Article and summary say "typed or spoken" - so it is not simply looking for a sequence of tones - which broadens the impact significantly even from official over-the-phone payment systems.
Still, the fact that CC companies have to eat fraudulent transactions over $50 means that even if this were in the wild, it probably would not have major impact. CC companies are pretty good at detecting fraud. Debit cards/banks, however, are not held to the same standard - highly recommend never, ever, using a debit card under any circumstances regardless of this kind of exploit.
There are compromises possible. To avoid carrying two mobile devices, I have BES on my personal blackberry. When I telecommute, instead of using a junker laptop that the company would provide, I use a virtual machine on my equipment - I VPN to remote-control my workstation at the office so no data or code is ever local.
From a legal/privacy standpoint, I suppose this might not be ideal should things go horribly wrong - I might be exposing myself to some risk. But I have a good relationship with the company so I am willing to take that risk. And I don't know that it is really that much of a risk. They would just wipe my BB, not confiscate and scan it, and with the abundance of USB and other portable storage devices, I think it would be just as easy for a company to make a case for search/seizure of personal data/equipment in one case as the other. Or to reverse it, it would be just as hard for me to prove I never transferred any inappropriate data from work to my virtual machine/personal physical machines as it would for me to prove I never use a portable storage device to transfer any inappropriate data from work.
That being said, I have no intention of ever working on work things directly on a device that is not owned by and located at the company (i.e. remote in over VPN only) - I never want any client data on any hard drive that could be lost or stolen while in my possession.
It is definitely about more than just e-readers - at the end:
The scientists wrote that "making material harder to learn can improve long-term learning and retention. More cognitive engagement leads to deeper processing", enabling the reader to recall the information more accurately.
I assume that would apply to an easy to read printed page as well as electronic content. I think it is still relevant to speak to e-readers in particular since they are becoming the pinnacle of reading ease. With an e-reader we can adjust size and font and contrast, sometimes even orientation; allow us to make reading personally easier in a way not possible for print. So if this concept is accurate, we can unknowingly be sub-optimizing our efforts.
"We don't like him" and not being a citizen is pretty much the summary of how people were imprisoned at Gitmo - they are called "enemy combatants" to avoid POW status. Somehow these people are too dangerous to be let loose but too innocent to stand trial.
Maybe they have a comment site on a sonar-based network where some Tursiops truncatus just suggested that humans be granted cetaceanhood when they ask for it. Until then, there's a huge gap between what cetaceans and various smart animals are capable of...
Though I do enjoy classic movies - if you don't have to do a report on them, you can enjoy them in the same way as TRON or TRON Legacy - escape into another world and enjoy somebody's creative work for a couple hours.
I am a long-time Kindle user so my (DRMed) library is all the.mobi based Amazon format. When I made that plunge, I thought (hoped) that the Amazon dominance would set the file format. Oh well. But the ubiquity of the Kindle reader app means I can currently read all of my content on every device I have (BB to iPad to Kindle to PC/Mac) - and they even keep in sync with each other - so I can use whichever device or pc is handy at the time.
I have converted DRM-free ePub (and other) stuff with Calibre to whatever format I want, but protected ePub is a barrier to me - so I have not bought any. So far I haven't run across anything I wanted that I could not get for the Kindle, but that is surely only a matter of time.
I have a choice of Comcast vs DSL through my local telco - I chose DSL. You are right it is about the same $ for a slower speed, but I have never found the DSL bandwidth to be inadequate - including streaming Netflix and other things I need and want. I made that choice 100% because of the Comcast TOS and reputation.
I think the best way to proceed is to get the pricing out in the open - have Netflix have different price points depending on the internet provider - passing along the fees directly to the consumer so we can make a fully informed decision. I know as a non-Comcast customer, I have no desire to subsidize them via a jacked-up Netflix cost.
There are generally 2 main points that electronic voting needs - coding available for public scrutiny is one, but in my mind a more important one is a paper audit trail - the vote is recorded electronically, but the voter gets to see a paper record of their vote (they either see but can't touch or carry it to a ballot box) which can be used later for recounts and verification.
I'd rather have a proprietary system with a paper trail than an open system with no paper trail. But really we need to insist, at a minimum, on both.
That is exactly what I said - we stopped catching her; we provided a safe environment into which she could fall. Result is she learned how to get off the couch on her own without any spilled blood. It is not necessary to learn every lesson at the school of hard knocks. A good parent is actively engaged, dynamically balancing protecting their kids and allowing them to grow and learn so they can take care of themselves.
Being a fairly new parent (17 months), I think there is a balance. I believe a responsible parent needs to be involved and sometimes that means observing or monitoring. That is different than controlling. A tool like this could be helpful if used wisely.
From my recent life - my daughter learned how to climb onto the couch. The first thing she did after that was to leap off headfirst. Mommy was there to catch her and that became a great game. Next phase was pillows on the floor and letting her learn a better dismount - i.e. watching but not catching. That is done - and without the pain and agony of a major fall. She is not scared of the couch and knows how to use it effectively.
When she is the appropriate age, I will look for digital tools that will help me to do the same.
I haven't been to Burning Man in a few years, but when I did go it was nice to get away from it all. I suppose I could choose to not use/bring my cell phone - but if other people are still tethered to the ordinary world...? Well - bummer!
Money is always the prime concern for a business. If the cost of adding redundancy is higher than the expected cost of dealing with network failure, then why would a business do it?
That being said, I often see the cost of dealing with a significant network interruption being underestimated - either the $ cost or the probability of it happening.
The first amendment has maintained its power exactly because the second amendment exists.
The usual means of securing 1st amendment rights is going through the court system and following the rule of law established by the constitution. Laws are passed by the legislature, vetted by the judicial branch, and enforced by the executive. The people involved are in their positions by a democratic process - either directly voted in or by the appointment of elected people, etc. No guns are involved in this process.
Now I am not, nor did I in my previous post, advocate repealing the second amendment - I just asked "why can't there be a thoughtful discussion of gun rights that focuses on the circumstances of today?" Your response is why - it is an absolutist position where you see any revision as the "slippery slope" that will lead to the inevitable downfall of western civilization.
It is very clear that the founding fathers did not intend the constitution to be an immutable document for all time. We are allowed to amend it, and I believe we would be remiss in our duties as citizens if we did not continuously examine, test, and improve it. Certainly we should be able to discuss it!
It may very well be that part of the cost of our freedom is suffering some of the effects that the modern proliferation of handguns has brought - after all, to be free is to be free to do good and the freedom to do bad. But maybe there are ways that can mitigate some of the negative consequences without taking away rights? So far the track record of gun safety and gun storage programs/laws hasn't been that great, but there is some (debatable) evidence that accidental gun death rates have been diminishing since the 30's or so. Why wouldn't we want to look at the data and see if we can improve?
And don't bother trotting out Franklin's security vs freedom quote - I agree with it. Levels of security and freedom are NOT a zero-sum game - we can have both.
... and were especially common on the frontier where they were an important force multiplier for small settlements vs. natives....
So are you are saying that is a good thing? Using guns to slaughter the indigenous people you are stealing land from? That is why we have the second amendment?
Times change - I agree with the GP. "Love it or leave it" is weak - why can't there be a thoughtful discussion of gun rights that focuses on the circumstances of today?
It is interesting, but I hope it doesn't catch on. I'll bet no thought, and certainly no funds, have gone into dealing with the waste - a classic external cost being eaten by the taxpayer. Time was we could toss an old magazine into the recycle bin - now - ? Madness... madness!
I don't think he is directly saying he wants Google to become so intertwined with lives and personal data, what he is saying is more subtle - he is saying that what he thinks people want is for Google to be able to provide a next level of information (which would necessitate the intertwining, etc.). His comments about the young needing to change their name since the information never "expires" offers the other side of the coin. I think he's giving us a monkey's paw warning - that we need to be careful what we wish for. The convenience of targeted ads and services comes with a price - all Schmidt is saying that Google will be happy to take us up on the deal - not that they are going to shove it down our throats no matter what.
I think you can give Lucas a bit more credit. In Phantom it is clearly established that the Jedi council thinks Anakin is too old to be trained, that there is an issue with fear of loss of his mother. Early in Clones, with the sand people, it is demonstrated that Anakin is susceptible to the suggestions of Palpatine - and indeed, in this instance, Anakin's worst fears are realized. In Revenge, Anakin's susceptibility to Palpatine is again demonstrated when he kills Dooku at Palpatine's order. Anakin is consistently shown as insecure and arrogant, which Palpatine uses to alienate Anakin from the rest of the Jedi. Anyway, I think there are enough plot points in the movies that lay enough ground work to make it reasonable to turn Anakin. Not like a switch - for years Palpatine carefully maneuvered Anakin to the balance point, and at the end it took just a tiny shove to flip him to the dark side.
And then at the end of Return, Luke is able to tip him back to the light side.
Anyway, when I think about Anakin's whole story, I find there are a lot of things to think about. For the most part, I think Lucas's dialog writing sucks - but overall, the story works for me.
Maybe they should force the school to take a better action. Getting rid of wi-fi routers to combat a mold problem, for example, would be pretty stupid. Like the GP said - use some science - do tests. Determine if there really is a problem, if so determine the cause. Easier said than done, but in the long run way more effective than witch hunts.
I agree with the sentiment, but my understanding is that the availability of ebook formats is a publisher decision, not a book store decision. But either way, there are at least two middle-men between me and the author; struggling for profits and relevance - and increasing my costs.
I think publishers have a way to maintain relevance - they should cut out the production and distribution aspects of their business and concentrate on finding and editing good authors and books. Make me, as a ravenous reader, care what publisher carries a new author and make a good publisher reputation a reason for me to buy.
After a few minutes of typing on an iPad I could see the need for this - I agree that it seems like a very natural and intuitive step to take when you have a potentially free-form keyboard layout.
I hope they will be able to get it onto the system in such a way as to replace the OS keyboard rather than merely have it run in its own app (so you have to copy and paste text out of it).
This round seems easy enough - but it is potentially troublesome that, according to the article, the packaging is disallowed from stating the HDMI spec version it is compliant with. So potentially we'll get to HDMI 1.6 and have people holding an "Ultra Speed HDMI" cable in one hand and an "Extreme Speed HDMI" cable in the other and saying, WFT?
Don't let happen to HDMI cables what has happened to olives! (Which is larger: Super Colossal, Extra Jumbo, or Mammoth?)
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Article and summary say "typed or spoken" - so it is not simply looking for a sequence of tones - which broadens the impact significantly even from official over-the-phone payment systems.
Still, the fact that CC companies have to eat fraudulent transactions over $50 means that even if this were in the wild, it probably would not have major impact. CC companies are pretty good at detecting fraud. Debit cards/banks, however, are not held to the same standard - highly recommend never, ever, using a debit card under any circumstances regardless of this kind of exploit.
There are compromises possible. To avoid carrying two mobile devices, I have BES on my personal blackberry. When I telecommute, instead of using a junker laptop that the company would provide, I use a virtual machine on my equipment - I VPN to remote-control my workstation at the office so no data or code is ever local.
From a legal/privacy standpoint, I suppose this might not be ideal should things go horribly wrong - I might be exposing myself to some risk. But I have a good relationship with the company so I am willing to take that risk. And I don't know that it is really that much of a risk. They would just wipe my BB, not confiscate and scan it, and with the abundance of USB and other portable storage devices, I think it would be just as easy for a company to make a case for search/seizure of personal data/equipment in one case as the other. Or to reverse it, it would be just as hard for me to prove I never transferred any inappropriate data from work to my virtual machine/personal physical machines as it would for me to prove I never use a portable storage device to transfer any inappropriate data from work.
That being said, I have no intention of ever working on work things directly on a device that is not owned by and located at the company (i.e. remote in over VPN only) - I never want any client data on any hard drive that could be lost or stolen while in my possession.
It is definitely about more than just e-readers - at the end:
The scientists wrote that "making material harder to learn can improve long-term learning and retention. More cognitive engagement leads to deeper processing", enabling the reader to recall the information more accurately.
I assume that would apply to an easy to read printed page as well as electronic content. I think it is still relevant to speak to e-readers in particular since they are becoming the pinnacle of reading ease. With an e-reader we can adjust size and font and contrast, sometimes even orientation; allow us to make reading personally easier in a way not possible for print. So if this concept is accurate, we can unknowingly be sub-optimizing our efforts.
"We don't like him" and not being a citizen is pretty much the summary of how people were imprisoned at Gitmo - they are called "enemy combatants" to avoid POW status. Somehow these people are too dangerous to be let loose but too innocent to stand trial.
Maybe they have a comment site on a sonar-based network where some Tursiops truncatus just suggested that humans be granted cetaceanhood when they ask for it. Until then, there's a huge gap between what cetaceans and various smart animals are capable of...
You said it exactly!
Though I do enjoy classic movies - if you don't have to do a report on them, you can enjoy them in the same way as TRON or TRON Legacy - escape into another world and enjoy somebody's creative work for a couple hours.
It is probably illegal to ask, but how?
I am a long-time Kindle user so my (DRMed) library is all the .mobi based Amazon format. When I made that plunge, I thought (hoped) that the Amazon dominance would set the file format. Oh well. But the ubiquity of the Kindle reader app means I can currently read all of my content on every device I have (BB to iPad to Kindle to PC/Mac) - and they even keep in sync with each other - so I can use whichever device or pc is handy at the time.
I have converted DRM-free ePub (and other) stuff with Calibre to whatever format I want, but protected ePub is a barrier to me - so I have not bought any. So far I haven't run across anything I wanted that I could not get for the Kindle, but that is surely only a matter of time.
I have a choice of Comcast vs DSL through my local telco - I chose DSL. You are right it is about the same $ for a slower speed, but I have never found the DSL bandwidth to be inadequate - including streaming Netflix and other things I need and want. I made that choice 100% because of the Comcast TOS and reputation.
I think the best way to proceed is to get the pricing out in the open - have Netflix have different price points depending on the internet provider - passing along the fees directly to the consumer so we can make a fully informed decision. I know as a non-Comcast customer, I have no desire to subsidize them via a jacked-up Netflix cost.
Great idea - I wish I had some mod points for you.
There are generally 2 main points that electronic voting needs - coding available for public scrutiny is one, but in my mind a more important one is a paper audit trail - the vote is recorded electronically, but the voter gets to see a paper record of their vote (they either see but can't touch or carry it to a ballot box) which can be used later for recounts and verification.
I'd rather have a proprietary system with a paper trail than an open system with no paper trail. But really we need to insist, at a minimum, on both.
That is exactly what I said - we stopped catching her; we provided a safe environment into which she could fall. Result is she learned how to get off the couch on her own without any spilled blood. It is not necessary to learn every lesson at the school of hard knocks. A good parent is actively engaged, dynamically balancing protecting their kids and allowing them to grow and learn so they can take care of themselves.
Being a fairly new parent (17 months), I think there is a balance. I believe a responsible parent needs to be involved and sometimes that means observing or monitoring. That is different than controlling. A tool like this could be helpful if used wisely.
From my recent life - my daughter learned how to climb onto the couch. The first thing she did after that was to leap off headfirst. Mommy was there to catch her and that became a great game. Next phase was pillows on the floor and letting her learn a better dismount - i.e. watching but not catching. That is done - and without the pain and agony of a major fall. She is not scared of the couch and knows how to use it effectively.
When she is the appropriate age, I will look for digital tools that will help me to do the same.
I believe in your example the median would go down (from 1k to 500).
Experience is good, participation is better!
I haven't been to Burning Man in a few years, but when I did go it was nice to get away from it all. I suppose I could choose to not use/bring my cell phone - but if other people are still tethered to the ordinary world...? Well - bummer!
Money is always the prime concern for a business. If the cost of adding redundancy is higher than the expected cost of dealing with network failure, then why would a business do it?
That being said, I often see the cost of dealing with a significant network interruption being underestimated - either the $ cost or the probability of it happening.
The first amendment has maintained its power exactly because the second amendment exists.
The usual means of securing 1st amendment rights is going through the court system and following the rule of law established by the constitution. Laws are passed by the legislature, vetted by the judicial branch, and enforced by the executive. The people involved are in their positions by a democratic process - either directly voted in or by the appointment of elected people, etc. No guns are involved in this process.
Now I am not, nor did I in my previous post, advocate repealing the second amendment - I just asked "why can't there be a thoughtful discussion of gun rights that focuses on the circumstances of today?" Your response is why - it is an absolutist position where you see any revision as the "slippery slope" that will lead to the inevitable downfall of western civilization.
It is very clear that the founding fathers did not intend the constitution to be an immutable document for all time. We are allowed to amend it, and I believe we would be remiss in our duties as citizens if we did not continuously examine, test, and improve it. Certainly we should be able to discuss it!
It may very well be that part of the cost of our freedom is suffering some of the effects that the modern proliferation of handguns has brought - after all, to be free is to be free to do good and the freedom to do bad. But maybe there are ways that can mitigate some of the negative consequences without taking away rights? So far the track record of gun safety and gun storage programs/laws hasn't been that great, but there is some (debatable) evidence that accidental gun death rates have been diminishing since the 30's or so. Why wouldn't we want to look at the data and see if we can improve?
And don't bother trotting out Franklin's security vs freedom quote - I agree with it. Levels of security and freedom are NOT a zero-sum game - we can have both.
... and were especially common on the frontier where they were an important force multiplier for small settlements vs. natives. ...
So are you are saying that is a good thing? Using guns to slaughter the indigenous people you are stealing land from? That is why we have the second amendment?
Times change - I agree with the GP. "Love it or leave it" is weak - why can't there be a thoughtful discussion of gun rights that focuses on the circumstances of today?
It is interesting, but I hope it doesn't catch on. I'll bet no thought, and certainly no funds, have gone into dealing with the waste - a classic external cost being eaten by the taxpayer. Time was we could toss an old magazine into the recycle bin - now - ? Madness... madness!
I don't think he is directly saying he wants Google to become so intertwined with lives and personal data, what he is saying is more subtle - he is saying that what he thinks people want is for Google to be able to provide a next level of information (which would necessitate the intertwining, etc.). His comments about the young needing to change their name since the information never "expires" offers the other side of the coin. I think he's giving us a monkey's paw warning - that we need to be careful what we wish for. The convenience of targeted ads and services comes with a price - all Schmidt is saying that Google will be happy to take us up on the deal - not that they are going to shove it down our throats no matter what.
I think you can give Lucas a bit more credit. In Phantom it is clearly established that the Jedi council thinks Anakin is too old to be trained, that there is an issue with fear of loss of his mother. Early in Clones, with the sand people, it is demonstrated that Anakin is susceptible to the suggestions of Palpatine - and indeed, in this instance, Anakin's worst fears are realized. In Revenge, Anakin's susceptibility to Palpatine is again demonstrated when he kills Dooku at Palpatine's order. Anakin is consistently shown as insecure and arrogant, which Palpatine uses to alienate Anakin from the rest of the Jedi. Anyway, I think there are enough plot points in the movies that lay enough ground work to make it reasonable to turn Anakin. Not like a switch - for years Palpatine carefully maneuvered Anakin to the balance point, and at the end it took just a tiny shove to flip him to the dark side.
And then at the end of Return, Luke is able to tip him back to the light side.
Anyway, when I think about Anakin's whole story, I find there are a lot of things to think about. For the most part, I think Lucas's dialog writing sucks - but overall, the story works for me.
Maybe they should force the school to take a better action. Getting rid of wi-fi routers to combat a mold problem, for example, would be pretty stupid. Like the GP said - use some science - do tests. Determine if there really is a problem, if so determine the cause. Easier said than done, but in the long run way more effective than witch hunts.
I agree with the sentiment, but my understanding is that the availability of ebook formats is a publisher decision, not a book store decision. But either way, there are at least two middle-men between me and the author; struggling for profits and relevance - and increasing my costs.
I think publishers have a way to maintain relevance - they should cut out the production and distribution aspects of their business and concentrate on finding and editing good authors and books. Make me, as a ravenous reader, care what publisher carries a new author and make a good publisher reputation a reason for me to buy.
After a few minutes of typing on an iPad I could see the need for this - I agree that it seems like a very natural and intuitive step to take when you have a potentially free-form keyboard layout.
I hope they will be able to get it onto the system in such a way as to replace the OS keyboard rather than merely have it run in its own app (so you have to copy and paste text out of it).
This round seems easy enough - but it is potentially troublesome that, according to the article, the packaging is disallowed from stating the HDMI spec version it is compliant with. So potentially we'll get to HDMI 1.6 and have people holding an "Ultra Speed HDMI" cable in one hand and an "Extreme Speed HDMI" cable in the other and saying, WFT?
Don't let happen to HDMI cables what has happened to olives! (Which is larger: Super Colossal, Extra Jumbo, or Mammoth?)