No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
But we'd save like $12 Billion a year!!!!1! That's $40 a person. Surely I can build my own park for my family with that $120 and have money to spare to forge my own standards for nuts, bolts, lumber, electrical equipment, buy a fording kit for my car and pay for private school.
Want to see a real uprising? Watch what the hard working middle class who already paid off their own student loans do when their earnings are taken away to forgive some occupy-wall-street-dirty-hippie's B.A. Art History debt.
I remember how you guys rose up over the Wall Street bailout. Boy are those guys reeling from how you gave 'em the scowling of a lifetime.
No, not for long. Maybe even not anymore -- my state school's tuition is about 6 times higher than it was when I graduated 20 years ago. That's a 10% inflation rate. And that's far from the worst case.
I wont be the first or last to say it, but I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone who has voluntarily taken on large amounts of debt and doesn't understand that they made a poor choice.
I feel a lot more sympathetic bailing out -- for $1 Trillion -- a bunch of people who believed what they were told about a college degree when they were 18, than I do bailing out -- for $2 or $5 or $12 Trillion -- a bunch of professional money people who screwed over the economy because they knew they could get away with it.
Sounds like government is at fault here for guaranteeing the loans.
Ding ding ding!
Companies do that which will make them money. When a loan is backed by the government, there's more profit in making the loan than making sure it is paid off.
Dong, dong, dong.
Most of that Trillion ain't government backed . . . but student loan laws have been made lot tougher, even total bankruptcy doesn't erase the debt.
Speaking as a programmer, programmers are not designers. They should not, unless they have demonstrated an ability to do so, design UIs. Letting programmers design UIs is how we get software like emacs or vi: greatly productive for a small number of advanced users, completely unusable by almost any computer user apart from those.
Whether designing an interface or not, all programmers should read "The Design of Everyday Things" by Norman. And that goes double-squared for UI specialists.
Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the EEA unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
So? They didn't transfer the data (or at least you can't prove it). You transferred it, or your friends did. You told somebody or somebody else told somebody in the US or China or wherever something personal about yourself. Total plausible deniability.
And what it you can prove it? Good luck getting the RAF to launch a drone attack on Zuckerberg.
The example in the summary of searching for someone ON Facebook followed by a claim of "I don't use Facebook!" is pretty stupid.
I think you misread that rather rambling, run-on sentence in the summary
'This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook... (e.g. synchronizing mobile phones, importing personal data from e-mail providers, importing personal information from instant messaging services, sending invitations to friends or saving search queries when users search for other people on facebook.com).
The searcher and the non-user are different people. The searcher is the non-user's (real life) friend, and just entered data about the non-user to try to find him on facebook. FB keeps that piece of data in non-user's "shadow profile", or more appropriately, "dossier".
So John Smythe doesn't have a facebook profile, but his friend just searched for John Smythe from Washington High School. Now they know that. Another friend looks for John who lives in Busytown. And so it goes.
The only way to avoid it would be not to have now (and have never had) any real life friends or colleagues who might now (or might have, or might in the future) join facebook.
For some Slashdotters, that might not be so big of a problem . ..
Good work freaking out the rest of the world, keep it up. Go USA.
Don't generalize too much, school districts here are pretty autonomous. Even within a single state you'll find a wide variety of practices and policies.
It takes time. There's a good argument for wanting to get rid of it, because it can waste 5 minutes at the start of a lesson.
I don't remember the process taking 5 minutes ever, not even the first week of class when teachers often did an actual roll call while they learned the kids' names. Maybe you had larger classes, mine were usually around 30 kids but often less and a missing kid was noted pretty quickly. Teachers without that mental gift would do a quick head count or put the students in assigned seats and keep the attendance log sorted by seating order.
People just don't care enough about it to inconvenience themselves with strong authentication, how many of our mothers use their dog's name, in all lowercase, as their password on every single one of their accounts?
When we design systems that a substantial portion of our intended users can't or won't use as we intend, then the problem is us, not them.
Systems like online banking, email, ordering books and movies online, etc. . . . these are intended for the general public. As such, they must be designed for the average user to be able to use safely and easily. We cannot fall back on the premise that if the user doesn't know how, then he shouldn't be using it. That's not okay for these sorts of products and systems. It's all well and good that only the dedicated and properly instructed can play an oboe well, operate a backhoe, fly a plane. It's a different story when the system is intended for the average man-on-the-street.
Just watch the freak show (first two weeks) on American Idol. One person after another who can't understand why they aren't selected when it's obvious they can't sing. A lifetime of people telling them they sing well just to not hurt their feelings.
It might be that contestants on such programs are specifically chosen for their -- shall we say -- "entertaining" qualities, and therefore may not represent a random sampling of the population.
What you have described is a feature phone, which these days tend to run Nucleus and not Linux.
I don't think he's quite described the end product so thoroughly as to be able to make that distinction between "smart phone" and "feature phone". Or at least I wouldn't feel like I could make that call without a little more information.
Hrm? Primatine Mist is OTC and CFC. Clarify please?
I hold in my hand generic of Primatine Mist, purchased over the counter. The warnings on the package state: 'Contains CFC 12, 114, substances which harm public health and environment by destroying ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.' HTH I'm typing on tiny keyboard by meds cabinet.
My Dad died of COPD in 2005, and we knew about the upcoming CFC ban years before that. I can only assume that the makers of Primatine Mist had a replacement ready to go 10 years ago...the only reason to pretend they don't is to get a bump from customers hoarding their product before the 'drop dead' date.
No, what he is saying is: "If your paper should result in policy changes which rise our cost of living now, then you better be right."
Neither an individual or a society could function if this level of confidence was mandatory. The world's gonna give you incomplete information, and you're still gonna have to make a choices. But you are right, "Après moi le déluge" is one way to deal with that uncertainty.
Am I a hipster? I'm in my 30s making a 6-figure salary. I probably pay more in taxes than you make in salary. I would love to have a camera like this, as it reminds me of the 1970s when I was a young lad. That camera will complement my DSLR with $10K worth of lenses. Again: am I a hipster, or are you just an idiot? Probably the latter.
I see a Corvette and chunky gold chains in your near future . . .
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No more energy research, no more parks, no more public education, no more low income housing, no more roads & bridges. What a grand utopia he has planned for us.
But we'd save like $12 Billion a year!!!!1! That's $40 a person. Surely I can build my own park for my family with that $120 and have money to spare to forge my own standards for nuts, bolts, lumber, electrical equipment, buy a fording kit for my car and pay for private school.
Want to see a real uprising? Watch what the hard working middle class who already paid off their own student loans do when their earnings are taken away to forgive some occupy-wall-street-dirty-hippie's B.A. Art History debt.
I remember how you guys rose up over the Wall Street bailout. Boy are those guys reeling from how you gave 'em the scowling of a lifetime.
State schools for the win! But not for long...
No, not for long. Maybe even not anymore -- my state school's tuition is about 6 times higher than it was when I graduated 20 years ago. That's a 10% inflation rate. And that's far from the worst case.
I wont be the first or last to say it, but I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone who has voluntarily taken on large amounts of debt and doesn't understand that they made a poor choice.
I feel a lot more sympathetic bailing out -- for $1 Trillion -- a bunch of people who believed what they were told about a college degree when they were 18, than I do bailing out -- for $2 or $5 or $12 Trillion -- a bunch of professional money people who screwed over the economy because they knew they could get away with it.
Sounds like government is at fault here for guaranteeing the loans.
Ding ding ding!
Companies do that which will make them money. When a loan is backed by the government, there's more profit in making the loan than making sure it is paid off.
Dong, dong, dong.
Most of that Trillion ain't government backed . . . but student loan laws have been made lot tougher, even total bankruptcy doesn't erase the debt.
Speaking as a programmer, programmers are not designers. They should not, unless they have demonstrated an ability to do so, design UIs. Letting programmers design UIs is how we get software like emacs or vi: greatly productive for a small number of advanced users, completely unusable by almost any computer user apart from those.
Whether designing an interface or not, all programmers should read "The Design of Everyday Things" by Norman. And that goes double-squared for UI specialists.
In England we've had this for well over 950 years . . . Most likely the Roman empire kept a similar directory over two thousand years ago.
I read a story about that somewhere . . .
Except that the data protection act also states
Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the EEA unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
So? They didn't transfer the data (or at least you can't prove it). You transferred it, or your friends did. You told somebody or somebody else told somebody in the US or China or wherever something personal about yourself. Total plausible deniability.
And what it you can prove it? Good luck getting the RAF to launch a drone attack on Zuckerberg.
The example in the summary of searching for someone ON Facebook followed by a claim of "I don't use Facebook!" is pretty stupid.
I think you misread that rather rambling, run-on sentence in the summary
'This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook... (e.g. synchronizing mobile phones, importing personal data from e-mail providers, importing personal information from instant messaging services, sending invitations to friends or saving search queries when users search for other people on facebook.com).
The searcher and the non-user are different people. The searcher is the non-user's (real life) friend, and just entered data about the non-user to try to find him on facebook. FB keeps that piece of data in non-user's "shadow profile", or more appropriately, "dossier".
So John Smythe doesn't have a facebook profile, but his friend just searched for John Smythe from Washington High School. Now they know that. Another friend looks for John who lives in Busytown. And so it goes.
The only way to avoid it would be not to have now (and have never had) any real life friends or colleagues who might now (or might have, or might in the future) join facebook.
For some Slashdotters, that might not be so big of a problem . . .
2011 US House reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act (HR 514):
Republicans: ...
No vote - 5
Democrats: ...
No vote - 4
What excuse other than being dead or in a coma could 9 reps have for not voting on something that important?
Good work freaking out the rest of the world, keep it up. Go USA.
Don't generalize too much, school districts here are pretty autonomous. Even within a single state you'll find a wide variety of practices and policies.
Why would someone over 18 need to carry ID anyways?
So they can vote!
It takes time. There's a good argument for wanting to get rid of it, because it can waste 5 minutes at the start of a lesson.
I don't remember the process taking 5 minutes ever, not even the first week of class when teachers often did an actual roll call while they learned the kids' names. Maybe you had larger classes, mine were usually around 30 kids but often less and a missing kid was noted pretty quickly. Teachers without that mental gift would do a quick head count or put the students in assigned seats and keep the attendance log sorted by seating order.
People just don't care enough about it to inconvenience themselves with strong authentication, how many of our mothers use their dog's name, in all lowercase, as their password on every single one of their accounts?
When we design systems that a substantial portion of our intended users can't or won't use as we intend, then the problem is us, not them.
Systems like online banking, email, ordering books and movies online, etc. . . . these are intended for the general public. As such, they must be designed for the average user to be able to use safely and easily. We cannot fall back on the premise that if the user doesn't know how, then he shouldn't be using it. That's not okay for these sorts of products and systems. It's all well and good that only the dedicated and properly instructed can play an oboe well, operate a backhoe, fly a plane. It's a different story when the system is intended for the average man-on-the-street.
Just watch the freak show (first two weeks) on American Idol. One person after another who can't understand why they aren't selected when it's obvious they can't sing. A lifetime of people telling them they sing well just to not hurt their feelings.
It might be that contestants on such programs are specifically chosen for their -- shall we say -- "entertaining" qualities, and therefore may not represent a random sampling of the population.
What you have described is a feature phone, which these days tend to run Nucleus and not Linux.
I don't think he's quite described the end product so thoroughly as to be able to make that distinction between "smart phone" and "feature phone". Or at least I wouldn't feel like I could make that call without a little more information.
. . . and help me find all the places the cat peed when he had that bladder condition.
What's this "friend" thing I keep hearing about?
Although trite, that summarizes a number of posts here.
This may sound rather odd... but why would you be emailing someone you haven't talked to in over 5 years?
I guess you either understand why or you don't.
Don't like it? Use another service.
I'd like to take you up on your offer. Which alternative to Spotify do you recommend for listeners in the United States?
Don't like it? Don't use the service.
Well, that takes us full circle.
Hrm? Primatine Mist is OTC and CFC. Clarify please?
I hold in my hand generic of Primatine Mist, purchased over the counter. The warnings on the package state: 'Contains CFC 12, 114, substances which harm public health and environment by destroying ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.' HTH I'm typing on tiny keyboard by meds cabinet.
My Dad died of COPD in 2005, and we knew about the upcoming CFC ban years before that. I can only assume that the makers of Primatine Mist had a replacement ready to go 10 years ago...the only reason to pretend they don't is to get a bump from customers hoarding their product before the 'drop dead' date.
But it comes with a free frogurt.
Never mind, that was potassium benzoate.
No, what he is saying is: "If your paper should result in policy changes which rise our cost of living now, then you better be right."
Neither an individual or a society could function if this level of confidence was mandatory. The world's gonna give you incomplete information, and you're still gonna have to make a choices. But you are right, "Après moi le déluge" is one way to deal with that uncertainty.
Am I a hipster? I'm in my 30s making a 6-figure salary. I probably pay more in taxes than you make in salary. I would love to have a camera like this, as it reminds me of the 1970s when I was a young lad. That camera will complement my DSLR with $10K worth of lenses. Again: am I a hipster, or are you just an idiot? Probably the latter.
I see a Corvette and chunky gold chains in your near future . . .