If I had mod points, you would get them. This hits the nail on the head. From my perspective the roadblock to connected systems are often the systems makers themselves as they are used to fat paychecks for their solutions and modules. They often lock down their systems in the name of "security" when really they are locking them down so they can force feed the doctors their solution foie gras style.
I work the other end of the spectrum that you do. I unravel the "black boxes" that you put together; connecting to databases and writing queries to extract data to be sent to labs and to be used in other vendors' ePrescribing offerings.
The companies that you work for don't like us, partly because we do what we do often for thousands less than you charge for your similar connectivity products when we have a much more difficult task, reverse engineering what seems like an endless avalanche of varying practice management software.
The lunar surface is made up of very fine dust, how long will it take for dust to settle? Gravitational acceleration on the moon is 1.6 m/s2, and the dust is going up roughly 10 km. At the dust's apogee the dust's velocity is zero. It will take almost two minutes for the dust to settle
Will dust escape out of the lunar surface into space? Yes, undoubtedly. Dust will be flung off the surface of the moon and into space. It will then proceed to fall back towards the moon. If it's going fast enough and at an steep enough angle it might go into orbit, but more than likely fall back to the moon.
Have you even read any Cory Doctorow novels? Sometimes they are a little out there, but at least the perspective is fresh. (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, I'm looking at you.)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom had its less believable bits but was very forward looking, Eastern Standard Tribe moreso. Little Brother was probably his best one yet and eerily prescient.
What's more they're free for download. Now it isn't Shakespeare, I'll give you that, but it is entertaining and the writing is quite a bit better than a Stephen King piece of trash (Cory sometimes even uses big words, correctly.) So taking a novel for a spin won't cost you anything and if you have an open mind it may even profit you personally (just not monetarily.)
I've met the man, and he cares about your rights and fights continuously for them even though he no longer runs the EFF. So maybe you even owe him a second chance, or at the very least you shouldn't trash him just because his writing isn't exactly your cup of tea.
The Republicans don't try to legislate what can be broadcast, or debated.
What freaking Republican party are you referring to? Not the evangelist, social conservative and restrictive one I know. Look into what happened to the FCC during GWB's terms in office and attempt to say that again with a straight face.
And BTW if the hard Left in America is pushing towards communism (besides a handful of kooks, it isn't) then the Republican party is pushing towards corporate/religious based fascism (not most of them.)
Mod the parent's parent up. HIPAA goes way over the top, or rather HIPAA implimentations are over the top as this law has health care people scared shitless.
It's not about trusted systems, it's that everyone is scared to share information when what needs to happen is more sharing. It's that the data get's compartmentalized when the physicians need as much information as they can get. Even with the records being electronic the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Currently there are secure systems and then there are usable systems. We need to find a way to do secure and usable systems. That will take some time.
Interesting post. And a thought experiment already played out.
An auto company born out of innovation and efficiency would likely be the victim of the current automaker hegemony. And a victimization that can take the form of many paths. First the existing companies, according to current trends, would attempt to get them legislated out of existence. Next they would attack the companies IP to destroy them. Finally and possibly if the company started selling their products concurrently the hegemony would FUD them with aggressive and misleading marketing tactics. All of these are options.
To think that the government is the cause of the problem is silly. The problem is big corporations fighting innovation rather than embracing it.
A pure capitalist economy can't exist. It's impossible. Markets will move to protect their interests, whether it's in the interest of their customers or not, and at the same time will protect their current way and means of business at all costs, internal and especially external. This has been born out by history.
If there is a flaw in humanity it will be exploited. If there is a lie that can be upheld in the courts then the lie is told. If nothing else, the law that is can be subverted. The end goal is that the money flows and existing power is upheld. Nothing else matters.
And this is why legislation, even sometimes bad legislation is passed against corporations.
I don't blame the paper makers. The legislation was poorly worded. I don't blame the legislators because there is no way they could have forseen the misapplication of the law. That having been said , this is a loophole that needs to be closed. No confusion necessary.
"Do the laws of thermodynamics mean nothing to you?"
Thermodynamics? I...I'm speechless. No I'm not.
The article speaks of the not so distant future by a century or more. Population controls mean nothing in the face of ever cheap, efficient and abundant means of producing food resources at the expense of others. While I don't think urban farms are the answer, multi-story exurban farms could be a more efficient use of resources than rural farming and shipping and trucking that we work with today.
It's the nature of technology to accelerate. An advance that takes a decade today, will only take a year or so by 2200. The only limiting factor is society's ability to absorb the advances.
Against that backdrop, building farming might make sense both ecologically and economically.
Don't be fooled by the term, "distopian." Imagine a world that consists of large swaths of reclaimed wild land, dotted by "clean" urban centers.
Half of Manhattan you say? Hmmm, seems like rooftops cover probably about a third of Manhattan. Not to mention they're friggen skyscrapers, upon which wind turbines could be mounted. Augment that with nuclear, tidal, orbital-solar.
The sunlight? As long as power is cheap, and near unlimited; yeah we can create artificial sunlight.
But there's no easy and efficient means of stepping the power down. Add to that that AC High power lines can skip the return circuit and save money using an earth ground return. Oh and DC is cheap and easy to make from AC, but AC is expensive to create from from DC.
Nonono, not rising wages, that's just one of the mechanisms of worth parity. For monetary instance, if a company would fail entirely and the company's entire fortunes rests on the shoulders of one developer, and if this developer were to leave and join the competition, then that would be the end of the company, then what is that one developer worth? I'd say a fair sight more than the CEO.
Because it provides much needed investment in competing domestic technologies. So much so that the big 2 (hint: Chrysler is going to die because their owners (Chrysler is a private company) have removed all of their cash on hand and is leaving the company out to dry in the wind.) will have to join in or die themselves.
Devil's advocate here.
Of course they create inefficiencies. It's much more efficient to run your business with expendable children while not including safety mechanisms in consumer products.
What jcr is doing is redefining, common good.
Jcr wants a government of the corporations by the corporations and for the corporations.
They give away the browser and spend all of their revenue on development. So, how much taxable profit did the Mozilla foundation make anyway?
The IRS has nothing to gain from this. I smell a rat closeby!
Wait, you're basing your entire argument on the politics of WWDTM? Hell yes, it's Liberal. It doesn't pretend to be anything else.
Here's another one, Prairie Home Companion is also a Liberal show on NPR! Ahhh, will it ever end.
The point is that the news tends to be balanced. Often as a liberal I'm annoyed at how much they pander to the right. While sometimes it's just the opposite. That is how I know they aren't biased.
But when your way off to the right, everything looks left.
I just don't see where Obama will have any near the level of support in congress to pull off his plans. He just hasn't been a political animal long enough.
Yeah that impending Democratic majority in the House and filibuster proof majority in the Senate won't help at all. Oh and I don't think you got the memo, but Obama's been planning this presidential run for four years now, and under the tutelage of Dashle has been helping out almost everyone in the Democratic party (particularily with fund raising, is it any wonder he's become so good at it?) Doing that he's built up a mountain of favors over that time.
Wow, who pissed in the Libertarian Cheerios today?
What the parent to your post was trying to say was that in a capitalist economy, money is power. A worker is at a disadvantage when in the market for a job. A union allows the workers an even footing with the employers when bargaining. And yes, of course the employers don't like that.
The hatred of the rich is called "class envy" And the exploitation and derision of the middle-class or poor is the other side of the classism coin. See how it's balanced. Why do Libertarians think this kind of shit only cuts one way?
Let's assume that every third person in the US is a taxpayer. It's a bit of a stretch but not too much. So there's roughly 300M people in the US so 100M taxpayers. The bailout is 700B.
The math is:
$700B/100M = $7000
Which is pretty close to the figure the news has been throwing about $10,000 (I think there are a bit less taxpayers.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again; You're either being disingenuous or stupid.
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And will keep you from pooping for weeks. Nice.
If I had mod points, you would get them. This hits the nail on the head. From my perspective the roadblock to connected systems are often the systems makers themselves as they are used to fat paychecks for their solutions and modules. They often lock down their systems in the name of "security" when really they are locking them down so they can force feed the doctors their solution foie gras style.
I work the other end of the spectrum that you do. I unravel the "black boxes" that you put together; connecting to databases and writing queries to extract data to be sent to labs and to be used in other vendors' ePrescribing offerings.
The companies that you work for don't like us, partly because we do what we do often for thousands less than you charge for your similar connectivity products when we have a much more difficult task, reverse engineering what seems like an endless avalanche of varying practice management software.
The lunar surface is made up of very fine dust, how long will it take for dust to settle?
Gravitational acceleration on the moon is 1.6 m/s2, and the dust is going up roughly 10 km. At the dust's apogee the dust's velocity is zero. It will take almost two minutes for the dust to settle
Will dust escape out of the lunar surface into space?
Yes, undoubtedly. Dust will be flung off the surface of the moon and into space. It will then proceed to fall back towards the moon. If it's going fast enough and at an steep enough angle it might go into orbit, but more than likely fall back to the moon.
Uhmm, you are. You didn't expect me to provide you with vehicle welfare and support your new car habit did you?
Have you even read any Cory Doctorow novels? Sometimes they are a little out there, but at least the perspective is fresh. (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, I'm looking at you.)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom had its less believable bits but was very forward looking, Eastern Standard Tribe moreso. Little Brother was probably his best one yet and eerily prescient.
What's more they're free for download. Now it isn't Shakespeare, I'll give you that, but it is entertaining and the writing is quite a bit better than a Stephen King piece of trash (Cory sometimes even uses big words, correctly.) So taking a novel for a spin won't cost you anything and if you have an open mind it may even profit you personally (just not monetarily.)
I've met the man, and he cares about your rights and fights continuously for them even though he no longer runs the EFF. So maybe you even owe him a second chance, or at the very least you shouldn't trash him just because his writing isn't exactly your cup of tea.
The Republicans don't try to legislate what can be broadcast, or debated.
What freaking Republican party are you referring to? Not the evangelist, social conservative and restrictive one I know. Look into what happened to the FCC during GWB's terms in office and attempt to say that again with a straight face.
And BTW if the hard Left in America is pushing towards communism (besides a handful of kooks, it isn't) then the Republican party is pushing towards corporate/religious based fascism (not most of them.)
Mod the parent's parent up. HIPAA goes way over the top, or rather HIPAA implimentations are over the top as this law has health care people scared shitless.
It's not about trusted systems, it's that everyone is scared to share information when what needs to happen is more sharing. It's that the data get's compartmentalized when the physicians need as much information as they can get. Even with the records being electronic the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Currently there are secure systems and then there are usable systems. We need to find a way to do secure and usable systems. That will take some time.
Interesting post. And a thought experiment already played out.
An auto company born out of innovation and efficiency would likely be the victim of the current automaker hegemony. And a victimization that can take the form of many paths. First the existing companies, according to current trends, would attempt to get them legislated out of existence. Next they would attack the companies IP to destroy them. Finally and possibly if the company started selling their products concurrently the hegemony would FUD them with aggressive and misleading marketing tactics. All of these are options.
To think that the government is the cause of the problem is silly. The problem is big corporations fighting innovation rather than embracing it.
A pure capitalist economy can't exist. It's impossible. Markets will move to protect their interests, whether it's in the interest of their customers or not, and at the same time will protect their current way and means of business at all costs, internal and especially external. This has been born out by history.
If there is a flaw in humanity it will be exploited. If there is a lie that can be upheld in the courts then the lie is told. If nothing else, the law that is can be subverted. The end goal is that the money flows and existing power is upheld. Nothing else matters.
And this is why legislation, even sometimes bad legislation is passed against corporations.
I don't blame the paper makers. The legislation was poorly worded. I don't blame the legislators because there is no way they could have forseen the misapplication of the law. That having been said , this is a loophole that needs to be closed. No confusion necessary.
The traditional methods of reducing the human population are disease and war. For the most part, humanity has resisted all other efforts.
"Do the laws of thermodynamics mean nothing to you?"
Thermodynamics? I...I'm speechless. No I'm not.
The article speaks of the not so distant future by a century or more. Population controls mean nothing in the face of ever cheap, efficient and abundant means of producing food resources at the expense of others. While I don't think urban farms are the answer, multi-story exurban farms could be a more efficient use of resources than rural farming and shipping and trucking that we work with today.
It's the nature of technology to accelerate. An advance that takes a decade today, will only take a year or so by 2200. The only limiting factor is society's ability to absorb the advances.
Against that backdrop, building farming might make sense both ecologically and economically.
Don't be fooled by the term, "distopian." Imagine a world that consists of large swaths of reclaimed wild land, dotted by "clean" urban centers.
Modern day Luddites not withstanding.
Half of Manhattan you say? Hmmm, seems like rooftops cover probably about a third of Manhattan. Not to mention they're friggen skyscrapers, upon which wind turbines could be mounted. Augment that with nuclear, tidal, orbital-solar.
The sunlight? As long as power is cheap, and near unlimited; yeah we can create artificial sunlight.
But there's no easy and efficient means of stepping the power down. Add to that that AC High power lines can skip the return circuit and save money using an earth ground return. Oh and DC is cheap and easy to make from AC, but AC is expensive to create from from DC.
Wow what a waste of a mod-point. Way to go.
If only I had mod points.
Nonono, not rising wages, that's just one of the mechanisms of worth parity. For monetary instance, if a company would fail entirely and the company's entire fortunes rests on the shoulders of one developer, and if this developer were to leave and join the competition, then that would be the end of the company, then what is that one developer worth? I'd say a fair sight more than the CEO.
So how do you prevent someone from quitting or being poached and taking their technical or company specific knowledge to a competitor?
Pay the person what they are worth to your company!
Ya'll know that you can edit what you see on your homepage, by going to Help & Preferences --> Index:Sections, right?
I can't believe you consider yourselves nerds.
Because it provides much needed investment in competing domestic technologies. So much so that the big 2 (hint: Chrysler is going to die because their owners (Chrysler is a private company) have removed all of their cash on hand and is leaving the company out to dry in the wind.) will have to join in or die themselves.
Devil's advocate here. Of course they create inefficiencies. It's much more efficient to run your business with expendable children while not including safety mechanisms in consumer products. What jcr is doing is redefining, common good. Jcr wants a government of the corporations by the corporations and for the corporations.
They give away the browser and spend all of their revenue on development. So, how much taxable profit did the Mozilla foundation make anyway? The IRS has nothing to gain from this. I smell a rat closeby!
Wait, you're basing your entire argument on the politics of WWDTM? Hell yes, it's Liberal. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. Here's another one, Prairie Home Companion is also a Liberal show on NPR! Ahhh, will it ever end. The point is that the news tends to be balanced. Often as a liberal I'm annoyed at how much they pander to the right. While sometimes it's just the opposite. That is how I know they aren't biased. But when your way off to the right, everything looks left.
I just don't see where Obama will have any near the level of support in congress to pull off his plans. He just hasn't been a political animal long enough.
Yeah that impending Democratic majority in the House and filibuster proof majority in the Senate won't help at all. Oh and I don't think you got the memo, but Obama's been planning this presidential run for four years now, and under the tutelage of Dashle has been helping out almost everyone in the Democratic party (particularily with fund raising, is it any wonder he's become so good at it?) Doing that he's built up a mountain of favors over that time.
Wow, who pissed in the Libertarian Cheerios today?
What the parent to your post was trying to say was that in a capitalist economy, money is power. A worker is at a disadvantage when in the market for a job. A union allows the workers an even footing with the employers when bargaining. And yes, of course the employers don't like that.
The hatred of the rich is called "class envy"
And the exploitation and derision of the middle-class or poor is the other side of the classism coin. See how it's balanced. Why do Libertarians think this kind of shit only cuts one way?
$425,000
Bzzzt...not close. Not even in the same ballpark.
Let's assume that every third person in the US is a taxpayer. It's a bit of a stretch but not too much. So there's roughly 300M people in the US so 100M taxpayers. The bailout is 700B.
The math is:
$700B/100M = $7000
Which is pretty close to the figure the news has been throwing about $10,000 (I think there are a bit less taxpayers.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again; You're either being disingenuous or stupid.
The truth is that you weren't working enough unpaid hours, wink, wink. But they can't come right out and say that can they?