1.) I use PicasaWeb a lot. The URLs have always been obfuscated so that your user name and real name don't show up (it's not my Slashdot user name btw). I did a google search for my real name and found out that Google had indexed my REAL name with my photo albums which showed up under any google search for me. My real name probably comes from using the Google payment service or my email display name. No attempts to alter my Google account name will change my real name as displayed by Google.
2.) I had some emails on sensitive topic that I had a negligible internet footprint with otherwise. Shortly after, I was getting spammed with ads related to that issue through Google.
3.) I had a separate YouTube account from my Google account. Google offered to share the logins of the two which I did not seeing the problem. Immediately, I started seeing people from my address book showing up under my YouTube profile pages and I'm sure that eventually they'll start seeing mine.
4.) A minor issue, but part of my problem with Google TIA. I did a job search at home on my own time. While at work, I'm now spammed with career search links with my job search criteria.
Yeah, I can just delete my account and log out of Google mail, but these are the type of problems I have with them.
Very fun introduction to assembly and the language has a small API. I even bought an ARM textbook to learn more about it. I'd just love to have an excuse to use it. Something very satisfying about working at that low a level.
You know why you can't? You can blame it on doctors. They would rack up the $10Ks it took to get their letters, then declare bankruptcy right out of school after getting their first job. And, since they were making enough they could live comfortably cash-only. So, the laws were changed to make student loans immune to bankruptcy.
You're getting charged more for tuition/fees, you're expected to have more access to technology which might not be satisfied by on-campus labs, you're probably going to need to have some technical knowledge going in that only kids growing up with access will have, and since the classes are harder you're far less likely to be able to work your way through college (meaning your education has to be sponsored).
It would be GREAT if there was better subsidies for kids working through these programs. As it is, technical degree programs are treated like cash cows by colleges.
You know why they took over, right? When Obama won, the *only* fired up element in the Republican party was the extreme Right and we all know why that was. They called themselves the Tea Party under the guise that they wanted lower taxes, even though taxes are already historically low. When someone finally told them that, they decided they were the low debt party (ominously silent while the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were charged on Uncle Sam's card and ignoring the fact that the Bush tax cuts were creating trillions more in debt).
But, since they were the only ones fired up and everyone else in the Republican party was depressed (even mainstream guys like Tucker Carlson were starting to call themselves Libertarian to wash the stink of the Bush years off them). So, even though the Republicans treated their far right wing like the racist, slightly imbalanced uncle who came over once a year for Thanksgivings (polite nods and half-hearted chuckles at his jokes), they decided to give him the reigns.
And, when that happened, they got even MORE fired up. No more being forced to sit on the porch and watch the party from the outside. Now, they had access! And, the more access they got, the more fired up they got. They started winning elections, getting seats on committees, and soon built up enough power to start making demands! They weren't just coming over for Thanksgiving, now they had a room upstairs and their buddies were coming over every night to get wasted and talk about how much the hated that Mexican family across the street.
Now, the Republican party is stuck. They've given the extreme Right so much power and access that they're entrenched. You can't ask them to leave and they've been legitimized for so long you can't call them wrong. Nothing to do but ride it out and hope their rowdy parties don't burn your house down, before they get bored and decide to leave for good.
You know, that sounds great and I wish it were true (moderate version Romney wouldn't have been a bad President) but it's absolutely WRONG. Look at what's been happening in the Republican party during Obama's administration. Just saying you'd be willing to cooperate with Democrats has been enough to get incumbents run out of Congress. Todd Akin had no business even sniffing this election, yet won by pandering (I hope he's pandering) to the extreme sentiments of the party.
And, look at who the other candidates were; Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, George "makaka" Allen [sic], DONALD TRUMP!, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich. And each one of them had a period of time at the front of the pack because they decided to play the game of "who can scream Obama insults the loudest and harshest from my balcony." Had any of them been *remotely* qualified to even run a Presidential campaign (never mind actually being President), one of them would have one and gotten whipped in the election. The moderates like Huntsman and Pawlenty were run out of the race.
This race went down about the best it could have for Republicans because of the state of the party.
This is doubly hilarious because conservatives who keep regurgitating this sour grapes refrain forget 1.) you would have had Gore as President in 2000 and 2.) as you pointed out the pissant, Midwestern, way Republican states with jack shit for people would lose even more influence on elections.
I love this, too. Not everything in science has to be about inaccessible theses. And, there are more people watching than the scientific community; by that I mean kids and young adults who will have the curiosity awakened by this. Oh, geeks too!
Back in the late 90s I played an online Elite-like game that was completely web-driven. I think the client was an applet or some kind of browser application. As I recall, it was also MMO. Does anyone remember this game?
There are companies and organizations that are horrible to developers. Locally, I've heard that Cerner is terrible to employees from just about everyone I know who works there. Large scale, I've heard EA is terrible and that seems to be reflected in their products. Making people work 50-60 hours regularly with no overtime seems pretty horrible (I'm not talking about on-call, I mean actual active work) for a regular position. I did work a job that had a seasonal 70-80 hour schedule, but at the worst that was maybe only a few weeks at that rate.
I imagine you're getting crappier output from apathetic employees if that's situation normal.
I read a great article on this years ago. Lots of the neutral news outlets are afraid of being painted as partisan by one side or the other and alienating the hardcore fringe on that side. Look at how CNN's coverage swung right after she was criticized for correcting Romney in the debate.
So, when you don't report objectively on issues, you're left with the "horse race" reporting where you just regurgitate candidate talking points, have party hacks debate each other unchecked on your news shows, analyze campaign tactics and their effect, and incessantly poll for the results. The news coverage starts to skew to the process and not the politics which sucks of course for those who really care about the issues.
Look at how many of the debate exchanges were covered in terms of temperament, body language, and style points.
That was my suggestion, she blew it off. Drives me nuts when people drop these kids of issues. My GF had her phone stolen (probably by an employee) and just blew it off and never bothered to file a police report.
I woman I know took her PC in for work and found out they were directing her webcam video to their domain. Now, had she not been techie enough, she never would've known to look for that. Who knows what else they did with her computer?
Wow, what a Slashdot response lol. I was just making the point that a revolutionary technology is probably going to garner awards regardless of a limited market.
This was on a fairly recent Discover-channel-ish documentary. They didn't detect organic compounds, so that voided their criteria. Might suck for us, but I'm on the Carl Sagan boat; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Make sure all your t's are crossed and i's dotted before you start mistaking some new chemical reaction or contamination for life.
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Problems I've had with Google:
1.) I use PicasaWeb a lot. The URLs have always been obfuscated so that your user name and real name don't show up (it's not my Slashdot user name btw). I did a google search for my real name and found out that Google had indexed my REAL name with my photo albums which showed up under any google search for me. My real name probably comes from using the Google payment service or my email display name. No attempts to alter my Google account name will change my real name as displayed by Google.
2.) I had some emails on sensitive topic that I had a negligible internet footprint with otherwise. Shortly after, I was getting spammed with ads related to that issue through Google.
3.) I had a separate YouTube account from my Google account. Google offered to share the logins of the two which I did not seeing the problem. Immediately, I started seeing people from my address book showing up under my YouTube profile pages and I'm sure that eventually they'll start seeing mine.
4.) A minor issue, but part of my problem with Google TIA. I did a job search at home on my own time. While at work, I'm now spammed with career search links with my job search criteria.
Yeah, I can just delete my account and log out of Google mail, but these are the type of problems I have with them.
I trust this feature works as advertised as much as I trust them with my data.
If you lived in Gabon, you'd already know lots of other countries are pwning your government.
Very fun introduction to assembly and the language has a small API. I even bought an ARM textbook to learn more about it. I'd just love to have an excuse to use it. Something very satisfying about working at that low a level.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=student+loan+bankruptcy+law+doctors
There isn't a STEM labor shortage, there's a cheap STEM labor shortage. I bet H1B visa allocations would change drastically if that weren't the case.
You know why you can't? You can blame it on doctors. They would rack up the $10Ks it took to get their letters, then declare bankruptcy right out of school after getting their first job. And, since they were making enough they could live comfortably cash-only. So, the laws were changed to make student loans immune to bankruptcy.
You're getting charged more for tuition/fees, you're expected to have more access to technology which might not be satisfied by on-campus labs, you're probably going to need to have some technical knowledge going in that only kids growing up with access will have, and since the classes are harder you're far less likely to be able to work your way through college (meaning your education has to be sponsored).
It would be GREAT if there was better subsidies for kids working through these programs. As it is, technical degree programs are treated like cash cows by colleges.
You know why they took over, right? When Obama won, the *only* fired up element in the Republican party was the extreme Right and we all know why that was. They called themselves the Tea Party under the guise that they wanted lower taxes, even though taxes are already historically low. When someone finally told them that, they decided they were the low debt party (ominously silent while the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were charged on Uncle Sam's card and ignoring the fact that the Bush tax cuts were creating trillions more in debt).
But, since they were the only ones fired up and everyone else in the Republican party was depressed (even mainstream guys like Tucker Carlson were starting to call themselves Libertarian to wash the stink of the Bush years off them). So, even though the Republicans treated their far right wing like the racist, slightly imbalanced uncle who came over once a year for Thanksgivings (polite nods and half-hearted chuckles at his jokes), they decided to give him the reigns.
And, when that happened, they got even MORE fired up. No more being forced to sit on the porch and watch the party from the outside. Now, they had access! And, the more access they got, the more fired up they got. They started winning elections, getting seats on committees, and soon built up enough power to start making demands! They weren't just coming over for Thanksgiving, now they had a room upstairs and their buddies were coming over every night to get wasted and talk about how much the hated that Mexican family across the street.
Now, the Republican party is stuck. They've given the extreme Right so much power and access that they're entrenched. You can't ask them to leave and they've been legitimized for so long you can't call them wrong. Nothing to do but ride it out and hope their rowdy parties don't burn your house down, before they get bored and decide to leave for good.
Wasn't Mitt a lowly missionary...in Paris? lol
You know, that sounds great and I wish it were true (moderate version Romney wouldn't have been a bad President) but it's absolutely WRONG. Look at what's been happening in the Republican party during Obama's administration. Just saying you'd be willing to cooperate with Democrats has been enough to get incumbents run out of Congress. Todd Akin had no business even sniffing this election, yet won by pandering (I hope he's pandering) to the extreme sentiments of the party.
And, look at who the other candidates were; Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, George "makaka" Allen [sic], DONALD TRUMP!, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich. And each one of them had a period of time at the front of the pack because they decided to play the game of "who can scream Obama insults the loudest and harshest from my balcony." Had any of them been *remotely* qualified to even run a Presidential campaign (never mind actually being President), one of them would have one and gotten whipped in the election. The moderates like Huntsman and Pawlenty were run out of the race.
This race went down about the best it could have for Republicans because of the state of the party.
This is doubly hilarious because conservatives who keep regurgitating this sour grapes refrain forget 1.) you would have had Gore as President in 2000 and 2.) as you pointed out the pissant, Midwestern, way Republican states with jack shit for people would lose even more influence on elections.
I love this, too. Not everything in science has to be about inaccessible theses. And, there are more people watching than the scientific community; by that I mean kids and young adults who will have the curiosity awakened by this. Oh, geeks too!
Back in the late 90s I played an online Elite-like game that was completely web-driven. I think the client was an applet or some kind of browser application. As I recall, it was also MMO. Does anyone remember this game?
There are companies and organizations that are horrible to developers. Locally, I've heard that Cerner is terrible to employees from just about everyone I know who works there. Large scale, I've heard EA is terrible and that seems to be reflected in their products. Making people work 50-60 hours regularly with no overtime seems pretty horrible (I'm not talking about on-call, I mean actual active work) for a regular position. I did work a job that had a seasonal 70-80 hour schedule, but at the worst that was maybe only a few weeks at that rate.
I imagine you're getting crappier output from apathetic employees if that's situation normal.
That's all it really is. A bunch of kids who think it's cool to throw bricks through store fronts; running around looking for a march to do it in.
You're saying the vote in one state affects another? Please explain. I've taken stats and I know what independent events mean.
I read a great article on this years ago. Lots of the neutral news outlets are afraid of being painted as partisan by one side or the other and alienating the hardcore fringe on that side. Look at how CNN's coverage swung right after she was criticized for correcting Romney in the debate.
So, when you don't report objectively on issues, you're left with the "horse race" reporting where you just regurgitate candidate talking points, have party hacks debate each other unchecked on your news shows, analyze campaign tactics and their effect, and incessantly poll for the results. The news coverage starts to skew to the process and not the politics which sucks of course for those who really care about the issues.
Look at how many of the debate exchanges were covered in terms of temperament, body language, and style points.
That was my suggestion, she blew it off. Drives me nuts when people drop these kids of issues. My GF had her phone stolen (probably by an employee) and just blew it off and never bothered to file a police report.
I woman I know took her PC in for work and found out they were directing her webcam video to their domain. Now, had she not been techie enough, she never would've known to look for that. Who knows what else they did with her computer?
Wow, what a Slashdot response lol. I was just making the point that a revolutionary technology is probably going to garner awards regardless of a limited market.
I did this for a while with a Palm Tungsten C with my Razr and it sucked. There's simply too much overlap between use cases to make it convenient.
I imagine the first fusion-powered car will make it as well.
This is how I quote:
<quote>Paste quoted text here</quote>
Then continue my message...
This was on a fairly recent Discover-channel-ish documentary. They didn't detect organic compounds, so that voided their criteria. Might suck for us, but I'm on the Carl Sagan boat; extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Make sure all your t's are crossed and i's dotted before you start mistaking some new chemical reaction or contamination for life.