In which case, I can use my iPad to watch live TV while I am watching live TV on my TV. It's like picture in picture that I can actually hold and it doesn't stop me from using picture in picture AGAIN while I am watching.
The drawback is that this means no more beating off to Telemundo with the sound off, my hands are going to be too busy flipping around the iPad while I work the remote to capture the money scenes on the DVR and watch them in slomo.
Only a matter of time before DHS builds stereoscopic aerial drone mirrors to fly over them cameras so they can turn them on the populace and get images in micro HD of everyone for thousands of miles. Given the resolution current optical and digital devices are capable of, it's conceivable this is a kaliedoscopic effort to capture all human activity at once.
This is all just part of their plan to find the stash of freeze dried ice cream I lifted from the Air and Space Museum in 1983. That stuff is still buried out in the desert somewhere and no one is going to get it. That's all that's going to be left after civilization crumbles, you know.
Let me ask a question, when alerts come out like this that explain a vulnerability, do they always state the problem the way it happens?
Like, if someone understood how to exploit this vulnerability, are they really going to shut down DNS services or could it be that there is a worse vulnerability underneath? For instance, could this actually be a call to patch something that allows for DNS spoof, where someone does not want the issue to have wide awareness?
You know, Tolkien never discussed the politics of his original set of books and said they are not meant to reflect contemporary politics.
The author of the 'response' says just about the same thing at the end, telling people to find something better to do if they don't like it.
In either case, your outrage is misplaced. Each author explicitly disavows any political statement. Authors who do inject politics into every single sentence and phrase tend to be outspoken, since they are trying to achieve poltiical change.
I lived in Las Vegas for years, you better be lying.
Actually, I could tell you some interesting stories about identity fraud in Vegas. Had a roommate who had her mail stolen and someone ran up a lot of charges on cards she never registered for.
The neighbor down the street had someone take out a loan from a bank on his house without his knowledge. There were some pros running around back when I was there.
Coincidentally, I don't get offers of free credit in the mail from EVERY bank in the United States anymore either. Wonder if that could have anything to do with it.
Any time a technical word or prhrased is remodelled to put into common use, it ceases describing anything more than a marketer's idea of why you should give them money.
The cloud, for example, is quickly becoming a concept that lacks a real world basis. When Microsoft commercials have people in airports watching TV and commending the Cloud, it does not refer to the distributed nature of cloud server infrastructure. They are talking about a marketing concept, they could care less how it works, they are only interested in the idea that there is some novel use for their computer that they were actually able to perform.
This use of language is disempowering to all parties, spreads fear and ignorance, and is the basis for most of the worst decisions made in the technology industry. People simply throw around the words in casual disucssion without any real meaning, in order to brag, sound smarter than they are, etc. It's like a cruel practical joke is being played on everyone at the same time: for example, if there's a new version of an OS you happen to use, you have to upgrade because everyone is talking about it. It doesn't matter that it's Windows ME, and it lacks any actual feature upgrades that make it desirable, or that there is an excellent chance it will make your computer unusable. EVERYONE is talking about it and so you should do it. You can brag about your experience afterwards and people's impressions of you will change or be maintained just like if you were talking about a football game, or how the kids are doing, etc.
Only marketers have the power to pull off these kinds of exercises in mass self-delusion. They are like God and the Devil all wrapped up into one nasty package, operating their own little Ministries of Truth.
Well, for some jobs, people do request code samples. I imagine an executable could be included in an application pretty easily and be uploaded by someone involved in the review process. This does not necessarily need to be an HR person (I can't imagine why it would be, for that matter).
I bet 100% of the investors are going to short that stock big time. No way I am buying into the eventual public IPO.
When Facebook goes public, it will the very definition of a bubble. The company's tangible physical assets are probably less than $500 million. In some objective sense, they are measuring value based on the actual number of Facebook users.
This means they are dependent upon the interest of users to maintain that value. So was AOL, so was Compuserve, so were a lot of other things that lost a lot of value in a very short time.
I get the same sense I did when I saw the AOL deal go through. WTF, this cannot be right. I can't tell you what kind of game changing, cataclysmic innovation is going to affect their value, but it's going to emerge.
Quite honestly, I don't possess the science background to really critique the paper and have to rely on the man's credentials to find this believable. While the idea that cells can somehow send and receive signals about their DNA sequences is beautiful and could explain a lot, this sounds like the reasoning of a scientist biased by living in a wireless culture. Like, this would be Tesla's explanation for transsubstantiation - it's marvelous and at the same time very connected to other technological innovations in the world around us.
This is not really Democrats per se. This is a grassroots effort not backed by either party.
It is important to distinguish between the two. Political primaries in the US are dominated by theatrics and off-beat ideas for how to gain an advantage. These efforts primarily emerge from members of the base, who are not always ideologically aligned with the party so much as an ideal they want the party to represent. This is where groups like the Log Cabin republicans come from - they want to be Republicans despite the fact the legislative and executive agendas for the party do not represent their self-interests. If I am not mistaken, the group emerged during Reagan's re-election campaign in 84 and has stayed around ever since.
Groups like this garner some attention, mostly for taking a notable stance, but rarely come to have any impact in the political process. It's not that hard for them to get media attention, but it is hard for them to maintain a sustained level of organziation sufficient to acheive political change. I would be shocked if this influenced the primaries one way or another - on average, less than 1% of registered voters participate in primaries for their own parties.
So, great, some people want to get organized around screwing up the GOP primaries. It would be better if they were organizing for their own party, and it's going to be hard for them to compete with the actual Party. If they hold an event, I might show up and bring rainbow afros and squeaky noses to share with participants, in case someone else arrives to do face paint. Then we can all look like clowns together:)
While I understand the word advanced can be interpreted many ways, it's hard for me to reconcile what I know about the laws there with my concepts of individual responsibility.
The more things that are illegal, the less free someone is. The less well defined a set of laws is, the more things can potentially be illegal. Thus, in a very roundabout way, the more ambiguous the law is, the less free you are.
Now, if your idea of an advanced set of laws is that more activities are classified as illegal, Sweden definitely has that, along with everything else that comes with it.
Good for him, looking for Justice in a Swedish court. Let me know how that works out.
Sweden is a lie. They claim to have one of the most advanced legal codes in the world, but every law I read from there is completely ambiguous. This is going beyond the sex laws, just about anything can be a crime there.
Argh! I should pay more attention to dates. The original post would have been better if it was Zuckerberg.
I should point out, 'You' technically includes Zuckerberg as part of the set of everyone the 2006 Person of the Year selection references. I am not completely wrong, only mostly to the point of statistical irrelevance.
Something tells me Zuckerberg possesses the resources to deal with this investigation effectively and will not spend a night in jail.
Anonymous is basically a loosely affiliated group of politically active trolls. Something like 4chan without all the pedophelia. This is my assumption anyways, I don't believe there is enough of a tangible organziation to call it a group so much as a movement.
So good luck with investigating. I am sure they will come across a random supporter who does not know enough to operate behind a proxy or remove metadata from their documents. I am equally sure there will never be a perp walk where the shadowy leaders of the organziation are marched out in front of a courthouse, because there are no shadowy leaders. There's a Deux ex Machina to the group that stands beyond formal leadership, and governments are going to have a hard time dealing with them.
That's why so many blonde socialites keep Chihuahuas. I hear kdawson is kept in a similar way, posting articles using a blackberry from his owner's purse.
As the leader of bumfuckistan, I resent you characterizing my recent actions in such a manner. Use a diplomatic cable next time you wish to speak out against the glorious leadership of my regime.
The roll call, minutes and activity on the floors of Congress are only the public expression of what goes on in Washington. Saying that this tells you what your representatives are doing is a major leap. Openness would be served better if politicians put their calendars online as well as details about who is funding their travel schedule, which is not open.
In regards to WikiLeaks, I agree with the point that wholesale document releases like this do little to create openness. I always pictured a leak as a bit of information that is released to correct something that is going wrong behind closed doors, this is more like a flood. The thing about having open information is that people need to be able to understand it, and the sheer volume of documents coming out means only a researcher is really going to be able to deal with all this.
Slashdot Mirror
In which case, I can use my iPad to watch live TV while I am watching live TV on my TV. It's like picture in picture that I can actually hold and it doesn't stop me from using picture in picture AGAIN while I am watching.
The drawback is that this means no more beating off to Telemundo with the sound off, my hands are going to be too busy flipping around the iPad while I work the remote to capture the money scenes on the DVR and watch them in slomo.
Next we NEED a DVR app for the iPad.
Only a matter of time before DHS builds stereoscopic aerial drone mirrors to fly over them cameras so they can turn them on the populace and get images in micro HD of everyone for thousands of miles. Given the resolution current optical and digital devices are capable of, it's conceivable this is a kaliedoscopic effort to capture all human activity at once.
This is all just part of their plan to find the stash of freeze dried ice cream I lifted from the Air and Space Museum in 1983. That stuff is still buried out in the desert somewhere and no one is going to get it. That's all that's going to be left after civilization crumbles, you know.
Let me ask a question, when alerts come out like this that explain a vulnerability, do they always state the problem the way it happens?
Like, if someone understood how to exploit this vulnerability, are they really going to shut down DNS services or could it be that there is a worse vulnerability underneath? For instance, could this actually be a call to patch something that allows for DNS spoof, where someone does not want the issue to have wide awareness?
You know, Tolkien never discussed the politics of his original set of books and said they are not meant to reflect contemporary politics.
The author of the 'response' says just about the same thing at the end, telling people to find something better to do if they don't like it.
In either case, your outrage is misplaced. Each author explicitly disavows any political statement. Authors who do inject politics into every single sentence and phrase tend to be outspoken, since they are trying to achieve poltiical change.
I lived in Las Vegas for years, you better be lying.
Actually, I could tell you some interesting stories about identity fraud in Vegas. Had a roommate who had her mail stolen and someone ran up a lot of charges on cards she never registered for.
The neighbor down the street had someone take out a loan from a bank on his house without his knowledge. There were some pros running around back when I was there.
Coincidentally, I don't get offers of free credit in the mail from EVERY bank in the United States anymore either. Wonder if that could have anything to do with it.
You are going to love life in Somalia.
http://tinyurl.com/4s3yb6j
*ahem*
Any time a technical word or prhrased is remodelled to put into common use, it ceases describing anything more than a marketer's idea of why you should give them money.
The cloud, for example, is quickly becoming a concept that lacks a real world basis. When Microsoft commercials have people in airports watching TV and commending the Cloud, it does not refer to the distributed nature of cloud server infrastructure. They are talking about a marketing concept, they could care less how it works, they are only interested in the idea that there is some novel use for their computer that they were actually able to perform.
This use of language is disempowering to all parties, spreads fear and ignorance, and is the basis for most of the worst decisions made in the technology industry. People simply throw around the words in casual disucssion without any real meaning, in order to brag, sound smarter than they are, etc. It's like a cruel practical joke is being played on everyone at the same time: for example, if there's a new version of an OS you happen to use, you have to upgrade because everyone is talking about it. It doesn't matter that it's Windows ME, and it lacks any actual feature upgrades that make it desirable, or that there is an excellent chance it will make your computer unusable. EVERYONE is talking about it and so you should do it. You can brag about your experience afterwards and people's impressions of you will change or be maintained just like if you were talking about a football game, or how the kids are doing, etc.
Only marketers have the power to pull off these kinds of exercises in mass self-delusion. They are like God and the Devil all wrapped up into one nasty package, operating their own little Ministries of Truth.
Well, for some jobs, people do request code samples. I imagine an executable could be included in an application pretty easily and be uploaded by someone involved in the review process. This does not necessarily need to be an HR person (I can't imagine why it would be, for that matter).
I bet 100% of the investors are going to short that stock big time. No way I am buying into the eventual public IPO.
When Facebook goes public, it will the very definition of a bubble. The company's tangible physical assets are probably less than $500 million. In some objective sense, they are measuring value based on the actual number of Facebook users.
This means they are dependent upon the interest of users to maintain that value. So was AOL, so was Compuserve, so were a lot of other things that lost a lot of value in a very short time.
I get the same sense I did when I saw the AOL deal go through. WTF, this cannot be right. I can't tell you what kind of game changing, cataclysmic innovation is going to affect their value, but it's going to emerge.
Oh, very snarky. You will be sorry when it turns out the author is right and you go on a data plan when you die!
I did not know my DNA was doing that :)
Quite honestly, I don't possess the science background to really critique the paper and have to rely on the man's credentials to find this believable. While the idea that cells can somehow send and receive signals about their DNA sequences is beautiful and could explain a lot, this sounds like the reasoning of a scientist biased by living in a wireless culture. Like, this would be Tesla's explanation for transsubstantiation - it's marvelous and at the same time very connected to other technological innovations in the world around us.
If you really believe the Democratic party would spend good money on something so ill-conceived, you are better off being anonymous.
This is not really Democrats per se. This is a grassroots effort not backed by either party.
It is important to distinguish between the two. Political primaries in the US are dominated by theatrics and off-beat ideas for how to gain an advantage. These efforts primarily emerge from members of the base, who are not always ideologically aligned with the party so much as an ideal they want the party to represent. This is where groups like the Log Cabin republicans come from - they want to be Republicans despite the fact the legislative and executive agendas for the party do not represent their self-interests. If I am not mistaken, the group emerged during Reagan's re-election campaign in 84 and has stayed around ever since.
Groups like this garner some attention, mostly for taking a notable stance, but rarely come to have any impact in the political process. It's not that hard for them to get media attention, but it is hard for them to maintain a sustained level of organziation sufficient to acheive political change. I would be shocked if this influenced the primaries one way or another - on average, less than 1% of registered voters participate in primaries for their own parties.
So, great, some people want to get organized around screwing up the GOP primaries. It would be better if they were organizing for their own party, and it's going to be hard for them to compete with the actual Party. If they hold an event, I might show up and bring rainbow afros and squeaky noses to share with participants, in case someone else arrives to do face paint. Then we can all look like clowns together :)
While I understand the word advanced can be interpreted many ways, it's hard for me to reconcile what I know about the laws there with my concepts of individual responsibility.
The more things that are illegal, the less free someone is. The less well defined a set of laws is, the more things can potentially be illegal. Thus, in a very roundabout way, the more ambiguous the law is, the less free you are.
Now, if your idea of an advanced set of laws is that more activities are classified as illegal, Sweden definitely has that, along with everything else that comes with it.
Good for him, looking for Justice in a Swedish court. Let me know how that works out.
Sweden is a lie. They claim to have one of the most advanced legal codes in the world, but every law I read from there is completely ambiguous. This is going beyond the sex laws, just about anything can be a crime there.
More proof my all beer diet is going to make me live forever.
I have never agreed with an anonymous coward about anything before. My lawyers advise me not to do in an explicit manner at this time.
But I wish I could share some thoughts there. The thoughts I would share...
Argh! I should pay more attention to dates. The original post would have been better if it was Zuckerberg.
I should point out, 'You' technically includes Zuckerberg as part of the set of everyone the 2006 Person of the Year selection references. I am not completely wrong, only mostly to the point of statistical irrelevance.
Something tells me Zuckerberg possesses the resources to deal with this investigation effectively and will not spend a night in jail.
Anonymous is basically a loosely affiliated group of politically active trolls. Something like 4chan without all the pedophelia. This is my assumption anyways, I don't believe there is enough of a tangible organziation to call it a group so much as a movement.
So good luck with investigating. I am sure they will come across a random supporter who does not know enough to operate behind a proxy or remove metadata from their documents. I am equally sure there will never be a perp walk where the shadowy leaders of the organziation are marched out in front of a courthouse, because there are no shadowy leaders. There's a Deux ex Machina to the group that stands beyond formal leadership, and governments are going to have a hard time dealing with them.
That's why so many blonde socialites keep Chihuahuas. I hear kdawson is kept in a similar way, posting articles using a blackberry from his owner's purse.
People who brag about being able to get the best tacos in the world down at the piazza will suffer!
As the leader of bumfuckistan, I resent you characterizing my recent actions in such a manner. Use a diplomatic cable next time you wish to speak out against the glorious leadership of my regime.
It's a trap!
The roll call, minutes and activity on the floors of Congress are only the public expression of what goes on in Washington. Saying that this tells you what your representatives are doing is a major leap. Openness would be served better if politicians put their calendars online as well as details about who is funding their travel schedule, which is not open.
In regards to WikiLeaks, I agree with the point that wholesale document releases like this do little to create openness. I always pictured a leak as a bit of information that is released to correct something that is going wrong behind closed doors, this is more like a flood. The thing about having open information is that people need to be able to understand it, and the sheer volume of documents coming out means only a researcher is really going to be able to deal with all this.