What's really depressing, to me, is that if I were a marketer, I could do better. For example, given the same data, I'd create a graph of '4-hour reading sessions per charge'. With the other devices getting 1,2,3, and kindle getting 8. (More than double! More than a week's worth of heavy reading on a single charge!). Let people extrapolate to their own reading habits.
Or use 'marathon 12 hour reading sessions per charge'. Competitor devices get 0, 0, 0. Kindle gets 2!
I find it a stretch to believe that battery life would be the deciding factor for purchase on these devices. Once you pass one day worth of reading time (and they both have), who cares?
You have to build the technology to ask during installation of a patch, which is generally supposed to be an invisible process. That's the opposite of a non-technical solution.
The articles says 300 prisoners made $500+/day. That's enough for one (or maybe two) new computer(s) per day, so in half a year they'd have erased your 1:2 ratio and doubled their profit simply by being minimally non-stupid.
The deeper meaning is simply that God is the laziest creator ever. Building everything out of the simplest possible shapes. Takes all the fun out of nature. Jerk.
My point is only that without physical security, password security is close to meaningless. If you don't have a licensed and bonded cleaning staff, and you don't escort your visitors, you are open to more sophisticated attacks that don't require gaining access to a password.
Smartphones may be available that small, but they better have a fold-out screen. The minimum useful form factor for a comfortable viewing distance is bigger than a credit card.
Once you have cheap access to space, it's no longer necessary (or really possible) to 'fuck up' in the sense that you mean. You can, for example, cheaply toss your undesired fusion power byproducts / other toxic sludges in the nearest star without consequence. The notion of conservation becomes meaningless.
Post-its on the monitor or in the desk aren't a security problem, unless you have people breaking into your building. In which case you have much more serious security problems than the passwords.
There are many, many industries in which monopolies or small oligopolies collude to prevent any competition, and therefore said companies do not have to compete for talent because they will be profitable without talent.
I'm curious what university has solved this problem, other than by not allowing networked devices access to core resources, which is requirement #1 of Gen-Y's contingent who want to use their own devices. I've seen 8 universities, and they all followed that broken model.
Also remember anything that happens on a work network belongs to them.
So yes, if you login to facebook from the work network then they can watch what you're saying and doing and can very well fire you for what you're doing or saying on facebook while on the work network. Not only that but your work could argue that the content of your laptop connected to their network is now their property, so they might just go through all your photos and any *other* interesting media stored on your laptop.
Better idea: stick with 3G coverage. If you can't get coverage in the building then live without facebook until lunch. No one needs facebook every second.
My old job allowed us to bring our own laptops in but we couldn't access their network, we used 3G USB adaptors.
They might argue the laptop is their property, but they'd be laughed out of court.
You've already been modded flamebait, which I think is unfair, but since I've posted:
I'd argue you're plain wrong. Of course we have more creative works than at any time in history. We also have more population. The question of whether or not we'd have even more without copyright is open for debate. China, for example, has basically no copyright enforcement, and an absolutely exploding number of creative works. In fact, they've created more such works than all of western society in all of history, just in the last 200 years.
Why wouldn't it be good for them? It would enrich their descendants, improving the likelihood of their gene's or meme's long term success, which is pretty much the only measure by which the dead can have something be good for them.
They make 1/3rd of their gross on helping recruiting now. My claim is only that I think that is a viable business all by itself. Think of them as the #1 worldwide recruiting firm. Forget the advertising or the data-mining, they can build a sustainable business on that alone.
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What's really depressing, to me, is that if I were a marketer, I could do better. For example, given the same data, I'd create a graph of '4-hour reading sessions per charge'. With the other devices getting 1,2,3, and kindle getting 8. (More than double! More than a week's worth of heavy reading on a single charge!). Let people extrapolate to their own reading habits.
Or use 'marathon 12 hour reading sessions per charge'. Competitor devices get 0, 0, 0. Kindle gets 2!
Still doesn't address it being useless in the US, a primary market for the device. ;-)
Indeed stupid, since both readers have long passed the charge required for a full day's worth of reading. I can't imagine who cares beyond that.
I find it a stretch to believe that battery life would be the deciding factor for purchase on these devices. Once you pass one day worth of reading time (and they both have), who cares?
You have to build the technology to ask during installation of a patch, which is generally supposed to be an invisible process. That's the opposite of a non-technical solution.
Were you asked to speak up about this citizen?
If not, please remain silent.
That would be interesting as the primary defense against hijacking is a locked door, not a pat down.
I think you're misremembering, and it doesn't matter anyway as we've been further able to increase the ration to 15 grammes.
The articles says 300 prisoners made $500+/day. That's enough for one (or maybe two) new computer(s) per day, so in half a year they'd have erased your 1:2 ratio and doubled their profit simply by being minimally non-stupid.
The deeper meaning is simply that God is the laziest creator ever. Building everything out of the simplest possible shapes. Takes all the fun out of nature. Jerk.
If your father is made entirely of electrons I'd be shocked to meet him.
But it's USA-centric, per the faq.
Manufacturer sells key-less cars, customers kidnapped and held for ransom!
My point is only that without physical security, password security is close to meaningless. If you don't have a licensed and bonded cleaning staff, and you don't escort your visitors, you are open to more sophisticated attacks that don't require gaining access to a password.
Smartphones may be available that small, but they better have a fold-out screen. The minimum useful form factor for a comfortable viewing distance is bigger than a credit card.
Once you have cheap access to space, it's no longer necessary (or really possible) to 'fuck up' in the sense that you mean. You can, for example, cheaply toss your undesired fusion power byproducts / other toxic sludges in the nearest star without consequence. The notion of conservation becomes meaningless.
Post-its on the monitor or in the desk aren't a security problem, unless you have people breaking into your building. In which case you have much more serious security problems than the passwords.
There are many, many industries in which monopolies or small oligopolies collude to prevent any competition, and therefore said companies do not have to compete for talent because they will be profitable without talent.
I'm curious what university has solved this problem, other than by not allowing networked devices access to core resources, which is requirement #1 of Gen-Y's contingent who want to use their own devices. I've seen 8 universities, and they all followed that broken model.
Also remember anything that happens on a work network belongs to them.
So yes, if you login to facebook from the work network then they can watch what you're saying and doing and can very well fire you for what you're doing or saying on facebook while on the work network. Not only that but your work could argue that the content of your laptop connected to their network is now their property, so they might just go through all your photos and any *other* interesting media stored on your laptop.
Better idea: stick with 3G coverage. If you can't get coverage in the building then live without facebook until lunch. No one needs facebook every second.
My old job allowed us to bring our own laptops in but we couldn't access their network, we used 3G USB adaptors.
They might argue the laptop is their property, but they'd be laughed out of court.
You've already been modded flamebait, which I think is unfair, but since I've posted:
I'd argue you're plain wrong. Of course we have more creative works than at any time in history. We also have more population. The question of whether or not we'd have even more without copyright is open for debate. China, for example, has basically no copyright enforcement, and an absolutely exploding number of creative works. In fact, they've created more such works than all of western society in all of history, just in the last 200 years.
Why wouldn't it be good for them? It would enrich their descendants, improving the likelihood of their gene's or meme's long term success, which is pretty much the only measure by which the dead can have something be good for them.
They make 1/3rd of their gross on helping recruiting now. My claim is only that I think that is a viable business all by itself. Think of them as the #1 worldwide recruiting firm. Forget the advertising or the data-mining, they can build a sustainable business on that alone.
There might be a hundred sites that do that, but LinkedIn is the only one I'm on, and the only one I've heard of.
That's interesting. I get almost no spam. The offers I get from recruiters are generally very well matched to my published skills.