A lot of people in this thread seem to be coming to the defense of the Japanese university system, but what the poster said is basically true. In addition to not having much in donations, it's not as geared towards research like American schools, being instead more of a place to make good white-collar workers for their industries. They have fewer grad students and less research budgets. I would generally say that the US is better off in term of research.
And those saying that "It's a state matter, the state should fund all reasearch" - you do know that you can have both, right? In fact the US government spends gobs of money on research, the donations come on top of that.
I know people are going to be beating the 'is google evil?' dead horse once again, but let me point out the more obvious reason for Google's name idiocy - they're a full blown beuracracorp now, so they have no need for quaint notions like 'flexibility' or 'individuality'.
There's no reason for Google to take into account the complexities and strangeness of life, when they can just make people fit their views, like the immigration officers at Ellis Island who would substitute 'normal' American names for strange foreign ones.
Names are actually just the original bureaucratic way of designating and cataloging people, before they thought of ID numbers and databases. It's not surprising that Google wants to impose its own rules on them.
Doesn't the very nature of a DDOS tool require you to use software that's in common with other people, so that you're attacking the same target? Not that I want to defend anonymous's actions.
IIRC, the original definition of a script kiddie is someone who uses a pre-built 'attack' or 'security' tool to crack a security hole that they themselves did not find/create. Since LOIC is supposed to be just a DDOS tool, I don't see how it applies. Especially if it was originally made by white hats as a security tool - is someone who runs nmap a script kiddie?
I'd be careful about believing all the stories that have been floating around about the captain. It seems like the company is trying to distance themselves from a "fall guy", and as it has been established that the ship and others from that company had taken close routes to the island before:
It seems the company wants all the negative attention to be on the captain rather than them, so we should expect that they are throwing out lots of spin, instead of facts, as companies often do.
Your post is wrong, and it's something that anyone who has taken anthropology would know is not true - hence your +5 on Slashdot, since no one here cares about the social sciences.
Early humans did not go around picking fights with animals out of spite, just to drive them out of existence. Hunting for food, and yes, overhunting, caused many extinctions, but there is no evidence that people did it for spite or out of sheer aggression.
If anything, early humans seemed to fear nature much more than the other way around, as various animal deities suggest.
You know, I wish people would use the blue ribbons from the 1990s campaigns against DMCA and CDA to remind us that the fight against internet censorship is eternal, and not just something that started yesterday.
>Such a situation would stop many students from being able to focus on studying, let alone a research project, but Garvey has instead used her situation as motivation.
Ah, I see we're going with the "X was successful despite his/her obstacles, so those with the same obstacle have no one but themselves to blame" angle.
Welcome to America, where they celebrate people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps but never question why that was necessary in the first place.
Oh shit, that's how we can get them - patent the process of granting permission to go to the bathroom, then sue them and ask for a preliminary injunction from the judge.
Watch them literally squirm in their seats, and not get any work done. They'll be putting in a lot of half-day off notices afterwards...
Mysterious Space Ball fell to earth in Namibia, presumably from outer space.
Authorities recovered the Mysterious Space Ball in a grassy village north of Windhoek, the country's capital.
Mysterious Space Ball, which appears to be made of 'two halves welded together,' has a rough surface, a 14-inch diameter and measures 43 inches around.
Mysterious Space Ball created a crater 13 inches deep and almost 12.5 feet wide, but was found almost 60 feet from the landing spot.
Mysterious Space Ball weighs 13 pounds and is made of a 'metal alloy known to man.'
NASA and the European Space Agency will both help investigate Mysterious Space Ball.
Someone should do a article or investigation into all the obscure places our hardware comes from, especially concentrations where most of one type comes from a small area.
We only ever seem to hear about these places when something goes wrong.
Remember that time in the '90s when a Taiwanese RAM factory caught fire, and it turned out to be a big chunk of world RAM output? Sent prices spiking for a while.
Conversely, it's surprising how little the Japanese tsunami affected the tech world. I guess their industries were concentrated further south.
I wonder how much of the drop in laptop/netbook sales is due to the massive portable media avaiable?
Lately I have found myself carrying around a portable HDD that is 1TB in size and carries almost all of my data. I don't really have to take my laptop to school, when I can just take everything with me and plug my drive in to a school computer.
No need for an 'on-the-go' computer, and it works for sharing files with friends, between my multiple computers, etc.
Those of you who were following the hearing, what do you think was the best part?
Either +1 Insightful or +1 Funny. Or even -1 FUCKING WRONG
My favorite part was how Sheila Jackson Lee's tantrum over a tweet from a opponent lawmaker delayed things - but not the fact the person was tweeting about being bored and surfing the internet.
I mean, obviously Hollywood/IP industries have a lot of money, but we do actually have very transparent means of seeing who gets campaign contributions from where.
How are they pulling the strings or giving the money?
1. Presidents - Not every president, obviously, since there are only 12 carriers. 2. Navy officers - Nimitz 3. Prominent navy supporters in congress - Vinson, Stennis 4. Past famous warships - No longer in use after retirement of Kitty Hawk.
Gerald Ford fits into at two of those categories, maybe three. I don't know how you think he doesn't deserve one.
The real outcast is Nixon, who will probably never get one due to Watergate. Maybe even because of his China diplomacy, now that we're enemies with them.
Boo hoo, did I hurt your feeling by making fun of your favorite clown? At least if it was cocaine he would have an excuse.
Just looked this idiot up, he supposedly claims never to have done drugs? I guess he has no excuse then, other than "I'm greedy as fuck"
But not knowing by memory the personal lives of washed-up has-beens from the 70s means it's not "insightful" to point out that he's a douchebag? You and other celebrity fanboys are sick.
Are there other ways to prevent photos from being taken, or at least make it harder? How about clothes that have interference lines or strong color contrasts, would that at least mess with picture quality?
Oh wow, you didn't even post the even more stark comparison with the one below his:
GENE SIMMONS ''Shares in Krispy Kreme. I made a handsome profit.''
DORIS ROBERTS (''Everybody Loves Raymond'') ''At Ground Zero, the policemen and the firemen gave me a flag and a piece of the first tower that went down. I cried so...I asked, 'Why are you giving this to me?' and they said, 'We've been here since 9/11 looking for pieces of our friends. Then we go home at night and turn on the telly, and there you are making us laugh. You bring us back into life.'''
Really, Gene? Did you really need those Krispy Kreme shares? Were you hit by high cocaine prices that trashed your savings?
Mods, please stop hitting the parent post with flamebait tags, it really is insightful about Gene Simmons.
Although on second thought, "Anonymous" would have been a good choice as well.
Not just the hacker group or 4channers, but all people acting anonymously, like whistleblowers and protesters. Would have been an counterpoint to Zuckerberg.
And although the Occupy people are not as hardcore as the Arab Spring guys, it's good that they didn't restrict it to one movement or country since there seems to be new protests in Russia and China...
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A lot of people in this thread seem to be coming to the defense of the Japanese university system, but what the poster said is basically true. In addition to not having much in donations, it's not as geared towards research like American schools, being instead more of a place to make good white-collar workers for their industries. They have fewer grad students and less research budgets. I would generally say that the US is better off in term of research.
See this article for an exception that proves the rule:
http://www.economist.com/node/21540228
And those saying that "It's a state matter, the state should fund all reasearch" - you do know that you can have both, right? In fact the US government spends gobs of money on research, the donations come on top of that.
That's because we don't talk about dead technologies.
Haven't seen a BSD story in a loooong while... ;)
But it is correct.
The world revolves around Emacs.
I know people are going to be beating the 'is google evil?' dead horse once again, but let me point out the more obvious reason for Google's name idiocy - they're a full blown beuracracorp now, so they have no need for quaint notions like 'flexibility' or 'individuality'.
There's no reason for Google to take into account the complexities and strangeness of life, when they can just make people fit their views, like the immigration officers at Ellis Island who would substitute 'normal' American names for strange foreign ones.
Names are actually just the original bureaucratic way of designating and cataloging people, before they thought of ID numbers and databases. It's not surprising that Google wants to impose its own rules on them.
Doesn't the very nature of a DDOS tool require you to use software that's in common with other people, so that you're attacking the same target? Not that I want to defend anonymous's actions.
IIRC, the original definition of a script kiddie is someone who uses a pre-built 'attack' or 'security' tool to crack a security hole that they themselves did not find/create. Since LOIC is supposed to be just a DDOS tool, I don't see how it applies. Especially if it was originally made by white hats as a security tool - is someone who runs nmap a script kiddie?
I'd be careful about believing all the stories that have been floating around about the captain. It seems like the company is trying to distance themselves from a "fall guy", and as it has been established that the ship and others from that company had taken close routes to the island before:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/27aff644-437c-11e1-8489-00144feab49a.html#axzz1k9N66b6k
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16583187
It seems the company wants all the negative attention to be on the captain rather than them, so we should expect that they are throwing out lots of spin, instead of facts, as companies often do.
Your post is wrong, and it's something that anyone who has taken anthropology would know is not true - hence your +5 on Slashdot, since no one here cares about the social sciences.
Early humans did not go around picking fights with animals out of spite, just to drive them out of existence. Hunting for food, and yes, overhunting, caused many extinctions, but there is no evidence that people did it for spite or out of sheer aggression.
If anything, early humans seemed to fear nature much more than the other way around, as various animal deities suggest.
You know, I wish people would use the blue ribbons from the 1990s campaigns against DMCA and CDA to remind us that the fight against internet censorship is eternal, and not just something that started yesterday.
>Such a situation would stop many students from being able to focus on studying, let alone a research project, but Garvey has instead used her situation as motivation.
Ah, I see we're going with the "X was successful despite his/her obstacles, so those with the same obstacle have no one but themselves to blame" angle.
Welcome to America, where they celebrate people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps but never question why that was necessary in the first place.
Oh shit, that's how we can get them - patent the process of granting permission to go to the bathroom, then sue them and ask for a preliminary injunction from the judge.
Watch them literally squirm in their seats, and not get any work done. They'll be putting in a lot of half-day off notices afterwards...
Mysterious Space Ball fell to earth in Namibia, presumably from outer space.
Authorities recovered the Mysterious Space Ball in a grassy village north of Windhoek, the country's capital.
Mysterious Space Ball, which appears to be made of 'two halves welded together,' has a rough surface, a 14-inch diameter and measures 43 inches around.
Mysterious Space Ball created a crater 13 inches deep and almost 12.5 feet wide, but was found almost 60 feet from the landing spot.
Mysterious Space Ball weighs 13 pounds and is made of a 'metal alloy known to man.'
NASA and the European Space Agency will both help investigate Mysterious Space Ball.
Do not taunt Mysterious Space Ball.
Interesting. Does that hold true for Taiwan as well? How well do they do in overseas Chinese communities,?
Someone should do a article or investigation into all the obscure places our hardware comes from, especially concentrations where most of one type comes from a small area.
We only ever seem to hear about these places when something goes wrong.
Remember that time in the '90s when a Taiwanese RAM factory caught fire, and it turned out to be a big chunk of world RAM output? Sent prices spiking for a while.
Conversely, it's surprising how little the Japanese tsunami affected the tech world. I guess their industries were concentrated further south.
That is wrong, it is believed in Japan as well, as looking at the Japanese wiki can show.
I wonder how much of the drop in laptop/netbook sales is due to the massive portable media avaiable?
Lately I have found myself carrying around a portable HDD that is 1TB in size and carries almost all of my data. I don't really have to take my laptop to school, when I can just take everything with me and plug my drive in to a school computer.
No need for an 'on-the-go' computer, and it works for sharing files with friends, between my multiple computers, etc.
Those of you who were following the hearing, what do you think was the best part?
Either +1 Insightful or +1 Funny. Or even -1 FUCKING WRONG
My favorite part was how Sheila Jackson Lee's tantrum over a tweet from a opponent lawmaker delayed things - but not the fact the person was tweeting about being bored and surfing the internet.
"We are debating the Stop Online Piracy Act and Shiela Jackson [sic] has so bored me that I'm killing time by surfing the Internet."
http://www.zdnet.com/news/sopa-votes-derailed-by-politicians-offensive-tweet/6334156
I'm curious, how do they get this shit done?
I mean, obviously Hollywood/IP industries have a lot of money, but we do actually have very transparent means of seeing who gets campaign contributions from where.
How are they pulling the strings or giving the money?
Are you actually this thick, or are you trolling?
The naming convention is obvious:
1. Presidents - Not every president, obviously, since there are only 12 carriers.
2. Navy officers - Nimitz
3. Prominent navy supporters in congress - Vinson, Stennis
4. Past famous warships - No longer in use after retirement of Kitty Hawk.
Gerald Ford fits into at two of those categories, maybe three. I don't know how you think he doesn't deserve one.
The real outcast is Nixon, who will probably never get one due to Watergate. Maybe even because of his China diplomacy, now that we're enemies with them.
Boo hoo, did I hurt your feeling by making fun of your favorite clown? At least if it was cocaine he would have an excuse.
Just looked this idiot up, he supposedly claims never to have done drugs? I guess he has no excuse then, other than "I'm greedy as fuck"
But not knowing by memory the personal lives of washed-up has-beens from the 70s means it's not "insightful" to point out that he's a douchebag? You and other celebrity fanboys are sick.
No, it would make the party an AWESOME MOSH PIT.
Interesting link, thanks.
Are there other ways to prevent photos from being taken, or at least make it harder? How about clothes that have interference lines or strong color contrasts, would that at least mess with picture quality?
Oh wow, you didn't even post the even more stark comparison with the one below his:
Really, Gene? Did you really need those Krispy Kreme shares? Were you hit by high cocaine prices that trashed your savings?
Mods, please stop hitting the parent post with flamebait tags, it really is insightful about Gene Simmons.
>They're simply this decade's Geocities.
OH SNAP, that is the harshest thing I've ever heard about Facebook.
That was low, man, real low.
Although on second thought, "Anonymous" would have been a good choice as well.
Not just the hacker group or 4channers, but all people acting anonymously, like whistleblowers and protesters. Would have been an counterpoint to Zuckerberg.
Thank God It's Not Steve Jobs.
And although the Occupy people are not as hardcore as the Arab Spring guys, it's good that they didn't restrict it to one movement or country since there seems to be new protests in Russia and China...