In that case, it's all a matter of what you count as your "own people". The people in your home? Your street? Your neighbourhood? Your district? Your city? Your country? Your continent? Your world? Where do you draw the line, and why?
I suspect you are playing the devils advocate here, so I'll answer in strictly economic terms.
You draw the line where pocket book begins.
Everyone laid off in the US for a job overseas has an immediate, legal, irrevocable, undeniable claim on your pocket book in the form of tax dollars.
That money taxed away from you to support your laid off neighbors does not go toward your family, your children's food, clothing, education.
So just do the smart thing for your own family and don't try to over-think the situation.
I'm a miserable bastard, I know, but my take on this would be that your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible, and history shows that your chances of influencing others by your example are also near zero.
Well, that need not always be the case.
Instead of asking some Ethicist at the NYT (the mere act of doing so reveals his thoughts), why not take the NAME of the employer, as well as any tax breaks, government grants, contracts, to the paper for an expose' which would reveal the true cost to his fellow workers and the tax payers?
Its not JUST his fellow IT worker buddies that will take the hit, but the car salesman, the grocery stores, and fellow tax payers that will take a loss. There are significant trickle down losses for every dollar shifted out of the system.
Sometimes a little publicity and exploration of the true costs will make a difference.
Often the same people justifying exportation of jobs raise serious objections to the importation of oil. Its the same situation (monetarily) but somehow one action is winked at, and the other is protested in the streets.
wow..just..wow. You really don't know the criticality of this or the momentum moving through ISPs, do you?
Decade my ass.
It sure doesn't seem all that critical if you go by their actions.
Most haven't even started moving to ipv6, and those who have are doing so rather methodically. Most of them appear to have all the address space they need at the moment, and are heavily nat-ed on their internal networks. Most customers don't care, because they don't need inbound connections.
Most cable/DSL providers still have not even started rolling out modem replacements (mine can't handle ipv6 per the spec sheet).
If you ask them questions about their modems like... Do they plan firmware upgrades, or total replacements of the modems? Will I be limited to a small number of world route-able ip6 addresses? (and therefore still need nat) Will they handle 6-to-4 in the modem? etc etc... You get nothing but blank stares.
Panic hasn't set in. Static IP prices haven't started to rise. Nobody other than Comcast even want's to discuss the issue.
Installing apps remotely is a convenience factor that has a lot of merit. A simple confirmation on the phone should suffice.
Perhaps, but a more sensible approach than turning it off is to make for a more secure environment by having better password management, and encrypted connections throughout the Google infrastructure.
At a minimum everything you do on Google should be done over https, (the market is, but its not real clear how secure C2DM really is. It relies on your 'Google Talk' connection, and I simply have not had the time to sniff that traffic to see if its encrypted or not. Google Talk maintains some pretty resilient connections over 3G,Edge,WIFI, etc.
Its the WIFI ones you have to worry about, especially if you frequent open WIFI routers.
Why does everything have to be built on desktop apps dependent on the web or web browsers?
We've been doing desktops since dirt, and have it pretty well understood, reasonably well standardized across multiple operating systems. The building blocks are well understood, highly developed and well documented.
So why does it seem as if everybody wants to make us dependent on a 24/7 connection to the web, and why does it seem everyone wants to turn the browser into the building block upon which everything else depends?
And don't get me started on clouds!!!
What do we gain besides a huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control.
Did events in Egypt not teach us anything about putting every thing on the web and in the cloud?
Actually Plus Addressing seems intermittently broken on Gmail of late.
It seems if you access your Gmail from IMAP all bets are off with regard to the message actually ending up in any folder other than the inbox. Even message sent via gmail to gmail seem to fail the Plus Addressing for me.
Spam away on it, the original, no "+" address is to a spam mailbox.
Only addresses with the "+" part go to actual mailboxes that I read. I never hand out the bare address to anyone.
Spam on Gmail? I get virtually NO spam on Gmail that is not automatically detected and routed to the spam box. It is astoundingly accurate, and false positives are so vanishingly small I never bother to check the spam mailbox.
I don't need to reserve the root name for a spam catch.
Medical work is another story- it doesn't matter if you work for free, but you can't practice medicine, do surgery, etc, without a license.
I covered that" "Any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people)".
You can study diseases, conduct lab experiments, maybe even on lab mice, write papers (good luck getting them published), etc. Study. Just don't involve other people, or take any actions that might be construed as "practicing" or do any dangerous experiments that put people at risk or involve controlled substances.
Same thing for Detective work. You might need a license to carry a gun, or sell your services as a Private Investigator. But as an individual working only for your self, you can research all you want, dig thru the net, research in libraries, check public records, call people up, and ask people questions. (Not to the point of harassment).
You can be a rocket scientist and handle things that are quite dangerous, like solid fuel rocket motors.
You can design roads and bridges, automobiles, airplanes, buildings, ships. Just can't sell them, or in some cases even build them without having them blessed by someone with credentials.
I've driven 178. The Dashboard unit did not fail. It never lost satellite lock. Not once. Since I was playing tourist, I didn't venture off of the pavement. But these units do not fail JUST because they enter Death Valley.
Stop trying to blame technology when human stupidity is the sole cause of the problem.
There is no law prohibiting doing engineer quality work unless you try to do it for money or pass it off as the work of an engineer.
You can pretty much do any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people), as long as you don't pretend to be what you are not, use false credentials, and don't charge someone for the work.
You can design and engineer your own house from the foundation to the roof. Just don't try to build it without an actual engineer signing off on it.
But still, the guy obviously knew nothing about winter driving in rural area, yet he drove his family into into this situation due to pride. I guarantee his wife was begging him to turn around for for an hour before they got stuck.
their manufacturers don't tend to advertise their capabilities as "may be wrong"
All of the Garmin Nuvi GPS units I have had have a warning screen that shows every single time that it is turned on saying this.
This probably is more a feature of people liking to be getting orders, even when those orders are wrong.
Not to say that I am immune. I have found my self going down roads where if my GPS quit I would only have a vague idea of how to get home from that location.
You seem to be confusing real dashboard GPS units with cellphones.
They are far from the same. A typical Dashboard GPS has all the maps onboard. They also offers route defaults that favor major roads (shortest time), and these never lead you into trouble other than temporary weather or construction delays. Maps may become obsolete over several years. Roads just don't change that frequently.
And these dashboard units are seldom ever "Wrong" as to your location, and don't rely on any cellular signals. There are the occasional blind spots (city canyons), but these are temporary. If you go thru a tunnel you may lose signals, but the better GPS units realize this, and realize you really can't get lost in a tunnel, and simply revert to estimation till you emerge from the tunnel.
As for wide open desert spaces, the dashboard GPS units don't fail. Common sense fails.
I think Murdoch mentioned that it would break even at 500k subscribers. I don't think that this will reverse the general decline in newspaper revenues, but reaching break-even or profitability on the app looks pretty easy.
But staying at break even may be harder. iPad fans are always looking for some use for their devices other than checking facebook every 15 minutes, and are easily lured away by what ever is next. Many users find they are bored with the iPad and use it less and less each month.
So will these people continue to pay for news when they find that they use Google News or some other aggregation service more frequently? Will they drop their local news paper and plow the money into Murdoch's opinion about what matters?
I don't think so. Its yet another passing iPad Fad, that people will tire of paying for.
Your initial insinuation that most news readers are single sourced seems to be over-ridden by your later assertion that people want aggregation, as if you yourself have not decided which side of this argument you wish to pursue.
Most serious news readers in the digital age surf many sites or use aggregators such as Google News, or Individurls, or any number of other 100s of news feeds. Lots of people follow news on twitter these days as well, @breakingnews will give you events from all over the world an hour before they show up anywhere else.
As for your lamentation that people don't surf channels, I doubt that is true when any major news event happens. But for reports of the latest local murder it hardly matters, its all the same pablum anyway. TV news is pretty much useless, because stories that are not sensational simply don't get covered. Having someone else read their choice of news stories to you is an intellectual surrender.
Someone posts information or a picture proving themselves engaged in fraud onto a public forum where they have no reasonable expectation of privacy and in that makes the courts broken?
"From the beginning" were your words, not mine. The fact that they had to bake it in an oven with higher than nominal voltages to induce it seems to suggest it was hard to reproduce in their testings.
And yes, since Intel made the chipset as well as the CPU, I kind of DID expect them to be clairvoyant about this since the problem was known. This particular part was slipped in AFTER the first rounds of tests, it wasn't in the prototypes according to the article.
We said no one in the market should be under the misimpression that other codecs such as Theora are patent-free.
The statement was pretty clear all by itself.
But that statement is only HALF of what he said. He later said that there are a lot of patents which might be found to apply to Theora (and OGG) which no one has sought to enforce (yet), but which could be found to apply as soon as those patents are acquired by some patent troll. (paraphrasing).
Its just another example of the mine field that software patents cause.
Slashdot Mirror
In that case, it's all a matter of what you count as your "own people". The people in your home? Your street? Your neighbourhood? Your district? Your city? Your country? Your continent? Your world? Where do you draw the line, and why?
I suspect you are playing the devils advocate here, so I'll answer in strictly economic terms.
You draw the line where pocket book begins.
Everyone laid off in the US for a job overseas has an immediate, legal, irrevocable, undeniable claim on your pocket book in the form of tax dollars.
That money taxed away from you to support your laid off neighbors does not go toward your family, your children's food, clothing, education.
So just do the smart thing for your own family and don't try to over-think the situation.
I'm a miserable bastard, I know, but my take on this would be that your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible, and history shows that your chances of influencing others by your example are also near zero.
Well, that need not always be the case.
Instead of asking some Ethicist at the NYT (the mere act of doing so reveals his thoughts), why not take the NAME of the employer, as well as any tax breaks, government grants, contracts, to the paper for an expose' which would reveal the true cost to his fellow workers and the tax payers?
Its not JUST his fellow IT worker buddies that will take the hit, but the car salesman, the grocery stores, and fellow tax payers that will take a loss. There are significant trickle down losses for every dollar shifted out of the system.
Sometimes a little publicity and exploration of the true costs will make a difference.
Often the same people justifying exportation of jobs raise serious objections to the importation of oil. Its the same situation (monetarily) but somehow one action is winked at, and the other is protested in the streets.
wow..just..wow. You really don't know the criticality of this or the momentum moving through ISPs, do you?
Decade my ass.
It sure doesn't seem all that critical if you go by their actions.
Most haven't even started moving to ipv6, and those who have are doing so rather methodically.
Most of them appear to have all the address space they need at the moment, and are heavily nat-ed on their internal networks. Most customers don't care, because they don't need inbound connections.
Most cable/DSL providers still have not even started rolling out modem replacements (mine can't handle ipv6 per the spec sheet).
If you ask them questions about their modems like... ... You get nothing but blank stares.
Do they plan firmware upgrades, or total replacements of the modems?
Will I be limited to a small number of world route-able ip6 addresses? (and therefore still need nat)
Will they handle 6-to-4 in the modem?
etc
etc
Panic hasn't set in. Static IP prices haven't started to rise. Nobody other than Comcast even want's to discuss the issue.
As far as the web, it is slightly more expensive computationally to create a secure connection than an open one.
Scaled up to the size of Google, its a major issue, but on the other hand, Google has enough computing power to handle it. Does Slashdot?
For most web pages it simply doesn't matter. But anytime you have to have an account and log in, it should be supported.
Installing apps remotely is a convenience factor that has a lot of merit.
A simple confirmation on the phone should suffice.
Perhaps, but a more sensible approach than turning it off is to make for a more secure environment by having
better password management, and encrypted connections throughout the Google infrastructure.
At a minimum everything you do on Google should be done over https, (the market is, but its not real clear how
secure C2DM really is. It relies on your 'Google Talk' connection, and I simply have not had the time
to sniff that traffic to see if its encrypted or not. Google Talk maintains some pretty resilient connections over
3G,Edge,WIFI, etc.
Its the WIFI ones you have to worry about, especially if you frequent open WIFI routers.
Why does everything have to be built on desktop apps dependent on the web or web browsers?
We've been doing desktops since dirt, and have it pretty well understood, reasonably well standardized
across multiple operating systems. The building blocks are well understood, highly developed and
well documented.
So why does it seem as if everybody wants to make us dependent on a 24/7 connection to the
web, and why does it seem everyone wants to turn the browser into the building block upon
which everything else depends?
And don't get me started on clouds!!!
What do we gain besides a huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control.
Did events in Egypt not teach us anything about putting every thing on the web and in
the cloud?
Actually Plus Addressing seems intermittently broken on Gmail of late.
It seems if you access your Gmail from IMAP all bets are off with regard to the message actually ending up in any folder other than the inbox. Even message sent via gmail to gmail seem to fail the Plus Addressing for me.
Spam away on it, the original, no "+" address is to a spam mailbox.
Only addresses with the "+" part go to actual mailboxes that I read. I never hand out the bare address to anyone.
Spam on Gmail?
I get virtually NO spam on Gmail that is not automatically detected and routed to the spam box.
It is astoundingly accurate, and false positives are so vanishingly small I never bother to check the spam mailbox.
I don't need to reserve the root name for a spam catch.
Reading comprehension problem?
Anniston meet Bozeman. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/city_of_bozeman_demands_passwords_from_job_applicants/C564/L564/
This goes nowhere other than directly to a huge Streisand effect.
Executive director of the engineers licensing board, (and engineer) seeks to protect own turf. Film at 11.
Medical work is another story- it doesn't matter if you work for free, but you can't practice medicine, do surgery, etc, without a license.
I covered that" "Any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people)".
You can study diseases, conduct lab experiments, maybe even on lab mice, write papers (good luck getting them published), etc. Study. Just don't involve other people, or take any actions that might be construed as "practicing" or do any dangerous experiments that put people at risk or involve controlled substances.
Same thing for Detective work. You might need a license to carry a gun, or sell your services as a Private Investigator. But as an individual working only for your self, you can research all you want, dig thru the net, research in libraries, check public records, call people up, and ask people questions. (Not to the point of harassment).
You can be a rocket scientist and handle things that are quite dangerous, like solid fuel rocket motors.
You can design roads and bridges, automobiles, airplanes, buildings, ships. Just can't sell them, or in some cases even build them without having them blessed by someone with credentials.
I've driven 178. The Dashboard unit did not fail. It never lost satellite lock. Not once.
Since I was playing tourist, I didn't venture off of the pavement. But these units do not fail JUST because they enter Death Valley.
Stop trying to blame technology when human stupidity is the sole cause of the problem.
Further, he has no basis for his complaint.
There is no law prohibiting doing engineer quality work unless you try to do it for money or pass it off as the work of an engineer.
You can pretty much do any level of study work (not involving actual actions or other people), as long as you don't pretend to be what you are not, use false credentials, and don't charge someone for the work.
You can design and engineer your own house from the foundation to the roof. Just don't try to build it without an actual engineer signing off on it.
Yeah, tell me about it. 30 years in Alaska.
But still, the guy obviously knew nothing about winter driving in rural area, yet he drove his family into into this situation due to pride. I guarantee his wife was begging him to turn around for for an hour before they got stuck.
How do these freak accidents relate to GPS usage?
All of the Garmin Nuvi GPS units I have had have a warning screen that shows every single time that it is turned on saying this.
This probably is more a feature of people liking to be getting orders, even when those orders are wrong.
Not to say that I am immune. I have found my self going down roads where if my GPS quit I would only have a vague idea of how to get home from that location.
You seem to be confusing real dashboard GPS units with cellphones.
They are far from the same. A typical Dashboard GPS has all the maps onboard.
They also offers route defaults that favor major roads (shortest time), and these never lead you into trouble other than temporary weather or construction delays. Maps may become obsolete over several years. Roads just don't change that frequently.
And these dashboard units are seldom ever "Wrong" as to your location, and don't rely on any cellular signals. There are the occasional blind spots (city canyons), but these are temporary. If you go thru a tunnel you may lose signals, but the better GPS units realize this, and realize you really can't get lost in a tunnel, and simply revert to estimation till you emerge from the tunnel.
As for wide open desert spaces, the dashboard GPS units don't fail. Common sense fails.
Only goes to show you how stupid a Oberlin College graduate could be.
Did he not SEE the snow?
Far more likely the stories are apocryphal. Urban Legends.
Ferry landings are far from hard to miss.
I think Murdoch mentioned that it would break even at 500k subscribers. I don't think that this will reverse the general decline in newspaper revenues, but reaching break-even or profitability on the app looks pretty easy.
But staying at break even may be harder. iPad fans are always looking for some use for their devices other than checking facebook every 15 minutes, and are easily lured away by what ever is next. Many users find they are bored with the iPad and use it less and less each month.
So will these people continue to pay for news when they find that they use Google News or some other aggregation service more frequently? Will they drop their local news paper and plow the money into Murdoch's opinion about what matters?
I don't think so. Its yet another passing iPad Fad, that people will tire of paying for.
Your initial insinuation that most news readers are single sourced seems to be over-ridden by your later assertion that people want aggregation, as if you yourself have not decided which side of this argument you wish to pursue.
Most serious news readers in the digital age surf many sites or use aggregators such as Google News, or Individurls, or any number of other 100s of news feeds. Lots of people follow news on twitter these days as well, @breakingnews will give you events from all over the world an hour before they show up anywhere else.
As for your lamentation that people don't surf channels, I doubt that is true when any major news event happens. But for reports of the latest local murder it hardly matters, its all the same pablum anyway. TV news is pretty much useless, because stories that are not sensational simply don't get covered. Having someone else read their choice of news stories to you is an intellectual surrender.
" People has better futures when staying away from Canonicals products."
And finishing high school helps too.
Seriously?
Someone posts information or a picture proving themselves engaged in fraud onto a public forum where they have no reasonable expectation of privacy and in that makes the courts broken?
Actions have consequences.
"From the beginning" were your words, not mine. The fact that they had to bake it in an oven with higher than nominal voltages to induce it seems to suggest it was hard to reproduce in their testings.
And yes, since Intel made the chipset as well as the CPU, I kind of DID expect them to be clairvoyant about this since the problem was known. This particular part was slipped in AFTER the first rounds of tests, it wasn't in the prototypes according to the article.
We said no one in the market should be under the misimpression that other codecs such as Theora are patent-free.
The statement was pretty clear all by itself.
But that statement is only HALF of what he said. He later said that there are a lot of patents which might be found to apply to Theora (and OGG) which no one has sought to enforce (yet), but which could be found to apply as soon as those patents are acquired by some patent troll. (paraphrasing).
Its just another example of the mine field that software patents cause.