Lee was interviewed on Terry Gross and he defended his human rights violations
I am not here to defend Lee, nor Singapore
All I want to point up is, when you are looking at the map of Singapore, try look at which country is at the North of the island of Singapore
There, you will find a place where Apartheid is still officially sanctioned
If you ever thought that Apartheid is dead when South Africa's racist government collapsed and when Mandela was released from jail, all you need to remember is to point your finger at the map of Singapore, and then, move your finger a bit, to the North
Now, in US hospitals, they have to snoop on their staffs, and then send the video feed to India, where they got many pairs of cheap eyeballs to spot those who have failed to wash their hands
Most device manufacturers do not have a lot of budget on their firmware development, so, what they do is to have a generic-enough firmware developed, then they add and/or delete a couple of options, depending on the price point of their device model, package it as the firmware for that particular model
Back in the olden days when we were using USRobotic dial up modems we used to buy 2400 baud modem and then re-flash them to run at 4800 or even 9600 baud
The magic lantern community has been around for a long time, and I am surprised that Slashdot does not know about them, until now
Liberty Reserve may have laundered 6 Billion, HSBC may have laundered 300 trillion, but all in all, what does that all mean ?
How come governments can "create" new money out of thin air, trillions at a time, and it's all legal, but when Joe-on-the-street did some side jobs and made some money out of it and does not want it to be taxed, they call it "money laundering" ?
It's all about control, it's all about TPTB exerting their control over us
It's a case of the Great Leader can do everything they want to (even to the point of supplying weapons to some groups of seedy people to fight/kill/murder other groups of seedy people) but you, the Joe-on-the-street, don't get to do anything you want because you just ain't nobody
The counterfeit electronics that I know of are things like fake resistors and fake capacitors from China and Vietnam --- and they are all ***BRAND NEW***, not something salvaged from old electronics
I may be wrong here, but I get the impression that the MIPS architecture is much more power efficient than that of the ARM architecture
If they are going to talk about building up a big iron using CPUs which are of high power efficiency, I reckon the MIPS cpu might be more suitable for this task than one from the ARM camp
What we did not know --- and thanks to the IP-scandal, now we know --- is how deadly the lawyers are
The outbreak of this novel coronavirus is at least (so far) somewhat contained --- what I am afraid is, and what all others should too, is that, next time, when there is an outbreak of a far more virulent virus, which spread very fast worldwide, will the world still allowing these deadly lawyers ram their law books into the medical research labs ?
Question: Within the context of quantum mechanic, what is the behavior of TIME ?
What I read from TFA is that they observe a certain particle at the before time frame, and then compare it with another particle at the after time frame, and found some "entanglement"
What if the experiment is carried out on the reverse --- someone checking out a particle at the after time frame and then, some others compare it with another particle at the before time frame and see if they entangle or not
I do understand that experiment that I have just described can't not happen with the limited technology that we have, for the after can not happen _before_ the before
That's why I am falling back to my original question --- what is the behavior of TIME within the context of quantum mechanic ?
What they didn't make public is that the hackers have also accessed a database containing information about court-issued surveillance orders that enabled law enforcement agencies to monitor email accounts belonging to diplomats, suspected spies and terrorists.
... and anybody else, as long as the authority can label them "potential threats"
I haven't used DART yet, so I will not comment on the strength or the weakness of it
But, all through the decades that I've been in the scene, there have been so many programming languages invented, but so few of them being used
Some of the more widely used programming languages like C, for instance, are not perfect, but they are being used partly because of legacy, partly because of momentum, and partly because of the laziness of programmers to learn new, more useful languages
Talking about legacy, the other day there was a piece on Cobol, and that IBM is trying to extend Cobol to the cloudsphere
As for the languages that are not so-widely used, some of them are downright weird, but then, there are gems among them. The only downside for those few gems is that the ecology is not there to enable those few gems to become more widespread
I guess it's kinda Darwinian game plan --- not all surviving/thriving species are perfect, and not all the extinct species are bad, either
Change is only good if it's an improvement. Otherwise, change is BAD, even if it's just as good as the old thing.
What is missing on the above is the willingness to try out the new stuffs
Giving the new stuffs a try out does not mean throwing out the old things altogether - but we need to have the willingness to try out the new stuffs, get a taste of it, and only after that, we can make up our own mind whether or not we need to change
If we do not even try out the new stuffs, how are we to know if the new stuff is better, or worse ?
Once someone successfully build a computer that can simulate 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connection all at the same time, someone else will build an even bigger computer that can do 10x as much, and then someone will attempt to up that... ad nauseum
What will happen then, when the computer we build is 100x or even 1,000,000x more capable than our brain ?
Before the smartphone became the "in-thang" for the ghetto boyz, it was fat gold chains, brand-name sport shoes, and jackets that were the rage
People were robbed and sometimes killed over a pair of shoes back then
I still do not understand why they need to go for the "fist-in-yer-faze" routine when Al Sharpton could have asked Apple Inc to give them ghetto boyz free iPhones
i see this story as being a GOOD thing, generally speaking. the feds are stumped by my iphone. now the only people we need to cockblock are in cupertino
The question is, how ?
The Apple platform is a closed platform, and they closely guard against any attempt to change their products (even after we have purchased them with our own money)
Until now, there is no way to safeguard our secret stored in i-Device from the prying eyes of Apple Inc
Carnivore may have been around for 15 years, but that does not mean that the act of monitoring per se can be carried out without a proper court warrant --- until now
What really kills innovation is the management's blind push to squeeze the last penny out of existing products
Instead of making improvement, instead of thinking out of the box, instead of innovating --- the bottom-line minded management prefer to "squeez another drop of blood out of what we are producing" instead of pumping money into more R & D, or give the "crazy ideas" a try
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Lee was interviewed on Terry Gross and he defended his human rights violations
I am not here to defend Lee, nor Singapore
All I want to point up is, when you are looking at the map of Singapore, try look at which country is at the North of the island of Singapore
There, you will find a place where Apartheid is still officially sanctioned
If you ever thought that Apartheid is dead when South Africa's racist government collapsed and when Mandela was released from jail, all you need to remember is to point your finger at the map of Singapore, and then, move your finger a bit, to the North
Something is very wrong somewhere
First, in UK hospitals, the following happened ...
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/uk-allows-muslim-nurses-to-not-wash-to-protect-their-modest-t87289.html
Now, in US hospitals, they have to snoop on their staffs, and then send the video feed to India, where they got many pairs of cheap eyeballs to spot those who have failed to wash their hands
What has actually happened to common sense ?
Most device manufacturers do not have a lot of budget on their firmware development, so, what they do is to have a generic-enough firmware developed, then they add and/or delete a couple of options, depending on the price point of their device model, package it as the firmware for that particular model
Back in the olden days when we were using USRobotic dial up modems we used to buy 2400 baud modem and then re-flash them to run at 4800 or even 9600 baud
The magic lantern community has been around for a long time, and I am surprised that Slashdot does not know about them, until now
Liberty Reserve may have laundered 6 Billion, HSBC may have laundered 300 trillion, but all in all, what does that all mean ?
How come governments can "create" new money out of thin air, trillions at a time, and it's all legal, but when Joe-on-the-street did some side jobs and made some money out of it and does not want it to be taxed, they call it "money laundering" ?
It's all about control, it's all about TPTB exerting their control over us
It's a case of the Great Leader can do everything they want to (even to the point of supplying weapons to some groups of seedy people to fight/kill/murder other groups of seedy people) but you, the Joe-on-the-street, don't get to do anything you want because you just ain't nobody
Do you know what you are talking about, sir ?
"Counterfeit electronics" ?
The counterfeit electronics that I know of are things like fake resistors and fake capacitors from China and Vietnam --- and they are all ***BRAND NEW***, not something salvaged from old electronics
I may be wrong here, but I get the impression that the MIPS architecture is much more power efficient than that of the ARM architecture
If they are going to talk about building up a big iron using CPUs which are of high power efficiency, I reckon the MIPS cpu might be more suitable for this task than one from the ARM camp
The novel coronoavirus are deadly, we know that
What we did not know --- and thanks to the IP-scandal, now we know --- is how deadly the lawyers are
The outbreak of this novel coronavirus is at least (so far) somewhat contained --- what I am afraid is, and what all others should too, is that, next time, when there is an outbreak of a far more virulent virus, which spread very fast worldwide, will the world still allowing these deadly lawyers ram their law books into the medical research labs ?
That will fasten the pace in which virgin forest disappears and be replaced by farmland / mining activities
Question: Within the context of quantum mechanic, what is the behavior of TIME ?
What I read from TFA is that they observe a certain particle at the before time frame, and then compare it with another particle at the after time frame, and found some "entanglement"
What if the experiment is carried out on the reverse --- someone checking out a particle at the after time frame and then, some others compare it with another particle at the before time frame and see if they entangle or not
I do understand that experiment that I have just described can't not happen with the limited technology that we have, for the after can not happen _before_ the before
That's why I am falling back to my original question --- what is the behavior of TIME within the context of quantum mechanic ?
Can an "after" happen _before_ a "before" ?
I learn something new today. Thanks !
BTW, looking at the picture ( @ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Curiosity_wheel_pattern_morse_code.png ) I am totally surprised at the sheer thinness of Curiosity's wheel !
How can they expect Curiosity to last long with such thin wheel ??
What they didn't make public is that the hackers have also accessed a database containing information about court-issued surveillance orders that enabled law enforcement agencies to monitor email accounts belonging to diplomats, suspected spies and terrorists.
Welcome to 1984, man !!
I haven't used DART yet, so I will not comment on the strength or the weakness of it
But, all through the decades that I've been in the scene, there have been so many programming languages invented, but so few of them being used
Some of the more widely used programming languages like C, for instance, are not perfect, but they are being used partly because of legacy, partly because of momentum, and partly because of the laziness of programmers to learn new, more useful languages
Talking about legacy, the other day there was a piece on Cobol, and that IBM is trying to extend Cobol to the cloudsphere
As for the languages that are not so-widely used, some of them are downright weird, but then, there are gems among them. The only downside for those few gems is that the ecology is not there to enable those few gems to become more widespread
I guess it's kinda Darwinian game plan --- not all surviving/thriving species are perfect, and not all the extinct species are bad, either
I enjoy change -- sometimes even for its own sake.
You and I have come a long way, buddy
I do not change, for change sake
But I do enjoy trying out new things, and only then, I get to decide whether or not there is a need for me to change
For example, when Facebook first came out, I gave it a try, and decided that it wasn't for me
No matter how much stuffs FB has added since then, I won't force myself to change, just for the sake of changing
Change is only good if it's an improvement. Otherwise, change is BAD, even if it's just as good as the old thing.
What is missing on the above is the willingness to try out the new stuffs
Giving the new stuffs a try out does not mean throwing out the old things altogether - but we need to have the willingness to try out the new stuffs, get a taste of it, and only after that, we can make up our own mind whether or not we need to change
If we do not even try out the new stuffs, how are we to know if the new stuff is better, or worse ?
'Maybe we should change the rules around insurance so that they have to insure people,' Larry Page said."
Yes, we can have the rules changed, but then, they too can change the rules
If we are too force the insurance to accept all people, they can make their insurance policy so expensive that only the rich can afford
After all, who is in business to make a lost ?
Once someone successfully build a computer that can simulate 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connection all at the same time, someone else will build an even bigger computer that can do 10x as much, and then someone will attempt to up that ... ad nauseum
What will happen then, when the computer we build is 100x or even 1,000,000x more capable than our brain ?
Everybody hates Facebook - they only use it because everyone else does and they have to use it to keep in touch
I won't say everybody hates Facebook
I do not hate Facebook, but that does not translate to mean I have to use Facebook
I do not
There's a ghost in my house that makes a lot of noise
And it moves around
Since it's "transparent" I can't "see" it
Now, with this gadget I got to "see" where it's making the noise that it's making
Before the smartphone became the "in-thang" for the ghetto boyz, it was fat gold chains, brand-name sport shoes, and jackets that were the rage
People were robbed and sometimes killed over a pair of shoes back then
I still do not understand why they need to go for the "fist-in-yer-faze" routine when Al Sharpton could have asked Apple Inc to give them ghetto boyz free iPhones
Usually it's easier to simply pay your taxes
Oh yes, I paid my taxes
The $64 trillion dollar question is --- How much tax should I pay ?
Especially when my tax money is being used for purposes that I find wanting
i see this story as being a GOOD thing, generally speaking. the feds are stumped by my iphone. now the only people we need to cockblock are in cupertino
The question is, how ?
The Apple platform is a closed platform, and they closely guard against any attempt to change their products (even after we have purchased them with our own money)
Until now, there is no way to safeguard our secret stored in i-Device from the prying eyes of Apple Inc
Carnivore may have been around for 15 years, but that does not mean that the act of monitoring per se can be carried out without a proper court warrant --- until now
I have some site running lighttpd, others I run G-Wan
Is G-Wan affected ?
Thanks in advance for any tips that you can share with us.
Thanks again !!
If the idiots are dumb enough to throw out new PCs because of a virus infection, they most certainly are too dumb to install anything but Windows
I don't think that they are dumb
Actually, they are smart
1. It ain't their money --- the money is from the gummint
2. By throwing the thing away they save all the effort to reformat the disk and to re-install the Windows OS, plus softwares
3. With the computer dumped, they will get to enjoy newer computers --- again, the money came from the gummint
Marketing does not kill innovation
What really kills innovation is the management's blind push to squeeze the last penny out of existing products
Instead of making improvement, instead of thinking out of the box, instead of innovating --- the bottom-line minded management prefer to "squeez another drop of blood out of what we are producing" instead of pumping money into more R & D, or give the "crazy ideas" a try