Bury the first ones and hype the one you like.
While I'm sure there are some organizations and/or corporations who genuinely want completely impartial results, and there are likewise some companies that generate only completely impartial results, I honestly think that it's the exception, not the rule. Any study should be considered extremely suspect that is directly funded by a company or organization it could benefit.
I think the research groups should commission a study on this. I'd be interested to see the results (or comments on/.)
With any luck it will also lead to automatic education systems that will allow all those people learn new skills to better deal with the new world. No doubt it will be hard, and impossible for some, but such are any major shifts in economy and production. Not everyone will succeed, but who said life was fair?
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." ~Warren G. Bennis
Buying this DVD in US? 8$. In Denmark? 14$. In china? 3$).
And all it causes is that potential customers obtain the content for $0.00. And it is unblock-able, and any attempts would just provide temporary bumps in the road as work-around technology is distributed. Just driving prices to $0 and not giving customers an option otherwise. The only time customers will pay is when they are provided extra value they can't achieve in their home computer (live concerts, big screens, exceptional quality video/sound/3D).
I predict a new market for IPv4 addresses for individual businesses. Large hosting companies will buy up IPv4 addresses in bulk from ISPs to sell to server customers, pushing the ISPs to switch to IPv6 allowing the servers to be dual stack with a static IPv4 address. Once the ISPs get onto IPv6 the value of IPv4 will drop, but still be held with some regard for a while while the remaining stragglers and ISPs with huge NATs are forced to convert for their clients that want to access private websites that would start popping up on peoples ISP connected servers. Might not happen that way, but it seems as likely a prediction as any other.
... about improvements for top athletes and elitists. I want my own pair of *perfectly* moulded vibram five fingers! That is an idea I'd want to get behind:D
The people who really need to take a strong look at this technology are Car Sharing Programs like ZipCar, Drive Mint, RelayRides, RideShare, etc. Could all be really boosted by this type of technology... All those programs could be tuned to optimize the value of the car and make the price tag worth it.
If you're doing a crazy dance with the global namespace, you are doing it wrong. Function scope works if you understand it. It isn't C, stop comparing it to C, really has nothing to do with C. Why are you leaving out semicolons, that is bad practice. Most of the inconsistencies are automatically worked around by the major frameworks, or by avoiding stupid functions that don't make sense. I have to give you the bit about the primitives, but the coercion between primitives and their object equivalents has never been an issue for me, and usually is just a convenience. My biggest pet pieve is inconsistant truthiness, usually soved by copious use of === instead of == .
I strongly agree with this. Most people who complain about JavaScript never fully learned it, and hate the DOM (the DOM isn't really JavaScripts fault) I've been working with Node.js for a while, and love it compared to PHP. It's faster too, and my code can run client or serverside depending on the needs/abilities of the browser, bonus!
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Somebody needs to mod this funny :D
Now the fuel industry in the US will see this as a challenge to get back to the top of CO2 emissions by the end of the year. :S :P
Should have kept quiet about this to help save the planet.
As far as I am concerned this is one of the only checks or balances we have remaining to protect human rights violations in the first world, let alone the protections you would want if you were caught for some political reason in some third world country. Yes he needs to face trial. No he does not need to face death or life in prison for journalism at large, sex without a condom, waking up a girlfriend for sex, and scorning two women(one of which has CIA ties). Those are not capital punishment crimes in my book.
What scares me most is the willingness the world seems to have to allow first the violation of Assange's human rights, then to threaten the 10+ international treaties (acts of hostility against a friendly nation) that the world has in place to protect people from such a situation. In the end we are left looking to a third world country, with a somewhat poor record itself, for those rights that should be universal. Australia should be ashamed of itself that he has to resort to Ecuador and not his home nation.
Flamebait? Really? It was meant as a joke.
(btw I meant Vogons not Vorgons)
I think this is part of a bigger plan to replace first world toilets and harvest the old ones to send to third world areas that really could use some better sanitation.
Isn't obvious to everyone that this is for domestic or "friendly' spying?
I guess it is to replace the "urban flies" that are in use today but really expensive to run for extended periods...
I just don't get why it needs to be so big. You would think they would go small and many to enhance their chilling effect.
Maybe this is just to scare unwitting populaces that the vorgons have arrived and they will destroy their pitiful sub-continent if they don't comply with their RIAA demands.
That could be quite a powerful weapon... Shoot someone twice and let the bullets tear a path between each other to damage more tissue. :S
Mostly agree, except that you can actually watch the hand, replays could be detected as replays. More advanced systems could of course be created to mimic the angles, pression, velocity, torque, etc in a human way that mimics the original without exactly repeating itself, but then they still have to know the pin, change the pin, and all other factors change. Still I agree that is is vulnerable to someone with enough resources and the same access to the the person/machine that they require now to get access to the pin in the first place. In reality "chip" technology with a pin is probably much better.
Yeah, get rid of the card, use the fingerprint(s) to identify the account, change the keypad to read the fingerprints as you type, use a pin, and record the exact way that the pin is entered. As always you wouldn't have perfect security, but you could probably get a % accuracy that could be adjusted on a per user basis. Also you could weed out systems trying to game the system by honey potting them and checking for patterns that indicate automatic entry.
I can't count how many times I've wanted something like Aeroshot to inhale my caffeine so it could go straight to my blood stream, and here these fish are getting it for free! I wonder if they are breaking any patents? Sue the fish!
Je ne sais pas que tipo de confusión ce puede causar.......
(It's a joke -- don't mod me down for using alternate languages...)
Instead of reply, I'll give you a xkcd ... http://xkcd.com/978/ :P
Well you are breaking the rules. This is to ensure accuracy. If you want them to change something, you have to have a reference-able source. So go write the book on it, get a newspaper article published or something, then reference it in Wikipedia as you make the change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary.2C_secondary_and_tertiary_sources
That doesn't matter. The fact is that if someone approached me and paid a wad of cash for doing something, unless there were some really weird circumstances at work, I'd probably do my best to please them--or at least, to not piss them off--even if they paid me up front and there were "no strings attached." Plus, if you're the company performing this study, you'd have to consider the possibility that the Wikimedia Foundation might want more studies done in the future, if the results you come up with are beneficial to them.
I've seen this in politics and in corporate studies as well. If at first you don't get a result you agree with, kill the messenger and find someone else to do another study that gives you more favorable results. Bury the first ones and hype the one you like.
While I'm sure there are some organizations and/or corporations who genuinely want completely impartial results, and there are likewise some companies that generate only completely impartial results, I honestly think that it's the exception, not the rule. Any study should be considered extremely suspect that is directly funded by a company or organization it could benefit.
I think the research groups should commission a study on this. I'd be interested to see the results (or comments on /.)
Ok I don't know anything about entanglement, so here is my question: Does it take double the energy to change the spin on an entangled particle?
With any luck it will also lead to automatic education systems that will allow all those people learn new skills to better deal with the new world. No doubt it will be hard, and impossible for some, but such are any major shifts in economy and production. Not everyone will succeed, but who said life was fair?
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." ~Warren G. Bennis
Buying this DVD in US? 8$. In Denmark? 14$. In china? 3$).
And all it causes is that potential customers obtain the content for $0.00. And it is unblock-able, and any attempts would just provide temporary bumps in the road as work-around technology is distributed.
Just driving prices to $0 and not giving customers an option otherwise. The only time customers will pay is when they are provided extra value they can't achieve in their home computer (live concerts, big screens, exceptional quality video/sound/3D).
I predict a new market for IPv4 addresses for individual businesses. Large hosting companies will buy up IPv4 addresses in bulk from ISPs to sell to server customers, pushing the ISPs to switch to IPv6 allowing the servers to be dual stack with a static IPv4 address. Once the ISPs get onto IPv6 the value of IPv4 will drop, but still be held with some regard for a while while the remaining stragglers and ISPs with huge NATs are forced to convert for their clients that want to access private websites that would start popping up on peoples ISP connected servers.
Might not happen that way, but it seems as likely a prediction as any other.
Yeah, I want to move from Vancouver to Quebec and help lead the charge for separation..... Abandon the sinking ship.
Yeah, this article completely reminded me of that article. It seems to me that the compas learning could be done in a very similar way.
... about improvements for top athletes and elitists. I want my own pair of *perfectly* moulded vibram five fingers! That is an idea I'd want to get behind :D
The people who really need to take a strong look at this technology are Car Sharing Programs like ZipCar, Drive Mint, RelayRides, RideShare, etc. Could all be really boosted by this type of technology... All those programs could be tuned to optimize the value of the car and make the price tag worth it.
If you're doing a crazy dance with the global namespace, you are doing it wrong. Function scope works if you understand it. It isn't C, stop comparing it to C, really has nothing to do with C. Why are you leaving out semicolons, that is bad practice. Most of the inconsistencies are automatically worked around by the major frameworks, or by avoiding stupid functions that don't make sense. I have to give you the bit about the primitives, but the coercion between primitives and their object equivalents has never been an issue for me, and usually is just a convenience. My biggest pet pieve is inconsistant truthiness, usually soved by copious use of === instead of == .
The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language
http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html
I strongly agree with this. Most people who complain about JavaScript never fully learned it, and hate the DOM (the DOM isn't really JavaScripts fault)
I've been working with Node.js for a while, and love it compared to PHP. It's faster too, and my code can run client or serverside depending on the needs/abilities of the browser, bonus!