News for me has been internet portals like Buzzflash and CrooksandLiars.com for years. But now that I have a MythTV box working I watch the local HD "news" and weather and switch to crappy BFM internet stream for a touch of international news. I should probably put on a BBC-TV link as well.
It's really the thing that makes the most sense to me. They think the Taliban will be advertising the Jihad Interest Group's Mohammed's birthday attack on the infidel in the newspaper's community activities page?
My first impression was that it was more subtle too. But I was thinking that it is a way to tell our allies who have less than a free press that we are watching them and they will speak well of the U.S. to their people or we will want to know why.
Even if the code to PacMan were lost, you could write that sort of gameplay again in just a couple of hours.
It _felt_ like it took a couple hours just to key in the assembly from ZX Magazine for what passed as one of the Pac Man versions on the Sinclair ZX81.
I have liberal arts degrees anyway and only got into IT in the go-go '90s so maybe it's time to look elsewhere.
I've been taking unemployment office job-hunting classes offered in our "heart-of-the-midwest" state the last couple weeks where they make you get chummy and identify yourself, and I have run into no fewer than FOUR people who had been teaching English in Beijing, Taiwan, or Japan. They were back wondering whether there _still_ aren't any jobs in the U.S. and judging from the general pessimism I suspect they will be back in Beijing shortly.
Maybe the global economy means everybody hops one continent to the left. Ted Turner already owned a land mass the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If enough of us leave, maybe he can be the first American to own a state outright and the U.S. can divide itself up into little fiefdoms of the super rich.
1. How confident are you that you understand the black hat's motivations? Unfortunately, "inquisitiveness" is only one possible motivation. There's "destructiveness" to consider and there are possible "entrepreneurial" motivations for selling your secrets. That's 2 to 1 right there suggesting the guy might be more trouble than an asset.
2. Does your organization value criticism? With a gradaute philosophy degree I'm trained to be inherently reactive and pick apart flaws in other people's proposals. An organization that wants "yes men" and "total enthusiasm" wouldn't value me. The black hat is in the same situation. Would upper management value and support someone who is an active critic rooting about in their IT setup? It is a fair bet IT middle management wouldn't.
Yes, it's hard to take a "stand" when you are sitting at your desk writing your congressman a letter. Oooohh, a letter. That'll set them straight. Street protest on your "free" time is about equally worthless. It will probably be boycotted by the news anyway.
But what I saw on the news in France some months ago when the government wanted to take job security away from kids in their 20s was that old people, young people, men, women, farmers, merchants, office workers and students went on STRIKE and clogged the streets until the government backed down. The French _people_ stood up to the government, for real, in disruptive ways that immediately affected the economy.
Americans apparently don't give a rat's ass about habeus corpus, torture and the constitution, especially if it'll take time away from American Idol and the World's Series -- so screw them. I mean if the president lobbying congress for the right to torture Americans isn't enough to get their fat asses out in the streets for real America will get the dictator it deserves and many are stupid enough to think they want. Freedom in America is a truck commercial.
Sounds like Amazon hired from within the publishing industry. I only had to order books for a school a couple times to get the impression that the publishing industry has a lot in common with the music biz as far as so-called "organization".
Takes me back to the '64 World's Fair and the GM exhibit and my future home on the moon.
The problem is that he wants the magical force on his side:
The other side of AI says that "my brain is magic, and I'm really smart and you can't possibly produce a robot as clever as me". I don't subscribe to that one
Because, hey, no problemo:
Once computers start catching up with us in terms of over all intelligence, and start understanding things in the same way as we do
_He_ sees no problem because, hey, he's a magical positivist! The AI brain will just evolve like "magic". Why are these people saying the brain is magically complex? Heck, AI is magically self-creating! Put them in a playpen with some toys and before you know it they'll want you to take them out for hang gliding and a beer.
It's a little like saying "Once we cure cancer and aging people will wonder what all the fuss was about". Unless this dude's background in "science and engineering" includes a Ph.D. in cognitive science (and a second one in epistemology wouldn't hurt), why should we listen to his pie hole that artificial consciousness isn't a bitch to create with our current understanding?
AI is still a "squishy" area akin to alchemy in the public mind where you can pop off predictions like this. What futurist playing a physicist in print would have the balls to say we'll be harnessing unlimited energy from Zero Point Modules by 2015? But AI -- sky's the limit (tommorrow)!
But I do want an affordable two foot by four foot screen so I can lay out all my work within view like a real desk. _Then_ I'll think about power gloves and the like to manipulate objects.
I think it is a little early to make fun of luddites as postmodern Amish. The respondents may have been influenced by the book Rebels Against the Future by Kirkpatrick Sale. Being a luddite wasn't originally restricted to passively copping an attitude. The luddites were groups of the desperately unemployed displaced by technology and angered by the cultural changes and environmental damage technology caused. Sound familiar?
And they caused some significant damage to machinery and some significant costs to government in crowd control. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that a second wave in the info revolution might yet do the same. It could be that the reverse Asimov of/.ers just won't allow us to conceive of anyone harming a computer.
In looking at classic science fiction films of the past, from Blade Runner to Soylent Green, one realizes that few of them really predict with any accuracy the world we live in today.
I've been saying for years that THX1138 comes frighteningly close. Oddly enough, created by a guy whe went on to have some success specializing in the space opera genre.
My wife passed out CDs when she taught some community ed html classes the other year. Not only are there a couple editors, she was able to explain that an html designer really does want to view the results on multiple browsers so they should install Firefox too. Who knows how many had the motivation to look at The GIMP or OpenOffice.org?
Want to make decent money in a high school? Be the football coach. And traditionally they'll only make you teach some "worthless" class like history or civics. My world history teacher was the wrestling coach. He'd frequently need a mid-class break to take a couple puffs on a cigar and the school let him get away with it.
One of our suburban high schools build an olympic regulation pool. Now they bitch there isn't any money for basics.
What are you going to do when American education has local control and it's treated like a game?
Playing a doctor on/. with a psych B.A., I suspect they are basing their definition on thinking of the internet as someething like gambling. There is reinforcing stimulation at unpredictable variable intervals so you are motivated to keep cruising for that next intellectual fix that will hit "really soon now".
It might be one of those ideas that has some small intellectual value that the mass media should never have gotten word of because what a research psychologist might technically label as addiction behavior has little of the intensity most people would imagine in an "addiction". There is also the issue of frequency. Occasionally, you read about someone who died overdosing on water. Is water addictive?
Not surprising with any broadband VoIP. People remarked from day one that my quality with Skype on mediocre DSL was superior to my landline desk phone.
I hope some "national historical monument" types don't want to preserve the face in pristine glory. As the most kitsch location on the planet I'd really like to think that someday there will be dual resort and entertainment domes in the eyes.
I think this is one of the more important points. Unlike Apple, Microsoft has gone to heroic lengths to see that legacy software plays and the consumer _isn't_ confused. Arguably, one of the company's better points to the extent they have been able to sustain it in this particular bubble in time. You have to wonder whether there is some serious conflict within Microsoft between the old guard who may think this is a terrible idea and another faction who want to do anything for the entertainment industry.
Personally, I have seen the miracle of the lion laying down with the lamb. A dude who has been crazy enough to babble to me for _years_ that Win9X was the apex of desktop computing is using an Apple laptop today.
I thought Glofish, that serve a similar purpose, (see ancient/. reference somewhere) were a dynamite product. What nerd could resist a home aquarium of genetically-mutant glowing fish?
But you can hardly find them in my metro, California made them illegal and it seems like large chains like PetSmart aren't carrying them. I guess either it's a good thing I'm not in marketing or PetSmart is stupid.
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_I_f it is as simple as that.
Or, sociologically, the U.S. could be as conformist a culture as the bulk of societies on the planet and our rebellious, freedom-loving image may be as thin as a pair of gap jeans and as solid as a truck commercial. Other cultures have needed some powerful propaganda from Hollywood to change -- and are they happier for it?
Microsoft clearly states that "Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264" -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent.......
So I guess the moral is to steal everything you want before moving to Zune? It looks to me like they care a whole lot more about establishing yet another incompatible de facto standard than they do about whether people are pirating stuff.
The economy may be "hot" with jobs, the problem is that it's not hot with *well paying jobs*. Between the IT bubble bursting, offshoring, the decline of unions, and stagnant minimum wage,
You got it. Outside of slaughtering chickens and picking vegetables, the hospital industry in particular is historically a major employer of poor, uneducated minorities that they figure will take the crap for pennies -- probably on rotating shifts including weekends. In contrast to United Health Care's WIlliam McGuire and his billion in stock options. If you want to see the equivalent of China's manufacturing sector in the U.S., the health care industry is probably your best model.
I highly recommend Paddy Chayevsky's The Hospital to anyone considering the sector. With three years on the night shift in my early 20s at a major unnamed hospital system I have stories I will never be able to tell you.
How many people have said linux is "killer" software compared to the number of people who have said "Windows will be the death of me"? Export list be damned. We should be promoting Windows to our enemies.
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It's hard to imagine the Vorlons ever grooved to Ol' Dirty Bastard, but this could be one small step.
News for me has been internet portals like Buzzflash and CrooksandLiars.com for years. But now that I have a MythTV box working I watch the local HD "news" and weather and switch to crappy BFM internet stream for a touch of international news. I should probably put on a BBC-TV link as well.
Good one.
It's really the thing that makes the most sense to me. They think the Taliban will be advertising the Jihad Interest Group's Mohammed's birthday attack on the infidel in the newspaper's community activities page?
My first impression was that it was more subtle too. But I was thinking that it is a way to tell our allies who have less than a free press that we are watching them and they will speak well of the U.S. to their people or we will want to know why.
Even if the code to PacMan were lost, you could write that sort of gameplay again in just a couple of hours.
It _felt_ like it took a couple hours just to key in the assembly from ZX Magazine for what passed as one of the Pac Man versions on the Sinclair ZX81.
I have liberal arts degrees anyway and only got into IT in the go-go '90s so maybe it's time to look elsewhere.
I've been taking unemployment office job-hunting classes offered in our "heart-of-the-midwest" state the last couple weeks where they make you get chummy and identify yourself, and I have run into no fewer than FOUR people who had been teaching English in Beijing, Taiwan, or Japan. They were back wondering whether there _still_ aren't any jobs in the U.S. and judging from the general pessimism I suspect they will be back in Beijing shortly.
Maybe the global economy means everybody hops one continent to the left. Ted Turner already owned a land mass the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If enough of us leave, maybe he can be the first American to own a state outright and the U.S. can divide itself up into little fiefdoms of the super rich.
Seems to me there are two issues:
1. How confident are you that you understand the black hat's motivations? Unfortunately, "inquisitiveness" is only one possible motivation. There's "destructiveness" to consider and there are possible "entrepreneurial" motivations for selling your secrets. That's 2 to 1 right there suggesting the guy might be more trouble than an asset.
2. Does your organization value criticism? With a gradaute philosophy degree I'm trained to be inherently reactive and pick apart flaws in other people's proposals. An organization that wants "yes men" and "total enthusiasm" wouldn't value me. The black hat is in the same situation. Would upper management value and support someone who is an active critic rooting about in their IT setup? It is a fair bet IT middle management wouldn't.
Yes, it's hard to take a "stand" when you are sitting at your desk writing your congressman a letter. Oooohh, a letter. That'll set them straight. Street protest on your "free" time is about equally worthless. It will probably be boycotted by the news anyway.
But what I saw on the news in France some months ago when the government wanted to take job security away from kids in their 20s was that old people, young people, men, women, farmers, merchants, office workers and students went on STRIKE and clogged the streets until the government backed down. The French _people_ stood up to the government, for real, in disruptive ways that immediately affected the economy.
Americans apparently don't give a rat's ass about habeus corpus, torture and the constitution, especially if it'll take time away from American Idol and the World's Series -- so screw them. I mean if the president lobbying congress for the right to torture Americans isn't enough to get their fat asses out in the streets for real America will get the dictator it deserves and many are stupid enough to think they want. Freedom in America is a truck commercial.
Sounds like Amazon hired from within the publishing industry. I only had to order books for a school a couple times to get the impression that the publishing industry has a lot in common with the music biz as far as so-called "organization".
Takes me back to the '64 World's Fair and the GM exhibit and my future home on the moon.
The problem is that he wants the magical force on his side:
The other side of AI says that "my brain is magic, and I'm really smart and you can't possibly produce a robot as clever as me". I don't subscribe to that one
Because, hey, no problemo:
Once computers start catching up with us in terms of over all intelligence, and start understanding things in the same way as we do
_He_ sees no problem because, hey, he's a magical positivist! The AI brain will just evolve like "magic". Why are these people saying the brain is magically complex? Heck, AI is magically self-creating! Put them in a playpen with some toys and before you know it they'll want you to take them out for hang gliding and a beer.
It's a little like saying "Once we cure cancer and aging people will wonder what all the fuss was about". Unless this dude's background in "science and engineering" includes a Ph.D. in cognitive science (and a second one in epistemology wouldn't hurt), why should we listen to his pie hole that artificial consciousness isn't a bitch to create with our current understanding?
AI is still a "squishy" area akin to alchemy in the public mind where you can pop off predictions like this. What futurist playing a physicist in print would have the balls to say we'll be harnessing unlimited energy from Zero Point Modules by 2015? But AI -- sky's the limit (tommorrow)!
But I do want an affordable two foot by four foot screen so I can lay out all my work within view like a real desk. _Then_ I'll think about power gloves and the like to manipulate objects.
And we thought fuel pump fires were bad.
A short in one of those power lines would probably make a good, old Texas electrocution look like slow roast.
I think it is a little early to make fun of luddites as postmodern Amish. The respondents may have been influenced by the book Rebels Against the Future by Kirkpatrick Sale. Being a luddite wasn't originally restricted to passively copping an attitude. The luddites were groups of the desperately unemployed displaced by technology and angered by the cultural changes and environmental damage technology caused. Sound familiar?
/.ers just won't allow us to conceive of anyone harming a computer.
And they caused some significant damage to machinery and some significant costs to government in crowd control. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that a second wave in the info revolution might yet do the same. It could be that the reverse Asimov of
In looking at classic science fiction films of the past, from Blade Runner to Soylent Green, one realizes that few of them really predict with any accuracy the world we live in today.
I've been saying for years that THX1138 comes frighteningly close. Oddly enough, created by a guy whe went on to have some success specializing in the space opera genre.
My wife passed out CDs when she taught some community ed html classes the other year. Not only are there a couple editors, she was able to explain that an html designer really does want to view the results on multiple browsers so they should install Firefox too. Who knows how many had the motivation to look at The GIMP or OpenOffice.org?
Want to make decent money in a high school? Be the football coach. And traditionally they'll only make you teach some "worthless" class like history or civics. My world history teacher was the wrestling coach. He'd frequently need a mid-class break to take a couple puffs on a cigar and the school let him get away with it.
One of our suburban high schools build an olympic regulation pool. Now they bitch there isn't any money for basics.
What are you going to do when American education has local control and it's treated like a game?
Playing a doctor on /. with a psych B.A., I suspect they are basing their definition on thinking of the internet as someething like gambling. There is reinforcing stimulation at unpredictable variable intervals so you are motivated to keep cruising for that next intellectual fix that will hit "really soon now".
It might be one of those ideas that has some small intellectual value that the mass media should never have gotten word of because what a research psychologist might technically label as addiction behavior has little of the intensity most people would imagine in an "addiction". There is also the issue of frequency. Occasionally, you read about someone who died overdosing on water. Is water addictive?
Not surprising with any broadband VoIP. People remarked from day one that my quality with Skype on mediocre DSL was superior to my landline desk phone.
I hope some "national historical monument" types don't want to preserve the face in pristine glory. As the most kitsch location on the planet I'd really like to think that someday there will be dual resort and entertainment domes in the eyes.
I think this is one of the more important points. Unlike Apple, Microsoft has gone to heroic lengths to see that legacy software plays and the consumer _isn't_ confused. Arguably, one of the company's better points to the extent they have been able to sustain it in this particular bubble in time. You have to wonder whether there is some serious conflict within Microsoft between the old guard who may think this is a terrible idea and another faction who want to do anything for the entertainment industry.
Personally, I have seen the miracle of the lion laying down with the lamb. A dude who has been crazy enough to babble to me for _years_ that Win9X was the apex of desktop computing is using an Apple laptop today.
I thought Glofish, that serve a similar purpose, (see ancient /. reference somewhere) were a dynamite product. What nerd could resist a home aquarium of genetically-mutant glowing fish?
But you can hardly find them in my metro, California made them illegal and it seems like large chains like PetSmart aren't carrying them. I guess either it's a good thing I'm not in marketing or PetSmart is stupid.
_I_f it is as simple as that.
Or, sociologically, the U.S. could be as conformist a culture as the bulk of societies on the planet and our rebellious, freedom-loving image may be as thin as a pair of gap jeans and as solid as a truck commercial. Other cultures have needed some powerful propaganda from Hollywood to change -- and are they happier for it?
Microsoft clearly states that "Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264" -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent.......
So I guess the moral is to steal everything you want before moving to Zune? It looks to me like they care a whole lot more about establishing yet another incompatible de facto standard than they do about whether people are pirating stuff.
The economy may be "hot" with jobs, the problem is that it's not hot with *well paying jobs*. Between the IT bubble bursting, offshoring, the decline of unions, and stagnant minimum wage,
You got it. Outside of slaughtering chickens and picking vegetables, the hospital industry in particular is historically a major employer of poor, uneducated minorities that they figure will take the crap for pennies -- probably on rotating shifts including weekends. In contrast to United Health Care's WIlliam McGuire and his billion in stock options. If you want to see the equivalent of China's manufacturing sector in the U.S., the health care industry is probably your best model.
I highly recommend Paddy Chayevsky's The Hospital to anyone considering the sector. With three years on the night shift in my early 20s at a major unnamed hospital system I have stories I will never be able to tell you.
How many people have said linux is "killer" software compared to the number of people who have said "Windows will be the death of me"? Export list be damned. We should be promoting Windows to our enemies.