I'm not as convinced as many people are that the sky is falling, so I suspect the economy will eventually improve.
The thing that all the knee jerk poster here seemed to miss is that this is the first year on a totally different survey methodology.
Reporters Sans Borders (RSF) totally tossed out their prior methodology and went with a new questionnaire: http://rsf.org/index/qEN.html Since this isn't the only source of input, you have to read also their methodology which includes things never before even considered. It turns out that most of the qualitative measurements are done by RSF people themselves, rather than from input from these people in the field.
Quantitative questions about the number of violations of different kinds are handled by our staff. They include the number of journalists, media assistants and netizens who were jailed or killed in the connection with their activities,
So "netizens" are who exactly? And why does that matter? Well, since they don't define it, we have to assume that anyone releasing information over the internet counts as a netizen. So one Bradley Manning (35 year sentence) can account for 90% of the "Violence against reporters/netizens) score. North Korea, not having any Netizens, presumably gets a perfect score in this regard. I suggest the whole thing is hopelessly biased.
As with any newly invented scale, you have to give it a few years for the truth (and the bias) to come out.
Its all time based. You get you your first sms from google, and that sets up the sequence of numbers that are calculated based on that seed and the current time. I if have two phones, or move your Sim to a different phone, you have to set that up as well. But the weird thing is both phones will show different sequences, but either sequence will work to authenticate.
But use your friend's phone, it won't work. So it sounds to me that Google is keeping one timer for each authorized phone for your google account. So I thinks they CAN know which device you authenticate with.
I only count 4 on the list from Israel. They buy where you find the tech that you need, and which has a body of law that allows you to acquire it cleanly with no future arguments.
I suspect you are really asking why some countries never produce much of technical value/interest to Google, rather than wondering why Google only buys from certain countries.
If you want to ask why isn't there much interesting tech developed in other countries from the same region, that is another question all together.
Seems mostly aimed at Two Factor Authentication, not dissimilar to the way Google Authenticator works without having to type anything into your phone.
Currently Google's 2FA uses you phone as a synced clock displaying numbers which you have to key in to your computer to log in.
These guys revers that and you computer sends a QR code or a sound that your Cellphone authenticates and sends a response back through the network, via a separate path (tcp connection or sms message).
Its pretty clever, as long as its paired with something else only you would know. It has the same problems that Google's current two factor has, namely that it is game over if someone steals your phone.
I suspect they bought them more for the patents than anything else.
If they only just close enough to finalizing the recipe now how do they know it will last three years?
These guys invent MREs. That's what they do. They have years of experience developing and packaging for long term duration.
As to how good will it taste in three years, that's based on historical analysis of other similar MREs. The Spaghetti MREs are pretty good after three years.
I know guys who actually like MREs, and bought their own supply for hunting trips after the left the service.
Just like the singularity it seems that improved battery tech is always about 5-10 years down the road.
Pretty much true.
I've had laptops that ran on Lead Acid batteries, followed by ones that run on NiCad, and Lithium, then Li-Poly. Seems like they were all about 5 to 10 years apart. Seems like each time, we knew the new tech would arrive about 5 years in the future.
We are doomed to always be in this cycle, of using the best tech we have while waiting for rumored better tech form the future.
We even develop government programs to ensure that this perpetual waiting game remains perpetual.
We've all gotten used to it. You'll be happier when you do.
I suspect that between various BSDs and Linux versions that the concept of everything being a file has pretty much reached its logical endpoint.
Not even close, unless you're thinking about Plan 9.
A truly 'everything is a file' Unix would implement BSD sockets and X11 windows as files, just for a start. Can you do that on Linux yet?
At last someone who understands, unlike the other clowns posting replys to this thread.
There are some things that just don't work as files, X11 being one obvious example, along with sockets, handles to data structures, entry points (methods) to loaded modules, etc.
You can force these things into that mold, but you do so more as an intellectual exercise, at the expense of efficiency and speed, (and largely just to prove a point). There is no rational reason to carry the everything-is-a-file concept any further than it has already been carried by BSD and Linux.
There is no logical reason to pretend these things are files, and as such most modern implementations of anything 'Nix has carried the concept as far as is logical to do so, and abandoned it for those things that aren't logical or practical.
Then you're not British. He writes right wing articles for The Times and The Sun. He criticises Labour Party politicians, and was a Thatcher fan. No one British is in any doubt of his politics.
Clarkson hasn't said a single thing bad about Tesla since he was caught lying in his first hatchet job
And so why doesn't his lies in the first "hatchet job" not count?
As to how I know about other right wingers criticising Tesla,
Because you assume he has editorial control of his TV show. Which is nonsense. Further, when he reviewed the Tesla, it made no sense to own one in Britain, where is principal audience is. There were no charging stations in Britain at that time. The show was made for British consumption, and the guy is an avowed petrol head. Its not the first hatched job Top Gear has done on cars. If anything he denigrated it because he doesn't like anything build in America or by Americans.
I'm talking about posters here, of which there are a fair number with well known politics, expounded at length over the years.
I hardly see any one posting here on slashdot railing against Tesla Motors. There is a virtual love affair.
You see the odd sniping, but most of those posting derogatory remarks are posting as ACs where there is no way to tie them to any point of view. Yet its obvious most of those are posting out of class envy, because they can't afford the cars, and Musk built it all on his own money without government help. Success is not allowed in this country unless you got government help in a lot of liberal eyes.
But by and large Tesla Motors is admired, by conservatives, and you sound more butthurt than rational in your claims to the contrary.
I like the idea how everything is a file etc. That is one reason why I originally became Linux user and now it feels Linux systems have become something totally different by new third/fourth generation "geeks" who don't care anymore about open file system and results are like systemd journalctl.
Sad that they held on to it just long enough for it to become irrelevant. Anything unique that it had to offer has probably been done in other ways.
I suspect that between various BSDs and Linux versions that the concept of everything being a file has pretty much reached its logical endpoint. Eventually you have to talk to highly interactive hardware with massively parallel threads and then the paradigm starts to become unhinged, and you spend more time trying to defend and extend the paradigm than anything else.
Seems a bit much if you ask me. You can use every bit of Ubuntu except a fee trademarks and logo s. Just the same way Ubuntu uses every bit of Debian.
Every distro has a few branding features, always separate, never hidden, that you can neither need, nor would you want if you were starting your own distros.
But you have missed the point of the story: Ubuntu doesn't actually claim you can't use their distro to base your own distro on. All they really claim is you can't use their branding.
I don't believe Option 2 is even available. The country's olympic committee has pretty strict rules, and the power to keep anyone out.
Seems lame, that those beauty contest dancers (figure skaters) can choose their own uniform, but every other event you have to wear team colors and uniforms.
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I'm not as convinced as many people are that the sky is falling, so I suspect the economy will eventually improve.
The thing that all the knee jerk poster here seemed to miss is that this is the first year on a totally different survey methodology.
Reporters Sans Borders (RSF) totally tossed out their prior methodology and went with a new questionnaire: http://rsf.org/index/qEN.html
Since this isn't the only source of input, you have to read also their methodology
which includes things never before even considered. It turns out that most of the qualitative measurements are done by RSF people themselves, rather than from input from these people in the field.
Quantitative questions about the number of violations of different kinds are
handled by our staff. They include the number of journalists, media assistants and netizens who
were jailed or killed in the connection with their activities,
So "netizens" are who exactly?
And why does that matter? Well, since they don't define it, we have to assume that anyone releasing information
over the internet counts as a netizen. So one Bradley Manning (35 year sentence) can account for 90% of the "Violence against reporters/netizens) score.
North Korea, not having any Netizens, presumably gets a perfect score in this regard. I suggest the whole thing is hopelessly biased.
As with any newly invented scale, you have to give it a few years for the truth (and the bias) to come out.
Pretty sure the lead poisoning got to franklin before the lack of vitimin C
Its all time based. You get you your first sms from google, and that sets up the sequence of numbers that are calculated based on that seed and the current time.
I if have two phones, or move your Sim to a different phone, you have to set that up as well. But the weird thing is both phones will show different sequences, but either sequence will work to authenticate.
But use your friend's phone, it won't work. So it sounds to me that Google is keeping one timer for each authorized phone for your google account. So I thinks they CAN know which device you authenticate with.
Thats not what a lot of the others here have been saying.
Have you actually eaten any modern MREs?
The OP said
Why every time one of the big "monsters" of technology acquires a start-up is it from Israel?
I answered that question.
What are you talking about?
The last purchase Google made was from Britain.
Before that was Nest, a Palo Alto CA company.
This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... lists all the major acquisitions Google has made.
I only count 4 on the list from Israel. They buy where you find the tech that you need, and which has a body of law that allows you to acquire it cleanly with no future arguments.
I suspect you are really asking why some countries never produce much of technical value/interest to Google, rather than wondering why Google only buys from certain countries.
If you want to ask why isn't there much interesting tech developed in other countries from the same region, that is another question all together.
Use this and Google will be able to identify and tie your id with both your computer and your smartphone .
Yeah, well, Two Factor Authentication already used by Google already KNOWS the computer you are using, and the PHONE you are
using.
This adds no more information than you've already given them for Two Factor Authentication.
Seems mostly aimed at Two Factor Authentication, not dissimilar to the way Google Authenticator works without having to type anything into your phone.
Currently Google's 2FA uses you phone as a synced clock displaying numbers which you have to key in to your
computer to log in.
These guys revers that and you computer sends a QR code or a sound that your Cellphone authenticates and sends
a response back through the network, via a separate path (tcp connection or sms message).
Its pretty clever, as long as its paired with something else only you would know. It has the same problems
that Google's current two factor has, namely that it is game over if someone steals your phone.
I suspect they bought them more for the patents than anything else.
None of those started as Military rations.
Microwaves for combat rations?
What are they going to plug them into? A current bush?
This problem has been solved for decades.
Check out the Wiki page on how many different menus there are for MREs.
As for injuring the soldiers' teeth these are combat rations, MREs, stuff you eat when bullets are flying, and therefore the least of your worries.
Its for MREs, combat rations, soldiers in the field.
Nobody is planning to serve it in restaurants.
If they only just close enough to finalizing the recipe now how do they know it will last three years?
These guys invent MREs. That's what they do.
They have years of experience developing and packaging for long term duration.
As to how good will it taste in three years, that's based on historical analysis of other similar MREs.
The Spaghetti MREs are pretty good after three years.
I know guys who actually like MREs, and bought their own supply for hunting trips after the left the service.
Well Chevy is apparently looking to combine those two types of fire:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/0...
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/w...
Just like the singularity it seems that improved battery tech is always about 5-10 years down the road.
Pretty much true.
I've had laptops that ran on Lead Acid batteries, followed by ones that run on NiCad, and Lithium, then Li-Poly.
Seems like they were all about 5 to 10 years apart.
Seems like each time, we knew the new tech would arrive about 5 years in the future.
We are doomed to always be in this cycle, of using the best tech we have while waiting for rumored better tech form the future.
We even develop government programs to ensure that this perpetual waiting game remains perpetual.
We've all gotten used to it.
You'll be happier when you do.
e^(i*pi)+1=0
Isn't that answer supposed to be 42?
I suspect that between various BSDs and Linux versions that the concept of everything being a file has pretty much reached its logical endpoint.
Not even close, unless you're thinking about Plan 9.
A truly 'everything is a file' Unix would implement BSD sockets and X11 windows as files, just for a start. Can you do that on Linux yet?
At last someone who understands, unlike the other clowns posting replys to this thread.
There are some things that just don't work as files, X11 being one obvious example, along with sockets, handles to data structures, entry points (methods) to loaded modules, etc.
You can force these things into that mold, but you do so more as an intellectual exercise, at the expense of efficiency and speed, (and largely just to prove a point). There is no rational reason to carry the everything-is-a-file concept any further than it has already been carried by BSD and Linux.
There is no logical reason to pretend these things are files, and as such most modern implementations of anything 'Nix has carried the concept as far as is logical to do so, and abandoned it for those things that aren't logical or practical.
I have no idea of his political standings.
Then you're not British. He writes right wing articles for The Times and The Sun. He criticises Labour Party politicians, and was a Thatcher fan. No one British is in any doubt of his politics.
Clarkson hasn't said a single thing bad about Tesla since he was caught lying in his first hatchet job
And so why doesn't his lies in the first "hatchet job" not count?
As to how I know about other right wingers criticising Tesla,
Because you assume he has editorial control of his TV show. Which is nonsense. Further, when he reviewed the Tesla, it made no sense to own one in Britain, where is principal audience is. There were no charging stations in Britain at that time. The show was made for British consumption, and the guy is an avowed petrol head. Its not the first hatched job Top Gear has done on cars. If anything he denigrated it because he doesn't like anything build in America or by Americans.
I'm talking about posters here, of which there are a fair number with well known politics, expounded at length over the years.
I hardly see any one posting here on slashdot railing against Tesla Motors. There is a virtual love affair.
You see the odd sniping, but most of those posting derogatory remarks are posting as ACs where there is no way to tie them to any point of view. Yet its obvious most of those are posting out of class envy, because they can't afford the cars, and Musk built it all on his own money without government help. Success is not allowed in this country unless you got government help in a lot of liberal eyes.
But by and large Tesla Motors is admired, by conservatives, and you sound more butthurt than rational in your claims to the contrary.
Oh, and FYI. have you noticed how fast the Liberal Press buried THIS Story?
Probably not, because trade names are protected.
You can describe it as such but you can't use another company's name as part of your product name.
But what has that got to do with using their GPL source code? Nothing at all.
So no strangle hold.
I like the idea how everything is a file etc. That is one reason why I originally became Linux user and now it feels Linux systems have become something totally different by new third/fourth generation "geeks" who don't care anymore about open file system and results are like systemd journalctl.
Sad that they held on to it just long enough for it to become irrelevant. Anything unique that it had to offer has probably been done in other ways.
I suspect that between various BSDs and Linux versions that the concept of everything being a file has pretty much reached its logical endpoint.
Eventually you have to talk to highly interactive hardware with massively parallel threads and then the paradigm starts to become unhinged, and you spend more time trying to defend and extend the paradigm than anything else.
Stranglehold?
Seems a bit much if you ask me. You can use every bit of Ubuntu except a fee trademarks and logo s.
Just the same way Ubuntu uses every bit of Debian.
Every distro has a few branding features, always separate, never hidden, that you can neither need, nor would you want if you were starting your own distros.
But you have missed the point of the story: Ubuntu doesn't actually claim you can't use their distro to base your own distro on. All they really claim is you can't use their branding.
Apparently, she can't play fully dressed.
You know this how? Do those critical of Tesla have little "I'm from the Right" tags?
Clarkson hasn't said a single thing bad about Tesla since he was caught lying in his first hatchet job,
and I have no idea of his political standings.
Actually better coverage is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Where they have all the Pictures, and the foot prints of the cops involved.
I don't believe Option 2 is even available. The country's olympic committee has pretty strict rules, and the power to keep anyone out.
Seems lame, that those beauty contest dancers (figure skaters) can choose their own uniform, but every other event you have to wear team colors and uniforms.