Depends - if nothing changes (ie user doesn't install anything over time) then probably not. If the user installs / removes / installs / etc over time the system will bog down as Windows always does.
Install everything (Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials, the game(s), whatever else is needed) clean, update it all, then back an image and keep it handy.
When it becomes an "unfair trade practice" to be better than somebody else, you end up with classrooms where everybody is held back for the idiot sitting in the back of the room sending texts on his phone instead of paying attention to the lessons. I, for one, do not think that's a good idea.
I like socialism and taxes and regulation, but sitting on a genius to make sure they're not better than somebody else is plain stupid.
The parallels you draw doesn't apply and is the inverse of the subject at hand. We are not talking about holding the majority of companies back so that one can succeed and we're not talking about sitting on a genius but rather keeping that genius from sitting on everyone else. (the parallel breaks down)
If we go with your thinking then, I will ask you if we should then allow monopolies because the company in question is better at whatever than anyone else in the industry? We wouldn't want to hold them back, after all. The benefits of what they bring to market evidently justify letting them do whatever they want to stifle any competition.
As well, I will ask you if we shouldn't then apply this to politicians and remove legislation stopping a 'genius' president from having an unlimited number of terms in office? Again, we would surely benefit from having the best possible president in office...even if it's for life.
There are reasons the FTC exists, just as there are reasons that we limit the terms of office for our leaders. If the FTC is stopped from doing its job then we, the people, will pay in the long run regardless of any short term perceived benefit.
What's that they say of the cyclic nature of history? I put it to you that it's not enough to know history to avoid repeating it; We must also be mindful of it always. Otherwise, in the end there will be lots of, "sorry, but you leave us no choice" on both sides of the double edged sword of power.
History is already repeating and now we have to continue the change to completion as we have lost any sense of balance between right and left, between rich and poor, between the educated and the ignorant, between the manipulators and the manipulated.
It is too easy to imagine a not too distant future where the wealthy and powerful, become nobility, have control of the jobs, the police and the military to a point where the rest of society will no longer be able to achieve change.
The pay for a professionally trained engineer in China is not far off from the US numbers (having had discussions with an EE working for a power company there). Well, he probably makes about half a US salary, but $50k isn't unheard of for a PE equivalent.
Even if we take your small sample as indicative, how many of the people working on building the train system will make anywhere near that much? Some few will be engineers, yes, but most will be unskilled physical labor making (relatively) nothing.
$100B divided by 2 million employees equals $50,000 per employee -- high for China, maybe, but matches the MEDIAN male income in the U.S.
Given that the $100B actually includes much more than employee salary, like, uh, the material costs of BUILDING the railroad, and trains, and stations, etc, the figure seems rather like a bargain.
"The problem is, corruption has reared its ugly head." : When does that not happen to some extent?
"The network itself has had its share of problems, with people dying as a result." : This happens everywhere.
"There is also the problem that many of Chinese poor make so little money they can't afford to ride it." : Maybe China is planning for the future, maybe?! You know, like when their middle class is comparable in size to that in other developed nations?
"The sad fact is that so much money is being spent, no one can even keep count." : Then what is the "$100 Billion" figure?! Sheesh! Make up your mind!
Typical of those living in developed countries, you are applying your values to the money. Think not of what $100B is worth in the US. Think of what it is worth in China.
You say that 50,000 is the median for the median male income in the US. This is a meaningless statement relative to the discussion for two reasons.
- 50,000 is enormous in China
- median doesn't mean shit. Most of the workers will be making a dollar a day and those in charge will take the balance.
You say that in addition to salaries, the $100B covers the building of the railroad, which is correct, but then again you have to take into account the drastically different costs of production in China (especially for the government) versus the costs of production in whatever country you live in.
Friend, the Americans aren't too happy with America right now. What they're (American Corporations) doing to your country they're doing vigorously all over America, and they're a damn site closer here, so if its chafing you, its frigging killing us.
This strikes me as a powerful indication of the state of the world. The Nation state is in decline. The multi national corporation is calling the tune, and the laws are now being adjusted to ensure that any infraction against the all mighty corporation anywhere on the planet is dealt with swiftly and with overwhelming force. The new terrorist is anyone who isn't consuming his proper allotment and paying his bills. Now might be a good time to take our world back.
The nation states where freedom and privacy used to mean more than they do today are in decline.
The nation states where freedom and privacy mean nothing are not in decline...they are growing in power.
Unfortunately we in the developed countries that are in decline are not unhappy enough in large enough numbers to effectuate change at this time. Only when the balance of unemployed vs. owners reaches critical mass will change become possible.
All kidding aside, anyone notice how snarky it was for ebay to not call itself an online auction? If ebay was an auction site, it would have had to do so much localization because it'd be sued in every state and county with different rules for auctions. Also Paypal isn't a bank, so it doesn't have to deal with banking regulations.
A rose by any other name....
Someone breaking into a home won't necessarily call themselves a criminal but that doesn't make them any less of one.
Perhaps Paypal needs to be investigated for banking without a license (or whatever) and ebay for auctioning without, well, you get the idea.
I am less worried about Google specifically than I am with a Congressman who threatens a regulatory agency that they will be punished if they do their job of protecting people against unfair trade practices.
"He (Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)) warned Leibowitz that if the FTC does choose to initiate an antitrust case against Google, Congress might react by curtailing its regulatory authority."
The company is US-based. No matter how renowned the makers of this software are, under the Patriot Act they can be forced to secretely put backdoors into their apps and never tell anyone. For this reason alone the encryption is worthless, and possibly even dangerous for companies outside the USA that have to guard trade secrets.
Hand-eye co-ordination is best learned in the real world. Take him outside and play with real objects (I've heard it's called "catch") in a natural (non-human constructed) setting.
As for the other two things, typing skills and UI concepts, they can be trivially learned by him 10 years from now just as easily. He'll pick them up on his own before that, anyway.
It's not mutually exclusive. My son is allowed 1 hour a day of 'screen', be it TV, computer, ipad, whatever. He spends most of the rest of the time outside (well, inside in the case of swimming but out of the house anyway) and whatever's left on reading physical books.
I know you asked for Linux and I'm on a mac, but what got my kid interested was:
- photo booth where he could make faces and do all kinds of fun stuff with the built in camera / pictures (which he subsequently figured out how to associate with user accounts and use as desktop backgrounds)
- skype with me as I travel often
- email with me, for the same reason (with the benefit of being able to save it
- browser based kids games on the net
His first email to me: aymisyou
His second: ded yenayoukoumeybk
So okay, work to be done on spelling but it got him on the computer completely by his own motivation:-)
"I genuinely do not understand why americans, particularly the ones who frequent tech boards, think a third party would actually be helpful."
Allowing multiple parties in office is different than having multiple (realistic) parties to vote for.
France has an interesting system where there are two rounds of voting (as I understand it), where you get a chance to vote first for whatever party you actually want to win. Any party that doesn't get a minimum percentage of votes (5% I think) in the first round is withdrawn and the second round people vote again for one of the parties that remains.
Does anyone pick the president by the VP they choose? Do they think, "I like the other guy more for president, but I'm voting for this guy because he will be a better VP"?
I would certainly vote against a president if they came in with a psychotic vice president (Sarah Palin comes to mind).
This is not a direct proof of snooping, just that the German government has the ability to do so. That doesn't necessarily mean that it abuses that power in warrantless monitoring.
And what?
Even if they don't do it today, they'll do it someday.
that's the real reason from the article. so next up, banning for anything else that kicks up the insurance a notch.
had a heart attack? don't apply. high risk sports? forget about it. maybe they should have instead asked for the employee to pony up the extras for the health insurance.
If someone wants to smoke a pack at home let them. Make it against the rules to smoke on work time. Make them eligible to lose their job if they smoke from the time they walk in the door until the time they walk out the door.
What about smokeless tobacco products? Or coffee for that matter?
Would probably cost more in money and energy to build, launch, and operate a vehicle to find, collect, and recycle all this debris than it would be worth. I believe we're talking about stuff the size of nuts and bolts moving at kilometers per _second_ in a sparse cloud surrounding the planet.
If we're talking about very small items then yes but if we're talking about satellites that no longer function, it might be worth recycling them at some point rather than bringing them down.
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Reinstall the image every month or three.
That isn't necessary.
Depends - if nothing changes (ie user doesn't install anything over time) then probably not. If the user installs / removes / installs / etc over time the system will bog down as Windows always does.
Install everything (Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials, the game(s), whatever else is needed) clean, update it all, then back an image and keep it handy.
Reinstall the image every month or three.
When it becomes an "unfair trade practice" to be better than somebody else, you end up with classrooms where everybody is held back for the idiot sitting in the back of the room sending texts on his phone instead of paying attention to the lessons. I, for one, do not think that's a good idea.
I like socialism and taxes and regulation, but sitting on a genius to make sure they're not better than somebody else is plain stupid.
The parallels you draw doesn't apply and is the inverse of the subject at hand. We are not talking about holding the majority of companies back so that one can succeed and we're not talking about sitting on a genius but rather keeping that genius from sitting on everyone else. (the parallel breaks down)
If we go with your thinking then, I will ask you if we should then allow monopolies because the company in question is better at whatever than anyone else in the industry? We wouldn't want to hold them back, after all. The benefits of what they bring to market evidently justify letting them do whatever they want to stifle any competition.
As well, I will ask you if we shouldn't then apply this to politicians and remove legislation stopping a 'genius' president from having an unlimited number of terms in office? Again, we would surely benefit from having the best possible president in office...even if it's for life.
There are reasons the FTC exists, just as there are reasons that we limit the terms of office for our leaders. If the FTC is stopped from doing its job then we, the people, will pay in the long run regardless of any short term perceived benefit.
What's that they say of the cyclic nature of history? I put it to you that it's not enough to know history to avoid repeating it; We must also be mindful of it always. Otherwise, in the end there will be lots of, "sorry, but you leave us no choice" on both sides of the double edged sword of power.
History is already repeating and now we have to continue the change to completion as we have lost any sense of balance between right and left, between rich and poor, between the educated and the ignorant, between the manipulators and the manipulated.
It is too easy to imagine a not too distant future where the wealthy and powerful, become nobility, have control of the jobs, the police and the military to a point where the rest of society will no longer be able to achieve change.
The pay for a professionally trained engineer in China is not far off from the US numbers (having had discussions with an EE working for a power company there). Well, he probably makes about half a US salary, but $50k isn't unheard of for a PE equivalent.
Even if we take your small sample as indicative, how many of the people working on building the train system will make anywhere near that much? Some few will be engineers, yes, but most will be unskilled physical labor making (relatively) nothing.
Where's the scandal?!
$100B divided by 2 million employees equals $50,000 per employee -- high for China, maybe, but matches the MEDIAN male income in the U.S.
Given that the $100B actually includes much more than employee salary, like, uh, the material costs of BUILDING the railroad, and trains, and stations, etc, the figure seems rather like a bargain.
"The problem is, corruption has reared its ugly head." : When does that not happen to some extent?
"The network itself has had its share of problems, with people dying as a result." : This happens everywhere.
"There is also the problem that many of Chinese poor make so little money they can't afford to ride it." : Maybe China is planning for the future, maybe?! You know, like when their middle class is comparable in size to that in other developed nations?
"The sad fact is that so much money is being spent, no one can even keep count." : Then what is the "$100 Billion" figure?! Sheesh! Make up your mind!
Typical of those living in developed countries, you are applying your values to the money. Think not of what $100B is worth in the US. Think of what it is worth in China.
You say that 50,000 is the median for the median male income in the US. This is a meaningless statement relative to the discussion for two reasons.
- 50,000 is enormous in China
- median doesn't mean shit. Most of the workers will be making a dollar a day and those in charge will take the balance.
You say that in addition to salaries, the $100B covers the building of the railroad, which is correct, but then again you have to take into account the drastically different costs of production in China (especially for the government) versus the costs of production in whatever country you live in.
Friend, the Americans aren't too happy with America right now. What they're (American Corporations) doing to your country they're doing vigorously all over America, and they're a damn site closer here, so if its chafing you, its frigging killing us.
This strikes me as a powerful indication of the state of the world. The Nation state is in decline. The multi national corporation is calling the tune, and the laws are now being adjusted to ensure that any infraction against the all mighty corporation anywhere on the planet is dealt with swiftly and with overwhelming force. The new terrorist is anyone who isn't consuming his proper allotment and paying his bills. Now might be a good time to take our world back.
The nation states where freedom and privacy used to mean more than they do today are in decline.
The nation states where freedom and privacy mean nothing are not in decline...they are growing in power.
Unfortunately we in the developed countries that are in decline are not unhappy enough in large enough numbers to effectuate change at this time. Only when the balance of unemployed vs. owners reaches critical mass will change become possible.
All kidding aside, anyone notice how snarky it was for ebay to not call itself an online auction? If ebay was an auction site, it would have had to do so much localization because it'd be sued in every state and county with different rules for auctions. Also Paypal isn't a bank, so it doesn't have to deal with banking regulations.
A rose by any other name....
Someone breaking into a home won't necessarily call themselves a criminal but that doesn't make them any less of one.
Perhaps Paypal needs to be investigated for banking without a license (or whatever) and ebay for auctioning without, well, you get the idea.
After all, if everyone does it, the consumer has no choice.
This consumer chose to leave the US of A.
I am less worried about Google specifically than I am with a Congressman who threatens a regulatory agency that they will be punished if they do their job of protecting people against unfair trade practices.
"He (Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)) warned Leibowitz that if the FTC does choose to initiate an antitrust case against Google, Congress might react by curtailing its regulatory authority."
The company is US-based. No matter how renowned the makers of this software are, under the Patriot Act they can be forced to secretely put backdoors into their apps and never tell anyone. For this reason alone the encryption is worthless, and possibly even dangerous for companies outside the USA that have to guard trade secrets.
I wouldn't say it's worthless but yes, governments have to be taken into account such as India forcing blackberry to give them the blackberry encryption keys.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/02/rim_keys_india/
But it's not worthless because you're still protected from most potential listeners, just not all of them.
At some point they'll just buy the machines from China, Russia or some other country willing to sell to them.
How many non-amphibious jet-skis and quads could you buy with that same 40,000 USD?
Hand-eye co-ordination is best learned in the real world. Take him outside and play with real objects (I've heard it's called "catch") in a natural (non-human constructed) setting.
As for the other two things, typing skills and UI concepts, they can be trivially learned by him 10 years from now just as easily. He'll pick them up on his own before that, anyway.
It's not mutually exclusive. My son is allowed 1 hour a day of 'screen', be it TV, computer, ipad, whatever. He spends most of the rest of the time outside (well, inside in the case of swimming but out of the house anyway) and whatever's left on reading physical books.
I know you asked for Linux and I'm on a mac, but what got my kid interested was:
- photo booth where he could make faces and do all kinds of fun stuff with the built in camera / pictures (which he subsequently figured out how to associate with user accounts and use as desktop backgrounds)
- skype with me as I travel often
- email with me, for the same reason (with the benefit of being able to save it
- browser based kids games on the net
His first email to me:
aymisyou
His second:
ded yenayoukoumeybk
So okay, work to be done on spelling but it got him on the computer completely by his own motivation :-)
Because facebook 'likes' any page you visit, automatically:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19832043
Fuck facebook.
"I genuinely do not understand why americans, particularly the ones who frequent tech boards, think a third party would actually be helpful."
Allowing multiple parties in office is different than having multiple (realistic) parties to vote for.
France has an interesting system where there are two rounds of voting (as I understand it), where you get a chance to vote first for whatever party you actually want to win. Any party that doesn't get a minimum percentage of votes (5% I think) in the first round is withdrawn and the second round people vote again for one of the parties that remains.
Does anyone pick the president by the VP they choose? Do they think, "I like the other guy more for president, but I'm voting for this guy because he will be a better VP"?
I would certainly vote against a president if they came in with a psychotic vice president (Sarah Palin comes to mind).
You mean like in the US....where they used to require a warrant but no longer do?
This is not a direct proof of snooping, just that the German government has the ability to do so. That doesn't necessarily mean that it abuses that power in warrantless monitoring.
And what?
Even if they don't do it today, they'll do it someday.
So close and yet...must have been frustrating :-D
that's the real reason from the article.
so next up, banning for anything else that kicks up the insurance a notch.
had a heart attack? don't apply. high risk sports? forget about it. maybe they should have instead asked for the employee to pony up the extras for the health insurance.
How about genetic probabilities impacting your chances of getting a job? Gattaca anyone?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
If someone wants to smoke a pack at home let them. Make it against the rules to smoke on work time. Make them eligible to lose their job if they smoke from the time they walk in the door until the time they walk out the door.
What about smokeless tobacco products?
Or coffee for that matter?
Or pre-marital sex?
It's all a question of where the line is drawn.
America, previously land of the Free.
Would probably cost more in money and energy to build, launch, and operate a vehicle to find, collect, and recycle all this debris than it would be worth. I believe we're talking about stuff the size of nuts and bolts moving at kilometers per _second_ in a sparse cloud surrounding the planet.
If we're talking about very small items then yes but if we're talking about satellites that no longer function, it might be worth recycling them at some point rather than bringing them down.
Balls are spheres...