2 billion seems like a lot of money to sink into a gaming headset....Think more about where you could go from where the product is now, and think that other companies are doing that is similar.
*COUGH**COUGH* GOOGLE GLASS
Facebook wants to compete with Google. They think Glass is the next iPad, and are trying to get in the game.
If you look at history, most 'empires' lasted about 200 to 400 years before they imploded, became irrelevant, or were burned to ashes by the neighboring states. The US is a bit over 200 years old, so we are probably shortly due a revolution or invasion, statistically speaking.
The sad thing is, is when it happens, the mouth breathing anti-government radicals will insist that 'they knew it was bound to happen, because gay black heathens have taken over the gubbermint, and baby Jeebuz wanted to see them burn.'
(Of course they are technically right, because Baby Jeebuz was a 8 foot long monitor lizard with pyrokinesis.)
Just because botnets aren't efficient doesn't mean they aren't worth running. Stolen CPU time is free, so some profit is still free profit. I mean, if logic and reason governed criminal activity, 95% of it wouldn't even exist.
"At a huge cost to Americans". Does inflation 'cost' anything? It erodes the value of money, but it also erodes the value of debt. 23% Inflation is lousy if you have a lot of money saved up, but it is great if you just took on a huge fixed rate loan. While inflation could create short term money flow chaos, it doesn't really affect the intrinsic value of production. I would say that the problem would be a predictable system changing faster than people are used to.
Russia or China couldn't create that much chaos by cashing in all at once. Likely there would be a slight dip in the value of the dollar, and then everyone else in the world would swoop in an buy it all up at a bargain price to make a killing after the dollar stabilized.
Aside: good to know that the US doesn't have a monopoly on blowhard nationalist idiots like Limbaugh.
Polygraphs do not test for nervousness. They measure baseline physiological stats and monitor for changes. Anything conclusions you draw from that data is pure conjecture. What would it mean if respiration slowed 3%, perspiration increased 2% and blood pressure held steady? Are they nervous? Starting to relax, but feeling warm? Starting to tense up? Having a mild attack of angina?
I mock your claims further:
I can burn chicken bones to detect lies. To claim that the ash patterns could never detect a lie is just flat out wrong.
Sure. That means they are imperfect. It does NOT mean their results have "no connection" to lying. Burned chicken bones are not perfect. Their accuracy is far below the "reasonable doubt" threshold needed for evidence in court. But to extrapolate from that and claim that they don't work at all is nonsense. They are "good enough" for preliminary screening.
Hey, flipping coins will get you 50% accuracy, so a polygraph is at least that good, right? Can you at least find a study that that proves that?
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
I believe that god is seventeen giant, 65 foot long orange lizards, all who are named 'Ralph'. They have mile long, glittering prehensile cocks that drag behind them. Ralph^17 will sail invisibly across the sky once per hour, where all humans on the planet must turn to the South, and bow while chanting, 'Rubber Button' for one minute in order to avoid Ralph's divine and righteous wrath. His son is a stop sign three miles south of Yuma, and all who are able must journey to see him once in their life, lest they be dammed to spend Christmas vacation in New Jersey for all eternity. I demand the same respect that these goofy christian mono-godders get, up to and including wording on American money acknowledging Ralph^17's almighty farts. BOW, HEATHENS!
I mock you sir, for failing to respect that some people's perspective and beliefs are that 'invisible shit isn't real, and that you should call out the Emperor as naked when he is'.
No they don't. They don't detect lies. They detect changes in the subjects physiology, which has no connection to if the subject is lying. If the subject is nervous about the questions being asked because, say, they are worried about failing the test and losing their job
Moreover, because they are relied upon as a method to detect lies, the real professional spies know how to defeat them. There were a couple of famous cases of Russian spies a decade or so back who passed all the polygraph tests they were administered, and got into quite a bit of classified material.
Trusting them for anything is foolish. They will give you false positives and they don't catch the people who they really need to catch lying. You may as well just brun some chicken bones and read the ashes.
You should go read up on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. What they did might qualify as a violation of that act, in that they might have been intercepting information w/o knowledge or consent. Having worked with digital certs, I can say that most people, (even tech savvy ones) usually don't understand the first thing about CAs and how they work, so 'accidentally' installing a root CA all over the place sounds like a typical n00b maneuver. Hard to say what their intent was. Further, when they changed the network policy, that might qualify as evidence tampering, depending on what they did and how they did it.
Someone (either the cops or the school board) should investigate what the hell was going on.
One thing that the OP said that I found to be kind of disconcerting: FXcop was a pretty crappy tool. it could spot some odd code patterns in syntax, but it cannot detect 'good' code. I could implement a bubble sort function that FXcop would give a giant gold star to. Weird syntax might be worth looking at to see if there is underlying problems, but that is about it.
This is kind of an interesting number. I have have found a vast majority of the mobile games to be utter trash, that attempt to cash in on in game purchases while failing to implement a set of solid basic game mechanics. I would gladly drop $30 (or more) just to play a good mobile game that wasn't a poorly concealed slot machine. I wonder if the general shitty state of mobile gaming is causing a disproportionate number of players to not spend cash, or it is just the nature of people being cheap when it comes to 'free' apps. ('I am not going going to spend money on a game that is free', or 'I am not going to pay to win')
As an aside, the 'Freemium' model is really the scourge of the industry right now, with devs looking for easy ways to extract more money from the player base while providing no real product in return.There are a few people who do it right (WoT, LoL, and TF, for example) and a huge pack of greedy shills who are following in their footsteps.
A lot of the free to play model games basically let you pay to win, does this 0.15% number line up with the percent of the general population that is incapable of delaying gratification? I bet you could correlate this number with the result of some psychology study on the topic.....
Your comments about it being religious in nature are interesting; I always thought that religion's traditional hatred of homosexuality gave it's adherents' an excuse to voice their petty hatred. "It's ok to hate faggots, because the Bible says so."
Religion is a great thing though, don't get me wrong. I love big shiny gold crosses worn as jewelry. It makes it easy for me to spot those primitive, savage idiots and stay the hell way from them. "I believe in invisible shit that nobody has ever even seen, Dhurrrrrrrrrr!"
A number of software companies are designed around the flat org structure, which is an interesting way of running things. Another idea is a rock-paper-scissors approach where no group has ultimate authority.
Ah everyone else is doing it, well that makes it ok....
One of the old 'rules' of espionage is that everybody spies, everybody knows everybody spies, and nobody talks about it. (everybody in this case, being national intelligence services). By creating such a massive systems that was bound to be discovered, the NSA has torpedoed US national interests in a spectacular fashion. Nobody trusts the US to behave as an altruistic custodian of the Internet now, and they have caused untold billions of dollars of economic damage to US companies. Ironically, it is quite likely that national networks will become more secure, making it harder to do any spying in cases where it might really be important. I have no problem at all in spying on anyone who isn't American, at least when it isn't a billion dollar waste of time tracking all the calls of Dutch house wives, French bus drivers, and Australian auto mechanics. They have created all sorts of mechanisms to get around the letter of the law preventing them from spying on their own citizens, in order to track Muslims who are brown skinned, most of whom just happen to not be connected to terrorist groups.
Basically these stupid NSA fucks got greedy and have killed the golden goose, and shredded no end of domestic laws to do it.
I think/. probably lost closely identifies with Libertarian ideals, with progressive social policy. Personally I can't stand half the libertarians I meet because they are just conservatives that are just a little less stupid than the average neocon troll.
I am a little fuzzy here, are you calling Snowden a traitor, for pointing out the vast, incredibly illegal spying program that has massively damaged US diplomatic and economic interests, or the NSA? Please clarify who needs to be shot....
Ah, no one can take constructive criticism anymore. I thought you would appreciate the chance to learn the correct term. I also thought you might appreciate that I waited until the end to mention this in passing rather than attempting to provoke an emotional response by taunting you. Would you have preferred I had left it to the AC trolls to just mock you and let you learn of your mistake that way? Well, I see from other posts that they delivered on that count...
Regardless, the correct form is easy to remember because "capital" refers to the head (e.g. "per capita")... ergo, "punishment on the head".
I am quite aware of the meanings of the words, and how they differ. I care not what an AC posts, they aren't worth reading let alone responding to, and nobody posting to an Internet forum is going to hurt my feelings. Constructive criticism might be to re-read messages before posting them; simply pointing out spelling and grammar errors makes a person sound like a jerk who is interested in form over content. Are you trying to debate ideas and logic, or spell check a third grade writing essay?
Because you have already conceded that death is an appropriate punishment in the case of evil...
Interesting choice of words....I am not sure that I would say that death is an appropriate punishment. I would say that it is an excellent way to protect society from re-offence. But, really, is is an appropriate punishment? I think we both agree that life in prison is definitely crueler, if death is simply oblivion, and not some sort of a delusional gateway to a religious afterlife of just punishment. An appropriate punishment might be being forced to get to know their victim intimately, and come to know and understand the person that they killed and the loss they inflicted on society as a result. Barring some sort alien technology that forces empathy on a killer, I am content with flawless conviction proceedings and a bullet in the head. Until then, no death penalty, a wrongful death, wither perpetrated by a insane sociopath or a lawful society, is still a wrongful death.
I'm not against all of the additional costs, mind you, in this day and age we ought to be damn sure we're executing the right person.
well spoken. In fact you touched on another reason to do away with the death penalty: Suppose you convict and execute the wrong guy. You have just committed a double error in that an innocent is dead, and the real criminal will likely never be found and caught. Has there ever been a case where the wrong person has been executed, and then the real criminal is caught and successfully prosecuted? IANAL, but I don't think I have ever heard of such a thing....
super-rich liberals to hurl their money at the cases...
Your word betray your loyalties sir. Shouldn't you be off angrily watching Bill O' Riley? Or perhaps masturbating to Ann Coulter taking about shooting 'gay liberal Jewish media types'?
Lets ignore the very warped worldview you seem to have, and just look at the 'super-liberal' comment: Where do you think that the vast majority of the money the defense spends comes from? Do you think that there are wealthy, left leaning millionaires swooping in to donate vast sums of money to accused murderers in order to get them acquitted? If only they would butt out, the prosecution could have this killer convicted by noon, and the bailiff could shoot them behind the courthouse before lunch. Your vast ignorance of, well, everything is strangely enthralling....
you're assuming capital punishment is murder in order to prove it's wrong.
Maybe that's inferring too much, and you meant "murder" to apply only to the execution of the innocent, but even there, murder hardly seems the right term.
From the point of view of the innocent victim, it pretty much is murder. The legal basis for sentencing someone to death is their guilt.
It's a pity you can't grasp that someone may disagree with you and still be honest.
You are changing what I said from what was essentially, 'all rational people value their lives', to 'people who disagree with me are dishonest'. My claim was that someone who says they don't value their own life is being dishonest to you or themselves.
Further, the point of the test was humanize the faceless 'innocent victim'. Its easy to abstractly say, 'fuck em, the can just die. I am smart enough to stay out of situations that can get me falsely charged with murder', because the person is an abstract name in a new article. its a lot harder to consign someone you care about to unjustly die because we are human and hasty in our decisions.
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2 billion seems like a lot of money to sink into a gaming headset....Think more about where you could go from where the product is now, and think that other companies are doing that is similar.
*COUGH**COUGH* GOOGLE GLASS
Facebook wants to compete with Google. They think Glass is the next iPad, and are trying to get in the game.
If you look at history, most 'empires' lasted about 200 to 400 years before they imploded, became irrelevant, or were burned to ashes by the neighboring states. The US is a bit over 200 years old, so we are probably shortly due a revolution or invasion, statistically speaking.
The sad thing is, is when it happens, the mouth breathing anti-government radicals will insist that 'they knew it was bound to happen, because gay black heathens have taken over the gubbermint, and baby Jeebuz wanted to see them burn.'
(Of course they are technically right, because Baby Jeebuz was a 8 foot long monitor lizard with pyrokinesis.)
Unless the L.A. PD is going to try and make the case that everyone in L.A. is suspicious....
....And they would be right. ZING!
Just because botnets aren't efficient doesn't mean they aren't worth running. Stolen CPU time is free, so some profit is still free profit. I mean, if logic and reason governed criminal activity, 95% of it wouldn't even exist.
"At a huge cost to Americans". Does inflation 'cost' anything? It erodes the value of money, but it also erodes the value of debt. 23% Inflation is lousy if you have a lot of money saved up, but it is great if you just took on a huge fixed rate loan. While inflation could create short term money flow chaos, it doesn't really affect the intrinsic value of production. I would say that the problem would be a predictable system changing faster than people are used to.
Russia or China couldn't create that much chaos by cashing in all at once. Likely there would be a slight dip in the value of the dollar, and then everyone else in the world would swoop in an buy it all up at a bargain price to make a killing after the dollar stabilized.
Aside: good to know that the US doesn't have a monopoly on blowhard nationalist idiots like Limbaugh.
Polygraphs do not test for nervousness. They measure baseline physiological stats and monitor for changes. Anything conclusions you draw from that data is pure conjecture. What would it mean if respiration slowed 3%, perspiration increased 2% and blood pressure held steady? Are they nervous? Starting to relax, but feeling warm? Starting to tense up? Having a mild attack of angina?
I mock your claims further:
I can burn chicken bones to detect lies. To claim that the ash patterns could never detect a lie is just flat out wrong.
Sure. That means they are imperfect. It does NOT mean their results have "no connection" to lying. Burned chicken bones are not perfect. Their accuracy is far below the "reasonable doubt" threshold needed for evidence in court. But to extrapolate from that and claim that they don't work at all is nonsense. They are "good enough" for preliminary screening.
Hey, flipping coins will get you 50% accuracy, so a polygraph is at least that good, right? Can you at least find a study that that proves that?
+1 snarky. Zing!
Grow the fuck up and learn some respect for a different perspective / belief.
I believe that god is seventeen giant, 65 foot long orange lizards, all who are named 'Ralph'. They have mile long, glittering prehensile cocks that drag behind them. Ralph^17 will sail invisibly across the sky once per hour, where all humans on the planet must turn to the South, and bow while chanting, 'Rubber Button' for one minute in order to avoid Ralph's divine and righteous wrath. His son is a stop sign three miles south of Yuma, and all who are able must journey to see him once in their life, lest they be dammed to spend Christmas vacation in New Jersey for all eternity. I demand the same respect that these goofy christian mono-godders get, up to and including wording on American money acknowledging Ralph^17's almighty farts. BOW, HEATHENS!
I mock you sir, for failing to respect that some people's perspective and beliefs are that 'invisible shit isn't real, and that you should call out the Emperor as naked when he is'.
No they don't. They don't detect lies. They detect changes in the subjects physiology, which has no connection to if the subject is lying. If the subject is nervous about the questions being asked because, say, they are worried about failing the test and losing their job
Moreover, because they are relied upon as a method to detect lies, the real professional spies know how to defeat them. There were a couple of famous cases of Russian spies a decade or so back who passed all the polygraph tests they were administered, and got into quite a bit of classified material.
Trusting them for anything is foolish. They will give you false positives and they don't catch the people who they really need to catch lying. You may as well just brun some chicken bones and read the ashes.
You should go read up on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. What they did might qualify as a violation of that act, in that they might have been intercepting information w/o knowledge or consent. Having worked with digital certs, I can say that most people, (even tech savvy ones) usually don't understand the first thing about CAs and how they work, so 'accidentally' installing a root CA all over the place sounds like a typical n00b maneuver. Hard to say what their intent was. Further, when they changed the network policy, that might qualify as evidence tampering, depending on what they did and how they did it.
Someone (either the cops or the school board) should investigate what the hell was going on.
One thing that the OP said that I found to be kind of disconcerting: FXcop was a pretty crappy tool. it could spot some odd code patterns in syntax, but it cannot detect 'good' code. I could implement a bubble sort function that FXcop would give a giant gold star to. Weird syntax might be worth looking at to see if there is underlying problems, but that is about it.
This is kind of an interesting number. I have have found a vast majority of the mobile games to be utter trash, that attempt to cash in on in game purchases while failing to implement a set of solid basic game mechanics. I would gladly drop $30 (or more) just to play a good mobile game that wasn't a poorly concealed slot machine. I wonder if the general shitty state of mobile gaming is causing a disproportionate number of players to not spend cash, or it is just the nature of people being cheap when it comes to 'free' apps. ('I am not going going to spend money on a game that is free', or 'I am not going to pay to win')
As an aside, the 'Freemium' model is really the scourge of the industry right now, with devs looking for easy ways to extract more money from the player base while providing no real product in return.There are a few people who do it right (WoT, LoL, and TF, for example) and a huge pack of greedy shills who are following in their footsteps.
A lot of the free to play model games basically let you pay to win, does this 0.15% number line up with the percent of the general population that is incapable of delaying gratification? I bet you could correlate this number with the result of some psychology study on the topic.....
Your comments about it being religious in nature are interesting; I always thought that religion's traditional hatred of homosexuality gave it's adherents' an excuse to voice their petty hatred. "It's ok to hate faggots, because the Bible says so."
Religion is a great thing though, don't get me wrong. I love big shiny gold crosses worn as jewelry. It makes it easy for me to spot those primitive, savage idiots and stay the hell way from them. "I believe in invisible shit that nobody has ever even seen, Dhurrrrrrrrrr!"
you miss the point, he chose female as the gender of the tautology, which reinforces the stereotype that women are computer illiterate.
"your computer illiterate little sister".....
What makes you think that little sisters are more computer illiterate than little brothers? Sexist much, Jacob Miller?
A number of software companies are designed around the flat org structure, which is an interesting way of running things. Another idea is a rock-paper-scissors approach where no group has ultimate authority.
FIrst 'Beta Sucks!'
+5 funny.
Please don't feed the trolls....
Ah everyone else is doing it, well that makes it ok....
One of the old 'rules' of espionage is that everybody spies, everybody knows everybody spies, and nobody talks about it. (everybody in this case, being national intelligence services). By creating such a massive systems that was bound to be discovered, the NSA has torpedoed US national interests in a spectacular fashion. Nobody trusts the US to behave as an altruistic custodian of the Internet now, and they have caused untold billions of dollars of economic damage to US companies. Ironically, it is quite likely that national networks will become more secure, making it harder to do any spying in cases where it might really be important. I have no problem at all in spying on anyone who isn't American, at least when it isn't a billion dollar waste of time tracking all the calls of Dutch house wives, French bus drivers, and Australian auto mechanics. They have created all sorts of mechanisms to get around the letter of the law preventing them from spying on their own citizens, in order to track Muslims who are brown skinned, most of whom just happen to not be connected to terrorist groups.
Basically these stupid NSA fucks got greedy and have killed the golden goose, and shredded no end of domestic laws to do it.
I think /. probably lost closely identifies with Libertarian ideals, with progressive social policy. Personally I can't stand half the libertarians I meet because they are just conservatives that are just a little less stupid than the average neocon troll.
I am a little fuzzy here, are you calling Snowden a traitor, for pointing out the vast, incredibly illegal spying program that has massively damaged US diplomatic and economic interests, or the NSA? Please clarify who needs to be shot....
Regardless, the correct form is easy to remember because "capital" refers to the head (e.g. "per capita")... ergo, "punishment on the head".
I am quite aware of the meanings of the words, and how they differ. I care not what an AC posts, they aren't worth reading let alone responding to, and nobody posting to an Internet forum is going to hurt my feelings. Constructive criticism might be to re-read messages before posting them; simply pointing out spelling and grammar errors makes a person sound like a jerk who is interested in form over content. Are you trying to debate ideas and logic, or spell check a third grade writing essay?
Because you have already conceded that death is an appropriate punishment in the case of evil...
Interesting choice of words....I am not sure that I would say that death is an appropriate punishment. I would say that it is an excellent way to protect society from re-offence. But, really, is is an appropriate punishment? I think we both agree that life in prison is definitely crueler, if death is simply oblivion, and not some sort of a delusional gateway to a religious afterlife of just punishment. An appropriate punishment might be being forced to get to know their victim intimately, and come to know and understand the person that they killed and the loss they inflicted on society as a result. Barring some sort alien technology that forces empathy on a killer, I am content with flawless conviction proceedings and a bullet in the head. Until then, no death penalty, a wrongful death, wither perpetrated by a insane sociopath or a lawful society, is still a wrongful death.
I'm not against all of the additional costs, mind you, in this day and age we ought to be damn sure we're executing the right person.
well spoken. In fact you touched on another reason to do away with the death penalty: Suppose you convict and execute the wrong guy. You have just committed a double error in that an innocent is dead, and the real criminal will likely never be found and caught. Has there ever been a case where the wrong person has been executed, and then the real criminal is caught and successfully prosecuted? IANAL, but I don't think I have ever heard of such a thing....
super-rich liberals to hurl their money at the cases...
Your word betray your loyalties sir. Shouldn't you be off angrily watching Bill O' Riley? Or perhaps masturbating to Ann Coulter taking about shooting 'gay liberal Jewish media types'?
Lets ignore the very warped worldview you seem to have, and just look at the 'super-liberal' comment: Where do you think that the vast majority of the money the defense spends comes from? Do you think that there are wealthy, left leaning millionaires swooping in to donate vast sums of money to accused murderers in order to get them acquitted? If only they would butt out, the prosecution could have this killer convicted by noon, and the bailiff could shoot them behind the courthouse before lunch. Your vast ignorance of, well, everything is strangely enthralling....
you're assuming capital punishment is murder in order to prove it's wrong.
Maybe that's inferring too much, and you meant "murder" to apply only to the execution of the innocent, but even there, murder hardly seems the right term.
From the point of view of the innocent victim, it pretty much is murder. The legal basis for sentencing someone to death is their guilt.
It's a pity you can't grasp that someone may disagree with you and still be honest.
You are changing what I said from what was essentially, 'all rational people value their lives', to 'people who disagree with me are dishonest'. My claim was that someone who says they don't value their own life is being dishonest to you or themselves.
Further, the point of the test was humanize the faceless 'innocent victim'. Its easy to abstractly say, 'fuck em, the can just die. I am smart enough to stay out of situations that can get me falsely charged with murder', because the person is an abstract name in a new article. its a lot harder to consign someone you care about to unjustly die because we are human and hasty in our decisions.