I am beginning to hate technology. For every advancement in technology, there seems to be a corresponding loss in privacy rights and liberties.
This has nothing to do with technology itself. It has to do with the people who use the technology. For example, your internet history does not need to be logged in order for your ISP to provide you service. GPS devices do not need to send your currently location to some server somewhere in order for you device to know where it is. Social sites do not need to data mine your information in order to function. The loss of privacy is due to the fact that most of society does not care enough to do anything when companies and individuals take advantage.
I always thought this was dumb. If there is a known market someone is going to satisfy it. If food prices were aloud to go down, there would simply be fewer farmers not necessarily less food. The remaining farmers would increase production to satsify the demand.
If they are able to sell all of them, the market obviously valued them at least as high as the "inflated" price. Therefore, the inflated price is less than or equal to the true price. The original price was definitely lower than the true price.
Another thing to be mentioned about Steam is price. I almost always wait for the holiday sales when buying games from Steam. While the Steam DRM is not that intrusive, when you are getting games for a deeply discounted price, it is a lot easier to shallow the DRM that does exist on Steam.
In my mind, the publishers need to either deeply discount the price of games or sell them without DRM.
I never said they should charge more. They can charge whatever they want. My point is that the only reason scalping is ever successful is because the original seller undervalued the tickets. So unless seeing something for its true value is "wrong/evil" then scalping is not "wrong/evil" like previous commenters seem to believe.
Not sure what you mean by the "efficient" comment. I never said anything about efficiency.
You could have a soft and hard lock. A soft lock could be done with a short simple pin. When you believe that you are in danger of having your device taken you put it in a hard lock that clears the decrypted encryption key from the memory and requires the full password to unlock. Not perfect but a compromise.
WTF, this is capitalism. At its finest. Next you'll be asking them to spread around some of their money.
Exactly, the fact that their tickets are successfully being scalped simply proves that Google could have charged more per ticket.
If the ticket price was equal to the perceived value, scalping would not be successful and scalpers would have to find another way to make money.
The fact that they sold out in 20 minutes says that they should have opted to host the event at a bigger place.
Considering the amount of research and understanding that it took to build this thing, I highly doubt this was a "waste of time". Also, it is an awesome showcase of his abilities to future employers and colleagues. You could argue that he could have built a real calculator from transistors instead but that would probably take money that a lot of 16 year olds simply do not have.
Will the UIDs be recycled after the person dies? If not, eventually the world would reach a point where everyone alive will have names like 4617546513210234106654697454789854210352410005451851242124784135412324520515. Not much for brevity.:)
Why not just write a script that changes your Facebook password with a random string and saves it for later? If they ask you for you password, you can honestly tell them that you don't know it. Later, you look-up the password that the script saved for you.
They just don't want someone else to have your information without first getting paid. I am sure they would gladly sell your information to your prospective employer if they thought they could get away with it.
I just have to say it. Stargate Universe was, without a doubt, the worst of all the Stargate series. The only reason I watched the show while it aired was because it was Startgate and I was having Stargate withdrawal. Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis were awesome.
The problems with these shows are that they target a small audience but have a big budget.
That is probably true; however, I wish the TV executives would simply lower the budget rather cancel the show. As TV continues to transition more and more to the internet, I am hoping there will be less reason to cancel good shows that have small audiences since the producers will no longer have to sacrifice time-slots since it would be internet-based TV.
I just read that book a week ago. What part is pornographic? There are a couple parts where the boys were naked because they were in the shower and one part where they kids were forced to leave the barracks naked because they took too long to get dressed but there were not any sexual references or acts in the whole book.
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Better yet. Take his free online class. http://www.udacity.com/
I am beginning to hate technology. For every advancement in technology, there seems to be a corresponding loss in privacy rights and liberties.
This has nothing to do with technology itself. It has to do with the people who use the technology. For example, your internet history does not need to be logged in order for your ISP to provide you service. GPS devices do not need to send your currently location to some server somewhere in order for you device to know where it is. Social sites do not need to data mine your information in order to function. The loss of privacy is due to the fact that most of society does not care enough to do anything when companies and individuals take advantage.
I always thought this was dumb. If there is a known market someone is going to satisfy it. If food prices were aloud to go down, there would simply be fewer farmers not necessarily less food. The remaining farmers would increase production to satsify the demand.
I have no problem with birth control in general. I have a problem with abortion.
If they are able to sell all of them, the market obviously valued them at least as high as the "inflated" price. Therefore, the inflated price is less than or equal to the true price. The original price was definitely lower than the true price.
Another thing to be mentioned about Steam is price. I almost always wait for the holiday sales when buying games from Steam. While the Steam DRM is not that intrusive, when you are getting games for a deeply discounted price, it is a lot easier to shallow the DRM that does exist on Steam. In my mind, the publishers need to either deeply discount the price of games or sell them without DRM.
They will most likely blame the latter. Otherwise, they have to admit that their game sucked.
I currently use Cinnamon some of what Gnome3 takes away. I hope eventually it will get more attention.
I didn't like Gnome3. Cinnamon was a nice compromise though.
Agreed. I thought the courts ripped this guy off. He should have received more.
I never said they should charge more. They can charge whatever they want. My point is that the only reason scalping is ever successful is because the original seller undervalued the tickets. So unless seeing something for its true value is "wrong/evil" then scalping is not "wrong/evil" like previous commenters seem to believe. Not sure what you mean by the "efficient" comment. I never said anything about efficiency.
You could have a soft and hard lock. A soft lock could be done with a short simple pin. When you believe that you are in danger of having your device taken you put it in a hard lock that clears the decrypted encryption key from the memory and requires the full password to unlock. Not perfect but a compromise.
WTF, this is capitalism. At its finest. Next you'll be asking them to spread around some of their money.
Exactly, the fact that their tickets are successfully being scalped simply proves that Google could have charged more per ticket. If the ticket price was equal to the perceived value, scalping would not be successful and scalpers would have to find another way to make money. The fact that they sold out in 20 minutes says that they should have opted to host the event at a bigger place.
Considering the amount of research and understanding that it took to build this thing, I highly doubt this was a "waste of time". Also, it is an awesome showcase of his abilities to future employers and colleagues. You could argue that he could have built a real calculator from transistors instead but that would probably take money that a lot of 16 year olds simply do not have.
At least the stupid can't be re-enabled..
Can a moron choose not to be a moron?
Will the UIDs be recycled after the person dies? If not, eventually the world would reach a point where everyone alive will have names like 4617546513210234106654697454789854210352410005451851242124784135412324520515. Not much for brevity. :)
Actually, I was wondering the same thing.
The internet is not owned by any single entity. Facebook is.
We're not torturing him, we're just shining this light on him. It's not our fault he's reliving having his arm torn off over and over.
We're not cutting off his fingers, we're just pushing a blade into them. It's not our fault that his fingers don't hold together.
Why not just write a script that changes your Facebook password with a random string and saves it for later? If they ask you for you password, you can honestly tell them that you don't know it. Later, you look-up the password that the script saved for you.
They just don't want someone else to have your information without first getting paid. I am sure they would gladly sell your information to your prospective employer if they thought they could get away with it.
SG:U (the best of the stargates no less)
I just have to say it. Stargate Universe was, without a doubt, the worst of all the Stargate series. The only reason I watched the show while it aired was because it was Startgate and I was having Stargate withdrawal. Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis were awesome.
The problems with these shows are that they target a small audience but have a big budget.
That is probably true; however, I wish the TV executives would simply lower the budget rather cancel the show. As TV continues to transition more and more to the internet, I am hoping there will be less reason to cancel good shows that have small audiences since the producers will no longer have to sacrifice time-slots since it would be internet-based TV.
I just read that book a week ago. What part is pornographic? There are a couple parts where the boys were naked because they were in the shower and one part where they kids were forced to leave the barracks naked because they took too long to get dressed but there were not any sexual references or acts in the whole book.
A lot of these are starting to become services through the mobile device instead of services through a browser through a device.