Should be at the very least cheaper to make and distribute than the paper ones, if not just free in a way or another. And textbooks are not the only way to teach, there is a lot of educational resources on internet, from Khan Academy videos to Wikipedia.
Not just Triclosan is present in several toothpastes, but is also indiscriminate in what it kills. Not just kills the bacterias that cause the cavities, but all the others too, maybe including the ones that as a side effect, protect us from those cancers.
The trend of using antibacterial products indiscriminately is affecting the ecosystems that we have in us, in the gut, the mouth, and other places where having a bacterial ecosystem is something good for our health. Yes, could be bad boys down there, but killing most living animals because we don't like mosquitoes or tigers will affect us as part of that ecosystem in the middle/long run.
Docker is based in LXC (linux containers), so not available in freebsd. But can be done a port or a similar project based on FreeBSD Jails. It also uses aufs and cgrups, but i think freebsd have similar tools too.
Even doom 1 could be banned with the same arguments, or at least, any fps where you play with (and kill) friends. Luckily no company (yet) had the great idea of making an fps where you can put your own face in your character (as far i know). And why not include any game where you kill people/monsters/whatever with guns, even if are 2d platformers? America's Army and any other where you play soldier are excepted because is ok to kill in that case.
This. If new & updated apps will be only for 64bits (the market will let developers to have available both versions?) this will force people to change devices, wanting them or not.
The amount of patents that surrounds anything mobile makes pretty hard to get new players on the game. And if the patents game didn't killed you, you have next the carriers one.
The best approach so far seem to be the one being done by Jolla with Sailfish, generate enough buzz, get a chinese manufacturer to pledge support (the chinese market is big enough to make this approach profitable), and from there, see how much luck they have in the rest of the world (with preorders at least it worked for them pretty well).
It could work for existing players, unless it requires deep changes to adapt to that kind of approachs, if so, it must be something new. Or something that could be installed on Android phones very much like Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS are doing, with the core android OS and its drivers.
... has been destroyed by the NSA already, just that most didn't fully realized it yet. They can charge all they want, as internet will end being outside US borders anyway.
Remember, US is in (cyber) war against all the world (except Israel, as least it seems so for the information given to them), and probably other english speaking countries, despite that the attacked countries realize the situation or not. Helping other countries to realize that they are being unilaterally attacked by US count on their books as treason.
I just hope that the other countries realize what is the actual situation, and stop giving US in a silver plate the bullets to get shot by them.
Maybe worse, what if for some accident (i.e. a small cut in the finger, a burn, etc) you change your own fingerprint? You are tying to be able to use your phone to unlock it with a specific finger of a specific hand.
Regarding others, you are leaving copies of what authentifies you on everything you touch. Probably won't be so hard to 3d print gloves with your fingerprint, or even 2d print the fingerprint and glue that print into your fingers/gloves if you want to go low tech.
Yes, Is just your phone, but, as it surely will be sold as a way to authentify that the person using it must be you, probably access with no password to apps, bank accounts, payments and so on will be enabled with no extra requirements.
Somewhat everyone in US tought that the wrong thing was the NSA could be watching their private phone calls and mails, while it was ok that fully spied in everyone else in the world. Now it should be ok that Israel can access all information from US people and companies, if they don't spy on their own citizens they wouldn't be breaking theirr laws.
Scientists (in average, at least) are not dumb, but their knowledge is limited. Probably the current ecosystem is not fully understood (at least, going to microbes and even lower levels), and so how fragile is or at least how easy is to go from one ecosystem to a different another is not (fully?) known. But the problem with ecosystem is that we are part of it, most of what we depend on is part of it too. Introducing big changes won't kill all life probably, life eventually adapts, if changes are not too fast, but will the new environment be friendly with us?
Maybe is a bias, but i prefer to follow advice form people that know something on the topic, based on evidence, information gathering, and experimentation, and admit that that knowledge is far from complete, over the advice of people that think that they know everything, based on hints, prejudices and ridged information. The second kind could get random hits, but i prefer to play with loaded dices.
You have to separate facts from culture. You have a nice menu of extintion causes to choose from, but culture have other priorities, Dinosaurs are still named antediluvian (from before the flood) or prehistoric (before written history) animals, no matter what killed them. Some of what you said are still potential extintion causes, i.e. for diseases, we have as precedent the black death that killed from 30 to 60% of the population in europe, overpopulation is a ticking bomb, but will not mean extintion, "just" a lot of deaths, and regarding nuclear apocalypse is a pending threat too (the country that had in account most wars and alikes in recent history have still the biggest nuclear arsenal).
Regarding climate change, it definately causes the extintion of species, i.e. an ice age kills species that depends on warm/hot climates, and happened a lot of them in earth history. But about the asteroid that "caused" the extintion of dinosaurs, is not that it hit in the head in each dinosaur, between other effects, it made the global temperature drop, that was one of the factors that contributed to a mass extintion. We got already hit by supervolcanos, the Toba eruption 70k years ago almost wiped mankind, but what killed us wasn't directly the eruption, but the global cooling that came after.
The current cultural problem regarding climate change is that this time wasnt a supervolcano or an asteroid the one that is causing the climate change and all its possible consequences, but us. And while the main factors contributing to it keep actively denying that is happening, it will keep increasing.
The point is not that they won't, but that they could, thats the key of being in control of the information. If that information could be gathered also in another way it would be checked out, Will them be willing to do it? I doubt it.
In the other hand, when the NSA is ordered to give key parts of its information, they lie, no matter what prosecutors and judges say, in fact when they lied to the congress (that should be worse), didn't ended in jail, in fact, got even more control over possible threats on them. So there is not even the "would be unfair to them" moral concern on releasing faithful information to them that only you control and can tell if is the right one or not. Regarding the terrorism part, the NSA admitted that none of this surveillance ever prevented a terrorist attack, while they clearly targetted Google, Petrobras and others, this is by far more about protecting and empowering corporations (by stealing trade secrets, or even sabotaging, competition) than caring about people.
Some of those things can come after it got released. You probably want to build a community around it, and that community could do some of that work, or have better ideas and feedback on how to do them. Be sure that don't contain anything that is not meant to be public, release and announce it. You could build some momentum before releasing it, gathering people very interested on it as betatesters or to give feedback before going fully public. I.e. Docker had some showing in presentations giving a hint of what it did, and how, and some weeks later released the base code, and documentation, tutorials, extra tools, and community contributions piled up with time. Delaying till everything is ready and perfect risk not releasing it at all.
The real point here is not Google giving the NSA your information or not, they are an US based company, they must comply and give all the information requested by the NSA. And, if the used internal encryption is good enough, the only way to get that information will be directly from Google, then Google's will know what the NSA got from them, and they could eventually control (delaying, giving partial or even fake information) what they NSA gets, or store that information for future use (in the case that law gets curious about what is that justice that is everyone talking about)
That don't make Google a friend, but at least a potential enemy of our biggest enemy, and is something to be respected.
That Intel chips become more energy efficient have more implications than giving the last shot to a dead platform that Microsoft killed pretty efficiently already. In fact, could push more into oblivion Windows (RT or not), as could push other ecosystems that could become mainstream where Microsoft don't have presence or meaning at all, like in wearable computing, or pretty cheap devices where it would be better to install some linux derivative than paying the microsoft tax that cost more than the device itself.
Is US right now. The government became not trustable. Then it forced internet companies to not be trustable. Now is forcing your friends, colleages and other people you know to not be trustable. Probably "Trust no one" will be part of the next american anthem. You can jump out now, but the fire probably will reach you wherever you run.
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Should be at the very least cheaper to make and distribute than the paper ones, if not just free in a way or another. And textbooks are not the only way to teach, there is a lot of educational resources on internet, from Khan Academy videos to Wikipedia.
Not just Triclosan is present in several toothpastes, but is also indiscriminate in what it kills. Not just kills the bacterias that cause the cavities, but all the others too, maybe including the ones that as a side effect, protect us from those cancers.
The trend of using antibacterial products indiscriminately is affecting the ecosystems that we have in us, in the gut, the mouth, and other places where having a bacterial ecosystem is something good for our health. Yes, could be bad boys down there, but killing most living animals because we don't like mosquitoes or tigers will affect us as part of that ecosystem in the middle/long run.
Docker is based in LXC (linux containers), so not available in freebsd. But can be done a port or a similar project based on FreeBSD Jails. It also uses aufs and cgrups, but i think freebsd have similar tools too.
Even doom 1 could be banned with the same arguments, or at least, any fps where you play with (and kill) friends. Luckily no company (yet) had the great idea of making an fps where you can put your own face in your character (as far i know). And why not include any game where you kill people/monsters/whatever with guns, even if are 2d platformers? America's Army and any other where you play soldier are excepted because is ok to kill in that case.
This. If new & updated apps will be only for 64bits (the market will let developers to have available both versions?) this will force people to change devices, wanting them or not.
The amount of patents that surrounds anything mobile makes pretty hard to get new players on the game. And if the patents game didn't killed you, you have next the carriers one.
The best approach so far seem to be the one being done by Jolla with Sailfish, generate enough buzz, get a chinese manufacturer to pledge support (the chinese market is big enough to make this approach profitable), and from there, see how much luck they have in the rest of the world (with preorders at least it worked for them pretty well).
It could work for existing players, unless it requires deep changes to adapt to that kind of approachs, if so, it must be something new. Or something that could be installed on Android phones very much like Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS are doing, with the core android OS and its drivers.
Check Scratch for an example of user interface of creating (in particular, for scripting) that could work pretty well in a tablet environment.
... has been destroyed by the NSA already, just that most didn't fully realized it yet. They can charge all they want, as internet will end being outside US borders anyway.
Remember, US is in (cyber) war against all the world (except Israel, as least it seems so for the information given to them), and probably other english speaking countries, despite that the attacked countries realize the situation or not. Helping other countries to realize that they are being unilaterally attacked by US count on their books as treason.
I just hope that the other countries realize what is the actual situation, and stop giving US in a silver plate the bullets to get shot by them.
Obama should get that one too.
Probably the quotes were meant for the fans of intelligent design that went in flocks to read the article.
Maybe worse, what if for some accident (i.e. a small cut in the finger, a burn, etc) you change your own fingerprint? You are tying to be able to use your phone to unlock it with a specific finger of a specific hand.
Regarding others, you are leaving copies of what authentifies you on everything you touch. Probably won't be so hard to 3d print gloves with your fingerprint, or even 2d print the fingerprint and glue that print into your fingers/gloves if you want to go low tech.
Yes, Is just your phone, but, as it surely will be sold as a way to authentify that the person using it must be you, probably access with no password to apps, bank accounts, payments and so on will be enabled with no extra requirements.
In a race a DeLorean reachs the finish line like 30 years before the Ferrari.
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20).
Somewhat everyone in US tought that the wrong thing was the NSA could be watching their private phone calls and mails, while it was ok that fully spied in everyone else in the world. Now it should be ok that Israel can access all information from US people and companies, if they don't spy on their own citizens they wouldn't be breaking theirr laws.
Scientists (in average, at least) are not dumb, but their knowledge is limited. Probably the current ecosystem is not fully understood (at least, going to microbes and even lower levels), and so how fragile is or at least how easy is to go from one ecosystem to a different another is not (fully?) known. But the problem with ecosystem is that we are part of it, most of what we depend on is part of it too. Introducing big changes won't kill all life probably, life eventually adapts, if changes are not too fast, but will the new environment be friendly with us?
Maybe is a bias, but i prefer to follow advice form people that know something on the topic, based on evidence, information gathering, and experimentation, and admit that that knowledge is far from complete, over the advice of people that think that they know everything, based on hints, prejudices and ridged information. The second kind could get random hits, but i prefer to play with loaded dices.
You have to separate facts from culture. You have a nice menu of extintion causes to choose from, but culture have other priorities, Dinosaurs are still named antediluvian (from before the flood) or prehistoric (before written history) animals, no matter what killed them. Some of what you said are still potential extintion causes, i.e. for diseases, we have as precedent the black death that killed from 30 to 60% of the population in europe, overpopulation is a ticking bomb, but will not mean extintion, "just" a lot of deaths, and regarding nuclear apocalypse is a pending threat too (the country that had in account most wars and alikes in recent history have still the biggest nuclear arsenal).
Regarding climate change, it definately causes the extintion of species, i.e. an ice age kills species that depends on warm/hot climates, and happened a lot of them in earth history. But about the asteroid that "caused" the extintion of dinosaurs, is not that it hit in the head in each dinosaur, between other effects, it made the global temperature drop, that was one of the factors that contributed to a mass extintion. We got already hit by supervolcanos, the Toba eruption 70k years ago almost wiped mankind, but what killed us wasn't directly the eruption, but the global cooling that came after.
The current cultural problem regarding climate change is that this time wasnt a supervolcano or an asteroid the one that is causing the climate change and all its possible consequences, but us. And while the main factors contributing to it keep actively denying that is happening, it will keep increasing.
The point is not that they won't, but that they could, thats the key of being in control of the information. If that information could be gathered also in another way it would be checked out, Will them be willing to do it? I doubt it.
In the other hand, when the NSA is ordered to give key parts of its information, they lie, no matter what prosecutors and judges say, in fact when they lied to the congress (that should be worse), didn't ended in jail, in fact, got even more control over possible threats on them. So there is not even the "would be unfair to them" moral concern on releasing faithful information to them that only you control and can tell if is the right one or not. Regarding the terrorism part, the NSA admitted that none of this surveillance ever prevented a terrorist attack, while they clearly targetted Google, Petrobras and others, this is by far more about protecting and empowering corporations (by stealing trade secrets, or even sabotaging, competition) than caring about people.
Some of those things can come after it got released. You probably want to build a community around it, and that community could do some of that work, or have better ideas and feedback on how to do them. Be sure that don't contain anything that is not meant to be public, release and announce it. You could build some momentum before releasing it, gathering people very interested on it as betatesters or to give feedback before going fully public. I.e. Docker had some showing in presentations giving a hint of what it did, and how, and some weeks later released the base code, and documentation, tutorials, extra tools, and community contributions piled up with time. Delaying till everything is ready and perfect risk not releasing it at all.
The real point here is not Google giving the NSA your information or not, they are an US based company, they must comply and give all the information requested by the NSA. And, if the used internal encryption is good enough, the only way to get that information will be directly from Google, then Google's will know what the NSA got from them, and they could eventually control (delaying, giving partial or even fake information) what they NSA gets, or store that information for future use (in the case that law gets curious about what is that justice that is everyone talking about)
That don't make Google a friend, but at least a potential enemy of our biggest enemy, and is something to be respected.
That Intel chips become more energy efficient have more implications than giving the last shot to a dead platform that Microsoft killed pretty efficiently already. In fact, could push more into oblivion Windows (RT or not), as could push other ecosystems that could become mainstream where Microsoft don't have presence or meaning at all, like in wearable computing, or pretty cheap devices where it would be better to install some linux derivative than paying the microsoft tax that cost more than the device itself.
.. transparent (at least, in the fingers), capacitive screen friendly gloves will be the next big fashion trend.
The NSA took its own time to plant backdoors in the vulnerable systems, or forgot to reply back to Oracle that they finally can roll the fix.
That the 5C seem to be for 5-Cheaper, then 5S could for 5-special (or stupid, or shiny, or whatever), not have to be for software.
Is US right now. The government became not trustable. Then it forced internet companies to not be trustable. Now is forcing your friends, colleages and other people you know to not be trustable. Probably "Trust no one" will be part of the next american anthem. You can jump out now, but the fire probably will reach you wherever you run.