... courtesy of the Democratic Party's paranoia of the Tea Party
... 'm a conservative who once checked out a Tea Party event, so the current administration is definitely notices that. The IRS started calling after I followed a tea party page on Facebook. Might be coincidence...
I'm sure my name pops up on several watchlists -
First, I am from China, that was before I ran away from there and end up in US as a refugee
After reaching US I studied, graduated with some fancy degrees and started my career in high tech fields
I have been 'invited' for 'interviews' several times by 'security people', including FBI, concerning my investments, particularly those in businesses which has direct dealings with defense projects. They are also interested in my businesses abroad, especially branches in 'sensitive regions' such as Africa, Russia and China
With all those 'interviews' getting no where, they finally, through IRS, awarded me with a thorough audit
And oh, I forgot to add, when that too came up empty they tried to frame me by linking me to Chinese triad activities
Can't fault them for trying so hard though...
After all, a minority (Chinese) like me supposed to support the Democratic Party. The problem is I refuse to buy into their bullshit and gave my support to the Tea Party instead
I know how to play the game, after all, I survived the Culture Revolution, where even more brutal 'games' had occurred
... I don't believe that even Enterprise truly turns off the spying...
I can almost be certain that Win 10 Enterprise does not turn off spying
3 of my business offices - one in Singapore, one in the States and one in Africa - we are running parallel experiments on Win 10
We have workstations running Win 10 Enterprises, turning off all the spying option - including the updates - and in the meantime we turned on the sniffers
For the past few months we have encountered _some_ abnormalities - even with all the spying options turned off, Win 10 Enterprise still 'phoned home' - and the data we captured so far are found to be encrypted, so we can't say for sure what kind of data Win 10 enterprise is sending back to its mothership
... If no one in the US has a good job to earn money to buy things with, how is anyone in America going to "consume" anything?...
The above scenario will never happen, because there will always be someone making a lot of money
The point being that the jobs that got outsourced are jobs that are no longer creating enough added value to keep them inside a high-wage location, such as Ohio, USA
Even at Silicon Valley there are jobs that have been outsourced, but if we examine what kind of jobs that had been outsourced and which jobs still remain we will find that the jobs still remain (and are still being created) in America are jobs that are heavy on the side of creativity
Data entry jobs, even some of those so-called 'programming' jobs have become so routine it no longer makes any sense to employ people doing this low-value jobs in America
In other words, if you are Americans and still want to work in America, find yourself a niche, a niche which add a lot of value to what you do, a niche that no one outside of America can easily duplicate, and you will get to enjoy your job as long as what you do creates more money to your employer than what they pay you every month
You guys may not like what I am saying, but we need to face the reality somehow --- this world's competitiveness has heat up tremendously. USA and Europe are no longer the only places in the world where innovations happen
... If he can't convince his own party to put him in a debate, how would he do at convincing congress and senate to support his policies as president?...
By not be able to convince the Democrooks Mr. Lessig already showed the world how corrupt that political party really is
On the other hand, if the Democrooks let Mr. Lessig progress all the way, smooth sailing style, how is the world going to know what those special interest groups inside the Democrook camp is afraid of?
... I feel bad for Chinese people... due to a cultural quirk (the belief that the body needs to be buried whole)...
There have been so many proclamations about what Chinese believe in, how the Chinese culture behaves, how the Chinese 'spell' their names, and so on... it is as though the Americans have somehow become more "Chinese Expert" than the Chinese themselves
I came from China - and as an ethnic Chinese I can tell you that most of the Chinese people are no longer burying their dead - cremation has been the preferred choice for most people in China, except for the moslems
MRI uses a lot of Helium to cool its powerful magnets, and the widespread use of MRI are gobbling up the supply of Helium
Furthermore, only a tiny fraction of Helium has been harvested while most of the Helium are routinely thrown away into the atmosphere along with the burn off of benzene and other aromatic compounds on drilling rigs
They could be that much more productive for their own female folks in the islamic world who are suffering from constant suppressions by their men, than coming to harass the folks in the tech scene
Instead of the tried and true solar panels they opted for a more costly project which uses complicated sounding stuffs like 'heat transfer solution' which has to 'snakes along the trough' and then ended up mixing with water - which in itself a rare commodity in the Moroccan desert - which then 'turns into steam' to power the turbine
Haven't they heard of battery and/or ultra capacitors which can easily store up energy and release it when needed?
Whether the governments like it or not, the use of VPN and encryption is on the rise by businesses around the world
My companies, for example, rely on VPN and encryption for all inter-office data traffic, and if EU starts to de-prioritize VPN and/or encrypted traffic many business communication will be hit
The idea behind free market has always been that whenever there is a buck to be made somebody will endeavor to make it
However, the reality that we live in doesn't work like that --- your exmple of Verizon's acquisition of Alltel which puts further burdens on the consumer, and TFA's WD gobbling up SanDisk are but two of the many examples of how the big corps are fucking up the market place and nobody can do anything about it!
You can list whatever facts you like but at the end of the day the one fact that nobody can deny is that the guy landed his position inside CIA was not based on his ability
No matter if he is a white man or a black man, a high ranking position inside the CIA requires someone who truly _know_ what he or she is doing, that what he does inside the CIA will contribute to the CIA as a whole - not someone who happened to run a fund raising campaign for the POTUS
What happened here signifies what has gone wrong with the government of the United States of America ---
What you know (knowledge, skillset, et cetera) is no longer important
... Actually suicide rates collapse if you take the guns away...
To all the anti-gun nuts -
While I understand that your life is so boring that you just have to go around making up all kinds of silly lies... but please, if you need to lie, please tell lies that are believable !
Do you know that South Korea has a suicide rate which is more than double of that of the United States?
Do you know Japan has a suicide rate of more than 60% higher of that of the United States?
Unlike the Americans, average South Koreans and Japanese don't own guns
A different algorithm developed by yep University of Illinois researchers, also outdo humans in the sense that bots running that algorithm can predict human's next move...
I am not the chicken little type, but with bots which know human better than human know themselves, this could be the start of some very troubling time for the genus Homo sapien Sapien
If I were forced to trust either a used car salesmen or Obama - of course I wouldn't trust either, - but if I _were_ forced to trust one of the two, I would place my trust on the used car salesmen in an instance
... Obama was elected on the promise to address these issues...
I rather be bitten by the most poisonous snakes ever existed than trust any of the words that came out of Obama's mouth
It has nothing to do with race, gender, or party affiliation, it has everything to do with the way Obama has behaved, even before he became the POTUS
Furthermore, the 'leading from behind' event regarding the overthrowing of Gaddafi regime of Libya, Obama was already in charge
Had we not interject ourselves when the Russians were attacking Afghanistan, we wouldn't have the messy mixed up with Pakistan and the mujahideen which morphed into the Taliban, and the super powerful bin laden family
Had we not invade Iraq under false pretense we wouldn't have thousands of our sons and daughters killed / maimed in Iraq - and Islamic State wouldn't have a chance to come into fruition either
Had we not 'leading from the back' in overthrowing the Qaddafi regime of Libya the number of foot soldiers for islamic terrorist network wouldn't be so numerous
... The estimate that it will take centuries is probably what is the farthest off...
The electronic device that we can use to simulate the connectomes are FPGAs, and the time frame largely depends on the r/evolution of FPGA (and the derivatives) that we can come up with, in the future
Since the connections of the connectomes are dynamic, what we need is a type of 'FPGA' which can adjust its connections dynamically without having to go through the re-programmed process
The 'FPGA' in the future does not have to be in silicon, it could be in any other material, so long as it is capable to function in dynamic fashion
If we are able to come out with something which I describe above, we wouldn't have to wait for centuries
... for the vast majority of Chinese citizens, while their economic freedom (and condition) is infinitely better than under Mao, it's still much less than in Europe unless you're very well-connected with the CCP...
Why propels some Westerners to perpetuate this kind of bullshit indefinitely?
I am from China. I ran away from China during the height of Cultural Revolution and ended in America as a refugee
Now the businesses which I run include businesses in China - unlike the author of the above comment, I know what I am talking about
Have you talked to the Romani people (or so called Gypsies) in Europe?
Can you please elucidate how much 'economic freedom' the Romani people get to enjoy, in Europe, vis-a-vis the Chinese in mainland China?
This is Slashdot, a place where we talk facts, not a place for you to perpetuate your bullshit !
Most of the IT admin in China are poorly run, and many of their machines have been compromised - resulting in China IPs keep showing up in many cyberhacking incidents
The problem is that most of the IT staffs in China do not prioritize security - to them as long as the things run they are happy
It boils down to mindset - security / safety isn't something Chinese care too much about
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... courtesy of the Democratic Party's paranoia of the Tea Party
I'm sure my name pops up on several watchlists -
First, I am from China, that was before I ran away from there and end up in US as a refugee
After reaching US I studied, graduated with some fancy degrees and started my career in high tech fields
I have been 'invited' for 'interviews' several times by 'security people', including FBI, concerning my investments, particularly those in businesses which has direct dealings with defense projects. They are also interested in my businesses abroad, especially branches in 'sensitive regions' such as Africa, Russia and China
With all those 'interviews' getting no where, they finally, through IRS, awarded me with a thorough audit
And oh, I forgot to add, when that too came up empty they tried to frame me by linking me to Chinese triad activities
Can't fault them for trying so hard though ...
After all, a minority (Chinese) like me supposed to support the Democratic Party. The problem is I refuse to buy into their bullshit and gave my support to the Tea Party instead
I know how to play the game, after all, I survived the Culture Revolution, where even more brutal 'games' had occurred
I can almost be certain that Win 10 Enterprise does not turn off spying
3 of my business offices - one in Singapore, one in the States and one in Africa - we are running parallel experiments on Win 10
We have workstations running Win 10 Enterprises, turning off all the spying option - including the updates - and in the meantime we turned on the sniffers
For the past few months we have encountered _some_ abnormalities - even with all the spying options turned off, Win 10 Enterprise still 'phoned home' - and the data we captured so far are found to be encrypted, so we can't say for sure what kind of data Win 10 enterprise is sending back to its mothership
The above scenario will never happen, because there will always be someone making a lot of money
The point being that the jobs that got outsourced are jobs that are no longer creating enough added value to keep them inside a high-wage location, such as Ohio, USA
Even at Silicon Valley there are jobs that have been outsourced, but if we examine what kind of jobs that had been outsourced and which jobs still remain we will find that the jobs still remain (and are still being created) in America are jobs that are heavy on the side of creativity
Data entry jobs, even some of those so-called 'programming' jobs have become so routine it no longer makes any sense to employ people doing this low-value jobs in America
In other words, if you are Americans and still want to work in America, find yourself a niche, a niche which add a lot of value to what you do, a niche that no one outside of America can easily duplicate, and you will get to enjoy your job as long as what you do creates more money to your employer than what they pay you every month
You guys may not like what I am saying, but we need to face the reality somehow --- this world's competitiveness has heat up tremendously. USA and Europe are no longer the only places in the world where innovations happen
Your analogy is only partly valid because the so-called 'full text' may not the the real full text !
They have been cheating us for so long, what is there to keep them from cheating us just a little bit longer?
By not be able to convince the Democrooks Mr. Lessig already showed the world how corrupt that political party really is
On the other hand, if the Democrooks let Mr. Lessig progress all the way, smooth sailing style, how is the world going to know what those special interest groups inside the Democrook camp is afraid of?
There have been so many proclamations about what Chinese believe in, how the Chinese culture behaves, how the Chinese 'spell' their names, and so on ... it is as though the Americans have somehow become more "Chinese Expert" than the Chinese themselves
I came from China - and as an ethnic Chinese I can tell you that most of the Chinese people are no longer burying their dead - cremation has been the preferred choice for most people in China, except for the moslems
MRI uses a lot of Helium to cool its powerful magnets, and the widespread use of MRI are gobbling up the supply of Helium
Furthermore, only a tiny fraction of Helium has been harvested while most of the Helium are routinely thrown away into the atmosphere along with the burn off of benzene and other aromatic compounds on drilling rigs
China has recently launched a Helium filled airship that can do the following characteristics:
* Can be parked at the Edge Of Space
* Flies on solar power for up to six months at a time
* Has a constant line of sight over a hundred thousand square miles
* Is reusable
More info on the Helium air ship are available @
http://www.sciencealert.com/th...
http://www.fastcoexist.com/305...
Disclaimer: I submitted a story regarding the Helium airship on 24th, Oct, 2015 to Slashdot but the submission was rejected
Submission info:
http://slashdot.org/submission...
AFAIAC, SJW has no place in the tech sphere
They could be that much more productive for their own female folks in the islamic world who are suffering from constant suppressions by their men, than coming to harass the folks in the tech scene
This project sounds very much like PORK
Instead of the tried and true solar panels they opted for a more costly project which uses complicated sounding stuffs like 'heat transfer solution' which has to 'snakes along the trough' and then ended up mixing with water - which in itself a rare commodity in the Moroccan desert - which then 'turns into steam' to power the turbine
Haven't they heard of battery and/or ultra capacitors which can easily store up energy and release it when needed?
In the David vs Goliath fable David, the little guy, won
In the real world we live in the little guys got crushed, every. single. --freaking-- time
Whether the governments like it or not, the use of VPN and encryption is on the rise by businesses around the world
My companies, for example, rely on VPN and encryption for all inter-office data traffic, and if EU starts to de-prioritize VPN and/or encrypted traffic many business communication will be hit
The idea behind free market has always been that whenever there is a buck to be made somebody will endeavor to make it
However, the reality that we live in doesn't work like that --- your exmple of Verizon's acquisition of Alltel which puts further burdens on the consumer, and TFA's WD gobbling up SanDisk are but two of the many examples of how the big corps are fucking up the market place and nobody can do anything about it!
You can list whatever facts you like but at the end of the day the one fact that nobody can deny is that the guy landed his position inside CIA was not based on his ability
No matter if he is a white man or a black man, a high ranking position inside the CIA requires someone who truly _know_ what he or she is doing, that what he does inside the CIA will contribute to the CIA as a whole - not someone who happened to run a fund raising campaign for the POTUS
What happened here signifies what has gone wrong with the government of the United States of America ---
What you know (knowledge, skillset, et cetera) is no longer important
Who you know, on the other hand ... is !
Video games are just ... games
Isn't game supposed to be fun?
To all the anti-gun nuts -
While I understand that your life is so boring that you just have to go around making up all kinds of silly lies ... but please, if you need to lie, please tell lies that are believable !
Do you know that South Korea has a suicide rate which is more than double of that of the United States?
Do you know Japan has a suicide rate of more than 60% higher of that of the United States?
Unlike the Americans, average South Koreans and Japanese don't own guns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Here is a list of countries with their respective suicide rate
A different algorithm developed by yep University of Illinois researchers, also outdo humans in the sense that bots running that algorithm can predict human's next move ...
http://www.defenseone.com/tech...
I am not the chicken little type, but with bots which know human better than human know themselves, this could be the start of some very troubling time for the genus Homo sapien Sapien
If I were forced to trust either a used car salesmen or Obama - of course I wouldn't trust either, - but if I _were_ forced to trust one of the two, I would place my trust on the used car salesmen in an instance
I rather be bitten by the most poisonous snakes ever existed than trust any of the words that came out of Obama's mouth
It has nothing to do with race, gender, or party affiliation, it has everything to do with the way Obama has behaved, even before he became the POTUS
Furthermore, the 'leading from behind' event regarding the overthrowing of Gaddafi regime of Libya, Obama was already in charge
Had we not interject ourselves when the Russians were attacking Afghanistan, we wouldn't have the messy mixed up with Pakistan and the mujahideen which morphed into the Taliban, and the super powerful bin laden family
Had we not invade Iraq under false pretense we wouldn't have thousands of our sons and daughters killed / maimed in Iraq - and Islamic State wouldn't have a chance to come into fruition either
Had we not 'leading from the back' in overthrowing the Qaddafi regime of Libya the number of foot soldiers for islamic terrorist network wouldn't be so numerous
First, they spied on the peons
Then, they spy on the MPs
Dear Queen Elizabeth, they will spy on you, next !
Don't you know that outsourcing and the H1-B Visas have become the rage nowadays?
Have been reading all the comments and this one makes the most sense...
And say "Let's meet in space, you develop your own methods to get there"...
Why should our land-based politics follow us out there?
Why can't we start anew - you make yours and I make mine and if you and I happen to meet in outer space, we meet as equal
The electronic device that we can use to simulate the connectomes are FPGAs, and the time frame largely depends on the r/evolution of FPGA (and the derivatives) that we can come up with, in the future
Since the connections of the connectomes are dynamic, what we need is a type of 'FPGA' which can adjust its connections dynamically without having to go through the re-programmed process
The 'FPGA' in the future does not have to be in silicon, it could be in any other material, so long as it is capable to function in dynamic fashion
If we are able to come out with something which I describe above, we wouldn't have to wait for centuries
Why propels some Westerners to perpetuate this kind of bullshit indefinitely?
I am from China. I ran away from China during the height of Cultural Revolution and ended in America as a refugee
Now the businesses which I run include businesses in China - unlike the author of the above comment, I know what I am talking about
Have you talked to the Romani people (or so called Gypsies) in Europe?
Can you please elucidate how much 'economic freedom' the Romani people get to enjoy, in Europe , vis-a-vis the Chinese in mainland China?
This is Slashdot, a place where we talk facts, not a place for you to perpetuate your bullshit !
Most of the IT admin in China are poorly run, and many of their machines have been compromised - resulting in China IPs keep showing up in many cyberhacking incidents
The problem is that most of the IT staffs in China do not prioritize security - to them as long as the things run they are happy
It boils down to mindset - security / safety isn't something Chinese care too much about
I know, I am a Chinese