The main thing for me is that the films are all rubbish.
Theres plenty of good films in other languages with subtitles but I can never get my boring western friends to go to anything that doesnt involve hollywood cliches.
It would be interesting to see the figures for Bollywood films, French and Spanish language, to test some the assumptions.
thanks for the detail, the most useful comment so far to those interested.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the box but i want to know more about mesh networks. Here i see the hardware, what are the words to search for, for information on getting all this equipment to mesh together? I remember reading about adhoc wifi mesh networks but now reading this renews my interest in that and more basic networks in addition to wanting to know more about this network
i think the early adopter reward is convienient to address the problem of variable value. Variable value is a result of not enough speculation to smooth it out. There's not much reward for accepting bitcoin now before critical mass might be true but there is reward
The value changes represent a cashflow problem due to delays in conversion to other mediums.
Bitinstant helps in this regards. If you're worried about a deposit becoming worthless overnight you could convert automatically to a currency you have more faith in that way.
Of course the value can go up as well as down so it's more cash flow planning than the pure asset risk you say.
In this blog post I'm referring to use for people who travel a lot. But it seems relevent here too.
Keep your tablet or smartphone for non phone things and a separate basic very small phone for phone things. This way if you run out of battery you can still make calls. It's so much simpler than falling into a universe of emergency chargers, trying to get all features into one device and so on.
Now... what about that camera....
doh!
Well, I was making the case for pairing a Android tablet with a watchphone... but to get a camera in there too? hmm...
1) The phyisical process of changing batteries needs to be easier 2) The possible trade of poor quality batteries for good quality needs to be addressed
^ these are more organisation issues than technical. If you have an EV you can already set this up yourself for a regular long journey to work. You stow your batteries along the route with people who charge them for you for a fee.
Unfortunately, you have to own a number of sets of batteries because trading batteries right now afaik is unworkable. But it is possible for basic routes.
i'm looking for a script to logon to my gmail and sign any email in the drafts folder.
Pendango i found was no good because i had to carry it with me.
This is important because i travel in parts of the world where kidnaps are common. I want to be able to prove it's me with signing. Encryption may attract attention but it's useful against the pretty thief, which is why i'm glad i had my passwords encrypted on my phone when it got stolen.
I once needed access to a credit card i'd left at home with my folks. I relised i had no way of communicating it securely. In the end we had to split the transaction of that info over email and a voip call. On reflection a pots phone would have been better... In fact encrypting voip is another must do.
I got into a taxi in London and the taxi driver told me hed seen someone breaking into a van outside my friends house.
Because its my friends house I encouraged him to report it so we can defend our neighbourhood.
He wouldnt. He was afraid or something I dont know. I couldnt understand it. He said "I dont want to stick my nose in", made excuses. I was pissed but I had to catch a flight so I sent an SMS to my friend to ask them to tell the carpenter whos van it was. They didnt either. I couldnt get them to even look after the are right outside thier own door!
If I see this again and Ive got time Ill kick the crap out of the taxi driver until he furfills his duty. For his own protection of course ( karma ).
Ive learnt to ignore the phone when it rings and I need maximum attention on the road.
If I think its safe I take the call with hands free but assign maximum attention to the road. I sometimes have to ignore the person on the other end if the traffic demands my attention.
This kind of thing took a while to learn and takes disapline. Building this skill into the driving test is the decent way to address this stuff rather than playing wackamole on technology and irritating the crap out of everyone, driven by fear.
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"HTTP requests are now handled in a separate thread by default"
Thank god! Im sick of tired of programs hanging up while they wait for a http request... or even hanging on connectivity loss.
Apart from the lack of openess such that I find it hard to feel I'm having a private conversation... I like the software on phones these days.
It's the hardware that has kept me waiting with a Symbian phone.
Battery life is well off enough to go camping with and the screens are too detailed. I would prefer black and white with a 8MP camera if it lasted a week on charge.
Perhaps owning a SonyEriccson P800 has scarred me.
The anonymous comment "So, the article is from The Daily Mail, also known as The Daily Racist. Not that silly fairytale believing people aren't acting silly, but how big of an issue is this, really? Is there an agenda pushing this "news"?"
speaks volumes. For some reason secular (atheist) propaganda is really popular right now, it's like someone is trying to paint Dawkins as some kind of religious leader, which I don't think he'd be best pleased about.
I remember being lectured on completely different subjects, or at least took issue with for not hearing both sides of the argument. At the time I went along with it for fear of being marked down if I disagreed - it seemed the only way to tell would be to find out after the exam.
Religious groups are not the only groups who disagree with the current bending of evolution to mask other theories. What about people who believe that man was a result of melding ape DNA with ET DNA, thus explaining the evolutionary jump. That group isn't religious but would also be right to be peeved that the discussion of intelligent influence is omitted too.
I think what people have issue with is not that the subject is covered but the way it's thought of in atheist religious terms. An understanding that we evolved from the coastal marine environment has allowed me to come with things in my daily life that help me (electrolytic salts balance), that would have been possible without knowing that we came from the ocean. Likewise for bacteria and resistance to drugs. However,
By on the one hand saying that we act as god in what we do with selective breeding and DNA manipulation while at the same time saying that evolution is the only process on earth and also dismissing all major written and oral traditional records (not just Islam but pretty much every religion has a record of creationism), then what you have is bigotry.
I'll know things are back to normal when I hear more of "We think" "Maybe" "It's possible" "But on the other hand" in presentation rather than such a clearly defined history of humanity
As soon as I see the phrase "IT Department" I feel something is wrong.
While this is fine for a 1990's world these days IT is so ubiquitous and essential to businesses it's becoming more and more old fashioned to departmentalise IT.
Successful companies using IT to modern extents today seem to be the ones where everybody has good knowledge on IT but the IT department only coordinate these already knowledgeable people.
As an example of where an IT department seems like a bad idea how's about my company. I work in a department that makes use of embedded systems. These systems connect to Windows systems. The interface is not always that clear however. In addition the IT department are responsible for IT systems connected at sea which are often out of satellite connectivity.
There must be a better way of organising this. One idea I had was to have one person in each department with an IT background spend time in the IT department and then act as a representative for that department. Have you any documentation on other ways to arrange IT support other than a monolithic department I can show management?
"Respecting borders is more important than justice" ^ the view that is prevalent outside the USA and the reason why the USA is despised regardless of whether it is the best way of doing things or not.
Is it worth it?
It can be hard to think that a neighbour is doing bad things but what is the price of going into their border to fix it? If this was weighed up properly then we could be making an impact in some terrorist activities but in a optimised way. No point going into Afghanistan if it's only going to annoy the rest of the Arab world right? It's especially important to do this because otherwise Israel can use the USA as a pawn.
We know security is driven by profits, can we have liberties driven by profits?
For example, laptops are allowed on planes for business people. What can we learn from this? I think we can learn that people with the cash will be able to bypass all the security clearing. Certainly we can already do this by private chartering a plane. Perhaps we can look into lowering the cash needing to do so, so that eventually only the very poor have to undergo various scans.
So, laptop computers, were they originally banned? If so how did business go about influencing having them back? That's the process we need to know more about; corrupting the corruptors.
It a compromise but better to have a plan B than nothing.
Price drops on midnight on the 13th, but this post was made on Tuesday November 15, @10:18AM and there is no real response in Bitcoin value.
There is still no other way to hold a currency in one's head unaided for example, so the fundamentals are the same (it's still useful, no alternative yet).
But if it can be done, why not use Fracking to make earthquakes happen, collect the energy sent off, have a predictable event, have a smaller event through high frequency.
Being Slashdot I suppose is why I can't see mention of the possibility that only one half of the couple has a Facebook account. That's an interesting scenario.
Deletion is probably effective but I expect the data is retained (ordered by gov.... cia, whoever pays or coerces enough) for bigger court cases.
In Argentina before they had the crash that the west is about to have rubbish was viewed this way. But after the 2002 financial crash so many people were destitute that an army of people was born and found searching the dustbins primarily for cardboard.
Now the crash is past this group of people seemingly come out of nowhere at night and clean up the streets. Now people just through rubbish out wherever and there is hardly any governement provided collection. Compare this with western Europe where everything is a cost and a problem to dispose of, so much that people dump it anywhere.
I always suggest working with the market rather than fighting against it. If there is a problem then attempt to steer the market flow rather than trying to make water go uphill.
In this example people who wish to securely transfer ownership to a disposal company should state thier intentions and those collecting otherwise protected by default.
This is the kind of lesson that this economic disaster will tell whether we like it or not.
"In the online article Digital Maoism, Lanier argues that the collective is more likely to be smart only when 1. it isn't defining its own questions, 2. when the goodness of an answer can be evaluated by a simple result (such as a single numeric value,) and 3. when the information system which informs the collective is filtered by a quality control mechanism that relies on individuals to a high degree. Only under those circumstances, a collective can be smarter than a person. If any of these conditions are broken, the collective becomes unreliable or worse."
I'd like to add, is it easier to corrupt crowd sourced decisions or individuals? (i.e. crack the counting system vs outing the Greek PM and not carrying out a referendum as requested)
In the UK we have a lot of unelected quango organisations. There are so many 1000's of them in a way this is a smaller scale crowd outsourcing of decisions.
When a protest group, terrorist group or even a lone gunman does something to hit the news I always want to know what it is exactly they are trying to bring attention to.
Is it co-conspiratorial to report the reason, thus giving the action a voice? Or is it serving the people who want to know?
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The main thing for me is that the films are all rubbish.
Theres plenty of good films in other languages with subtitles but I can never get my boring western friends to go to anything that doesnt involve hollywood cliches.
It would be interesting to see the figures for Bollywood films, French and Spanish language, to test some the assumptions.
thanks for the detail, the most useful comment so far to those interested.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the box but i want to know more about mesh networks. Here i see the hardware, what are the words to search for, for information on getting all this equipment to mesh together? I remember reading about adhoc wifi mesh networks but now reading this renews my interest in that and more basic networks in addition to wanting to know more about this network
empoverished area?
pawn shop type loan deposit for titanium to fund lawsuit against company to fix house
i think the early adopter reward is convienient to address the problem of variable value. Variable value is a result of not enough speculation to smooth it out. There's not much reward for accepting bitcoin now before critical mass might be true but there is reward
The value changes represent a cashflow problem due to delays in conversion to other mediums.
Bitinstant helps in this regards. If you're worried about a deposit becoming worthless overnight you could convert automatically to a currency you have more faith in that way.
Of course the value can go up as well as down so it's more cash flow planning than the pure asset risk you say.
All comments so far have been anglophone.
www.synalabs.com is the only francophone company I know of. Servers in Paris, which is close to London server space of course.
I'm sure there will be others as well for Spanish and so on, anyone with experience from Mexico?
I make the case for having a separate basic phone:
http://moneybutnofixedabode.blogspot.com/2007/10/phone-for-traveller.html
In this blog post I'm referring to use for people who travel a lot. But it seems relevent here too.
Keep your tablet or smartphone for non phone things and a separate basic very small phone for phone things. This way if you run out of battery you can still make calls. It's so much simpler than falling into a universe of emergency chargers, trying to get all features into one device and so on.
Now... what about that camera....
doh!
Well, I was making the case for pairing a Android tablet with a watchphone... but to get a camera in there too? hmm...
Swap the batteries for goodness sake!
- make it easier to swap the batteries!
1) The phyisical process of changing batteries needs to be easier
2) The possible trade of poor quality batteries for good quality needs to be addressed
^ these are more organisation issues than technical. If you have an EV you can already set this up yourself for a regular long journey to work. You stow your batteries along the route with people who charge them for you for a fee.
Unfortunately, you have to own a number of sets of batteries because trading batteries right now afaik is unworkable. But it is possible for basic routes.
i'm looking for a script to logon to my gmail and sign any email in the drafts folder.
Pendango i found was no good because i had to carry it with me.
This is important because i travel in parts of the world where kidnaps are common. I want to be able to prove it's me with signing. Encryption may attract attention but it's useful against the pretty thief, which is why i'm glad i had my passwords encrypted on my phone when it got stolen.
I once needed access to a credit card i'd left at home with my folks. I relised i had no way of communicating it securely. In the end we had to split the transaction of that info over email and a voip call. On reflection a pots phone would have been better... In fact encrypting voip is another must do.
Convieience is a big part of security
I got into a taxi in London and the taxi driver told me hed seen someone breaking into a van outside my friends house.
Because its my friends house I encouraged him to report it so we can defend our neighbourhood.
He wouldnt. He was afraid or something I dont know. I couldnt understand it. He said "I dont want to stick my nose in", made excuses. I was pissed but I had to catch a flight so I sent an SMS to my friend to ask them to tell the carpenter whos van it was. They didnt either. I couldnt get them to even look after the are right outside thier own door!
If I see this again and Ive got time Ill kick the crap out of the taxi driver until he furfills his duty. For his own protection of course ( karma ).
Ive learnt to ignore the phone when it rings and I need maximum attention on the road.
If I think its safe I take the call with hands free but assign maximum attention to the road. I sometimes have to ignore the person on the other end if the traffic demands my attention.
This kind of thing took a while to learn and takes disapline. Building this skill into the driving test is the decent way to address this stuff rather than playing wackamole on technology and irritating the crap out of everyone, driven by fear.
"HTTP requests are now handled in a separate thread by default"
Thank god! Im sick of tired of programs hanging up while they wait for a http request... or even hanging on connectivity loss.
Do this always please devs, always!
The idea that everybody has to have insurance sounds like a good idea because this can help to settle disagreements right?
In practice itÂs a corrupt tax.
If you want to bypass all this and have the minimum requirements to self insure (ItÂs about 100,000 in the UK) you can bypass this BS.
Apart from the lack of openess such that I find it hard to feel I'm having a private conversation... I like the software on phones these days.
It's the hardware that has kept me waiting with a Symbian phone.
Battery life is well off enough to go camping with and the screens are too detailed. I would prefer black and white with a 8MP camera if it lasted a week on charge.
Perhaps owning a SonyEriccson P800 has scarred me.
Not to be confused with the RightToRepair campaign subject:
http://www.r2rc.eu/
http://www.righttorepair.org/
I like to see a different perspective on this.
The anonymous comment "So, the article is from The Daily Mail, also known as The Daily Racist. Not that silly fairytale believing people aren't acting silly, but how big of an issue is this, really? Is there an agenda pushing this "news"?"
speaks volumes. For some reason secular (atheist) propaganda is really popular right now, it's like someone is trying to paint Dawkins as some kind of religious leader, which I don't think he'd be best pleased about.
I remember being lectured on completely different subjects, or at least took issue with for not hearing both sides of the argument. At the time I went along with it for fear of being marked down if I disagreed - it seemed the only way to tell would be to find out after the exam.
Religious groups are not the only groups who disagree with the current bending of evolution to mask other theories. What about people who believe that man was a result of melding ape DNA with ET DNA, thus explaining the evolutionary jump. That group isn't religious but would also be right to be peeved that the discussion of intelligent influence is omitted too.
I think what people have issue with is not that the subject is covered but the way it's thought of in atheist religious terms. An understanding that we evolved from the coastal marine environment has allowed me to come with things in my daily life that help me (electrolytic salts balance), that would have been possible without knowing that we came from the ocean. Likewise for bacteria and resistance to drugs. However,
By on the one hand saying that we act as god in what we do with selective breeding and DNA manipulation while at the same time saying that evolution is the only process on earth and also dismissing all major written and oral traditional records (not just Islam but pretty much every religion has a record of creationism), then what you have is bigotry.
I'll know things are back to normal when I hear more of "We think" "Maybe" "It's possible" "But on the other hand" in presentation rather than such a clearly defined history of humanity
As soon as I see the phrase "IT Department" I feel something is wrong.
While this is fine for a 1990's world these days IT is so ubiquitous and essential to businesses it's becoming more and more old fashioned to departmentalise IT.
Successful companies using IT to modern extents today seem to be the ones where everybody has good knowledge on IT but the IT department only coordinate these already knowledgeable people.
As an example of where an IT department seems like a bad idea how's about my company.
I work in a department that makes use of embedded systems. These systems connect to Windows systems. The interface is not always that clear however. In addition the IT department are responsible for IT systems connected at sea which are often out of satellite connectivity.
There must be a better way of organising this. One idea I had was to have one person in each department with an IT background spend time in the IT department and then act as a representative for that department. Have you any documentation on other ways to arrange IT support other than a monolithic department I can show management?
"Respecting borders is more important than justice"
^ the view that is prevalent outside the USA and the reason why the USA is despised regardless of whether it is the best way of doing things or not.
Is it worth it?
It can be hard to think that a neighbour is doing bad things but what is the price of going into their border to fix it? If this was weighed up properly then we could be making an impact in some terrorist activities but in a optimised way. No point going into Afghanistan if it's only going to annoy the rest of the Arab world right? It's especially important to do this because otherwise Israel can use the USA as a pawn.
Is there anything we can do to turn this around?
We know security is driven by profits, can we have liberties driven by profits?
For example, laptops are allowed on planes for business people. What can we learn from this?
I think we can learn that people with the cash will be able to bypass all the security clearing. Certainly we can already do this by private chartering a plane. Perhaps we can look into lowering the cash needing to do so, so that eventually only the very poor have to undergo various scans.
So, laptop computers, were they originally banned? If so how did business go about influencing having them back? That's the process we need to know more about; corrupting the corruptors.
It a compromise but better to have a plan B than nothing.
It's nice that they asked.
Price drops on midnight on the 13th,
but this post was made on Tuesday November 15, @10:18AM and there is no real response in Bitcoin value.
There is still no other way to hold a currency in one's head unaided for example, so the fundamentals are the same (it's still useful, no alternative yet).
Really need to sort those chemical out!
But if it can be done, why not use Fracking to make earthquakes happen, collect the energy sent off, have a predictable event, have a smaller event through high frequency.
Being Slashdot I suppose is why I can't see mention of the possibility that only one half of the couple has a Facebook account. That's an interesting scenario.
Deletion is probably effective but I expect the data is retained (ordered by gov.... cia, whoever pays or coerces enough) for bigger court cases.
People have varying views of rubbish disposal.
In Argentina before they had the crash that the west is about to have rubbish was viewed this way.
But after the 2002 financial crash so many people were destitute that an army of people was born and found searching the dustbins primarily for cardboard.
Now the crash is past this group of people seemingly come out of nowhere at night and clean up the streets. Now people just through rubbish out wherever and there is hardly any governement provided collection. Compare this with western Europe where everything is a cost and a problem to dispose of, so much that people dump it anywhere.
I always suggest working with the market rather than fighting against it. If there is a problem then attempt to steer the market flow rather than trying to make water go uphill.
In this example people who wish to securely transfer ownership to a disposal company should state thier intentions and those collecting otherwise protected by default.
This is the kind of lesson that this economic disaster will tell whether we like it or not.
'because people are stupid' was the view I took recently... but now I'm not so sure.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Criticism
"In the online article Digital Maoism, Lanier argues that the collective is more likely to be smart only when 1. it isn't defining its own questions, 2. when the goodness of an answer can be evaluated by a simple result (such as a single numeric value,) and 3. when the information system which informs the collective is filtered by a quality control mechanism that relies on individuals to a high degree. Only under those circumstances, a collective can be smarter than a person. If any of these conditions are broken, the collective becomes unreliable or worse."
I'd like to add, is it easier to corrupt crowd sourced decisions or individuals?
(i.e. crack the counting system vs outing the Greek PM and not carrying out a referendum as requested)
In the UK we have a lot of unelected quango organisations. There are so many 1000's of them in a way this is a smaller scale crowd outsourcing of decisions.
When a protest group, terrorist group or even a lone gunman does something to hit the news I always want to know what it is exactly they are trying to bring attention to.
Is it co-conspiratorial to report the reason, thus giving the action a voice? Or is it serving the people who want to know?