I'm going to disagree with you. I've seen an explanation from facebook follow quite the same logic as your post. Without being rude, I'd like to say maybe you've seen that and taken the idea too far. It's certainly true that an entity such as an 'email' can exist in two places (their sent box, your inbox). With a closed system, this will typically be handled in two ways, either make two copies or two references to the same copy. In both cases, when both users request deletion, the content should be erased completely. With email as an established model, if one user leaves, the content should not be erased.
To me, they're doing this for a MUCH different reason. Often users return to facebook. As I understand it (I haven't done this myself), they're often surprised when their account is fully restored with their old friends and content. By not deleting data, they've conveniently made it impossible for users to close accounts completely. They can always reactivate them. The self-proclaimed facebook addicts who quit all end up back sooner or later, says my experience. YMMV.
If they're forced to come into compliance for Canadian laws, I can pretty much guarantee you this will not be universal. It's too valuable to fb to delete. (Of course, there are other financially beneficial reasons to keep data, I just think the usability benefits for returning users is a much bigger issue.)
Well, when you have Truecrypt installed and your recent items point to x:\childporn0142.jpg, the same files they caught you distributing on P2P, and you've got a 2nd hard drive in your machine with only 'random bits,' not even a file system, they might just make the assumption.
Truly, there are many many ways of being caught with something. Most people don't realize how much history they leave behind. Even as the tools for hiding data get more advanced, the tools for creating/consuming information are also getting more complicated. When we see new security vulnerabilities in popular software/protocols so frequently, it's hard to imagine any of us have much of a chance when it comes to hiding + using some arbitrary data. There's always going to be some kind of data you screw up with and don't handle cleanly. A dubug log or SOMETHING will eventually trip you up. It doesn't even have to be on your machine if some remote log can tie an action to your machine. After all, hard to do something online without leaving residue in the tubes.. so do everything with tor too now? Is tor capable enough for arbitrary tasks? Probably not!
Yea... people will keep getting caught prosecuted for things like this. There will always be defendants who don't want to give up their keys. Imagine someone who recorded a video of themselves killing their significant other in a capital punishment state. That person isn't giving up their encryption keys.
I can imagine virtual machines living hidden in an anonymous tor cloud and such providing the 'next level' of encryption for more and more end-to-end encryption scenarios... there is so much more to come. Sooner or later though, law enforcement won't be able to keep up with everyone. I just don't see any easy-to-use 'solutions' that can actually beat law enforcement coming into existence anytime soon.
Uh, no thanks. I think you'd change your mind pretty fast when they implement 3-strike and internet filtering legislature. Lets not pretend anything they want is reasonable.
The developer excitement isn't around getting a youtube page to render 10ms faster. It's the application possibilities that these improvements allow. People are excited about building really solid media players with javascript and html 5 instead of flash and silverlight. They're excited about the possibilities of doing 3D in the browser with javascript and OpenGL-like hardware rendering. But the common glue is javascript and DOM. Anything you build will be limited by the browser's core. And from a current-day perspective, this is also very helpful for mobile devices. When you improve rendering performance, that will speed up your iphone and save battery life. Perf is just an all-around good metric. Incredibly important to keep our eye on it. Improve it if we can but also just be careful not to introduce any new perf problems.
Except that the reasons for 1.5 vs 2.5 don't change. Whatever group is at the top is likely to do the least of the childbearing. It's likely, that with this world economy and tech advancement, we'll see ethnic blending and an overall equalization between groups. The differences you see with be between the classes. And for the hell of it, I'm definitely in the "no kids, I wanna make money and have fun" group. It doesn't bother me that people are breeding like crazy in India. If they had it as good as I did, they'd be doing the same thing after a little cultural adjustment.
I vote for handouts. Because, frankly, if a computer/robotic implementation could truly replace all the stupid people, it'll only be a few more months before us geniuses are surpassed.
Kinda silly to say human intelligence is the maximum for biological intelligence. I think that the interesting point is that humans as a collective group seem to meet the minimum intelligence/etc required to design and implement an artificial entity which surpasses that of a single human by all the important metrics. If that weren't true, we'd continue to evolve very slowly until it was. We just have to reach the point where things get handed off. That said, there's also significant thought put into improving our own brains. We get along just fine now with external devices. It won't be long until we're all using brain-boosting drugs and other enhancements. Maybe we won't need to sleep, etc... But regardless, in the end, we're all totally f'ed:)
Not a great idea to pay kids min wage to organize all of your company's secrets. Presumably anyone with 100k+ documents has a good deal of intellectual property. They'd want a long term solution which improves productivity.
So my thought is, if it came down to dumb labor, I would still recommend that they do it in house with the people who wrote the documents. It's a giant distraction but it has the best result going forward.
If you're going to try this, you also need to set your country to United States. Just click the link along the top for the list of choices. I don't know which other countries, if any, the daily background image works for. Today's shot is a nice one of the Rio Grande..
I'm noticing that some queries pull data from your past queries. I previously queried for local weather. But now, when I query for "average world temperature" or somesuch, it's giving me results for local weather.
It may be tricky to cite the query with a link when it relies on user data. Anyone finding other examples of your query history being used?
Wasn't that just a scheduler issue where media got priority over other tasks? The idea being if you start copying a file, your music doesn't start cutting out, which is ridiculously irritating. They just got the balance wrong and had to tweak the numbers for gigabit.
Wow. I honestly didn't think TPB broke any swedish laws. The name is cute but the site doesn't favor pirated content over legal content. I don't get it.
I think that's exactly what the poster wanted. I get sick of the bad press too. Besides, how many twitch FPS games out there that aren't violent? The study used UT2004 and CoD, compared against the sims. The title is pretty fair tbh.
The headlines are deliberately confusing what happened here. MS offered to pay 70% up front when this was being planned in 2006. The rest was covered by the city of redmond, no federal funds. Redmond city planners have applied for some federal money to cover the increased price of more recent estimates for this project. It also hasn't yet been approved afaik. If microsoft was petitioning for federal money in place of what they've offered, that would be a completely different story.
"The overpass will connect NE 36th Street to NE 31st Street. It will have one lane in each direction, a bicycle lane, pedestrian walkway, pedestrian lighting, and landscaping. A pathway will provide easy access to the Overlake Transit Center."
I wonder if this kind of thing can be used to train people to better remember locations. If it could see how I respond, maybe it could help me train to use my brain more effectively. For example, train myself to make a specific kind of association I'm not used to making. Or better yet, the computer model could just do the thinking for me:)
Sure it detracts in reality but what about in augmented reality?:)
But really, I don't get your point. Who wouldn't want to replace physical billboards and crap with virtual information? Let's clean shit up so you don't have to waste your time trying to figure things out everywhere you go. Sounds good to me!
Be careful who you praise. It was hardly the music industry that was responsible for GH/RB. It's the gaming industry that has been able to creatively monetize this free information internet era. If the music industry sticks to their guns, we'll be kissing those big players goodbye real quick.
I'd rather Epic just stayed focused on the big picture. They have never supported more than a few platforms at a time. Between the PS3, 360, and windows, they're pretty busy. You can't really expect their core team to have expertise in everything. I should point out that it was never the core engine devs who worked on the Linux port. That was pushed by a couple coders who really believed in it. A dedicated linux server is one thing but supporting the client isn't a good business decision because the number of hardcore gamers without a 360/PS3/winbox is very small. Dev costs > profit, not worth it.
Also, I seriously doubt you anyone will get banned for mentioning linux. I've known Epic for a long time. I started planetunreal.com and ran it for several years. They have a rich history of being as platform agnostic and fostering open discussion. Claiming mentioning linux is ban-worthy is simply retarded.
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I'm going to disagree with you. I've seen an explanation from facebook follow quite the same logic as your post. Without being rude, I'd like to say maybe you've seen that and taken the idea too far. It's certainly true that an entity such as an 'email' can exist in two places (their sent box, your inbox). With a closed system, this will typically be handled in two ways, either make two copies or two references to the same copy. In both cases, when both users request deletion, the content should be erased completely. With email as an established model, if one user leaves, the content should not be erased.
To me, they're doing this for a MUCH different reason. Often users return to facebook. As I understand it (I haven't done this myself), they're often surprised when their account is fully restored with their old friends and content. By not deleting data, they've conveniently made it impossible for users to close accounts completely. They can always reactivate them. The self-proclaimed facebook addicts who quit all end up back sooner or later, says my experience. YMMV.
If they're forced to come into compliance for Canadian laws, I can pretty much guarantee you this will not be universal. It's too valuable to fb to delete. (Of course, there are other financially beneficial reasons to keep data, I just think the usability benefits for returning users is a much bigger issue.)
It automatically makes many other otherwise minor bugs, eg a browser bug, suddenly a root exploit.
Well, when you have Truecrypt installed and your recent items point to x:\childporn0142.jpg, the same files they caught you distributing on P2P, and you've got a 2nd hard drive in your machine with only 'random bits,' not even a file system, they might just make the assumption.
Truly, there are many many ways of being caught with something. Most people don't realize how much history they leave behind. Even as the tools for hiding data get more advanced, the tools for creating/consuming information are also getting more complicated. When we see new security vulnerabilities in popular software/protocols so frequently, it's hard to imagine any of us have much of a chance when it comes to hiding + using some arbitrary data. There's always going to be some kind of data you screw up with and don't handle cleanly. A dubug log or SOMETHING will eventually trip you up. It doesn't even have to be on your machine if some remote log can tie an action to your machine. After all, hard to do something online without leaving residue in the tubes.. so do everything with tor too now? Is tor capable enough for arbitrary tasks? Probably not!
Yea... people will keep getting caught prosecuted for things like this. There will always be defendants who don't want to give up their keys. Imagine someone who recorded a video of themselves killing their significant other in a capital punishment state. That person isn't giving up their encryption keys.
I can imagine virtual machines living hidden in an anonymous tor cloud and such providing the 'next level' of encryption for more and more end-to-end encryption scenarios... there is so much more to come. Sooner or later though, law enforcement won't be able to keep up with everyone. I just don't see any easy-to-use 'solutions' that can actually beat law enforcement coming into existence anytime soon.
Uh, no thanks. I think you'd change your mind pretty fast when they implement 3-strike and internet filtering legislature. Lets not pretend anything they want is reasonable.
The developer excitement isn't around getting a youtube page to render 10ms faster. It's the application possibilities that these improvements allow. People are excited about building really solid media players with javascript and html 5 instead of flash and silverlight. They're excited about the possibilities of doing 3D in the browser with javascript and OpenGL-like hardware rendering. But the common glue is javascript and DOM. Anything you build will be limited by the browser's core. And from a current-day perspective, this is also very helpful for mobile devices. When you improve rendering performance, that will speed up your iphone and save battery life. Perf is just an all-around good metric. Incredibly important to keep our eye on it. Improve it if we can but also just be careful not to introduce any new perf problems.
Use a browser that runs in more than one process? Like say, IE?
*ducks*
And the day many Canadians and Mexicans start moving AWAY from the US borders.. retaliation is no fun when you're in the blast radius.
Except that the reasons for 1.5 vs 2.5 don't change. Whatever group is at the top is likely to do the least of the childbearing. It's likely, that with this world economy and tech advancement, we'll see ethnic blending and an overall equalization between groups. The differences you see with be between the classes. And for the hell of it, I'm definitely in the "no kids, I wanna make money and have fun" group. It doesn't bother me that people are breeding like crazy in India. If they had it as good as I did, they'd be doing the same thing after a little cultural adjustment.
I vote for handouts. Because, frankly, if a computer/robotic implementation could truly replace all the stupid people, it'll only be a few more months before us geniuses are surpassed.
Kinda silly to say human intelligence is the maximum for biological intelligence. I think that the interesting point is that humans as a collective group seem to meet the minimum intelligence/etc required to design and implement an artificial entity which surpasses that of a single human by all the important metrics. If that weren't true, we'd continue to evolve very slowly until it was. We just have to reach the point where things get handed off. That said, there's also significant thought put into improving our own brains. We get along just fine now with external devices. It won't be long until we're all using brain-boosting drugs and other enhancements. Maybe we won't need to sleep, etc... But regardless, in the end, we're all totally f'ed :)
I think I'd rather double the battery life on my iphone than save a few dollars on my bike..
400%....
Not a great idea to pay kids min wage to organize all of your company's secrets. Presumably anyone with 100k+ documents has a good deal of intellectual property. They'd want a long term solution which improves productivity.
So my thought is, if it came down to dumb labor, I would still recommend that they do it in house with the people who wrote the documents. It's a giant distraction but it has the best result going forward.
If you're going to try this, you also need to set your country to United States. Just click the link along the top for the list of choices. I don't know which other countries, if any, the daily background image works for. Today's shot is a nice one of the Rio Grande..
http://www.live.com/hps/RioGrande_EN-US822195324.jpg
People archive the backgrounds so you can search for past ones too if desired.
I'm noticing that some queries pull data from your past queries. I previously queried for local weather. But now, when I query for "average world temperature" or somesuch, it's giving me results for local weather.
It may be tricky to cite the query with a link when it relies on user data. Anyone finding other examples of your query history being used?
Wasn't that just a scheduler issue where media got priority over other tasks? The idea being if you start copying a file, your music doesn't start cutting out, which is ridiculously irritating. They just got the balance wrong and had to tweak the numbers for gigabit.
Wow! I'm glad I have Windows!
Wow. I honestly didn't think TPB broke any swedish laws. The name is cute but the site doesn't favor pirated content over legal content. I don't get it.
I think that's exactly what the poster wanted. I get sick of the bad press too. Besides, how many twitch FPS games out there that aren't violent? The study used UT2004 and CoD, compared against the sims. The title is pretty fair tbh.
The headlines are deliberately confusing what happened here. MS offered to pay 70% up front when this was being planned in 2006. The rest was covered by the city of redmond, no federal funds. Redmond city planners have applied for some federal money to cover the increased price of more recent estimates for this project. It also hasn't yet been approved afaik. If microsoft was petitioning for federal money in place of what they've offered, that would be a completely different story.
Hey now, it isn't that bad:
"The overpass will connect NE 36th Street to NE 31st Street. It will have one lane in each direction, a bicycle lane, pedestrian walkway, pedestrian lighting, and landscaping. A pathway will provide easy access to the Overlake Transit Center."
I wonder if this kind of thing can be used to train people to better remember locations. If it could see how I respond, maybe it could help me train to use my brain more effectively. For example, train myself to make a specific kind of association I'm not used to making. Or better yet, the computer model could just do the thinking for me :)
Sure it detracts in reality but what about in augmented reality? :)
But really, I don't get your point. Who wouldn't want to replace physical billboards and crap with virtual information? Let's clean shit up so you don't have to waste your time trying to figure things out everywhere you go. Sounds good to me!
Be careful who you praise. It was hardly the music industry that was responsible for GH/RB. It's the gaming industry that has been able to creatively monetize this free information internet era. If the music industry sticks to their guns, we'll be kissing those big players goodbye real quick.
I'd rather Epic just stayed focused on the big picture. They have never supported more than a few platforms at a time. Between the PS3, 360, and windows, they're pretty busy. You can't really expect their core team to have expertise in everything. I should point out that it was never the core engine devs who worked on the Linux port. That was pushed by a couple coders who really believed in it. A dedicated linux server is one thing but supporting the client isn't a good business decision because the number of hardcore gamers without a 360/PS3/winbox is very small. Dev costs > profit, not worth it.
Also, I seriously doubt you anyone will get banned for mentioning linux. I've known Epic for a long time. I started planetunreal.com and ran it for several years. They have a rich history of being as platform agnostic and fostering open discussion. Claiming mentioning linux is ban-worthy is simply retarded.