> With Google you are not the product...tailored (automated) advertising is.
False. With google, the *delivery* of tailored automated advertising is the product (well, service). The customer is the advertiser. What are we? I guess we're the lab-rats, being tested for the effectiveness of the product? Which is so much better than being the "product".
> So, they listen to the arguments on both sides, and they go with what sounds reasonable to them.
The go with whatever sounds more persuasive. Science may be exciting to a nerd, but it's stone cold. Religion, if done properly, is warming. One is clearly more inviting than the other. It's not a fair fight.
Answering my own question, as it was only 2 clicky-clickies away
http://www.mondelezinternational.com/about-us/our-corporate-timelines 2011 - On August 4, Kraft Foods announces it intents to â€oesplit†and create two independent, publically traded companies. 2012 - On October 1 the split becomes effective, creating two separate companies: MondelÄ"z International, Inc., the global snacks company, and Kraft Foods Group, Inc., the North American grocery products company.
However, I notice that further back:
1989 - Effective in March, Philip Morris Companies Inc. combines Kraft, Inc. and General Foods Corporation (which Philip Morris acquired in 1985) to form Kraft General Foods, Inc. (KGF), the largest food company in the United States and Canada, and the second largest in the world. 2003 - Philip Morris Companies Inc., parent company of Kraft Foods Inc., changes its name to Altria Group, Inc.
So I guess the two are siblings now, but both have Philip lied-under-oath-in-court-and-destroyed-evidence-that-would-incriminate-them Morris, under its new sounds-like-altruism-because-we're-really-nice name, as a parent.
I will admit to not fully understanding your post at the time - there had been a little bit of a pub-crawl earlier that night... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm09d4z65Bg
From the patent linked to from article: """ [0047] Escrow keys are known to have advantages in some contexts. They can provide a backup functionality. If a cryptographic key is lost, then data encrypted under that key is also lost. However, encryption keys are generally the output of random number generators. Therefore, if the ECRNG is used to generate the encryption key K, then it may be possible that the escrow key e can be used to recover the encryption key K. Escrow keys can provide other functionality, such as for use in a wiretap. In this case, trusted law enforcement agents may need to decrypt encrypted traffic of criminals, and to do this they may want to be able to use an escrow key to recover an encryption key. """
I doubt it, it's probably blocking a public thoroughfare, and quite likely a breach of the peace. "Public" doesn't mean "anyone can do anything here".
However, it's time for someone to resurrect Mark Thomas. The kinds of stunts he used to pull were always fun. (This included deliberately dressing up and loitering suspiciously (including obligatory newspapers with cut-out slivers to peek through), but always hanging around on groups of only 3, no more.)
And to be less snarky, dishes are directional (otherwise they'd be useless as dishes), and the base station antennae are broadcast (otherwise they'd be useless as base stations).
There are logic anti-patterns two which are closely related, and quite often ovelap: correlation implies causation what happened after this is because of this ("post hoc ergo propter hoc")
Both are insidious. Humans are supersicious and overactive pattern-matchers. There's presently no survival disadvantage to that trait. If anything, strength through incorrect groupthink can still have a positive survival benefit (a community of fools will find things easier than a lone member of the outgroup).
The particular complaint at the time was over the erection of a base station in the vicinity of a primary school. So the existence of a base station in the vicinity of the Nokia R&D site was the perfect counterpoint.
Don't worry, I appreciated the humour of your post, I just didn't want there to be any ambiguities in my tale.
As you're plugging that page so much, I don't suppose you could fix it, could you? It's mostly bollocks that lies between unparseable and unintelligible currently, at least the S-E law part is, and I quote: """ The formula is:
<ma """
I remember when cellphones base-stations were being maligned as being totally cancerific (that's a mother-of-schoolchildren science term), the response to a "there's no connection, all published results say so" claim by the big companies was "therefore they're not publishing the stuff that proves our claims - it's a coverup" from the anti-sciencoids (that's a worked-for-a-basestation-manufacturer mild insult).
These mothers were unable to explain why the local Nokia R&D site had a massive base-station *right in the middle of it*, and how that would fit in with their consipiracy coverup theorem.
You can't argue with idiots whose minds are already made up using *any* language.
I used to have a Mexican friend who for a laugh would introduce himself as coming from America (he didn't mention he was referring to the continent), and then clarify that he came from the united states (and wouldn't mention that it was the Mexican ones). OK, that's only a small wind up - to top it off, he was from Monterrey. And he was a stoner with a laid-back attitude that matches the European prejudices about Californians (who apparently like fewer 'r's in their place names). Complete misinformation, yet not a single lie.
I would say the person who commissioned the scupture knows best what it was meant for.
I say that as someone who has been commissioned to make various artworks. I can confirm that it's a weird feeling walking with muddy shoes all over what you considered to be one of your best works. But it's work for hire - not really my business.
Much of the US-branded kit is fabbed and manufactured in China, yes. Occasionally ipods (iphones?) ship with MS Windows viruses because of this. However, that was sloppiness rather than malice.
The reason I'd be interested in a Loongson Lemote box is that it does have a remarkably open design at almost all levels. You could create your own version of the processor on an FPGA if you so desired. The same isn't true of intel, AMD, NVidia, Freescale, TI, Samsung (or any ARM SoC vendors) etc. I think several generations of Sparc are equally open too, you'd have to check opencores. The layer above the hardware - the BIOS - is also open in Lemote (Loongson) devices. And of course you can run your own (open) OS on top of that. I don't know of any more open device. It's the best way to go if you're Richard Stallman, certainly (it's what he's used and recommended for half a decade). For anyone else, YMMV.
If I was the NSA and I wanted to make sure there was a way to get into a Loongsn device - I'd aim at the AMD chipset that it uses. If you control the flow of all data, you effectively control everything.
Nothing's 100% trustworthy. I like strength through depth though.
I appreciate that this doesn't answer your question particularly well, but it just some closely related thoughts.
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> With Google you are not the product...tailored (automated) advertising is.
False. With google, the *delivery* of tailored automated advertising is the product (well, service). The customer is the advertiser. What are we? I guess we're the lab-rats, being tested for the effectiveness of the product? Which is so much better than being the "product".
> So, they listen to the arguments on both sides, and they go with what sounds reasonable to them.
The go with whatever sounds more persuasive. Science may be exciting to a nerd, but it's stone cold. Religion, if done properly, is warming. One is clearly more inviting than the other. It's not a fair fight.
Answering my own question, as it was only 2 clicky-clickies away
http://www.mondelezinternational.com/about-us/our-corporate-timelines
2011 - On August 4, Kraft Foods announces it intents to â€oesplit†and create two independent, publically traded companies.
2012 - On October 1 the split becomes effective, creating two separate companies: MondelÄ"z International, Inc., the global snacks company, and Kraft Foods Group, Inc., the North American grocery products company.
However, I notice that further back:
1989 - Effective in March, Philip Morris Companies Inc. combines Kraft, Inc. and General Foods Corporation (which Philip Morris acquired in 1985) to form Kraft General Foods, Inc. (KGF), the largest food company in the United States and Canada, and the second largest in the world.
2003 - Philip Morris Companies Inc., parent company of Kraft Foods Inc., changes its name to Altria Group, Inc.
So I guess the two are siblings now, but both have Philip lied-under-oath-in-court-and-destroyed-evidence-that-would-incriminate-them Morris, under its new sounds-like-altruism-because-we're-really-nice name, as a parent.
So, what's the difference between Mondolez and Kraft?
Google just bought up one of the biggest players in the market with the biggest budget (namely the military).
For someone whose work depends on him being in the public eye, not being in the public eye is the equivalent of no longer existing.
I will admit to not fully understanding your post at the time - there had been a little bit of a pub-crawl earlier that night...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm09d4z65Bg
The US nuclear secret is "00000000".
From the patent linked to from article:
"""
[0047] Escrow keys are known to have advantages in some contexts. They can provide a backup functionality. If a cryptographic key is lost, then data encrypted under that key is also lost. However, encryption keys are generally the output of random number generators. Therefore, if the ECRNG is used to generate the encryption key K, then it may be possible that the escrow key e can be used to recover the encryption key K. Escrow keys can provide other functionality, such as for use in a wiretap. In this case, trusted law enforcement agents may need to decrypt encrypted traffic of criminals, and to do this they may want to be able to use an escrow key to recover an encryption key.
"""
I doubt it, it's probably blocking a public thoroughfare, and quite likely a breach of the peace. "Public" doesn't mean "anyone can do anything here".
However, it's time for someone to resurrect Mark Thomas. The kinds of stunts he used to pull were always fun. (This included deliberately dressing up and loitering suspiciously (including obligatory newspapers with cut-out slivers to peek through), but always hanging around on groups of only 3, no more.)
And to be less snarky, dishes are directional (otherwise they'd be useless as dishes), and the base station antennae are broadcast (otherwise they'd be useless as base stations).
50% of my grandparents have died from cancer.
Sounds like those dishes reduce cancer rates by 80%.
There are logic anti-patterns two which are closely related, and quite often ovelap:
correlation implies causation
what happened after this is because of this ("post hoc ergo propter hoc")
Both are insidious. Humans are supersicious and overactive pattern-matchers. There's presently no survival disadvantage to that trait. If anything, strength through incorrect groupthink can still have a positive survival benefit (a community of fools will find things easier than a lone member of the outgroup).
The particular complaint at the time was over the erection of a base station in the vicinity of a primary school. So the existence of a base station in the vicinity of the Nokia R&D site was the perfect counterpoint.
Don't worry, I appreciated the humour of your post, I just didn't want there to be any ambiguities in my tale.
And don't forget - light is *higher energy radiation* than heat! Someone tell the media!
The albinos and gingers were right all along...
If only the lines/transmitters were more toxic when running, then they wouldn't have to do that...
As you're plugging that page so much, I don't suppose you could fix it, could you? It's mostly bollocks that lies between unparseable and unintelligible currently, at least the S-E law part is, and I quote:
"""
The formula is:
<ma
"""
I remember when cellphones base-stations were being maligned as being totally cancerific (that's a mother-of-schoolchildren science term), the response to a "there's no connection, all published results say so" claim by the big companies was "therefore they're not publishing the stuff that proves our claims - it's a coverup" from the anti-sciencoids (that's a worked-for-a-basestation-manufacturer mild insult).
These mothers were unable to explain why the local Nokia R&D site had a massive base-station *right in the middle of it*, and how that would fit in with their consipiracy coverup theorem.
You can't argue with idiots whose minds are already made up using *any* language.
Link is SFW, it's about a Hooker, and their diseased "love canal", nothing to worry about at all.
I used to have a Mexican friend who for a laugh would introduce himself as coming from America (he didn't mention he was referring to the continent), and then clarify that he came from the united states (and wouldn't mention that it was the Mexican ones). OK, that's only a small wind up - to top it off, he was from Monterrey. And he was a stoner with a laid-back attitude that matches the European prejudices about Californians (who apparently like fewer 'r's in their place names).
Complete misinformation, yet not a single lie.
> READ THE ARTICLE.
I DID.
> These aren't pre-installed back doors - the NSA is hacking their way in.
YES. THAT'S WHY I WANT AN OPEN CORE DESIGN, AN OPEN BIOS, AND AN OPEN OS.
How can you shit on shit?
/Fountain/ - at least you can try to piss in/on that.
Marcel Duchamp's
> there were initially only three public copies (two of which were made after the Apollo 15)
I'd say that meant that there was initially only one, not three.
I would say the person who commissioned the scupture knows best what it was meant for.
I say that as someone who has been commissioned to make various artworks. I can confirm that it's a weird feeling walking with muddy shoes all over what you considered to be one of your best works. But it's work for hire - not really my business.
Much of the US-branded kit is fabbed and manufactured in China, yes. Occasionally ipods (iphones?) ship with MS Windows viruses because of this. However, that was sloppiness rather than malice.
The reason I'd be interested in a Loongson Lemote box is that it does have a remarkably open design at almost all levels. You could create your own version of the processor on an FPGA if you so desired. The same isn't true of intel, AMD, NVidia, Freescale, TI, Samsung (or any ARM SoC vendors) etc. I think several generations of Sparc are equally open too, you'd have to check opencores. The layer above the hardware - the BIOS - is also open in Lemote (Loongson) devices. And of course you can run your own (open) OS on top of that. I don't know of any more open device. It's the best way to go if you're Richard Stallman, certainly (it's what he's used and recommended for half a decade). For anyone else, YMMV.
If I was the NSA and I wanted to make sure there was a way to get into a Loongsn device - I'd aim at the AMD chipset that it uses. If you control the flow of all data, you effectively control everything.
Nothing's 100% trustworthy. I like strength through depth though.
I appreciate that this doesn't answer your question particularly well, but it just some closely related thoughts.