Every big country wants to be top dog, or a superpower.
China has wanted this for some time.
They fought a number of proxy wars against the USA, including the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In the former, Chinese troops met American troops in combat. In the latter, China provided weapons, equipment, aid and advisors to the North Vietnamese communist armies.
“As far as learning time, we aren’t losing any,” Reith said. “We still have about 90 percent of our equipment up and running. Teachers are being flexible with what tools they use and how they approach a particular lesson.”
Translating from media hype: someone did something foolish on a computer, then got a new virus which spread quickly, but it hasn't been the end of the world. In fact, it seems contained. Weird how it's the worst possible virus. Funny how this just happened to happen at this school right in the shadow of Redmond. I'd look at dissatisfied employees.
A problem with software and operating systems is what I call the "aggregation problem," which is that what we have now is an aggregate of past solutions to problems that may no longer exist. The stuff piles up, increasing complexity and decreasing the uniformity and effectiveness of the interface. At what point do software projects call for a top-down redesign? How can free software do this where industry cannot?
The issue exists because when the UK requests extradition it's asking to extradite someone whose actually committed a crime worth extraditing over - things like murder and so forth.
In contrast, US requests are sometimes for the most pathetically petty of things, such as in this case.
You're applying your own moral judgment to which laws are important. That's not how the law works.
Among other things, extraditing him here would allow the court battle to rage and a decision be reached on what behavior is or is not legal.
Ideally, a consumer should never even encounter an IP address, be it IPv4 or IPv6.
This is insightful and I agree for the most part. However, a consumer facing a "black box" is helpless. It's better to make the box simpler and more accessible so they can fix minor problems when they arise, since they arise with every technology we have on a regular basis.
This is an information for the experts who deal with ip address assignments everyday. It's news for nerds, not news for consumers.
Here I disagree.
This a species of fear-inducing news articles designed to panic the consumers and induce them to put pressure on vendors, legislators and service providers.
I found an interesting assessment of this US-UK extradition pact:
In fact, Andrew Smith, an extradition specialist at the London law firm Corker Binning, said that statistical evidence suggested it was easier for the UK to extradite someone from the US, rather than the other way round.
It could be that what you're seeing is that the US, at five times bigger, is merely making more requests because it has more interests. The treaty may not be unfavorable at all.
Well, we didn't follow you into the collective clusterfuck that was Iraq... and we've been enjoying universal health care and other communist evils for some time now, so would you like to elaborate how exactly we are doing the US's bidding?
Europe seems to echo American ideals of social progress and political identity. Our rallying cry in WWII was that we have freedom and other guys don't; Europe seems to have followed that same model.
In addition, your quasi-socialist systems have many problems that are evident from outside the country, such as creating a huge debt load that is gradually rising and choking your economies. It will take some time to see.
I don't view this as a question of American versus Europe however, in that Americans are adopting the same quasi-socialist systems. I think they'll work, for a little while. Then the free rider problem, game theory problems and a tendency to collect vast numbers of takers while penalizing the makers will begin to work against them.
Patent # 6,742,087: "Oxidative process for exchange of atmosphere across a membrane."
You all owe me everything you've ever earned.
This patent thing is getting to the silly point. The original idea was that by making some ideas owned by certain parties, you would force others to innovate around them. But that doesn't really apply when we're talking about a standard (Wi-Fi) on a standard type of device (PDA).
There's using legitimate political means to agitate for change. I agree that this is usually legal in industrialized countries.
There's also pushing the limits by being a test case, which is usually neither legal or illegal. You're waiting for the courts to decide. In the meantime, you may be arrested and raped in jail.
It seems to me that Bing has improved a lot, and I've watched DuckDuckGo improve quite a bit. Google may be dipping a bit as it tries too hard to localize and customize search results.
You don't even mention human input to search rankings in your troll. Did you have it all typed up before this article was even posted, waiting for the first Google-related post so you could try to slip it in without appearing to be completely off-topic (despite the fact that your troll is, in fact, completely off-topic for this particular article)?
Trolling is a clear practice of trying to provoke response. If you look at my comment history, you see a series of contributions that stimulate discussion.
You calling them a troll suggests you're personally threatened by them. That's fairly typical internet behavior.
Addressing your passive-aggressive question of relevance, yes, this is relevant: Google is claiming it's an automated system, but it's using human beings to fudge the results, much like it prioritizes results like Wikipedia to ensure that an answer is always forthcoming.
That's not "don't be evil." That's outright deceptive.
I'm sorry that wasn't obvious to you but given that you called me a troll for it, I suspect PEBKAC on your end.
As it was explained to me, deferred prosecution is like a pro-active parole. They don't bring you to trial, but if you do anything illegal and they catch you within the period of the deferment, they bring the old charges back with both barrels.
This is a crafty way of neutralizing an activist. You keep them out of the media circus of a trial, but then you've got a sword of Damocles to hold over their heads. If they continue their activism, they face old and new charges. If they do not continue, they become irrelevant and end up working in some back room, coding websites for dubious startups.
One of the best changes in "design philosophy" that has happened in the past 20 years is that instead of the idea of any product as a fortress that cannot fail, products are designed to expect their components to fail, and to recovery gracefully from it.
This leads to a more flexible and resilient product. It reminds me of the military approach, where every system has at least two backups or alternates.
I always liked that motto, but I don't think it's that simple.
When something starts out, its goal is just to get good at what it does.
As time goes on, that role gets more complicated. Questions of profit, making employees happy, the legal department, marketing and monetizing come into play.
Over time every business becomes the same business when it gets to a certain size. It doesn't matter whether it intends to be evil or not.
It's not just limited to business. When your church, anarchist group, drug dealer network, friend group, gay softball league or underground terrorist cell reaches that same size, it, too, gets bloated and useless.
It's part of the human condition. The only thing that seems to be able to save it is charismatic, autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs.
Does Google have one of those?
Is it Google's time -- did Google get too big to not be evil?
The antitrust lawyers are closing in and the competition is getting ready to amp it up. I used Bing recently, and it was nearly as good as Google. I use DuckDuckGo on a regular basis, and it's about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way there.
Our society is still too disorganized and prone to impulsive, selfish acts for us to contact an alien civilization.
If we don't immediately make war on them, we'll move in, set up a gift shop and a law firm, then start piping them our TV and selling them whatever junk food has taken over for the Twinkie (RIP).
If you were an alien civilization, and your first contact from outside came from the U.S. Congress and/or McDonald's, or maybe you were exposed to Justin Bieber or dubstep, you might just pull up the welcome mat, throw out technology and go live in caves.
I'm thinking of attacking you and your family. I'm probably on drugs, and won't stop until you beat me down. How long is acceptable? Or do you just let do horrible things to them?
Most cops react badly when you come at them (even for 5-10 seconds). They deal with wakos every day who will shiv you for a pack of cigs.
Is what they did right? No. Was it expected? Very much so.
I agree completely.
In the same way, I don't mess with firefighters, airline pilots, CIA spies, surgeons, security guards or others trying to accomplish high-risk, difficult jobs.
We can go on and on all day about how it shouldn't be but... cops are in the combat zone. Don't lunge at them. Especially not repeatedly. Doubly so if you've just taken them on a nine-mile 100+mph car chase while your fellow passengers think you're on the dust.
I think most cop shops are afraid of something happening like occurred with the video of Rodney King's beatdown, in which the news snipped off crucial sections in which King repeatedly lunged at police. In addition, they tended not to mention his 100+mph evasion attempt, his prior criminal record or his extensive drug use. We all know how that turned out.
Realizing the significance of his footage, Holliday phoned the local police station, but claims that the person who answered the phone 'blew him off'. Next, he tried CNN, but no one was there to take his call. Finally, Holliday took his tape to local Los Angeles station KTLA. They edited out the blurry first 13 seconds of the tape showing King charging Officer Powell, and broadcast the last 68 seconds of the beating. The next day CNN and NBC obtained copies, and the tape was seen around the world.
2000 AD: Apple begins selling its products to hipsters, more than just self-righteous gear nerds.
2012 AD: The hipster mentality takes over Apple entirely. When faced with a court ruling, Apple stamps its feet like a petulant child, lights up an "American Spirit," and talks about how music was cooler back when it was DIY and this court has never heard of that.
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Every big country wants to be top dog, or a superpower.
China has wanted this for some time.
They fought a number of proxy wars against the USA, including the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In the former, Chinese troops met American troops in combat. In the latter, China provided weapons, equipment, aid and advisors to the North Vietnamese communist armies.
China is now building F-22 clones for its airforce, has a new carrier for its Navy, is waging constant and active cyber warfare against the US, and is expanding its trade strategy to dominate the US.
The war is cold now, but eventually it will be hot. Hold onto your hats.
Translating from media hype: someone did something foolish on a computer, then got a new virus which spread quickly, but it hasn't been the end of the world. In fact, it seems contained. Weird how it's the worst possible virus. Funny how this just happened to happen at this school right in the shadow of Redmond. I'd look at dissatisfied employees.
This part struck me as particularly interesting:
I can't agree here. The internet and global trade mean that we have to find ways to collaborate on standards between countries.
And someone just walked into my office, so I have to address the rest of this later (sigh
I approve any measure designed to restrain judgments to something fair and reasonable.
However, there are more costs to a lawsuit than the judgment.
First, a lawsuit is a public event in which the participants are publicly identified. That's on your "Google record" for life.
Next, it's a really stressful event. I think most people would rather perform surgery on themselves than go through a lawsuit.
Finally, it's going to affect how people respond to you while it's going on. Someone who's currently in litigation has a stigma around them.
So while this is a good thing in part, it may be addressing the smallest part of the actual cost of the lawsuit.
A problem with software and operating systems is what I call the "aggregation problem," which is that what we have now is an aggregate of past solutions to problems that may no longer exist. The stuff piles up, increasing complexity and decreasing the uniformity and effectiveness of the interface. At what point do software projects call for a top-down redesign? How can free software do this where industry cannot?
You're applying your own moral judgment to which laws are important. That's not how the law works.
Among other things, extraditing him here would allow the court battle to rage and a decision be reached on what behavior is or is not legal.
This is insightful and I agree for the most part. However, a consumer facing a "black box" is helpless. It's better to make the box simpler and more accessible so they can fix minor problems when they arise, since they arise with every technology we have on a regular basis.
Here I disagree.
This a species of fear-inducing news articles designed to panic the consumers and induce them to put pressure on vendors, legislators and service providers.
Hence my original comment.
I don't know. Maybe this is what we should ask our courts and congresscritters to decide?
I found an interesting assessment of this US-UK extradition pact:
It could be that what you're seeing is that the US, at five times bigger, is merely making more requests because it has more interests. The treaty may not be unfavorable at all.
Europe seems to echo American ideals of social progress and political identity. Our rallying cry in WWII was that we have freedom and other guys don't; Europe seems to have followed that same model.
In addition, your quasi-socialist systems have many problems that are evident from outside the country, such as creating a huge debt load that is gradually rising and choking your economies. It will take some time to see.
I don't view this as a question of American versus Europe however, in that Americans are adopting the same quasi-socialist systems. I think they'll work, for a little while. Then the free rider problem, game theory problems and a tendency to collect vast numbers of takers while penalizing the makers will begin to work against them.
It might take 70 years (USSR) or longer.
There's a lack of awareness on both continents that media is to truth what McDonald's is to food.
News-entertainment media is a product, not a service or an ideological obsession with being truthful.
They report on what they think most people will want to hear.
This includes misleading you as to the long-term consequences of the things the voters seem to like.
Patent # 6,742,087: "Oxidative process for exchange of atmosphere across a membrane."
You all owe me everything you've ever earned.
This patent thing is getting to the silly point. The original idea was that by making some ideas owned by certain parties, you would force others to innovate around them. But that doesn't really apply when we're talking about a standard (Wi-Fi) on a standard type of device (PDA).
At that point, we're just holding ourselves back.
Dear Media,
Every week, there's a new apocalypse in the news.
AIDS. Global Warming. Copyright violations. Vodka enemas. Terrorism. ???. Prophet. (I mean... profit.)
The IPv6 lolocaust is not going to impress us unless there are concrete figures about exactly when and how it's going to devastate us.
Then, we can plan for it.
Until then, it reeks of hype.
Love,
The consumers
There's using legitimate political means to agitate for change. I agree that this is usually legal in industrialized countries.
There's also pushing the limits by being a test case, which is usually neither legal or illegal. You're waiting for the courts to decide. In the meantime, you may be arrested and raped in jail.
It's a tough life, this activism stuff.
It seems to me that Bing has improved a lot, and I've watched DuckDuckGo improve quite a bit. Google may be dipping a bit as it tries too hard to localize and customize search results.
Trolling is a clear practice of trying to provoke response. If you look at my comment history, you see a series of contributions that stimulate discussion.
You calling them a troll suggests you're personally threatened by them. That's fairly typical internet behavior.
Addressing your passive-aggressive question of relevance, yes, this is relevant: Google is claiming it's an automated system, but it's using human beings to fudge the results, much like it prioritizes results like Wikipedia to ensure that an answer is always forthcoming.
That's not "don't be evil." That's outright deceptive.
I'm sorry that wasn't obvious to you but given that you called me a troll for it, I suspect PEBKAC on your end.
As it was explained to me, deferred prosecution is like a pro-active parole. They don't bring you to trial, but if you do anything illegal and they catch you within the period of the deferment, they bring the old charges back with both barrels.
This is a crafty way of neutralizing an activist. You keep them out of the media circus of a trial, but then you've got a sword of Damocles to hold over their heads. If they continue their activism, they face old and new charges. If they do not continue, they become irrelevant and end up working in some back room, coding websites for dubious startups.
One of the best changes in "design philosophy" that has happened in the past 20 years is that instead of the idea of any product as a fortress that cannot fail, products are designed to expect their components to fail, and to recovery gracefully from it.
This leads to a more flexible and resilient product. It reminds me of the military approach, where every system has at least two backups or alternates.
"Don't be evil."
I always liked that motto, but I don't think it's that simple.
When something starts out, its goal is just to get good at what it does.
As time goes on, that role gets more complicated. Questions of profit, making employees happy, the legal department, marketing and monetizing come into play.
Over time every business becomes the same business when it gets to a certain size. It doesn't matter whether it intends to be evil or not.
It's not just limited to business. When your church, anarchist group, drug dealer network, friend group, gay softball league or underground terrorist cell reaches that same size, it, too, gets bloated and useless.
It's part of the human condition. The only thing that seems to be able to save it is charismatic, autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs.
Does Google have one of those?
Is it Google's time -- did Google get too big to not be evil?
The antitrust lawyers are closing in and the competition is getting ready to amp it up. I used Bing recently, and it was nearly as good as Google. I use DuckDuckGo on a regular basis, and it's about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way there.
Could it be the end of an era?
Our society is still too disorganized and prone to impulsive, selfish acts for us to contact an alien civilization.
If we don't immediately make war on them, we'll move in, set up a gift shop and a law firm, then start piping them our TV and selling them whatever junk food has taken over for the Twinkie (RIP).
If you were an alien civilization, and your first contact from outside came from the U.S. Congress and/or McDonald's, or maybe you were exposed to Justin Bieber or dubstep, you might just pull up the welcome mat, throw out technology and go live in caves.
I'm thinking of attacking you and your family. I'm probably on drugs, and won't stop until you beat me down. How long is acceptable? Or do you just let do horrible things to them?
I agree completely.
In the same way, I don't mess with firefighters, airline pilots, CIA spies, surgeons, security guards or others trying to accomplish high-risk, difficult jobs.
We can go on and on all day about how it shouldn't be but... cops are in the combat zone. Don't lunge at them. Especially not repeatedly. Doubly so if you've just taken them on a nine-mile 100+mph car chase while your fellow passengers think you're on the dust.
I think most cop shops are afraid of something happening like occurred with the video of Rodney King's beatdown, in which the news snipped off crucial sections in which King repeatedly lunged at police. In addition, they tended not to mention his 100+mph evasion attempt, his prior criminal record or his extensive drug use. We all know how that turned out.
No argument from me there. American Spirits are tasty cigarettes. In fact, it's hard to go back to the 'bros or Camels after a pack of those.
To keep people from thinking I'm a hipster, I wear a suit and carry a Bible whenever I smoke one!
2000 AD: Apple begins selling its products to hipsters, more than just self-righteous gear nerds.
2012 AD: The hipster mentality takes over Apple entirely. When faced with a court ruling, Apple stamps its feet like a petulant child, lights up an "American Spirit," and talks about how music was cooler back when it was DIY and this court has never heard of that.