One hundred years ago it was newsworthy if an African wanted to open a factory to produce beer bottles, or forty years ago light bulbs (or at ScreenVision in South Africa, CRTs). It's nothing new, and the reason is simple. It's hard to open a company in a country where there is 8% unemployment and 15% of people are benchwarmers (or alcoholics, drug abusers, thieves, or don't get along with people). It is easier to avoid those 15% of less-productive people in a nation with 50% unemployment than it is in a country with 8% unemployment. If that's "exploitation" then I guess it's exploitation in the good way. 85% of Americans or Europeans may better educated than the top 50% of Cameroonians, but it doesn't matter if you need employees and can't outpay existing companies (like textile mills which have all left).
This is a long told story (updating announcments made 3 years ago). It's the equivalent of GMC saying they will leave the pickup truck market to focus on sedans due to strong competition from Ford and Toyota (watch for Hyundai to enter the market). It's unlikely Intel would return to PC boards as the market competition becomes more suppliers in a shrinking market, but just as Volkswagon can change its mind and make Beetles again, Intel is not barred from returning except for the decline in volume of demand. This story is "We mean it. We really are going to stop making pickup trucks, because fewer people are buying pickup trucks and other people are making them as well as we do". It's not the end of the pickup truck market and it's not the end of GMC. Ok, got it.
I transferred a good bit of money to my wife in Paris in 2007. It had worked twice previously. On the third time, Paypal "froze" the funds, IE took them out of our joint account in the USA, but not putting them into our account in France. Several weeks went by, I was calling constantly. One particular guy taking my calls will live in my memory forever. I learned to just say "escalate" "escalate" "escalate", as we reached a point when my wife in France's internet account would be cut off for non-payment. We had to keep faxing documents all showing both our names on both the accounts. It was an absolute horror show. I don't understand why there is not a class action suit against them for the interest Paypal earned from all of the people like me who had all of their money in Paypal limbo. I'm way too busy to worry about this now, but if I had time to, I'd hate their guts.
I use Google authenticator, which (in addition to, not in replacement of password) is re-generated every hour on my cell phone. The 4-6 digit "authenticator" lets me enter a password into a device to make that device (cell phone, laptop, PC, etc.) ok to open afterwards with just a password.
I accept this is better than just a password because I'm able to use simpler passwords rather than be forced to choose difficult and secure passwords on multiple sites. I forget one on a site and wind up giving them all my other passwords trying to open it (in multiple attempts) and don't like that. I especially resent entering difficult passwords into sites I don't know and don't trust... "Welcome to OneUseSite, please enter in a password with 16 letters, capitals and numeral and symbol". I don't like giving those sites an important password or even a method or clue that could be used to figure out other site passwords, but when I make one up I later forget it and wind up entering a good one in while trying to guess it (I keep a "throwaway password" for sites that make me authenticate myself for access to THEIR content... I don't care if someone reads NYTimes or WSJ with my password, that's their problem. The hardware encoded autheticator would be valuable to sites like these, and Netflix, where I give lots of friends my password because I don't care if they use it..
... of anyone who "ripped" an MP3 of a CD they already owned? When Napster first came out, I downloaded songs I had physical possession of media of, and kind of wondered if they could. The problem of course was the sheer temptation (all those other titles you DON'T own coming up in search)... but if someone only possessed MP3s they had physical media of, I wonder how they could be found guilty of stealing them.
I was kidding about the flamebait guys. Sorry to set fire to the firefly thread with the Intelligent Design comment. Maybe Slashdot should consider a "controlled burn" strategy where certain flame-war topics are brought up on a scheduled basis to protect from uncontrolled fires.
You either work at a job willing to train you, in which the Ph.D looks like a silly albatross, or you go get up to date. If you do the latter, people might assume you are up to date because of the Ph'D. But to say "I have a Ph'D and I am not up to date" sounds vaguely like "I've fallen and I can't get up"
It's dead, that's what's wrong with it. Polaroid's passed on! This manufacturer is no more! It has ceased to be! 'Polaroid's expired and gone to meet it's maker! It''s a stiff! Bereft of life, Polaroid rests in peace! Michael Land's Polaroid company was auctioned off, and the tradename was purchased by someone in Taipei, I think, or licensed to them. And RCA Victrola too. I don't mind an article about what the Taiwanese tradename owners or licensees are up to, but really it's no more interesting than if Acer, Asus, or Foxconn was doing it, there's none of the continuity implied.
This may have something to do with the "one child" limit on families, created by the Communist Party to deal with overpopulation. Chinese families tended to "prefer" boys, and there is an imbalance now of marrying age offspring. There may be a lot of 20-something sons spending a lot of time on the computer this decade.
Holy Nuisance Suits!! POW!! Patent Troll uses trademark law and patent disputes like kryptonite to disarm our Hero, CRASH!! leaving Bruce Wayne naked and barefoot. BAM!! POW!! Tune in next week, same [Delete]-time, same [Delete]-channel!!
I look at the paper I recycle, and realize that generally I printed it for insurance, just in case a hard drive goes down or a document is deleted or changed. Usually it was necessary, almost always unnecessary. Just like tornado, flood, or hurricane insurance. Should I do without insurance? I'd save some money.
Except the Westerners didn't dump their garbage there. That was the myth I'm talking about. The math was wrong, just like this math is wrong. Why was it believed? Looks like even smart people like you believed it. Profiling.
It does not hold water. Whoever was trying to shake him down could never have won a single case. He brought the case against the "patent holder" not vice-versa. The solicitation was like a fake yellow pages ad (mail it to 10,000, see if 1% are dumb enough to pay) of a decade ago. What is scary is what may happen in other nations: China's courts are starting to look into enforcement of USA and European patent and trademarks (at our insistence) and if they aren't lucky may bet what we asked for.
The highest growth rates in internet access, during the past 10 years, have been in nations earning about $3000 per year, or 1/10 the average GDP of "rich" nations. As more and more people get internet, we can expect the use of "cybercrime" to expand, just as we can expect car accidents to increase in nations where cars become affordable. Meanwhile, loans to Africans through organizations like Kiva.org are repaid at a higher rate than bank loans in America. I do a lot of business in the developing (or more aptly named, Emerging) world and find the "petri dish for increased cybercrime" alarmist. The rapid, rapid education and rise of geeks of color is a "petri dish" for film, art, photography, software development (see MEST in Ghana), blood banks, laughter, tears, hugs, etc. Yes, cyber crime will increase, like everything else will increase. The article is stupid.
By the way, in case you missed it, the stories about "80-90% of e-waste exports" being burned by primitive African children has also been disproven by 3 separate studies. Africa has had television since I lived there in the 1980s, and the junk filmed burned at African landfills was in use for years, it's the same generation of waste as goes to our own landfills. Three studies showed that 80-90% of used computers imported are successfully reused and repaired. Articles like this one lead to profiling and arrests of good people as "e-waste criminals". The "other-ization" of geeks of color is really shameful.
Using my google de-encryption method, the MBE Acronym appears to stand for the "Multi State Bar Exam" - a degree for Yankee lawyers practicing across state lines. Why on earth did they give that to this poor gentleman?
True. And yet if you promote short term consumption, and deny compound interest from investments, you'll end up with a world of poor people.
Time to balance the discussion and see where it's working, balance abuses, without one-word-sentence conclusions. The only people still living in caves, ironically, are in communist countries.
"Only applicants who do NOT know how to use Microsoft Office will be considered for this position"? Or "Only pilots without valid drivers licenses will be hired at Virgin Express"? If I hire a Spanish translator, I don't disqualify those who also speak English...
More specifically, let's start a Kickstarter campaign to put cockroaches on Mars. Lots of them, enough for them to eat each other and evolve quickly into a apecies that human religions, races and nations can rally against in a uniform cause. I think we could convince enough people it's a really really good idea.
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One hundred years ago it was newsworthy if an African wanted to open a factory to produce beer bottles, or forty years ago light bulbs (or at ScreenVision in South Africa, CRTs). It's nothing new, and the reason is simple. It's hard to open a company in a country where there is 8% unemployment and 15% of people are benchwarmers (or alcoholics, drug abusers, thieves, or don't get along with people). It is easier to avoid those 15% of less-productive people in a nation with 50% unemployment than it is in a country with 8% unemployment. If that's "exploitation" then I guess it's exploitation in the good way. 85% of Americans or Europeans may better educated than the top 50% of Cameroonians, but it doesn't matter if you need employees and can't outpay existing companies (like textile mills which have all left).
This is a long told story (updating announcments made 3 years ago). It's the equivalent of GMC saying they will leave the pickup truck market to focus on sedans due to strong competition from Ford and Toyota (watch for Hyundai to enter the market). It's unlikely Intel would return to PC boards as the market competition becomes more suppliers in a shrinking market, but just as Volkswagon can change its mind and make Beetles again, Intel is not barred from returning except for the decline in volume of demand. This story is "We mean it. We really are going to stop making pickup trucks, because fewer people are buying pickup trucks and other people are making them as well as we do". It's not the end of the pickup truck market and it's not the end of GMC. Ok, got it.
I transferred a good bit of money to my wife in Paris in 2007. It had worked twice previously. On the third time, Paypal "froze" the funds, IE took them out of our joint account in the USA, but not putting them into our account in France. Several weeks went by, I was calling constantly. One particular guy taking my calls will live in my memory forever. I learned to just say "escalate" "escalate" "escalate", as we reached a point when my wife in France's internet account would be cut off for non-payment. We had to keep faxing documents all showing both our names on both the accounts. It was an absolute horror show. I don't understand why there is not a class action suit against them for the interest Paypal earned from all of the people like me who had all of their money in Paypal limbo. I'm way too busy to worry about this now, but if I had time to, I'd hate their guts.
I use Google authenticator, which (in addition to, not in replacement of password) is re-generated every hour on my cell phone. The 4-6 digit "authenticator" lets me enter a password into a device to make that device (cell phone, laptop, PC, etc.) ok to open afterwards with just a password.
I accept this is better than just a password because I'm able to use simpler passwords rather than be forced to choose difficult and secure passwords on multiple sites. I forget one on a site and wind up giving them all my other passwords trying to open it (in multiple attempts) and don't like that. I especially resent entering difficult passwords into sites I don't know and don't trust... "Welcome to OneUseSite, please enter in a password with 16 letters, capitals and numeral and symbol". I don't like giving those sites an important password or even a method or clue that could be used to figure out other site passwords, but when I make one up I later forget it and wind up entering a good one in while trying to guess it (I keep a "throwaway password" for sites that make me authenticate myself for access to THEIR content... I don't care if someone reads NYTimes or WSJ with my password, that's their problem. The hardware encoded autheticator would be valuable to sites like these, and Netflix, where I give lots of friends my password because I don't care if they use it..
Christmas is to Christians and Earth Day is to Environmentalists.
There should be some way to preserve and reuse the pumpings, perhaps compost or soylent green or something.
... of anyone who "ripped" an MP3 of a CD they already owned? When Napster first came out, I downloaded songs I had physical possession of media of, and kind of wondered if they could. The problem of course was the sheer temptation (all those other titles you DON'T own coming up in search)... but if someone only possessed MP3s they had physical media of, I wonder how they could be found guilty of stealing them.
Remember last June, when a village in Austria found out it had been copied by the Chinese, down to the sashes and doorknobs? http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village
Now they're copying Area 51 in Roswell. Or maybe Six Flags.
I was kidding about the flamebait guys. Sorry to set fire to the firefly thread with the Intelligent Design comment. Maybe Slashdot should consider a "controlled burn" strategy where certain flame-war topics are brought up on a scheduled basis to protect from uncontrolled fires.
Mod as flamebait
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The other rules offered here are good, but with all due respect, they've been written.
You either work at a job willing to train you, in which the Ph.D looks like a silly albatross, or you go get up to date. If you do the latter, people might assume you are up to date because of the Ph'D. But to say "I have a Ph'D and I am not up to date" sounds vaguely like "I've fallen and I can't get up"
It's dead, that's what's wrong with it. Polaroid's passed on! This manufacturer is no more! It has ceased to be! 'Polaroid's expired and gone to meet it's maker! It''s a stiff! Bereft of life, Polaroid rests in peace! Michael Land's Polaroid company was auctioned off, and the tradename was purchased by someone in Taipei, I think, or licensed to them. And RCA Victrola too. I don't mind an article about what the Taiwanese tradename owners or licensees are up to, but really it's no more interesting than if Acer, Asus, or Foxconn was doing it, there's none of the continuity implied.
How much do they want for it?
This may have something to do with the "one child" limit on families, created by the Communist Party to deal with overpopulation. Chinese families tended to "prefer" boys, and there is an imbalance now of marrying age offspring. There may be a lot of 20-something sons spending a lot of time on the computer this decade.
We still have 9 tenths of a cent per gallon on USA gasoline sales. Maybe we can look forward to rounding it to a penny.
Holy Nuisance Suits!! POW!! Patent Troll uses trademark law and patent disputes like kryptonite to disarm our Hero, CRASH!! leaving Bruce Wayne naked and barefoot. BAM!! POW!! Tune in next week, same [Delete]-time, same [Delete]-channel!!
I look at the paper I recycle, and realize that generally I printed it for insurance, just in case a hard drive goes down or a document is deleted or changed. Usually it was necessary, almost always unnecessary. Just like tornado, flood, or hurricane insurance. Should I do without insurance? I'd save some money.
Except the Westerners didn't dump their garbage there. That was the myth I'm talking about. The math was wrong, just like this math is wrong. Why was it believed? Looks like even smart people like you believed it. Profiling.
It does not hold water. Whoever was trying to shake him down could never have won a single case. He brought the case against the "patent holder" not vice-versa. The solicitation was like a fake yellow pages ad (mail it to 10,000, see if 1% are dumb enough to pay) of a decade ago. What is scary is what may happen in other nations: China's courts are starting to look into enforcement of USA and European patent and trademarks (at our insistence) and if they aren't lucky may bet what we asked for.
The highest growth rates in internet access, during the past 10 years, have been in nations earning about $3000 per year, or 1/10 the average GDP of "rich" nations. As more and more people get internet, we can expect the use of "cybercrime" to expand, just as we can expect car accidents to increase in nations where cars become affordable. Meanwhile, loans to Africans through organizations like Kiva.org are repaid at a higher rate than bank loans in America. I do a lot of business in the developing (or more aptly named, Emerging) world and find the "petri dish for increased cybercrime" alarmist. The rapid, rapid education and rise of geeks of color is a "petri dish" for film, art, photography, software development (see MEST in Ghana), blood banks, laughter, tears, hugs, etc. Yes, cyber crime will increase, like everything else will increase. The article is stupid.
By the way, in case you missed it, the stories about "80-90% of e-waste exports" being burned by primitive African children has also been disproven by 3 separate studies. Africa has had television since I lived there in the 1980s, and the junk filmed burned at African landfills was in use for years, it's the same generation of waste as goes to our own landfills. Three studies showed that 80-90% of used computers imported are successfully reused and repaired. Articles like this one lead to profiling and arrests of good people as "e-waste criminals". The "other-ization" of geeks of color is really shameful.
Using my google de-encryption method, the MBE Acronym appears to stand for the "Multi State Bar Exam" - a degree for Yankee lawyers practicing across state lines. Why on earth did they give that to this poor gentleman?
True. And yet if you promote short term consumption, and deny compound interest from investments, you'll end up with a world of poor people. Time to balance the discussion and see where it's working, balance abuses, without one-word-sentence conclusions. The only people still living in caves, ironically, are in communist countries.
"Only applicants who do NOT know how to use Microsoft Office will be considered for this position"? Or "Only pilots without valid drivers licenses will be hired at Virgin Express"? If I hire a Spanish translator, I don't disqualify those who also speak English...
More specifically, let's start a Kickstarter campaign to put cockroaches on Mars. Lots of them, enough for them to eat each other and evolve quickly into a apecies that human religions, races and nations can rally against in a uniform cause. I think we could convince enough people it's a really really good idea.