Now, those of us at the big tech companies can look forward to WEEKS of these signs all over the office. April fool's just extended to cubicles everywhere.
But the whole Mac mentality of "aesthetics are all that matters; performance, compatibility, market share, software availability, and price don't matter" is stupid.
actually passing along information that you know to be a trade secret makes you as guilty as those who aquired it and their speech is NOT protected. that was stated in the ruling. they will prob also be sued at some point.
i read the article fully. in fact, i read it close enough to note that the judge made and error in page 12 line 8 in his grammer.
You guys all give this guy too much credit. Chances he is a 15-year-old in his mama's basement is many times greater than he is a soldger. A soldger would never call our troops "powerless" or "screwed". A soldger respects his commanding officers, up to and including the commander-in-chief, who is not a "whackjob".
First, the United states millitary is NEVER "screwed". We could glass Korea and be back in Kansas for supper. There is no force in the world that even starts to compare to our active duty soldgers, not even counting the reservists that we keep. Second, Tiawan can not be invaded by China because as far as the American government reconizes, it is the same country (i don't personally think it should be but that's the way it is.) Thrid, any one in Iraq knows that we were not bogged down at all and the troubles we had were by lack of funding, not lack of force. Fourth, the operations have been wildly sucessful, losses are minimal and losses inflicted on the enemy are huge. Targets were secured in some of the fastest times in history. Anyone at West Point will tell you that, though i dont expect the common soldger to know it. Finally, remember that we ahve a volunteer army, the brave men and women that this man inpersonates have willingly chose to fight for something that they belive in.
In closeing, if I was wrong and if he is a soldger at least we can rest assured that Private soap-box here woln't call any shots and the greatest millitary minds in the world will continue to run our operations overseas.
Technical problems require technical solutions. Political problems requre political solutions.
Don't use law to stop file sharing in america. Don't use proxys to stop legal action in Iran.
THe problem is a political one and we need a political answer. The people of Iran need to make it heard that they want blogs and such. Only they can secure their own freedoms. The best thing that we as a free people can do is offer assistance in helping their government learn that free speach is good.
We could invade Iran (again) or we could train Iranians to hack but the reality of the issue is that beyond this, all we will do is put a band aid on a huge wound.
I'll take the 1 at a time. Hydroelectric does have drawbacks. The main one of these isn't fish, its the human impact. Yes, fish die. Try to remember that these fish which are dieing were bread in hatcherys so that people could catch them. There is some hydroelectric in rivers and such bust most of it is at dams and those resivours are stocked. The dams are really the problem. We drasticly chance how water flows and where the "lake" is in order to suit our needs to pin up that water and release it at our rate. However, since this also provides us with drinking water and watersports, I can't really get too down on this practice.
Solar is a great source of power. I dont see how it constitues a "net loss". It has been effectivly producing power for years. It's not alot of power for the cost or size but NASA seems to find it reliable and suffienct. If you go out into the California desert and look at the houses out there. Many of them are disconnected from the power grid. They run off of the solar power on their rooftops alone. We could actually get some real power if we were to commit serious time, money, and space to this. Imagine what a "sun field" could do out in arizona, just an acre or two of solar cells.
Wave power is a real alternitive. Waves are predictable and powerfull. The ocean is a volitale place to exist and these thing are not easy to maintain. This is a field that needs more reseach before its widespread adopted.
Wind power is awesome. Im sorry but it sound like your education on wind power is a bit old. THe first wind fields went up in the 60s and 70s. The mills were clunky, noisey, ineffient, and unreliable. Those things are no longer true. Wind mills are silent. Modern power storage has practically eliminated the spikes. The spikes are not by the miniute but by the hours at worst and days most of the time. If you think that windmills turn for breazes, your mistaken. If you think that the wind is relenting, you have never been to the wind fields. If you ever get the chance to take a walk through a windfield, take it. You will see that the wind is strong and continous, hard to keep your footing most of the time. Windmills take startup power to get going and then as they continue going they return power. This means that a poorly run system can have a net loss. However, modern windfields are ran by computer and this isn't a problem. Finally, the ROI is usully seen within about 3 months of opperation. All of this is just talking about land based turbines. Put them at sea and you ahve a whole new ball of wax. Any sailer can tell you that wind at sea is something you can count on. They become even more effienct. For wind and nuke both, in their infancy there was a problem but they are now mature. We will not see any more nuke meltdowns in america or western eurpoe. But the fact is, nuke will never be our best choice.
What about wind, solar, hydroelectric, and wave power. Sorry to sound like a hippy but its real. I know that this may sound like small potatoes at first but, as it turns out, tehre is plenty of power all around us due to the way the world is. We haven't spent any real amount of time and money into harnessing it. I read once that if we were to put wind turbines off the western shore of ireland, one turbine every mile, we would produce 8 times the power that all of the British Isles need. Thats an amazing amount of power. Currently, we use large sand/rock deposits to break up waves offshore. Why not wave power generators to catch that force we are waisting? Solar power on rooftops, in most cases, provide more power than a house uses. Seriously, nuclear is better than fossil fuels but still not needed.
I actually had a simielar reaction to "arming america" I do see the point in not wanting false information passed around blindly. However, I would be much more comfortable labeling such books as they are. Perhaps a book jacket explaining some of the reasons why this might not be a good source of info would be more appropriate than having the books pulled.
It is true that books are "challenged" for all sorts or reasons and none of them more important than freedom. Once we agree that society has the right to decide what is and is not appropriate for people to know, we are controlling thought. This, historically, has not been a good road to go down.
On another note, I would ahve no problem with a library stocking "Hustler" so long as they do it in the same way that it is sold, in an adults only area or behind a counter where it can be requested. I don't think that any information should be kept from discerning adults and as little as possible kept from children who are willing to seek it out.
The following books were the most frequently challenged in 2003:
1. Alice series, for sexual content, using offensive language, and being unsuited to age group.
2. Harry Potter series, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
3. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language.
4. "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy.
5. "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, sexual content, offensive language, drugs and violence.
6. "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous, for drugs.
7. "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris, for homosexuality, nudity, sexual content and sex education.
8. "We All Fall Down" by Robert Cormier, for offensive language and sexual content.
9. "King and King" by Linda de Haan, for homosexuality.
10. "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language and occult/satanism.
Consider buying these books and donating them places where children can get them (schools, after school programs, librarys).
yea, i was thinking the same thing when I saw "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on the list. People need to understand that literature needn't be changed because times change. This saddens me deeply, much like the 16th century repainting of the Sistine Chapel to hide nudity. Art should be left as the artist intended and people should learn to understand the historical reference.
"learning" should be taken with a grain of salt. Perhaps it's true that the generic definition of learning would be better served by a "choose your own adventure" book or yet another copy of Goosebumps. However, consider this:
Electrical engineers spend a good portion of their time looking very closely at circuit layouts for something not perfectly or optimally set up.
Radiologists spend most of their time closely examining x-rays looking for a small speck of cancer or a hairline fracture in the bone.
Lawyers spend time carefully proofreading contracts for something that would nullify a valid clause.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that training people to have a close attention to detail and observant eyes is a valid claim, aside from the obvious supporting of art and helping fight ADD by concentration exercises?
Also read it in 5th grade. Thought it was awesome. Perhaps you don't have a frame of reference for appreciation of this book, doesn't mean that it sucks.
Have you ever played Super SX Tricky from EA Sports. The 7up billboards (for dnl) and are EVERYWHERE. I'm aware that snowboarding tracks would have billboards and the city tracks would have billboards but every 3 seconds you see yet another one. Also that game advertises for the honda element but not as obtrusive. The most blatent one of those is when you do a jump right throught the middle of one with its doors open. Just a few billboards.
My point of this is that they will be obtrusive. Why would a game company put in subtle ads when they can put in blatent ones and really attract the advertisers? Look at nascar, professional bull riding, or american football. "We'd like to welcome ya'll back to the Miller invitational rodeo. Next up, we have the Wrangler focus on a cowboy. But first, lets check those Copenhagen real time stats."
Seriously, spreading a trojan to a collage is easy enough, just email the whole school. You'll get a few hundred hits. The real question is, how do you connect to it after you help them go live?
This article leaves much to be desired in department of does your system become vulnerable but do nothing, does it record and push the video somewhere, does it just mean that it is now possible for someone to connect? I'm curious as to if this is real or just a scare story.
3 things, 1. tin foil isnt the way to go but it is possible to use rf blocking materials to allow the rfid to only be readable when the passport is open assuming the cover of the passport was made out of them. 2. passive rfid would be the perscribed method as that it is much cheaper than active and it can only be read from about 4-6 inches in my own testing if the man is scouring your body with the little ray gun looking for your passport, you'd likly know. 3. my real problem is that rfid holds about the same ammount of info as a upc. the theory was to have a primary key to find a file in a db. we would could create a small circuit to broadcast large ammounts of data (like a picture) but then this isn't really rfid anymore, its just a radio brodcast.
Statistical data? For those of you who have logic training, let's look at this: 1. The number 1 gatherer of data relating accidents to speeding is insurance companies. 2. Almost all reports done by anyone else say that speeding does not increase neither the frequency nor severity of accidents. 3. Insurance rates are primarily based on the "point system" 4. Almsot all points come from speeding 5. The number 1 lobyer of keeping speeding laws is insurance companys.
Now, in my statistics class I would FAIL if I presented data which was so clearly biased. The insurance customers purposely bias data for their purposes. Consider that males of any age typiclly drive more expensive cars than females. Might this explain how fewer accidents cost more? Why is it then that they pay more for having the car AND for being male? Insurance is widely varied by where you live. Turns out that my insurance would cost more if I lived in Inglewood. Are there studys saying that people from Inglewood are worse drivers or do we punish them for living in a place where they are more likly to get jacked? If we base rates on pretty much anything besides driving history, we are unfairly judging people by making generalizations.
the problem with the typing tests is two-fold. first, they dont account for the fact that all modern word processors ahve the abillity to make what i just typed perfect without me caring. the second problem is that very few people have the need to read something off of the screen (or a hard-copy paper) and clone it to the screen. a real test would be to see how quickly one types when writing a paper or such. that would be a number which someone might care about.
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Now, those of us at the big tech companies can look forward to WEEKS of these signs all over the office. April fool's just extended to cubicles everywhere.
AAPL
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Self Identify Black Canadian - 662,215
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compair to 12.9% in the US
just for the record
actually passing along information that you know to be a trade secret makes you as guilty as those who aquired it and their speech is NOT protected. that was stated in the ruling. they will prob also be sued at some point.
i read the article fully. in fact, i read it close enough to note that the judge made and error in page 12 line 8 in his grammer.
i dont want to do the whole download from that link..... isn't there a .torrent somewhere that i could get it from?
It's great when others make your point for you. Thanks.
You guys all give this guy too much credit. Chances he is a 15-year-old in his mama's basement is many times greater than he is a soldger. A soldger would never call our troops "powerless" or "screwed". A soldger respects his commanding officers, up to and including the commander-in-chief, who is not a "whackjob".
First, the United states millitary is NEVER "screwed". We could glass Korea and be back in Kansas for supper. There is no force in the world that even starts to compare to our active duty soldgers, not even counting the reservists that we keep. Second, Tiawan can not be invaded by China because as far as the American government reconizes, it is the same country (i don't personally think it should be but that's the way it is.) Thrid, any one in Iraq knows that we were not bogged down at all and the troubles we had were by lack of funding, not lack of force. Fourth, the operations have been wildly sucessful, losses are minimal and losses inflicted on the enemy are huge. Targets were secured in some of the fastest times in history. Anyone at West Point will tell you that, though i dont expect the common soldger to know it. Finally, remember that we ahve a volunteer army, the brave men and women that this man inpersonates have willingly chose to fight for something that they belive in.
In closeing, if I was wrong and if he is a soldger at least we can rest assured that Private soap-box here woln't call any shots and the greatest millitary minds in the world will continue to run our operations overseas.
Technical problems require technical solutions.
Political problems requre political solutions.
Don't use law to stop file sharing in america.
Don't use proxys to stop legal action in Iran.
THe problem is a political one and we need a political answer. The people of Iran need to make it heard that they want blogs and such. Only they can secure their own freedoms. The best thing that we as a free people can do is offer assistance in helping their government learn that free speach is good.
We could invade Iran (again) or we could train Iranians to hack but the reality of the issue is that beyond this, all we will do is put a band aid on a huge wound.
I always liked using similer variable names and names that mean things to programmers
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Class
class
CLASS
c1ass
Classe
classe
cas
Case
CASE
all in the same code.
I'll take the 1 at a time.
Hydroelectric does have drawbacks. The main one of these isn't fish, its the human impact. Yes, fish die. Try to remember that these fish which are dieing were bread in hatcherys so that people could catch them. There is some hydroelectric in rivers and such bust most of it is at dams and those resivours are stocked. The dams are really the problem. We drasticly chance how water flows and where the "lake" is in order to suit our needs to pin up that water and release it at our rate. However, since this also provides us with drinking water and watersports, I can't really get too down on this practice.
Solar is a great source of power. I dont see how it constitues a "net loss". It has been effectivly producing power for years. It's not alot of power for the cost or size but NASA seems to find it reliable and suffienct. If you go out into the California desert and look at the houses out there. Many of them are disconnected from the power grid. They run off of the solar power on their rooftops alone. We could actually get some real power if we were to commit serious time, money, and space to this. Imagine what a "sun field" could do out in arizona, just an acre or two of solar cells.
Wave power is a real alternitive. Waves are predictable and powerfull. The ocean is a volitale place to exist and these thing are not easy to maintain. This is a field that needs more reseach before its widespread adopted.
Wind power is awesome. Im sorry but it sound like your education on wind power is a bit old. THe first wind fields went up in the 60s and 70s. The mills were clunky, noisey, ineffient, and unreliable. Those things are no longer true. Wind mills are silent. Modern power storage has practically eliminated the spikes. The spikes are not by the miniute but by the hours at worst and days most of the time. If you think that windmills turn for breazes, your mistaken. If you think that the wind is relenting, you have never been to the wind fields. If you ever get the chance to take a walk through a windfield, take it. You will see that the wind is strong and continous, hard to keep your footing most of the time. Windmills take startup power to get going and then as they continue going they return power. This means that a poorly run system can have a net loss. However, modern windfields are ran by computer and this isn't a problem. Finally, the ROI is usully seen within about 3 months of opperation.
All of this is just talking about land based turbines. Put them at sea and you ahve a whole new ball of wax. Any sailer can tell you that wind at sea is something you can count on. They become even more effienct. For wind and nuke both, in their infancy there was a problem but they are now mature. We will not see any more nuke meltdowns in america or western eurpoe. But the fact is, nuke will never be our best choice.
What about wind, solar, hydroelectric, and wave power. Sorry to sound like a hippy but its real. I know that this may sound like small potatoes at first but, as it turns out, tehre is plenty of power all around us due to the way the world is. We haven't spent any real amount of time and money into harnessing it. I read once that if we were to put wind turbines off the western shore of ireland, one turbine every mile, we would produce 8 times the power that all of the British Isles need. Thats an amazing amount of power. Currently, we use large sand/rock deposits to break up waves offshore. Why not wave power generators to catch that force we are waisting? Solar power on rooftops, in most cases, provide more power than a house uses. Seriously, nuclear is better than fossil fuels but still not needed.
I actually had a simielar reaction to "arming america" I do see the point in not wanting false information passed around blindly. However, I would be much more comfortable labeling such books as they are. Perhaps a book jacket explaining some of the reasons why this might not be a good source of info would be more appropriate than having the books pulled.
It is true that books are "challenged" for all sorts or reasons and none of them more important than freedom. Once we agree that society has the right to decide what is and is not appropriate for people to know, we are controlling thought. This, historically, has not been a good road to go down.
On another note, I would ahve no problem with a library stocking "Hustler" so long as they do it in the same way that it is sold, in an adults only area or behind a counter where it can be requested. I don't think that any information should be kept from discerning adults and as little as possible kept from children who are willing to seek it out.
The article should have cited the 2003 list:
The following books were the most frequently challenged in 2003:
1. Alice series, for sexual content, using offensive language, and being unsuited to age group.
2. Harry Potter series, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
3. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language.
4. "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy.
5. "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, sexual content, offensive language, drugs and violence.
6. "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous, for drugs.
7. "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris, for homosexuality, nudity, sexual content and sex education.
8. "We All Fall Down" by Robert Cormier, for offensive language and sexual content.
9. "King and King" by Linda de Haan, for homosexuality.
10. "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language and occult/satanism.
Consider buying these books and donating them places where children can get them (schools, after school programs, librarys).
yea, i was thinking the same thing when I saw "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on the list. People need to understand that literature needn't be changed because times change. This saddens me deeply, much like the 16th century repainting of the Sistine Chapel to hide nudity. Art should be left as the artist intended and people should learn to understand the historical reference.
"learning" should be taken with a grain of salt. Perhaps it's true that the generic definition of learning would be better served by a "choose your own adventure" book or yet another copy of Goosebumps. However, consider this:
Electrical engineers spend a good portion of their time looking very closely at circuit layouts for something not perfectly or optimally set up.
Radiologists spend most of their time closely examining x-rays looking for a small speck of cancer or a hairline fracture in the bone.
Lawyers spend time carefully proofreading contracts for something that would nullify a valid clause.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that training people to have a close attention to detail and observant eyes is a valid claim, aside from the obvious supporting of art and helping fight ADD by concentration exercises?
I approve the articles. Go ahead and let them know so we can move on and get back to letting the children learn something.
Also read it in 5th grade. Thought it was awesome. Perhaps you don't have a frame of reference for appreciation of this book, doesn't mean that it sucks.
Have you ever played Super SX Tricky from EA Sports. The 7up billboards (for dnl) and are EVERYWHERE. I'm aware that snowboarding tracks would have billboards and the city tracks would have billboards but every 3 seconds you see yet another one. Also that game advertises for the honda element but not as obtrusive. The most blatent one of those is when you do a jump right throught the middle of one with its doors open. Just a few billboards.
My point of this is that they will be obtrusive. Why would a game company put in subtle ads when they can put in blatent ones and really attract the advertisers? Look at nascar, professional bull riding, or american football. "We'd like to welcome ya'll back to the Miller invitational rodeo. Next up, we have the Wrangler focus on a cowboy. But first, lets check those Copenhagen real time stats."
how is this different from a tamagotchi?
Seriously, spreading a trojan to a collage is easy enough, just email the whole school. You'll get a few hundred hits. The real question is, how do you connect to it after you help them go live?
This article leaves much to be desired in department of does your system become vulnerable but do nothing, does it record and push the video somewhere, does it just mean that it is now possible for someone to connect? I'm curious as to if this is real or just a scare story.
One engine to index them all
one engine to find them,
One engine to return them all
and to the results bind them.
3 things,
1. tin foil isnt the way to go but it is possible to use rf blocking materials to allow the rfid to only be readable when the passport is open assuming the cover of the passport was made out of them.
2. passive rfid would be the perscribed method as that it is much cheaper than active and it can only be read from about 4-6 inches in my own testing if the man is scouring your body with the little ray gun looking for your passport, you'd likly know.
3. my real problem is that rfid holds about the same ammount of info as a upc. the theory was to have a primary key to find a file in a db. we would could create a small circuit to broadcast large ammounts of data (like a picture) but then this isn't really rfid anymore, its just a radio brodcast.
Statistical data? For those of you who have logic training, let's look at this:
1. The number 1 gatherer of data relating accidents to speeding is insurance companies.
2. Almost all reports done by anyone else say that speeding does not increase neither the frequency nor severity of accidents.
3. Insurance rates are primarily based on the "point system"
4. Almsot all points come from speeding
5. The number 1 lobyer of keeping speeding laws is insurance companys.
Now, in my statistics class I would FAIL if I presented data which was so clearly biased. The insurance customers purposely bias data for their purposes. Consider that males of any age typiclly drive more expensive cars than females. Might this explain how fewer accidents cost more? Why is it then that they pay more for having the car AND for being male? Insurance is widely varied by where you live. Turns out that my insurance would cost more if I lived in Inglewood. Are there studys saying that people from Inglewood are worse drivers or do we punish them for living in a place where they are more likly to get jacked? If we base rates on pretty much anything besides driving history, we are unfairly judging people by making generalizations.
Wouldn't that be more of a measure of how quickly you think, though?
Only if you type faster than you think, which would be sad.
the problem with the typing tests is two-fold. first, they dont account for the fact that all modern word processors ahve the abillity to make what i just typed perfect without me caring. the second problem is that very few people have the need to read something off of the screen (or a hard-copy paper) and clone it to the screen. a real test would be to see how quickly one types when writing a paper or such. that would be a number which someone might care about.
dave