Google has been focusing their payment system efforts on the 3rd world. Google pay has a monopoly in just about every region where banks can't be counted on to keep their assets secured or where the currency value fluctuates as bad as cryptocurrency. Why challenge establish organizations when you can simply own regions elsewhere.
As a Canadian, I may be wrong, but since corporations are considered to be people under the law and Americans have the right to refrain from providing self incriminating evidence (5th amendment).... Isn't a group of senators signing a letter demanding that Google provide a self-incriminating memo (which may or may not exist) against the law?
Wouldn't that be akin to demanding that someone hand over a signed confession or face the consequences? Since it was specified what the memo should contain and who should have signed the document. An investigation is fine, but this strikes me as an illegal demand to manipulate the optics of the situation if and when Google refuses such a demand.
Are there any/. lawyers left who can clarify this?
Oddly, researchers will pay thousands to have their paper considered for a journal. That's more than enough to keep a website running, staff paid, and even off payment to those who do the peer reviews. Sadly, add a $ in front of numbers and most scientists become idiots... if they don't outright run away.
In Canada there are anti-bullying laws. Does the same exist in the US? Those types of laws absolutely effect services offered. Terms of service are always written to conform to the relevant laws and regulations. A lot of research goes into drafting them.
Sadly, it's fairly safe to say that furries built the internet. You'll find them involved all over the industry and open source projects. I even know one who works for RHEL. They're an odd bunch. You get used to them over time. Just avoid accidental entry into their side channel message streams at all costs.
*when it comes to shots... they're mandatory in a lot of countries. As for leashes... try leaving your post and walking around the building all day instead. The door swipes plus the cameras will catch you. And as for the leash restraining you from entering places you're not allowed to go... the swipe won't work.
Birth control and more permanent proceedures are common these day. If you have a child that you don't have the time to raise, nannies and governesses aren't affordable for most. So neutering is common.
It's several books and labs, really. You're freely able to take physics in a university. After that you'll need some practical engineering. Getting weapons grade heavy isotopes and maintaining the isotopes in a usable form is another matter. Half lives are very consistent... and are only one of the reasons a nuclear arsenal is so incredibly expensice
These days, it doesn't matter which group you're in, there will be a group targetting you. Be it scammers, hate groups, or trolls. The more you reveal about yourself, your beliefs, and your work... the more you'll be torn into. Also, uninformed people telling you how to do your job has always existed. It very rarely leads to any improvement and instead usually distracts.
It all comes down to how you respond. Lashing out on social media just ensures logs exist. Don't give these people ammunition to use against you. Do not encourage them with a response. 'Do not feed the trolls' is a saying for a reason.
In terms of raw entrepreneurial opportunities, the difference in patent laws makes a huge difference! When you can simply knock off a product from another company there's no more exclusivity: this means competing companies need to improve upon the product design or the manufacturing process to outdo the others. And that I'd just scratching the surface...
Chinese factories have a lot of human workers. Its cheap to do there. In fact, that's why a lot of the world outsources manufacturing to China. All these workers can pass along the ideas + manufacturing processes, choose to operate the factory when its supposed to be shut down for the night, and even come up with ideas of their own. Employees do have good ideas. Someone could point out that changing x on this product would make it better. With human labor, you don't need to spend millions and months retooling an automated factory to adapt.
The last point I'll bring up is the difference in market size. First off is China itself: its population is far greater than the US, therefore more people will be using tech based services as they roll out. This is needed in terms of ease of access due to a higher population density (that chique little store isn't going to fit 50 shoppers per hour, let alone 10000 per hour), and just outright volume. After that, don't forget that China is the primary source of almost everything for the developed world.
We now know its communications specs http://pluto.space.swri.edu/IM... and as it was made in the year 2000... NASA has most likely already made the communications protocols, if not the software itself, available to the public. NASA also doesn't have a timetable on reaquiring it, its orbit telemetry was linked in a comment, and this community probably has a few people who can slap an arduino based orbital tracking antenna together... but no one here would want a global observatory satillite or offworld server, right?
Relax. With all the bad press, is it really surprising that Intel has resorted to the sponsorship of defamatory posts? They have no other recourse for spinning this in a favorable light. Another bad decision on their part, but seemingly par for the course.
Basically, it's a fallacy of software level encryption. Even if a message is encrypted, you can still see where it's going and where it came from. If you hack into one of the two computers, you can read the message same as the user can. It's the same issue with encrypted drives: if you break into the computer while the person is using it, the encryption isn't in effect. If it was, the user couldn't access their own computer.
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It would be, if you were just looking to join all the text files. However, let's be honest: most people looking to get into programming would vacantly stare at you, with that glazed over look... you know the one... if you asked them to pull up a terminal. Then comes the show of hands for who, in the class, knows how to use linux. For added entertainment, one could ask one of the students to explain linux. (Yes, I know that that's an evil trick question, only ask it if you can keep a straight face;)
The problem in our Chris-Bosh-codes-so-should-you society is that people learn to code without first asking "for what purpose do you want to use code?" What in your day-to-day work could you actually automate using code?
That right there summarizes the main issue. In my experience, far too many approach programming with the I'm going to learn programming mentality. This is fundamentally flawed, since there is more computer science than one can possibly hope to learn in a life time. It very much all comes down to having the fundamentals (an online course in any language will work for this) and then settling down to working towards an objective. Your objective doesn't need to be anything grand: you are far better off starting small. Little scripts to make your life easier: at home, and in the office.
Once you have an objective in mind, your best friend is the help function for your chosen language. Programming isn't about having everything memorized, it's about effective research applied to solving a problem. One need only work out a decent research methodology once, whereas one can work out infinite ways to solve a given problem programmatically. Writing code with decent headers in your functions lets you call up help, even on your own code. In short, you end up making your own help, based solely on your own programming style. This helps for specific functions, but when you get stuck, unsure of what you need to do: google. Chances are there exists a stackeoverflow post that will steer you in the right direction, if it doesn't outright show you what you need. Once you get an idea, you can also refine your search, often pulling up examples.
The main thing to keep in mind is that you will always be learning. There is always a better way to achieve the same objective, however achieving the objective is what matters. Don't get caught up trying to repeatedly make the code better: instead, push on to completing the first version first. This is a trap that consumes a lot of people just starting off. You'll never finish, if you keep on restarting, and what really matters is that the code works properly.
PS: I did not mention testing, since everyone has their own way of including such. Starting off, debugging will be enough to wrap your head around. Just keep in mind that at some point you will need to work testing into your workflow. Automatic testing makes it easy to write better versions of your code, since you'd be able to see if your tweaking broke anything.
As a canadian living in an isolated city, let me say this: the police are more likely to join in on the harassment than to stop it... if they even show up in the first place. Law enforcement seems to exist for free timmies (a coffee chain where you can't go more than 5 blocks before the next one), parking tickets, and for consuming drugs/drug money they 'confiscate'. It's hard to get police out for serious crimes, even if you have the entire affair recorded on video.
Because of this, what rights people are actually accorded depends directly on their community. A 'we're in this together' type mentality. If you have problems, you get your friends together and go deal with it. Sadly, in more recent years, actual investigative work has become the domain of the mafia in the area (sadly that's still a thing). In a world where you call your weed dealer when you're robbed, instead of the police, do you really think Canadian civil rights count for anything? When the only source of justice comes from the criminal community, civilization has already fallen: all that remains in the illusion held within people's minds.
The main problem with scientific data is retention. Often the results are kept, but the data that led to the results is long lost. Even 5 years later, it's hard to find the data. There is a reason for this: there's a lot! Regardless of what their database size, most particle physics experiments can fill it in less than a day. It's not technologically feasible to gather the information into one system, at our current level of technology.
While wikipedia has editing and flame wars problems, this project would end with similar problems surrounding deletion. What do you keep? How do you know where the break throughs will be made: the ones that make revisiting old experiments and data necessary? One cannot predict the path inspiration will take. Who decides what gets deleted: an editor, an admin, by public vote? This is what will cause the project to fail out of the starting gate. In the event they do succeed, what happens when their funding runs out? We've already established that the main problem is from too much data for practical backup... that only leaves the inevitable fall into oblivion.
In closing, I do offer a ray of hope: the time is fast approaching when we will reach the prerequisite technological level. Take a look at the work HP is currently doing: http://www.engadget.com/2010/0... This technology, at the optimal level, (I crunched some numbers, and it definitely would not be the case with the first iteration) can store all the world's data, and then some, on a device the size of a garbage can. At that point deletion, and all the problems outlined above, become nullified. Until we reach that level, this is a pipe dream, doomed to fail in a quagmire of politics.
But what about Ballmer's Peak? ( http://xkcd.com/323/ ) This holds true for math, and calculation type science as well. You might have no hope of creativity... but you can really calculate.
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I will point out that the lisp machines predated the room sized computer.
Yup... there are SDR communities that revolve around this.
Google has been focusing their payment system efforts on the 3rd world. Google pay has a monopoly in just about every region where banks can't be counted on to keep their assets secured or where the currency value fluctuates as bad as cryptocurrency. Why challenge establish organizations when you can simply own regions elsewhere.
Wouldn't that be akin to demanding that someone hand over a signed confession or face the consequences? Since it was specified what the memo should contain and who should have signed the document. An investigation is fine, but this strikes me as an illegal demand to manipulate the optics of the situation if and when Google refuses such a demand.
Are there any /. lawyers left who can clarify this?
Oddly, researchers will pay thousands to have their paper considered for a journal. That's more than enough to keep a website running, staff paid, and even off payment to those who do the peer reviews. Sadly, add a $ in front of numbers and most scientists become idiots... if they don't outright run away.
In Canada there are anti-bullying laws. Does the same exist in the US? Those types of laws absolutely effect services offered. Terms of service are always written to conform to the relevant laws and regulations. A lot of research goes into drafting them.
Ouch! that almost looks like a gender based pay gap. Then again, I suppose Musk does come across as that type of person...
Sadly, it's fairly safe to say that furries built the internet. You'll find them involved all over the industry and open source projects. I even know one who works for RHEL. They're an odd bunch. You get used to them over time. Just avoid accidental entry into their side channel message streams at all costs.
So yes, I can understand that point of view.
When it comes
*expensive to maintain. (Yes, I accidentally hit the post button... -_-)
It's several books and labs, really. You're freely able to take physics in a university. After that you'll need some practical engineering. Getting weapons grade heavy isotopes and maintaining the isotopes in a usable form is another matter. Half lives are very consistent... and are only one of the reasons a nuclear arsenal is so incredibly expensice
These days, it doesn't matter which group you're in, there will be a group targetting you. Be it scammers, hate groups, or trolls. The more you reveal about yourself, your beliefs, and your work... the more you'll be torn into. Also, uninformed people telling you how to do your job has always existed. It very rarely leads to any improvement and instead usually distracts. It all comes down to how you respond. Lashing out on social media just ensures logs exist. Don't give these people ammunition to use against you. Do not encourage them with a response. 'Do not feed the trolls' is a saying for a reason.
They're calles rogue planets and they outnumber star orbiting planets.
In terms of raw entrepreneurial opportunities, the difference in patent laws makes a huge difference! When you can simply knock off a product from another company there's no more exclusivity: this means competing companies need to improve upon the product design or the manufacturing process to outdo the others. And that I'd just scratching the surface...
Chinese factories have a lot of human workers. Its cheap to do there. In fact, that's why a lot of the world outsources manufacturing to China. All these workers can pass along the ideas + manufacturing processes, choose to operate the factory when its supposed to be shut down for the night, and even come up with ideas of their own. Employees do have good ideas. Someone could point out that changing x on this product would make it better. With human labor, you don't need to spend millions and months retooling an automated factory to adapt.
The last point I'll bring up is the difference in market size. First off is China itself: its population is far greater than the US, therefore more people will be using tech based services as they roll out. This is needed in terms of ease of access due to a higher population density (that chique little store isn't going to fit 50 shoppers per hour, let alone 10000 per hour), and just outright volume. After that, don't forget that China is the primary source of almost everything for the developed world.
We now know its communications specs http://pluto.space.swri.edu/IM... and as it was made in the year 2000... NASA has most likely already made the communications protocols, if not the software itself, available to the public. NASA also doesn't have a timetable on reaquiring it, its orbit telemetry was linked in a comment, and this community probably has a few people who can slap an arduino based orbital tracking antenna together... but no one here would want a global observatory satillite or offworld server, right?
Thanks for taking the time to post the additional info and link! Definitely the most informative comment on this thread.
Relax. With all the bad press, is it really surprising that Intel has resorted to the sponsorship of defamatory posts? They have no other recourse for spinning this in a favorable light. Another bad decision on their part, but seemingly par for the course.
You definitely got a laugh out of me!
Basically, it's a fallacy of software level encryption. Even if a message is encrypted, you can still see where it's going and where it came from. If you hack into one of the two computers, you can read the message same as the user can. It's the same issue with encrypted drives: if you break into the computer while the person is using it, the encryption isn't in effect. If it was, the user couldn't access their own computer.
It would be, if you were just looking to join all the text files. However, let's be honest: most people looking to get into programming would vacantly stare at you, with that glazed over look... you know the one... if you asked them to pull up a terminal. Then comes the show of hands for who, in the class, knows how to use linux. For added entertainment, one could ask one of the students to explain linux. (Yes, I know that that's an evil trick question, only ask it if you can keep a straight face ;)
The problem in our Chris-Bosh-codes-so-should-you society is that people learn to code without first asking "for what purpose do you want to use code?" What in your day-to-day work could you actually automate using code?
That right there summarizes the main issue. In my experience, far too many approach programming with the I'm going to learn programming mentality. This is fundamentally flawed, since there is more computer science than one can possibly hope to learn in a life time. It very much all comes down to having the fundamentals (an online course in any language will work for this) and then settling down to working towards an objective. Your objective doesn't need to be anything grand: you are far better off starting small. Little scripts to make your life easier: at home, and in the office.
Once you have an objective in mind, your best friend is the help function for your chosen language. Programming isn't about having everything memorized, it's about effective research applied to solving a problem. One need only work out a decent research methodology once, whereas one can work out infinite ways to solve a given problem programmatically. Writing code with decent headers in your functions lets you call up help, even on your own code. In short, you end up making your own help, based solely on your own programming style. This helps for specific functions, but when you get stuck, unsure of what you need to do: google. Chances are there exists a stackeoverflow post that will steer you in the right direction, if it doesn't outright show you what you need. Once you get an idea, you can also refine your search, often pulling up examples.
The main thing to keep in mind is that you will always be learning. There is always a better way to achieve the same objective, however achieving the objective is what matters. Don't get caught up trying to repeatedly make the code better: instead, push on to completing the first version first. This is a trap that consumes a lot of people just starting off. You'll never finish, if you keep on restarting, and what really matters is that the code works properly.
PS: I did not mention testing, since everyone has their own way of including such. Starting off, debugging will be enough to wrap your head around. Just keep in mind that at some point you will need to work testing into your workflow. Automatic testing makes it easy to write better versions of your code, since you'd be able to see if your tweaking broke anything.
As a canadian living in an isolated city, let me say this: the police are more likely to join in on the harassment than to stop it... if they even show up in the first place. Law enforcement seems to exist for free timmies (a coffee chain where you can't go more than 5 blocks before the next one), parking tickets, and for consuming drugs/drug money they 'confiscate'. It's hard to get police out for serious crimes, even if you have the entire affair recorded on video.
Because of this, what rights people are actually accorded depends directly on their community. A 'we're in this together' type mentality. If you have problems, you get your friends together and go deal with it. Sadly, in more recent years, actual investigative work has become the domain of the mafia in the area (sadly that's still a thing). In a world where you call your weed dealer when you're robbed, instead of the police, do you really think Canadian civil rights count for anything? When the only source of justice comes from the criminal community, civilization has already fallen: all that remains in the illusion held within people's minds.
The main problem with scientific data is retention. Often the results are kept, but the data that led to the results is long lost. Even 5 years later, it's hard to find the data. There is a reason for this: there's a lot! Regardless of what their database size, most particle physics experiments can fill it in less than a day. It's not technologically feasible to gather the information into one system, at our current level of technology.
While wikipedia has editing and flame wars problems, this project would end with similar problems surrounding deletion. What do you keep? How do you know where the break throughs will be made: the ones that make revisiting old experiments and data necessary? One cannot predict the path inspiration will take. Who decides what gets deleted: an editor, an admin, by public vote? This is what will cause the project to fail out of the starting gate. In the event they do succeed, what happens when their funding runs out? We've already established that the main problem is from too much data for practical backup... that only leaves the inevitable fall into oblivion.
In closing, I do offer a ray of hope: the time is fast approaching when we will reach the prerequisite technological level. Take a look at the work HP is currently doing: http://www.engadget.com/2010/0... This technology, at the optimal level, (I crunched some numbers, and it definitely would not be the case with the first iteration) can store all the world's data, and then some, on a device the size of a garbage can. At that point deletion, and all the problems outlined above, become nullified. Until we reach that level, this is a pipe dream, doomed to fail in a quagmire of politics.
But what about Ballmer's Peak? ( http://xkcd.com/323/ ) This holds true for math, and calculation type science as well. You might have no hope of creativity... but you can really calculate.