Because military systems are diverse, in function and manufacturer, and are rarely designed for a specific military conflict (i.e. it is difficult corrupt the system to serve a particular side in a conflict)?
The bigger picture is that 'military systems' are (basically) rigged to transfer funds from the taxpayer to the manufacturer who does not care much who blows up at/in the end (on a side note, e-voting systems may well be seen as an element of the distribution chain if appropriately prepared to ensure continuity with regard to the sales-droids, aka politicians).
From Wikipedia: "Another joke concerns two mathematicians who are discussing a theorem; the first mathematician says that the theorem is "trivial". In response to the other's request for an explanation, he then proceeds with twenty minutes of exposition. At the end of the explanation, the second mathematician agrees that the theorem is trivial. These jokes point out the subjectivity of judgements about triviality."
I make twice as much as he did and I sit all day.... I realize how good I have it.
That is what I thought myself once upon a time. However, you may have a different opinion after you sat all day for decades (unless you compensate for this hidden torture properly — which I did not).
... perhaps this was enough to learn that the connotation of 'idiot' shifted a little since ancient Greek was the language of choice in Greece, whilst it obviously was of not so much help with regard to the noun in question.
Does web 4.0 actually remove information from your brain?
Too much information in the brain regularly does not pose a difficult problem to most of the populace. Thus...
"Web 4.0 will be focused on slimming down the fat of Web 3.0. Much like moving from pure HTML design mark-up to CSS, we will all be trying to separate our fat from body. This will be done with LSS (Liposuction Style Sheets), which will suck our fat out of our ass and dress us in the latest trendy clothings. At this period in time, the style will be retro and all clothes will have a thousand animated gif's, flashing and/or scrolling text, and a background pattern that basically makes it impossible to see you." (c.f.)
If you want to trust nobody, you might as well retreat to am isolated island somewhere, as you will be unable to function in a society.
The rising percentages of people with conditions of ill mental health within a couple of (so called developed) societies may be an indication that the island does not necessarily need to be aloof — geographically.
"usage: Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it."
Too bad we can't lock them all up in Second Life and feed them to the furries.
Oh yes, and call it 'heaven for plastic people' - "He Doctorow received his high school diploma from a free school in Toronto called SEED School, and dropped out of four universities without attaining a degree." (Wikipedia), but "A senior technical official in the Homeland Security Department has a phony Ph.D. from a diploma mill. I'm thinking that I'd like to get one of these and join my parents (Dr. and Dr. Doctorow) as Dr. Doctorow, Jr." (BoingBoing) and "I may not agree with everything Dr. Cory tells me, but if you're not reading boingboing blog, you ought to. Because Cory Doctorow is the king-hell blogger of the universe." (Sterling)
... and the day will come that your 'global whitelist' (which, if you thoroughly follow through boils down to the OS) has to be 'approved' (as it fits, by whitehouse.gov, not.org).
Anyone want to bet that if they'd stuck with Caldera Linux as their primary business, they'd be doing a lot better today?
Yes.
"Ransom Love, the immediate successor to Sparks, engaged in a famous spat with Richard Stallman, after Love had announced that Caldera would drop the GNU GPL (General Public License), the most common free software license, for future products because it was holding back its business. Love claimed: "We add value to Linux, so it can become successful. We integrate Linux in back office systems and we do all the marketing that's necessary. Did Richard Stallman ever invest $100 million (£50 million) in Linux? We did." Love asserted that the free software movement had "no clue" about marketing, and doesn't realise that "someone must pay for it", to which Stallman's curt response was that "Caldera's not a free software company at all. They are just a parasite."" (c.f., emphasis mine)
Quote: "Account from Kevin D. Mitnick... I Put My Freedom on the Line for Sheer Entertainment..."
Quote from Wikipedia: "As a notorious figure, Mitnick has been targeted by hackers who wish to bolster their status and for people seeking to prove their abilities."
Paraphrase/personal opinion: Still, it is Humans who define the World. These are better dealt with by means related to Social Sciences/Humanities (if you like, you may add Arts) rather than Math.
"CEOs are increasingly aware of the risks posed to company information by insiders, but they aren't acting on this knowledge, according to the "2004 Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey." More than 70 percent of the 1,233 organizations surveyed in 51 countries failed to list training and raising employee awareness of information security issues as a top initiative."
From TFA: "...What they're doing when they're online is also changing somewhat, with the rise of Facebook and other social networking sites as the clearest trend this year (to 80.3 percent from 72.3 percent in 2006), along with streaming video and course management software, which 46.1 percent of respondents said they use several times a week or more (compared with 39.6 percent in 2006)...."
... meanwhile, they probably do not learn to properly cluster only similar entities into umbrella categories.
To see if we
Are really at fault
For the global
Warming assault.
That is just the cover-up story. TFA itself says, quote: "The project should greatly accelerate the pace of mapping without risking the lives of human pilots who now fly limited missions across parts of the ice sheets. "We can cut costs for large-scale mapping projects, increase the range, and reduce dangers," says Rick Hale, an associate professor of aerospace engineering and leader of the effort.".
Thus they ensure that maps are in place for drilling and deployment of 'protection' once the ice is gone — and be sure that there is also interest in collecting intelligence on how to speed up the melting process.
Surveys, Polls and other methods which require participation aren't reliable enough for most people (as the results can be skewed by interested parties).
1) How is installing a piece of software not participation and how is — contrary to your argument — a skew avoided?
2) Surveys, Polls and other methods (given proper sampling/sample size) are skewed on principle because only specific subpopulations agree to participate (not, e.g., because Coke has a vested interest in not knowing how many people drink Pepsi how often and when and where because they do not like the fact).
California Supreme Court decision, IFPTE, Local 21 v. Superior Court
Quote: "Significantly, the Court could have---but did not---limit its holding to employees earning over $100,000. While the justices no doubt were impressed by evidence of abuses and mismanagement concentrated at the high end of the public pay scale, they were careful not to ascribe any legal significance to the compensation threshold.
Similarly, the Court could have---but did not---limit its holding to local governments, like Oakland, that have a history of disclosing their employees' salaries, thus undermining workers' claims to a "reasonable expectation" of privacy in their government compensation."
Slashdot Mirror
Eher nicht, klingt mehr nach Mittel-/biblischem Englisch.
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Because military systems are diverse, in function and manufacturer, and are rarely designed for a specific military conflict (i.e. it is difficult corrupt the system to serve a particular side in a conflict)?
The bigger picture is that 'military systems' are (basically) rigged to transfer funds from the taxpayer to the manufacturer who does not care much who blows up at/in the end (on a side note, e-voting systems may well be seen as an element of the distribution chain if appropriately prepared to ensure continuity with regard to the sales-droids, aka politicians).
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In maths they have the 'term' 'trivial'.
From Wikipedia: "Another joke concerns two mathematicians who are discussing a theorem; the first mathematician says that the theorem is "trivial". In response to the other's request for an explanation, he then proceeds with twenty minutes of exposition. At the end of the explanation, the second mathematician agrees that the theorem is trivial. These jokes point out the subjectivity of judgements about triviality."
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I see the parent as far more informative than funny.
So do I, and obviously some more as there is height-adjustable furniture.
Besides, I find Tai Chi very helpful.
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I make twice as much as he did and I sit all day. ... I realize how good I have it.
That is what I thought myself once upon a time. However, you may have a different opinion after you sat all day for decades (unless you compensate for this hidden torture properly — which I did not).
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I did take three years of ancient Greek
... perhaps this was enough to learn that the connotation of 'idiot' shifted a little since ancient Greek was the language of choice in Greece, whilst it obviously was of not so much help with regard to the noun in question.
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Does web 4.0 actually remove information from your brain?
...
Too much information in the brain regularly does not pose a difficult problem to most of the populace. Thus
"Web 4.0 will be focused on slimming down the fat of Web 3.0. Much like moving from pure HTML design mark-up to CSS, we will all be trying to separate our fat from body. This will be done with LSS (Liposuction Style Sheets), which will suck our fat out of our ass and dress us in the latest trendy clothings. At this period in time, the style will be retro and all clothes will have a thousand animated gif's, flashing and/or scrolling text, and a background pattern that basically makes it impossible to see you." (c.f.)
Old news.
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If you want to trust nobody, you might as well retreat to am isolated island somewhere, as you will be unable to function in a society.
The rising percentages of people with conditions of ill mental health within a couple of (so called developed) societies may be an indication that the island does not necessarily need to be aloof — geographically.
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"realistic agent-based societal simulation environments"
Looking from outside, the US already looks like Simulacron-IV, so what to extend further?
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with cool desert races
Meanwhile, they have moved to an urban environment, probably in order to in the future avoid getting in black...err...hot water.
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"usage: Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it."
http://m-w.com/dictionary/myriad (Definition of myriad from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
A problem with information on 'the Internets' is that there are chances that the quality of the sources are not always properly assessed.
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Too bad we can't lock them all up in Second Life and feed them to the furries.
Oh yes, and call it 'heaven for plastic people' - "He Doctorow received his high school diploma from a free school in Toronto called SEED School, and dropped out of four universities without attaining a degree." (Wikipedia), but "A senior technical official in the Homeland Security Department has a phony Ph.D. from a diploma mill. I'm thinking that I'd like to get one of these and join my parents (Dr. and Dr. Doctorow) as Dr. Doctorow, Jr." (BoingBoing) and "I may not agree with everything Dr. Cory tells me, but if you're not reading boingboing blog, you ought to. Because Cory Doctorow is the king-hell blogger of the universe." (Sterling)
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... and the day will come that your 'global whitelist' (which, if you thoroughly follow through boils down to the OS) has to be 'approved' (as it fits, by whitehouse.gov, not .org).
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Anyone want to bet that if they'd stuck with Caldera Linux as their primary business, they'd be doing a lot better today?
Yes.
"Ransom Love, the immediate successor to Sparks, engaged in a famous spat with Richard Stallman, after Love had announced that Caldera would drop the GNU GPL (General Public License), the most common free software license, for future products because it was holding back its business. Love claimed: "We add value to Linux, so it can become successful. We integrate Linux in back office systems and we do all the marketing that's necessary. Did Richard Stallman ever invest $100 million (£50 million) in Linux? We did." Love asserted that the free software movement had "no clue" about marketing, and doesn't realise that "someone must pay for it", to which Stallman's curt response was that "Caldera's not a free software company at all. They are just a parasite.""
(c.f., emphasis mine)
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Not that I disagree on principle, but ...
"The drunken monkey hypothesis: the study of fruit-eating animals could lead to an evolutionary understanding of human alcohol abuse" (link, more)
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If I am a hacker, why would I use a PC in a hacked corporate network to store my porn?
... I Put My Freedom on the Line for Sheer Entertainment ..."
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/28/2/
Quote: "Account from Kevin D. Mitnick
Quote from Wikipedia: "As a notorious figure, Mitnick has been targeted by hackers who wish to bolster their status and for people seeking to prove their abilities."
Paraphrase/personal opinion: Still, it is Humans who define the World. These are better dealt with by means related to Social Sciences/Humanities (if you like, you may add Arts) rather than Math.
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As of 2004:
"CEOs are increasingly aware of the risks posed to company information by insiders, but they aren't acting on this knowledge, according to the "2004 Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey." More than 70 percent of the 1,233 organizations surveyed in 51 countries failed to list training and raising employee awareness of information security issues as a top initiative."
A case of 'ignorance is not bliss'.
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From TFA: "...What they're doing when they're online is also changing somewhat, with the rise of Facebook and other social networking sites as the clearest trend this year (to 80.3 percent from 72.3 percent in 2006), along with streaming video and course management software, which 46.1 percent of respondents said they use several times a week or more (compared with 39.6 percent in 2006). ..."
... meanwhile, they probably do not learn to properly cluster only similar entities into umbrella categories.
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Seems to be pocket money to them. In another case, they seem to have won a bit more ..., Quote: "Judge overturns $1.5 bln ruling against Microsoft".
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To see if we
Are really at fault
For the global
Warming assault.
That is just the cover-up story. TFA itself says, quote: "The project should greatly accelerate the pace of mapping without risking the lives of human pilots who now fly limited missions across parts of the ice sheets. "We can cut costs for large-scale mapping projects, increase the range, and reduce dangers," says Rick Hale, an associate professor of aerospace engineering and leader of the effort.".
Thus they ensure that maps are in place for drilling and deployment of 'protection' once the ice is gone — and be sure that there is also interest in collecting intelligence on how to speed up the melting process.
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Give us back proper journalism!
;(
My hypothesis is that the majority of the 'internet-population' would have a hard time to come up with an idea of what this might be
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Surveys, Polls and other methods which require participation aren't reliable enough for most people (as the results can be skewed by interested parties).
1) How is installing a piece of software not participation and how is — contrary to your argument — a skew avoided?
2) Surveys, Polls and other methods (given proper sampling/sample size) are skewed on principle because only specific subpopulations agree to participate (not, e.g., because Coke has a vested interest in not knowing how many people drink Pepsi how often and when and where because they do not like the fact).
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http://www.cfac.org/content/index.php/cfac-news/commentary20/
California Supreme Court decision, IFPTE, Local 21 v. Superior Court
Quote: "Significantly, the Court could have---but did not---limit its holding to employees earning over $100,000. While the justices no doubt were impressed by evidence of abuses and mismanagement concentrated at the high end of the public pay scale, they were careful not to ascribe any legal significance to the compensation threshold.
Similarly, the Court could have---but did not---limit its holding to local governments, like Oakland, that have a history of disclosing their employees' salaries, thus undermining workers' claims to a "reasonable expectation" of privacy in their government compensation."
Copyright? Nada.
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Yes, but the world is E_V_I_L.
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Without Microsoft all but ignoring the rise of the Internet in its early stages, Google would never be what it is today.
Maybe the Internet would not be either.
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