If this situation sounds familiar, it should - Nintendo kind of fought this battle with unlicensed game maker Tengen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29) over 20 years ago. Now it's made its way to . . . a coffee machine? Dang. I just got a Keurig last week - makes great coffee:)
"perhaps it's time to hire some Facebook friends."
I hope that companies who use Facebook profiles as part of their candidate selection process would disclose this practice to the general public. That information would have a substantial negative impact on my view of any company I would consider applying to. Any time an organization takes its eye of the ball by hiring based on Facebook crap instead of individual skill and talent, it's hard to imagine that they'll be around long or won't suffer severe layoffs from mismangement in the near term. There should be a law requiring companies to disclose that information.
So, I'm not a lawyer, but I guess the thinking applied here is that an NDA can be used to not comply with the law? So, by that reasoning, can anyone scribble an NDA on a napkin and get away with anything?
1) Debian (for i386 and ARM)
2) Windows 7 (I hang my head in terrible shame. I need it for Guild Wars 2, and if ArenaNet ever puts out a Linux client - buh bye, Windows)
3) SSH
4) Adobe Flash plugin for . . ..
5) Firefox
6) PHP
7) MySQL
8) Apache
9) Locate;P
10) Guild Wars 2
11) Java (unfortunately)
12) VMware player
Honestly, unless you build it yourself, how do you know it's doing what it says it's doing? The client is on iOS or Android? Wasn't there a story this week about about a key logging exploit for iOS? It may not matter that it's secure if there's a better attack vector on a device. Personally, I would never take a claim for security seriously, you're better off using whatever flawed IM service is out there already and just treat every message as a public broadcast.
Quebec has some bizarre sensibilities, they're definitely not into this whole people-can-decide-what's-best-for-themselves crap. If you think that's bad, you should see their tax rate - believe it or not, taxes go to supporting these bizarre laws. Anyone under the age of 30 who wants to make a life for themselves, in my oppinion, should live anywhere else in Canada.
"This physical level of hostility is unusual, but discomfort with Glass is common, especially among those who don't understand how it works."
I'm pretty sure that statement is about as wrong as it gets. Everyone's very aware of how it works, during the scuffle she turned on video recording and it's been posted to youtube, which is basically the whole problem. Google Glass makes it so that you can't really have an off the record discussion any more. And please spare everyone the nonsensical argument about cell phones posing the same risk, especially since you're not wearing the phone on your face.
"The dearth of women in computing,' writes Cassidy, 'has the potential to slow the U.S. economy, which needs more students in the pipeline to feed its need for more programmers. It harms women by excluding them from some of the best jobs in the country."
The dearth is excluding women from the programming field? I mean, the "dearth" itself? I'll just table that statement as either someone doesn't know what the word "dearth" means or someone just doesn't proofread their own statements.
I don't think programming is appealing to a lot of women. I encourage family members to go into it, but even the very young ones who are especially good at math (although you don't need to be, just illustrating that they have some mental capacity) just don't find it interesting - they roll their eyes at it. It's sad and I very much hope I'm wrong because having more women in the field would be a really good thing for everybody.
Guys,
Gathering data on activity made with corporate property is not spying, no matter the logic or mindset you're using. Sorry, it's just not. It's spying when you're paying for the service and they're going through its records. Not sure how this is news. Also, c'mon really? How is any of this new? It's an extension of monitoring telephony call detail records or email usage.
I honestly don't understand this whole thing about sending humans to Mars - a move that can only end in disaster. If people are that eager to leave civilization, maybe they should just go to the Artic. It's pretty much the same thing with the same set of challenges, but it would be easier to walk back a bad decision.
They're making a stamp for someone who pioneered devices used for smart marketing. Can't we give one to someone whose pioneering work in agriculture is being used to feed more people in impoverished nations? Clearly this is a popularity contest.
It's difficult to articulate, but I'd stay away from anything that connects your so persistently to your online stuff. And I say this as someone who absolutely can not live without good net access - but when I'm online, I'm working on my personal and professional development (or reading slashdot). It feels like Google Glass was developed for people who are chronically playing on Facebook (don't give me this nonsense about Google maps and how much better it would be to wear it on your face. Use your smartphone - at least a phone can be tucked away and you can go on with things).
Glass represents a shift away from focusing on technology in my mind. It's not an evolution of mobile computing or frankly ANYTHING constructive. I remember a time when laptops were finally becoming affordable and people could put them in backpacks and take them everywhere with them (which was a very liberating time for computer geeks everywhere). Smartphones and Google Glass are not from this tradition, they weren't made for this same purpose - they were made, ultimately, as devices that can personalize marketing through data collecting and location tracking. Whether it's a smarphone or a wearable smart device, you're paying a lot of money so that, down the line, you can be sold things and buy more stuff. You're paying for the device, you're paying for the bandwidth. That's the end game for smartphones and Google Glass, in my view. It's depressing to see about 90% of people in public places staring down at their cell phones and grinning while they're walking into walls and lamp posts.
My best advice; not only should you not use Google Glass, you really strongly consider not even using a smartphone (get the dumbest phone you can find if you must have a cell). And, personally, Google Glass looks REALLY stupid sitting on a person's face and it leaves a really bad impression.
It's trivial if you're calculating it on a spreadsheet. The math is trivial. If you're doing something in the real world, it's involved. You need staff to review loans and process them. Staff costs money, so you hire people to manage the staff, like managers and human resources (to pay them and manage their benefits). Do they work in a building? Buildings cost money, their utilities do as well - more cost. If the loans are made via credit card (which are usually unsecured loans - in other words, you don't lose your house if you don't pay the bank back), then it's a whole lot of other things like dealing with fraud and identity fraud, and managing a service where the borrower's credit worthiness changes from month to month. All of this is cost, and none of it is trivial.
Not exactly. Banks provide a critical service to economies, they don't just "move other peoples' money around". It's not exactly trivial to loan people money to buy homes or set up businesses or loan money for college. Are there problems with a system that incentives bankers and CEOs to be unethical? Yup. Banks are still important, though. It's the incentive to do the right thing that's a problem. I suspect most people put in a banker or CEO position would act the same way - money and power change the way people view the world and how they think in general.
Commercial, closed-source products just tend to have these problems and it's pie-in-the-sky to wish for a vendor to produce a secure product. If you want it secure, probably your best bet is an open source, open hardware mini server (like cubieboard or Raspberry Pi) and you're going to have to learn to do it yourself.
I'm not exagerting or being sarcastic - we really need to be pouring more money into making pizza even better. It's nature's perfect food, where would any of us be without it? It's there for us a 3am Saturday when we're hammering out a solution. It doesn't judge. It doesn't talk back. You don't need to have a meeting with it to discuss anything. It's there for you 24hours/day. It's pizza, and it's awesome. Let's try to make it even better.
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If this situation sounds familiar, it should - Nintendo kind of fought this battle with unlicensed game maker Tengen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29) over 20 years ago. Now it's made its way to . . . a coffee machine? Dang. I just got a Keurig last week - makes great coffee :)
I'm in the process of phasing mine out and building one with Debian (working on it today). Pretty scary.
"perhaps it's time to hire some Facebook friends."
I hope that companies who use Facebook profiles as part of their candidate selection process would disclose this practice to the general public. That information would have a substantial negative impact on my view of any company I would consider applying to. Any time an organization takes its eye of the ball by hiring based on Facebook crap instead of individual skill and talent, it's hard to imagine that they'll be around long or won't suffer severe layoffs from mismangement in the near term. There should be a law requiring companies to disclose that information.
So, I'm not a lawyer, but I guess the thinking applied here is that an NDA can be used to not comply with the law? So, by that reasoning, can anyone scribble an NDA on a napkin and get away with anything?
1) Debian (for i386 and ARM) . ;P
2) Windows 7 (I hang my head in terrible shame. I need it for Guild Wars 2, and if ArenaNet ever puts out a Linux client - buh bye, Windows)
3) SSH
4) Adobe Flash plugin for . . .
5) Firefox
6) PHP
7) MySQL
8) Apache
9) Locate
10) Guild Wars 2
11) Java (unfortunately)
12) VMware player
Honestly, unless you build it yourself, how do you know it's doing what it says it's doing? The client is on iOS or Android? Wasn't there a story this week about about a key logging exploit for iOS? It may not matter that it's secure if there's a better attack vector on a device. Personally, I would never take a claim for security seriously, you're better off using whatever flawed IM service is out there already and just treat every message as a public broadcast.
Yeah, definitely. After that, I'd leave the province. Better than wasting away in that insane cold and nonsensical cultural issues. Life's too short.
There's an unfortunate truth to this statement.
Quebec has some bizarre sensibilities, they're definitely not into this whole people-can-decide-what's-best-for-themselves crap. If you think that's bad, you should see their tax rate - believe it or not, taxes go to supporting these bizarre laws. Anyone under the age of 30 who wants to make a life for themselves, in my oppinion, should live anywhere else in Canada.
"This physical level of hostility is unusual, but discomfort with Glass is common, especially among those who don't understand how it works."
I'm pretty sure that statement is about as wrong as it gets. Everyone's very aware of how it works, during the scuffle she turned on video recording and it's been posted to youtube, which is basically the whole problem. Google Glass makes it so that you can't really have an off the record discussion any more. And please spare everyone the nonsensical argument about cell phones posing the same risk, especially since you're not wearing the phone on your face.
"The dearth of women in computing,' writes Cassidy, 'has the potential to slow the U.S. economy, which needs more students in the pipeline to feed its need for more programmers. It harms women by excluding them from some of the best jobs in the country."
The dearth is excluding women from the programming field? I mean, the "dearth" itself? I'll just table that statement as either someone doesn't know what the word "dearth" means or someone just doesn't proofread their own statements.
I don't think programming is appealing to a lot of women. I encourage family members to go into it, but even the very young ones who are especially good at math (although you don't need to be, just illustrating that they have some mental capacity) just don't find it interesting - they roll their eyes at it. It's sad and I very much hope I'm wrong because having more women in the field would be a really good thing for everybody.
I'll take your word for it. I couldn't make it past the post subject.
Yes, I agree. Truly, this is a boring subject.
Guys, Gathering data on activity made with corporate property is not spying, no matter the logic or mindset you're using. Sorry, it's just not. It's spying when you're paying for the service and they're going through its records. Not sure how this is news. Also, c'mon really? How is any of this new? It's an extension of monitoring telephony call detail records or email usage.
Good point.
I honestly don't understand this whole thing about sending humans to Mars - a move that can only end in disaster. If people are that eager to leave civilization, maybe they should just go to the Artic. It's pretty much the same thing with the same set of challenges, but it would be easier to walk back a bad decision.
They're making a stamp for someone who pioneered devices used for smart marketing. Can't we give one to someone whose pioneering work in agriculture is being used to feed more people in impoverished nations? Clearly this is a popularity contest.
It's difficult to articulate, but I'd stay away from anything that connects your so persistently to your online stuff. And I say this as someone who absolutely can not live without good net access - but when I'm online, I'm working on my personal and professional development (or reading slashdot). It feels like Google Glass was developed for people who are chronically playing on Facebook (don't give me this nonsense about Google maps and how much better it would be to wear it on your face. Use your smartphone - at least a phone can be tucked away and you can go on with things). Glass represents a shift away from focusing on technology in my mind. It's not an evolution of mobile computing or frankly ANYTHING constructive. I remember a time when laptops were finally becoming affordable and people could put them in backpacks and take them everywhere with them (which was a very liberating time for computer geeks everywhere). Smartphones and Google Glass are not from this tradition, they weren't made for this same purpose - they were made, ultimately, as devices that can personalize marketing through data collecting and location tracking. Whether it's a smarphone or a wearable smart device, you're paying a lot of money so that, down the line, you can be sold things and buy more stuff. You're paying for the device, you're paying for the bandwidth. That's the end game for smartphones and Google Glass, in my view. It's depressing to see about 90% of people in public places staring down at their cell phones and grinning while they're walking into walls and lamp posts. My best advice; not only should you not use Google Glass, you really strongly consider not even using a smartphone (get the dumbest phone you can find if you must have a cell). And, personally, Google Glass looks REALLY stupid sitting on a person's face and it leaves a really bad impression.
It's trivial if you're calculating it on a spreadsheet. The math is trivial. If you're doing something in the real world, it's involved. You need staff to review loans and process them. Staff costs money, so you hire people to manage the staff, like managers and human resources (to pay them and manage their benefits). Do they work in a building? Buildings cost money, their utilities do as well - more cost. If the loans are made via credit card (which are usually unsecured loans - in other words, you don't lose your house if you don't pay the bank back), then it's a whole lot of other things like dealing with fraud and identity fraud, and managing a service where the borrower's credit worthiness changes from month to month. All of this is cost, and none of it is trivial.
Not exactly. Banks provide a critical service to economies, they don't just "move other peoples' money around". It's not exactly trivial to loan people money to buy homes or set up businesses or loan money for college. Are there problems with a system that incentives bankers and CEOs to be unethical? Yup. Banks are still important, though. It's the incentive to do the right thing that's a problem. I suspect most people put in a banker or CEO position would act the same way - money and power change the way people view the world and how they think in general.
Commercial, closed-source products just tend to have these problems and it's pie-in-the-sky to wish for a vendor to produce a secure product. If you want it secure, probably your best bet is an open source, open hardware mini server (like cubieboard or Raspberry Pi) and you're going to have to learn to do it yourself.
"Right now, it's pretty easy to tell if somebody's holding up their cellphone to take some video."
No, it isn't pretty easy - they could be taking a picture or just looking at their phone.
Also, if Google has to actually tell people to not be creepy or rude, it's a bad product from the start and that they should scrap it.
Dr. Manhattan told the world in 1987, "Only what can happen does happen".
But this does not explain why neither casual nor power users are interested in Windows 8 at all. Feels like they failed twice.
I'm not exagerting or being sarcastic - we really need to be pouring more money into making pizza even better. It's nature's perfect food, where would any of us be without it? It's there for us a 3am Saturday when we're hammering out a solution. It doesn't judge. It doesn't talk back. You don't need to have a meeting with it to discuss anything. It's there for you 24hours/day. It's pizza, and it's awesome. Let's try to make it even better.