A lot of folks are going mental about the "copyright implictions" of google books, and I'm just laughing. On my bookshelf is a first-edition colleciton of George Bernard Shaw plays, printed in the UK in 1911. There's a legend on the inside cover that is a reference to the U.S.'s lack of copyright laws at the time: (paraphrasing from memory:)
Please note that unauthorized editions of the book are available in the United States, and that neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for them.
is it just me, or does this sound like a complete waste of money? privacy concerns aside (i'm not convinced there are any), what will this accomplish that video cameras don't already do?
so we'll use mobile phone signals to monitor traffic? seems heaps less efficient that actually looking at real traffic volume...
It shall be a criminal offsense to install non-application software on any computer when the user has not been reasonably notified in advance and/or agreed to have the modifications made
i'm 100% with you, but what happens when the lawyers get their teeth into it? shall we define "non-application software"? what constituteds "agreed to"?
you and i can act like we know what that means, but we aren't lawyers... somehow (unless its brilliantly done) i can imagine certain big scary companies using charges under this hypothetical spyware act to intimidate competition
C - locating your global business in california is pure stupidity. there is no valid reason to be in california. most businesses there need to get the fark out now and cut their operating costs by 60-70% right away.
there's a grain of truth in this, sure, but there are *lots* of good reasons for basing a business in ca:
talent - lots of good people are in CA, especially in the bay area... hiring good people is easier here than in des moines (no offense, i know some top notch people in IA city... y'all know what i mean)
expectation/investors - investors get all bright and smiley when there hear about your "san francisco-based company" in a way that they don't so much when you talk about your lincoln- or tucson- based company... location is related to marketing
It bothers me a bit that the reviewer considered the content intermediate to advanced, yet found the database design chapter most informative. Design in my opinion should be mostly irrelavent to the database its implemented on.
can't both possibilities be true? why can't the book be geared toward an intermediate/advanced mysql user in terms of assumed skillset, features covered, etc., but also include a really good chapter on db design?
The Definitive Guide? And I thought the online documentation...
totally... i was wandering in my favorite geek bookstore yesterday... it's weird to look at the shelves, at the rows and rows of thick, expensive books, and think... "i've had no trouble with the online help for that one, and that one, and that one..."
people will spend money on just about anything... but, in fairness, it can be nice to have a guide that you can flip through some times... i don't like online doucmentation for everything but it has its place... a lot of these books though seem a bit much
:) that's you being sensible. right, you and i would just have it give a unique id that did a database lookup... the united states government on the other hand...
exactly... and if *you* were the U.S. government, what *other* information would you include on that passport? SSN? birthday? home address?
just think of the information you could collect hanging out in the airport lobby with an inobtrusive rfid scannr sitting under your coat, plugged in to your laptop
Earlier this year, I was sitting at a travel agent's office in Japan. There was a message prominately displayed on the desk in both English and Japanese informing travelers that they needed to have special machine-readable passports to enter the U.S. The rest of the world already thinks of us as loonies. This new nonsense won't help. Especially since we're requiring *other countries* to do this as well if their citizens want to enter the U.S.
What's the point of RFID in a passport? Is it somehow magically impossible to forge or duplicate? Can't we agree that the people who are willing to go through the effort to make counterfeit documents like this will also have the resources to handle RFID? Aren't there ways we can spend this money that might do something a little more rational towards increasing security? Like what? I dunno. But there are probably better ways to spend the millions (billions?) this will cost to implement.
would there really be an entrapment issue? I mean, "i'll sell you this x-box for fifteen bucks" is one thing, leaving an unsecured computer where you can watch it is another.
it's not entrapment if the security guard at the bank arrests somebody who's robbing the bank. what's the dude going to say? "it's entrapment, they were totally waiting there to catch me!" right.
Although, frankly, the more likely explanation is that the organism wasn't trying to avoid a predator, it was trying to increase its energy intake by moving toward the light
also helps with reproduction, when everybody's heading toward the same place... a sort of bacertiological singles bar
This dude's job was to collect the sperm from the male falcons. He'd go in to their enclosures wearing a special hat with a very-anatomically-correct model of a female falcon on it.
Look, there are poor people in every major city across the country, because metro areas tend have the most resources to help poor people. But, compare SF with other metro areas, and yeah, it's a pretty rich county.
while you're right, i don't think its an entirely fair approach. if we distributed support based on mean income, or on mean real estate prices, then a lot of very needy people are getting screwed. while the bay area does have some of the highest real estate, it also has a much more pronounced wealth gap than other areas. the difference beween the well off and the poor in appalacia is tiny compared to the situation here
i don't know what the solution is, but i think it's the wrong approach to identify certain areas as more needy than others, when the real problems are much more systemic than geographic
Microsoft can't have it their way so they're going to pull out.
it's probably been mentioned in a comment i missed, but there's no way they're pulling out... it's just FUD, trying to pressure SK into the ruling they want... if they don't get the ruling, they'll still seel in that country
you haven't a clue what you're talking about. if you think a city of 1.x million, which happens to be at the center of a metro area with a population of ~10 million can be considered a "richer neighborhood" then my only polite response is that you are just making this shit up to try to impress people
last week in san francisco (that "rich neighborhood") a schizophrenic 23 year old mother of 3 threw her babbies into the bay because the voices told her to feed them to the sharks... i'll give you one guess which income brack she's in
i work in downtown oakland. my walk to work include views across bays to san francisco as a go past countless homeless shelters, community resource centers, and transitional housing developments. these aren't people who are going to benefit from any government technology projects... they need hope first
you clearly have never been to my city, and i somehow doubt you've spent "thousand of dollars writing [your] congressman"... additionally, anybody who thinks free internet access is the solution to poverty clearly understands about as much about poverty as your average off-the-shelf republican president
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A lot of folks are going mental about the "copyright implictions" of google books, and I'm just laughing. On my bookshelf is a first-edition colleciton of George Bernard Shaw plays, printed in the UK in 1911. There's a legend on the inside cover that is a reference to the U.S.'s lack of copyright laws at the time: (paraphrasing from memory:)
is it just me, or does this sound like a complete waste of money? privacy concerns aside (i'm not convinced there are any), what will this accomplish that video cameras don't already do?
so we'll use mobile phone signals to monitor traffic? seems heaps less efficient that actually looking at real traffic volume...
sure. so why watch tv? i read stuff online about as much as some other people watch tv... i switched because all i want is real content
Not quite. There were two filings. One was five pages. The other, the one that's sealed, includes the 217 "violations" and is of unknown length.
i'm 100% with you, but what happens when the lawyers get their teeth into it? shall we define "non-application software"? what constituteds "agreed to"?
you and i can act like we know what that means, but we aren't lawyers... somehow (unless its brilliantly done) i can imagine certain big scary companies using charges under this hypothetical spyware act to intimidate competition
i don my tinfoil hat and robe...
Now is that *sony's* rootkit, or a soon-to-be-former-sony-employer's rootkit?
there's a grain of truth in this, sure, but there are *lots* of good reasons for basing a business in ca:
talent - lots of good people are in CA, especially in the bay area... hiring good people is easier here than in des moines (no offense, i know some top notch people in IA city... y'all know what i mean)
expectation/investors - investors get all bright and smiley when there hear about your "san francisco-based company" in a way that they don't so much when you talk about your lincoln- or tucson- based company... location is related to marketing
can't both possibilities be true? why can't the book be geared toward an intermediate/advanced mysql user in terms of assumed skillset, features covered, etc., but also include a really good chapter on db design?
totally... i was wandering in my favorite geek bookstore yesterday... it's weird to look at the shelves, at the rows and rows of thick, expensive books, and think... "i've had no trouble with the online help for that one, and that one, and that one..."
people will spend money on just about anything... but, in fairness, it can be nice to have a guide that you can flip through some times... i don't like online doucmentation for everything but it has its place... a lot of these books though seem a bit much
that pretty much sums it up.
:) that's you being sensible. right, you and i would just have it give a unique id that did a database lookup... the united states government on the other hand...
exactly... and if *you* were the U.S. government, what *other* information would you include on that passport? SSN? birthday? home address?
just think of the information you could collect hanging out in the airport lobby with an inobtrusive rfid scannr sitting under your coat, plugged in to your laptop
Earlier this year, I was sitting at a travel agent's office in Japan. There was a message prominately displayed on the desk in both English and Japanese informing travelers that they needed to have special machine-readable passports to enter the U.S. The rest of the world already thinks of us as loonies. This new nonsense won't help. Especially since we're requiring *other countries* to do this as well if their citizens want to enter the U.S.
What's the point of RFID in a passport? Is it somehow magically impossible to forge or duplicate? Can't we agree that the people who are willing to go through the effort to make counterfeit documents like this will also have the resources to handle RFID? Aren't there ways we can spend this money that might do something a little more rational towards increasing security? Like what? I dunno. But there are probably better ways to spend the millions (billions?) this will cost to implement.
would there really be an entrapment issue? I mean, "i'll sell you this x-box for fifteen bucks" is one thing, leaving an unsecured computer where you can watch it is another.
it's not entrapment if the security guard at the bank arrests somebody who's robbing the bank. what's the dude going to say? "it's entrapment, they were totally waiting there to catch me!" right.
Gives new meaning to "i've burried them before and i'll burry them again" eh?
good lord! that thing has balls bigger than my head... a third of litre!?!one! good grief.
also helps with reproduction, when everybody's heading toward the same place... a sort of bacertiological singles bar
have you got another link? that one seems to be AWOL
Ha! Great story.
A few years back, I knew a fellow (he had the unfortunate name of Willie Williams) who'd been involved in the re-introduction of pergrine falcons to the canyon lands of south texas. The problem was that the birds wouldn't breed in captivity. The answer: artificial insemination.
This dude's job was to collect the sperm from the male falcons. He'd go in to their enclosures wearing a special hat with a very-anatomically-correct model of a female falcon on it.
while you're right, i don't think its an entirely fair approach. if we distributed support based on mean income, or on mean real estate prices, then a lot of very needy people are getting screwed. while the bay area does have some of the highest real estate, it also has a much more pronounced wealth gap than other areas. the difference beween the well off and the poor in appalacia is tiny compared to the situation here
i don't know what the solution is, but i think it's the wrong approach to identify certain areas as more needy than others, when the real problems are much more systemic than geographic
it's probably been mentioned in a comment i missed, but there's no way they're pulling out... it's just FUD, trying to pressure SK into the ruling they want... if they don't get the ruling, they'll still seel in that country
you haven't a clue what you're talking about. if you think a city of 1.x million, which happens to be at the center of a metro area with a population of ~10 million can be considered a "richer neighborhood" then my only polite response is that you are just making this shit up to try to impress people
last week in san francisco (that "rich neighborhood") a schizophrenic 23 year old mother of 3 threw her babbies into the bay because the voices told her to feed them to the sharks... i'll give you one guess which income brack she's in
i work in downtown oakland. my walk to work include views across bays to san francisco as a go past countless homeless shelters, community resource centers, and transitional housing developments. these aren't people who are going to benefit from any government technology projects... they need hope first
you clearly have never been to my city, and i somehow doubt you've spent "thousand of dollars writing [your] congressman"... additionally, anybody who thinks free internet access is the solution to poverty clearly understands about as much about poverty as your average off-the-shelf republican president
how does one pontificate *and* moderate in the same thread?
interesting??? that got modded interesting? ai-yee, slashdot!