Seems like a reasonable way to do it to me. (Cue Rob rushing out the door to the patent office)
Allow users to directly rate the worth of the sites Google returns in a search. Anything from "Not what I was looking for", "This is a crap site", "Nothing but advertising" to "This is probably illegal".
It would give Google direct stats on the worth of the sites. People marking competitors down could be made difficult through techniques like character recognition.
10% increase in wages is 10% no matter the currency conversion. Add to that the fact that the dollar is dropping in value. That drop is going to continue until the Americans start making and exporting stuff instead of importing.
"Exactly what American stuff will foreigners buy?"
Well, they desperately want to buy Porches, Ferraris and Rolexes (see a couple of posts up). Maybe there are *some* American products people desire all over the world... MacDonalds?
When India becomes expensive they'll (by definition) have money and want to buy stuff too. Perhaps we should be thinking about what they might want to buy.
You see, you say conservative economic views, but individual liberty, lower taxes, reduced state control, liberalised markets are actually *liberal* concepts, not conservative ones.
Look at their actions in power. The Republican party aren't liberal, they don't believe in personal liberty and reduced interference from the state. The Democratic party aren't liberal, they don't believe in reduced state control, liberalised markets or particularly, personal liberty.
There are no liberals in America. It explains a lot of the legislation.
"someone who holds a socialist/Democratic Party worldview"
Unfortunately, it's *only* in America where Liberal means that. In the rest of the world it means as you say, liberalism in the more classical sense. This is important because by redefining the meaning of the word, you essentially exclude liberalism from the political stage, liberalism is the third political philosophy which is missing from US politics. Libertarians go some way towards liberalism but they appear to be almost closer to anarchists in their views.
OK, so copyright infringement isn't theft, or piracy and the hyperbole is farcical. It's still wrong, you have no right to make use of the copyrighted material.
There's plenty of free stuff out there that you *do* have a right to use.
Forgot to mention. Even when you've got a credible, centrist 3rd party it's going to take 20 years before you start having an effect. Oh and they have to actually believe in electoral reform, no point electing someone who's going to keep the status quo.
A credible 3rd, centrist party which can grab votes from both sides can do that. When one of the parties gets into power with only 34% support, with the opposition of the vast majority of he people 66% something *really* has to be done.
There are things which can be done, as other posters have mentioned, segregation of duties and access, data obfuscation to minimise the kind of damage done. Sounds like none of that was implemented.
" in addition to the laws currently on the books, that they should get extended to provide real penalties to companies and people in breach."
Absolutely. A law without enforced penalties is a waste of time and money. There *has* been an offence against the DPA here, the customer data is evidence. The law requires proactive implementation of safeguards to stop it happening, though it doesn't specify what those safeguards should be.
At the moment, people found guilty of an offence can only be fined a maximum of £5000 (Per offence?). I think that we need prison as an option.
They are required by law to put provisions in place to make sure that customer data isn't revealed.
The act *is* flawed in that it allows data to be sent to countries without similar data protection if they have a contract in place, it shouldn't allow that in the first place. But the contract in place with the oursourcing organisation should make sure that they have sufficient safeguards in place to stop this, the fact that it's happening says that the outsourcing companies are in breach of contract and the banks haven't put sufficient safeguards in place, an offence against the data protection act, 1998.
We need some prosecutions against CIOs, CEOs and the like. A couple of years in prison would improve their attitude to data protection.
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Seems like a reasonable way to do it to me. (Cue Rob rushing out the door to the patent office)
Allow users to directly rate the worth of the sites Google returns in a search. Anything from "Not what I was looking for", "This is a crap site", "Nothing but advertising" to "This is probably illegal".
It would give Google direct stats on the worth of the sites. People marking competitors down could be made difficult through techniques like character recognition.
"The E895 is expected to be initially introduced in the Asia-Pacific region"
AsiaPac simply has a bigger more dynamic mobile market than the USA.
How about, embracing and extending good practice...
Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Interesting read, bugger all to do with motorcycles... Or Zen.
" Actually, India was a single country till the Brits came around."
You mean the Moguls. And the southern lot?
10% increase in wages is 10% no matter the currency conversion. Add to that the fact that the dollar is dropping in value. That drop is going to continue until the Americans start making and exporting stuff instead of importing.
"if there's no scarcity in labor, there's no money."
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Horsepower, kiloWatts both measure how quickly work can be done.
e.g.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/elect
Same thing. Machines do things faster because they consume energy faster. We'll move to an economy based on energy consumption rather than labour.
"Exactly what American stuff will foreigners buy?"
Well, they desperately want to buy Porches, Ferraris and Rolexes (see a couple of posts up). Maybe there are *some* American products people desire all over the world... MacDonalds?
People whine about offshoring like it's a one way street, as if India and China are black holes into which their jobs and money are disappearing.
As the Indians and Chinese get money, they buy stuff. They buy American stuff, European stuff, Indian stuff and Chinese stuff.
Trade is two way street.
When India becomes expensive they'll (by definition) have money and want to buy stuff too. Perhaps we should be thinking about what they might want to buy.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n
Hence all the offshoring.
There are about a dozen native languages. India wasn't a single country till the Brits came along.
I use them every day, Kencylopedia would also be handy.
Indeed. Supply and demand. I'm sure IBM will *try* to hire 14,000 employees.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-5730972.html
Guess what this means, Indian workers are going to be able to demand higher wages, so they will.
You see, you say conservative economic views, but individual liberty, lower taxes, reduced state control, liberalised markets are actually *liberal* concepts, not conservative ones.
Look at their actions in power. The Republican party aren't liberal, they don't believe in personal liberty and reduced interference from the state. The Democratic party aren't liberal, they don't believe in reduced state control, liberalised markets or particularly, personal liberty.
There are no liberals in America. It explains a lot of the legislation.
"someone who holds a socialist/Democratic Party worldview"
Unfortunately, it's *only* in America where Liberal means that. In the rest of the world it means as you say, liberalism in the more classical sense. This is important because by redefining the meaning of the word, you essentially exclude liberalism from the political stage, liberalism is the third political philosophy which is missing from US politics. Libertarians go some way towards liberalism but they appear to be almost closer to anarchists in their views.
There's plenty of free stuff out there that you *do* have a right to use.
Looking at the Democratic party from a UK liberal point of view, they look very much like Social Democrats to me.
I don't think it means what you think it means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
Forgot to mention. Even when you've got a credible, centrist 3rd party it's going to take 20 years before you start having an effect. Oh and they have to actually believe in electoral reform, no point electing someone who's going to keep the status quo.
At the moment, there's nothing particularly credible:
http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
I'd suggest a Liberal party but that seems to have leftist connotations in the US, despite liberalism being anything but left wing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
"So you're saying we need to make it worse, so that people will see the need to make it better?"
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Fraid so. The system won't change till people see the problem.
e.g.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4582701.st
A credible 3rd, centrist party which can grab votes from both sides can do that. When one of the parties gets into power with only 34% support, with the opposition of the vast majority of he people 66% something *really* has to be done.
The directors can be prosecuted under the act, jail time isn't an option though.
There are things which can be done, as other posters have mentioned, segregation of duties and access, data obfuscation to minimise the kind of damage done. Sounds like none of that was implemented.
" in addition to the laws currently on the books, that they should get extended to provide real penalties to companies and people in breach."
Absolutely. A law without enforced penalties is a waste of time and money. There *has* been an offence against the DPA here, the customer data is evidence. The law requires proactive implementation of safeguards to stop it happening, though it doesn't specify what those safeguards should be.
At the moment, people found guilty of an offence can only be fined a maximum of £5000 (Per offence?). I think that we need prison as an option.
If we all buy Microsoft email servers it will be a standard, won't it.
They are required by law to put provisions in place to make sure that customer data isn't revealed.
The act *is* flawed in that it allows data to be sent to countries without similar data protection if they have a contract in place, it shouldn't allow that in the first place. But the contract in place with the oursourcing organisation should make sure that they have sufficient safeguards in place to stop this, the fact that it's happening says that the outsourcing companies are in breach of contract and the banks haven't put sufficient safeguards in place, an offence against the data protection act, 1998.
We need some prosecutions against CIOs, CEOs and the like. A couple of years in prison would improve their attitude to data protection.
What market are you talking about? Both are free. It's that monoculture thing again.
Monoculture bad, diversity good.