I recently took a flight in Europe. A person looking at his Kindle was asked to turn it off. I had my earphones in and plugged in to my Android and to me they said nothing. Some random sort of profiling I think. I leave my phone o silent and low light display. That way it will not show up that easy.
Although I hope calls will be prohibited, as I would hate to sit to somebody chatting the whole time, I would not mind if people SMS, chat or Faceboob the whole flight.
I just hope that there are more ways to charge your stuff. I have seen advertisers already making the possibility to charge your stuff available at airports.
There are roaming cost limits in Europe. This means a maximum of 0.09 EUR per SMS. Not sure what the limits are for national calls, nor what it is for data, but the limits are reasonable within Europe.
I wonder if they will make exceptions depending on destination or if they find another way to add some extra cost to it.
Bestbuy is very much aware that there is more then their blick and mortar stores. They have the Best Buy API https://bbyopen.com/ Look at the developers part.
Why not go to your boss and ask HIM? Perhaps he can even pinpoint where you need communication and what you can do to enhance that.
I was (and am) constantly told that my communication needs some work.
One of the first steps in learning to be a better communicator was learning what type of person I was. The company I work for was kind enough to pay for a two day course together with other people.
These courses are helpful only if you are open and willing to learn.Very important (for me) was how I was perceived by others. What I thought was spontaneous, was perceived by others as impulsive. I learned to understand why some people reacted differently to others.
I learned how to react to different kinds of people and that has helped me greatly both professionally as in my personal life. I understand that for some people it is very important to talk at the coffee machine. Others are not interested in these type of things.
Ask your manager how you can be a better communicator. He knows what is lacking and if nothing else,it will help you explain why vim/emacs is the best. And not only defending you point of view, but convincing the other person and him/her defending YOUR point of view.
Some people need those 'needless conversations'. They are not useless to THEM.
I just don't comment on Youtube. Not a big deal. I am sure very soon I will not be able to watch movies on Youtube, unless I log in. That will be the next step.
I will most likely soon be deleting my gmail account.Instead I now just use my own domain name for email via my provider. fetchmail will get it. ssh access will make me use mutt.
I use gmail as spambox. For that I will use http://www.gmx.com/ who are a great mail provider.
They were not retained. They were developed individually. That is even scarier.
Also scary is the fact that it crept up and became slowly worse over a period of , say, 50 years. I am afraid that if you want to reverse it in a democratic way, it will take another 50 years. And I have NO idea if it is even possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
When I was 15, I had discussions about what privacy was. We had images of a high political person that would harm his career AND he was not of our political idea. (Nothing illegal, mind you.) We had serious discussions of whether we should make this knowledge public or not and in the end decided against us.
I am sure todayâ(TM)s youth will have no hesitation of posting this immediately online.
The issue is not so much that we did or did not post it, but that we at least thought about it. Perhaps because we had heard the stories of our parents firsthand. They fought in the was on BOTH sides for whatever reason. The Berlin wall was up. We spoke with people who had fled from Eastern Germany.
History tends to repeat itself. I just never thought it would be so soon.
Last week, the less-than-a-month-at-Canonical new guy sent out the toughest template letter to the folks behind a âoesucksâ site. Now, that was not a decision based on policy or guidance
Lesson one when you apologize: don't blame somebody else. Take it personally. Do not say "Somebody new at the company made an error." Say "The process we have in place informing people what letter to send has failed." Unless the person did this on purpose and willingly send the wrong letter, it is the companies error and thus no reason to point out a new member of staff. Either he was hired in the wrong position or was not well enough trained. Neither a reason to point a finger at this individual. If somebody at my staff makes an error, I will NEVER point that out to anybody (unless needed for evaluation purposes). Instead I will say that _I_ have made the mistake, because I was responsible for that individuals output.
Opposing parties also means not just one party, but multiple parties. Also many times governements are made from several parties. This means they need to compromise. Compromise is a GOOD thing in politics.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_card_number An ISO/IEC 7812 card number is most commonly 16 digits in length,[1] and consists of: - a six-digit Issuer Identification Number (IIN) (previously called the "Bank Identification Number" (BIN)) the first digit of which is the Major Industry Identifier (MII), - a variable length (up to 12 digits) individual account identifier, - a single check digit calculated using the Luhn algorithm
So the first 6 numbers are known. Adding two digits to those known numbers should be not that hard.
The problem is that it is still legal to keep the card number on file. In Belgium it isn't for the merchant. When I worked in retail, there was no way that we could keep the number for a repeat sale. We had the first four and the last 4 together with a bit of other data (transaction number) to handle fraud (from real thieves and from people pretending they did not make the buy), but never the whole number.
That was the law.
The real problem for the USofA concerning fraud is swiping instead of pin coding. The rest of the word already does it with a chip and a pincode and it works. Reduces fraud significantly (No, it does not take it away completely)
That's not how it works today while Google is rolling in the doughAnd you believe them why? If it were happening there are two good reasons NOT to admit to it. 1) It would be bad for business 2) It would be bad breaking the NDA
And everybody has a price. That price is not always money.
And perhaps it is not even needed, because for now they have other ways of getting that data.
You have no idea how companies work. You might think that there is a group of people who look at the overall picture and then decide what they will do. In reality there are a multitude of people who are deciding what they will do. Each manager has his own budget and when one of them can add 10.000.000 to his budget, he will do it. The only other thing they are interested is if it makes a loss or not. Revenue and profit. As long as you get those two, you get a sale and that does not matter if it is 10.000.000USD or 0.01USD.
They get 10 fucking million dollars in return and you seriously think there is something else going on?
Why not put a live example online where people and computers can try this. And just a little test. These are the possible answer: 1. lady with pink bowtie and purple mustache 2. ugly narrow eyed person puckering up for a kiss 3. bees on top fling towards each other, big U in the middle 4. robot on a skateboard like thing 5. square faced guy with big nose and short yellow hair fuzz 6. hulk guy with tiny boxing gloves through the waist 7. The letter H 8. lipstick on a lady who takes steroids 9. linebacker with mustache and yellow nose 10.little birdies facing eachother on the bottom and little bees flying away from eachother on top
Now which one is http://houghi.org/Fun/blob.png ? Please first look at the images on the original site and then look at this one. Do not go back to the original site. Extra points if you put some time in between the 'learning' and the 'verification'. Say an hour, a day,....
Now use a computer and use `identify -verbose http://houghi.org/Fun/blob.png |grep signature` and do that with the originals. I am sure many people will be able to figure out a program that can link the images.
So to me it looks as if there is a serious difference between the images when you are a computer. And this is only one parameter that shows a difference. There is creation date and what not.
So instead of some blobs, they could have use images of things that people can see. e.g. "a linebacker with mustache and yellow nose". The computer does not care what the image says.
Or they could try to be clever and make at least the identify part identical. Then we would have something to talk about.
For now the images make it more difficult for humans, not for computers. (Or did they think to trow off their Windows machines by saving png images as jpg?)
You almost got it right. The minor mistake you (and many others) make is that you think in teams. In us and them. Left and right. However the world is not just two things. It is not good vs. evil. It is not even all variations of gray. It is all colors combined.
You decide it is between the powerful minority vs. the powerless majority. By telling them THEY are the problem, you do exactly as you claim people should not do.
Those rich people ALSO believe they are the Chosen Team. And they are not even one team if you look closer to them as a group.
In the end, everybody is looking after his own ass.
One guard is not enough. I have lived during the Berlin Wall. I have passed Checkpoint Charlie. That is how a checkpoint should look like. Just in case you thought it can't get any worse.
As it was not in the best interest of the Government, he will not get a pardon. The president is part of that government, not of the people. Otherwise even the NSA should pardon him, because he helped the country and that is what the NSA (says they are) trying to do as well.
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I recently took a flight in Europe. A person looking at his Kindle was asked to turn it off. I had my earphones in and plugged in to my Android and to me they said nothing. Some random sort of profiling I think. I leave my phone o silent and low light display. That way it will not show up that easy.
Although I hope calls will be prohibited, as I would hate to sit to somebody chatting the whole time, I would not mind if people SMS, chat or Faceboob the whole flight.
I just hope that there are more ways to charge your stuff. I have seen advertisers already making the possibility to charge your stuff available at airports.
There are roaming cost limits in Europe. This means a maximum of 0.09 EUR per SMS. Not sure what the limits are for national calls, nor what it is for data, but the limits are reasonable within Europe.
I wonder if they will make exceptions depending on destination or if they find another way to add some extra cost to it.
Bestbuy is very much aware that there is more then their blick and mortar stores. They have the Best Buy API https://bbyopen.com/
Look at the developers part.
The first part sounded as if it came form The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
That is a compliment.
I listen to it at least twice per year in my car, instead of listening to some stoopid radio show.
Why not go to your boss and ask HIM? Perhaps he can even pinpoint where you need communication and what you can do to enhance that.
I was (and am) constantly told that my communication needs some work.
One of the first steps in learning to be a better communicator was learning what type of person I was. The company I work for was kind enough to pay for a two day course together with other people.
These courses are helpful only if you are open and willing to learn.Very important (for me) was how I was perceived by others. What I thought was spontaneous, was perceived by others as impulsive. I learned to understand why some people reacted differently to others.
I learned how to react to different kinds of people and that has helped me greatly both professionally as in my personal life. I understand that for some people it is very important to talk at the coffee machine. Others are not interested in these type of things.
Ask your manager how you can be a better communicator. He knows what is lacking and if nothing else,it will help you explain why vim/emacs is the best. And not only defending you point of view, but convincing the other person and him/her defending YOUR point of view.
Some people need those 'needless conversations'. They are not useless to THEM.
I just don't comment on Youtube. Not a big deal.
I am sure very soon I will not be able to watch movies on Youtube, unless I log in. That will be the next step.
I will most likely soon be deleting my gmail account.Instead I now just use my own domain name for email via my provider. fetchmail will get it. ssh access will make me use mutt.
I use gmail as spambox. For that I will use http://www.gmx.com/ who are a great mail provider.
"to a large extent"? Seriously? Do you think that? It is ONLY about money.
You use the word stealing. But I don't think it means what you think it means.
Ironic that they use Google as an example with their Google+/Youtube stupidity.
They were not retained. They were developed individually. That is even scarier.
Also scary is the fact that it crept up and became slowly worse over a period of , say, 50 years. I am afraid that if you want to reverse it in a democratic way, it will take another 50 years. And I have NO idea if it is even possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
When I was 15, I had discussions about what privacy was. We had images of a high political person that would harm his career AND he was not of our political idea. (Nothing illegal, mind you.)
We had serious discussions of whether we should make this knowledge public or not and in the end decided against us.
I am sure todayâ(TM)s youth will have no hesitation of posting this immediately online.
The issue is not so much that we did or did not post it, but that we at least thought about it. Perhaps because we had heard the stories of our parents firsthand. They fought in the was on BOTH sides for whatever reason. The Berlin wall was up. We spoke with people who had fled from Eastern Germany.
History tends to repeat itself. I just never thought it would be so soon.
Why OR/OR why not AND/AND. Perhaps he has $6 million to spend and he give $3 million to charity.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Lesson one when you apologize: don't blame somebody else. Take it personally.
Do not say "Somebody new at the company made an error." Say "The process we have in place informing people what letter to send has failed."
Unless the person did this on purpose and willingly send the wrong letter, it is the companies error and thus no reason to point out a new member of staff. Either he was hired in the wrong position or was not well enough trained. Neither a reason to point a finger at this individual.
If somebody at my staff makes an error, I will NEVER point that out to anybody (unless needed for evaluation purposes). Instead I will say that _I_ have made the mistake, because I was responsible for that individuals output.
Opposing parties also means not just one party, but multiple parties.
Also many times governements are made from several parties. This means they need to compromise. Compromise is a GOOD thing in politics.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_card_number
An ISO/IEC 7812 card number is most commonly 16 digits in length,[1] and consists of:
- a six-digit Issuer Identification Number (IIN) (previously called the "Bank Identification Number" (BIN)) the first digit of which is the Major Industry Identifier (MII),
- a variable length (up to 12 digits) individual account identifier,
- a single check digit calculated using the Luhn algorithm
So the first 6 numbers are known. Adding two digits to those known numbers should be not that hard.
The problem is that it is still legal to keep the card number on file. In Belgium it isn't for the merchant. When I worked in retail, there was no way that we could keep the number for a repeat sale. We had the first four and the last 4 together with a bit of other data (transaction number) to handle fraud (from real thieves and from people pretending they did not make the buy), but never the whole number.
That was the law.
The real problem for the USofA concerning fraud is swiping instead of pin coding. The rest of the word already does it with a chip and a pincode and it works. Reduces fraud significantly (No, it does not take it away completely)
That's not how it works today while Google is rolling in the doughAnd you believe them why? If it were happening there are two good reasons NOT to admit to it.
1) It would be bad for business
2) It would be bad breaking the NDA
And everybody has a price. That price is not always money.
And perhaps it is not even needed, because for now they have other ways of getting that data.
You have no idea how companies work. You might think that there is a group of people who look at the overall picture and then decide what they will do.
In reality there are a multitude of people who are deciding what they will do. Each manager has his own budget and when one of them can add 10.000.000 to his budget, he will do it. The only other thing they are interested is if it makes a loss or not.
Revenue and profit. As long as you get those two, you get a sale and that does not matter if it is 10.000.000USD or 0.01USD.
They get 10 fucking million dollars in return and you seriously think there is something else going on?
Why not put a live example online where people and computers can try this. And just a little test. These are the possible answer:
1. lady with pink bowtie and purple mustache
2. ugly narrow eyed person puckering up for a kiss
3. bees on top fling towards each other, big U in the middle
4. robot on a skateboard like thing
5. square faced guy with big nose and short yellow hair fuzz
6. hulk guy with tiny boxing gloves through the waist
7. The letter H
8. lipstick on a lady who takes steroids
9. linebacker with mustache and yellow nose
10.little birdies facing eachother on the bottom and little bees flying away from eachother on top
Now which one is http://houghi.org/Fun/blob.png ? ....
Please first look at the images on the original site and then look at this one. Do not go back to the original site. Extra points if you put some time in between the 'learning' and the 'verification'. Say an hour, a day,
Now use a computer and use `identify -verbose http://houghi.org/Fun/blob.png |grep signature` and do that with the originals.
I am sure many people will be able to figure out a program that can link the images.
So to me it looks as if there is a serious difference between the images when you are a computer. And this is only one parameter that shows a difference. There is creation date and what not.
So instead of some blobs, they could have use images of things that people can see. e.g. "a linebacker with mustache and yellow nose". The computer does not care what the image says.
Or they could try to be clever and make at least the identify part identical. Then we would have something to talk about.
For now the images make it more difficult for humans, not for computers. (Or did they think to trow off their Windows machines by saving png images as jpg?)
You can not fail the Turing test. It is just to test if you are a robot or not. You are clearly a robot.
They now use a variation of the test to determine if you are danger to the USofA. (Or perhaps it is the same test.)
Oh, and if you can swim, you are a witch.
Socialist: I don't think it means what you think it means.
You almost got it right. The minor mistake you (and many others) make is that you think in teams. In us and them. Left and right.
However the world is not just two things. It is not good vs. evil. It is not even all variations of gray. It is all colors combined.
You decide it is between the powerful minority vs. the powerless majority. By telling them THEY are the problem, you do exactly as you claim people should not do.
Those rich people ALSO believe they are the Chosen Team. And they are not even one team if you look closer to them as a group.
In the end, everybody is looking after his own ass.
One guard is not enough.
I have lived during the Berlin Wall. I have passed Checkpoint Charlie. That is how a checkpoint should look like. Just in case you thought it can't get any worse.
As it was not in the best interest of the Government, he will not get a pardon. The president is part of that government, not of the people.
Otherwise even the NSA should pardon him, because he helped the country and that is what the NSA (says they are) trying to do as well.
When they do, you are the person people in their twenties complain about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia
Makes you want to get sick in the outback.