I might be just skeptical, but I wonder if the presence or not, of economies of scale on the new batteries is not related on how short term the subsidies are...
Ideology aside, it makes little sense to build a huge plant that will be cost effective while the product is subsidized, but operate at a loss when the subsidy is removed. (Although, usually, it's a few years after the building of a plant that you amortize a cost, let's just use this as a thought experiment for now, just to keep away from the ideology thing)
It's pretty interesting that we're going from "programmer's tools should be easier to use" which in my mind is like "this level should be legible" or "this screwdriver shouldn't slip in your hand". And now we're talking about how the skill of the user should match the job they're trying to do?
Most Architects and engineers don't say "if the cement machine isn't hard enough to use, the cement person will not be skilled enough to build my foundation right". Granted, there's a lot of thought processes that are associated with any one programming language, and most of them come from the deficiencies, workarounds and quirks of each one. Oddly enough, it's those thought processes that make someone a good or bad software developer, not the language that they use, but how they use it. If you program in C like a smalltalk developer, the results would surprise me too.
Can we get back on track to the languages themselves, or are we really talking about "the typical programmer of language X"?
They are also responsible to the state for their use(or abuse) of their privileges. They should be recorded at all times while doing so. That such a thing isn't INSISTED on by the legislature implies that the legislature does not feel responsable, or accountable for such abuses of the system. What that does say about the system, I leave to the reader.
If that were true, we could prove evolution wrong.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger, not weaker.
The difficulties of the language are negligeable compared to the difficulty of writing a secure, complex app, simply because the language's complexity is negligeable compared to the sum complexity of all the apps that can be written in it.
Easy-to-use, "simple" languages, ought to be more secure than C, but in the real world, only logo is really safer than anything else, just because you can do almost nothing with it.
On the other hand, with 30 million Canadians, and around 20 million of that in Quebec and Ontario. Just how democratic does the other way around sound?
You're right, whatever competition authorities in the US could declare that while Android and Iphone and RIM are technically competing, their actions to reduce competition makes them an oligarchy, which is also illegal.
They haven't done so with the cell phone carriers, for far more egregious and obvious infractions.
I also wonder why he needs to report this publicly, except to reap publicity from it. Wouldn't an actual child porn ring(as opposed to just a site hosting some questionable images) better handled by the appropriate divisions of the said FBI? Yes they would, they most likely have already seen the pic, and deemed they have better things to do, like catching the actual child pornographers/abusers. In the case they haven't making a public stink about the site just erodes our rights, but has the picture is already taken, it gains little by being aired in this manner.
The more I think about it, the more I think the current legal climate(extra penalties for checking for existing patents, almost wilful neglection of prior art, etc...) is a deliberate attempt to skew the patent system towards large companies holding portfolies of defensive patents so broad and vague they are a revenue stream for those companies(think ibm), and the "patent trolls" are actually just small remoras hanging on to the big sharks. The innovators work for neither, the innovators are the enemy of this system.
The laws don't just have to be changed, they have to be reversed, to do anything to help innovation.
If I may offer a suggestion, I've noticed that looking at jobs per skillset(using mine), the job titles just changed in my area, and the ratio of agency jobs vs direct hire went from 1/5 to 98/100...
I suspect those who assumed, like I did, that the job "title" wouldn't change, would report the "no offer" while those who went to google with site:jobsite.com unix system administration, like my job board search filters were written(sometimes I do the right things for the wrong reasons, I'm sure I'm not alone), got hundreds of hits(I've seen my current job four different times on the same job board, with multiple agencies...).
P.S. I'm not in the us, but I have search filters looking for opportunities there too, and it seems they have a similar movement.
I think it's worthwhile to note that such multi-function devices happen more despite manufacturer's wishes, than because of them.
How often do you upgrade your pc? how often do you upgrade your tv? Probably a lot less than people upgrade/lose/damange their cellphones(in absolute terms if not necessarily on slashdot).
There's a lot of hype for the ipad(normal,it's not even selling yet), I doubt that hype will stay after people actually get the device...
Back then, if the program didn't run on your hardware, especially an office suite designed for businesses, it was the software developer/packager's problem.
Now it's yours...
A combination of moving from lotus-quattro-wordperfect/ms office to just ms office, with maybe star office/open office if you know how.
Lack of competition was never a good thing.
That you need a more powerful computer to run the same software is considered a feature by microsoft, or at least, it seems to be, considering they act more like Intel et al. is their customer, and not the person who buys the retail box(which is, to their defense, the minority of their sales, the bulk which is oem deals and business vlks)
Having it be a DNA instead of a regular fingerprint isn't the problem.
Having digtalised fingerprints(actual strings of bytes) stored about me that can be legally claimed to be me, regardless of how they are gathered, transmitted, handled is.
He's looking for a technical solution to the problem that the government can't be trusted with identifying information about anyone. Bad enough when it's convicted criminals(you can say they earned some of it). But ip theft occurs, with just what amounts to near-public information. Just how bad will it get when people can just copy a string of bytes and say it's you?
He's trying to solve the wrong problem, because the right problem is NP-Hard, if not unsolvable.
How can all those clerks, police officers, etc.. have access to what amounts to identifying information, and how can we secure it, how can we make sure it's not used for police officers "fishing" for someone to convict?
Those are very hard questions, the answers haven't seen much public debate, and his solution addresses none of them, only the "if your identity leaks, you've also lost the privacy lock on your medical file".
If there was a court order to do this, they should have said this was the reason. "Objectionable content" means citybank checks the content itself, and finds it not complying with rules at citibank. If they are acting on behalf of a third party, it's much more professional to identify the third party, and let them explain it.
On the other hand, your other point has merit, we only have the web site owner's word for this...
I was just using an example that really stood out. Most magazines have one issue a year that really sells, because of just one article that outdoes their competitors. The SI example is recurrent every year, most other magazines aren't so regular.
Slashdot Mirror
I might be just skeptical, but I wonder if the presence or not, of economies of scale on the new batteries is not related on how short term the subsidies are...
Ideology aside, it makes little sense to build a huge plant that will be cost effective while the product is subsidized, but operate at a loss when the subsidy is removed. (Although, usually, it's a few years after the building of a plant that you amortize a cost, let's just use this as a thought experiment for now, just to keep away from the ideology thing)
And then you have to engineer some reason for the current key to be expired early.
It's pretty interesting that we're going from "programmer's tools should be easier to use" which in my mind is like "this level should be legible" or "this screwdriver shouldn't slip in your hand". And now we're talking about how the skill of the user should match the job they're trying to do?
Most Architects and engineers don't say "if the cement machine isn't hard enough to use, the cement person will not be skilled enough to build my foundation right". Granted, there's a lot of thought processes that are associated with any one programming language, and most of them come from the deficiencies, workarounds and quirks of each one. Oddly enough, it's those thought processes that make someone a good or bad software developer, not the language that they use, but how they use it. If you program in C like a smalltalk developer, the results would surprise me too.
Can we get back on track to the languages themselves, or are we really talking about "the typical programmer of language X"?
They are also responsible to the state for their use(or abuse) of their privileges. They should be recorded at all times while doing so. That such a thing isn't INSISTED on by the legislature implies that the legislature does not feel responsable, or accountable for such abuses of the system. What that does say about the system, I leave to the reader.
If that were true, we could prove evolution wrong.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger, not weaker.
The difficulties of the language are negligeable compared to the difficulty of writing a secure, complex app, simply because the language's complexity is negligeable compared to the sum complexity of all the apps that can be written in it.
Easy-to-use, "simple" languages, ought to be more secure than C, but in the real world, only logo is really safer than anything else, just because you can do almost nothing with it.
On the other hand, with 30 million Canadians, and around 20 million of that in Quebec and Ontario. Just how democratic does the other way around sound?
Ceph reminds me more of Coda than glusterfs. Anyone remember coda?
I've had undergrad teachers asking you to write the plagiarism detecting program.
Then run it on itself, and see who cheated.
Ok, I have a headache now too.
You're right, whatever competition authorities in the US could declare that while Android and Iphone and RIM are technically competing, their actions to reduce competition makes them an oligarchy, which is also illegal.
They haven't done so with the cell phone carriers, for far more egregious and obvious infractions.
Who protects the consumer in this case?
I also wonder why he needs to report this publicly, except to reap publicity from it. Wouldn't an actual child porn ring(as opposed to just a site hosting some questionable images) better handled by the appropriate divisions of the said FBI? Yes they would, they most likely have already seen the pic, and deemed they have better things to do, like catching the actual child pornographers/abusers. In the case they haven't making a public stink about the site just erodes our rights, but has the picture is already taken, it gains little by being aired in this manner.
Well as far as PCI-DSS is concerned RSA is also a compliance player, at least in terms of many of their products, so it's even a win-win for them.
The more I think about it, the more I think the current legal climate(extra penalties for checking for existing patents, almost wilful neglection of prior art, etc...) is a deliberate attempt to skew the patent system towards large companies holding portfolies of defensive patents so broad and vague they are a revenue stream for those companies(think ibm), and the "patent trolls" are actually just small remoras hanging on to the big sharks. The innovators work for neither, the innovators are the enemy of this system.
The laws don't just have to be changed, they have to be reversed, to do anything to help innovation.
If I may offer a suggestion, I've noticed that looking at jobs per skillset(using mine), the job titles just changed in my area, and the ratio of agency jobs vs direct hire went from 1/5 to 98/100...
I suspect those who assumed, like I did, that the job "title" wouldn't change, would report the "no offer" while those who went to google with site:jobsite.com unix system administration, like my job board search filters were written(sometimes I do the right things for the wrong reasons, I'm sure I'm not alone), got hundreds of hits(I've seen my current job four different times on the same job board, with multiple agencies...).
P.S. I'm not in the us, but I have search filters looking for opportunities there too, and it seems they have a similar movement.
Just food for thought.
I can see both your point and the grandparents...
I think it's worthwhile to note that such multi-function devices happen more despite manufacturer's wishes, than because of them.
How often do you upgrade your pc? how often do you upgrade your tv? Probably a lot less than people upgrade/lose/damange their cellphones(in absolute terms if not necessarily on slashdot).
There's a lot of hype for the ipad(normal,it's not even selling yet), I doubt that hype will stay after people actually get the device...
Just a note, there's nothing wrong with your post, you just assume the rules in the US happen everywhere else.
Judges are not elected in Canada, but appointed.
Popularity does play a role, since a politician does the appointing, but it's not an election.
Back then, if the program didn't run on your hardware, especially an office suite designed for businesses, it was the software developer/packager's problem.
Now it's yours...
A combination of moving from lotus-quattro-wordperfect/ms office
to
just ms office, with maybe star office/open office if you know how.
Lack of competition was never a good thing.
That you need a more powerful computer to run the same software is considered a feature by microsoft, or at least, it seems to be, considering they act more like Intel et al. is their customer, and not the person who buys the retail box(which is, to their defense, the minority of their sales, the bulk which is oem deals and business vlks)
Nope, but I bet the betas are more interesting than regular classes.
Having it be a DNA instead of a regular fingerprint isn't the problem.
Having digtalised fingerprints(actual strings of bytes) stored about me that can be legally claimed to be me, regardless of how they are gathered, transmitted, handled is.
He's looking for a technical solution to the problem that the government can't be trusted with identifying information about anyone. Bad enough when it's convicted criminals(you can say they earned some of it). But ip theft occurs, with just what amounts to near-public information. Just how bad will it get when people can just copy a string of bytes and say it's you?
He's trying to solve the wrong problem, because the right problem is NP-Hard, if not unsolvable.
How can all those clerks, police officers, etc.. have access to what amounts to identifying information, and how can we secure it, how can we make sure it's not used for police officers "fishing" for someone to convict?
Those are very hard questions, the answers haven't seen much public debate, and his solution addresses none of them, only the "if your identity leaks, you've also lost the privacy lock on your medical file".
I was going to say the only safe approach was to whitelist, but you beat me to it.
If you're not sure, don't.
You're better off living without that one piece of software that's obscure, than dealing with the malware.
If you really can't live without one piece of software, then you gotta research it.
As I've said, the swimsuit issue is a rarity.
In fact, the behaviour of most media executives is that they want to set the price retroactively, based on popularity.
I just wish governments would wise up, and only let them advertise caps at 100% saturation...
You have a 1mbps cap? ok
that's 1000000bits/s * 3600s/1hour * 24 hours/1day * 30days/1month * 1byte/8bits, here's your cap
This also takes care of overselling, anyone want to promote such a regulation in the web hosting industry?
If there was a court order to do this, they should have said this was the reason. "Objectionable content" means citybank checks the content itself, and finds it not complying with rules at citibank. If they are acting on behalf of a third party, it's much more professional to identify the third party, and let them explain it.
On the other hand, your other point has merit, we only have the web site owner's word for this...
I was just using an example that really stood out. Most magazines have one issue a year that really sells, because of just one article that outdoes their competitors. The SI example is recurrent every year, most other magazines aren't so regular.
Most magazines wouldn't be ok with an automated process because it wouldn't let them charge extra for some issues.
I'm not saying google intends to do this, but I doubt sports illustrated would let their swimsuit issue go for the same price as the rest.
Avatar wasn't the first use of that, they actually reused a name that had been used in literature for decades...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium