Could someone please explain to me, why Americans, Canadians, Brits and Australians are so afraid of a national ID card?
Because a single, authoritative piece of ID is: * more attractive to steal * more damaging when it is stolen * a larger target for abuse by insiders * subject to mission creep
Furthermore: * establishing someone's identity does not establish their intent, so it does not make us safer in any way, shape, or form
Finland currently has the highest Firefox market share in Europe with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 percent
There's another side that is how software is allowing people to be more productive at work. It's the empowerment of these people to do their jobs more effectively.
That's a revelation? Isn't that what has been promised continually since day one?
I'm no marketing genius, but who the hell thought domain names like meat.com and milk.com were going to be goldmines?!?
Someone who thought that they could sell meat.com to: The American Butchers' Association The German Butchers' Association Elite Butchers Association The National Meat Packers Association Alberta meat packers Butcher Consultants Ltd M&M Meat Shops PETA A Gay Porn Site
Someone who thought that they could sell milk.com to: The USDA Dairy Farmers of Ontario (owner of milk.org) British Columbia Milk Marketing Board (milk-bc.com) Any other milk marketing board (big, subsidized, cash-rich, protected business) A Gay Porn Site
I'm no marketing genius either, but I think that it would be safe to think that those names would be worth at least $1000 to any of those organizations. Turning $10 into $1000 is a pretty good scam if you can do it a couple of times.
educating and licensing "sommeliers" to help potential buyers wade through the vast sea of options available
Where I am from, we call them "sales staff." Imagine: the staff on the sales floor actually helping you buy instead of just regurgitating the price sticker or sending you to the right aisle.
Read the requirements document. Read the architecture document. Read the design document. [They do have all of these, don't they? If not, you should write them.] Start making some bug-fixes to find your way around.
The decision to allow the embryos was made after research showed that people in large are OK with the idea
I am glad that we are trusting the unwashed masses to make important technical decisions that they know nothing about. If Britney says it's safe, then it must be. God bless Democracy.
I, for one, welcome our species hopping virus overlords.
Parents are the scary ones. A lot of them seem to think chipping their kids is a good idea. I suppose it is if you treat your kids the same way you treat your pets.
No, the scary thing is that the parents indoctrinate their kids to accept being chipped, so by the time they are 18, there is a whole flock of new voters who will ask "What's so bad about having a tracking chip implanted? What do you have to hide?"
Has anyone tackled the Traveling Salesman Problem with Google Maps or any other online mapping tool? I've searched, but can't find anything.
1. Type this into Google: travelling salesman google maps 2. Click "Search" 3. Click the first result: "TSP Solver for Google Maps" 4. Practice searching for things more
For all my wide range of skills, I've found I have been valued less in the corporate world than those more limited specialists. True, I can complete projects that normally take a whole team to do - and often faster. True, I've shown time and time again that I can find solutions and create software that even our better-paid experts haven't been able to seriously attempt. That doesn't matter, though, because as an accomplished generalist at a (large and growing company) I've found myself sidelined over and over, forced into a job of very limited scope that is filled with specialists (in ASP.Net in this case) who I now have to compete with (in the one area I was always weakest at - web design). I've had the empty pleasure of seeing my old tasks pulled away, one by one, so they can be moved into specialist departments (with the end result apparently being the same quality of work, but requiring a much larger work force). This wasn't due to overload (I can automate almost anyone out of a job) or poor work on my part, but simply a matter of corporate architecture. All of these skills I have, all of these years of experience, are now going utterly to waste, not because I have an inflated ego and believe myself to good for my present task, but because all I can do now is advise others on how to do the jobs I used to do, while I perform a now-monotonous role where quantity of output is the only way you're judged. That sort of thing, though, doesn't attract much attention or pay.
Change jobs. Stop consulting for free.
A specialist will always be paid more than a generalist because: specialists have higher skills (take a generalist and add a specialization) specialists have more responsibility
You know, almost all of those astronomical images are artificially colored and enhanced to maximize their ascetic appeal. Have a look at some of the various images of the cat's eye nebula to see. A quick Google turns up 5 different colorings:
Slashdot Mirror
Well, you know, family values and now the economy are the only important issues.
Because a single, authoritative piece of ID is:
* more attractive to steal
* more damaging when it is stolen
* a larger target for abuse by insiders
* subject to mission creep
Furthermore:
* establishing someone's identity does not establish their intent, so it does not make us safer in any way, shape, or form
Pfft. Who needs ACID in a database...
There are also a lot of comments about how it all happened when they upgraded to iTunes 7.6, including this gem (which includes a work-around:
Of the few that claim that they were not using 7.6, a couple of them later came back and said "[oops, I did have 7.6]"
But of course, Apple is the perfect and the evil cable monopoly must be violating net neutrality.
That's a revelation? Isn't that what has been promised continually since day one?
"IBM Believes Microsoft Masterminded OOXML Initiative"
Ad Hominem is a logical fallacy.
Say you want the phone records for John Smith.
1. Call the phone company.
2. Pretend to be John Smith
3. Ask them to send a copy of your phone records.
Someone who thought that they could sell meat.com to:
The American Butchers' Association
The German Butchers' Association
Elite Butchers Association
The National Meat Packers Association
Alberta meat packers
Butcher Consultants Ltd
M&M Meat Shops
PETA
A Gay Porn Site
Someone who thought that they could sell milk.com to:
The USDA
Dairy Farmers of Ontario (owner of milk.org)
British Columbia Milk Marketing Board (milk-bc.com)
Any other milk marketing board (big, subsidized, cash-rich, protected business)
A Gay Porn Site
I'm no marketing genius either, but I think that it would be safe to think that those names would be worth at least $1000 to any of those organizations. Turning $10 into $1000 is a pretty good scam if you can do it a couple of times.
see false dichotomy.
As apposed to what they do...
I would agree with you... if requirements never changed.
Where I am from, we call them "sales staff." Imagine: the staff on the sales floor actually helping you buy instead of just regurgitating the price sticker or sending you to the right aisle.
Not when you store it on *MY* server. If you want to retain control of your data, then don't give it to me.
Read the requirements document.
Read the architecture document.
Read the design document.
[They do have all of these, don't they? If not, you should write them.]
Start making some bug-fixes to find your way around.
I am glad that we are trusting the unwashed masses to make important technical decisions that they know nothing about. If Britney says it's safe, then it must be. God bless Democracy.
I, for one, welcome our species hopping virus overlords.
No, the scary thing is that the parents indoctrinate their kids to accept being chipped, so by the time they are 18, there is a whole flock of new voters who will ask "What's so bad about having a tracking chip implanted? What do you have to hide?"
Were the OLPC peeps paid? If not, then I can't imagine any of them even reading a NCA without riotously laughing first.
Wasn't it an offshoot of academia, or at least headed by an academic? If so, then they aren't the type to use NCAs.
1. Type this into Google: travelling salesman google maps
2. Click "Search"
3. Click the first result: "TSP Solver for Google Maps"
4. Practice searching for things more
Read TFA, they have value to marketers because they are genuine.
P.S. not off-topic since this is my commentary on the author's commentary, which is "very meta."
P.P.S quote used under fair use. HAHA!
Change jobs. Stop consulting for free.
A specialist will always be paid more than a generalist because:
specialists have higher skills (take a generalist and add a specialization)
specialists have more responsibility
Your mom's receptacle is deeper than the current ones.
You know, almost all of those astronomical images are artificially colored and enhanced to maximize their ascetic appeal. Have a look at some of the various images of the cat's eye nebula to see. A quick Google turns up 5 different colorings:
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cats_Eye_Nebula.jpg
http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~panders/Images/AstroImages/03_CatEyeNebula.jpg
http://www.spacetoday.org/images/Hubble/HubbleBeauty/CatsEyeNebulaNASA.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/NGC6543.jpg
http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Cats_Eye_Nebula_2.jpg
The interpretation of the horsehead nebula is at least consistent (most of the time), but there is still plenty of artistic license being taken.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/52238main_MM_image_feature_89_jw4.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/45506main_MM_Image_Feature_73_rs4.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/scott_metz/alternity/graphics/horsehead_nebula.jpg
http://www.sidewalk-astronomy-club.com/img/horsehead-nebula.jpg
http://www.fourthdimensionastroimaging.com/sitebuilder/images/horsehead-712x571.jpg
I was sort of disappointed when I found that out...
Computer terrorism. They don't want a send-mail bug to allow a beachhead for compromising more sensitive systems.