A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top.
Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, every time a monkey would start up the ladder, the others would pull it down and beat it up.
After a time, no monkey would dare try climbing the ladder, no matter how great the temptation.
The scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys. The first thing this new monkey did was start to climb the ladder. Immediately, the others pulled him down and beat him up.
After several beatings, the new monkey learned never to go up the ladder, even though there was no evident reason not to, aside from the beatinThe second monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating of the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated. The fourth monkey was changed, resulting in the same, before the fifth was finally replaced as well.
What was left was a group of five monkeys that – without ever having received a cold shower – continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.
If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they beat up on all those who attempted to climb the ladder, their most likely answer would be “I don’t know. It’s just how things are done around here.”
Does that sound at all familiar?
I don't mind bashing the USian system, and certainly, you're more likely to achieve a positive outcome in court if your skin is fair; but let's be honest about our appraisal of where the advantage truly lies... regardless of your propensity to develop melanoma, wealth is now the key factor.
If everything else is equal, are you statistically less likely to achieve career success if you are an American of non-European descent? Of course. Yet, the margins are much thinner here than nearly everywhere else, and though a childhood vision of fair should exist in a human civilization as advanced as ours; sadly, it does not.
There's a reason the proposed immigration restrictions to the US is big news. People are still efforting to come here.
It is sad this story could similarly play out in most any Western democracy.
The saddest part of this story is that it will get virtually no play in the free press compared to a police brutality issue, and the offense is equally egregious.
There's a difference between a few parties having access to it through means whose legality is under a cloud and anyone with enough money being able to purchase it whenever they want.
Compare this to pre-Internet days. It's as if anyone could buy your phone records from the phone company, or could buy the senders and recipients of all of your mail, and possibly even buy the information describing the kind of mail.
This is taking a situation that was already wrong to start with and making it so much more wrong that it's hard to put into words.
Well put. Puntended.
Flake also said that the resolution "empowers consumers to make informed choices on if and how their data can be shared," but he did not explain how it will achieve that.
The protection of your average citizen's privacy is the tech equivalent of mandatory seat belts, child seats, and motorcycle helmets. Sometimes, we have to protect the public from themselves.
Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
Security yes... abroad. Privacy: not so much.
The CIA has been historically responsible for international operations, including spying in and on foreign nations. The FBI is supposed to do those things inside the country.
Google says AMP is not a page rank service, and AMP will not get special treatment.
FTA: In past, we heard that AMP is not ranking signal. But your page speed is. If Google see two version of page, one AMP and one other, Google will show AMP version in result.
Although it reads like a poor Chinese to English conversion, the meaning is fairly clear.
The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At least it'd better be.
As great as the internet's free flow of information has been for the average human, there is another entity that has benefited even more...
Uber has higher valuation than companies that make the cars its drivers use
At $70 billion, Uber would pass the market value of GM (GM), Honda (HMC) and Ford (F) -- three companies Uber CEO Travis Kalanick should thank simply for existing. Ford and Honda are worth about $60 billion, while GM has a market value of around $55 billion.
>"state and national databases that restrict who can provide genetic samples and how long that information is held."
If you really believe that the government actually completely lets go (forgets/purges) DNA information it collects, I have some nice swamp land for sale in Florida...
Now that the storage of such data is trivial, it simultaneously unleashes the potential for great advancements and great abuses.
The best weapon we still wield against the most egregious abuses is the freedom to disseminate sketchy practices such as this, and to demand some accountability. Law enforcement is a necessary, often thankless job. My hat's off to those who keep the peace, but, if left to the police, the Police State is inevitable.
Well, there is a reason, albeit not a good one. If you knew who they are you would never answer them.
Actually, that's a pretty good reason. Most of us stopped answering anonymous and unrecognized calls years ago, due to the likelihood such attempts at contact would be nuisance calls.
I run a local service company, and I'm obligated to answer the phone call when a local prefix shows up. Too often now, that winds up being an offer for a preapproved small business loan or a need to update my records for some such thing.
With robocalls able to mimic local phone exchanges, we're back in the wild, pre-caller ID days, and might as well have to answer every phone call... what are we? Savages?
What absolute bollocks. Replace the word "gold" with any other element and your entire 'justification' remains just as valid. Not to mention the fact that an 'ounce' is an arbitrary measure of anything. That the price of 'one' (an arbitrary amount) bitcoin has surpassed the price of one ounce (arbitrary measure) of gold (arbitrary element, one of many that we consider 'valuable') is even less notable than the clock ticking over from one year to another, in our arbitrarily decided calendar.
Taking into account how many tons of ore are necessary to produce your ounce of gold, one could accurately posit a great deal of energy is used in its mining.
A lot of this has to do directly with need and desire to show the world that it's going directly after corrupt practices. There have been a lot of problems over the last 15 years, some of them not so bad, some of them very bad. Whether it's at a government level or at a business level. S.Korea passed new anti-graft and anti-corruption laws ~2 years ago directly targeting that because it had started moving in the direction of Chinese corruption. If you want to read on some of the stuff you can look here. There's also summaries on the differences on how corruption is considered there, compared to North America or Europe. Including the lower burden of proofs required, allowing for auditors and investigators to launch investigations into businesses or government at what would be considered circumstantial here in NA or EU. And allowing the use of CFE's(forensic accountants) for those investigations.
Still. Here in the West. We hardly ever just instigate the disappearance of folks when we suspect they might be up to something.
"It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted" or arrested, or charged...
On the one hand, I find the thought of CEO's of powerful companies, being held accountable for misdeeds, a refreshing concept.
On the other, I marvel at the sophistication with which most western democracies operate under; the tried and true, rather open, bribery system that is campaign contributions at virtually any level.
It's really innovative first generation tech. That's all.
TFS estimates this will remove 93 watts per square meter.
On average, the solar energy hitting the earth is 164 watts per sq. meter. An 8 hour summer day at 40 degree latitude can be as high as 600 Watts per sq. meter.
There will still be some air conditioning needs in the places they are presently very popular.
Slashdot Mirror
A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top. Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water. After a while, every time a monkey would start up the ladder, the others would pull it down and beat it up. After a time, no monkey would dare try climbing the ladder, no matter how great the temptation. The scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys. The first thing this new monkey did was start to climb the ladder. Immediately, the others pulled him down and beat him up. After several beatings, the new monkey learned never to go up the ladder, even though there was no evident reason not to, aside from the beatinThe second monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating of the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated. The fourth monkey was changed, resulting in the same, before the fifth was finally replaced as well. What was left was a group of five monkeys that – without ever having received a cold shower – continued to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder. If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they beat up on all those who attempted to climb the ladder, their most likely answer would be “I don’t know. It’s just how things are done around here.” Does that sound at all familiar?
If everything else is equal, are you statistically less likely to achieve career success if you are an American of non-European descent? Of course. Yet, the margins are much thinner here than nearly everywhere else, and though a childhood vision of fair should exist in a human civilization as advanced as ours; sadly, it does not.
There's a reason the proposed immigration restrictions to the US is big news. People are still efforting to come here.
The saddest part of this story is that it will get virtually no play in the free press compared to a police brutality issue, and the offense is equally egregious.
The neutrality of the US internet will remain endangered as long as the interests of its users clash with the moneyed interests of corporations.
Thank goodness we have a caring, representative government to protect us...
There's a difference between a few parties having access to it through means whose legality is under a cloud and anyone with enough money being able to purchase it whenever they want.
Compare this to pre-Internet days. It's as if anyone could buy your phone records from the phone company, or could buy the senders and recipients of all of your mail, and possibly even buy the information describing the kind of mail.
This is taking a situation that was already wrong to start with and making it so much more wrong that it's hard to put into words.
Well put. Puntended.
Flake also said that the resolution "empowers consumers to make informed choices on if and how their data can be shared," but he did not explain how it will achieve that.
The protection of your average citizen's privacy is the tech equivalent of mandatory seat belts, child seats, and motorcycle helmets. Sometimes, we have to protect the public from themselves.
Even spy agencies like the CIA have a responsibility to protect the security and privacy of Americans.
Security yes... abroad. Privacy: not so much.
The CIA has been historically responsible for international operations, including spying in and on foreign nations. The FBI is supposed to do those things inside the country.
Google says AMP is not a page rank service, and AMP will not get special treatment.
FTA: In past, we heard that AMP is not ranking signal. But your page speed is. If Google see two version of page, one AMP and one other, Google will show AMP version in result.
Although it reads like a poor Chinese to English conversion, the meaning is fairly clear.
A withered carrot? Amen Google. You rock like Slayer.
The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At least it'd better be.
As great as the internet's free flow of information has been for the average human, there is another entity that has benefited even more...
Quick Wolfram calculations
Uber has higher valuation than companies that make the cars its drivers use At $70 billion, Uber would pass the market value of GM (GM), Honda (HMC) and Ford (F) -- three companies Uber CEO Travis Kalanick should thank simply for existing. Ford and Honda are worth about $60 billion, while GM has a market value of around $55 billion.
>"state and national databases that restrict who can provide genetic samples and how long that information is held."
If you really believe that the government actually completely lets go (forgets/purges) DNA information it collects, I have some nice swamp land for sale in Florida...
Now that the storage of such data is trivial, it simultaneously unleashes the potential for great advancements and great abuses.
The best weapon we still wield against the most egregious abuses is the freedom to disseminate sketchy practices such as this, and to demand some accountability. Law enforcement is a necessary, often thankless job. My hat's off to those who keep the peace, but, if left to the police, the Police State is inevitable.
Well, there is a reason, albeit not a good one. If you knew who they are you would never answer them.
Actually, that's a pretty good reason. Most of us stopped answering anonymous and unrecognized calls years ago, due to the likelihood such attempts at contact would be nuisance calls.
I run a local service company, and I'm obligated to answer the phone call when a local prefix shows up. Too often now, that winds up being an offer for a preapproved small business loan or a need to update my records for some such thing.
With robocalls able to mimic local phone exchanges, we're back in the wild, pre-caller ID days, and might as well have to answer every phone call... what are we? Savages?
By that logic, Tesla paid double and Uber's in Venezuela-class financial trouble.
It would benefit a potential suitor.
Indeed, this is much ado about nothing, and only newsworthy in the way the Oscar's became after the mistake.
I'm sure it happens, but our compliance guys are zealous about that stuff. Why don't politicians have compliance guys?
It may be that politicians get prosecuted even less often than financial industry employees.
Queue the reasonable arguments regarding unsecure email habits by powerful politicians that avoid partisan bickering.
What absolute bollocks. Replace the word "gold" with any other element and your entire 'justification' remains just as valid. Not to mention the fact that an 'ounce' is an arbitrary measure of anything. That the price of 'one' (an arbitrary amount) bitcoin has surpassed the price of one ounce (arbitrary measure) of gold (arbitrary element, one of many that we consider 'valuable') is even less notable than the clock ticking over from one year to another, in our arbitrarily decided calendar.
Some things are more arbitrary than others.
Taking into account how many tons of ore are necessary to produce your ounce of gold, one could accurately posit a great deal of energy is used in its mining.
AOL began notifying users of at least one third-party app, Adium, that it would become obsolete starting on March 28th.
It might've been more efficient to personally notify the last 6 users.
A lot of this has to do directly with need and desire to show the world that it's going directly after corrupt practices. There have been a lot of problems over the last 15 years, some of them not so bad, some of them very bad. Whether it's at a government level or at a business level. S.Korea passed new anti-graft and anti-corruption laws ~2 years ago directly targeting that because it had started moving in the direction of Chinese corruption. If you want to read on some of the stuff you can look here. There's also summaries on the differences on how corruption is considered there, compared to North America or Europe. Including the lower burden of proofs required, allowing for auditors and investigators to launch investigations into businesses or government at what would be considered circumstantial here in NA or EU. And allowing the use of CFE's(forensic accountants) for those investigations.
Still. Here in the West. We hardly ever just instigate the disappearance of folks when we suspect they might be up to something.
"It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted" or arrested, or charged...
On the other, I marvel at the sophistication with which most western democracies operate under; the tried and true, rather open, bribery system that is campaign contributions at virtually any level.
TFS estimates this will remove 93 watts per square meter.
On average, the solar energy hitting the earth is 164 watts per sq. meter. An 8 hour summer day at 40 degree latitude can be as high as 600 Watts per sq. meter.
There will still be some air conditioning needs in the places they are presently very popular.
Depends on what the mirror was made of. Some would absorb the heat activated by infrared "excitement" of their molecules.