Most fixed video systems are incompatible, so you cannot call any meeting room
Can Skype call out to other video conferencing solutions? I know you can call a telephone number, but I didn't realize you could, for example, call a Google+ Hangout.
Yes. I want security screeners to be discriminating. They should assess people based on a host of psychological, behavioral, and yes, nationality and ethnicity factors and select a subset of travelers for more thorough screening.
Security Theater is treating everyone the same, and subjecting everyone to the same level of screening. Security Theater is selecting people at random for heightened scrutiny. If you want to intelligently protect a location that has hundreds or thousands of people coming and going every hour, you need to be selective about how, what and who you screen. You don't, of course, do this by letting every white person with a crucifix necklace breeze through, while cavity searching anyone with brown skin. But you do apply some level of intelligence to the process. Not every "profile" is equally likely to hijack a plane.
Note: The Israeli model uses this tactic. However, it requires a high level of training, and is probably too expensive to deploy in the US, where people want to fly 2500 miles for $250.
until e-readers get a little more oomph I think traditional books are still easier to flip through rapidly.
Interesting point. Why should we read e-textbooks on an iPad when something like a Kindle is much cheaper, and provides a better (text) reading experience from all accounts. Ok, you can't put embedded videos, but perhaps that's a good thing (or at least a fair trade off to keep HW cost down and durability up).
Great, too bad if you are poor, no more textbooks for you. No iPad no education.
Given what text books cost, you'd probably only need to see a 5-10% decrease in textbook price to make up the iPad cost. I'm not sure what the level of the text books are that are selling for $15, but if they're college level, then that represents an 80-90% decrease.
The problem comes in public schools. True, this could be a boon to poor school districts, but not if they require a $500 electronic unit for each student. Wear and tear will kill iPads faster than books.
There is no merit in this kind of lock in.
Sure there is. There would be more merit in an open standard, of course. Despite the shilliness of TFA, electronic text books as a concept are better than paper in almost every way, cost being one of the major ones. What Apple's lock in provides is an out of the box stable, secure platform which (presumably) allows people to easily publish their book. How else would one do that, and reach as wide a market, today?
There are plenty of business education companies that charge thousands of dollars to teach you about any number of proprietary software packages for a few days to a week. You can even get Certified(TM).
It seems to me that one of the paramount services these types of companies offer is file security. If I put up a file to be shared among a group, I probably want to restrict access to that file to a specific group. Most often this is handled by requiring either a direct link or a password. If I am sharing confidential business information with a vendor or client, (say, graphics for an ad campaign that include pre-release pictures of the product), I don't want just anyone to download it. Implicit in this need for security is the need for the owner of the service (e.g. MediaFire) to not be able to access the content. The market for hosted file sharing is going to be killed if it becomes a requirement that the host be able to read/view the content being hosted.
I know we all hate the TSA, but under the existing rule structure, his detention should not be surprising or treated with contempt. The alternative is that the TSA screener decides on his/her own who gets to walk through without a pat down if the scan shows up something suspicious. I'm not commenting on the overall efficacy or "correctness" of the procedure; if we're going to have rules, they should be enforced fairly and consistently. That said, I am in favor of some types of profiling, but I don't think being an elected official gives you any sort of waiver. They've already proved that they can't be trusted.
From the FBI press release (linked to be debork below): "The indictment states that the conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download. The indictment alleges that the site was structured to discourage the vast majority of its users from using Megaupload for long-term or personal storage by automatically deleting content that was not regularly downloaded. The conspirators further allegedly offered a rewards program that would provide users with financial incentives to upload popular content and drive web traffic to the site, often through user-generated websites known as linking sites. The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicized their links to users throughout the world."
Maybe because they're married? My wife and I share a lot of our passwords. iTunes, so that we only have to worry about one account... Banking, so that we can both access the account to pay bills, transfer funds, etc. Unless you're one of those couples (like one of our couple-friends) who keeps their money separate, you almost *have* to share passwords on some accounts.
For teens, or unmarried dating adults, I don't see much of a case though.
I don't understand focusing so narrowly on software engineering which really isn't that difficult.
I'm not a software engineer or developer (I did take one CS (Lisp) class in college, and now just write pseudo code/script in VBA for Excel and Crystal), but it seems to be that the field is fairly broad. There are platform developers, application developers, web designers, etc. I'm sure some of these jobs lend themselves more to being off-shored, while some benefit from remaining in the US, closer to management (that's what we do at my company - our largely Indian and Indian-American development team is based in California).
I think there is probably a wide degree of difficulty in the field. The type of scripting I do, or what is probably required for a lot of (basic) web site development is fairly simple and not worth more than a couple of classes. On the other hand, if you are talking about building back end for media asset tracking and digital workflow automation across multiple sites/countries, you probably have to have a much deeper understanding not only of coding concepts and strategies, but also network architecture, system inter-operability, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure if relevant.
No wait, I'm sure. It's not.
Most fixed video systems are incompatible, so you cannot call any meeting room
Can Skype call out to other video conferencing solutions? I know you can call a telephone number, but I didn't realize you could, for example, call a Google+ Hangout.
Yes. I want security screeners to be discriminating. They should assess people based on a host of psychological, behavioral, and yes, nationality and ethnicity factors and select a subset of travelers for more thorough screening.
Security Theater is treating everyone the same, and subjecting everyone to the same level of screening. Security Theater is selecting people at random for heightened scrutiny. If you want to intelligently protect a location that has hundreds or thousands of people coming and going every hour, you need to be selective about how, what and who you screen. You don't, of course, do this by letting every white person with a crucifix necklace breeze through, while cavity searching anyone with brown skin. But you do apply some level of intelligence to the process. Not every "profile" is equally likely to hijack a plane.
Note: The Israeli model uses this tactic. However, it requires a high level of training, and is probably too expensive to deploy in the US, where people want to fly 2500 miles for $250.
Also, some areas extend your car to be considered part of your home.
Since late 2008, your car is your home for much of the US.
Where are my mod points?!
until e-readers get a little more oomph I think traditional books are still easier to flip through rapidly.
Interesting point. Why should we read e-textbooks on an iPad when something like a Kindle is much cheaper, and provides a better (text) reading experience from all accounts. Ok, you can't put embedded videos, but perhaps that's a good thing (or at least a fair trade off to keep HW cost down and durability up).
Great, too bad if you are poor, no more textbooks for you. No iPad no education.
Given what text books cost, you'd probably only need to see a 5-10% decrease in textbook price to make up the iPad cost. I'm not sure what the level of the text books are that are selling for $15, but if they're college level, then that represents an 80-90% decrease.
The problem comes in public schools. True, this could be a boon to poor school districts, but not if they require a $500 electronic unit for each student. Wear and tear will kill iPads faster than books.
There is no merit in this kind of lock in.
Sure there is. There would be more merit in an open standard, of course. Despite the shilliness of TFA, electronic text books as a concept are better than paper in almost every way, cost being one of the major ones. What Apple's lock in provides is an out of the box stable, secure platform which (presumably) allows people to easily publish their book. How else would one do that, and reach as wide a market, today?
"ZOMG iPAD!11!"
iPads go up to 11 now? Apple has really accelerated their product development life cycle.
There are plenty of business education companies that charge thousands of dollars to teach you about any number of proprietary software packages for a few days to a week. You can even get Certified(TM).
It seems to me that one of the paramount services these types of companies offer is file security. If I put up a file to be shared among a group, I probably want to restrict access to that file to a specific group. Most often this is handled by requiring either a direct link or a password. If I am sharing confidential business information with a vendor or client, (say, graphics for an ad campaign that include pre-release pictures of the product), I don't want just anyone to download it. Implicit in this need for security is the need for the owner of the service (e.g. MediaFire) to not be able to access the content. The market for hosted file sharing is going to be killed if it becomes a requirement that the host be able to read/view the content being hosted.
I know we all hate the TSA, but under the existing rule structure, his detention should not be surprising or treated with contempt. The alternative is that the TSA screener decides on his/her own who gets to walk through without a pat down if the scan shows up something suspicious. I'm not commenting on the overall efficacy or "correctness" of the procedure; if we're going to have rules, they should be enforced fairly and consistently. That said, I am in favor of some types of profiling, but I don't think being an elected official gives you any sort of waiver. They've already proved that they can't be trusted.
But I refuse to say 2+2=5.
So you hate gays AND Radiohead? That is too much. We can no longer be friends.
Seeing as Dotcom was arrested in NZ, you may want to fly to a less US-friendly locale. I hear Venezuela is lovely this time of year.
But there are very few who will say "yep, the Supremes ruled that Constitutional (or not), and even though I don't like it, they're right"...
Whether I agree with her or not, I don't think Diana Ross should be the final arbiter of constitutionality.
If that were to occur, I think my wife having access to my FB page will be the least of my worries.
From the FBI press release (linked to be debork below):
"The indictment states that the conspirators conducted their illegal operation using a business model expressly designed to promote uploading of the most popular copyrighted works for many millions of users to download. The indictment alleges that the site was structured to discourage the vast majority of its users from using Megaupload for long-term or personal storage by automatically deleting content that was not regularly downloaded. The conspirators further allegedly offered a rewards program that would provide users with financial incentives to upload popular content and drive web traffic to the site, often through user-generated websites known as linking sites. The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicized their links to users throughout the world."
With SOPA, they can take your site down if you link to (or, presumably, mention) megaupload.com. Think about that one for a minute.
Their true target is 4chan?
Actually, it's been shown that some brands of bottled water are filled from municipal water supplies, so it is the same thing.
@pecosdave
Worst. Dyslexia. Ever.
I read that nick as 'pedoscave.'
You ain't that important, and your stuff ain't that great.
I would like, however, to subscribe to his newsletter.
a box of magic cards
What's this, a Rocket Launcher??!! Sir, step over here please.
Maybe because they're married? My wife and I share a lot of our passwords. iTunes, so that we only have to worry about one account... Banking, so that we can both access the account to pay bills, transfer funds, etc. Unless you're one of those couples (like one of our couple-friends) who keeps their money separate, you almost *have* to share passwords on some accounts.
For teens, or unmarried dating adults, I don't see much of a case though.
I'd be happy if it just let me traverse the web the wizard just dropped on the entire party.
I only skimmed the article, but didn't see a reference to OS. How do you know what their architecture is?
I don't understand focusing so narrowly on software engineering which really isn't that difficult.
I'm not a software engineer or developer (I did take one CS (Lisp) class in college, and now just write pseudo code/script in VBA for Excel and Crystal), but it seems to be that the field is fairly broad. There are platform developers, application developers, web designers, etc. I'm sure some of these jobs lend themselves more to being off-shored, while some benefit from remaining in the US, closer to management (that's what we do at my company - our largely Indian and Indian-American development team is based in California).
I think there is probably a wide degree of difficulty in the field. The type of scripting I do, or what is probably required for a lot of (basic) web site development is fairly simple and not worth more than a couple of classes. On the other hand, if you are talking about building back end for media asset tracking and digital workflow automation across multiple sites/countries, you probably have to have a much deeper understanding not only of coding concepts and strategies, but also network architecture, system inter-operability, etc.