Perhaps by "Islamic" you mean "Arabic" governments and by "all" you mean "some". Quite a few Arab govt's are still safe. Most notably Palestine, Syria and Jordan
The thing about a domino effect is that none of the other dominos are safe, so matter how long they may have been standing on end like that without distrubance.
Well, with corporate profits up 22% from before the recession started, executive salaries up a simliar amount, and still more people out of work than any time since the Great Depression, this wasn't exactly a great year for corporate ethics. Perhaps this was the best they could find.
Sadly, I'm not allowed to say that in my own house. We have an awesome color laser printer that has a name that only resolves properly on our network when it feels like it. If you want to print and it goes, Shub-Internet has smiled upon you. If not, tough. Enjoy watching its blinking lights while you contemplate the need to not put your printing off until the last minute.
Instead, I get yelled at every time, and end up mucking with printer port IP addresses until it is hacked enough to work...until something gets rebooted.
More likely he's talking about the IRS who can sieze whatever property of yours they want if they feel you owe money, leaving you to prove that you are innocent and deserve it back.
The ATF can do it too ("war on drugs"), as can the IRS (Treasury Department). It would almost be easier to list who can't sieze your property without a warrant...
there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
WTH did this come from? I'm an American, so I suppose I can't speak with authority on the subject. However, if its true, it is the opposite of what I've observed happen with Americans meeting other nationalities. Are we Americans somehow special that we can accept other folks when we get to know them, while other nationalities cannot?
I pretty much have to call BS on this. One of the nice things about being an American, and Engineer, and a Soccer player, is that I've gotten a chance to get to know people from just about every country imaginable. There are cultural differences you have to look at of course, but people are pretty much just people, no matter where they come from. Some are jerks, most are great folks. Americans too.
Paraphrasing, of course, because his actual words aren't something a person could reasonably get ticked off about.
Oh...and because he never actually said anything like that anyway (it was Congressional Dem leaders).
Oh...and of course because when its a Dem POTUS the office is referred to as something sarcastic like "Supreme Leader" rather than the alternative Republican tile of "Our President, who all true Americans should support in this time of (insert adverb here)"
Information wants to be free, but more importantly people want to be alive.
No, people want to be free too. Watch a few protester videos on YouTube and it won't take long before you find folks telling the camera they'd rather die than go on being treated the way they have been treated. Perhaps they were exagerating, but I don't think so.
I don't really care what the article says. I watched the whole thing. If he had no advantage, then he should have only gotten to answer first about one third of the time on the easier questions. That did not happen. I think out of the whole three days I saw Watson get beat to the buzzer roughly twice on his "green" (high-certianty) answers. I lost track of how many time I saw the two humans standing there pressing their controllers with frustrated looks on their faces. There is no doubt he was better at the buzzer than the humans. If they were trying to make that part even, they failed.
Still, they ought to name them after terrorists instead. D.C. Comics is quite likely to sue them for trademark infringement. If terrorists do the same, NVidia can happily offer to meet them in court...and then forward the summons with the court date to the FBI. We could finaly capture Bin Laden!
I have to say that Apple has been one company that has always been able to survive against more open competitors. Mostly I think it is a combination of keeping a laser focus on good design, coupled with very aggressive marketing. They cannot beat the combined efforts of every other manufacturer in the world that way, but they can keep a >10% share of the market, which is all they have ever needed.
Same here, and it is about the most appropriate example that a person could come up with.
The Amiga problem really wasn't marketing. The problem was that they had a closed platform, while the PC was an open platform. No matter how much better they started than everyone else (and their lead was huge), they were doomed in the long run because it was just one tiny company trying to out-innovate an entire industry of other companies improving the PC platform. If someone wants to drag out the old videocassete analogies, it is also worth noting that VHS was a much more open format that Betamax too. When competing in the same market space, open platforms win every time.
Nobody is going to beat the Android platform, unless they find a way to be more open than Andriod.
Sure. Rwanda did. The Genocide was almost entirely incited by wacked-out conspiricy theories from a couple of popular radio shows. In their minds, the machette-wielding perpetrators of the genocide were defending themselves from the Tutsi conspiracy.
Great link, AC. Her basic thesis is that there are indeed problems with Wikipedia's culture that need addressing, but they aren't really gender-based (at least not directly). My favorite part was this paragraph:
One problem with Wikipedia's culture, like a lot of subcultures, is that it is self-reinforcing. For some groups that's less of a problem--a purely social group can split into a lot of subgroups. For something like Wikipedia, where the goal is to reflect all of the world's knowledge, that is a problem. Occasionally you have the experience of reading something where it's clear that the writer doesn't know what they don't know; for example, they have never experienced poverty, never left the USA, never genuinely tried to consider why others hold a different political position, it's written from a perspective that is too limited for the subject it's trying to cover. The more insular and homogeneous Wikipedia's community is, the more danger we have of being that limited as well, the less useful we are to everyone. The world's knowledge isn't only the knowledge of a single demographic group; some subject areas and some important perspectives are going to be undercovered if we rely only on what a single group is most knowledgeable about. There's enough media in the world that represents only a very limited perspective on the world, what is and is not important--our mission is to do more than that. Being more inclusive means having access to the knowledge and skills of people whose input is not already widely available, and to share it with people who weren't aware of it before. And we, unlike many sources using a more traditional model, do have the capability to do that; we're not fulfilling our mission if we don't.
One other thing to note is that a "work" under the GPL may be organized in such a way that it is impossible to legally redistribute it. The copyright holder however can still legally distribute it themselves. They aren't bound by the license; that's for everyone else.
IMHO the art work for that program is really required to make it workable, and in its raw form would constitute part of "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to " the program, which is the GPL's defiintion of "source code". So either it needs to be under the GPL too, or that program is not truly under the GPL and cannot be redistributed in any form. If the authors take source modifications from the general public, I hope they are requiring copyright assignments, or even they are not legally allowed to distribute it.
That's just my reading though. They have (purposely) made the issue so muddied that it would probably require lawyers to straighten out.
They weren't just harvesting data, they were actively logging into hacked accounts and deleting data.
If you are married to your cynical view, then it should be ammended to Facebook deciding that it hurt the value of their site (to those same paying harvesters) to have all that data deleted.
More specifically the Palestinians are the descendants of the so-called "ten lost tribes" - it's not even conjecture, it's
... complete and utter horseshit.
The "lost tribes" of Israel are not lost in the way that your car keys get lost. They are lost in the way that your great-great-grandmother is lost.
Assyria got ticked at them and killed every fighting man in the country. Then they sacked what was left, and carted the remaining people up to Assyria as slaves. People don't breed well in captivity, and any descendents they did have after a few generations would be so diluted by assyrian material (which really isn't all that differnt to start with), that it effectively no longer existed as a spearate entity anymore.
We are nerds (read the website's header). We are mentally incapable of doing anything if we don't understand the reason it needs to be done.
After all, perhaps we are doing it wrong. If electronics are some kind of problem, perhaps I should be removing my watch battery to be safe. If flying objects are the problem, perhaps I shouldn't be reading a book either. I can't do this properly if I don't know what the basic problem is.
When the aircraft goes from flying speed to nothing in a few seconds, the G-forces are going to make that iphone/laptop/whatever that you are holding in your hands suddenly weigh several times its normal weight. You WILL NOT be able to keep ahold of it. It's going to become a projectile and injure or kill the people sitting near you.
OK. In that case how come nobody ever complains about the book I read instead? It is heavier and bigger than my cellphone, and just as distracting to me.
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Which do you do first?
Perhaps by "Islamic" you mean "Arabic" governments and by "all" you mean "some". Quite a few Arab govt's are still safe. Most notably Palestine, Syria and Jordan
I guess you haven't checked the news lately. Protests have broken out all over Syria today. It looks like it may be their turn next.
The thing about a domino effect is that none of the other dominos are safe, so matter how long they may have been standing on end like that without distrubance.
Well, with corporate profits up 22% from before the recession started, executive salaries up a simliar amount, and still more people out of work than any time since the Great Depression, this wasn't exactly a great year for corporate ethics. Perhaps this was the best they could find.
#4 is the biggie IMHO.
Sadly, I'm not allowed to say that in my own house. We have an awesome color laser printer that has a name that only resolves properly on our network when it feels like it. If you want to print and it goes, Shub-Internet has smiled upon you. If not, tough. Enjoy watching its blinking lights while you contemplate the need to not put your printing off until the last minute.
Instead, I get yelled at every time, and end up mucking with printer port IP addresses until it is hacked enough to work...until something gets rebooted.
More likely he's talking about the IRS who can sieze whatever property of yours they want if they feel you owe money, leaving you to prove that you are innocent and deserve it back.
The ATF can do it too ("war on drugs"), as can the IRS (Treasury Department). It would almost be easier to list who can't sieze your property without a warrant...
there is NOTHING like meeting an American to get a deep seated hatred for them
WTH did this come from? I'm an American, so I suppose I can't speak with authority on the subject. However, if its true, it is the opposite of what I've observed happen with Americans meeting other nationalities. Are we Americans somehow special that we can accept other folks when we get to know them, while other nationalities cannot?
I pretty much have to call BS on this. One of the nice things about being an American, and Engineer, and a Soccer player, is that I've gotten a chance to get to know people from just about every country imaginable. There are cultural differences you have to look at of course, but people are pretty much just people, no matter where they come from. Some are jerks, most are great folks. Americans too.
The problem with this logic is that the balance of the non-minority population of the US military is of Scots-Irish extraction.
...or: "How to lose your government Security Clearance with only 1 click."
Paraphrasing, of course, because his actual words aren't something a person could reasonably get ticked off about.
Oh...and because he never actually said anything like that anyway (it was Congressional Dem leaders).
Oh...and of course because when its a Dem POTUS the office is referred to as something sarcastic like "Supreme Leader" rather than the alternative Republican tile of "Our President, who all true Americans should support in this time of (insert adverb here)"
Information wants to be free, but more importantly people want to be alive.
No, people want to be free too. Watch a few protester videos on YouTube and it won't take long before you find folks telling the camera they'd rather die than go on being treated the way they have been treated. Perhaps they were exagerating, but I don't think so.
I don't really care what the article says. I watched the whole thing. If he had no advantage, then he should have only gotten to answer first about one third of the time on the easier questions. That did not happen. I think out of the whole three days I saw Watson get beat to the buzzer roughly twice on his "green" (high-certianty) answers. I lost track of how many time I saw the two humans standing there pressing their controllers with frustrated looks on their faces. There is no doubt he was better at the buzzer than the humans. If they were trying to make that part even, they failed.
Still, they ought to name them after terrorists instead. D.C. Comics is quite likely to sue them for trademark infringement. If terrorists do the same, NVidia can happily offer to meet them in court...and then forward the summons with the court date to the FBI. We could finaly capture Bin Laden!
I have to say that Apple has been one company that has always been able to survive against more open competitors. Mostly I think it is a combination of keeping a laser focus on good design, coupled with very aggressive marketing. They cannot beat the combined efforts of every other manufacturer in the world that way, but they can keep a >10% share of the market, which is all they have ever needed.
...named of course after terrorist mastermind Kalel Sheikh Mohammed.
Why, yes, I was an Amiga warrior
Same here, and it is about the most appropriate example that a person could come up with.
The Amiga problem really wasn't marketing. The problem was that they had a closed platform, while the PC was an open platform. No matter how much better they started than everyone else (and their lead was huge), they were doomed in the long run because it was just one tiny company trying to out-innovate an entire industry of other companies improving the PC platform. If someone wants to drag out the old videocassete analogies, it is also worth noting that VHS was a much more open format that Betamax too. When competing in the same market space, open platforms win every time.
Nobody is going to beat the Android platform, unless they find a way to be more open than Andriod.
Sure. Rwanda did. The Genocide was almost entirely incited by wacked-out conspiricy theories from a couple of popular radio shows. In their minds, the machette-wielding perpetrators of the genocide were defending themselves from the Tutsi conspiracy.
But don't worry. Media-incited genocide could never possibly happen in this country. We're special...
One problem with Wikipedia's culture, like a lot of subcultures, is that it is self-reinforcing. For some groups that's less of a problem--a purely social group can split into a lot of subgroups. For something like Wikipedia, where the goal is to reflect all of the world's knowledge, that is a problem. Occasionally you have the experience of reading something where it's clear that the writer doesn't know what they don't know; for example, they have never experienced poverty, never left the USA, never genuinely tried to consider why others hold a different political position, it's written from a perspective that is too limited for the subject it's trying to cover. The more insular and homogeneous Wikipedia's community is, the more danger we have of being that limited as well, the less useful we are to everyone. The world's knowledge isn't only the knowledge of a single demographic group; some subject areas and some important perspectives are going to be undercovered if we rely only on what a single group is most knowledgeable about. There's enough media in the world that represents only a very limited perspective on the world, what is and is not important--our mission is to do more than that. Being more inclusive means having access to the knowledge and skills of people whose input is not already widely available, and to share it with people who weren't aware of it before. And we, unlike many sources using a more traditional model, do have the capability to do that; we're not fulfilling our mission if we don't.
One other thing to note is that a "work" under the GPL may be organized in such a way that it is impossible to legally redistribute it. The copyright holder however can still legally distribute it themselves. They aren't bound by the license; that's for everyone else.
IMHO the art work for that program is really required to make it workable, and in its raw form would constitute part of "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to " the program, which is the GPL's defiintion of "source code". So either it needs to be under the GPL too, or that program is not truly under the GPL and cannot be redistributed in any form. If the authors take source modifications from the general public, I hope they are requiring copyright assignments, or even they are not legally allowed to distribute it.
That's just my reading though. They have (purposely) made the issue so muddied that it would probably require lawyers to straighten out.
They weren't just harvesting data, they were actively logging into hacked accounts and deleting data.
If you are married to your cynical view, then it should be ammended to Facebook deciding that it hurt the value of their site (to those same paying harvesters) to have all that data deleted.
Shame that.
What they really did was redirect all logins from Tunisia to an https connection, and force them to verifiy some of their "friends"' photos.
More specifically the Palestinians are the descendants of the so-called "ten lost tribes" - it's not even conjecture, it's
... complete and utter horseshit.
The "lost tribes" of Israel are not lost in the way that your car keys get lost. They are lost in the way that your great-great-grandmother is lost.
Assyria got ticked at them and killed every fighting man in the country. Then they sacked what was left, and carted the remaining people up to Assyria as slaves. People don't breed well in captivity, and any descendents they did have after a few generations would be so diluted by assyrian material (which really isn't all that differnt to start with), that it effectively no longer existed as a spearate entity anymore.
[cue the parrot sketch]
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We are nerds (read the website's header). We are mentally incapable of doing anything if we don't understand the reason it needs to be done.
After all, perhaps we are doing it wrong. If electronics are some kind of problem, perhaps I should be removing my watch battery to be safe. If flying objects are the problem, perhaps I shouldn't be reading a book either. I can't do this properly if I don't know what the basic problem is.
When the aircraft goes from flying speed to nothing in a few seconds, the G-forces are going to make that iphone/laptop/whatever that you are holding in your hands suddenly weigh several times its normal weight. You WILL NOT be able to keep ahold of it. It's going to become a projectile and injure or kill the people sitting near you.
OK. In that case how come nobody ever complains about the book I read instead? It is heavier and bigger than my cellphone, and just as distracting to me.