(b) is probably incorrect, since the cost of the device may well be subsidized by the presumed profits generated by locking the device down in the first place, and indeed the hardware itself sold at a loss to encourage a wide market base.
See the original xbox for reference.
More likely that the Japanese only asked to buy F-22s so that the US would say no, so that they could continue to enjoy the benefits of free American military protection.
Building their own stealth jets is probably a prestige move, maybe a business move if they want to export them.
First off: Iraq is geographically nothing like Japan. Japan is an island, and therefore easier to contain and control, compared to the open land borders on all sides of Iraq that insurgents can stream across willy-nilly, and it's smaller.
2nd: When we took over Japan, the first thing we round up everyone who was in charge of business and government during the war, and then put them back in charge to get / keep the infrastructure up and running. Going back to the island thing again; they are culturally homogeneous. Whereas we have Sunnis and Shiites and what have you trying to kill each other in Iraq in the vacuum of infrastructure collapse, and all the people that were running things before are probably either dead, or terribly unpopular.
3rd: All that being said, just because Japan calls itself a democracy, and even though we wrote their constitution, that doesn't mean that they're like us. Our impact on their culture and government has been mostly superficial, defined by nepotism, one-party politics, conformity, and scarred by repeated scandals. This is the result after how many decades of occupation?
There's just simply no comparison, and any conclusions that can be drawn is that things will be harder in Iraq.
Right, but the closer enforcement can come to that standard, the better. (not worse)
Parents sometimes get to use the carpool lanes with kids, but with infrared scanners that miss small children in carseats because they probably look about the same as pets, there's no logical reason that they should be allowed to keep the privileges they'd enjoyed as a byproduct of previously difficult-to-enforce scenarios. As I'm sure speeding laws were more difficult to enforce in the absence of radar guns, the law will evolve to embrace the technology of enforcement.
It makes things cooler. Literally. You could put enough solar power plants in Arizona to power the whole U.S. and it'd lower the average temperature by about 5 degrees Celsius.
So we solve global warming and our power needs all at once.
I've had a Sharp MM20 for a few years now, and it's about as thin and light as what they're talking about, and it's made it through dozens of airports and daily road-warrior abuse without any more problems than a damaged power connector, (from getting wrenched about while plugged into the car charger) which was covered by the extended warranty.
It's not fast / powerful, but it's great at writing, emailing and research, which is everything I need a school / work computer to do. I'd imagine that a magnesium-encased, flash-drive version would be even more durable, so if this makes it to market, it'd be a worthy successor.
The nice thing about a lighter computer is that they don't hit the floor quite so hard, and they're pretty easy to keep a hold on them. And I know from previous experience that a $3000+ price tag will keep your grip pretty tight.
The thumb drives weren't actually left on Reznor's orders, but actually planted by the RIAA as a way to sucker people that listen to their music into distributing copyrighted files, so that the RIAA could then sue them. Brilliant, isn't it? Reznor's probably just trying to cover up the conspiracy by taking credit for a semi-intelligent promotional campaign.
This is probably just the trial run. Soon thumb drives will begin appearing in venue bathrooms everywhere, luring unsuspecting fans into distributing watermarked MP3s that can be tracked back to individuals that can then be sued for thousands in damages. This is really a pretty smart way to make a buck; just trick people into illegally sharing your IP, and then NAIL them with a suit, make a quick $3000-$6000 in an out of court settlement, rinse, repeat.
Now all that's left is for virus/worm designers to copyright their "software," and sue the "users" for distribution. Then you just involve Monsanto somehow, (a USB thumbdrive that also emits pollen perhaps?) and you've got an evil scheme the likes the world has never seen!
Does anyone else hear cackling, or is that just me?
Asking wiki is like asking a fact-hoarding know-it-all roommate; it might give you a direction to look, but you're not going to anchor a paper to his off-hand comment.
For any kind of college-level research, citing a wiki as important fact is a recipe for disaster; it's simply does not have the level of trust and depth that true academic sources require.
That doesn't undermine its importance as a starting point though, giving a rudimentary outline of a subject and some initial sources to follow up on. E.g., if I know nothing about the First Nations of Canada and how they've been affected by modernization, then looking at a wiki would be the first step, followed by extensive research to verify and find "real" information. It wouldn't be the last step.
"Please listen to the pre-recorded message about male enhancement drugs..."?
E-mailed spam has the advantage of hypertext. Easy to send, easy for people glance at, then click the link, and someone gets paid. A VOIP call has none of those benefits. Wouldn't be worth sending.
The whole article reads as a "what if...?" FUD piece on VOIP to scare off the kind of people that don't read slashdot: The sort of article that entices people to seek security snakeoils.
As a coder turned sales rep, I'd say to get a head start by getting some sales experience.
Knowing how to meet people and develop contacts, sell a product, (e.g., you and your resume) and simply how to communicate effectively gives a huge advantage over the masses of introverted and pasty CS grads and imported indian geniuses competing for the dwindling good jobs that are being sent overseas. Business/life has always been about people; being likeable, and having the biggest network will always return more than just more technical knowledge than the next guy, and/or a fancy college degree.
I'd recommend Tim Sanders' Love is the Killer App is an excellent how-to on acquiring a crucial edge.
the perspective we hold, we assume to be correct; that information is always neutral, more of it is always beneficial, and that we have the perfect ability to control our exposure & reaction to it.
but do we really have the capability to know all and make rational decisions? the foundation for rational thought demands this, yet the experience of living in this post-modern culture questions this reality. if the lonely, self-sufficient, individual-centered reality we create here is truly an illusion, what alternative exists?
one of the merits of chinese culture is that property rights are secured not at the individual level, but at the community / village level, such that larger groups form and cooperate and help eachother, rather than the lonely competition and atomic family of western culture, with it's commoditization of everything, including relationships.
and if a capitalist society wherein a community is a better answer than the individual as the smallest unit of economic actor, what steps must be taken to protect the integrity of the community and society? could we be wrong to think that we can imbibe any and all information without negative reprecussion?
are we really more free, when we mostly consume advertising rather than precious "free speech"? we have so many options on what to BUY, but we lack options of what we may do, and who we may be.
Writing a book that urges people to blow up buildings with bombs that you explain how to make, is a third issue entirely, and is, again, illegal.
What if the title is "So you want to be a demolitionist: Working with explosives for fun and profit" and the author is in the construction industry?
Not just to poke fun, but seriously... Many unsavory expressions can be very close, or overlap, with useful and desireable ones, and dealing with the former advesely affects the latter. E.g., filters in public access terminals that are designed to prevent people from looking at porn usually prevent people from finding out about breast cancer and how to preform a self-examination.
Maybe analysis of offensive sites and the people that attend them could lead to a better resolution of the root problem, rather than censoring them; censorship just makes a problem less obvious, not less potent.
Does anyone here really think that a website is capable of turning good citizens into cannible-necrophiles? I mean, c'mon... if you let the website tell you to do it, the problem isn't the website.
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(b) is probably incorrect, since the cost of the device may well be subsidized by the presumed profits generated by locking the device down in the first place, and indeed the hardware itself sold at a loss to encourage a wide market base. See the original xbox for reference.
More likely that the Japanese only asked to buy F-22s so that the US would say no, so that they could continue to enjoy the benefits of free American military protection.
Building their own stealth jets is probably a prestige move, maybe a business move if they want to export them.
First off: Iraq is geographically nothing like Japan. Japan is an island, and therefore easier to contain and control, compared to the open land borders on all sides of Iraq that insurgents can stream across willy-nilly, and it's smaller.
2nd: When we took over Japan, the first thing we round up everyone who was in charge of business and government during the war, and then put them back in charge to get / keep the infrastructure up and running. Going back to the island thing again; they are culturally homogeneous. Whereas we have Sunnis and Shiites and what have you trying to kill each other in Iraq in the vacuum of infrastructure collapse, and all the people that were running things before are probably either dead, or terribly unpopular.
3rd: All that being said, just because Japan calls itself a democracy, and even though we wrote their constitution, that doesn't mean that they're like us. Our impact on their culture and government has been mostly superficial, defined by nepotism, one-party politics, conformity, and scarred by repeated scandals. This is the result after how many decades of occupation?
There's just simply no comparison, and any conclusions that can be drawn is that things will be harder in Iraq.
Right, but the closer enforcement can come to that standard, the better. (not worse)
Parents sometimes get to use the carpool lanes with kids, but with infrared scanners that miss small children in carseats because they probably look about the same as pets, there's no logical reason that they should be allowed to keep the privileges they'd enjoyed as a byproduct of previously difficult-to-enforce scenarios. As I'm sure speeding laws were more difficult to enforce in the absence of radar guns, the law will evolve to embrace the technology of enforcement.
It makes things cooler. Literally. You could put enough solar power plants in Arizona to power the whole U.S. and it'd lower the average temperature by about 5 degrees Celsius.
So we solve global warming and our power needs all at once.
Works pretty much everywhere, actually, as long as your talking to the right person.
It's called haggling: If the person you're talking to benefits directly when you buy, you can bet they'll bend a bit for the sale.
The files weren't transfered, but they were available, and that's supposed to be the same as distributing?
Is that like being too fugly to get laid, getting busted for prostitution?
I've had a Sharp MM20 for a few years now, and it's about as thin and light as what they're talking about, and it's made it through dozens of airports and daily road-warrior abuse without any more problems than a damaged power connector, (from getting wrenched about while plugged into the car charger) which was covered by the extended warranty.
It's not fast / powerful, but it's great at writing, emailing and research, which is everything I need a school / work computer to do. I'd imagine that a magnesium-encased, flash-drive version would be even more durable, so if this makes it to market, it'd be a worthy successor.
The nice thing about a lighter computer is that they don't hit the floor quite so hard, and they're pretty easy to keep a hold on them. And I know from previous experience that a $3000+ price tag will keep your grip pretty tight.
Here's my crazy conspiracy theory:
The thumb drives weren't actually left on Reznor's orders, but actually planted by the RIAA as a way to sucker people that listen to their music into distributing copyrighted files, so that the RIAA could then sue them. Brilliant, isn't it? Reznor's probably just trying to cover up the conspiracy by taking credit for a semi-intelligent promotional campaign.
This is probably just the trial run. Soon thumb drives will begin appearing in venue bathrooms everywhere, luring unsuspecting fans into distributing watermarked MP3s that can be tracked back to individuals that can then be sued for thousands in damages. This is really a pretty smart way to make a buck; just trick people into illegally sharing your IP, and then NAIL them with a suit, make a quick $3000-$6000 in an out of court settlement, rinse, repeat.
Now all that's left is for virus/worm designers to copyright their "software," and sue the "users" for distribution. Then you just involve Monsanto somehow, (a USB thumbdrive that also emits pollen perhaps?) and you've got an evil scheme the likes the world has never seen!
Does anyone else hear cackling, or is that just me?
Actually, it reminded me more of giant robots that defend Japan from Angels of destruction.
Asking wiki is like asking a fact-hoarding know-it-all roommate; it might give you a direction to look, but you're not going to anchor a paper to his off-hand comment.
For any kind of college-level research, citing a wiki as important fact is a recipe for disaster; it's simply does not have the level of trust and depth that true academic sources require.
That doesn't undermine its importance as a starting point though, giving a rudimentary outline of a subject and some initial sources to follow up on. E.g., if I know nothing about the First Nations of Canada and how they've been affected by modernization, then looking at a wiki would be the first step, followed by extensive research to verify and find "real" information. It wouldn't be the last step.
Seriously...
"Please listen to the pre-recorded message about male enhancement drugs..."?
E-mailed spam has the advantage of hypertext. Easy to send, easy for people glance at, then click the link, and someone gets paid. A VOIP call has none of those benefits. Wouldn't be worth sending.
The whole article reads as a "what if...?" FUD piece on VOIP to scare off the kind of people that don't read slashdot: The sort of article that entices people to seek security snakeoils.
As a coder turned sales rep, I'd say to get a head start by getting some sales experience.
Knowing how to meet people and develop contacts, sell a product, (e.g., you and your resume) and simply how to communicate effectively gives a huge advantage over the masses of introverted and pasty CS grads and imported indian geniuses competing for the dwindling good jobs that are being sent overseas. Business/life has always been about people; being likeable, and having the biggest network will always return more than just more technical knowledge than the next guy, and/or a fancy college degree.
I'd recommend Tim Sanders' Love is the Killer App is an excellent how-to on acquiring a crucial edge.
the perspective we hold, we assume to be correct; that information is always neutral, more of it is always beneficial, and that we have the perfect ability to control our exposure & reaction to it.
but do we really have the capability to know all and make rational decisions? the foundation for rational thought demands this, yet the experience of living in this post-modern culture questions this reality. if the lonely, self-sufficient, individual-centered reality we create here is truly an illusion, what alternative exists?
one of the merits of chinese culture is that property rights are secured not at the individual level, but at the community / village level, such that larger groups form and cooperate and help eachother, rather than the lonely competition and atomic family of western culture, with it's commoditization of everything, including relationships.
and if a capitalist society wherein a community is a better answer than the individual as the smallest unit of economic actor, what steps must be taken to protect the integrity of the community and society? could we be wrong to think that we can imbibe any and all information without negative reprecussion?
are we really more free, when we mostly consume advertising rather than precious "free speech"? we have so many options on what to BUY, but we lack options of what we may do, and who we may be.
What if the title is "So you want to be a demolitionist: Working with explosives for fun and profit" and the author is in the construction industry?
Not just to poke fun, but seriously... Many unsavory expressions can be very close, or overlap, with useful and desireable ones, and dealing with the former advesely affects the latter. E.g., filters in public access terminals that are designed to prevent people from looking at porn usually prevent people from finding out about breast cancer and how to preform a self-examination.
Maybe analysis of offensive sites and the people that attend them could lead to a better resolution of the root problem, rather than censoring them; censorship just makes a problem less obvious, not less potent.
Does anyone here really think that a website is capable of turning good citizens into cannible-necrophiles? I mean, c'mon... if you let the website tell you to do it, the problem isn't the website.
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