Really? When was the last time an American was arrested on American soil by the Chinese police?
Even if you spend time in both countries (as I do), you have a far greater chance of being arrested by American police. On a per capita basis, American citizens are four times as likely to be incarcerated as Chinese citizens
When you were still in Shanghai, you needn't worry of being arrested by the American authority but now you have moved back to the States, please, Shanghaibill, do not say what you said so loudly
I do fear for your safety
PS. I'd continue to stay outside of the USA if I were you
No need when HAD instantly back down and alter the content of the page
Perhaps this is not intended, but a side benefit of DMCA is that the use of DMCA against a certain website will give indication of which site has backbone which site hasn't
They will call the whistle blowers "TRAITORS" and they will come up with all the usual justifications - that they need to fight "terrorism", or whatever it is...
America is turning into an extra-large-size concentration camp and still there are people wanting it to happen !
The Champions of Corruption has a new champion, and it is non other than Obama
You might want to say that I am trolling, but think first...
Before Obama administration the United States government is not clean, definitely not clean, but at the very least, it didn't dare to alter records or tell lies in congressional hearings so publicly
After Obama takes over the White House whatever that was rotten in the government of United States of America get even more rotten
Nixon was the last rotten POTUS, and the way Obama is operating, he may have already surpassed whatever Nixon had done
We human have become to dependent on gadgets - it is not that using gadgets is bad, but our over-reliance on the use of gadgets on our daily lives mean we are wasting unnecessary power and those wasted power adds up
Until we can live with using much less than we do now, I do not think the power that we can generate using solar / wind / or whatever green-tech can come up with will give us enough juice to power up all those gadgets that we use
In other words, Morgan Stanley's report are mere fearmongering --- perhaps they do it with an agenda of their own, perhaps they want to short sell the utility stocks and make a killing that way, I dunno
Hundreds of millions of people abused throughout history by corrupt governments, and yet you want to give them the power to monitor people's communications?
One important factor why Singaporeans agree to give up their own privacy in exchange for "easy life" is the country just north of the Singapore Strait
And another country is the one South of Singapore
Those two countries are the epitome of corruption, cronyism, and racism, and of course, the Singaporean government takes full advantage of what happens up north and down south and warn its citizenry of the danger of turning Singapore into just like them
Disclaimer: I do have business in Singapore and I do spend some time in Singapore every year
As my business is largely in the East Asian region, I do travel from country to country and have a lot of contacts with people of different countries in that region
My exposure to the people from the different countries tells me one thing --- social construct is indeed a very VERY crucial factor in shaping the behavior of the people
In Korea, for example, their rigid society have shaped the Koreans into teams of robots who are more than willing work to death for the Chaebol
While in Japanese the society seems to be acting like a patient with bipolar disorder --- The same school student who does a 90-degree bow to the teachers in school during weekdays often become something totally different during weekends
In China you can sense the rebellious spirit everywhere and in everyone. While the society is still rather conservative the same society accepts homosexuality, even same-sex marriage, with ease
In Singapore, however, due to the "Father Knows Best" government which has taken care of almost everything for its citizens, many Singaporeans (I mean, the home bred Singaporeans, not those imported ones) have turned into something not very different from zombies --- they lack the zeal for doing anything, have no interest in learning nor put any effort in coming out with anything that is creative
I am no social scientist, of course. The above are based on my own observation, and of course, I could be wrong
It's up to you guys to decide where you wanna put your $$$ --- on educating the younger generation or feeding your $$$ to the industrial military complex
All TFA talks about is the hours of working, but there are more aspect of work than mere number of hours
If one really enjoys the work one will not treat the work as _work_, but rather something that is FUN - - EXCITING - - REJUVENATING
I have been in the tech field for decades and I keep seeing people who take the task they are assigned with as challenges that they want to overcome getting the job done faster, with more zeal, and produce much better code than those who take whatever they are being tasked with as "burden"
It's not the hour that you put in, it's the fun-quotient that will ultimately determine whether you will excel in the job you are in, or otherwise
How are spammers successful so often? Simple, companies don't train people
As one who has thousands of people working in companies that I either own, co-own, or have invested in, I can tell you that not everyone is trainable
Not that people are stupid - no, as far as I am concern, almost all who are working in the companies I mentioned above are above average in intelligence - but the one thing that is needed the most is not information, rather, it's intuition with a large bit of paranoia mixed in
It takes a paranoid to be suspicious of everything - and in this social-media world that we have today, where everybody shares every bit of their own info to the world - paranoia is becoming a scarce resource
No matter how much info we have shared with our colleagues, no matter how many times we have told them to be ultra careful, you bet someone will get phished, almost in a daily basis, and the local level network will get breached
These days, you don't even have to be a dirty commie, or Chinese, or both, to be Anti-American; the Commander-in-Chief hisself is one
I can't help but wonder if Obama's own dossier is to go through the same expanded terrorist watchlist system would Obama be labeled as one of the terrorists?
Especially when neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" is required
Our best employees are the ones that have not been through the debt claiming process of getting a degree
Biden is insisting that the H-1B program must go on because it provides a sort of "apprenticeships" to foreigners
Well, I was from China, but am an American and I can speak with the view of a foreigner (the one from China) and that of an American and I can tell you that if America does not stop giving "apprenticeships" to foreigners one day there will be no more jobs for Americans
The old way of giving "apprenticeships" for "foreigners" was the way I got mine - When I landed on the soil of the USA I was a young refugee without a full secondary school education
I had my "apprenticeships" inside America because I had no place to go and after I graduated from college (with no debt, since I worked 3 jobs on the side - sometimes more than 3 jobs - while studying) I worked at American technology companies where I got further training.
After that I started my own companies, sold some of them, and re-invested what I got into other startup and made even more
In other words, while America provided "apprenticeships" for me this former "apprentice" stayed put in America and started businesses in America and created many job opportunities for other Americans
On the other hand, the way H-1B visa program works is that it provides "apprenticeships" for foreigners, and they got back to their own country, taking their skills with them, start up their own businesses in their own countries, create job opportunities for their own people, not Americans
Who loses in this game ?
The Americans
Who win ? The foreigners
Folks, especially you Americans out there --- please top the politicians, no matter from which political party they came from, from destroying America from the inside out
What Biden is doing is to cut out the innards of America and give it to the foreigners
When I was little toddler I was fascinated by an hourglass --- particularly on the almost hidden but still perceivable pattern of a new slide happened on the back of an ancient slide
Many things that we observe, even from something as tiny as the sandslides inside an hourglass, can be magnified many folds, and still hold true
Many of you thinks that TOR is a godsend, that TOR provides you with absolute privacy
But you guys must understand that TOR itself is actually from a project sponsored by Uncle Sam - and its initial usage was to thaw the cyber iron-curtains (something like the Great Firewall of China)
I do use TOR, but I do reckon that there might be a certain "permissible flaw" in it since it is, after all, an Uncle Sam project
Call me a paranoid if you want, but I will never trust Uncle Sam 100%, neither will I trust TOR 100%
I have read too many quotes similar to the above, but there is just a _tiny_ problem - most (if not all) of the people who said that the missile system is easy (or like the above has put it "brain dead easy") to operate themselves never had any hands-on experience on any of the missile system whatsoever !
The issue is what constitutes a "terrorist" depends on which side you're on
A little baby suffered a horrible death and its (dunno if it's a girl or a boy) remains lie on the ground
Someone took a picture of that little baby and that pic was used as a propaganda tool against another side...
I was utterly disgusted with the way Ukraine is using this tragedy to further their political agenda - They have utterly no regard for anything, even the dead body of a little baby in their hand becomes a political tool !!
Well, NetFlix could also enter into agreements with ever backbone provider, thereby forcing Verizon to either do the same to everyone or start upgrading
This brings to the question of why Netflix has chosen to deal with Verizon instead of with Level3 directly in the first place ?
Even if Netflix didn't know of the existence of Level3 (which I find too ludicrous to be possible) that they had signed up with Verizon, they could have changed the situation right now by dealing directly with Level3, and why wait anymore ?
A well managed company would be continuously evaluating employees and their work and making adjustments to personnel requirements every month
Microsoft used to be very picky of whom they hire
A legendary (remain un-named) programmer that I know was interviewed by Microsoft back in the mid 1980's but was rejected because at that time Microsoft puts a lot of effort to hire people who can contribute to what they had in mind
That legedary programmer later went on to join Id Software and developed some awesome pixel routine for them, and what he did in Id impressed Intel so much that they hired him to help them in their Larrabee project
But Microsoft changed into a totally different company after Bill Gates stepped down --- and it started to take in all kinds of useless code monkeys (and many more who can't even code!) under their payroll
I have been in the industry for decades and have witness how the companies changed after the founders have left
The industry does not want independent software developers. The industry wants teams of full-time employees.
When I read what you typed I am perplexed
Exactly which industry that you are referring to?
I have had a string of successful investments in many starts-up and will invest more in the future and it is never my intention to change those starts-up into humongous monsters (although if they change by themselves I won't stop them) employing teams and teams of data monkeys
But TFA does contain a nugget a truth, that is, the so-called "Software Renaissance " is long dead - but not because of the mobile platform, rather, it was because of everybody and their granny's second cousin all chasing after the same pot of gold and copy-catting each others
Instead of exploring new fields, instead of coming up with something exciting, so many starts-up went bust trying to re-invent the wheel (and worse, trying to copy-cat the original shape of the wheel and then sell it as their own invention)
The starts-up that I invest in are those which are offering something that I simply do not see much in the marketplace, and yet, the things that they are doing (sometime it's the back-office thing that consumers don't get to see too often) prove to be essential and become de-facto in the respective niche that they have created
But if I were to take a step back, I reckon that what is happening to the mobile platform is a repeat of what had happened to the desktop (and related big-iron) scene --- which is, too many people (including geeks) are too lazy to explore a new field, rather than do something completely new, they tried to "do a better version" of what is already available in the marketplace
There are only so many improvements one can do to a spreadsheet program, for example - as there are only so many "re-invented angry bird" that the market can bare
Having read his rant I gotta admit that I do not understand what that guy is trying to say
I mean, ever since Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage labor over the first software / software combination, each and every follow-up of similar devices had been utilized by a very limited group of people who --
1. Have the interest to learn how the device works
2. Have the intelligence to understand
3. Have the time to do it
Of course, there is another type of 'computer' - the Abacus invented by the Chinese - but that device, unlike the Babbage machine and whatever followup devices it had inspired, - was kinda self-limiting
To most of you guys "plastic is plastic", that's all to it
But the truth is plastic is _more_ than mere plastic --- it is a combination of many types of chemicals, all mixed together to achieve the characteristics of the plastic that it needs to have
To see it another way, a plastic is like a steak. It is definitely _not_ only a piece of beef, but also the sauce (which itself is made of the starchy gravy - which can be broken up to other more basic components, - the flavoring [salt, sugar, spices, and so on]), plus the added chemicals, such as the aromatics (which is largely benzene group) that were formed when that beef was put over the fire
Same thing with plastics - it is not only the acrylic resins, but we also need to account for additives such as the plasticizers, color, elastomers, and so on, plus other chemicals that were produced as a by-product of the mixing of all those chemicals over a "heated process"
When we can eat steaks, the different bacteria inside our guts dissolve different ingredients from the steak that we have eaten
Bacteria are not like human beings - they do not have other bacteria in their guts !
Most often a type of bacterium may be able to digest a type of ingredient within a type of plastic, and that is all to it, which means, the other chemicals inside the plastic are still left intact, not dissolved, not digested, not broken down
They look like the lovechild of Google Glass and the Oculus Rift, providing more information to the wearer than the small window on Google's much-maligned headset but not obstructing vision like the Oculus Rift. (Admittedly, for spy glasses, they lack a certain subtlety)
If the military can do something like that, so can we
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That's a quite naive point of view
Really? When was the last time an American was arrested on American soil by the Chinese police?
Even if you spend time in both countries (as I do), you have a far greater chance of being arrested by American police. On a per capita basis, American citizens are four times as likely to be incarcerated as Chinese citizens
When you were still in Shanghai, you needn't worry of being arrested by the American authority but now you have moved back to the States, please, Shanghaibill, do not say what you said so loudly
I do fear for your safety
PS. I'd continue to stay outside of the USA if I were you
No need when HAD instantly back down and alter the content of the page
Perhaps this is not intended, but a side benefit of DMCA is that the use of DMCA against a certain website will give indication of which site has backbone which site hasn't
HAD certain hasn't
They will call the whistle blowers "TRAITORS" and they will come up with all the usual justifications - that they need to fight "terrorism", or whatever it is ...
America is turning into an extra-large-size concentration camp and still there are people wanting it to happen !
The Champions of Corruption has a new champion, and it is non other than Obama
You might want to say that I am trolling, but think first ...
Before Obama administration the United States government is not clean, definitely not clean, but at the very least, it didn't dare to alter records or tell lies in congressional hearings so publicly
After Obama takes over the White House whatever that was rotten in the government of United States of America get even more rotten
Nixon was the last rotten POTUS, and the way Obama is operating, he may have already surpassed whatever Nixon had done
We human have become to dependent on gadgets - it is not that using gadgets is bad, but our over-reliance on the use of gadgets on our daily lives mean we are wasting unnecessary power and those wasted power adds up
Until we can live with using much less than we do now, I do not think the power that we can generate using solar / wind / or whatever green-tech can come up with will give us enough juice to power up all those gadgets that we use
In other words, Morgan Stanley's report are mere fearmongering --- perhaps they do it with an agenda of their own, perhaps they want to short sell the utility stocks and make a killing that way, I dunno
Hundreds of millions of people abused throughout history by corrupt governments, and yet you want to give them the power to monitor people's communications?
One important factor why Singaporeans agree to give up their own privacy in exchange for "easy life" is the country just north of the Singapore Strait
And another country is the one South of Singapore
Those two countries are the epitome of corruption, cronyism, and racism, and of course, the Singaporean government takes full advantage of what happens up north and down south and warn its citizenry of the danger of turning Singapore into just like them
Disclaimer: I do have business in Singapore and I do spend some time in Singapore every year
As my business is largely in the East Asian region, I do travel from country to country and have a lot of contacts with people of different countries in that region
My exposure to the people from the different countries tells me one thing --- social construct is indeed a very VERY crucial factor in shaping the behavior of the people
In Korea, for example, their rigid society have shaped the Koreans into teams of robots who are more than willing work to death for the Chaebol
While in Japanese the society seems to be acting like a patient with bipolar disorder --- The same school student who does a 90-degree bow to the teachers in school during weekdays often become something totally different during weekends
In China you can sense the rebellious spirit everywhere and in everyone. While the society is still rather conservative the same society accepts homosexuality, even same-sex marriage, with ease
In Singapore, however, due to the "Father Knows Best" government which has taken care of almost everything for its citizens, many Singaporeans (I mean, the home bred Singaporeans, not those imported ones) have turned into something not very different from zombies --- they lack the zeal for doing anything, have no interest in learning nor put any effort in coming out with anything that is creative
I am no social scientist, of course. The above are based on my own observation, and of course, I could be wrong
According to this site - http://blogs.seattletimes.com/... - the cost will be around $300 Million to $400 Million, per year
But what can 300-400 Million buy these days ? Let's see ...
According to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... - one F35C comes with the price tag of US$299.5M
It's up to you guys to decide where you wanna put your $$$ --- on educating the younger generation or feeding your $$$ to the industrial military complex
All TFA talks about is the hours of working, but there are more aspect of work than mere number of hours
If one really enjoys the work one will not treat the work as _work_, but rather something that is FUN - - EXCITING - - REJUVENATING
I have been in the tech field for decades and I keep seeing people who take the task they are assigned with as challenges that they want to overcome getting the job done faster, with more zeal, and produce much better code than those who take whatever they are being tasked with as "burden"
It's not the hour that you put in, it's the fun-quotient that will ultimately determine whether you will excel in the job you are in, or otherwise
In fact, aren't there Muslims in the Knesset?
Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office
Iraq used to have a Christian in the Cabinet - until Uncle Sam killed him
Crytocoins are designed to be de-centralized in order to not be controlled by any dominant party
I wonder how are they going to "regulate" something that is not supposed to be regulate-able ?
How are spammers successful so often? Simple, companies don't train people
As one who has thousands of people working in companies that I either own, co-own, or have invested in, I can tell you that not everyone is trainable
Not that people are stupid - no, as far as I am concern, almost all who are working in the companies I mentioned above are above average in intelligence - but the one thing that is needed the most is not information, rather, it's intuition with a large bit of paranoia mixed in
It takes a paranoid to be suspicious of everything - and in this social-media world that we have today, where everybody shares every bit of their own info to the world - paranoia is becoming a scarce resource
No matter how much info we have shared with our colleagues, no matter how many times we have told them to be ultra careful, you bet someone will get phished, almost in a daily basis, and the local level network will get breached
These days, you don't even have to be a dirty commie, or Chinese, or both, to be Anti-American; the Commander-in-Chief hisself is one
I can't help but wonder if Obama's own dossier is to go through the same expanded terrorist watchlist system would Obama be labeled as one of the terrorists?
Especially when neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" is required
Hope that he has a better luck in unifying Windows than those who wanted to unify Unixes
Our best employees are the ones that have not been through the debt claiming process of getting a degree
Biden is insisting that the H-1B program must go on because it provides a sort of "apprenticeships" to foreigners
Well, I was from China, but am an American and I can speak with the view of a foreigner (the one from China) and that of an American and I can tell you that if America does not stop giving "apprenticeships" to foreigners one day there will be no more jobs for Americans
The old way of giving "apprenticeships" for "foreigners" was the way I got mine - When I landed on the soil of the USA I was a young refugee without a full secondary school education
I had my "apprenticeships" inside America because I had no place to go and after I graduated from college (with no debt, since I worked 3 jobs on the side - sometimes more than 3 jobs - while studying) I worked at American technology companies where I got further training.
After that I started my own companies, sold some of them, and re-invested what I got into other startup and made even more
In other words, while America provided "apprenticeships" for me this former "apprentice" stayed put in America and started businesses in America and created many job opportunities for other Americans
On the other hand, the way H-1B visa program works is that it provides "apprenticeships" for foreigners, and they got back to their own country, taking their skills with them, start up their own businesses in their own countries, create job opportunities for their own people, not Americans
Who loses in this game ?
The Americans
Who win ? The foreigners
Folks, especially you Americans out there --- please top the politicians, no matter from which political party they came from, from destroying America from the inside out
What Biden is doing is to cut out the innards of America and give it to the foreigners
When I was little toddler I was fascinated by an hourglass --- particularly on the almost hidden but still perceivable pattern of a new slide happened on the back of an ancient slide
Many things that we observe, even from something as tiny as the sandslides inside an hourglass, can be magnified many folds, and still hold true
Many of you thinks that TOR is a godsend, that TOR provides you with absolute privacy
But you guys must understand that TOR itself is actually from a project sponsored by Uncle Sam - and its initial usage was to thaw the cyber iron-curtains (something like the Great Firewall of China)
I do use TOR, but I do reckon that there might be a certain "permissible flaw" in it since it is, after all, an Uncle Sam project
Call me a paranoid if you want, but I will never trust Uncle Sam 100%, neither will I trust TOR 100%
And they are brain dead easy to run
I have read too many quotes similar to the above, but there is just a _tiny_ problem - most (if not all) of the people who said that the missile system is easy (or like the above has put it "brain dead easy ") to operate themselves never had any hands-on experience on any of the missile system whatsoever !
The issue is what constitutes a "terrorist" depends on which side you're on
A little baby suffered a horrible death and its (dunno if it's a girl or a boy) remains lie on the ground
Someone took a picture of that little baby and that pic was used as a propaganda tool against another side ...
I was utterly disgusted with the way Ukraine is using this tragedy to further their political agenda - They have utterly no regard for anything, even the dead body of a little baby in their hand becomes a political tool !!
Well, NetFlix could also enter into agreements with ever backbone provider, thereby forcing Verizon to either do the same to everyone or start upgrading
This brings to the question of why Netflix has chosen to deal with Verizon instead of with Level3 directly in the first place ?
Even if Netflix didn't know of the existence of Level3 (which I find too ludicrous to be possible) that they had signed up with Verizon, they could have changed the situation right now by dealing directly with Level3, and why wait anymore ?
A well managed company would be continuously evaluating employees and their work and making adjustments to personnel requirements every month
Microsoft used to be very picky of whom they hire
A legendary (remain un-named) programmer that I know was interviewed by Microsoft back in the mid 1980's but was rejected because at that time Microsoft puts a lot of effort to hire people who can contribute to what they had in mind
That legedary programmer later went on to join Id Software and developed some awesome pixel routine for them, and what he did in Id impressed Intel so much that they hired him to help them in their Larrabee project
But Microsoft changed into a totally different company after Bill Gates stepped down --- and it started to take in all kinds of useless code monkeys (and many more who can't even code!) under their payroll
I have been in the industry for decades and have witness how the companies changed after the founders have left
The industry does not want independent software developers. The industry wants teams of full-time employees.
When I read what you typed I am perplexed
Exactly which industry that you are referring to?
I have had a string of successful investments in many starts-up and will invest more in the future and it is never my intention to change those starts-up into humongous monsters (although if they change by themselves I won't stop them) employing teams and teams of data monkeys
But TFA does contain a nugget a truth, that is, the so-called " Software Renaissance " is long dead - but not because of the mobile platform, rather, it was because of everybody and their granny's second cousin all chasing after the same pot of gold and copy-catting each others
Instead of exploring new fields, instead of coming up with something exciting, so many starts-up went bust trying to re-invent the wheel (and worse, trying to copy-cat the original shape of the wheel and then sell it as their own invention)
The starts-up that I invest in are those which are offering something that I simply do not see much in the marketplace, and yet, the things that they are doing (sometime it's the back-office thing that consumers don't get to see too often) prove to be essential and become de-facto in the respective niche that they have created
But if I were to take a step back, I reckon that what is happening to the mobile platform is a repeat of what had happened to the desktop (and related big-iron) scene --- which is, too many people (including geeks) are too lazy to explore a new field, rather than do something completely new, they tried to "do a better version" of what is already available in the marketplace
There are only so many improvements one can do to a spreadsheet program, for example - as there are only so many "re-invented angry bird" that the market can bare
Having read his rant I gotta admit that I do not understand what that guy is trying to say
I mean, ever since Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage labor over the first software / software combination, each and every follow-up of similar devices had been utilized by a very limited group of people who --
1. Have the interest to learn how the device works
2. Have the intelligence to understand
3. Have the time to do it
Of course, there is another type of 'computer' - the Abacus invented by the Chinese - but that device, unlike the Babbage machine and whatever followup devices it had inspired, - was kinda self-limiting
To most of you guys "plastic is plastic", that's all to it
But the truth is plastic is _more_ than mere plastic --- it is a combination of many types of chemicals, all mixed together to achieve the characteristics of the plastic that it needs to have
To see it another way, a plastic is like a steak. It is definitely _not_ only a piece of beef, but also the sauce (which itself is made of the starchy gravy - which can be broken up to other more basic components, - the flavoring [salt, sugar, spices, and so on]), plus the added chemicals, such as the aromatics (which is largely benzene group) that were formed when that beef was put over the fire
Same thing with plastics - it is not only the acrylic resins, but we also need to account for additives such as the plasticizers, color, elastomers, and so on, plus other chemicals that were produced as a by-product of the mixing of all those chemicals over a "heated process"
When we can eat steaks, the different bacteria inside our guts dissolve different ingredients from the steak that we have eaten
Bacteria are not like human beings - they do not have other bacteria in their guts !
Most often a type of bacterium may be able to digest a type of ingredient within a type of plastic, and that is all to it, which means, the other chemicals inside the plastic are still left intact, not dissolved, not digested, not broken down
As stated by TFA:
They look like the lovechild of Google Glass and the Oculus Rift, providing more information to the wearer than the small window on Google's much-maligned headset but not obstructing vision like the Oculus Rift. ( Admittedly, for spy glasses, they lack a certain subtlety )
If the military can do something like that, so can we
After all, this is what modding is all about