BUT.... as someone who explained the privacy issues to someone who was about to sign up with Facebook and did anyway, I can tell you that it makes no difference UNTIL, on their birthday they get a shit load of "Happy Birthday"s from people that they don't know or don't know at all - even though they explicitly chose NOT to have that information made public. THEN they realize what the privacy issues are with Facebook.
Schmidt told me that he supports mandated encryption for the nation’s power and electrical infrastructure, though not beyond that. But, early last year, President Obama declined to support such a mandate, in part, Schmidt said, because of the costs it would entail for corporations.
Oh, well then if it costs corporate America too much then it's a bad idea. But if it costs the taxpayers money, blank checks for everyone!
Yes, I am well aware that corporations pay taxes. But my point is the double standard applied whenever government mandates something. It's the same with any law. We have water restrictions in the SE - except for businesses. I can't wash my car with my little bucket and hose, but I can go to a car wash and they can use hundreds of gallons of water to wash my car - all because the legislature didn't want to dig into profits of business.
A great deal of money is at stake. Cyber security is a major growth industry, and warnings from Clarke, McConnell, and others have helped to create what has become a military-cyber complex.
And...
In July, the Washington Post published a critical assessment of the unchecked growth of government intelligence agencies and private contractors.
If you were going back into time, you would want your cell phone to look like something contemporary , d'uh! Which means you still haven't proved that the person in the photo isn't using a cell phone.
The only option so far is that the person is in fact a time traveler using a disguised cell phone that uses some as yet unknown signaling medium that can travel through time - tachyons or something?
Yes. The first several shows are on HULU and I just couldn't get into it. It's one thing to build a story arch but it's another boring you to death doing it.
INTEL, IBM, and other high tech firms have been sending their R&D, engineering and other high up on the job food chain jobs over there and to India. They have been building up expertise in other countries. Of course this happened.
We the US will become a technological backwater. Of course the pundits will say shit like "American kids just aren't studying science and engineering" or "It's our education system."
The answer is: why should a bright kid go into science or engineering when he won't be able to get a job? Whereas, if he goes into medical, he's pretty much guaranteed a very nice living.
It's not the education system; it's the market. The market here in the US is saying that engineering and science careers just aren't worth as much as others and it's saying that there are plenty of qualified and cheaper engineers overseas - all thanks to US companies moving there.
As we are seeing NOW, the Chinese and Indians no longer need American companies - they don't need IBM or whoever to come in a spend the millions setting up shop. They can do that themselves now thank you very much. End result: US based companies will be sidelined.
So kids, apply to foreign firms because US based companies have made themselves irrelevant.
And business owners, bypass the middlemen (IBM and whatnot) and buy direct from their suppliers in India and China - you'll save the costs of over paid American management and sales people.
Or does it seem like the latest trend is to find a genetic cause for everything - the Nature vs Nurture pendulum is swinging back to Nature in the popular press?
Lenovo's technology director recently told PC Mag that his company won't be building around the platform: "The challenge with Windows 7 is that it's based on the same paradigm as 1985 -- it's really an interface that's optimized for a mouse and keyboard."
MS wants to build everything off of Windows. That's where Apple was smart, they created different OS for the hand held devices.
I don't know how much transparency matters; if you can buy an election,....
Influencing a politician with money, absolutely! Buying the election, I'm not so sure.
Everyone just assumes that the more you advertise (campaign), the better chance your candidate has in winning. But has anyone really put that to the test? I live in a Republican stronghold and the Democratic candidate is advertising hard (he's a multimillionaire trial lawyer who was Governor at one time here in GA), the only thing it seems to be doing is making the Reps dig their heals in deeper. I wonder if all that money could be counter productive or even worthless.
Years ago, I once read an article about LL Bean. The son of the owner studied how effective their advertising was. To make a long story short, all the money spent on "Field and Stream" advertising was waste and the money spent on advertising in yuppy magazines was paying off. Tweaked the advertising allotment and he saved the company lots of money and boosted sales.
It's not just tourism. The production company comes in for months and buys materials to build sets, hires local contractors, get food, lodging, hires extras, etc...
I don't know if the $30 million subsidy is worth it, though. I would like to see how it works out in the end.
They just need to change the select from touch begin to touch end and maybe add a next button to take you to the next screen.
In other words it is a UI error and not some great evil conspiracy.
That's just what they want you to think! When rigging elections, do you honestly think that there's a code block that started with:
"/* Begin election rigging code here */"
They want it to look like it's just a "coding error" in case they get caught and then they can say "Oppsie! Our bad!".
Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.
Whoa!
Sometimes, when I don't like any candidate for a particular office, I abstain and thinking, maybe naively, that it will be noticed in the count - 20,000 votes cast but only 19,999 for the office of [whatever] . Selecting someone by default goes against my choice and I would consider that to be fraud. Period.
Just a thought, but why not completely eliminate textbooks? Why have them? Isn't the lecture the whole purpose of learning?
I went to school years and years ago with a transfer student from Spain. He didn't have textbooks over there. They just took notes and the professor actually had to create problem sets that they then went over in the next class.
In acentury... sure. A few centuries? Nope. q.v. Cauchy's wrong theorem. Basically two centuries ago, analysis was a mess and it took a lot of hard work from Cauchy, Fourier, Weierstrass, Dedekind and many others to clean things up and get to a solid foundation with the characterisation of the reals as the unique ordered field and the epsilon-delta definition of continuity.
Is that something that is taught in an undergraduate Calculus sequence? You know Calc 1-3? Nope.
An undergraduate Calculus sequence can be taught quite well with a Dover classic for $20 and it'd probably be superior at that to today's overpriced crap that does nothing but put extra money in the pocket of some academic.
I don't think basic calculus has changed in a few centuries.
Are you sure the way we teach calculus hasn't changed at all in that time?
Maybe - it's gotten worse. I didn't truly understand it until I had physics. Math texts are garbage. Except for maybe the IEEE's Calculus Tutorial. That had applications and you actually learned what the hell Calculus was invented for in the first place.
I really feel bad for you young folks in school. College has gotten so goddamn expensive that for a typical middle class kid, it's becoming almost out of reach. The system thinks that student loans are "financial aid" when that couldn't be further from the truth: they make indentured servants - except for medical school (I know a doc who paid her $187,000 debt the first couple of years out of residency - 33 - 34 years old).
I"m not sure if a college degree is even worth it anymore. It's really white collar trade school when you think about it. If you really want to be educated, you'd get a Liberal Arts or Science degree (both pay shit on their own). A degree in engineering? Vocational training. Medical, Law, Business, Nursing, accounting, school all the same thing.
Of course no matter what you do, you gotta compete with people from all over the World now.
I don't know of any university where you could do that because professors always want you to have the latest edition; which the library never has or if they do, just one copy - yeah, share that with 40 classmates. They then assign reading and problems out of that particular edition.
Which is completely asinine - especially for undergraduate courses. I mean really, when was the time there was a break through in accounting, basic physics, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and on and on. A $15 Dover classic is more than adequate for all undergraduate classes and if there is some new ground breaking discovery then have the student look it up in a journal because a textbook is 10 years behind anyway. A new textbook with the same material and some colorful graphics runs what? $150?!?! For absolutely no new material!
Just one big fucking racket! Professors should be ashamed of themselves.
Two years from now means October 2012. If this is correct and Windows 8 is supposed to be released In October 2010, we should see the first beta in early 2012.
OR he could have been passing some hot chicks in scant outfits and thought, I need to go talk to them forgetting he was driving down the road.
OR....seeing the hot chicks, he thought of doing something else with that bionic arm of his on another part of his body and due to a glitch in the message queue for his arm, the arm immediately started doing what he wanted to do on his extremity - the hand made a fist and the arm started jerking up and down very rapidly on the steering wheel causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
Seriously, the restrictions of 14 days and lending only once is so ridiculous that it should push people over to the side of sharers.
There's a little part of me that likes this. I can't tell you how many times I've lent stuff to people only to have it never come back - even after asking for it back.
It looks to me that not only do you pay the Apple premium for the hardware, but they'll be getting you on the back end of you want more storage. It's almost as if he's getting ideas from the financial services industry: charge you a load up front (Mac Purchase) and then management fees and other charges on the back end (iDatacenter or whatever).
Brilliant! Steve Jobs just keeps living up to his reputation as being a marketing God.
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BUT .... as someone who explained the privacy issues to someone who was about to sign up with Facebook and did anyway, I can tell you that it makes no difference UNTIL, on their birthday they get a shit load of "Happy Birthday"s from people that they don't know or don't know at all - even though they explicitly chose NOT to have that information made public. THEN they realize what the privacy issues are with Facebook.
Facebook's privacy options are bogus.
Schmidt told me that he supports mandated encryption for the nation’s power and electrical infrastructure, though not beyond that. But, early last year, President Obama declined to support such a mandate, in part, Schmidt said, because of the costs it would entail for corporations.
Oh, well then if it costs corporate America too much then it's a bad idea. But if it costs the taxpayers money, blank checks for everyone!
Yes, I am well aware that corporations pay taxes. But my point is the double standard applied whenever government mandates something. It's the same with any law. We have water restrictions in the SE - except for businesses. I can't wash my car with my little bucket and hose, but I can go to a car wash and they can use hundreds of gallons of water to wash my car - all because the legislature didn't want to dig into profits of business.
A great deal of money is at stake. Cyber security is a major growth industry, and warnings from Clarke, McConnell, and others have helped to create what has become a military-cyber complex.
And...
In July, the Washington Post published a critical assessment of the unchecked growth of government intelligence agencies and private contractors.
Need we comment further?
The only option so far is that the person is in fact a time traveler using a disguised cell phone that uses some as yet unknown signaling medium that can travel through time - tachyons or something?
Yes. The first several shows are on HULU and I just couldn't get into it. It's one thing to build a story arch but it's another boring you to death doing it.
INTEL, IBM, and other high tech firms have been sending their R&D, engineering and other high up on the job food chain jobs over there and to India. They have been building up expertise in other countries. Of course this happened.
We the US will become a technological backwater. Of course the pundits will say shit like "American kids just aren't studying science and engineering" or "It's our education system."
The answer is: why should a bright kid go into science or engineering when he won't be able to get a job? Whereas, if he goes into medical, he's pretty much guaranteed a very nice living.
It's not the education system; it's the market. The market here in the US is saying that engineering and science careers just aren't worth as much as others and it's saying that there are plenty of qualified and cheaper engineers overseas - all thanks to US companies moving there.
As we are seeing NOW, the Chinese and Indians no longer need American companies - they don't need IBM or whoever to come in a spend the millions setting up shop. They can do that themselves now thank you very much. End result: US based companies will be sidelined.
So kids, apply to foreign firms because US based companies have made themselves irrelevant.
And business owners, bypass the middlemen (IBM and whatnot) and buy direct from their suppliers in India and China - you'll save the costs of over paid American management and sales people.
What's "Liberal"?
What about moderates? Do they only have a "Liberal" gene from one parent?
I mean come on, this "study" reeks.
Or does it seem like the latest trend is to find a genetic cause for everything - the Nature vs Nurture pendulum is swinging back to Nature in the popular press?
Lenovo's technology director recently told PC Mag that his company won't be building around the platform: "The challenge with Windows 7 is that it's based on the same paradigm as 1985 -- it's really an interface that's optimized for a mouse and keyboard."
MS wants to build everything off of Windows. That's where Apple was smart, they created different OS for the hand held devices.
I don't know how much transparency matters; if you can buy an election, ....
Influencing a politician with money, absolutely! Buying the election, I'm not so sure.
Everyone just assumes that the more you advertise (campaign), the better chance your candidate has in winning. But has anyone really put that to the test? I live in a Republican stronghold and the Democratic candidate is advertising hard (he's a multimillionaire trial lawyer who was Governor at one time here in GA), the only thing it seems to be doing is making the Reps dig their heals in deeper. I wonder if all that money could be counter productive or even worthless.
Years ago, I once read an article about LL Bean. The son of the owner studied how effective their advertising was. To make a long story short, all the money spent on "Field and Stream" advertising was waste and the money spent on advertising in yuppy magazines was paying off. Tweaked the advertising allotment and he saved the company lots of money and boosted sales.
I don't know if the $30 million subsidy is worth it, though. I would like to see how it works out in the end.
So, your brother that lives with your parents and downloads games ... does he by any chance live in the basement? And what's his Slashdot user name?
ABC.net.au huh. That's what, the gold version of ABC radio?
They just need to change the select from touch begin to touch end and maybe add a next button to take you to the next screen. In other words it is a UI error and not some great evil conspiracy.
That's just what they want you to think! When rigging elections, do you honestly think that there's a code block that started with:
"/* Begin election rigging code here */"
They want it to look like it's just a "coding error" in case they get caught and then they can say "Oppsie! Our bad!".
Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.
Whoa!
Sometimes, when I don't like any candidate for a particular office, I abstain and thinking, maybe naively, that it will be noticed in the count - 20,000 votes cast but only 19,999 for the office of [whatever] . Selecting someone by default goes against my choice and I would consider that to be fraud. Period.
I went to school years and years ago with a transfer student from Spain. He didn't have textbooks over there. They just took notes and the professor actually had to create problem sets that they then went over in the next class.
In acentury... sure. A few centuries? Nope. q.v. Cauchy's wrong theorem. Basically two centuries ago, analysis was a mess and it took a lot of hard work from Cauchy, Fourier, Weierstrass, Dedekind and many others to clean things up and get to a solid foundation with the characterisation of the reals as the unique ordered field and the epsilon-delta definition of continuity.
Is that something that is taught in an undergraduate Calculus sequence? You know Calc 1-3? Nope.
An undergraduate Calculus sequence can be taught quite well with a Dover classic for $20 and it'd probably be superior at that to today's overpriced crap that does nothing but put extra money in the pocket of some academic.
I don't think basic calculus has changed in a few centuries.
Are you sure the way we teach calculus hasn't changed at all in that time?
Maybe - it's gotten worse. I didn't truly understand it until I had physics. Math texts are garbage. Except for maybe the IEEE's Calculus Tutorial. That had applications and you actually learned what the hell Calculus was invented for in the first place.
I"m not sure if a college degree is even worth it anymore. It's really white collar trade school when you think about it. If you really want to be educated, you'd get a Liberal Arts or Science degree (both pay shit on their own). A degree in engineering? Vocational training. Medical, Law, Business, Nursing, accounting, school all the same thing.
Of course no matter what you do, you gotta compete with people from all over the World now.
As my wife says, "calculus has not changed much in the last 6 years, but my textbook has gone through 3 revisions in that time!"
I don't think basic calculus has changed in a few centuries.
I don't know of any university where you could do that because professors always want you to have the latest edition; which the library never has or if they do, just one copy - yeah, share that with 40 classmates. They then assign reading and problems out of that particular edition.
Which is completely asinine - especially for undergraduate courses. I mean really, when was the time there was a break through in accounting, basic physics, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and on and on. A $15 Dover classic is more than adequate for all undergraduate classes and if there is some new ground breaking discovery then have the student look it up in a journal because a textbook is 10 years behind anyway. A new textbook with the same material and some colorful graphics runs what? $150?!?! For absolutely no new material!
Just one big fucking racket! Professors should be ashamed of themselves.
2010 or 2012?
Geeze! If you RTFA it clears it up completely!
Two years from now means October 2012. If this is correct and Windows 8 is supposed to be released In October 2010, we should see the first beta in early 2012.
See? It's perfectly clear.
OR he could have been passing some hot chicks in scant outfits and thought, I need to go talk to them forgetting he was driving down the road.
OR....seeing the hot chicks, he thought of doing something else with that bionic arm of his on another part of his body and due to a glitch in the message queue for his arm, the arm immediately started doing what he wanted to do on his extremity - the hand made a fist and the arm started jerking up and down very rapidly on the steering wheel causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
Seriously, the restrictions of 14 days and lending only once is so ridiculous that it should push people over to the side of sharers.
There's a little part of me that likes this. I can't tell you how many times I've lent stuff to people only to have it never come back - even after asking for it back.
It looks to me that not only do you pay the Apple premium for the hardware, but they'll be getting you on the back end of you want more storage. It's almost as if he's getting ideas from the financial services industry: charge you a load up front (Mac Purchase) and then management fees and other charges on the back end (iDatacenter or whatever).
Brilliant! Steve Jobs just keeps living up to his reputation as being a marketing God.