It isn't illegal, but it could be. Some countries have data protection laws. And if you think of it: What would you call someone who follows you around IRL with a camera and watches you constantly? Certainly not "Data miner".
But on the other hand it makes us safer. It will help our beloved government to protect the homeland from unpatriotic evil doers and subversive traitors. My heartfelt loyalty protects me from ever questioning their motives. I can't imagine to ever display this kind of sarcasm you seem to be all too familiar with, Mr. GameboyRMH - if that is even your real name.
right, got an invite, but never even looked. People got kicked off and banned from other google services for using aliases. I didn't want to risk that. And hell no, I don't want an identity service.
Your data is out there, it can be cross-linked, and what isn't connected right now, can be in 5 years. Last thing I need, is an identity service. So far there are many discussion boards with pseudonyms, not just/. but things you don't want to share with everyone, be it medical or personal problems, or nerdy hobbies. In Schmidt's brave new internet, you don't just add a name, you might as well add city, current occupation, and age, then forward it to your boss, family and neighbors:
...Hang in there, I had the same problem with my mother in law. I do love my wife, but... Andy Bulaski, 1220 Happy Drive, Seattle
I don't like what's happening in education right now, some examples here at..... Jane Berringer, history professor, ASU
I kised a boy and I think I am pregnant, is there any test one can do? Amy Miller, Good Shepherd middle school, daughter of pastor Miller
I am a police officer and many of us do sympathize with the protesters, right now the situation in public service... Sam Walter, NYPD
I have that weird big red wart on my butt and I was wondering if.... Pete Erkman, Shopko Store manager, Tampa
My breasts suddenly feel weird, is this menopausal or should I worry? Megan Gundersen, St. Paul, office manager Midwest airlines
Ever since the baby, sex has really been... Tim Sutter, software programmer, LA
- It is maybe no coincidence that both Schmidt and the Zucker are rich white males and think that here is no need for privacy or anonymity anymore.
But when I go to yahoo's page, it looks more like a news site than a search portal.
Yes, back in the day, before web 2.0 the buzzword for this used to be "Portal". Not a search portal, just "portal": Kind of a news aggregator, search portal, and customizable start page in one. The theory was, that whoever could offer the coolest portal and convince users to make it their default startpage would control the internet.
That was before tabbed browsing, session savers, and social websites. But the idea somehow still lingers on. Google still has the personalized start page, and facebook tries to become the one stop internet shop. Yahoo used to be bundled with some ISP services, has groups and email, and offered many services that fulfill some of the same functions users get through google. For many "elderly" web users, yahoo remained the default start page. Microsoft might be going after this market.
Some of the drawings were very high up so children had to have been lifted by adults to reach them. Moreover, there are clear designs in the patterns, and swirls and the like. [...] the children's work was mainly confined largely to a single room.
Pretty obvious. It must have been Mrs. Oogh's kindergarden art project
This earth quake comes right after they announced to move to renewable energy. Not a coincidence. The so called green technology isn't so green after all. Each year more people die of shark attacks than get stabbed with a uranium rod. Think about that before you build a hydro dam. And wind energy isn't any safer. While depleted Uranium can be a fun and educational toy, hundreds of houses are destroyed by tornadoes each year. And to store all the solar energy one would have to pave the entire state of Arizona with batteries. Once they leak, everyone in New Mexico would die.
In America, climatologists get sued and harassed for making public statements about global warming.
You liberal, It's not called global warming anymore!
Global warming was bad terminology, because some idiot might think that every single spot on earth has to become warmer for the average temperature to rise. It's global climate change now. Which of course is also bad terminology, because change is good - or at least value neutral. (My suggestion would be to call it "The wrath of God for our sins of over-consumption and disrespect of creation". A bit long, but it would give you a majority.)
More kids will be using Word and Excel later in life than will be coding--by orders of magnitude. Excel is only as boring as you make it
Yes, if we only had better teachers kids would be running around showing each other their cool spreadsheets.
You always wanted to have a database of your dogs daily food consumption, right? Cool, I can show you how to do monthly reports. And It will be very useful for the rest of your life, trust me on that one.
If you publish stock photos as your own, you of course get caught sooner or later.
But what if you have them printed and just paste them in your family's photo album? This idea could save me thousands of dollars on my next exotic vacation.
Michigan has been working on this very thing for a large government push to embed smarts into bridges.
And stress monitoring for bridges is where this will be most useful: A maintenance free sensor network that warns you about developing cracks and possible failure.
Much easier than having a guy drive out every two years to flip the bridge over so he can unscrew the bottom and replace the coin battery.
Finally, through the use of a hybrid regenerative powertrain, it might be possible to make Harleys as fast as other motorcycles!:-P
Not possible. As part of their campaign against perpetuum mobiles the physics society passed a law that taking energy out of a vibration will also dampen the vibration. In other words: A fixed Harley would neither feel nor sound like a Harley. Which defeats the point of owning a Harley, one might as well buy a decent motorcycle.
Now, I know how to do this in Java, PHP, C++ and even Clojure. It's essentially a RESTful interface for particular CRUD operations. But could I have done all that in 15 hours if I had selected another technology and framework? I don't think so.
Add Perl, some Javascript, and Python if you want to. Not anyone's fault, but why are there half a dozen scripting languages that always can do 2 out of 3 things quite nicely? - Yes, yes, you need them all so you have the right tool when you need it.- But it sounds like the next guy, who decides that the right tool isn't in the box, should think twice about creating yet another new language and write a decent library instead.
What does "30% of most households may have a robot" mean? I simply can't make sense of that.
Easy.
You take most households (50%+1) and out of these households 30% will have a robot. If none of the other (minority) households has a robot, still more than 15% will have a robot. But if all of the minority households do have robots, less than 65% will have robots
So here you go: "30% of most households may have a robot" means "more than 15% but less than 65% may have a robot"
Really the best remedy would be homeopathy. What better way to treat an imagined allergy than an imagined cure?
Thanks for the hint. Homeopathy sounds great!
I will put a bucket of water next to my wifi card and leave it there overnight for it to get energized. Then I will fill a second bucket with water and add a drop from the first one. At the next full moon -or is a new moon better to ward off radiation?- I will dip a silver pin into the now diluted energized water and hold it into the opening of an inverted blue glass bottle. While the pin heats up to body temperature, the glass bottle can absorb the essence of the wifi-water. Fill the bottle with water and cork it (natural cork of course). One drop in the morning taken with luke warm green tea should protect you from your neighbors wifi for at least 12 hours.
For a more complete wifi-desensitizing I am planning to open an electro-allergy sufferer camp: 4 weeks of intense treatment, sweat lodges, outdoor sleep-healing on natural forest ground, guaranteed no electricity on site! Two daily treatments with wifi-water and a six month protective supply after successful decontamination. Only $6500
For the love of everything, can we stop making shitty references to Terminator in computational intelligence stories? There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit. Also, its not funny.
How does it make you feel that There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit?
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't illegal, but it could be. Some countries have data protection laws. And if you think of it: What would you call someone who follows you around IRL with a camera and watches you constantly? Certainly not "Data miner".
But on the other hand it makes us safer. It will help our beloved government to protect the homeland from unpatriotic evil doers and subversive traitors. My heartfelt loyalty protects me from ever questioning their motives. I can't imagine to ever display this kind of sarcasm you seem to be all too familiar with, Mr. GameboyRMH - if that is even your real name.
right, got an invite, but never even looked. People got kicked off and banned from other google services for using aliases. I didn't want to risk that. And hell no, I don't want an identity service.
Your data is out there, it can be cross-linked, and what isn't connected right now, can be in 5 years. Last thing I need, is an identity service. So far there are many discussion boards with pseudonyms, not just /. but things you don't want to share with everyone, be it medical or personal problems, or nerdy hobbies. In Schmidt's brave new internet, you don't just add a name, you might as well add city, current occupation, and age, then forward it to your boss, family and neighbors:
- It is maybe no coincidence that both Schmidt and the Zucker are rich white males and think that here is no need for privacy or anonymity anymore.
I was completely unaware of the fact that Florida had residents under the age of 65.
They have children, too? - That means, that somewhere in Florida they also would have to have women under the age of 45-50.
But when I go to yahoo's page, it looks more like a news site than a search portal.
Yes, back in the day, before web 2.0 the buzzword for this used to be "Portal". Not a search portal, just "portal": Kind of a news aggregator, search portal, and customizable start page in one. The theory was, that whoever could offer the coolest portal and convince users to make it their default startpage would control the internet.
That was before tabbed browsing, session savers, and social websites. But the idea somehow still lingers on. Google still has the personalized start page, and facebook tries to become the one stop internet shop. Yahoo used to be bundled with some ISP services, has groups and email, and offered many services that fulfill some of the same functions users get through google. For many "elderly" web users, yahoo remained the default start page. Microsoft might be going after this market.
Some of the drawings were very high up so children had to have been lifted by adults to reach them. Moreover, there are clear designs in the patterns, and swirls and the like. [...] the children's work was mainly confined largely to a single room.
Pretty obvious. It must have been Mrs. Oogh's kindergarden art project
.. coming in 3 , 2 ,1
Filed by a relative of baby face Nelson on behalf of all 20 somethings who still look like 14.
5 mm flex is not even remotely comparable to world peace, chuck norris, or boreal toads. a flexible floor IS comparable to walking in sand.
5mm flex is to world peace as boreal toads are to chuck norris
That was my first thought as well. The colors will all be tone in tone. But just how do you get a Kashmir scarf onto an office suit?
Only if they're a virgin.
A science geek who spends his life looking at things that vibrate? That should count as virgin.
This earth quake comes right after they announced to move to renewable energy. Not a coincidence. The so called green technology isn't so green after all. Each year more people die of shark attacks than get stabbed with a uranium rod. Think about that before you build a hydro dam. And wind energy isn't any safer. While depleted Uranium can be a fun and educational toy, hundreds of houses are destroyed by tornadoes each year. And to store all the solar energy one would have to pave the entire state of Arizona with batteries. Once they leak, everyone in New Mexico would die.
In America, climatologists get sued and harassed for making public statements about global warming.
You liberal, It's not called global warming anymore!
Global warming was bad terminology, because some idiot might think that every single spot on earth has to become warmer for the average temperature to rise. It's global climate change now. Which of course is also bad terminology, because change is good - or at least value neutral. (My suggestion would be to call it "The wrath of God for our sins of over-consumption and disrespect of creation". A bit long, but it would give you a majority.)
But instead of jailing all six of them, wouldn't it be sufficient to throw just on into Vesuvius?
..of enslaving the local population and having them cut granite to build monuments in your name?
More kids will be using Word and Excel later in life than will be coding--by orders of magnitude. Excel is only as boring as you make it
Yes, if we only had better teachers kids would be running around showing each other their cool spreadsheets.
You always wanted to have a database of your dogs daily food consumption, right? Cool, I can show you how to do monthly reports. And It will be very useful for the rest of your life, trust me on that one.
If you publish stock photos as your own, you of course get caught sooner or later.
But what if you have them printed and just paste them in your family's photo album? This idea could save me thousands of dollars on my next exotic vacation.
Your 100MHz Win95 computer could not handle "web browsing" on today's internet. If you visit plain text pages maybe
Most of the pages I look at are text sites. The others are once they reach my desktop, thanks to adblocker and noscripts
Michigan has been working on this very thing for a large government push to embed smarts into bridges.
And stress monitoring for bridges is where this will be most useful: A maintenance free sensor network that warns you about developing cracks and possible failure.
Much easier than having a guy drive out every two years to flip the bridge over so he can unscrew the bottom and replace the coin battery.
Finally, through the use of a hybrid regenerative powertrain, it might be possible to make Harleys as fast as other motorcycles! :-P
Not possible. As part of their campaign against perpetuum mobiles the physics society passed a law that taking energy out of a vibration will also dampen the vibration. In other words: A fixed Harley would neither feel nor sound like a Harley. Which defeats the point of owning a Harley, one might as well buy a decent motorcycle.
Meanwhile, I'm the owner of "linksys" - please opt me out!
linksys? Say, I do need your street address, but the rest I can get at the ChurchofWifi.
Now, I know how to do this in Java, PHP, C++ and even Clojure. It's essentially a RESTful interface for particular CRUD operations. But could I have done all that in 15 hours if I had selected another technology and framework? I don't think so.
Add Perl, some Javascript, and Python if you want to. Not anyone's fault, but why are there half a dozen scripting languages that always can do 2 out of 3 things quite nicely? - Yes, yes, you need them all so you have the right tool when you need it.- But it sounds like the next guy, who decides that the right tool isn't in the box, should think twice about creating yet another new language and write a decent library instead.
What does "30% of most households may have a robot" mean? I simply can't make sense of that.
Easy.
You take most households (50%+1) and out of these households 30% will have a robot.
If none of the other (minority) households has a robot, still more than 15% will have a robot. But if all of the minority households do have robots, less than 65% will have robots
So here you go:
"30% of most households may have a robot" means "more than 15% but less than 65% may have a robot"
Really the best remedy would be homeopathy. What better way to treat an imagined allergy than an imagined cure?
Thanks for the hint. Homeopathy sounds great!
I will put a bucket of water next to my wifi card and leave it there overnight for it to get energized. Then I will fill a second bucket with water and add a drop from the first one. At the next full moon -or is a new moon better to ward off radiation?- I will dip a silver pin into the now diluted energized water and hold it into the opening of an inverted blue glass bottle. While the pin heats up to body temperature, the glass bottle can absorb the essence of the wifi-water. Fill the bottle with water and cork it (natural cork of course). One drop in the morning taken with luke warm green tea should protect you from your neighbors wifi for at least 12 hours.
For a more complete wifi-desensitizing I am planning to open an electro-allergy sufferer camp: 4 weeks of intense treatment, sweat lodges, outdoor sleep-healing on natural forest ground, guaranteed no electricity on site! Two daily treatments with wifi-water and a six month protective supply after successful decontamination. Only $6500
Should I copy this over to kickstarter?
For the love of everything, can we stop making shitty references to Terminator in computational intelligence stories? There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit. Also, its not funny.
How does it make you feel that There are actually people stupid enough to believe that shit?
You anonymous Coward!
If you have nothing to hide there is no reason for anonymity. Just use your real name.
Yours,
formfeed