In Washington, DC, you can refuse to allow inspection of your bags when entering the subway, but then you will be turned away need to find alternative transportation, and *may* be followed. (I don't recall if they *always* follow or not.)
Dear Google: How much do you bid for this "extremely valuable" information? And how much will you bid when my location changes? And continues to change? Are we talking annual lease or month-to-month? Will you sign the EULA for it?
The FCC is at least paying lip service to some of this via their own site http://www.fcc.gov/initiatives.html and the flashier, oh so cool, Broadband.gov site.
I'd never heard of the app until it became a news item by virtue of being pulled from the Market. So, now the app gets advertised in the multiverse that is slashdot, tweetscape, et al. It has acquired a fresh "hotness" for at least 15 minutes.
Given the number of candidates with somewhat extreme values who have been successfully elected, the potential for this to backfire seems rather high. Instead, lobbying for run-off elections or other systems that encourage people to vote for whom they want, rather than vote against whom they don't want would be more useful. No more "Gee, I want to vote for the Green Party candidate, but since she's unelectable, that would mean the person I least want will win. Therefore, I have to vote for the 'lesser of evils' candidate." Vote for your top three, and not be penalized. Perhaps in the days before cars, planes, television, telephones, and computers, the Electoral College made sense. But holding onto it for tradition's sake doesn't seem practical. (There are other "traditions" that are now viewed as civil rights violations. So, the government is capable of throwing out traditions.)
If Democrats (or for that matter, any other party) are intent on perverting the system, I'd favor a strategy of trying to get more of the opposition's least opposing candidates in there. In other words, sane people from the opposing party, who if elected, may not be my personal favorite, but is closer to my position than the mainstream of the opposing party.
"It's so nice to have you back where you belong.
You're looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong."
The big difference is "secret". Google's tracking is no secret. They also make some, perhaps pitiful, effort to aggregate data and obscure individuals. (Perhaps they're secretly tracking on a more individual, invasive level, in which case, I'm with you on the irony.)
One assumes that these computers are not being used for realistic, realtime, interactive, 3D, high-def, surround-sound, audio / video, while trying to keep Facebook pages up-to-date, and scroll an RSS feed along the bottom of the screen. If they are designed for a specific set of functions that are unlikely to radically change over time, and they are running with non-bloated operating systems and non-bloated code, the only really impressive thing, perhaps, is the longevity of the chips themselves. I wish my computers as durable instead of being designed as landfill fodder. I'll take continuity / dependability over speed, thanks very much.
I can only assume that at least one television news network is being excluded as well, since its relationship to journalism is far more tenuous than Wikileaks...
Standards are (or should be) created by a consortium... The last time I checked W3C there wasn't much mention of the Flash standard... Though far from a standard yet, it appears that both W3C and WHATWG are indicating that VP8 / WebM have some potential to become part of the HTML5 standard (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005466-264.html).
About two weeks ago, Google, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Consumer Electronics Association sponsored an event hosted by Public Knowledge: The 1st Annual World's Fair Use Day (WFUD), which kicked off at Google's DC offices with a talk on ACTA. The following day was at the Newseum, also in Washington DC. Details at http://worldsfairuseday.org/
Meanwhile a machine in Redmond expects to complete the task sometime around the year 2518... (After 8 years it is now out to 15 places after the decimal.)
The other thing to do is get started with US FIRST Robotics (http://www.usfirst.org/) established by the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen to "inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership." according to the web site.
This is old news in the deaf community, where audio communication takes a back seat to sign languages. Search the web for "video relay services" or VRS.
I cannot understand why Microsoft would claim as intellectual property something that they have repeatedly claimed was broken, dangerous, more expensive and far inferior to Windoze... Is that a confession on their part that they're hopelessly inept or merely confused?
Myst was one of the few games I ever purchased. I'm not into the "run-run-run, shoot-shoot-shoot, run-run-run" type of game play. Myst, for it's day, had beautiful visuals, a nice soundtrack, and, if played without hints, no obvious purpose. One had to discover everything, and could do so at your own pace. (True Zork had some of the same characteristics, but I think Myst stands on its own.)
The only other game I ever dropped money on was "Dragon's Lair", as Dirk the Daring was just fun to watch, what, with the clueless expressions and grunts.;-)
Although the situation has no doubt changed, when Dr. Negroponte spoke at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego last summer, he said that his group didn't want to get into the business of selling in the U.S. The group didn't have the human resources to handle hundreds of purchase orders from independent school districts ordering 50-100 machines each. Rather, he said his group wanted to deal with entire governments, or similar large entities, that would be able to order gazillions of machines in a single shot. (At least, that's what I recall from his keynote.) Of course, the manufacturers of the hardware may have other ideas.
Or is the behavior being interpreted differently based on gender?
It sounds like the parasite simply amplifies the affects of certain sex hormones in both sexes, and lowers inhibitions... In civilized men, too much of a good thing. (For less civilized men, it means "Jackass: The movie".) As for women, it's hard to draw conclusions about the intelligence of someone who's "more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous". Some would consider that to be potentially more "risky," regardless of the fact that most men like the end result.
Since the rat study indicated that the parasite changed rat behavior to increase its own chances of survival (while putting the host rat at risk of being eaten by a cat), I wonder if the results of the behavior modification in humans could potentially result in more pregnancies and might therefore be a failed attempt by the parasite to insure survival as well.
If, as Ballmer asserts, Linux stole from Microsoft, and Linux is both communistic and a cancer, one must draw the logical, self-loathing conclusion.;-)
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In Washington, DC, you can refuse to allow inspection of your bags when entering the subway, but then you will be turned away need to find alternative transportation, and *may* be followed. (I don't recall if they *always* follow or not.)
Dear Google: How much do you bid for this "extremely valuable" information? And how much will you bid when my location changes? And continues to change? Are we talking annual lease or month-to-month? Will you sign the EULA for it?
The FCC is at least paying lip service to some of this via their own site http://www.fcc.gov/initiatives.html and the flashier, oh so cool, Broadband.gov site.
I'd never heard of the app until it became a news item by virtue of being pulled from the Market. So, now the app gets advertised in the multiverse that is slashdot, tweetscape, et al. It has acquired a fresh "hotness" for at least 15 minutes.
Oh, take a pill, will ya? ;-)
Given the number of candidates with somewhat extreme values who have been successfully elected, the potential for this to backfire seems rather high. Instead, lobbying for run-off elections or other systems that encourage people to vote for whom they want, rather than vote against whom they don't want would be more useful. No more "Gee, I want to vote for the Green Party candidate, but since she's unelectable, that would mean the person I least want will win. Therefore, I have to vote for the 'lesser of evils' candidate." Vote for your top three, and not be penalized. Perhaps in the days before cars, planes, television, telephones, and computers, the Electoral College made sense. But holding onto it for tradition's sake doesn't seem practical. (There are other "traditions" that are now viewed as civil rights violations. So, the government is capable of throwing out traditions.) If Democrats (or for that matter, any other party) are intent on perverting the system, I'd favor a strategy of trying to get more of the opposition's least opposing candidates in there. In other words, sane people from the opposing party, who if elected, may not be my personal favorite, but is closer to my position than the mainstream of the opposing party.
It's been years since I watched "Arsenic in the Old Lake"...
Do Frankincense and Myrrh also work?
"It's so nice to have you back where you belong. You're looking swell, Dolly, We can tell, Dolly, You're still glowin', you're still crowin' You're still goin' strong."
The big difference is "secret". Google's tracking is no secret. They also make some, perhaps pitiful, effort to aggregate data and obscure individuals. (Perhaps they're secretly tracking on a more individual, invasive level, in which case, I'm with you on the irony.)
HacDC, the Washington, DC hackerspace had a similar launch this past summer: See the two links below for details. http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/HacDC_Spaceblimp http://blog.twilio.com/2010/08/twilio-in-space-powers-hacdc-space-blimp-tracking.html
One assumes that these computers are not being used for realistic, realtime, interactive, 3D, high-def, surround-sound, audio / video, while trying to keep Facebook pages up-to-date, and scroll an RSS feed along the bottom of the screen. If they are designed for a specific set of functions that are unlikely to radically change over time, and they are running with non-bloated operating systems and non-bloated code, the only really impressive thing, perhaps, is the longevity of the chips themselves. I wish my computers as durable instead of being designed as landfill fodder. I'll take continuity / dependability over speed, thanks very much.
I can only assume that at least one television news network is being excluded as well, since its relationship to journalism is far more tenuous than Wikileaks...
Standards are (or should be) created by a consortium... The last time I checked W3C there wasn't much mention of the Flash standard... Though far from a standard yet, it appears that both W3C and WHATWG are indicating that VP8 / WebM have some potential to become part of the HTML5 standard (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005466-264.html).
One Fit sighs all
About two weeks ago, Google, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Consumer Electronics Association sponsored an event hosted by Public Knowledge: The 1st Annual World's Fair Use Day (WFUD), which kicked off at Google's DC offices with a talk on ACTA. The following day was at the Newseum, also in Washington DC. Details at http://worldsfairuseday.org/
Meanwhile a machine in Redmond expects to complete the task sometime around the year 2518... (After 8 years it is now out to 15 places after the decimal.)
I attended the Microcontroller Monday classes at the local hackerspace, HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) where we worked from plans found on Lady Ada's sites (http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/ and http://www.adafruit.com/).
The other thing to do is get started with US FIRST Robotics (http://www.usfirst.org/) established by the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen to "inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership." according to the web site.
This is old news in the deaf community, where audio communication takes a back seat to sign languages. Search the web for "video relay services" or VRS.
If runners can't keep up with the $6,000,000 man, they can always participate against Special Olympians to prop up their handicapped egos.
I cannot understand why Microsoft would claim as intellectual property something that they have repeatedly claimed was broken, dangerous, more expensive and far inferior to Windoze... Is that a confession on their part that they're hopelessly inept or merely confused?
Myst was one of the few games I ever purchased. I'm not into the "run-run-run, shoot-shoot-shoot, run-run-run" type of game play. Myst, for it's day, had beautiful visuals, a nice soundtrack, and, if played without hints, no obvious purpose. One had to discover everything, and could do so at your own pace. (True Zork had some of the same characteristics, but I think Myst stands on its own.)
The only other game I ever dropped money on was "Dragon's Lair", as Dirk the Daring was just fun to watch, what, with the clueless expressions and grunts. ;-)
Although the situation has no doubt changed, when Dr. Negroponte spoke at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego last summer, he said that his group didn't want to get into the business of selling in the U.S. The group didn't have the human resources to handle hundreds of purchase orders from independent school districts ordering 50-100 machines each. Rather, he said his group wanted to deal with entire governments, or similar large entities, that would be able to order gazillions of machines in a single shot. (At least, that's what I recall from his keynote.) Of course, the manufacturers of the hardware may have other ideas.
Or is the behavior being interpreted differently based on gender?
It sounds like the parasite simply amplifies the affects of certain sex hormones in both sexes, and lowers inhibitions... In civilized men, too much of a good thing. (For less civilized men, it means "Jackass: The movie".) As for women, it's hard to draw conclusions about the intelligence of someone who's "more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous". Some would consider that to be potentially more "risky," regardless of the fact that most men like the end result.
Since the rat study indicated that the parasite changed rat behavior to increase its own chances of survival (while putting the host rat at risk of being eaten by a cat), I wonder if the results of the behavior modification in humans could potentially result in more pregnancies and might therefore be a failed attempt by the parasite to insure survival as well.
If, as Ballmer asserts, Linux stole from Microsoft, and Linux is both communistic and a cancer, one must draw the logical, self-loathing conclusion. ;-)