Now that marketing departments cannot track emails being viewed, the next move by Google will be to sell this tracking information back to the companies' marketing departments. They will probably set up a protocol to do it, or a nice dashboard/UI for it. In fact this might be good for smaller companies whose marketing/IT departments are small such that they don't have the ability to code in tracking images and cookies. Even good for larger companies - would cut down the infrastructure and development time; no more needing to host images on a server, with databases, etc...
I feel compelled to let anyone here who has not RTFA to not bother. It is a poorly written blog entry that's nothing but hyperbole and speculation. It's also badly researched and contains a lot of inaccuracies. One of the commenters is the CEO of DDG and he corrects some of the misinformation.
I've been using DDG for 2 years and it is great. Not always as good as Google but a good alternative for most searches. Make sure you set it to your region (settings).
Referring to your comment about it being reverse engineered, I don't think this is a major issue for the US. According to Wikipedia, the drone is not stealthy black and does not contain stealth design elements (eg. sawtooth shaped gear cover panels) because there is a somewhat higher likelihood that they will fall into enemy hands - due to the single engine design and lack of pilot. So, the drone was designed with failure in mind, and in this way, cutting edge stealth tech cannot be given to the enemy to reverse engineer.
The discussion following this article is focussed on university graduates getting into the private space industry. Fair enough given the author's specific question, but what about experienced engineers? I have 4 years experience in the power industry at a highly reputable international electrical engineering company and would like any tips or advice on moving toward/into the space industry.
The trouble with engineering, particularly electrical, is that it's very faceted and once you have experience in one field, it's difficult to move into another.
Quick, there's doubt by some in the science community about Supersymmetry! Let's get a whole bunch of us together and write articles and blogs about how the whole idea of Supersymmetry is crap! Maybe we can come up with some reasons of our own too!
Hmm, why won't the mums, dads and business people join me this time??
Right from the start I didn't want on G+ because then G will have all my mail history + personal chats, search history, browser tracking history, mobile/cell phone data (Android) PLUS social data. What other personal current data of mine is there?
Glad I have a G Apps account and can't even enable G Profiles nor G+... I won't be joining anytime soon.
And the fallacy that companies actually care about their customers, is just that, a fallacy. They care when sales are going down and that's it.
Could this be a return to the golden days of the 50s where huge oligopolists/monopolies run by statesmen that actually cared about the workers and customers? Pfft.
Don't know about Korea but from what I've heard from Chinese friends, bribery is a regular part of business in China. This will just put IBM at a disadvantage.
Interesting how the US govt doesn't get charged at home for torturing people at prisons it operates in foreign nations, in the same light that IBM is charged here for its conduct offshore.
Anyway I support disciplining businesses who conduct themselves inappropriately, at home or abroad.
The thing with contracts is that they are an agreement between two parties. In this case a large corporation with money and bunches of legal experts, and a teenager who wants the latest iConsumable. In B2B, both parties NEGOTIATE the terms of the contract to an acceptable level for both, but a consumer cannot do this as they don't have the power.
The only real answer is either: 1) Buy a phone outright, or second hand and don't sign one of these draconian contracts (win for you but nobody else), or 2) Somehow get a massive group of consumers together which then have power, and using the media to assist, force the company to amend the terms of the contract. Unfortunately this is difficult to do.
It's really sad that large companies now treat consumers like this.
That is probably one of the most insightful and thought provoking things I've heard anyone say about Facebook, and one with which I entirely agree.
I've already cut down my 'friends' list, to about 50 now. When I did this, I felt relieved in a sense. I now check it once a week but this is dwindling as I make it a personal goal to keep in touch with friends using phone/meetings. I believe Facebook does not improve my life nor bring anything new to it. Reconnecting with old friends, yeah, but I haven't actually made the effort to meet up with them yet. There's been the obligatory 'we should catch up', of course, but no action. Facebook seems to subconsciously deter me from meeting up with people.
Dude, your post deserves some praise. It exactly mirrors my thoughts.
We should all remember that The Bible is a loose collection of a few gospels which were picked from a pool of dozens, or hundreds, of contributed stories from various people. The National Geographic special article 'The Judas Gospel' was a real interesting read. An example of a conflicting gospel/story which changes everything, and thus was excluded from The Bible.
Critically thinking, I don't think it has any merit of truth.
I haven't completely read through the APSL, but it looks similar to the GPL (of the 20% I read). This is a good thing, as if it was totally free, then you'd see a rather large company we all know about use the code, like they do for all other free source code they find.
I think this is a little more than just the vibration. What about, for example, people who mow lawns for a living - that's a shitload more vibration than a measly little 2v DC motor with a off-centre lead weight. Not only that, but think of all the guys in the 'old days' operating vibrating machinery.
I think that it's the whole concept of keeping his hands wrapped in the same position all day, using only the same muscles that caused it. Think of the stress on his eyes, staring at a TV all day. It's nothing but a wakeup notice that he should get a life.
You can't 'push' current through a resistive/inductive device, it will _draw_ it, how much determined by it's resistance/inductance and nature of the voltage applied.
Without being overly negative, and putting this fellow down for his ingenuity, I just like to say that if something's going to appear on/., maybe it should be a little more original. Dont get me wrong, its a well done project, however I've read countless articles resembling this... i.e. normal computer, HD, modified case, inverter(cough), etc.
Putting it practically, a whole motherboard and 32 meg ram, etc is all overkill just to decode mpegs, however I guess most people wouldnt know how to program a DSP chip, or implement an mpeg decoder.
But what is more interesting, and is a bit more ingenius, is having a mobo/cpu/ram/etc, but a custom power supply. Why convert 12 volts to 110/240(australia, etc) and then back down to 12? Also, running such a high-level os such as window$ is also overkill. I would suggest either a really small linux distro booting off a floppy, or maybe DOS. A linux distro (i.e. tinylinux) booting off a floppy would eradicate the need for a hard drive if you played cd's off cd's (which is possible, using automount and find/cdrom -name *.mp3 | mpeg123 blah blah, etc). This would help with the stability/mechanical robustness of the system.
But again, well done to the author of this project.
I've read a lot of these comments, and Laura, this is one of the most well worded I've seen so far, and un-biassed.
Change is required, however for the better, on all parties involved. But answering terrorism with war is like telling your child to beat his brother back in revenge. I just hope the governments of the world realise this. So far they haven't.
I think hack jobs look the coolest. Ones that you do yourself, and people marvel at it and then ask you questions about it. People dont do that with expensive car stereos or cd players.
ArciheBunker, yeah I want to, but I'll have to build a pre-amp, which I've been too lazy to do:)
That would correct all problems, and would make things real good, because I could include a high-pass crossover for the front speakers (and just use the on-board low-pass x-over in the amp for the sub), and all would be at matched impedence. The sound quality would be a lot better, and it would increase the life of the cd-rom headphone amp:)
But the reason why I need a pre-amp is that it's nowhere near loud enough for the amp.
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Love it how this is only /. news once the US becomes involved. Been news for days in Australia.
How is this even related to tech/nerd news, anyway?
Now that marketing departments cannot track emails being viewed, the next move by Google will be to sell this tracking information back to the companies' marketing departments. They will probably set up a protocol to do it, or a nice dashboard/UI for it. In fact this might be good for smaller companies whose marketing/IT departments are small such that they don't have the ability to code in tracking images and cookies. Even good for larger companies - would cut down the infrastructure and development time; no more needing to host images on a server, with databases, etc...
Could be good for everyone involved.
Just to clarify, the NHTSA hasn't said anything to Tesla like the summary states. It has clarified its rating system. That is all.
That article is written like a high schooler's blog.
I feel compelled to let anyone here who has not RTFA to not bother. It is a poorly written blog entry that's nothing but hyperbole and speculation. It's also badly researched and contains a lot of inaccuracies. One of the commenters is the CEO of DDG and he corrects some of the misinformation.
I've been using DDG for 2 years and it is great. Not always as good as Google but a good alternative for most searches. Make sure you set it to your region (settings).
Referring to your comment about it being reverse engineered, I don't think this is a major issue for the US. According to Wikipedia, the drone is not stealthy black and does not contain stealth design elements (eg. sawtooth shaped gear cover panels) because there is a somewhat higher likelihood that they will fall into enemy hands - due to the single engine design and lack of pilot. So, the drone was designed with failure in mind, and in this way, cutting edge stealth tech cannot be given to the enemy to reverse engineer.
The discussion following this article is focussed on university graduates getting into the private space industry. Fair enough given the author's specific question, but what about experienced engineers? I have 4 years experience in the power industry at a highly reputable international electrical engineering company and would like any tips or advice on moving toward/into the space industry.
The trouble with engineering, particularly electrical, is that it's very faceted and once you have experience in one field, it's difficult to move into another.
Quick, there's doubt by some in the science community about Supersymmetry! Let's get a whole bunch of us together and write articles and blogs about how the whole idea of Supersymmetry is crap! Maybe we can come up with some reasons of our own too!
Hmm, why won't the mums, dads and business people join me this time??
There's doubt!!!
Right from the start I didn't want on G+ because then G will have all my mail history + personal chats, search history, browser tracking history, mobile/cell phone data (Android) PLUS social data. What other personal current data of mine is there?
Glad I have a G Apps account and can't even enable G Profiles nor G+... I won't be joining anytime soon.
Damnit, I posted this without being logged in.
"Shooting beams of electricity" sounds like Ghostbusters, not real world physics.
CAPITALIST America my friend.
And the fallacy that companies actually care about their customers, is just that, a fallacy. They care when sales are going down and that's it.
Could this be a return to the golden days of the 50s where huge oligopolists/monopolies run by statesmen that actually cared about the workers and customers? Pfft.
Don't know about Korea but from what I've heard from Chinese friends, bribery is a regular part of business in China. This will just put IBM at a disadvantage.
Interesting how the US govt doesn't get charged at home for torturing people at prisons it operates in foreign nations, in the same light that IBM is charged here for its conduct offshore.
Anyway I support disciplining businesses who conduct themselves inappropriately, at home or abroad.
Amazing stuff.
The thing with contracts is that they are an agreement between two parties. In this case a large corporation with money and bunches of legal experts, and a teenager who wants the latest iConsumable. In B2B, both parties NEGOTIATE the terms of the contract to an acceptable level for both, but a consumer cannot do this as they don't have the power.
The only real answer is either:
1) Buy a phone outright, or second hand and don't sign one of these draconian contracts (win for you but nobody else), or
2) Somehow get a massive group of consumers together which then have power, and using the media to assist, force the company to amend the terms of the contract. Unfortunately this is difficult to do.
It's really sad that large companies now treat consumers like this.
Not iFLAC?
That is probably one of the most insightful and thought provoking things I've heard anyone say about Facebook, and one with which I entirely agree.
I've already cut down my 'friends' list, to about 50 now. When I did this, I felt relieved in a sense. I now check it once a week but this is dwindling as I make it a personal goal to keep in touch with friends using phone/meetings. I believe Facebook does not improve my life nor bring anything new to it. Reconnecting with old friends, yeah, but I haven't actually made the effort to meet up with them yet. There's been the obligatory 'we should catch up', of course, but no action. Facebook seems to subconsciously deter me from meeting up with people.
I'm currently reading a good book which relates to this topic called Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers, about disconnecting from screens and reconnecting with people.
Dude, your post deserves some praise. It exactly mirrors my thoughts.
We should all remember that The Bible is a loose collection of a few gospels which were picked from a pool of dozens, or hundreds, of contributed stories from various people. The National Geographic special article 'The Judas Gospel' was a real interesting read. An example of a conflicting gospel/story which changes everything, and thus was excluded from The Bible.
Critically thinking, I don't think it has any merit of truth.
Funny your attitude. It's the reason why so many of these 'weak little' countries hate the US. Keep in mind they can bite hard when they want to.
I haven't completely read through the APSL, but it looks similar to the GPL (of the 20% I read). This is a good thing, as if it was totally free, then you'd see a rather large company we all know about use the code, like they do for all other free source code they find.
I think this is a little more than just the vibration. What about, for example, people who mow lawns for a living - that's a shitload more vibration than a measly little 2v DC motor with a off-centre lead weight. Not only that, but think of all the guys in the 'old days' operating vibrating machinery.
I think that it's the whole concept of keeping his hands wrapped in the same position all day, using only the same muscles that caused it. Think of the stress on his eyes, staring at a TV all day. It's nothing but a wakeup notice that he should get a life.
You can't 'push' current through a resistive/inductive device, it will _draw_ it, how much determined by it's resistance/inductance and nature of the voltage applied.
Without being overly negative, and putting this fellow down for his ingenuity, I just like to say that if something's going to appear on /., maybe it should be a little more original. Dont get me wrong, its a well done project, however I've read countless articles resembling this... i.e. normal computer, HD, modified case, inverter(cough), etc.
/cdrom -name *.mp3 | mpeg123 blah blah, etc). This would help with the stability/mechanical robustness of the system.
Putting it practically, a whole motherboard and 32 meg ram, etc is all overkill just to decode mpegs, however I guess most people wouldnt know how to program a DSP chip, or implement an mpeg decoder.
But what is more interesting, and is a bit more ingenius, is having a mobo/cpu/ram/etc, but a custom power supply. Why convert 12 volts to 110/240(australia, etc) and then back down to 12? Also, running such a high-level os such as window$ is also overkill. I would suggest either a really small linux distro booting off a floppy, or maybe DOS. A linux distro (i.e. tinylinux) booting off a floppy would eradicate the need for a hard drive if you played cd's off cd's (which is possible, using automount and find
But again, well done to the author of this project.
I've read a lot of these comments, and Laura, this is one of the most well worded I've seen so far, and un-biassed.
Change is required, however for the better, on all parties involved. But answering terrorism with war is like telling your child to beat his brother back in revenge. I just hope the governments of the world realise this. So far they haven't.
*laugh* :) This is the spirit !
I think hack jobs look the coolest. Ones that you do yourself, and people marvel at it and then ask you questions about it. People dont do that with expensive car stereos or cd players.
ArciheBunker, yeah I want to, but I'll have to build a pre-amp, which I've been too lazy to do :)
That would correct all problems, and would make things real good, because I could include a high-pass crossover for the front speakers (and just use the on-board low-pass x-over in the amp for the sub), and all would be at matched impedence. The sound quality would be a lot better, and it would increase the life of the cd-rom headphone amp :)
But the reason why I need a pre-amp is that it's nowhere near loud enough for the amp.