This looks to me like a civil matter. That is, if there had never been the DMCA. There is a recent trend by big corporations to abuse the criminal court systems to resolve their disputes with the heavy hand of govnernment. I don't think it will stop until we stand up and demand government that is FOR the people.
I would love an explanation of the obviousness of my supposed trolling. Any understanding of business strategy theory should make it clear that any company which has no track record of organizing around the success of a business focus is very likely to fail when it ventures into that unknown territory. And instead, concentrating on core competencies allows a business to strengthen the areas that they are already knowledgeable at managing.
That seems very relevant to the fact that they have apparently misjudged the technological requirements of their new endeavor. It is hardly news and shouldn't cause any surprise to any analyst. Itâ(TM)s fairly obvious that the hype created around these glasses is also a failed attempt similar to how they handled Google+. But I'll take the high road and I wonâ(TM)t accuse you of trolling for mentioning it.
I suppose I could read the stories of deception on this matter and draw the conclusion that the bomb detectors don't work. But have I tested them? No. I think it's important to know what it is we don't know while reading news stories.
I would not be surprised that the bomb detectors have some usefulness. I am sure they do not meet the quality and reliability standards of the Western world. But the third world is often making good use of technology we would simply throw away. Look at medical science. Third world hospitals will often solve problems without the use of million dollar medical devices because something works. Maggot therapy isn't very popular for fighting infection in the US, but it works and it works very well, without the side effect of developing resistive bacterial strains. It saves lives where "better solutions" are not available.
And secondly, lots of Linux distributions. These serve 2 purposes. They support free culture and minimize the amount of load on the servers of those open source developers that already giving so much. And also, because I enforce encryption on everything, even if my ISP did see what I was torrenting, they'd likely find it was something legitimate.
I find nothing lacking really. BitTorrent just came out with an alpha file sync program that seems to be working really well. I'm happy.
Modelling has a limited ability to help in Engineering. And modelling has no ability to provide data to any real scientific study.
It does not replace experimentation and real data. And its results should always be taken with a grain of salt. There is no way a model on the scale of human culture and global weather (or even local weather for that matter) can be trusted. The entropy cannot be accurately modelled by the system.
When Verizon purchased the rights to the LTE band from the government, the FTC agreement included a clause that they could NOT restrict which devices were allowed to have access to their network.
We would do better to have educated citizens that can make their own judgements than professional filters that prevent our citizens from having something to judge.
The advantage of citizen journalism isn't that they tell us the truth. The ordained journalists do that just as well as citizen journalists. =/
The advantage of citizen journalists is MORE points of view. More data.
As a consumer of journalism, you have to be willing to understand that you are never really going to know the full truth about a situation like the Boston bombing because you weren't there and you probably didn't personally know anyone involved. Citizen journalists give us the advantage of hearing the same story from many different points of view. In years past, only ordained journalists were trusted to filter information for us. But with citizen journalism we can get EVERY point of view. It's up to us to be the filter.
They could also try making fewer episodes per season. Making episodes more rare may get more return on their dollar of investment. And also increase quality.
Much like the BBC model on many shows, viewers are SURE to tune into those few episodes when there are only 5-6.
For cult favorite cartoon TV shows, being cancelled by a network seems to have a correlation with the longevity of the show. And with the decreasing importance of TV channels, there are plenty of additional avenues for the producers of the show to pursue.
Does a non-anonymous European work better? Here's one.
The US have a great history of meddling with something, noticing that they bit of more than they could chew, then run away from the problem and leave others to pick up the debris. Actually amazing that you didn't fuck up after WW2, that was pretty much the last time when you decided to stick with it and take responsibility.
Yes, Saddam sure wasn't a nice guy (ok, he was a buddy back when he attacked Iran that decided to turn from buddy to Teh Evil practically over night and all those shiny F14s you sent there were now in the hands of those Islamists, but when he dared to attack someone other than what you wanted him to, he turned from buddy to Teh Evil over night). But at least the effin' country was STABLE. It was near impossible for some Islamist to establish a base of power there. Now, you managed to make it easy for them.
Good intentions being the pavement to the road to hell, ever heard that one? Guess it would be adapted as the US foreign policy motto.
Wow. We just got bombed by lunatics and the first response of the anti-American clowns is, "you deserved this!"
Let's have this discussion after we've buried a few more of our dead. Fair enough?
It factors into each level increasingly because nocomputer model accounts for the entropy of flowing particles. (The 3d plastic models are simulating plastic injection molding).
What you are getting at is entropy and unpredictable events. And those factors are always averaged out through a proper application of the Scientific Method by having a large enough sampling size, a control group and testing alternative hypotheses.
The larger the scope of what is being studied, the more entropy and unpredictable events factor into the sample size required. And computer models are incredibly bad at accounting for entropy and unpredictable events. A computer model with a mesh element count of 10^6 of a roughly 10" x 10" x 1" piece of plastic is notably poor at predicting fail mode and location under stress.
A computer model of hurricane prediction is even worse, often predicting paths that diverge at a 90 angle. Feel free to draw your own conclusion on reliability of global weather and climate models.
But the Scientific Method which requires a large enough sampling size to absorb all of that entropy has been replaced by group agreement (consensus) that does not actually create repeatable results. We nod our heads and say, "that sounds reasonable," and no one grabs a whole new sample and checks it.
We have a lot to do as the Human Race to understand about how to properly handle orders of magnitude.
I can tell you that it is stories like this that I look for everyday. Transplanted kidneys suffer the same fate as all transplanted organs. My immune system will eventually find a way to get around the immuno-suppressive drugs I am always on and kill the kidney as it would any foreign cell in the body.
The liver will be one of the first lab-grown organs to be transplanted because the liver is a very simple organ. Nearly all cells of the liver do exactly the same thing.
But the kidney is a very complex organ that has a variety of glands and structures that perform different tasks. The kidney performs the following:
1. Clean waste material from the blood
2. Retain or excrete salt and water
3. Regulate blood pressure
4. Stimulate bone marrow to make red blood cells
5. Control the amount of calcium and phosphorous absorbed and excreted
Dialysis does only a few of these functions (1,2 and 5) and it does them very poorly. When on dialysis I was constantly fatigued and was having increased blood pressure issues. Since my transplant my life has been restored to normal. But one day that transplanted kidney will die. I just pray that it lives until the day that a story like this changes medical science.
"We won't survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet."
The sad part is that those who decide where our resources go can't see further than 10 years. (and being optimistic, here)
Yes. That's very optimistic. Election cycles are 6 years at most in the United States.
The sworn purpose of the United States government is to act in the best interest of its citizens and their protection. Letting a company the size of Facebook effectively design immigration policy to the disadvantage of US citizens is actively working against that purpose. That's fraud.
Perhaps Zuckerberg could explain what the indienous population of the US is not capable of knowing that immigrants know. If this is the "key to a future knowledge-based economy", what is it I cannot know as a US citizen that you need, Mr Zuckerberg?
Ok. And in the real world, there is no evidence that it is possible to prevent rootkits from eventually being signed on a UEFI. Because now, they are going to be...agreed?
So that means we are right back to where we started in the first place. UEFI is useless at best, burdensome and unfair for people wanting to add/change the OS at worst.
Or a piece of malware will now sign itself and change the keys making it impossible to remove. It would be better totally unlocked otherwise. If the keys were in ROM where they could not be rewritten then yes there will be much rejoicing but who is to say the malware wont reimage itself in the UEFI and put another set of keys maybe randomly generated on the host?
You mean like a root kit? That's only existed for forever, and UEFI has been shown to be infeffective in the real world at stopping them. So your illusion of security was shattered. Pick up your hat and move on... designing a more workable security scheme.
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This looks to me like a civil matter. That is, if there had never been the DMCA. There is a recent trend by big corporations to abuse the criminal court systems to resolve their disputes with the heavy hand of govnernment. I don't think it will stop until we stand up and demand government that is FOR the people.
I would love an explanation of the obviousness of my supposed trolling. Any understanding of business strategy theory should make it clear that any company which has no track record of organizing around the success of a business focus is very likely to fail when it ventures into that unknown territory. And instead, concentrating on core competencies allows a business to strengthen the areas that they are already knowledgeable at managing.
That seems very relevant to the fact that they have apparently misjudged the technological requirements of their new endeavor. It is hardly news and shouldn't cause any surprise to any analyst. Itâ(TM)s fairly obvious that the hype created around these glasses is also a failed attempt similar to how they handled Google+. But I'll take the high road and I wonâ(TM)t accuse you of trolling for mentioning it.
... that Google's core competency is in cloud computing services? And not in hardware design.
News release: company with no previous hardware sales success can't resolve real world energy problem. Yawn.
I suppose I could read the stories of deception on this matter and draw the conclusion that the bomb detectors don't work. But have I tested them? No. I think it's important to know what it is we don't know while reading news stories.
I would not be surprised that the bomb detectors have some usefulness. I am sure they do not meet the quality and reliability standards of the Western world. But the third world is often making good use of technology we would simply throw away. Look at medical science. Third world hospitals will often solve problems without the use of million dollar medical devices because something works. Maggot therapy isn't very popular for fighting infection in the US, but it works and it works very well, without the side effect of developing resistive bacterial strains. It saves lives where "better solutions" are not available.
Video content mostly.
And secondly, lots of Linux distributions. These serve 2 purposes. They support free culture and minimize the amount of load on the servers of those open source developers that already giving so much. And also, because I enforce encryption on everything, even if my ISP did see what I was torrenting, they'd likely find it was something legitimate. I find nothing lacking really. BitTorrent just came out with an alpha file sync program that seems to be working really well. I'm happy.
I bet you get invited to all the global warming parties.
Of course, I do. We had a recent meeting of "Minnesotans for Global Warming".
Modelling has a limited ability to help in Engineering. And modelling has no ability to provide data to any real scientific study.
It does not replace experimentation and real data. And its results should always be taken with a grain of salt. There is no way a model on the scale of human culture and global weather (or even local weather for that matter) can be trusted. The entropy cannot be accurately modelled by the system.
When Verizon purchased the rights to the LTE band from the government, the FTC agreement included a clause that they could NOT restrict which devices were allowed to have access to their network.
The FTC made a ruling last year that enforced with Verizon that this rule meant that they could not charge for tethering. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/31/2139246/fcc-rules-that-verizon-cannot-charge-for-4g-tethering
When will some hungry lawyer actually take them to task in a class action lawsuit that demands that they not block other LTE devices?
We would do better to have educated citizens that can make their own judgements than professional filters that prevent our citizens from having something to judge.
The advantage of citizen journalism isn't that they tell us the truth. The ordained journalists do that just as well as citizen journalists. =/
The advantage of citizen journalists is MORE points of view. More data.
As a consumer of journalism, you have to be willing to understand that you are never really going to know the full truth about a situation like the Boston bombing because you weren't there and you probably didn't personally know anyone involved. Citizen journalists give us the advantage of hearing the same story from many different points of view. In years past, only ordained journalists were trusted to filter information for us. But with citizen journalism we can get EVERY point of view. It's up to us to be the filter.
They could also try making fewer episodes per season. Making episodes more rare may get more return on their dollar of investment. And also increase quality.
Much like the BBC model on many shows, viewers are SURE to tune into those few episodes when there are only 5-6.
For cult favorite cartoon TV shows, being cancelled by a network seems to have a correlation with the longevity of the show. And with the decreasing importance of TV channels, there are plenty of additional avenues for the producers of the show to pursue.
Does a non-anonymous European work better? Here's one.
The US have a great history of meddling with something, noticing that they bit of more than they could chew, then run away from the problem and leave others to pick up the debris. Actually amazing that you didn't fuck up after WW2, that was pretty much the last time when you decided to stick with it and take responsibility.
Yes, Saddam sure wasn't a nice guy (ok, he was a buddy back when he attacked Iran that decided to turn from buddy to Teh Evil practically over night and all those shiny F14s you sent there were now in the hands of those Islamists, but when he dared to attack someone other than what you wanted him to, he turned from buddy to Teh Evil over night). But at least the effin' country was STABLE. It was near impossible for some Islamist to establish a base of power there. Now, you managed to make it easy for them.
Good intentions being the pavement to the road to hell, ever heard that one? Guess it would be adapted as the US foreign policy motto.
Wow. We just got bombed by lunatics and the first response of the anti-American clowns is, "you deserved this!"
Let's have this discussion after we've buried a few more of our dead. Fair enough?
Yeah. And unfortunately those bombings are likely to lead to Bomb Control legistlation. Damnit. =/
Just cuz that would have prevented these deaths, ya know.
It factors into each level increasingly because nocomputer model accounts for the entropy of flowing particles. (The 3d plastic models are simulating plastic injection molding).
What you are getting at is entropy and unpredictable events. And those factors are always averaged out through a proper application of the Scientific Method by having a large enough sampling size, a control group and testing alternative hypotheses.
The larger the scope of what is being studied, the more entropy and unpredictable events factor into the sample size required. And computer models are incredibly bad at accounting for entropy and unpredictable events. A computer model with a mesh element count of 10^6 of a roughly 10" x 10" x 1" piece of plastic is notably poor at predicting fail mode and location under stress.
A computer model of hurricane prediction is even worse, often predicting paths that diverge at a 90 angle. Feel free to draw your own conclusion on reliability of global weather and climate models.
But the Scientific Method which requires a large enough sampling size to absorb all of that entropy has been replaced by group agreement (consensus) that does not actually create repeatable results. We nod our heads and say, "that sounds reasonable," and no one grabs a whole new sample and checks it.
We have a lot to do as the Human Race to understand about how to properly handle orders of magnitude.
I can tell you that it is stories like this that I look for everyday. Transplanted kidneys suffer the same fate as all transplanted organs. My immune system will eventually find a way to get around the immuno-suppressive drugs I am always on and kill the kidney as it would any foreign cell in the body.
The liver will be one of the first lab-grown organs to be transplanted because the liver is a very simple organ. Nearly all cells of the liver do exactly the same thing.
But the kidney is a very complex organ that has a variety of glands and structures that perform different tasks. The kidney performs the following:
1. Clean waste material from the blood
2. Retain or excrete salt and water
3. Regulate blood pressure
4. Stimulate bone marrow to make red blood cells
5. Control the amount of calcium and phosphorous absorbed and excreted
Dialysis does only a few of these functions (1,2 and 5) and it does them very poorly. When on dialysis I was constantly fatigued and was having increased blood pressure issues. Since my transplant my life has been restored to normal. But one day that transplanted kidney will die. I just pray that it lives until the day that a story like this changes medical science.
Thank you, GrumpySteen. I will consider myself Grumped.
EVERYTHING PRIVATIZED IS MOAR BETTER!
(Yes /. filter. I know that caps are like YELLING. That's the whole f'ing point)
Doesn't it suck that some mods think that life online should never include yelling? Truth is, sometimes, ya just gotta yell in life. Even online.
"We won't survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet." The sad part is that those who decide where our resources go can't see further than 10 years. (and being optimistic, here)
Yes. That's very optimistic. Election cycles are 6 years at most in the United States.
The sworn purpose of the United States government is to act in the best interest of its citizens and their protection. Letting a company the size of Facebook effectively design immigration policy to the disadvantage of US citizens is actively working against that purpose. That's fraud.
Perhaps Zuckerberg could explain what the indienous population of the US is not capable of knowing that immigrants know. If this is the "key to a future knowledge-based economy", what is it I cannot know as a US citizen that you need, Mr Zuckerberg?
Ok. And in the real world, there is no evidence that it is possible to prevent rootkits from eventually being signed on a UEFI. Because now, they are going to be...agreed?
So that means we are right back to where we started in the first place. UEFI is useless at best, burdensome and unfair for people wanting to add/change the OS at worst.
Time to toss it.
They are buying evil emission offsets.
Or a piece of malware will now sign itself and change the keys making it impossible to remove. It would be better totally unlocked otherwise. If the keys were in ROM where they could not be rewritten then yes there will be much rejoicing but who is to say the malware wont reimage itself in the UEFI and put another set of keys maybe randomly generated on the host?
You mean like a root kit? That's only existed for forever, and UEFI has been shown to be infeffective in the real world at stopping them. So your illusion of security was shattered. Pick up your hat and move on ... designing a more workable security scheme.