Police, as agents of governments, do not have rights. They have powers delegated to them by the representatives of the people who are granted their powers by the Constitution. It is not a subtle distinction, and one that everyone needs to remember, but cops and legislators and executives like to forget and claim rights that they don't have.
1. It sets a standard for handling private data, so that when it leaks the leaking agency can point to their policy that meets the standard. This protects them from lawsuits by people who are harmed but can get no restitution or help repairing the damage done them.
2. Meanwhile, some government agency can claim jurisdiction and collect a large payment that disappears into the tax coffers.
3. Meanwhile, I don't see any hint that this legislation would apply to government agencies, such as police departments and tax offices, who are, at best, no better at protecting data than any corporation. Indeed, it will almost certainly specifically protect all government entities from being sued by the people they harm.
Altogether, this helps no one but government, and effectively lowers the protection of data, not raises it.
It didn't give you anything to work with because it refuted your thesis. The example of a weapon in the article is the Stuxnet worm which, wait for it, destroyed the machinery in the factory that produced the nuclear material needed for Iran's nuclear program. Something that destroys a factory is a weapon, whether it's a F-117, a B-52, a truckload of fertilizer, or a fancy bit of code. Whichever way the strike comes, the result is the same - broken machine, no production.
It wasn't Enron that caused the electricity shortage in California, it was ignorant legislators, or perhaps it was ignorant constituents they worked for, who deregulated wholesale prices but not retail prices, compounded by Luddite greenies killing every proposal to build the new plants required to meet rising demand. People wanted to produce more electricity, but weren't allowed to. More demand for the same amount of the commodity meant higher prices for the producers, but the frozen consumer prices meant distributers were forced to sell for less than they were paying. That business model doesn't work for very long. And then consumers, the people who caused the problem, blame it on the victims (the distributers) of their (the consumers) greed.
Look at what happened in Texas for contrast. Here, prices were truly deregulated, at all levels. As demand went up, prices went up, prompting more investment in new natural-gas powered plants, more investment wind- and water-powered production (yes, really), and more investers entering the field. Supply kept up with demand, and now, despite the rise in gas prices, Texans now pay less for deregulated electricity than we did when prices were controlled. And guess where your fall-guy, Enron, was during all this? Hint: it starts with H- and ends with -ouston.
Uh, you do know that you don’t have to log in as an administrator to run Software Update, right? It’ll ask you for the administrator account name and password when it needs them - even if you are running from the admin account. There are a few companies that use stupid proprietary installers that require administrators to run them, but they are few and far between.
Don't cry for me, Anonymous Coward. You really don't need to run anti-virus software on Macs. Just don't automatically install any applications that unexpectedly download from strange websites, and don't panic. I'll be fine.
Meanwhile, you can't ever forget your daily update of the malware signatures database. Doesn't that get to be a pain? At least you catches the day one exploits. Too bad about Day Zero.
Her screenshot shows that she does have an infection. Those two application icons in her dock to the right of the System Preferences indicate the most common infection seen on Mac OS. They are far from harmless and tend to be very difficult to remove.
No, you missed the point. The guy who invented the sprocket and got the patent on it in the UK but not the US. US Widgets Inc sees the UK patent and files it in the US -- even though they didn't invent it. Now the UK inventor wants to expand his sales into the US. Bam! He gets hit with a patent suit because US Widgets owns the patent here. The judge decides that the inventor has to pay to sell his own invention, because he was not the first to file, merely the first to invent.
Besides that, by selling the engines to China, they know how to assemble those engines, but they don't necessarily have to understand the physics that goes into designing them. Thus, they can turn out plenty of copies, but what are they going to do when GE moves on to the next generation of design? They're going to have to buy those designs too.
But if GE doesn't sell them the engines, then China has to invest in learning to design them, which I don't think is a problem for them if they have the will, and then we’re sucking hind tit. It’s a bit of a paradox, selling technology to keep from losing it.
Tthe point of having less human labor in work that machines can do is that you have more human labor involved in work that machines can't do, things that make the world better. It gives us the luxury of worrying about kids in Africa getting bitten by mosquitos and being able to do something about it.
Look at your “end game”. Barely any labor needed at all. I do not think it means what you think it means. If there is barely any human labor needed at all, then you have realized the Star Trek economy of plenty for everyone. Can you tell me how that could possibly be a bad thing? Nothing to go to war over, no starving kids in, uh, anywhere, no need for anyone to steal. We’d still need doctors and astronauts and teachers. Hell, we might not even need lawyers.
I agree, there is no fix, but there is a way to reduce the advantage of foreign competitors: the Fair Tax. It would eliminate all corporate income taxes and replaces them, and all other taxes, with a tax on consumption. This erases the advantage foreign companies gain from US companies paying what even the President admitted in his speech are among the highest corporate taxes in the world, and it reduces many other costs, eg, money wasted in record keeping for tax purposes.
Fair Tax doesn't fix everything, but it sure would help a lot.
The conditions of workers in sweatshops are not significantly different from the conditions in English and American factories at the beginning of industrialization. To get from those conditions to the ones we have now, the workers had to stand up for themselves against the bosses and the government. It was bloody business.
I think it is important that the workers empower themselves, not have their workplace conditions dictated by government, their bosses, or, worst, a foreign government. Where you get the revolution part of the industrial revolution is when the workers realize that each of them have goals that may not be the same as their society's goals, and that their own goals matter.
The only way someone can improve their life and work conditions is by seizing the power to make changes themselves, not by having change dictated. Only people who have taken power are people who are able to rule themselves. People who accept conditions given them, no matter how sweet those conditions are, are still working for the man and not living their own lives.
This is why we have the Second Amendment: to protect the right of every citizen to have the tools and training they need in order to contribute to the base or create a fork.
Uh, no. There is no such thing as “scientific proof”. There is scientific evidence, which can be very convincing, but nothing is ever certain. There are logical and mathematical proofs, but those are different things.
Why would you not want animations that make the site more intuitive or better looking without consuming too much resources, or handy auto-completes or suggestions, or interactive galleries, or controls that you can't find in plain HTML, or pages that update without refreshing (and thus saving you bandwidth and CPU power)?
I mean, really, why would you torture yourself?
Yeah, if I ever come across one of those I'll let you know. Don’t hold your breath.
Nobody has stopped farmers from producing seed crops except themselves. The enormously higher productivity of modern varieties of wheat, corn and rice developed in the Green Revolution are the only things that allow the planet to support six billion (with a 'B') people. In fact, it is only because of the surplus food that is produced that we have all the choices in heirloom varieties that I see at my local grocery store. When I was a kid, there were only one or two choices of tomato, big and little. Now there are a dozen choices in all colors and sizes. The same abundance of choices is available in many other foods.
But TFA says nothing about going so far as gathering information on who is actually looking at the billboard, only who is present. That's a pretty significant difference and they don't fall into your positive feedback loop. Also, even if you see that 57% of the audience are male, 18-35, you'd still want to reach out to the rest about 43% of the time.
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Yes, because clicking once for each domain that provides scripts to the site, the first time you visit it, is such a nightmare.
Police, as agents of governments, do not have rights. They have powers delegated to them by the representatives of the people who are granted their powers by the Constitution. It is not a subtle distinction, and one that everyone needs to remember, but cops and legislators and executives like to forget and claim rights that they don't have.
640 qubits ought to be enough for anybody.
This legislation accomplishes three things:
Altogether, this helps no one but government, and effectively lowers the protection of data, not raises it.
I think Jim Fixx said this, right before he dropped dead at age 52, while he was running.
It didn't give you anything to work with because it refuted your thesis. The example of a weapon in the article is the Stuxnet worm which, wait for it, destroyed the machinery in the factory that produced the nuclear material needed for Iran's nuclear program. Something that destroys a factory is a weapon, whether it's a F-117, a B-52, a truckload of fertilizer, or a fancy bit of code. Whichever way the strike comes, the result is the same - broken machine, no production.
It wasn't Enron that caused the electricity shortage in California, it was ignorant legislators, or perhaps it was ignorant constituents they worked for, who deregulated wholesale prices but not retail prices, compounded by Luddite greenies killing every proposal to build the new plants required to meet rising demand. People wanted to produce more electricity, but weren't allowed to. More demand for the same amount of the commodity meant higher prices for the producers, but the frozen consumer prices meant distributers were forced to sell for less than they were paying. That business model doesn't work for very long. And then consumers, the people who caused the problem, blame it on the victims (the distributers) of their (the consumers) greed.
Look at what happened in Texas for contrast. Here, prices were truly deregulated, at all levels. As demand went up, prices went up, prompting more investment in new natural-gas powered plants, more investment wind- and water-powered production (yes, really), and more investers entering the field. Supply kept up with demand, and now, despite the rise in gas prices, Texans now pay less for deregulated electricity than we did when prices were controlled. And guess where your fall-guy, Enron, was during all this? Hint: it starts with H- and ends with -ouston.
Uh, you do know that you don’t have to log in as an administrator to run Software Update, right? It’ll ask you for the administrator account name and password when it needs them - even if you are running from the admin account. There are a few companies that use stupid proprietary installers that require administrators to run them, but they are few and far between.
It really is a magic box to them.
I hope that means they don’t have Administrator accounts on those magic boxes.
Don't cry for me, Anonymous Coward. You really don't need to run anti-virus software on Macs. Just don't automatically install any applications that unexpectedly download from strange websites, and don't panic. I'll be fine.
Meanwhile, you can't ever forget your daily update of the malware signatures database. Doesn't that get to be a pain? At least you catches the day one exploits. Too bad about Day Zero.
Her screenshot shows that she does have an infection. Those two application icons in her dock to the right of the System Preferences indicate the most common infection seen on Mac OS. They are far from harmless and tend to be very difficult to remove.
Isn't telling people what's good why Facebook was invented?
No, you missed the point. The guy who invented the sprocket and got the patent on it in the UK but not the US. US Widgets Inc sees the UK patent and files it in the US -- even though they didn't invent it. Now the UK inventor wants to expand his sales into the US. Bam! He gets hit with a patent suit because US Widgets owns the patent here. The judge decides that the inventor has to pay to sell his own invention, because he was not the first to file, merely the first to invent.
Besides that, by selling the engines to China, they know how to assemble those engines, but they don't necessarily have to understand the physics that goes into designing them. Thus, they can turn out plenty of copies, but what are they going to do when GE moves on to the next generation of design? They're going to have to buy those designs too.
But if GE doesn't sell them the engines, then China has to invest in learning to design them, which I don't think is a problem for them if they have the will, and then we’re sucking hind tit. It’s a bit of a paradox, selling technology to keep from losing it.
Tthe point of having less human labor in work that machines can do is that you have more human labor involved in work that machines can't do, things that make the world better. It gives us the luxury of worrying about kids in Africa getting bitten by mosquitos and being able to do something about it.
Look at your “end game”. Barely any labor needed at all. I do not think it means what you think it means. If there is barely any human labor needed at all, then you have realized the Star Trek economy of plenty for everyone. Can you tell me how that could possibly be a bad thing? Nothing to go to war over, no starving kids in, uh, anywhere, no need for anyone to steal. We’d still need doctors and astronauts and teachers. Hell, we might not even need lawyers.
I agree, there is no fix, but there is a way to reduce the advantage of foreign competitors: the Fair Tax. It would eliminate all corporate income taxes and replaces them, and all other taxes, with a tax on consumption. This erases the advantage foreign companies gain from US companies paying what even the President admitted in his speech are among the highest corporate taxes in the world, and it reduces many other costs, eg, money wasted in record keeping for tax purposes.
Fair Tax doesn't fix everything, but it sure would help a lot.
The conditions of workers in sweatshops are not significantly different from the conditions in English and American factories at the beginning of industrialization. To get from those conditions to the ones we have now, the workers had to stand up for themselves against the bosses and the government. It was bloody business.
I think it is important that the workers empower themselves, not have their workplace conditions dictated by government, their bosses, or, worst, a foreign government. Where you get the revolution part of the industrial revolution is when the workers realize that each of them have goals that may not be the same as their society's goals, and that their own goals matter.
The only way someone can improve their life and work conditions is by seizing the power to make changes themselves, not by having change dictated. Only people who have taken power are people who are able to rule themselves. People who accept conditions given them, no matter how sweet those conditions are, are still working for the man and not living their own lives.
This is why we have the Second Amendment: to protect the right of every citizen to have the tools and training they need in order to contribute to the base or create a fork.
Only scientific proof is scientific proof.
Uh, no. There is no such thing as “scientific proof”. There is scientific evidence, which can be very convincing, but nothing is ever certain. There are logical and mathematical proofs, but those are different things.
Are those the same Google reps that are trying to sell you flashy ads at rates proportional to their higher click-through rates?
Why would you not want animations that make the site more intuitive or better looking without consuming too much resources, or handy auto-completes or suggestions, or interactive galleries, or controls that you can't find in plain HTML, or pages that update without refreshing (and thus saving you bandwidth and CPU power)?
I mean, really, why would you torture yourself?
Yeah, if I ever come across one of those I'll let you know. Don’t hold your breath.
Nobody has stopped farmers from producing seed crops except themselves. The enormously higher productivity of modern varieties of wheat, corn and rice developed in the Green Revolution are the only things that allow the planet to support six billion (with a 'B') people. In fact, it is only because of the surplus food that is produced that we have all the choices in heirloom varieties that I see at my local grocery store. When I was a kid, there were only one or two choices of tomato, big and little. Now there are a dozen choices in all colors and sizes. The same abundance of choices is available in many other foods.
Developing and producing these new varieties required enormous investment in time and money, and then it took more investment to make them available to farmers worldwide. Learn something about the man who fed the world and how he did it.
D'oh. Never mind. It does say they have to look at the ad, at least for a second.
But TFA says nothing about going so far as gathering information on who is actually looking at the billboard, only who is present. That's a pretty significant difference and they don't fall into your positive feedback loop. Also, even if you see that 57% of the audience are male, 18-35, you'd still want to reach out to the rest about 43% of the time.
That's because being in orbit is falling towards the ground but moving horizontally fast enough to miss.