As with many other technological wonders you've exactly hit the point. Lots of privacy problems could be solved when people would be in control of when and to whom you release your sensitive information.
This doesn't mean that there are plenty of scenarios where people could be tricked to give their information, but still one can argue that it brings the discussion to a different level, namely educating people to think.
With the current state of always on identification, privacy is at an end.
I've been into Personal Finance Manager appliction for a while. Just for fun, because now that i actually make money i would like to manage my accounts in a proper way. Unfortunatly i've found that not to be easy at all.
Tried with: GnuCash Quicken and now with MS Money
None of them really do what i want.
GnuCash had double entry accounting which i think is just much to manage for my personal finances. Support to import transaction was incomplete back then (only QIF format worked, and QIF is a PoS). Now it seems that they improved on that but still the double entry system makes me nervous. Quicken is a buggy, ad invested piece of software. Whenever you click on a "function" you're send to some third party website. Their move to not allow import of QIF for certain types of accounts gave me the rest and i quit. Money is not as ad invested, but buggy as well. But right know i still kinda like it, except that some general functionalities are missing that i really would like to see in the future.
What's missing in all of these PFM's is that they don't take stupid work away from me, they should help me, not give me more work than necessary. Example: My Payee information that i download in the transactions of the banks looks like encrypted bullocks to me. There has to be a way to name these things in user friendly way. The automatic categorization of transaction lacks functionality as well. It should be possible to define rules. Like: i went to Safeway at noon on a weekday -> Lunch Category, otherwise Groceries Furthermore i like to have the whole thing setup as a service on my computer, it wouldn't take too much... The service would then automatically log into my bank accounts everyday and download latest transactions. Maybe even sent me an e-mail or text message that i should maybe not use credit card XYZ anymore, because i'm about to bounce the credit limit. There is more and i just wish i could see any sort of progress in their yearly releases, but i've given up on that.
i can not agree with you on that. Lately it seems more like the opposite to me. More and more i find sites that are not working correctly with FF.
although i didn't analyse the causes, it feels to me like a majority of these sites use a lot of javascript. Unfortunatly for me most of the sites that won't display correctly are my banks, insurance and others that i would whish to not use IE.
Decouple IE from the OS isn't an easy part. Since they want to release the first betas within a few month i guess that:
- They already started development on IE7 quite a while ago and there might be some serious changes to the fundamental structures. (e.g. vastly improved security, less straightforward integration with other apps). Or... - Development just started in the view of recent popularity gains by firefox. In this case given the sort amount of time. There will be maybe new user interface features (tabbed browsing) but no changes to structure and therefore not much improvement in security aspects.
Well, it's a little late in the discussion when i was browsing through this thread.
Still i wonder about one thing and i didn't see it discussed yet.
Who and upon what criteria is decided, that one country or another is eligable to posses wmd's? How can it be some countries like the US, UK, France and others can tell other countries to not persuade the development of wmd's if they themselves sit on a whole bunch of them?
Anyone up for an answer other than: "Because they are evil!"
Basic problem is overaging of the population. If all/. readers would finally get away from the computers and get busy with a non-virtual girl... This would be the end of all problems with SS.;-)
yes it can search inside files, but this will not be of much help except you look for something in a ascii file. Binary files like word, excel, pdf and such will not show up.
H1B Visa holders to pay full taxes: federal, state, social security and medicare. Everything together makes actually around 35% of the paycheck that are taxed.
Taxes that are paid and none of them gets an actual benefit of it as long as they do not apply for green cards. In case you loose your job there is no unemployment benefits, social security money you get back if your lucky and your country has an agreement with the US. Which then works in both ways, giving US-citizens working abroad the same benefit.
Some apply for green cards during the 6years that they can stay as guest workers in this country. Others just leave during or after that period of time.
Same source a little bit further down ( 6. position to be exact) one can find another measurement they made using 8x 512 processors, result was 19.56 GFlop/s
I'm not an expert on this, but your statement is in my opinion not completly true.
Weather forecasting is a little bit like playing chess. One does have a lot of different path to take to find the best solution.
Increased computing power allows for "deeper" searches and increases accuracy.
My guess is that more accuracy requires exponentially more computing power. Comparing earth simulator to colombia makes me wonder how much accuracy has increased in this particular case.
After browsing quickly throught the source that i've downloaded it seems to me that there are no artwork and maps or any other resources except the icon for the exe included.
Lucky me, that i bought the game back in the day. Now i think my investment really paid off.
Ha, if only other the publishers would do such things...
It's not corporate america either, it's called capitalism. Any value added to a thing must be done in the most cost effective way possible. If not competition will do it for you.
Times are over where IT projects are the exeption from the rule. We can try to do the same work more cost effective or the indians will do it for us. It's our choice.
I think it comes down to all of us calling for cheaper products and services all the time, me included.
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As with many other technological wonders you've exactly hit the point. Lots of privacy problems could be solved when people would be in control of when and to whom you release your sensitive information.
This doesn't mean that there are plenty of scenarios where people could be tricked to give their information, but still one can argue that it brings the discussion to a different level, namely educating people to think.
With the current state of always on identification, privacy is at an end.
Exactly right, and because their unwillingness to be involved in anything... they seized the indexing server ;-)
I've been into Personal Finance Manager appliction for a while. Just for fun, because now that i actually make money i would like to manage my accounts in a proper way. Unfortunatly i've found that not to be easy at all.
Tried with:
GnuCash
Quicken
and now with MS Money
None of them really do what i want.
GnuCash had double entry accounting which i think is just much to manage for my personal finances. Support to import transaction was incomplete back then (only QIF format worked, and QIF is a PoS). Now it seems that they improved on that but still the double entry system makes me nervous.
Quicken is a buggy, ad invested piece of software. Whenever you click on a "function" you're send to some third party website. Their move to not allow import of QIF for certain types of accounts gave me the rest and i quit.
Money is not as ad invested, but buggy as well. But right know i still kinda like it, except that some general functionalities are missing that i really would like to see in the future.
What's missing in all of these PFM's is that they don't take stupid work away from me, they should help me, not give me more work than necessary.
Example: My Payee information that i download in the transactions of the banks looks like encrypted bullocks to me. There has to be a way to name these things in user friendly way.
The automatic categorization of transaction lacks functionality as well. It should be possible to define rules. Like: i went to Safeway at noon on a weekday -> Lunch Category, otherwise Groceries
Furthermore i like to have the whole thing setup as a service on my computer, it wouldn't take too much... The service would then automatically log into my bank accounts everyday and download latest transactions. Maybe even sent me an e-mail or text message that i should maybe not use credit card XYZ anymore, because i'm about to bounce the credit limit.
There is more and i just wish i could see any sort of progress in their yearly releases, but i've given up on that.
i can not agree with you on that. Lately it seems more like the opposite to me. More and more i find sites that are not working correctly with FF.
although i didn't analyse the causes, it feels to me like a majority of these sites use a lot of javascript. Unfortunatly for me most of the sites that won't display correctly are my banks, insurance and others that i would whish to not use IE.
m2c
no, no...
thanks to the patriot act, they do not need any decryption methods anymore. Because every system sold since 2001 is bugged when leaving the factory.
Decouple IE from the OS isn't an easy part. Since they want to release the first betas within a few month i guess that:
- They already started development on IE7 quite a while ago and there might be some serious changes to the fundamental structures. (e.g. vastly improved security, less straightforward integration with other apps). Or...
- Development just started in the view of recent popularity gains by firefox. In this case given the sort amount of time. There will be maybe new user interface features (tabbed browsing) but no changes to structure and therefore not much improvement in security aspects.
My 2c.
Well, it's a little late in the discussion when i was browsing through this thread.
Still i wonder about one thing and i didn't see it discussed yet.
Who and upon what criteria is decided, that one country or another is eligable to posses wmd's? How can it be some countries like the US, UK, France and others can tell other countries to not persuade the development of wmd's if they themselves sit on a whole bunch of them?
Anyone up for an answer other than: "Because they are evil!"
Here's a list http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd_state.htm/ showing 33 countires that have wmd capabilities.
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Actually most lawyer cost $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ or even more if not /.s lameness filter would reject the post... ;-)
SS is not a pyramid scheme.
/. readers would finally get away from the computers and get busy with a non-virtual girl... This would be the end of all problems with SS. ;-)
Basic problem is overaging of the population. If all
yes it can search inside files, but this will not be of much help except you look for something in a ascii file. Binary files like word, excel, pdf and such will not show up.
i'm sorry but i think you don't know anything...
H1B Visa holders to pay full taxes: federal, state, social security and medicare. Everything together makes actually around 35% of the paycheck that are taxed.
Taxes that are paid and none of them gets an actual benefit of it as long as they do not apply for green cards. In case you loose your job there is no unemployment benefits, social security money you get back if your lucky and your country has an agreement with the US. Which then works in both ways, giving US-citizens working abroad the same benefit.
Some apply for green cards during the 6years that they can stay as guest workers in this country. Others just leave during or after that period of time.
According to http://das.doit.wisc.edu/misc/top500.jpg/ this number was reached using 16 boxes containing 504 processors each.
Same source a little bit further down ( 6. position to be exact) one can find another measurement they made using 8x 512 processors, result was 19.56 GFlop/s
I'm not an expert on this, but your statement is in my opinion not completly true. Weather forecasting is a little bit like playing chess. One does have a lot of different path to take to find the best solution. Increased computing power allows for "deeper" searches and increases accuracy. My guess is that more accuracy requires exponentially more computing power. Comparing earth simulator to colombia makes me wonder how much accuracy has increased in this particular case.
After browsing quickly throught the source that i've downloaded it seems to me that there are no artwork and maps or any other resources except the icon for the exe included.
Lucky me, that i bought the game back in the day. Now i think my investment really paid off.
Ha, if only other the publishers would do such things...
It's not corporate america either, it's called capitalism. Any value added to a thing must be done in the most cost effective way possible. If not competition will do it for you.
Times are over where IT projects are the exeption from the rule. We can try to do the same work more cost effective or the indians will do it for us. It's our choice.
I think it comes down to all of us calling for cheaper products and services all the time, me included.
Just this morning i reached a new record level of spam mail. 46 email received, 36 spam...