...But do not have opposable thumbs, I thought that's what made us special. I would assume that humans are going to have to survive as a species several more millenia before being crowned as the most successful on an evolutionary scale. If we don't, then perhaps "middle age" will be determined to have been what doomed us.
Uhh, no. Nine times out of ten you'd be correct, I am generally the idiot, but in this particular case I told her, "don't wash those, my passport is still in there", which she agrees she forgot. But I agree with the "FTFY" - - she FTFY'd the RFID tag in the process.
My wife accidentally ran my new passport with its RFID tag through the washing machine. I still get through customs. The existence of the chips does not make them infallible.
Boss doesn't want to be filmed on the toilet. Nor do cashiers. Correlation |= causation. The fact that bosses don't like the same thing that potato farmers and pre-school teachers don't like isn't really news.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Chapter 12. "They usually calls the spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage" Disney has probably licensed it by now.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But how much innovation do they expect, and how high do we expect employee morale to climb? Comparisons to Microsoft and Google elude me.
Seriously, I just returned six days ago from a week in Lima, where I visited partners who buy used computers (for repair, refurbishing, recycling business). At one of the shops (which had 22 repair employees) they showed me one of the One Laptop Per Child laptops they'd gotten their hands on. They were absolutely ridiculing it compared to the price of used Pentium III laptops they buy in bulk from off-lease. I just wrote about the trip a few days ago. http://preview.tinyurl.com/peruewaste
The refurbishing business itself is falling off in Lima, however. (No joke, I saw used CHINESE CRT televisions - the Chinese cities are upgrading and selling their own used goods to South America and Africa). But the cheap white box models from China show the most growth in the market.
In short it's a mature market and the whole charity command-and-control, of "e-waste" and white box laptop sales, is rife with at best piss poor market research, and at worst just making things up out of thin air. Read Harvard Business Review Article, http://tinyurl.com/chinagoodnuffThe Battle for China's Good Enough Market (2007, written by Bain & Co consultants), to see how the changing consumer demand is being mis-marketed to. Lima had 9M residents, I had no problem finding wifi, and the geeks of color in the used electronics markets all had smartphones.
As journalist Adam Minter (Bloomberg, Shanghai) wrote, the reach of the Chinese Internet censors, while generally exaggerated in the Western Press, can reach pretty deeply when so motivated. The main focus of Chinese internet censorship recently went to COMMENTS to microblogs. In this week's article, "Chinese Internet Censors Decide Comments are Dangerous" http://tinyurl.com/82fpyv8 he describes how the rumors of a Beijing Coup last month were dealt with by erasing comment fields... Like these in Slashdot. (initially China cut off all "comments" functions, then allowed them back but began censoring them).
That could have a chilling effect on people leaving comments and expressing themselves in Weibo (China's Twitter). Perhaps the graffiti by Anonymous is important in reassuring people whose comments are erased that the censors are not invincible. Then again, there are only 32 comments on this/. post... maybe they ARE invincible?
I imagine the risks of cloud storage are average across all individuals... though we probably don't have enough info on which servers are located in Florida and how much redundancy the cloud server companies have. But we have different risks and exposures to hurricanes, floods, etc. Ultimately, how valuable is your info compared to the value you place on beachfront property?
That's two EA boycotts. I'm personally more concerned about the Blue skinned people hooking up with the white skinned girls... let's boycott them for that, too.
Slander is obviously defined under law, and as noted in TFA she was arrested for it. The free speech issue, I think, is whether reserving someone else's child's domain name is protected speech. I suspect it is protected, but as a parent the idea of having to protect my children's online rep seems quite creepy.
Exactly. Congress would be happy to spend all year passing laws against something stupid that 1 percent of people do, rather than something like tax reform, immigration reform, social security, etc. People introduce laws like this when there is no time to spend on them, just to make the leadership look bad by killing it. Democrat (in Republican House) submits bill to stop torturing ponies, Republican (in Democratic House) submits bill to stop burning pictures of Jesus. There is a simple remedy - quit your job if your boss demands your FB password, or negotiate not to use FB while at work, or (per parent post) wait for FB to sue.
Stupid A believes in the biblical story of Genesis, identifies himself as conservative, and is anti-science. Stupid person B believes in Astrology, identifies herself as a liberal, and is anti-math.
Whether anti-science people brand themselves as "conservatives" does correlate to how other people choose to define themselves. Person B and Person A can argue all day long, proving the other stupid does not make Genesis or Astrology more correct. Run an SPSS on this. How stupid people define themselves is a fairly random data point, historically, but believing people in robes (white priests or purple astrologers) doesn't make what they eat, drink, pray, or profess to be anything other than a correlation.
Give guns to the women, condoms to the men. That's how we tamed the wild west in the USA. It was ugly for awhile, and we still have some gun culture because of it. But as guns became small enough for women to carry and hide, men had to factor in that she might be packing heat, and thought twice. Handgun distribution to mothers in Uganda might do more to stop Kony than anything else. And the pill does nothing for AIDS, cheap condoms are better. (No, I'm not a troll).
OK I read all 3 links... can't tell whether these are specificly counterfeited weapons parts or whether these are standard parts (e.g. sound card) that may be used in a military application. There's a bit of a difference. Specific parts made specifically for a military use is a different problem than military purchases of standard grade electronics. Did the GAO simply type "sound card wanted" into Alibaba.com? Difficult to tell from the GAO report whether this is hype, but the two stories ABOUT the GAO report definitely have a hype-ish tint.
There is a big cultural difference in how "patent violation" is perceived in China. The concept of "shanzai", which is taking something someone else made and copying it or adding a touch of flair (improvement) to it is a kind of "underdog" applause-line. Shanzai Isn't Necessarily Directed at US. Like a guitar riff, Chinese tend to laugh and smile when someone tries to one-up a bigger company, and make something as good or better than the original. Like the IPhone V. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2011/10/shanzai-vs-patents-future-stock.html
This doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned, it's just that you find this everywhere in China, directed at everybody and at no one in particular. The page from GAO just doesn't give enough information whether we should rally or whether it's a false flag put up by USA military contractors who are known to sell $375 toilet seats for submarines.
Google can fire people. Terminating someone's employment in hopes for creating a vacancy for someone with better performance is part of the capitalist system. It's unpleasant and difficult to do, but sports teams show the results when someone refuses to do it. The problem (having worked in government) is that there's no incentive for management to terminate anyone. Good people eventually leave the job, and the weak remain.
The likelihood that dozens of governments can craft rules for the internet which will not outlive their usefulness is statistically nil. Let's just give a prize every year which Google and Bing can compete for who does the best job of filtering out bullshit. Kind of like a prize for cleanest water, or best hops.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the pilot requests that all passengers put their trays forward, put their seat back in their forward position, turn off all electronic devices, and chant the spiritual mantra of the Ars Technica Church of spirituality for the next fifteen minutes prior to landing."
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...But do not have opposable thumbs, I thought that's what made us special. I would assume that humans are going to have to survive as a species several more millenia before being crowned as the most successful on an evolutionary scale. If we don't, then perhaps "middle age" will be determined to have been what doomed us.
In his defense, the lad said " Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "
Uhh, no. Nine times out of ten you'd be correct, I am generally the idiot, but in this particular case I told her, "don't wash those, my passport is still in there", which she agrees she forgot. But I agree with the "FTFY" - - she FTFY'd the RFID tag in the process.
My wife accidentally ran my new passport with its RFID tag through the washing machine. I still get through customs. The existence of the chips does not make them infallible.
Boss doesn't want to be filmed on the toilet. Nor do cashiers. Correlation |= causation. The fact that bosses don't like the same thing that potato farmers and pre-school teachers don't like isn't really news.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Chapter 12. "They usually calls the spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage" Disney has probably licensed it by now.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But how much innovation do they expect, and how high do we expect employee morale to climb? Comparisons to Microsoft and Google elude me.
Seriously, I just returned six days ago from a week in Lima, where I visited partners who buy used computers (for repair, refurbishing, recycling business). At one of the shops (which had 22 repair employees) they showed me one of the One Laptop Per Child laptops they'd gotten their hands on. They were absolutely ridiculing it compared to the price of used Pentium III laptops they buy in bulk from off-lease. I just wrote about the trip a few days ago. http://preview.tinyurl.com/peruewaste
The refurbishing business itself is falling off in Lima, however. (No joke, I saw used CHINESE CRT televisions - the Chinese cities are upgrading and selling their own used goods to South America and Africa). But the cheap white box models from China show the most growth in the market.
In short it's a mature market and the whole charity command-and-control, of "e-waste" and white box laptop sales, is rife with at best piss poor market research, and at worst just making things up out of thin air. Read Harvard Business Review Article, http://tinyurl.com/chinagoodnuff The Battle for China's Good Enough Market (2007, written by Bain & Co consultants), to see how the changing consumer demand is being mis-marketed to. Lima had 9M residents, I had no problem finding wifi, and the geeks of color in the used electronics markets all had smartphones.
As journalist Adam Minter (Bloomberg, Shanghai) wrote, the reach of the Chinese Internet censors, while generally exaggerated in the Western Press, can reach pretty deeply when so motivated. The main focus of Chinese internet censorship recently went to COMMENTS to microblogs. In this week's article, "Chinese Internet Censors Decide Comments are Dangerous" http://tinyurl.com/82fpyv8 he describes how the rumors of a Beijing Coup last month were dealt with by erasing comment fields... Like these in Slashdot. (initially China cut off all "comments" functions, then allowed them back but began censoring them).
That could have a chilling effect on people leaving comments and expressing themselves in Weibo (China's Twitter). Perhaps the graffiti by Anonymous is important in reassuring people whose comments are erased that the censors are not invincible. Then again, there are only 32 comments on this /. post... maybe they ARE invincible?
I imagine the risks of cloud storage are average across all individuals... though we probably don't have enough info on which servers are located in Florida and how much redundancy the cloud server companies have. But we have different risks and exposures to hurricanes, floods, etc. Ultimately, how valuable is your info compared to the value you place on beachfront property?
Does it work on babies? How about Holy Lands?
One academic per family is enough.
You can't patent anything which debuts on April 1. Since 1921, the US Patent and Trade Office has rejected any patent filed on the first of April.
That's two EA boycotts. I'm personally more concerned about the Blue skinned people hooking up with the white skinned girls... let's boycott them for that, too.
Have we eliminated the possibility that dinosaurs wore clothing?
Finally, a source of clean hydrogen.
Slander is obviously defined under law, and as noted in TFA she was arrested for it. The free speech issue, I think, is whether reserving someone else's child's domain name is protected speech. I suspect it is protected, but as a parent the idea of having to protect my children's online rep seems quite creepy.
I mean it's cool, but these are the size of Lego blocks, not exactly Sandman from Spiderman II
Exactly. Congress would be happy to spend all year passing laws against something stupid that 1 percent of people do, rather than something like tax reform, immigration reform, social security, etc. People introduce laws like this when there is no time to spend on them, just to make the leadership look bad by killing it. Democrat (in Republican House) submits bill to stop torturing ponies, Republican (in Democratic House) submits bill to stop burning pictures of Jesus. There is a simple remedy - quit your job if your boss demands your FB password, or negotiate not to use FB while at work, or (per parent post) wait for FB to sue.
Stupid A believes in the biblical story of Genesis, identifies himself as conservative, and is anti-science. Stupid person B believes in Astrology, identifies herself as a liberal, and is anti-math.
Whether anti-science people brand themselves as "conservatives" does correlate to how other people choose to define themselves. Person B and Person A can argue all day long, proving the other stupid does not make Genesis or Astrology more correct. Run an SPSS on this. How stupid people define themselves is a fairly random data point, historically, but believing people in robes (white priests or purple astrologers) doesn't make what they eat, drink, pray, or profess to be anything other than a correlation.
Give guns to the women, condoms to the men. That's how we tamed the wild west in the USA. It was ugly for awhile, and we still have some gun culture because of it. But as guns became small enough for women to carry and hide, men had to factor in that she might be packing heat, and thought twice. Handgun distribution to mothers in Uganda might do more to stop Kony than anything else. And the pill does nothing for AIDS, cheap condoms are better. (No, I'm not a troll).
OK I read all 3 links... can't tell whether these are specificly counterfeited weapons parts or whether these are standard parts (e.g. sound card) that may be used in a military application. There's a bit of a difference. Specific parts made specifically for a military use is a different problem than military purchases of standard grade electronics. Did the GAO simply type "sound card wanted" into Alibaba.com? Difficult to tell from the GAO report whether this is hype, but the two stories ABOUT the GAO report definitely have a hype-ish tint.
There is a big cultural difference in how "patent violation" is perceived in China. The concept of "shanzai", which is taking something someone else made and copying it or adding a touch of flair (improvement) to it is a kind of "underdog" applause-line. Shanzai Isn't Necessarily Directed at US. Like a guitar riff, Chinese tend to laugh and smile when someone tries to one-up a bigger company, and make something as good or better than the original. Like the IPhone V. http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2011/10/shanzai-vs-patents-future-stock.html
This doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned, it's just that you find this everywhere in China, directed at everybody and at no one in particular. The page from GAO just doesn't give enough information whether we should rally or whether it's a false flag put up by USA military contractors who are known to sell $375 toilet seats for submarines.
Google can fire people. Terminating someone's employment in hopes for creating a vacancy for someone with better performance is part of the capitalist system. It's unpleasant and difficult to do, but sports teams show the results when someone refuses to do it. The problem (having worked in government) is that there's no incentive for management to terminate anyone. Good people eventually leave the job, and the weak remain.
The likelihood that dozens of governments can craft rules for the internet which will not outlive their usefulness is statistically nil. Let's just give a prize every year which Google and Bing can compete for who does the best job of filtering out bullshit. Kind of like a prize for cleanest water, or best hops.
Borderline Snidely Whiplash disorder.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the pilot requests that all passengers put their trays forward, put their seat back in their forward position, turn off all electronic devices, and chant the spiritual mantra of the Ars Technica Church of spirituality for the next fifteen minutes prior to landing."