If the kind of tests he failed is similar to the one linked, it is not just science/engineering careers that are targeted, but anyone that is allowed to have money or contract a loan. How can you fail these questions ? The most complicated question asks you to compute how much you earn in 29 hours if you earn 288$ in 40 hours.
People who fail at such tests are not functional in society : they cannot understand the basics of employment, either as an employer or an employee. They should barred from contracting loans as they have no way of understanding what an interest rate is.
I really pray to a non denominational deity that this is a very rare exception rather than the norm. And that this person will be forced to resign.
Well video games could be required to do the same as books, movies, etc... : make a clear claim that they are works of fiction, even if they label themselves as realistic and about a recent past war (Gulf war for instance)
Nothing is ever equal. The one side that disobeys the rules is considered as the "bad guy" and lose every functional democracy as an ally.
International laws of war have existed since more than a century (more if you take into account maritime laws) and have been obeyed by a lot of belligerents.
People who think "total war" and "anything goes in a war" are not even up to date by WWII standards.
The committee's action is aimed more towards developers: as war games become more realistic, do they have a responsibility to add humanitarian elements to their games?
Sounds like the exact role of the committee : Promoting human rights and international laws of war. I could see real world prosecutions but from an unexpected angle : A national army (let's say Italy) could attack a given game that would allow players to play Italian soldiers and see them promoted for senseless killing, despite international laws violation.
It could be fair that developers are barred from using real armies in games branded as realistic if they do not take into account the doctrine of these armies. That could be considered as slander. Imagine that in Deus Ex the evil company you fight would be called Microsoft. Or Mosanto.
The problem is that it could also be considered as a political opinion, protected by free speech. I think it is an interesting debate. I am not sure what my opinions are on this one but I think that it shouldn't be dismissed as a silly one.
Hitler and Glenn Beck have a fight. Who do you root for ?
Iran is very stricly killing internet in its country. America is slowly killing internet in its country. Same direction, different means. Internet likes neither. Is that a surprise ? When it comes to internet censorship, neither look very democratic.
I have tried the touch-screen keyboards and have been underwhelmed by each I tried. I would not consider to write code on that. Maybe using an external keyboard but that defeats the purpose of the tablet IMHO.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
That is indeed the age of the current Swiss constitution but their democratic principles have lasted for a lot more centuries, only to be interrupted by Napoleon. There is also a democracy that is 800 years old : Iceland.
Note however that the Swiss system is different from many : 50 000 signatures on a petition bring a referendum. A yes on the referendum creates a new law. Indeed Swiss people voted for less tax. They are a country with low levels of tax yet with a very good healthcare and education system.
It takes a very dumb population to not understand what tax is useful for.
What struck me the most was when I was travelling between Asia and Europe and seeing the models used in fashion advertisement : Asian models in Europe and Caucasian models in Asia. The message to women is clearly "You do not look like that, you are not attractive. Buy more stuff."
What will more likely happen is that the price of goods automatically produced will be so low that you will be able to buy everything you need for a very small amount of paid work.
What we need is a social model where the unqualified can live decently while being unemployed. Automation is progressing, and fewer labor is required to maintain the current standard of living.
In Germany, 20% of the population works part-time and this seems to be a durable trend.
So it is big and prone to shocks ? Servers may have their own particular needs but for consumers, the advantage of SSD are size and resistance to shocks. Speed is only a slight advantage.
I personally am worried of the fact that a lot of the modern agriculture depends on fertilizers that are byproducts of oil production and that the high CO2 level favors plant growth and high yields. When both of these things go down, so will the crop yield, and we do not have the margin to deal with a 40% drop in area efficiency.
Not everyone is a nationalistic fanboy you know. French here but this is less important in my opinion than me being a techy and a science fan. I feel closer to Americans or Chineses who share my interests than to my xenophobic neighbour.
Actually, I am not complaining about how good NASA's PR department is, I am more complaining about how real technological and scientific innovation are not what interest the public nowadays.
The German experiment I am talking about was a device in the ESA mission to Mars. It embarked a truly revolutionary spectrograph that helped map the underground composition of Mars down to a few meters deep. It is far more innovative than the rovers which used principles that were known in the 70s'.
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Choose two.
If you want three, help us solve problems in homomorphic cryptography. Large crowds wanting to vote is nothing new, but making it possible in a secure way is an unsolved mathematical problem. So if you understand a bit about cryptography and programming, don't go to the OWS protest, help design online voting systems. Thanks.
The scientific input of the rovers were close to zero. Yet during the same time a German team made a cartography of Mars underground resources, including large quantities of frozen water, yet no one talked about.
Walled garden : You put content in, you can't get it out. It has content it will not share and not allow anyone else from benefiting. It has nothing to do with the use of OSS or open hardware. Facebook could run on open cores, with linux and publishing their source code, it would still be a walled garden as long as they would consider the content uploaded by their users as their own property.
I have been surprised to find pidgin's implementation of audio chats over jabber working really well. The video is not really working well yet, but for audio, I have an OSS replacement solution.
Slashdot Mirror
Any conspiracy theory about stuxxnet has to explain this fact : http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10596
An Israelian general claims to have worked on Stuxxnet.
That's the best trailer from Universal since a while.
If the kind of tests he failed is similar to the one linked, it is not just science/engineering careers that are targeted, but anyone that is allowed to have money or contract a loan. How can you fail these questions ? The most complicated question asks you to compute how much you earn in 29 hours if you earn 288$ in 40 hours.
People who fail at such tests are not functional in society : they cannot understand the basics of employment, either as an employer or an employee. They should barred from contracting loans as they have no way of understanding what an interest rate is.
I really pray to a non denominational deity that this is a very rare exception rather than the norm. And that this person will be forced to resign.
Well video games could be required to do the same as books, movies, etc... : make a clear claim that they are works of fiction, even if they label themselves as realistic and about a recent past war (Gulf war for instance)
Nothing is ever equal. The one side that disobeys the rules is considered as the "bad guy" and lose every functional democracy as an ally.
International laws of war have existed since more than a century (more if you take into account maritime laws) and have been obeyed by a lot of belligerents.
People who think "total war" and "anything goes in a war" are not even up to date by WWII standards.
The committee's action is aimed more towards developers: as war games become more realistic, do they have a responsibility to add humanitarian elements to their games?
Sounds like the exact role of the committee : Promoting human rights and international laws of war. I could see real world prosecutions but from an unexpected angle : A national army (let's say Italy) could attack a given game that would allow players to play Italian soldiers and see them promoted for senseless killing, despite international laws violation.
It could be fair that developers are barred from using real armies in games branded as realistic if they do not take into account the doctrine of these armies. That could be considered as slander. Imagine that in Deus Ex the evil company you fight would be called Microsoft. Or Mosanto.
The problem is that it could also be considered as a political opinion, protected by free speech. I think it is an interesting debate. I am not sure what my opinions are on this one but I think that it shouldn't be dismissed as a silly one.
Hitler and Glenn Beck have a fight. Who do you root for ?
Iran is very stricly killing internet in its country. America is slowly killing internet in its country. Same direction, different means. Internet likes neither. Is that a surprise ? When it comes to internet censorship, neither look very democratic.
Free bandwidth.
I have tried the touch-screen keyboards and have been underwhelmed by each I tried. I would not consider to write code on that. Maybe using an external keyboard but that defeats the purpose of the tablet IMHO.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
That is indeed the age of the current Swiss constitution but their democratic principles have lasted for a lot more centuries, only to be interrupted by Napoleon. There is also a democracy that is 800 years old : Iceland.
Note however that the Swiss system is different from many : 50 000 signatures on a petition bring a referendum. A yes on the referendum creates a new law. Indeed Swiss people voted for less tax. They are a country with low levels of tax yet with a very good healthcare and education system.
It takes a very dumb population to not understand what tax is useful for.
Would you pay extra for a phone that comes with a Debian build?
I would pay extra for any phone that allows to run wireshark on the GSM or 3G stack.
What struck me the most was when I was travelling between Asia and Europe and seeing the models used in fashion advertisement : Asian models in Europe and Caucasian models in Asia. The message to women is clearly "You do not look like that, you are not attractive. Buy more stuff."
What will more likely happen is that the price of goods automatically produced will be so low that you will be able to buy everything you need for a very small amount of paid work.
What we need is a social model where the unqualified can live decently while being unemployed. Automation is progressing, and fewer labor is required to maintain the current standard of living.
In Germany, 20% of the population works part-time and this seems to be a durable trend.
So it is big and prone to shocks ? Servers may have their own particular needs but for consumers, the advantage of SSD are size and resistance to shocks. Speed is only a slight advantage.
In "democracy" you have the choice but we choose the options.
I personally am worried of the fact that a lot of the modern agriculture depends on fertilizers that are byproducts of oil production and that the high CO2 level favors plant growth and high yields. When both of these things go down, so will the crop yield, and we do not have the margin to deal with a 40% drop in area efficiency.
Not everyone is a nationalistic fanboy you know. French here but this is less important in my opinion than me being a techy and a science fan. I feel closer to Americans or Chineses who share my interests than to my xenophobic neighbour.
Actually, I am not complaining about how good NASA's PR department is, I am more complaining about how real technological and scientific innovation are not what interest the public nowadays.
The German experiment I am talking about was a device in the ESA mission to Mars. It embarked a truly revolutionary spectrograph that helped map the underground composition of Mars down to a few meters deep. It is far more innovative than the rovers which used principles that were known in the 70s'.
- non-tamperable by voter
- non-tamperable by organizers
- anonymous
Choose two.
If you want three, help us solve problems in homomorphic cryptography. Large crowds wanting to vote is nothing new, but making it possible in a secure way is an unsolved mathematical problem. So if you understand a bit about cryptography and programming, don't go to the OWS protest, help design online voting systems. Thanks.
You know these things are open source, right ?
The scientific input of the rovers were close to zero. Yet during the same time a German team made a cartography of Mars underground resources, including large quantities of frozen water, yet no one talked about.
Rovers were a mere PR stunt.
I mean, we already were overrun by stormtroopers a century ago, we will be more careful next time.
"If you are going to create a public petition system, then take the petitions seriously.
Dismissing the top petitions with canned responses invalidates the whole exercise."
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/take-petitions-seriously/bHPkPddj
3 000/25 000 signatures
Walled garden : You put content in, you can't get it out. It has content it will not share and not allow anyone else from benefiting. It has nothing to do with the use of OSS or open hardware. Facebook could run on open cores, with linux and publishing their source code, it would still be a walled garden as long as they would consider the content uploaded by their users as their own property.
I have been surprised to find pidgin's implementation of audio chats over jabber working really well. The video is not really working well yet, but for audio, I have an OSS replacement solution.