The cost of advertising on television has fallen to the point where they can sell penis enlargement in the mainstream media. Spam used to be the only way I could find out how much women prefer a confident man, now they can tell me on TV, on radio. Soon I expect to see Nigerians on History Channel telling me I have won a lottery.
Yes. But what is my value? If everyone else is a product and I am "getting" access to them in exchange, and the sum of personal value I obtain is greater than the personal value I let go of, then I'm ok. If I keep my own shiny self-beads and don't interact, am I really better off? The trick is not to share more (true) information than you are getting. And to never, ever, ever give Facebook or Myspace exclusive rights (or copyright) to MY information. As long as I am free to give them false information, and to give my information to whoever I want, then it's a simple business transaction I'm in control of.
People should be much more concerned with credit cards than with Facebook. Those of us who use credit cards pay a cost, both in interest and in personal information, for that convenience.
The theory behind taking something the boy wants is that other boys who love their XBox will be afraid of likewise losing their Xboxes. The theory behind fining the parents is that other parents will pay attention to what their kids are doing because they may be fined. In neither case is the point of punishment to somehow reform the kid in question, though possibly the parents will pay more attention if they've been closing one eye.
* Ahem * As a degree holder in Political Science with a minor in International Relations,,i>kaff-kaff,/i>, I may be able to contribute here. The suspicions above are not without foundation. However, historically whenever a totalitarian regime has tried to espouse free and independent thought in a "contained" place, they often wind up growing free thinkers that they cannot later control. Hitler tried coddling his engineers, but they wound up sending secrets to the English and Americans. Stalin tried pampering Sakarov. So while I wouldn't drop my drawers in Chongqing's proposed Cloud Computing Special Zone, but I would applaud and encourage it. It could become an incubator for a representative there who actually believes what he's promising and would be frustrated to learn he's a front... a breeding ground for future Nobel Peace Prize nominees. So polite hurrahs are warranted.
TaoPhoenix and Anubis IV - the idea is that millions of people would do it, not ONLY me. I can deny false positives if they are statistically likely to be false based on hundreds of other people having the same alibi. And if millions of people get additional "junk mail" that would hurt the issuer. I think at some critical mass it would work.
I'd volunteer to be put on a list of "false positives", records that I'd bought everything from women's shoes to AC/DC videos. Nature rarely designs invisibility, but camouflage is everywhere. If enough people got on a false positive list, creating false cookies and records and interests, wouldn't that have the same effect as privacy? And wouldn't it be cheaper? Seems like you could even have a program running silently in another browser clicking on interest in new cars, home mortgages, health care, etc. and it would confuse the hell out of the data collectors.
Other than for politicians who like to say they voted "against" sex and violence, and retailers and producers, do these laws have any effect to begin with on kids? I have seen opinions that it "desensitizes" kids to violence. But I've also read that access to porn has led to less sex crime. It kind of feels like violent games would reduce empathy in kids, but I'd be more interested in slashdot links to actual studies of behavior than political posturing and opinion about the ruling.
Planned Obsolescence in hindsight. This may not seem a big deal in the USA, but the rate of growth of internet access in 3B3K nations (3 Billion People Earn $3K Per Year) is 10 times the rate of growth in developed nations. Emerging markets like Cairo and Bombay and Peru, where per capita income is around $3k GDP per capita, keep servers and PCs in use much longer. I hope that Linux is a solution, my dealings with Geeks of Color in emerging markets is that they tend to find creative ways around software bottlenecks. Here's a slide show about how internet growth in emerging markets http://tinyurl.com/6xz9lnk which is leading to things like the Arab Spring revolutions. We need to stop seeing support of legacy tech purely through the eyes of rich nations.
I'm not anti-nuke, though I was in the 1970s. My main aggravation was the sheer amount of money (Sarkozy is just dropping another billion in the tip jar) that put Nuclear ahead of solar. It's like comparing the Yankees to the Bad New Bears. The one solar investment the US government funded (the power tower in the mohave desert) actually broke even - that's a demo facility, breaking even - in the 1990s. I'm not against nuclear NOW, I think this is great, but I don't think at this stage it should be getting government money on top of all the billions of dollars in bonds defaulted on when it was being built, and on top of the Los Alamos publicly funded R&D information which was given to Halliburton etc. It's ok that Nukes are cleaner than coal, and that solar didn't really have the same chance, and I'm not against nukes. But some of the chest beating about nuclear beating solar really in not mod-+-6 in my opinion.
Hi, I just found this website "Slashdot" using "Google Time Machine" app. I'm posting from here in the year 2078. Google says I'm 234 bitcoins away from getting my children back, and I can earn credit by doing this research, polling Geeks of the Past about what efforts they may be hatching to keep this Google Universe from occurring (or slowing it). By the way, I see many references to something called "facebook", what is it? And what's a farmville?
The irony is interesting, on more than one level. But his central point, which is that "freedom of speech" allows restriction of speech to children, is a sound one. As online games replace video games, this ruling could have had profound precedent on censorship of the internet insofar as children have access to "redtube" and "youporn". I don't know whether the result would have been good or bad, but it looks like the Supreme Court is kicking the can down the road a bit farther, whereas Thomas would have allowed government to distinguish between content directed at children.
Slow news day. Mainstream media cannot seem to resist publicizing "shark attacks", even if bee stings and railroad crossing deaths outnumber shark bites and terrorist attacks exponentially. Having created a disproportionate reaction to the statistical risk of terrorist attack (resulting in TSA), they are now doing the same thing to TSA, leading us all to believe that a significant number of TSA screenings are spent on 95 year old diaper-wearers.
Really. I didn't intend to slap you. I don't know what's going on, what with Xbox reading what my hands are doing and Sony telling my hands what to do.
We get them at our recycling plant on a regular basis. Sometimes working, sometimes they need a tweak. Often the best fix is to put the circuit board in an oven, or in the sun, and a tiny hairline crack in solder somewhere gets fixed. Currently, we export 22% of the used electronics we receive (78% are not worth exporting even if they worked). That export to geeks of color is being made illegal, since people assume that anyone exporting 22% must really be dumping 100%.
This kind of "good enough" tech, also seen in the Arab Spring internet cafes, depends on access to used, refurbished, and re-marketed electronics cast offs. A new bill just submitted to Congress (Green-Thompson) will ban trade with these "geeks of color". Do-gooders say that American jobs will result (Americans will begin using "trash" to make our own internet), and the geeks in the emerging markets, freed from the "ewaste" exploitation, will then leapfrog into 4G.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer, nothing makes me happier than to see kids who studied technology textbooks use the schematics to increase internet. Geeks of Color Entrepreneurs need SBA more than they need AID.
I read the arresting officer's police report via the link. In case you don't intend to (it's kind of boring), I think the highlight is the statement that upon seeing the IPad in the TSA bin, that she placed her bag of chicken over it. Aside from that, I guess any story with the word "IPad" and a photo of Steve Jobs is sure to be interesting to someone. So off-duty-police crime + IPad and Steve Jobs + Bag of Chicken is the combination that makes this story "interesting".
And it is EXACTLY what happened in JURASSIC PARK! The frog cells allowed some of the female dinosaurs to mutate into MALE Dinosaurs! We COULD be looking at RAPTORS who live in SILICA, and WE will ALL be typing in ALL CAPS out of sheer FEAR!
The ratio of pro-legalizers under the voting age is high, and number of people against legalization who are over 80 (with high voting participation) is high. Once the Viet Nam vets are retired and the WW2 vets have passed on, marijuana will be legalized, probably in combination with a bill to tax it to raise money for something specific. My bet is on 2018, but it won't be more than 20 years. Having a black president seemed kind of a remote possibility less than ten years ago, I frankly would have bet legal pot would have come first. Then we will all get high.
Since it is often the exact same contract manufacturer (Wistron, Foxconn, etc.) making different power supplies for different customers in different parts of the factory during different shifts, they would save on the hundreds of thousands of surplus units they must keep on hand. There is no "Apple factory" making the "Apple Power Cords", they are all made in Shenzhen. Practically everything today is made by a "third party" to begin with.
First, Apple would have to start "making" Iphones, Ipads, and Macs. All of Apple's units are produced by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., aka "Foxconn", which also manufactures TVs for Sony. Best Buy is now a "manufacturer". "Polaroid" is a TV manufacturer. Heck, I could start "Manufacturing" TVs. The western press appears to be utterly oblivious to what "manufacturers" are. We have a Tin-Tin image of China (see 60 Minutes coverage of e-waste - the product they filmed was actually delivered to a factory refurbishing program). http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/07/60-minutes-wastelands-missing-minutes_17.html Lenovo bought out IBM almost a decade ago, the "logo" on our devices is going to seem quaint in its importance a decade from now.
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A) He isn't having fun in social games
B) He makes statements like " This has led to gamification. "
C) He also had no fun at the prom. He found it had led to dancification and kissification.
"Don't tell me they're bringing back the furby.." Actually, it's the Stepford Furby.
The cost of advertising on television has fallen to the point where they can sell penis enlargement in the mainstream media. Spam used to be the only way I could find out how much women prefer a confident man, now they can tell me on TV, on radio. Soon I expect to see Nigerians on History Channel telling me I have won a lottery.
Yes. But what is my value? If everyone else is a product and I am "getting" access to them in exchange, and the sum of personal value I obtain is greater than the personal value I let go of, then I'm ok. If I keep my own shiny self-beads and don't interact, am I really better off? The trick is not to share more (true) information than you are getting. And to never, ever, ever give Facebook or Myspace exclusive rights (or copyright) to MY information. As long as I am free to give them false information, and to give my information to whoever I want, then it's a simple business transaction I'm in control of.
People should be much more concerned with credit cards than with Facebook. Those of us who use credit cards pay a cost, both in interest and in personal information, for that convenience.
The theory behind taking something the boy wants is that other boys who love their XBox will be afraid of likewise losing their Xboxes. The theory behind fining the parents is that other parents will pay attention to what their kids are doing because they may be fined. In neither case is the point of punishment to somehow reform the kid in question, though possibly the parents will pay more attention if they've been closing one eye.
* Ahem * As a degree holder in Political Science with a minor in International Relations, ,i>kaff-kaff,/i>, I may be able to contribute here. The suspicions above are not without foundation. However, historically whenever a totalitarian regime has tried to espouse free and independent thought in a "contained" place, they often wind up growing free thinkers that they cannot later control. Hitler tried coddling his engineers, but they wound up sending secrets to the English and Americans. Stalin tried pampering Sakarov. So while I wouldn't drop my drawers in Chongqing's proposed Cloud Computing Special Zone, but I would applaud and encourage it. It could become an incubator for a representative there who actually believes what he's promising and would be frustrated to learn he's a front... a breeding ground for future Nobel Peace Prize nominees. So polite hurrahs are warranted.
TaoPhoenix and Anubis IV - the idea is that millions of people would do it, not ONLY me. I can deny false positives if they are statistically likely to be false based on hundreds of other people having the same alibi. And if millions of people get additional "junk mail" that would hurt the issuer. I think at some critical mass it would work.
I'd volunteer to be put on a list of "false positives", records that I'd bought everything from women's shoes to AC/DC videos. Nature rarely designs invisibility, but camouflage is everywhere. If enough people got on a false positive list, creating false cookies and records and interests, wouldn't that have the same effect as privacy? And wouldn't it be cheaper? Seems like you could even have a program running silently in another browser clicking on interest in new cars, home mortgages, health care, etc. and it would confuse the hell out of the data collectors.
Other than for politicians who like to say they voted "against" sex and violence, and retailers and producers, do these laws have any effect to begin with on kids? I have seen opinions that it "desensitizes" kids to violence. But I've also read that access to porn has led to less sex crime. It kind of feels like violent games would reduce empathy in kids, but I'd be more interested in slashdot links to actual studies of behavior than political posturing and opinion about the ruling.
Planned Obsolescence in hindsight. This may not seem a big deal in the USA, but the rate of growth of internet access in 3B3K nations (3 Billion People Earn $3K Per Year) is 10 times the rate of growth in developed nations. Emerging markets like Cairo and Bombay and Peru, where per capita income is around $3k GDP per capita, keep servers and PCs in use much longer. I hope that Linux is a solution, my dealings with Geeks of Color in emerging markets is that they tend to find creative ways around software bottlenecks. Here's a slide show about how internet growth in emerging markets http://tinyurl.com/6xz9lnk which is leading to things like the Arab Spring revolutions. We need to stop seeing support of legacy tech purely through the eyes of rich nations.
Yes, but he shouldn't throw stones.
I'm not anti-nuke, though I was in the 1970s. My main aggravation was the sheer amount of money (Sarkozy is just dropping another billion in the tip jar) that put Nuclear ahead of solar. It's like comparing the Yankees to the Bad New Bears. The one solar investment the US government funded (the power tower in the mohave desert) actually broke even - that's a demo facility, breaking even - in the 1990s. I'm not against nuclear NOW, I think this is great, but I don't think at this stage it should be getting government money on top of all the billions of dollars in bonds defaulted on when it was being built, and on top of the Los Alamos publicly funded R&D information which was given to Halliburton etc. It's ok that Nukes are cleaner than coal, and that solar didn't really have the same chance, and I'm not against nukes. But some of the chest beating about nuclear beating solar really in not mod-+-6 in my opinion.
Hi, I just found this website "Slashdot" using "Google Time Machine" app. I'm posting from here in the year 2078. Google says I'm 234 bitcoins away from getting my children back, and I can earn credit by doing this research, polling Geeks of the Past about what efforts they may be hatching to keep this Google Universe from occurring (or slowing it). By the way, I see many references to something called "facebook", what is it? And what's a farmville?
Seriously, I've seen better photographic evidence on a 1980s Asteroids game. Spin the knob to fire triangle, S for Start, Game Over.
I was very pleased to read that they are "Certified Ethical" hackers. Not just ethical, "certified" ethical!
The irony is interesting, on more than one level. But his central point, which is that "freedom of speech" allows restriction of speech to children, is a sound one. As online games replace video games, this ruling could have had profound precedent on censorship of the internet insofar as children have access to "redtube" and "youporn". I don't know whether the result would have been good or bad, but it looks like the Supreme Court is kicking the can down the road a bit farther, whereas Thomas would have allowed government to distinguish between content directed at children.
Slow news day. Mainstream media cannot seem to resist publicizing "shark attacks", even if bee stings and railroad crossing deaths outnumber shark bites and terrorist attacks exponentially. Having created a disproportionate reaction to the statistical risk of terrorist attack (resulting in TSA), they are now doing the same thing to TSA, leading us all to believe that a significant number of TSA screenings are spent on 95 year old diaper-wearers.
Really. I didn't intend to slap you. I don't know what's going on, what with Xbox reading what my hands are doing and Sony telling my hands what to do.
We get them at our recycling plant on a regular basis. Sometimes working, sometimes they need a tweak. Often the best fix is to put the circuit board in an oven, or in the sun, and a tiny hairline crack in solder somewhere gets fixed. Currently, we export 22% of the used electronics we receive (78% are not worth exporting even if they worked). That export to geeks of color is being made illegal, since people assume that anyone exporting 22% must really be dumping 100%.
This kind of "good enough" tech, also seen in the Arab Spring internet cafes, depends on access to used, refurbished, and re-marketed electronics cast offs. A new bill just submitted to Congress (Green-Thompson) will ban trade with these "geeks of color". Do-gooders say that American jobs will result (Americans will begin using "trash" to make our own internet), and the geeks in the emerging markets, freed from the "ewaste" exploitation, will then leapfrog into 4G.
As a former Peace Corps volunteer, nothing makes me happier than to see kids who studied technology textbooks use the schematics to increase internet. Geeks of Color Entrepreneurs need SBA more than they need AID.
I read the arresting officer's police report via the link. In case you don't intend to (it's kind of boring), I think the highlight is the statement that upon seeing the IPad in the TSA bin, that she placed her bag of chicken over it. Aside from that, I guess any story with the word "IPad" and a photo of Steve Jobs is sure to be interesting to someone. So off-duty-police crime + IPad and Steve Jobs + Bag of Chicken is the combination that makes this story "interesting".
And it is EXACTLY what happened in JURASSIC PARK! The frog cells allowed some of the female dinosaurs to mutate into MALE Dinosaurs! We COULD be looking at RAPTORS who live in SILICA, and WE will ALL be typing in ALL CAPS out of sheer FEAR!
The ratio of pro-legalizers under the voting age is high, and number of people against legalization who are over 80 (with high voting participation) is high. Once the Viet Nam vets are retired and the WW2 vets have passed on, marijuana will be legalized, probably in combination with a bill to tax it to raise money for something specific. My bet is on 2018, but it won't be more than 20 years. Having a black president seemed kind of a remote possibility less than ten years ago, I frankly would have bet legal pot would have come first. Then we will all get high.
Since it is often the exact same contract manufacturer (Wistron, Foxconn, etc.) making different power supplies for different customers in different parts of the factory during different shifts, they would save on the hundreds of thousands of surplus units they must keep on hand. There is no "Apple factory" making the "Apple Power Cords", they are all made in Shenzhen. Practically everything today is made by a "third party" to begin with.
First, Apple would have to start "making" Iphones, Ipads, and Macs. All of Apple's units are produced by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., aka "Foxconn", which also manufactures TVs for Sony. Best Buy is now a "manufacturer". "Polaroid" is a TV manufacturer. Heck, I could start "Manufacturing" TVs. The western press appears to be utterly oblivious to what "manufacturers" are. We have a Tin-Tin image of China (see 60 Minutes coverage of e-waste - the product they filmed was actually delivered to a factory refurbishing program). http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/07/60-minutes-wastelands-missing-minutes_17.html Lenovo bought out IBM almost a decade ago, the "logo" on our devices is going to seem quaint in its importance a decade from now.