Consumers don't properly appreciate cyber security. Nor do stockholders. This makes it difficult to justify the expense of proper security. But if it is a legal requirement, then you can do it.
Quick let's hire more of them to replace US workers. I mean, with high ethical standards like they're expressing, what could possibly go wrong?
You can't judge someone's ethics in one environment by the standards that would be used for a different environment.
Personal experience: I grew up in a very corrupt country, Paraguay. The joke was our country ranked second in corruption only because we bribed the judge. The standard method in Paraguay to deal with speeding was to bribe the cop 10,000 Guaranis (at the time about 2 US Dollars, but about 2-3 hours wages). Buses had to pay more, but the passengers contributed so it wouldn't hurt the driver excessively. Bribe money was figured in to a policeman's wages, much the same as tips figure in to a US waitress's wages. Overall, this works pretty well and speeding is not a big problem, and it's very efficient.
Then I moved to the US, and what did I see? People accused of speeding go to court and the F***ING JUDICIAL SYSTEM declares it was just a really expensive parking ticket (aka a bribe). Speeding ticket money goes to the local government and police department, and is figured as part of their budget, and often enough the speed limits are designed to generate income rather than for safety. Speed and red light cameras are installed at profitable intersections, and the duration of the yellow light reduced for even more profits, resulting in much revenue and accidents and a few deaths. This is BLOOD MONEY, but does anyone get prosecuted? Besides all this, people are expected to go slightly above the speed limit though it is a traffic violation, and a cop attempting to enforce the law would get himself fired; this is a bribe to the population so they don't demand an honest speed limit, and because those tickets are unprofitable, and because it would result in no one speeding at profitable levels, and so that they usually have a corrupt (in violation of the equal protection clause of the US Constitution) excuse to pull over drivers they deem suspicious.
In short, I am absolutely shocked at the corruption of the United States. The fact that it is all legal makes it worse and not better. I suspect the people of India are likewise appalled at the corruption in the US. I don't know much about India but I suspect that were every American replaced by an Indian, it would be the end of the two party system and our current batch of politicians would be on the streets (or maybe the gallows).
A good university's job is to educate students and certify that the students learned the material.
There's no reason you couldn't have a university that explicitly doesn't certify that students learned the material. In fact it might be better if they didn't, so they could focus on teaching without all the conflicts of interest regarding grades*. Let someone else certify the students' competence.
Conflicts of interest: 1) teachers are motivated to inflate students' grades, because their students' grasp of the material reflects on the teacher's ability 2) universities are motivated to inflate students' grades, because prospective students are willing to pay more for higher expected grades 3) students cheating on a university test also sabotage the teacher's ability to teach and the students' own self-assessment ability, besides the usual effect of cheating 4) universities were supposed to be a place of higher learning; now their primary job (in the eyes of students and employers) is certification. The diploma seems to be worth more than the education.
No it doesn't. This is Slashdot; many of us are programmers; and if you randomly move punctuation to inside quotes you get a compile error. And also "lobbyist" is not spelled with a comma.
NetFlix has offered many times to provide fee CDN service to the ISP.
Free to NetFlix, not free for the ISP. They tried to offer this "deal" to a local ISP and weren't even willing to pay the usual co-location fees to offset the ISPs security/energy/space/bandwidth costs. Is there anybody not named Hastings that's arrogant enough to think he should get free co-location services?
An offer is an offer. If they don't want NetFlix's CDN, they can keep paying the costs of the bandwidth instead. They're welcome to choose whichever is favorable to them, either financially or for negotiating.
Just hit my two score birthday, so perhaps its the age talking, but MAN are kids today idiots.
He's right though -- allowing everyone to cheat would fix the problem in no time. It would be amusing because then the previous batch of cheaters would be complaining that their degree is entirely worthless because of all the other cheaters, then there could be some discussion as to why one group should be allowed to cheat while another isn't, and then they can either get rid of grades entirely or try to stop the cheating.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
But as I got older, I actually found and still find people that think they should be forced to do it the right way even while complaining about the abuse.
There's also the saying "If it aint broke, don't fix it." Some things you can fix by convincing everyone to play nice. And some things you can fix by messing it up so badly that there is no choice but to fix it.
There is no hypocrisy in deciding that you don't want to disadvantage yourself while not actually doing anything to fix the problem, and perhaps even helping the problem to persist.
"found that it actually affects cognitive functions in the brain by shortening attention span"... in Americans. So the real story is that they discovered negative attention sp
Some people distinguish rights from privileges, in that rights can be fulfilled merely by leaving someone alone, while privileges can't. Under that distinction, copyright/patents are privileges.
And if you buy things and make something under a free market will it not belong to you? But with patents and copyright something that you bought and built might belong to someone else, and that will be enforced by the state.
Also, watt represents momentary consumption and calories are a fixed mass of energy
Calories and calories per day are not the same unit. A calorie is 4.18 kJ, and a calorie per day is 4.18 kJ / 86.4 ks = 48.4 mW. Multiply this by 2000 and you'll end up very close to 100 W.
Close. A calorie is 4.18 J, but a Calorie (also known as a kilocalorie or a food calorie) is 4.18 kJ. In this case, capitalization matters.
Yes, but 100W is enough to run an entire human (at least those who eat 2000 Calories per day). And most brains (still) have more processing power than most processors.
I imagine that having a bunch of specialized cores is the sort of thing you want your compiler to worry about. Sure there will be some people who want their programs to be designed around the hardware, but most people would be happy with merely the standard libraries benefiting from extra hardware efficiency.
and as far as I was aware, the U.S. Government doesn't bother to punish piracy except for the very worst offenders.
You're saying that the government doesn't punish manufacturers, except for the most productive? Because that's what enforcing patents/copyright looks like if you don't accept government granted monopolies. But then, you don't believe in the free market, do you?
Also if we have a whole lot of special-purpose cores, we can leave the unused ones unpowered and gain in energy efficiency from the specialized ones. This seems to be how the human brain works, and it runs on less than 100 watts (100 watts corresponds to 2000 Calories per day).
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Consumers don't properly appreciate cyber security. Nor do stockholders. This makes it difficult to justify the expense of proper security. But if it is a legal requirement, then you can do it.
Except the state can't grant ownership of information (at least not any more than I could).
Quick let's hire more of them to replace US workers. I mean, with high ethical standards like they're expressing, what could possibly go wrong?
You can't judge someone's ethics in one environment by the standards that would be used for a different environment.
Personal experience: I grew up in a very corrupt country, Paraguay. The joke was our country ranked second in corruption only because we bribed the judge. The standard method in Paraguay to deal with speeding was to bribe the cop 10,000 Guaranis (at the time about 2 US Dollars, but about 2-3 hours wages). Buses had to pay more, but the passengers contributed so it wouldn't hurt the driver excessively. Bribe money was figured in to a policeman's wages, much the same as tips figure in to a US waitress's wages. Overall, this works pretty well and speeding is not a big problem, and it's very efficient.
Then I moved to the US, and what did I see? People accused of speeding go to court and the F***ING JUDICIAL SYSTEM declares it was just a really expensive parking ticket (aka a bribe). Speeding ticket money goes to the local government and police department, and is figured as part of their budget, and often enough the speed limits are designed to generate income rather than for safety. Speed and red light cameras are installed at profitable intersections, and the duration of the yellow light reduced for even more profits, resulting in much revenue and accidents and a few deaths. This is BLOOD MONEY, but does anyone get prosecuted? Besides all this, people are expected to go slightly above the speed limit though it is a traffic violation, and a cop attempting to enforce the law would get himself fired; this is a bribe to the population so they don't demand an honest speed limit, and because those tickets are unprofitable, and because it would result in no one speeding at profitable levels, and so that they usually have a corrupt (in violation of the equal protection clause of the US Constitution) excuse to pull over drivers they deem suspicious.
In short, I am absolutely shocked at the corruption of the United States. The fact that it is all legal makes it worse and not better. I suspect the people of India are likewise appalled at the corruption in the US. I don't know much about India but I suspect that were every American replaced by an Indian, it would be the end of the two party system and our current batch of politicians would be on the streets (or maybe the gallows).
A good university's job is to educate students and certify that the students learned the material.
There's no reason you couldn't have a university that explicitly doesn't certify that students learned the material. In fact it might be better if they didn't, so they could focus on teaching without all the conflicts of interest regarding grades*. Let someone else certify the students' competence.
Conflicts of interest:
1) teachers are motivated to inflate students' grades, because their students' grasp of the material reflects on the teacher's ability
2) universities are motivated to inflate students' grades, because prospective students are willing to pay more for higher expected grades
3) students cheating on a university test also sabotage the teacher's ability to teach and the students' own self-assessment ability, besides the usual effect of cheating
4) universities were supposed to be a place of higher learning; now their primary job (in the eyes of students and employers) is certification. The diploma seems to be worth more than the education.
Obama's true legacy, the one history will remember, won't be healthcare or net neutrality - he'll be remembered as "Shrub's third and fourth terms."
...despite that they gave him a Nobel prize specifically for not being Bush.
It's "lobbyist", you fucking mongoloid.
The comma goes inside the quotes.
No it doesn't. This is Slashdot; many of us are programmers; and if you randomly move punctuation to inside quotes you get a compile error. And also "lobbyist" is not spelled with a comma.
NetFlix has offered many times to provide fee CDN service to the ISP.
Free to NetFlix, not free for the ISP. They tried to offer this "deal" to a local ISP and weren't even willing to pay the usual co-location fees to offset the ISPs security/energy/space/bandwidth costs. Is there anybody not named Hastings that's arrogant enough to think he should get free co-location services?
An offer is an offer. If they don't want NetFlix's CDN, they can keep paying the costs of the bandwidth instead. They're welcome to choose whichever is favorable to them, either financially or for negotiating.
Just hit my two score birthday, so perhaps its the age talking, but MAN are kids today idiots.
He's right though -- allowing everyone to cheat would fix the problem in no time. It would be amusing because then the previous batch of cheaters would be complaining that their degree is entirely worthless because of all the other cheaters, then there could be some discussion as to why one group should be allowed to cheat while another isn't, and then they can either get rid of grades entirely or try to stop the cheating.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
But as I got older, I actually found and still find people that think they should be forced to do it the right way even while complaining about the abuse.
There's also the saying "If it aint broke, don't fix it." Some things you can fix by convincing everyone to play nice. And some things you can fix by messing it up so badly that there is no choice but to fix it.
There is no hypocrisy in deciding that you don't want to disadvantage yourself while not actually doing anything to fix the problem, and perhaps even helping the problem to persist.
"found that it actually affects cognitive functions in the brain by shortening attention span" ... in Americans. So the real story is that they discovered negative attention sp
Are not holidays, by there very definition, cause for celebration?
Some peoples have holidays with fasting and lamentation. Very un-American, I'm sure.
Get off my lawn!
Yes, but you can't keep that up for 24 hours a day.
Some people distinguish rights from privileges, in that rights can be fulfilled merely by leaving someone alone, while privileges can't. Under that distinction, copyright/patents are privileges.
for neurons growing on glass slides.
...the NSA made a memo to show Judge Tanya Chutkan some of what it knows about her.
State-granted monopolies is the entire point of patents and copyright.
And if you buy things and make something under a free market will it not belong to you? But with patents and copyright something that you bought and built might belong to someone else, and that will be enforced by the state.
100 watts corresponds to 2000 Calories per day
Also, watt represents momentary consumption and calories are a fixed mass of energy
Calories and calories per day are not the same unit. A calorie is 4.18 kJ, and a calorie per day is 4.18 kJ / 86.4 ks = 48.4 mW. Multiply this by 2000 and you'll end up very close to 100 W.
Close. A calorie is 4.18 J, but a Calorie (also known as a kilocalorie or a food calorie) is 4.18 kJ. In this case, capitalization matters.
Most processors require less than 100W.
Yes, but 100W is enough to run an entire human (at least those who eat 2000 Calories per day). And most brains (still) have more processing power than most processors.
I imagine that having a bunch of specialized cores is the sort of thing you want your compiler to worry about. Sure there will be some people who want their programs to be designed around the hardware, but most people would be happy with merely the standard libraries benefiting from extra hardware efficiency.
and as far as I was aware, the U.S. Government doesn't bother to punish piracy except for the very worst offenders.
You're saying that the government doesn't punish manufacturers, except for the most productive? Because that's what enforcing patents/copyright looks like if you don't accept government granted monopolies. But then, you don't believe in the free market, do you?
Also if we have a whole lot of special-purpose cores, we can leave the unused ones unpowered and gain in energy efficiency from the specialized ones. This seems to be how the human brain works, and it runs on less than 100 watts (100 watts corresponds to 2000 Calories per day).
Nerds declare it's long been obvious. Details at 11.
That's why you never give the minion enough rope to hang himself (or you).