*shrug* Not everyone can do math or science or become literary experts or, hell, home economics, but we teach all those. It's just a fundamental part of a market economy that goes shockingly untaught.
Almost everyone could do math or science or literature or home ec at the high school level, given proper teaching. Very few can found and build a successful business, regardless of education.
Fiat is the last thing that can do any of that, whenever it rises, it eventually falls. The thing holds value relative to other commodities (barring changes in production output) is gold.
Gold is a somewhat uncommon soft metal. It has several properties which make it useful as money, but there's nothing about it that makes it "real money". As with all other commodities, its price has gone up and down relative to other commodities. Viewed as a useful metal, its price is likely inflated precisely because people feel it is somehow real money.
Fiat money from the Federal Reserve is backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government. Said flowery phrase basically meaning "naked force".
One thing to do is give a good grounding, starting in middle school, on how to take and idea and develop it into something that becomes real. Teach them how to start a business and create jobs and run a company in a responsible manner. There was nothing even close to that when I was in school.
Like being a politician, it's not one of those things everyone can do. It can only be done by those who can convince people to take risks on them. Investors, to risk their money, and employees to risk the instability of working for a startup.
who would want to print photographs on a inkjet when the print shop downstairs prints in better quality and at roughly the same cost/picture
Because they don't. Prints from the print shop look like crap, and they charge out the wazoo for anything bigger than 4" x 6". Prints on the Canon Pro 9000 are great if expensive. Prints from mpix are also great and similarly priced, but the turnaround time is much greater.
From what I hear from my friends (one of whom used to program for defense embedded systems), it is all like that. Terrible platforms, terrible code, security through obscurity (if that), etc.
There's no practical way to defend the embedded system from the device which programs it. So while it's true that the tools use to program embedded systems are often primitive, it has little to do with attacking them.
The fact that the video signals from some of our drones are broadcast unencrypted over the air?
IIRC, that was due to A) A shortage of hardware in the field to decrypt the encrypted video and B) A lack of enemy capability to exploit the unencrypted video.
3.8% excess of boys. Trot forward 30 years or so, and we have a population with about 60 MILLION men with no prospects of reproduction. Trust me, that will have consequences, for their society and the world as a whole.
Time to introduce extreme sports into China. Bungee jumping. Skydiving. Rock climbing, that sort of thing. The equipment, of course, will not be the same stuff used in most countries... instead, it'll be made domestically by the same companies that make knockoff handbags and electronics.
Also, a legal trick here in the US might help out over there. If you address an officer of the court (a cop), telling him that he's an asshole, he can file charges against you. However, if you use the prefix, "In my opinion, you're being an asshole!" he can't do anything. It's a matter of stating an opinion, versus phrasing the same thing as a fact.
This is nonsense. In the US, calling a cop an asshole is protected speech regardless of whether you preface it with "in my opinion". However, the result either way is likely to be a beatdown, followed by charges of disorderly conduct and (if the cop is feeling especially grouchy) assault on a police officer (for any defense, including protecting yourself or merely obeying the Fermi exclusion principle, you may have put up during the beatdown).
I would say that it in fact hurts you in your attempt to get a job, but not because people see it and are repelled. The problem is that CS is a job degree. It's not science. It's like going to a technical school and studying wielding or diesel truck repair. It implies that
a. you were worried about getting a job after college, which implies a lack of self confidence in the first place, which is an indicator (though not a perfect indicator) that you were substandard in the first place./blockquote
A +5 Insightful for a blatant troll. Well done.
Colbert, like many of our weird English spellings, is French.
Fine. But Worcester (pronounced "wooster" or "woosta") and Taliaferro (pronounced "throatwarbler mangrove", err, no, actually "tolliver") have no similar excuse.
First of all, don't you realize every time you make a joke about "anal probes" at the airport, you're being not-so-subtly homophobic?
Nonsense; it's a reference to bodily violation which works no matter what your gender and orientation. Just because a man is gay doesn't mean he wants the TSA up his ass.
NSS decided to play it safe, they weren't forced to do anything. It's called responsible disclosure, and when Siemens gets their products fixed, it will be released.
Disclosure delayed is disclosure which doesn't happen.
You, my familial-basement-dwelling troll, assume coercion and conspiracy is how everything gets done by three-letter agencies.
When you have the kind of power they have, coercion IS how everything gets done. When they "ask", refusal always has serious negative consequences whether express or implied.
Apparently, you haven't been studying the spectra of any light sources. Sure, you may have a personal bias towards the familiar incandescent spectrum (most people do), but you'd be surprised as to what colors the various technologies of lamps are emitting these days. LED lights are being manufactured with phosphor coatings that can modify the color spectrum dramatically.
Yes. What they can't do is provide a decent approximation of a blackbody spectrum.
First, you have an incorrect notion that incandescents are not the closest to "natural" light. They're further from sunlight than just about any other common lighting technology, apart from candle light. They have a more red spectrum than other artificial light sources, and the balance is uneven.
It's true that they have more red than other artificial light sources. The balance, however, is not uneven. They have a color rendering index of 100, on a scale of 0 to 100.
However, we humans do find their color pleasant and comforting (probably because they're close to firelight.) A mix of 3300K and 4000K fluorescent tubes comes surprisingly close to incandescent, provides a broad wash of bright light, and you would probably find them similarly pleasing
It's not the color temperature that's at issue. It's the color rendering index. Our eyes tend to adapt to different color temperatures. But bad CRI means things under fluorescent lights look weird; their colors aren't right. A mix of 3300K and 4000K fluorescent tubes is quite far from incandescent. First of all, typical incandescent light has a color temperature from 2800 to 3000K, so your warm fluorescent is already too cool. Second, mixing bulbs light that does sometimes fill in spectral gaps, but it also causes odd multicolored shadows and the bulbs themselves look blue and red.
Most people who don't have a dog in the fight think that justifying every action by congress as part of the interstate commerce clause is something of a stretch, but see how far that's gotten us?
That's true, but on the other hand, here for once is something which clearly IS interstate commerce.
I suspect that there is a reason why Bezos sells stuff on the internet, rather than practicing constitutional law. If I've been following the case correctly, the states demanding action are states where Amazon has a business presence and a customer.
Some states are claiming having an "affiliate" (which is basically a vendor, providing them with advertising in return for a cut of the sale) in a state is sufficient to have a business presence in that state, as if the affiliate were an employee based in that state. That's some pretty dodgy reasoning on the states' parts. However, Texas demanding Amazon collect TX sales taxes when Amazon had a warehouse in Texas was perfectly reasonable within existing precedent.
I'm more surprised that this guy went out and said it, and we are hearing about this, instead of the news itself. What happened to the binding paperwork and consequences?
He's 67 and in poor health. He may figure there's little they can do to him.
All law can be prone to abuse. Disorderly conduct laws are, perhaps, more prone to abuse than some, but I'm not sure they're more prone to abuse than, say, those laws that enable city councils to set up "special improvement districts."
Coming up with another example of a law prone to abuse doesn't make the disorderly conduct law any less bad.
Would you rather the police use this law, giving the boy in question a chance to say, in court, that it was not significantly worse behavior than what the mayor's (member of the city concil's, etc.) son was doing,...
That doesn't actually happen. The mayor's son isn't on trial, and his actions will not therefore be admissible in the boy's disorderly conduct trial. His defenses will effectively be limited to "My actions didn't comprise the elements of the crime" and "The First Amendment protects me from prosecution for these actions". Trial courts generally don't give a shit about the First Amendment, so that latter one will be a subject for appeal at best. Most likely it won't come to trial, because the boy will be unable to afford a defense and will be pressured into accepting whatever deal the prosecution offers.
or would you rather that the parents run screaming to the legislatures demanding that new laws be made to keep people from being disorderly, or rude, or even just not politically correct on the internet?
The latter. And then the legislatures should say "no". And if the legislatures don't say "no", the courts should say "no".
You seem to forget EU has been living under these kind of laws for more than a decade and the sky hasn't still fallen over our heads.
It's among one of the older tricks in the book to pass a law which cannot reasonably be followed to the letter, typically enforce it in a reasonable way, but then bring the hammer of selective strict enforcement down later.
>A company must get written consent by letter, fax, or email for the collection of data.
Fucking awesome.
You just typed their website address. Their server logged your IP address (which for the sake of argument is your personal static IP). Illegal!
You then registered for a forum on that website, entering your name and email address. Illegal!
You tried to buy something, giving out your credit card number. Illegal!
One last thought here is that everyone needs to be able to show proof that he is legally using MS Office. And in big organizations licenses (although they might have MS site licenses) are a headache. How come that they cannot put a similar amount of energy into keeping track how they come to have my data?
No big organization using Microsoft products (unless they have a blanket unlimited site license, and I didn't think Microsoft did that) could survive a BSA audit unscathed; the BSAs standards are just ridiculously high. For instance, were they to audit a Wells Fargo bank branch and find Microsoft products purchased under the name of Wachovia Bank, they would declare this to be a violation. It isn't, of course, but they'd say so. But the chance of an audit is low, and the price of paying off the BSA for a few piddling non-violations is fairly small (for a large company).
Privacy laws like these have some of the same issues, in that it's impossible to perfectly follow them to the letter while still conducting business. The difference is the consequences are much higher. Since it's China and India I assume that bribing your way out is still possible, but the price is much higher and if you offer too low, you could end up dead (particularly in China).
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Almost everyone could do math or science or literature or home ec at the high school level, given proper teaching. Very few can found and build a successful business, regardless of education.
Gold is a somewhat uncommon soft metal. It has several properties which make it useful as money, but there's nothing about it that makes it "real money". As with all other commodities, its price has gone up and down relative to other commodities. Viewed as a useful metal, its price is likely inflated precisely because people feel it is somehow real money.
Fiat money from the Federal Reserve is backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government. Said flowery phrase basically meaning "naked force".
I'm guessing this wasn't the building in Lebanon he was referring to.
Like being a politician, it's not one of those things everyone can do. It can only be done by those who can convince people to take risks on them. Investors, to risk their money, and employees to risk the instability of working for a startup.
Because they don't. Prints from the print shop look like crap, and they charge out the wazoo for anything bigger than 4" x 6". Prints on the Canon Pro 9000 are great if expensive. Prints from mpix are also great and similarly priced, but the turnaround time is much greater.
Thanks to the efforts of Levy Strauss and Ray Kroc, quite a few.
There's no practical way to defend the embedded system from the device which programs it. So while it's true that the tools use to program embedded systems are often primitive, it has little to do with attacking them.
IIRC, that was due to
A) A shortage of hardware in the field to decrypt the encrypted video and
B) A lack of enemy capability to exploit the unencrypted video.
Time to introduce extreme sports into China. Bungee jumping. Skydiving. Rock climbing, that sort of thing. The equipment, of course, will not be the same stuff used in most countries... instead, it'll be made domestically by the same companies that make knockoff handbags and electronics.
If the structure's in tension, buckling usually isn't an issue. Weird cases like this nothwithstanding.
You mean unobtainium is really Bondo?
This is nonsense. In the US, calling a cop an asshole is protected speech regardless of whether you preface it with "in my opinion". However, the result either way is likely to be a beatdown, followed by charges of disorderly conduct and (if the cop is feeling especially grouchy) assault on a police officer (for any defense, including protecting yourself or merely obeying the Fermi exclusion principle, you may have put up during the beatdown).
Lots. State machines are pretty common.
Fine. But Worcester (pronounced "wooster" or "woosta") and Taliaferro (pronounced "throatwarbler mangrove", err, no, actually "tolliver") have no similar excuse.
Nonsense; it's a reference to bodily violation which works no matter what your gender and orientation. Just because a man is gay doesn't mean he wants the TSA up his ass.
Disclosure delayed is disclosure which doesn't happen.
When you have the kind of power they have, coercion IS how everything gets done. When they "ask", refusal always has serious negative consequences whether express or implied.
Oh really?
Was the Fourth Amendment repealed? No? Then the law is without authority.
Yes. What they can't do is provide a decent approximation of a blackbody spectrum.
It's true that they have more red than other artificial light sources. The balance, however, is not uneven. They have a color rendering index of 100, on a scale of 0 to 100.
It's not the color temperature that's at issue. It's the color rendering index. Our eyes tend to adapt to different color temperatures. But bad CRI means things under fluorescent lights look weird; their colors aren't right. A mix of 3300K and 4000K fluorescent tubes is quite far from incandescent. First of all, typical incandescent light has a color temperature from 2800 to 3000K, so your warm fluorescent is already too cool. Second, mixing bulbs light that does sometimes fill in spectral gaps, but it also causes odd multicolored shadows and the bulbs themselves look blue and red.
Darkness: The New Standard.
(roughly adapted from the canonical Microsoft lightbulb joke)
That's true, but on the other hand, here for once is something which clearly IS interstate commerce.
Some states are claiming having an "affiliate" (which is basically a vendor, providing them with advertising in return for a cut of the sale) in a state is sufficient to have a business presence in that state, as if the affiliate were an employee based in that state. That's some pretty dodgy reasoning on the states' parts. However, Texas demanding Amazon collect TX sales taxes when Amazon had a warehouse in Texas was perfectly reasonable within existing precedent.
He's 67 and in poor health. He may figure there's little they can do to him.
Coming up with another example of a law prone to abuse doesn't make the disorderly conduct law any less bad.
That doesn't actually happen. The mayor's son isn't on trial, and his actions will not therefore be admissible in the boy's disorderly conduct trial. His defenses will effectively be limited to "My actions didn't comprise the elements of the crime" and "The First Amendment protects me from prosecution for these actions". Trial courts generally don't give a shit about the First Amendment, so that latter one will be a subject for appeal at best. Most likely it won't come to trial, because the boy will be unable to afford a defense and will be pressured into accepting whatever deal the prosecution offers.
The latter. And then the legislatures should say "no". And if the legislatures don't say "no", the courts should say "no".
It's among one of the older tricks in the book to pass a law which cannot reasonably be followed to the letter, typically enforce it in a reasonable way, but then bring the hammer of selective strict enforcement down later.
You just typed their website address. Their server logged your IP address (which for the sake of argument is your personal static IP). Illegal! You then registered for a forum on that website, entering your name and email address. Illegal! You tried to buy something, giving out your credit card number. Illegal!
No big organization using Microsoft products (unless they have a blanket unlimited site license, and I didn't think Microsoft did that) could survive a BSA audit unscathed; the BSAs standards are just ridiculously high. For instance, were they to audit a Wells Fargo bank branch and find Microsoft products purchased under the name of Wachovia Bank, they would declare this to be a violation. It isn't, of course, but they'd say so. But the chance of an audit is low, and the price of paying off the BSA for a few piddling non-violations is fairly small (for a large company).
Privacy laws like these have some of the same issues, in that it's impossible to perfectly follow them to the letter while still conducting business. The difference is the consequences are much higher. Since it's China and India I assume that bribing your way out is still possible, but the price is much higher and if you offer too low, you could end up dead (particularly in China).