By the way, all cannabis lovers are not stoners that spend their whole day high. All people who like to drink beer or wine are not pathological alcoholics. Some people actually enjoy the productive effect a low dose of THC can have on the cognitive functions. It is a slight euphoria state like the one given by alcohol but without the dumbing down of intellectual capacities. The day it is legal, I think my two work drugs will be coffee and THC. Coffee when fast low-level coding is needed and THC when architecture has to be done with the big picture in mind.
As a passenger, I have at several occasions seen airport personnel bypass the security screening of passengers by a simple RFID badge. It is easy to imagine a person giving a bomb to a passenger through this way.
The comments so far incredibly miss the points : one of the main fear of airport authorities is that an unknown individual could access restricted zone where plenty of bomb-planting occasions can occur. With this badge you can apparently access the luggage compartment of a plane without being checked for explosives.
At a time where authorities try to impose ridiculous devices like the body scanner and that waiting lines become so long that trains become a viable option to national flights, it is good to point out that they have so many flaws left.
Clearly, "anti-terrorism" is not handled by competent people who think they will have to stop competent terrorists.
In January 2009 the USAF released a flow-chart for 'counter-bloggers' to 'counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force.'"
Dear government.
Do you want a tip to improve the efficiency of these counter bloggers ? Identify them as "official bloggers" and feed them with true and real information. If your goal is really to fight fake information, this should work like a charm. And despite my sarcastic tone, I really think it would work. Give someone (a journalist or an administrator, or anyone really) an insight on public files and a freedom of speech so that s/he can use informal speech to rant on internet and you will have your counter-blogging force. Lies and disguise rarely serve the cause of truth, don't believe people who try to sell such solutions.
Marty McFly: [showing the two boys how to play the shoot 'em up video game] I'll show you, kid. I'm a crack shot at this.
[shoots a perfect score with the electronic gun]
Video Game Boy #1: You mean you have to use your hands?
Video Game Boy #2: That's like a baby's toy!
Actually my question was also an ironic remark at how useless the mars rovers actually are (compared to the orbiters). Sorry, I'll try to make the sarcasm more obvious next time.
Why do you expect to actually SEE what the real retort will be ? Could be a slight 1% increase on a specific and abscure tax that would cause far more economical damage that a truckload of marines in center of Beijing could possibly do.
People who didn't care about Google's reputation yesterday won't care tomorrow. On the other hand, people who thought "don't be evil" was voided when Google authorized censorship in China, they care, they watch, and if by any chance Google manages it correctly (and the latest Chinese reaction seems to indicate the CCP is more worried than I thought) and manages to breach the Great Firewall of China, then really, Google's contradictors will be gained back to their cause.
"Most people" don't care but in Altavista vs Yahoo times, Google was geeks' favorite and they led to many people using it. Now, at a time where the mainstream press worries about privacy issues in Mountainview servers, such a political success could be what they need to keep geeks' support.
While I agree that most leaks of tritium are over-mediatized in a "OMG nuke leaks !"-fashion, I would just like to point out that comparing exposition from an ingestion of beta sources and exposition to X-ray for a scan has little meaning from a medical point of view. The dangers and the areas hit are not the same, the way an amount of radioactive material builds up in the body is not the same. There is ongoing debate about the way to measure the dangers of exposition to various sources.
It is wrong to base a judgement on that, but it is wrong to discard the information it gives to you. A few years ago, a @gmail.com gave indication to some sort of geeks (or boy/girlfriend of a geek) but this was not a reliable information. Having a dRakEhAxOrZ username indicates some mindset as well. I would not use my yvanhoe@ address for work.
I personally think that a surname@name.[net|com|org] indicates someone who understands a bit how things work. A surname.name@isp is an acceptable address (it is functional, easy to remember, nominative). I personally tend to think poorly of @hotmail.com when it comes to technical persons (they indeed should know better) but I don't let it cloud my judgment as some people just create alternates on hotmail for various reasons (work at Microsoft, uses the gmail address for non-professional things, think Google is evil, is forbidden to use anything else at his/her work, etc...)
The address is like the haircut : it says something, but if you are competent, you should be able to bypass the first bad impressions when talking to non-assholes types (which unfortunately abound in HR).
It will play flash the day one of the companies that need it seriously fund Gnash or any other open-source group trying to make a decent open source implementation.
Definitely bad news. We can forget about having the "saviour" take a bath in the daily oatmeal for our protection:)
Once again, it seems the only way to get rid of a disease is by aiming at its total eradication and extinction like has been done for smallpox and like is almost done for polio.
We have a constitutional principle that says that each new tax must have a benefit for the population. Here, the link has never been proved between taxing supports and supporting culture.
Of course not, as was demonstrated by our tax on blank CD/DVDs.
I think piracy is not the issue here. Sarkozy has tried to take control of most media in France. Now Internet he doesn't understand and he definitely doesn't like. Sounds like his mindset to attack the biggest visible gun in the "field" to try to gain some control : Google. But this bullet is a miss, like most French IT legislation this will be badly implemented and never used in court.
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Don't fear the future.
Says the poster on Slashdot...
By the way, all cannabis lovers are not stoners that spend their whole day high. All people who like to drink beer or wine are not pathological alcoholics. Some people actually enjoy the productive effect a low dose of THC can have on the cognitive functions. It is a slight euphoria state like the one given by alcohol but without the dumbing down of intellectual capacities. The day it is legal, I think my two work drugs will be coffee and THC. Coffee when fast low-level coding is needed and THC when architecture has to be done with the big picture in mind.
As a passenger, I have at several occasions seen airport personnel bypass the security screening of passengers by a simple RFID badge. It is easy to imagine a person giving a bomb to a passenger through this way.
The comments so far incredibly miss the points : one of the main fear of airport authorities is that an unknown individual could access restricted zone where plenty of bomb-planting occasions can occur. With this badge you can apparently access the luggage compartment of a plane without being checked for explosives.
At a time where authorities try to impose ridiculous devices like the body scanner and that waiting lines become so long that trains become a viable option to national flights, it is good to point out that they have so many flaws left.
Clearly, "anti-terrorism" is not handled by competent people who think they will have to stop competent terrorists.
In January 2009 the USAF released a flow-chart for 'counter-bloggers' to 'counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force.'"
Dear government. Do you want a tip to improve the efficiency of these counter bloggers ? Identify them as "official bloggers" and feed them with true and real information. If your goal is really to fight fake information, this should work like a charm. And despite my sarcastic tone, I really think it would work. Give someone (a journalist or an administrator, or anyone really) an insight on public files and a freedom of speech so that s/he can use informal speech to rant on internet and you will have your counter-blogging force. Lies and disguise rarely serve the cause of truth, don't believe people who try to sell such solutions.
Marty McFly: [showing the two boys how to play the shoot 'em up video game] I'll show you, kid. I'm a crack shot at this.
[shoots a perfect score with the electronic gun]
Video Game Boy #1: You mean you have to use your hands?
Video Game Boy #2: That's like a baby's toy!
Actually my question was also an ironic remark at how useless the mars rovers actually are (compared to the orbiters). Sorry, I'll try to make the sarcasm more obvious next time.
Why do you expect to actually SEE what the real retort will be ? Could be a slight 1% increase on a specific and abscure tax that would cause far more economical damage that a truckload of marines in center of Beijing could possibly do.
And "not so debunked" is still debunked. How come a martian asteroid on Earth can have life yet we didn't find any on the planet itself ?
People who didn't care about Google's reputation yesterday won't care tomorrow. On the other hand, people who thought "don't be evil" was voided when Google authorized censorship in China, they care, they watch, and if by any chance Google manages it correctly (and the latest Chinese reaction seems to indicate the CCP is more worried than I thought) and manages to breach the Great Firewall of China, then really, Google's contradictors will be gained back to their cause.
"Most people" don't care but in Altavista vs Yahoo times, Google was geeks' favorite and they led to many people using it. Now, at a time where the mainstream press worries about privacy issues in Mountainview servers, such a political success could be what they need to keep geeks' support.
But what a reputation gain !
And if you went to a clinic with such a mentality, I surely hope you got healthcare from the lowest bidder.
That is what I am wondering about. Are the Chinese officials really thinking about changing their censorship policy ?
Then why are stock options being sold like crazy these days ?
While I agree that most leaks of tritium are over-mediatized in a "OMG nuke leaks !"-fashion, I would just like to point out that comparing exposition from an ingestion of beta sources and exposition to X-ray for a scan has little meaning from a medical point of view. The dangers and the areas hit are not the same, the way an amount of radioactive material builds up in the body is not the same. There is ongoing debate about the way to measure the dangers of exposition to various sources.
It is wrong to base a judgement on that, but it is wrong to discard the information it gives to you. A few years ago, a @gmail.com gave indication to some sort of geeks (or boy/girlfriend of a geek) but this was not a reliable information. Having a dRakEhAxOrZ username indicates some mindset as well. I would not use my yvanhoe@ address for work.
I personally think that a surname@name.[net|com|org] indicates someone who understands a bit how things work. A surname.name@isp is an acceptable address (it is functional, easy to remember, nominative). I personally tend to think poorly of @hotmail.com when it comes to technical persons (they indeed should know better) but I don't let it cloud my judgment as some people just create alternates on hotmail for various reasons (work at Microsoft, uses the gmail address for non-professional things, think Google is evil, is forbidden to use anything else at his/her work, etc...)
The address is like the haircut : it says something, but if you are competent, you should be able to bypass the first bad impressions when talking to non-assholes types (which unfortunately abound in HR).
But it is about what we are !
Following this reasoning, Churches could ask for subsidizes to prevent the Apocalypse from happening.
Will science leave me anything I learned in class ?
It will play flash the day one of the companies that need it seriously fund Gnash or any other open-source group trying to make a decent open source implementation.
L33tSp34k is the mandatory language on the filling form. It also asks for your WaRlOrDz rankz and asks you to list your "mad skillz".
Definitely bad news. We can forget about having the "saviour" take a bath in the daily oatmeal for our protection :)
Once again, it seems the only way to get rid of a disease is by aiming at its total eradication and extinction like has been done for smallpox and like is almost done for polio.
I wholeheartedly agree on you, even if we are not talking about the same congress. But this was an argument concerning legalities.
We have a constitutional principle that says that each new tax must have a benefit for the population. Here, the link has never been proved between taxing supports and supporting culture.
Of course not, as was demonstrated by our tax on blank CD/DVDs.
I think piracy is not the issue here. Sarkozy has tried to take control of most media in France. Now Internet he doesn't understand and he definitely doesn't like. Sounds like his mindset to attack the biggest visible gun in the "field" to try to gain some control : Google. But this bullet is a miss, like most French IT legislation this will be badly implemented and never used in court.