You raise an interesting point about having a 'fake' name to show the world, and what is your real name.
I'm Chinese, so on my bank accounts and official documents, I have the romanised version of my name in mandarin.
In day to day life however, everyone calls me Nicholas. My co workers, clients, friends, etc. and that is also the name I use on facebook. About the only people who know my name in mandarin are my immediate family, and entities I need to enter into contracts with.
To be sure, Nicholas is by no means fake or a pseudonym. My parents named me as such, and I have answered to that name all my life. Google me and you will turn up a lot of stuff i have put online over the years, pictures of parties, videos, random nonsense on forums etc. But searching official records for that name is going to turn up a lot of people who arn't me.
So back to the topic at hand, maybe what facebook is concerned with are name that are pure fiction/fantasy, after all, my name would pass the 'fake' test in the article as i have built an identity around it, but it's not my official name.
I do believe they have a legitimate reason to enforce a 'real names' policy.
Imagine if you picked up the local phone directory, and instead of what it has now, it listed names such as FantasyFairy337, OMGCATS88 and cutiecupcakes264. They are still real accounts, and calling the number will connect you with a living breathing person but what would your opinion of the utility of the phone directory be?
One of the strongest motivating factors for people to get on facebook is to connect with/stalk others. For example, to find out if that person you just met and want to date is single or god forbid married with children. Having fake names diminishes this utility.
$40 might not be much to you because you earn and spend USD.
But If you are from one of the many places in the world where the purchasing power of the local currency is weak, wages are suppressed, and you only had $300 to spend on a PC, $40 is no small sum of money. (I come from one of those places. I recently bought a PC, it cost me $650. That is an entire months pay to me. I had to take a small loan to buy it.)
Taxes and shipping aside, there is no running away from the price of hardware, as they are commodities and more or less the same everywhere. But if you were in a situation where you could save what could easily be a few days wage by pirating software, you would see many compelling reasons to do it.
- A number of existing technologies already solve this. From run flat tires (pretty common), to self pressure monitoring & inflation (i.e the Hummer) and even self seal tires (usually armoured VIP carriers).
- Modern cars are now computer controlled, with sensors in most critical parts, and it can detect mechanical failure before it happens and ask to to be sent to a garage, detect that it has broken down and automatically call for a tow or if it senses that the airbags have gone off, call emergency services. (i.e BMWs ConnectedDrive)
- Toyota's Intelligent Parking Assist System can both reverse and parallel park. Right now driver input is required in that you need to have your foot on the break, but there is no reason this cannot be completely automated.
- Why not? In fact it might even inspire more space efficient automated parking lots like those the Japanese use in dense cities.
I suppose at the end of the day, a car is meant to transport people so you will always have a human on board. I don't think people like the idea of a car that you completely have no control over. In fact many people find pleasure in driving a car. But for the daily commute, I for one am more than happy to let a computer take over while I read the news.
It's hard to do without a real Army. Just look at what China is doing in the South China Sea.
Just last week China said it was going to unilaterally have its military garrison a group of disputed oil rich islands off the coast of Vietnam and as much as the other countries want to protest, they can't do jack shit about it because not only do they want to be good trading partners with China, they cannot afford a shooting war with China.
So yeah, keeping the peace also means being able to put up a fight if one breaks out.
It IS relevant to recruitment. It basically started with Top Gun in the 80's years ago when they realised the idealised portrayal of going to war led to a sharp increase in recruitment.
It was so successful that recruiters even had booths set up outside the cinema to catch these people.
I run Ethernet over Power lines at home to stream video from a server to a thin media box one story down, and to a PC in another room.
If those adaptors can carry ~100mbps of data across the power lines in my home with no modification, surely it would be trivial to install power sockets that send and receive authentication data?
Don't ban imports, simply impose import duties on all manufactured items until it BECOMES competitive to build it in America. Either jobs return to America, or suddenly there is enough money to seriously fix the national debt. It's win win.
And to the people who say that it will ruin the economy, quite the opposite. The economy DOES NOT exist on Wall St, it exists when everyday people exchange the goods or service they produce for those of others. More people producing and then consuming in America simply makes the American economy better.
On top of that, on purchasing power terms, in most Asian countries the cost of an iPad is anywhere from 1-3 months salary for the average middle class person, yet it still sells like hot cakes. The argument that people won't buy an iDevice if the price goes up 3 fold if made in America is simply flawed.
To be fair, the Malaysian government is like that (Bigoted and racist). The general population are generally nice people.
The government is working overtime shoring up power and restricting freedoms because they lost their 2/3 majority in parliament for the first time in 50 years last election and they are close to being tossed out next election (which is soon).
Well it really depends on the camera you buy. If you want one of those ultra slim compacts, that will fit in your pocket, a slim LiPo batt makes sense.
Buy for professional dSLRs where you depend on your camera for your work, the handgrip battery compartment comes with a magazine which will accept AAs.
The drawback is you need EIGHT AAs to do the same job of the regular battery, which is only slightly larger than a C cell.
How about using the physical card itself as the unique identifier?
- Using a laser, etch a unique 3D circular pattern on a predetermined area on the card. - Upon use, the card is scanned by a rotating laser. This is sort of the same as reading data off a multilayered DVD, except the laser rotates, and the groves are not as fine as on a DVD, so it's more forgiving to abuse.
This makes it pretty much impossible to skim using any sort of swipe action scanner or 2D scanner/camera.
Come to think about it this is pretty much a punch card, except that the pattern is not apparent to the naked eye and 3 dimensional instead of 2...
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You raise an interesting point about having a 'fake' name to show the world, and what is your real name.
I'm Chinese, so on my bank accounts and official documents, I have the romanised version of my name in mandarin.
In day to day life however, everyone calls me Nicholas. My co workers, clients, friends, etc. and that is also the name I use on facebook. About the only people who know my name in mandarin are my immediate family, and entities I need to enter into contracts with.
To be sure, Nicholas is by no means fake or a pseudonym. My parents named me as such, and I have answered to that name all my life. Google me and you will turn up a lot of stuff i have put online over the years, pictures of parties, videos, random nonsense on forums etc. But searching official records for that name is going to turn up a lot of people who arn't me.
So back to the topic at hand, maybe what facebook is concerned with are name that are pure fiction/fantasy, after all, my name would pass the 'fake' test in the article as i have built an identity around it, but it's not my official name.
I do believe they have a legitimate reason to enforce a 'real names' policy.
Imagine if you picked up the local phone directory, and instead of what it has now, it listed names such as FantasyFairy337, OMGCATS88 and cutiecupcakes264. They are still real accounts, and calling the number will connect you with a living breathing person but what would your opinion of the utility of the phone directory be?
One of the strongest motivating factors for people to get on facebook is to connect with/stalk others. For example, to find out if that person you just met and want to date is single or god forbid married with children. Having fake names diminishes this utility.
Lets not forget the dot matrix printer. That thing refuses to die,
Porn _IS_ watched for the acting. Because it sure isn't watched for the plot, story or any other production value.
If anything, he should be reincarnated as a Chinese iPhone assembly line worker.
I'm not passing judgement, I'm just pointing out how it is in my corner of the world.
$40 might not be much to you because you earn and spend USD.
But If you are from one of the many places in the world where the purchasing power of the local currency is weak, wages are suppressed, and you only had $300 to spend on a PC, $40 is no small sum of money. (I come from one of those places. I recently bought a PC, it cost me $650. That is an entire months pay to me. I had to take a small loan to buy it.)
Taxes and shipping aside, there is no running away from the price of hardware, as they are commodities and more or less the same everywhere. But if you were in a situation where you could save what could easily be a few days wage by pirating software, you would see many compelling reasons to do it.
- A number of existing technologies already solve this. From run flat tires (pretty common), to self pressure monitoring & inflation (i.e the Hummer) and even self seal tires (usually armoured VIP carriers).
- Modern cars are now computer controlled, with sensors in most critical parts, and it can detect mechanical failure before it happens and ask to to be sent to a garage, detect that it has broken down and automatically call for a tow or if it senses that the airbags have gone off, call emergency services. (i.e BMWs ConnectedDrive)
- Toyota's Intelligent Parking Assist System can both reverse and parallel park. Right now driver input is required in that you need to have your foot on the break, but there is no reason this cannot be completely automated.
- Why not? In fact it might even inspire more space efficient automated parking lots like those the Japanese use in dense cities.
I suppose at the end of the day, a car is meant to transport people so you will always have a human on board. I don't think people like the idea of a car that you completely have no control over. In fact many people find pleasure in driving a car. But for the daily commute, I for one am more than happy to let a computer take over while I read the news.
It's hard to do without a real Army. Just look at what China is doing in the South China Sea.
Just last week China said it was going to unilaterally have its military garrison a group of disputed oil rich islands off the coast of Vietnam and as much as the other countries want to protest, they can't do jack shit about it because not only do they want to be good trading partners with China, they cannot afford a shooting war with China.
So yeah, keeping the peace also means being able to put up a fight if one breaks out.
I prefer that the blade be dull and blunt, so that the tyrant may suffer a slow, painful and messy death.
I agree with you here. I personally think The Hurt Locker (a film that was denied support) actually made being a bomb tech look appealing.
It IS relevant to recruitment. It basically started with Top Gun in the 80's years ago when they realised the idealised portrayal of going to war led to a sharp increase in recruitment.
It was so successful that recruiters even had booths set up outside the cinema to catch these people.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-05/entertainment/ca-20403_1_top-gun
Tell that to SCO.
Because it's a matter of freedom... of speech AND beer!
The difference here is, from TFA:
The pub in Bevois Valley, which is popular with students, has traded with the name for more than 20 years.
That pub existed wayyy before the movies made the franchise famous. It's not like they decided to name the business to ride on the films' fame.
Yes, but the physical height on a 4:3 screen is greater than a 16:9. Meaning less cropping occurs.
My job involves doing graphical layout for print, and i use InDesign and Illustrator for the task.
I prefer 4:3 displays because inch for inch, 4:3 monitors offer more coverage of a paper sized on screen canvas than a 16:9 monitor.
Of course, the opposite is true when doing stuff like video, because you get more timeline coverage. So it really boils down to what you are doing.
4:3 is not for everyone, but it would be great if we had a choice.
I run Ethernet over Power lines at home to stream video from a server to a thin media box one story down, and to a PC in another room.
If those adaptors can carry ~100mbps of data across the power lines in my home with no modification, surely it would be trivial to install power sockets that send and receive authentication data?
Don't ban imports, simply impose import duties on all manufactured items until it BECOMES competitive to build it in America. Either jobs return to America, or suddenly there is enough money to seriously fix the national debt. It's win win.
And to the people who say that it will ruin the economy, quite the opposite. The economy DOES NOT exist on Wall St, it exists when everyday people exchange the goods or service they produce for those of others. More people producing and then consuming in America simply makes the American economy better.
On top of that, on purchasing power terms, in most Asian countries the cost of an iPad is anywhere from 1-3 months salary for the average middle class person, yet it still sells like hot cakes. The argument that people won't buy an iDevice if the price goes up 3 fold if made in America is simply flawed.
You can in China...
Thank you. It actually occurred to me, but by then i had already hit submit.
To be fair, the Malaysian government is like that (Bigoted and racist). The general population are generally nice people.
The government is working overtime shoring up power and restricting freedoms because they lost their 2/3 majority in parliament for the first time in 50 years last election and they are close to being tossed out next election (which is soon).
The leaked draft bill is here:
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/75107593?access_key=key-22cz53lb62552asmdd43
The pertinent part is paragraph 18.
Well it really depends on the camera you buy. If you want one of those ultra slim compacts, that will fit in your pocket, a slim LiPo batt makes sense.
Buy for professional dSLRs where you depend on your camera for your work, the handgrip battery compartment comes with a magazine which will accept AAs.
The drawback is you need EIGHT AAs to do the same job of the regular battery, which is only slightly larger than a C cell.
How about using the physical card itself as the unique identifier?
- Using a laser, etch a unique 3D circular pattern on a predetermined area on the card.
- Upon use, the card is scanned by a rotating laser. This is sort of the same as reading data off a multilayered DVD, except the laser rotates, and the groves are not as fine as on a DVD, so it's more forgiving to abuse.
This makes it pretty much impossible to skim using any sort of swipe action scanner or 2D scanner/camera.
Come to think about it this is pretty much a punch card, except that the pattern is not apparent to the naked eye and 3 dimensional instead of 2...