The other scenario is that of a smart, socially-aware, perceptive, self-serving truly evil person.
These people analyze these social situations carefully and are able to detect these weaknesses in the social construct, and take advantage of them. They are therefore able to belittle, disrupt, take advantage of, subvert, out-compete their co-workers, because they know that if they are subtle enough, if they target their attacks carefully enough, nobody will directly accuse them of anything.
Not being sexist. Are we talking epic girl on girl battles for dominance, or evil scheming overpaid executive?
Maybe that WSJ reporter was thinking ethernet, not DARPA's TCP/IP, and first simple WANs. Re: Al Gore's Internet inititatives, I was one of many network integrators in the mid-to-late 1990s that built several large-scale campus networks/MANs for colleges, high school districts, city and state govts - all made possible specifically by Al Gore's inititatives. Those were the boom times for technical and commercial innovation, creativity, and opportunity all around. Those changes also caused major telcos to take notice, accelerate their R&D in, and deployment of, fiberoptic infrastructure. Sometimes a country needs its government to kickstart and push through big changes. I give Al Gore's thoughts & opinions more weight than a Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck when it comes to big ideas, and important trends affecting humanity, the planet, and interpretations of scientific theories attempting to explain what is, and what we should be doing.
This is a non-issue. Facebook is a publicly traded corporation, with a CEO that thinks privacy is overrated. Your life's history (& more) on FB is now owned by FB and completely available to FB staff and the govt agencies they answer to. You should be concerned about FB staffers, who/what gets recruited knowingly, and unknowingly, by FB management (not just GOV). Is this paranoia? No.
So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages? It all goes through their "Servers" (infrastructure in this case).
Saying FaceBook is a public place means that their Privacy settings are irrelevant. Or does Private not mean Private anymore?.
Domestic and corporate spying has been going on for awhile, look up:
"AT&T installs fiber optic spliiter for NSA"
"Microsoft discloses govt backdoor"
"Corporate spy xe"
Now you expect a publicly traded company, especially Facebook, to defend your rights to privacy? Get real. Keep posting your entire life's details with pictures, videos, & gps tracking history, online. After all, you're not a criminal (in your eyes), nor extremely wealthy, therefore have nothing to fear.
Dear RIM:
BB is the last mobile device with an excellent keyboard at the same quality level of the legendary HP-41C calculator). Don't lose this iconic feature of Blackberry phones. Unless you create something truly outstanding that will be immediately acceptable to your existing loyal customer base, you will fail if you phase out the iconic keyboard. I'd rather have an Android than a keyboard-less BlackBerry.
"There is no such thing as a "negative" impact on the biosphere. There are only changes..."
There is however such a thing as negative impact on life dependent upon the biosphere. Life will rebound without us, depending on how badly we screw things up, in several thousands of years or more. In the meantime, species are going extinct at rates of a mass extinction, largely because of us and our general lack of concern about anything outside our immediate surroundings, ie natural habitats, the oceans.
We already are in a mass extinction event, judging by rate of extinction of species, disappearing intact natural habitats, and what's happening in the oceans. Global warming is and will continue to affect the severity of, and length of the MEV, & upredictable cascading effects. This politically driven denial I'm seeing here on slashdot is disturbing. Don't politicize this site. Stick with scientific studies, not industry funded, selfish, made-up political trash.
Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades
LMFAO
Just as fossil fuels have driven human overpopulation - resulting in degradation of the biosphere, that has already initiated a mass extinction, so has Microsoft driven Intel vs. AMD R&D, growth of the commercial Internet, thus growth of Cisco & Juniper minus their extinct counterparts. Now Google, Nicira, Amazon, and their lackeys, are out to kill em all with gianormous VM arrays and Software-Defined Networks. So get familiar with cloud tech & buzzwords, and schmoozing with MBAs, if you plan on staying in IT. Could be as enjoyable as a root canal.
I used to run Linux and just use Wine and VM when I had to use some windows app, now I run Linux inside a VM on Windows when I need to do programming....everything after the flop that was Vista, MS has been improving its act.
Stability. That's all fine & dandy, long as your good with acknowledged, featured, GOV backdoors in the OS. ie. "COFEE: the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor....to allow a forensic examiner to collect data from a running system." We all have nothing to hide & GOV personnel & policy could never be petty, nor vindictive, wrongheaded, political, nor break any laws of any kind.
You might be right. Enterprise's main problems were the producers, boring characters, and boring shackled writing. The audience has to care for the characters and get excited and wonder about the universe you've laid out. If your team can't make that happen, you fail.
Heads up I didn't plagiarize you dude! Those were my two favorites, though there are a few more really close to the same quality as those two episodes. Its just fantastic storytelling in sci-fi TV. If they are bored, reruns of 24 or Walking Dead might do.
A space opera true. So was Star Wars, before it turned into a muppet show for toddlers. Yes they are from a different era and some things are universal. Classics tap into those universal themes, with great skill, and craft an entertaining show that draws audiences in immediately and keeps them interested.
Start with the best episode of "Star Trek TNG: Episode 125 - "The Inner Light" (Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Then show Original Star Trek: Episode 28: "The City on the Edge of Forever"
Those two are timeless classics, great stories, scripts, acting/directing.
After Rodenberry passed away, so did his control of the vision, and the idiots left in charge reduced the franchise to something trying to be a relevant commentary of inane political nonsense of the times. They ran out of ideas and started screwing around with time travel, and that was completely lame.
"turn any science you don't like into some ideological position is bizarre" - but it works, very effectively, especially with the help of owned clowns in cable news, radio, & their legion of wrongheaded bloggers. If its up to politicians, we fail since there is zero political will to do anything that would effectively pull back & steer clear of the tipping point. When enough evidence makes these facts irrefutable to even the densest boneheaded fool, commercial cable & radio news mantra will be: "too late! drill baby drill!" We can't afford to ever give up, but we better do something effective, and real, now. If global economic systems make it seem impossible, then we better figure out a way to circumvent those systems and start making changes that are necessary to preserve the biosphere we inherited, and are now custodians of. We are clearly failing big time.
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The other scenario is that of a smart, socially-aware, perceptive, self-serving truly evil person. These people analyze these social situations carefully and are able to detect these weaknesses in the social construct, and take advantage of them. They are therefore able to belittle, disrupt, take advantage of, subvert, out-compete their co-workers, because they know that if they are subtle enough, if they target their attacks carefully enough, nobody will directly accuse them of anything.
Not being sexist. Are we talking epic girl on girl battles for dominance, or evil scheming overpaid executive?
Maybe that WSJ reporter was thinking ethernet, not DARPA's TCP/IP, and first simple WANs. Re: Al Gore's Internet inititatives, I was one of many network integrators in the mid-to-late 1990s that built several large-scale campus networks/MANs for colleges, high school districts, city and state govts - all made possible specifically by Al Gore's inititatives. Those were the boom times for technical and commercial innovation, creativity, and opportunity all around. Those changes also caused major telcos to take notice, accelerate their R&D in, and deployment of, fiberoptic infrastructure. Sometimes a country needs its government to kickstart and push through big changes. I give Al Gore's thoughts & opinions more weight than a Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck when it comes to big ideas, and important trends affecting humanity, the planet, and interpretations of scientific theories attempting to explain what is, and what we should be doing.
This is a non-issue. Facebook is a publicly traded corporation, with a CEO that thinks privacy is overrated. Your life's history (& more) on FB is now owned by FB and completely available to FB staff and the govt agencies they answer to. You should be concerned about FB staffers, who/what gets recruited knowingly, and unknowingly, by FB management (not just GOV). Is this paranoia? No.
So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages? It all goes through their "Servers" (infrastructure in this case). Saying FaceBook is a public place means that their Privacy settings are irrelevant. Or does Private not mean Private anymore?.
Domestic and corporate spying has been going on for awhile, look up:
"AT&T installs fiber optic spliiter for NSA"
"Microsoft discloses govt backdoor"
"Corporate spy xe"
Now you expect a publicly traded company, especially Facebook, to defend your rights to privacy? Get real. Keep posting your entire life's details with pictures, videos, & gps tracking history, online. After all, you're not a criminal (in your eyes), nor extremely wealthy, therefore have nothing to fear.
Dear RIM: BB is the last mobile device with an excellent keyboard at the same quality level of the legendary HP-41C calculator). Don't lose this iconic feature of Blackberry phones. Unless you create something truly outstanding that will be immediately acceptable to your existing loyal customer base, you will fail if you phase out the iconic keyboard. I'd rather have an Android than a keyboard-less BlackBerry.
"There is no such thing as a "negative" impact on the biosphere. There are only changes..." There is however such a thing as negative impact on life dependent upon the biosphere. Life will rebound without us, depending on how badly we screw things up, in several thousands of years or more. In the meantime, species are going extinct at rates of a mass extinction, largely because of us and our general lack of concern about anything outside our immediate surroundings, ie natural habitats, the oceans.
We already are in a mass extinction event, judging by rate of extinction of species, disappearing intact natural habitats, and what's happening in the oceans. Global warming is and will continue to affect the severity of, and length of the MEV, & upredictable cascading effects. This politically driven denial I'm seeing here on slashdot is disturbing. Don't politicize this site. Stick with scientific studies, not industry funded, selfish, made-up political trash.
Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades
LMFAO
Just as fossil fuels have driven human overpopulation - resulting in degradation of the biosphere, that has already initiated a mass extinction, so has Microsoft driven Intel vs. AMD R&D, growth of the commercial Internet, thus growth of Cisco & Juniper minus their extinct counterparts. Now Google, Nicira, Amazon, and their lackeys, are out to kill em all with gianormous VM arrays and Software-Defined Networks. So get familiar with cloud tech & buzzwords, and schmoozing with MBAs, if you plan on staying in IT. Could be as enjoyable as a root canal.
I used to run Linux and just use Wine and VM when I had to use some windows app, now I run Linux inside a VM on Windows when I need to do programming. ...everything after the flop that was Vista, MS has been improving its act.
Stability. That's all fine & dandy, long as your good with acknowledged, featured, GOV backdoors in the OS. ie. "COFEE: the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor....to allow a forensic examiner to collect data from a running system." We all have nothing to hide & GOV personnel & policy could never be petty, nor vindictive, wrongheaded, political, nor break any laws of any kind.
You might be right. Enterprise's main problems were the producers, boring characters, and boring shackled writing. The audience has to care for the characters and get excited and wonder about the universe you've laid out. If your team can't make that happen, you fail.
Heads up I didn't plagiarize you dude! Those were my two favorites, though there are a few more really close to the same quality as those two episodes. Its just fantastic storytelling in sci-fi TV. If they are bored, reruns of 24 or Walking Dead might do.
A space opera true. So was Star Wars, before it turned into a muppet show for toddlers. Yes they are from a different era and some things are universal. Classics tap into those universal themes, with great skill, and craft an entertaining show that draws audiences in immediately and keeps them interested.
Start with the best episode of "Star Trek TNG: Episode 125 - "The Inner Light" (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Then show Original Star Trek: Episode 28: "The City on the Edge of Forever" Those two are timeless classics, great stories, scripts, acting/directing. After Rodenberry passed away, so did his control of the vision, and the idiots left in charge reduced the franchise to something trying to be a relevant commentary of inane political nonsense of the times. They ran out of ideas and started screwing around with time travel, and that was completely lame.
"turn any science you don't like into some ideological position is bizarre" - but it works, very effectively, especially with the help of owned clowns in cable news, radio, & their legion of wrongheaded bloggers. If its up to politicians, we fail since there is zero political will to do anything that would effectively pull back & steer clear of the tipping point. When enough evidence makes these facts irrefutable to even the densest boneheaded fool, commercial cable & radio news mantra will be: "too late! drill baby drill!" We can't afford to ever give up, but we better do something effective, and real, now. If global economic systems make it seem impossible, then we better figure out a way to circumvent those systems and start making changes that are necessary to preserve the biosphere we inherited, and are now custodians of. We are clearly failing big time.