But if you really believe their is a chance that drones are going to be dropping packages off at you doorstep in under 10 - 15 years, you neither understand the logistics and you are both delusional and naive.
Interestingly, I think the DHL demo illustrates how it would actually work: picking up packages and taking them to the local collection and distribution points. You'd have to register as a verified pick-up point first, and then just schedule your pick-ups, and the nearest unladen drone in your priority queue swings by to pick up the merchandise for shipping.
Of course, one neat thing that COULD be done (but doesn't really fit the current model) is doing pick up AND delivery -- and patch the shipper through to the receiver, so that the shipper can verify the package is being delivered to the right person, and the recipient can verify who the package came from. There are, of course, a few privacy implications here as well.
It doesn't work in the long run. Look at Sweden or Canada. Nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities. Just because the mainstream media likes to pretend it doesn't exist doesn't mean it's not happening.
I don't want to live in your delusional world where we ignore reality.
OK: let's skip the mainstream media. Citations, please: Having lived in some of these places you're talking about and even sat on a jury in an ethnic violence case, I disagree. Of course it's happening, but "nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities?" Really? Most of the violence is knifings of the not pre-meditated type; we're not talking Detroit, MI or Sarasota, Fl - level violence here. We're talking about ethnic diversity being celebrated (mosaic vs melting pot) and rows that spring up during the working out of the social conflict.
In short, "Nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities" on the same level and of the same kind as the Boston Massacre -- but without the guns and deaths (usually) and occurring not much more regularly.
I realized the gov does not listen to me (I tried but they just said they don't agree with me). But I also realized who the gov will listen too: businesses whose customer base is telling "I don't trust you so I wont buy your product" So, I voted with my "information" (it's as good as cash these days) and cash as well. I'm sure a whole lot of other folks did too. Some of them even post on this site!
And yet... you've got a Slashdot account and have probably even participated in surveys. Dice.com (and the GCHQ) salutes you. The problem with boycotts is that you can't boycott everyone in an industry easily, and so those who don't get your business attribute the loss of business to a competitor's marketing strategy, not to a conscientious objection to the industry's practices as a whole. And if you DO boycott the entire industry, you just drop out of their list of recognized customers.
Social media's useful in that it provides a new feedback mechanism that industry uses to see what trends they're missing. I think that's what has happened in this case; it goes beyond the leaks, it's that there's an actual trend showing in online media that indicates people are not happy with the current abuses of their privacy, and are boycotting services known to be involved in the abuses.
Preventing needless death gets lower priority because we have more important things to worry about? Name one.
almost 1/10th the rate of suicide among juveniles
I think he already did... of course, it could be argued that both of those types of death actually aren't needless and are a form of population control.
I understand that it's easier to pointedly misunderstand what he was saying though....
How come? It was God's will that you became ill. Who are you to go against it? You will burn in hell for that.
You, sir, would make a good Calvinist. Of course, these days you're unlikely to find many Calvinist Christians, Jews or Muslims -- the number isn't zero, but the sentiment in your statement is part of what the Baptists, for example (yes, the Bible Belt is mostly Southern Baptist) became a separate denomination about (the free will issue, both regarding God and State).
Of course, at the time they had no difficulties with Manifest Destiny....
Oh wise Anonymous pundit, you get it by looking at the 12v battery which is doing the leeching -- the traction pack runs off the main battery, unless I'm mistaken.
When the vehicle is off, the 12v battery should be powering something about equivalent to a smartphone, so 4.5v sounds about correct. Amperage should be minimal until some mechanical process is kicked off, like unlocking the doors, turning on A/C, powering up the antenna(s) etc.
What this really feels like to me is that some secondary process controlled by the computer that's backed by the 12v battery isn't going into standby correctly -- likely culprit would be the wireless communication radio transmitter (not sure what type this car uses, so leaving vague).
One thing for owners experiencing this leakage to do would be to try parking their S in the garage overnight one night, and then outside the next night, and see if the consumption is visibly different. If it isn't, there's a design flaw to be tracked down. Has this system been EnergyStar rated?
Now is a good time to call, write, and email your senators to let them know that you want to see this bill passed AS IS.
Have you read the entire bill, including current riders, prior to making that statement?
I can't help but think there's something else in this bill other than the legislation we're discussing, and that it's likely something that would leave a foul taste in our collective mouths.
Don't you love it when someone tries to be the Grammar Nazi and makes a grammatical error of their own?
Especially when they are an AC!
Punctuation is applied within the quotation marks, so this should be written as "then." This is about as trivial an error as the semicolon misuse that you cite in the original post -- but you seem to care!
Actually, punctuation is applied within quotation marks except when the quotation marks are used to highlight a lexical object, such as a single letter or number. In that case, they go outside.
BUT... this is just as far as AP and Chicago style guides go; if you leave the US, the rest of the English-writing world does the logical thing and places the period (or comma) as they would a question mark or exclamation point -- inside if it's being quoted, outside if it isn't.
An interesting thing about the English language is that you can usually find a use case/region for any "obvious" grammatical exception or faux pas. Of course, most of the world either follows Oxford or Chicago's lead.
Is the liquidity of Bitcoin vs the Dollar reflected in Bitcoin vs the Yuan or Bitcoin vs the Yen or Bitcoin vs the Real?
Bitcoin's potential value is its unique position as a meta-currency. Bitcoin lacking liquidity against any one currency doesnt mean it lacks liquidity vs ~all~ currencies that you can trade it for.
In other words, the more currencies that you can trade Bitcoin for, the more stable and attractive Bitcoin becomes. Its a hugely valuable potential shelter from unstable regional currencies/financial policies.
It makes me wonder if Bitcoin is a useful hedge for the Bolivar, for example....
The government collects taxes in USD. If you want to stay out of jail, you need USD.
Maybe YOUR government does... I'm pretty sure most governments don't.
And many multinational corporations use means other than USD to "pay" their taxes, and never see jail.
I think there's a lot of room for a global fiat quantum currency; for numerous international trade situations, it beats USD (and the yuan, which is pegged to USD).
Considering the price of energy and the whole economic crisis, a lot of people would probably rather plug in manually if the losses are any more than a couple of percent. Even 1% would probably put a lot of people off if they were aware of it.
Millions of people still insist on using incandescent light bulbs. Do you think the majority would give a damn about 1%?
Truly, most people care about the 99% and are unaware of the loss of power to the 1% -- the 5 cars, summer home in Barbados, tax shelters, er, oh... sorry; got carrried away there. Most people just consider these alternating currents of reality to be the flux of the excited fringe.
This has been a cat and mouse game for a long time now... and the cat is starting to be the one winning.
Yes, one side has encryption, oddball protocols, and decentralization, but the other side has the ability to block anything that isn't known [1], and then look at it later, perhaps with the intent to arrest and jail the source.
[1]: There are products out there that will proxy SSL traffic using their own root CA key, and anything that they can't proxy gets blocked, so the 443 https proxy does get stopped. This is trivial to do with BlueCoat, an appliance that is a must in any enterprise IT department for legal compliance.
It's slower, but you can still set up a DNS proxy and route all your traffic over it. Wouldn't recommend it for streaming Netflix though.
I really have to congratulate you. Reading the long string of replies from idiots who didn't follow the link and/or get the joke is hilarious.
It's like I touched the third rail of the internet. I am astonished.
It is an excellent proof of the underlying issue though... the only reason I didn't find this amusing is because I found it so disturbing... I'm presuming of course that most of the people who responded are US citizens....
Then again, just to the North you have the Trans Canada highway that starts on Prince Edward Island and ends on Vancouver Island (or the other way around, depending on perspective) -- seems to me that Hawaii, Rhode Island and Alaska could do with a bit of that action too (although the ferry trip from Hawaii to Rhode Island would be a bit of a chore)....
Well, the water fountain was designed and installed for free water. And there are outlets in public places for free electricity to top off one’s phone. But I don’t think that was the case here. I see this as more akin to your next door neighbor running an extension line over to your home to borrow a little electricity – and failing to tell you. It might be for only a small amount but it is not good behavior. I think that a stern warning might have been better unless it was a chronic problem.
This might be the case -- but did the school call the police because they saw someone plugging into their power outlet, or did the policeman do this "in the public good"? If the second, he has no jurisdiction. If the first, the school could have just unplugged the car and asked him not to do it again, possibly asking for the 5 cents back to cover expenses.
We're missing too much of the story here. Why was the officer poking around the car in the first place? How was the owner related to the school? Why was he there? Did he have a history of plugging his car into public outlets? Had he been approached about this before?
We don't know the answers, so there's really not much of a story here --- at least not in the way it was reported.
I wonder if they sent a mouse or appropriate sized o2 to co2 animal how long the seeds could grow. I guess you'd also need a heater to keep the mouse alive in the cold of space. They could send a little bit of radioactive material to help regulate the temp. It just seems a shame to go all the way to the moon for a 5 day experiment.
Don't send a mouse... send fruit flies or aphids. That way, you've got something that can eat the plants without totally killing them as well as cycle the O2 to CO2. Plus, PETA doesn't tend to get upset about experiments on fruit flies and aphids for some reason.
No; distracted pedestrians (whether texting on their phone or wearing blinkers) also tend to cause more havoc than they reap, as people tend to prefer to crash into non-living objects when given the option.
Wearing stuffs like this that distract the wearers from the reality around them is dangerous.
Not only they could walk into walls, they also could be distracted enough (like this Epson thingy which actually plays movie) to walk into the middle of a very busy thoroughfare !
As if we haven't had enough of drivers distracted by their phones, now we are equipping the pedestrians with glasses which actually blind them from what is going on around them.
Well, evolutionarily speaking we have kind of been coasting for awhile now... we are getting bigger and dumber (it would seem) so a thinning of the herd may be useful. Think of it as adding chlorine and a filter to the gene pool... give people the option to massively screw up and maybe win a Darwin Award.
The problem is that such people generally don't suffer from their own mistakes; if they screw up while operating a half ton killing machine, it's not usually them that get the daisies. So what we're really saying is that people who live in areas where this kind of device is acceptable in public need to get culled.
This kind of thing would be ripe for abuse, but how many times have we heard/read about police chases which result in massive collateral damage and people getting killed?
I'm torn, but this seems like a really good thing for police to have. Especially if it can be directed so that it only affects the target.
I've never been much of a fan of democracy (well democracy as we call it in Australia). As such we need someone to play watchdog to the corrupt government officials who bleed our wallets and souls dry. I would have thought that this was the Governor General's responsibility; if not then who or what can we do to expose the government when they don't act in our interests or good faith?
Your government DOES have a watchdog -- it's called the American Government. Unfortunately, the interests its watching out for probably don't line up with your own.
As for the GG, the GG is a representative of the Queen in her role as Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Unfortunately, she's even more of a figurehead in this role than she is in her role as Queen of the United Kingdom. So if things get REALLY bad, the GG can halt parliament and force the people to elect a new one -- but other than that, there's not much that can be done from that angle.
One only has to spend a bit of time in one of America's small towns to see this type of thing going on. Those little '5k and under' towns are notorious for this kind of corruption.
Only to those that have never been in one apparently. Word gets around fast in small towns. Everyone behaves or they will get a nagging call from their mother.
Actually, both are true... word gets around, and for the most part, everyone behaves. But then every once in a while, you get the guy who everyone knows beats his mother and takes the odd case of beer from someone's shed on the weekend. Then, when some teenage girl in town goes missing, everyone has really strong suspicions what happened, but nobody's willing to step forward and say something -- however, everyone's watching the guy really closely to catch him in the act the NEXT time.
Every town has one or two of these people, as well as a few people who just eventually snap under the low level of privacy you get in a small town.
The ironic thing is that after the NoSQL fiasco of healthcare.gov [1], I was convinced that anyone running Oracle, MS SQL, or DB/2 on the backend would have something decent up and running.
This isn't rocket science. Grab example schema from a private insurance firm, adapt them to this task, and go from there.
I'm completely surprised by this... Oracle is one of the top tier database managers of choice for the big leagues, so I was expecting this to be a cakewalk compared to other tasks.
[1]: Why is a RDBMS that (as far as I am aware of) fails the ACID test being used for such critical data in the first place?
The problem here is that you have decision makers looking at the NoSQL fiasco and going "we don't want that -- we'll do this with Oracle!" and then checking that issue off their list as if all their DB issues were solved. I've seen this time and again, where the manager of a DB project will decide on the data storage technology they plan to use, and then assume that the problem of implementing a schema and developing a front end to the data store is all but complete, and just needs a few employees thrown at it "in their spare time" to make it so.
Then people get upset with their datastore provider when it doesn't magically anticipate their unvoiced (and ovten unknown) requirements.
The truth is, ANY DB can be used to this purpose -- albeit some have workflows already developed that might more closely match what is required in the implementation. The big problem is when those allocating the resources decide that their implementation should be a cakewalk, so they fail to invest in identification and development of the missing pieces.
They should actually be grateful to google for helping find the files on the internet that they claim infringe. They can then contact the web hosts that have the files to get them removed. They are not my files, I did not put them there, stfu.
But a lot of the time, they don't really care if the content is available -- what they care about is whether they've got a cut of the action. Google, by linking to the sites, is acting like a publicist and distributor -- and that's exactly the role that publishing houses are in. Therefore, Google is the competitor, and must be silenced. After they're silenced, then the publishing house can approach the hoster and talk license fees.
Medicine testing is expensive so lets make the populous make up the difference for businesses, again. Of course, any discoveries will go up the stack while the bullshit goes down the stack until we put it all in a nice walled garden and charge access so terrorists can't use it.
Did you read the same article I did?
This has nothing to do with medical testing, on humans or otherwise... testing comes at a MUCH later date than what these guys are doing. They're trying to find things in nature that are antibacterial and previously unknown.
Well... I guess if you extend the argument that chimpanzees are human to the argument that our body contains more families of bacteria than anything else, you could call bacteria "human" and then say we're experimenting on them....
Slashdot Mirror
"Computer: end program."
Tea: Earl Grey, Hot.
Didn't work, but there's still no way I'm wearing a red jumpsuit out of the house....
But if you really believe their is a chance that drones are going to be dropping packages off at you doorstep in under 10 - 15 years, you neither understand the logistics and you are both delusional and naive.
Interestingly, I think the DHL demo illustrates how it would actually work: picking up packages and taking them to the local collection and distribution points. You'd have to register as a verified pick-up point first, and then just schedule your pick-ups, and the nearest unladen drone in your priority queue swings by to pick up the merchandise for shipping.
Of course, one neat thing that COULD be done (but doesn't really fit the current model) is doing pick up AND delivery -- and patch the shipper through to the receiver, so that the shipper can verify the package is being delivered to the right person, and the recipient can verify who the package came from. There are, of course, a few privacy implications here as well.
It doesn't work in the long run. Look at Sweden or Canada. Nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities. Just because the mainstream media likes to pretend it doesn't exist doesn't mean it's not happening.
I don't want to live in your delusional world where we ignore reality.
OK: let's skip the mainstream media. Citations, please: Having lived in some of these places you're talking about and even sat on a jury in an ethnic violence case, I disagree. Of course it's happening, but "nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities?" Really? Most of the violence is knifings of the not pre-meditated type; we're not talking Detroit, MI or Sarasota, Fl - level violence here. We're talking about ethnic diversity being celebrated (mosaic vs melting pot) and rows that spring up during the working out of the social conflict.
In short, "Nothing but ethnic violence and conflict in the big cities" on the same level and of the same kind as the Boston Massacre -- but without the guns and deaths (usually) and occurring not much more regularly.
I realized the gov does not listen to me (I tried but they just said they don't agree with me). But I also realized who the gov will listen too: businesses whose customer base is telling "I don't trust you so I wont buy your product" So, I voted with my "information" (it's as good as cash these days) and cash as well. I'm sure a whole lot of other folks did too. Some of them even post on this site!
And yet... you've got a Slashdot account and have probably even participated in surveys. Dice.com (and the GCHQ) salutes you. The problem with boycotts is that you can't boycott everyone in an industry easily, and so those who don't get your business attribute the loss of business to a competitor's marketing strategy, not to a conscientious objection to the industry's practices as a whole. And if you DO boycott the entire industry, you just drop out of their list of recognized customers.
Social media's useful in that it provides a new feedback mechanism that industry uses to see what trends they're missing. I think that's what has happened in this case; it goes beyond the leaks, it's that there's an actual trend showing in online media that indicates people are not happy with the current abuses of their privacy, and are boycotting services known to be involved in the abuses.
Preventing needless death gets lower priority because we have more important things to worry about? Name one.
almost 1/10th the rate of suicide among juveniles
I think he already did... of course, it could be argued that both of those types of death actually aren't needless and are a form of population control.
I understand that it's easier to pointedly misunderstand what he was saying though....
How come? It was God's will that you became ill. Who are you to go against it? You will burn in hell for that.
You, sir, would make a good Calvinist. Of course, these days you're unlikely to find many Calvinist Christians, Jews or Muslims -- the number isn't zero, but the sentiment in your statement is part of what the Baptists, for example (yes, the Bible Belt is mostly Southern Baptist) became a separate denomination about (the free will issue, both regarding God and State).
Of course, at the time they had no difficulties with Manifest Destiny....
Oh wise Anonymous pundit, you get it by looking at the 12v battery which is doing the leeching -- the traction pack runs off the main battery, unless I'm mistaken.
When the vehicle is off, the 12v battery should be powering something about equivalent to a smartphone, so 4.5v sounds about correct. Amperage should be minimal until some mechanical process is kicked off, like unlocking the doors, turning on A/C, powering up the antenna(s) etc.
What this really feels like to me is that some secondary process controlled by the computer that's backed by the 12v battery isn't going into standby correctly -- likely culprit would be the wireless communication radio transmitter (not sure what type this car uses, so leaving vague).
One thing for owners experiencing this leakage to do would be to try parking their S in the garage overnight one night, and then outside the next night, and see if the consumption is visibly different. If it isn't, there's a design flaw to be tracked down. Has this system been EnergyStar rated?
That's simply not the article's premise. The article's premise is almost exactly what you so smugly proposed should be its premise.
Did you not read it?
You're both right... it's the premise of the Slashdot "Article", but is only tangentally related to the linked article.
Now is a good time to call, write, and email your senators to let them know that you want to see this bill passed AS IS.
Have you read the entire bill, including current riders, prior to making that statement?
I can't help but think there's something else in this bill other than the legislation we're discussing, and that it's likely something that would leave a foul taste in our collective mouths.
"Fanny Bottom" and "then".
Don't you love it when someone tries to be the Grammar Nazi and makes a grammatical error of their own?
Especially when they are an AC!
Punctuation is applied within the quotation marks, so this should be written as "then." This is about as trivial an error as the semicolon misuse that you cite in the original post -- but you seem to care!
Actually, punctuation is applied within quotation marks except when the quotation marks are used to highlight a lexical object, such as a single letter or number. In that case, they go outside.
BUT... this is just as far as AP and Chicago style guides go; if you leave the US, the rest of the English-writing world does the logical thing and places the period (or comma) as they would a question mark or exclamation point -- inside if it's being quoted, outside if it isn't.
An interesting thing about the English language is that you can usually find a use case/region for any "obvious" grammatical exception or faux pas. Of course, most of the world either follows Oxford or Chicago's lead.
Is the liquidity of Bitcoin vs the Dollar reflected in Bitcoin vs the Yuan or Bitcoin vs the Yen or Bitcoin vs the Real?
Bitcoin's potential value is its unique position as a meta-currency. Bitcoin lacking liquidity against any one currency doesnt mean it lacks liquidity vs ~all~ currencies that you can trade it for.
In other words, the more currencies that you can trade Bitcoin for, the more stable and attractive Bitcoin becomes. Its a hugely valuable potential shelter from unstable regional currencies/financial policies.
It makes me wonder if Bitcoin is a useful hedge for the Bolivar, for example....
The government collects taxes in USD. If you want to stay out of jail, you need USD.
Maybe YOUR government does... I'm pretty sure most governments don't.
And many multinational corporations use means other than USD to "pay" their taxes, and never see jail.
I think there's a lot of room for a global fiat quantum currency; for numerous international trade situations, it beats USD (and the yuan, which is pegged to USD).
Considering the price of energy and the whole economic crisis, a lot of people would probably rather plug in manually if the losses are any more than a couple of percent. Even 1% would probably put a lot of people off if they were aware of it.
Millions of people still insist on using incandescent light bulbs. Do you think the majority would give a damn about 1%?
Truly, most people care about the 99% and are unaware of the loss of power to the 1% -- the 5 cars, summer home in Barbados, tax shelters, er, oh... sorry; got carrried away there. Most people just consider these alternating currents of reality to be the flux of the excited fringe.
This has been a cat and mouse game for a long time now... and the cat is starting to be the one winning.
Yes, one side has encryption, oddball protocols, and decentralization, but the other side has the ability to block anything that isn't known [1], and then look at it later, perhaps with the intent to arrest and jail the source.
[1]: There are products out there that will proxy SSL traffic using their own root CA key, and anything that they can't proxy gets blocked, so the 443 https proxy does get stopped. This is trivial to do with BlueCoat, an appliance that is a must in any enterprise IT department for legal compliance.
It's slower, but you can still set up a DNS proxy and route all your traffic over it. Wouldn't recommend it for streaming Netflix though.
I really have to congratulate you. Reading the long string of replies from idiots who didn't follow the link and/or get the joke is hilarious.
It's like I touched the third rail of the internet. I am astonished.
It is an excellent proof of the underlying issue though... the only reason I didn't find this amusing is because I found it so disturbing... I'm presuming of course that most of the people who responded are US citizens....
Then again, just to the North you have the Trans Canada highway that starts on Prince Edward Island and ends on Vancouver Island (or the other way around, depending on perspective) -- seems to me that Hawaii, Rhode Island and Alaska could do with a bit of that action too (although the ferry trip from Hawaii to Rhode Island would be a bit of a chore)....
Well, the water fountain was designed and installed for free water. And there are outlets in public places for free electricity to top off one’s phone. But I don’t think that was the case here. I see this as more akin to your next door neighbor running an extension line over to your home to borrow a little electricity – and failing to tell you. It might be for only a small amount but it is not good behavior. I think that a stern warning might have been better unless it was a chronic problem.
This might be the case -- but did the school call the police because they saw someone plugging into their power outlet, or did the policeman do this "in the public good"? If the second, he has no jurisdiction. If the first, the school could have just unplugged the car and asked him not to do it again, possibly asking for the 5 cents back to cover expenses.
We're missing too much of the story here. Why was the officer poking around the car in the first place? How was the owner related to the school? Why was he there? Did he have a history of plugging his car into public outlets? Had he been approached about this before?
We don't know the answers, so there's really not much of a story here --- at least not in the way it was reported.
I wonder if they sent a mouse or appropriate sized o2 to co2 animal how long the seeds could grow. I guess you'd also need a heater to keep the mouse alive in the cold of space. They could send a little bit of radioactive material to help regulate the temp. It just seems a shame to go all the way to the moon for a 5 day experiment.
Don't send a mouse... send fruit flies or aphids. That way, you've got something that can eat the plants without totally killing them as well as cycle the O2 to CO2. Plus, PETA doesn't tend to get upset about experiments on fruit flies and aphids for some reason.
So, you missed the whole "now we are equipping the pedestrians with glasses which actually blind them from what is going on around them" that I was replying to?
Most states have distracted driving laws already in place to cover ANY distraction.
No; distracted pedestrians (whether texting on their phone or wearing blinkers) also tend to cause more havoc than they reap, as people tend to prefer to crash into non-living objects when given the option.
Wearing stuffs like this that distract the wearers from the reality around them is dangerous.
Not only they could walk into walls, they also could be distracted enough (like this Epson thingy which actually plays movie) to walk into the middle of a very busy thoroughfare !
As if we haven't had enough of drivers distracted by their phones, now we are equipping the pedestrians with glasses which actually blind them from what is going on around them.
Well, evolutionarily speaking we have kind of been coasting for awhile now... we are getting bigger and dumber (it would seem) so a thinning of the herd may be useful. Think of it as adding chlorine and a filter to the gene pool... give people the option to massively screw up and maybe win a Darwin Award.
The problem is that such people generally don't suffer from their own mistakes; if they screw up while operating a half ton killing machine, it's not usually them that get the daisies. So what we're really saying is that people who live in areas where this kind of device is acceptable in public need to get culled.
This kind of thing would be ripe for abuse, but how many times have we heard/read about police chases which result in massive collateral damage and people getting killed?
I'm torn, but this seems like a really good thing for police to have. Especially if it can be directed so that it only affects the target.
People said the same thing about Tasers.
I've never been much of a fan of democracy (well democracy as we call it in Australia). As such we need someone to play watchdog to the corrupt government officials who bleed our wallets and souls dry. I would have thought that this was the Governor General's responsibility; if not then who or what can we do to expose the government when they don't act in our interests or good faith?
Your government DOES have a watchdog -- it's called the American Government. Unfortunately, the interests its watching out for probably don't line up with your own.
As for the GG, the GG is a representative of the Queen in her role as Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Unfortunately, she's even more of a figurehead in this role than she is in her role as Queen of the United Kingdom. So if things get REALLY bad, the GG can halt parliament and force the people to elect a new one -- but other than that, there's not much that can be done from that angle.
One only has to spend a bit of time in one of America's small towns to see this type of thing going on. Those little '5k and under' towns are notorious for this kind of corruption.
Only to those that have never been in one apparently. Word gets around fast in small towns. Everyone behaves or they will get a nagging call from their mother.
Actually, both are true... word gets around, and for the most part, everyone behaves. But then every once in a while, you get the guy who everyone knows beats his mother and takes the odd case of beer from someone's shed on the weekend. Then, when some teenage girl in town goes missing, everyone has really strong suspicions what happened, but nobody's willing to step forward and say something -- however, everyone's watching the guy really closely to catch him in the act the NEXT time.
Every town has one or two of these people, as well as a few people who just eventually snap under the low level of privacy you get in a small town.
The ironic thing is that after the NoSQL fiasco of healthcare.gov [1], I was convinced that anyone running Oracle, MS SQL, or DB/2 on the backend would have something decent up and running.
This isn't rocket science. Grab example schema from a private insurance firm, adapt them to this task, and go from there.
I'm completely surprised by this... Oracle is one of the top tier database managers of choice for the big leagues, so I was expecting this to be a cakewalk compared to other tasks.
[1]: Why is a RDBMS that (as far as I am aware of) fails the ACID test being used for such critical data in the first place?
The problem here is that you have decision makers looking at the NoSQL fiasco and going "we don't want that -- we'll do this with Oracle!" and then checking that issue off their list as if all their DB issues were solved. I've seen this time and again, where the manager of a DB project will decide on the data storage technology they plan to use, and then assume that the problem of implementing a schema and developing a front end to the data store is all but complete, and just needs a few employees thrown at it "in their spare time" to make it so.
Then people get upset with their datastore provider when it doesn't magically anticipate their unvoiced (and ovten unknown) requirements.
The truth is, ANY DB can be used to this purpose -- albeit some have workflows already developed that might more closely match what is required in the implementation. The big problem is when those allocating the resources decide that their implementation should be a cakewalk, so they fail to invest in identification and development of the missing pieces.
They should actually be grateful to google for helping find the files on the internet that they claim infringe. They can then contact the web hosts that have the files to get them removed. They are not my files, I did not put them there, stfu.
But a lot of the time, they don't really care if the content is available -- what they care about is whether they've got a cut of the action. Google, by linking to the sites, is acting like a publicist and distributor -- and that's exactly the role that publishing houses are in. Therefore, Google is the competitor, and must be silenced. After they're silenced, then the publishing house can approach the hoster and talk license fees.
That's one way to spin medical testing on humans.
Medicine testing is expensive so lets make the populous make up the difference for businesses, again. Of course, any discoveries will go up the stack while the bullshit goes down the stack until we put it all in a nice walled garden and charge access so terrorists can't use it.
Did you read the same article I did?
This has nothing to do with medical testing, on humans or otherwise... testing comes at a MUCH later date than what these guys are doing. They're trying to find things in nature that are antibacterial and previously unknown.
Well... I guess if you extend the argument that chimpanzees are human to the argument that our body contains more families of bacteria than anything else, you could call bacteria "human" and then say we're experimenting on them....