I think the reason why this strikes a discordant note is that no one wants to be "labeled" by a machine no matter how sophisticated. Most, I think, want a human in the loop. Even then the mechanistic idea that humans can be categorized to predict future behavior seems so wrong even if it is necessary if we are to control social problems.
Here's a thought, let IBM try it out on their own executives first. After it gets through nailing the miscreant executives in its own ranks, the U.S. Justice dept will evaluate it and see if it might be used on Wall Street firms. It must successfully weed out the Business School Product that wasted the U.S. economy first. The next test will be to try it out on the designers of this valuable product. If it catches the social misfits that have worked on this software, then maybe the U.S. could consider it for kids. However, we'll want to see a cleaned up IBM, Wall Street, and developer ranks first.
Ah, the old "it's a conspiracy" theory. The problem for the U.S. isn't the conspiracy you are so certain exists. The problem is Business School Product that make local decisions to outsource, insource, wtf-source to increase their particular bottom line. The macro effect is hollowing out the middle class in the U.S. while it is helping to create a middle class in China.
The fatcats are not out to break the middle class, there is nothing in that attitude for them. They are breaking the middle class out of sheer stupidity and immediate gain for themselves without realizing that in the end, it will take them out too.
The result might be the same, but you need to readjust the tin-foil a bit and learn how economies work.
Now, now. The geeks at/. have spent years learning the intricacies of Unix command lines and scripts believing they are somehow tapping into some unearthly secret OS sauce...when in reality all they know is a bit of drivel the OS designers allow them to manipulate in the most inelegant but complicated fashion.
Just wait until Mark Hurd hears about it..."You mean we still have researchers we haven't outsourced or fired yet? Flunky, get me a stack of pink slips, I'll fix this straight away!"
I don't know. My own belief is that you go to the Cat Mother, sort of a feline Gaia. She lives near the Great Food Bowl, and you get to see all your previous pets there too. And the end of days, you are judged by how you treated all living things. She knows if you've been bad or good. If you qualify, unlimited pet treats forever. If you don't, well, let's just say that you get to go to the lawyer planet where you will be treated to endless lawsuits and court trials with no escape...ever.
To find out how to qualify, go to your local shelter today and see if a cat will chose you to be part of its entourage. If so, you are in like Flint, if not...well, you need to work on adjusting your behavior a bit until you do qualify.
"Seems though Republicans have convinced us all that whats in the public good is allowing people to get really really rich. Not making it EASIER to get rich mind you, just making it easier to go from rich to OMG Rich."
If that were the case, then the Republicans would have been for the bailout of the banks. They were bitterly opposed to the bailout. Their argument was that Main Street should not bail out Wall Street just on fairness alone. In addition, it would encourage Wall Street to better game the system in the future knowing Washington would be there to bail them out. They were also against the 'stimulus' on the basis that it would only go to make work jobs and other social experiments which would all disappear when the money stopped. They also argued that increasing the deficit would only cause higher taxes later to pay for it knowing full well that corporations do not pay that much in taxes even though they would benefit from stimulus money.
Bullshit. For one thing, Apple won't get any deserts, they are dry and very hard to move much less buy.
Most users aren't tired of Apple keeping their products locked down, they simply don't care. They buy an appliance, it does what they want, end of story.
Microsoft's OS has few restrictions on writing programs for it and is ubiquitous. And as a result, it manages to support spam producing bot armies. Just keeping up with security drives people nuts. All Apple needs to totally screw up is open up their consumer devices so script kiddies can make bot armies and give themselves the same security image problems MS has. You know that's what will happen, but to satisfy a few techno-dweebs like you, they should bite the bullet and shoot themselves in the foot regardless.
Apple isn't trying to satisfy a few geeks like you, there aren't enough of you to matter.
Yes, the Soviets did indeed do their part. However, we must never forget the agreement Stalin had with Germany prior to Germany invading Russian having been blocked in invading Britain. Stalin feared Germany way back at the beginning of the 1930's and started increasing military production. Hitler had gone on record later in that decade stating that the Soviet Union was a danger to world peace. Stalin thought that by signing the non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, he could direct Germany's aggressive behavior, which was fairly obvious at that point, towards the West. It worked....until Britain totally failed to be invaded. So the Soviet Union took it in the neck in 1941-1943, the end of which the Russian winter helped Stalin's remaining commanders (the ones he hadn't had killed) rally the troops with the idea they could either be shot or shoot at Germans.
In 1942, the Western allies invaded Africa, Stalin had been screaming for a Western front and an invasion of Europe. The U.S. wanted to but Britain thought it was suicidal. So they chose Africa. In 1943, Italy was invaded. Not until 1944 did Europe get its Western front. By that time, the Germans were losing badly to the Soviet Union.
The Americans provided the Soviets with some substantial material help while fighting in Africa and Europe and also in the Pacific against Japan. The British fought well above their weight-class.
After the war, the Soviet Union failed to give Eastern Europe their independence leading to decades of failed economies and pollution from heavy industry.
Would the Soviet Union have beaten Germany without the West and the U.S.? I find it doubtful because Stalin was such a Soviet screwup. They'd have fought to a draw at best. Would the West and the U.S. have beaten Germany without the Soviet Union? I find it doubtful since Germany would have complete domination of most of Europe.
What would have happened if Germany stopped at dominating Europe and gone no further. In a world of nuclear weapons, who knows.
They aren't. Law suits are expensive and winning against a bankrupt company does score beeeellions of $. There is one other court case which might give the corpse a proper Viking burial, IBM. Autozone is a dead duck of a court case, SCOX started it. Red Hat might have counter-sued but the judge, Sue Robinson, seems to be one of the most witless. Anyhow, the case stayed until the IBM case is over. IBM doesn't care about SCOX, just that they go away. They don't need a victory for that to happen, just SCOX death by hook or by crook.
Actually, Congress has oversight of NSA. Select committees are briefed on what they do and how the money is being budgeted. What you are complaining about is that you are out of the loop. If Congress wanted you to be in the loop, you'd be in the loop. The same can be said for the CIA, FBI, but I doubt there are hundreds of these other government agencies you apparently believe to exist. But then people believe in UFOs too.
Shitcanning the NSA and starting over would create....the NSA. Of course, you'd lose all the employees and institutional memory, they'd be starting from scratch which would be a huge waste of money. You still wouldn't get NSA memos because broadcasting what the NSA knows about foreign terrorists can be used by foreign terrorists. Only part of Congress would be kept in the loop because it is too large and political to expect it could keep secrets. So your congress-critter would most likely not get the memos. There would be few committees that would provide oversight and we'd have what we have now.
Yep, apparently the juror was "disraught" because she couldn't go on a vacation to Las Vegas with the family. I think with quality jurors like this, it doesn't look good for Novell. SCO presented no evidence the copyrights to SVRX 4.2MP transferred to old SCO. In fact, there is an amendment to the contract stating they did not transfer and that was because old SCO didn't have the money. But new SCO thinks they should have transferred regardless, hence this baseless lawsuit and the moronic court system that allowed this fetid pile of dingo kidneys of a lawsuit to proceed.
McBride was given his walking papers from SCO awhile back by the bankruptcy guy running SCO now. Doesn't seemed to have affected their behavior. And McBride is still wandering around witless with his own company and some startup money looking to catch some of SCO's Imaginary Property.
MS didn't so much get into advertising as they went out to screw Google. The reason: Google could easily screw MS by making the PC irrelevant and thereby any claim for MS to exist...short of a few meeses, computer games for the slackjawed, and cue balls.
The U.S. also has a treaty to defend Taiwan. In my book, that makes Taiwan a country regardless about the Bejing thugacracy thinking that the world will think they have bigger dicks if they steal Taiwan.
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I think the reason why this strikes a discordant note is that no one wants to be "labeled" by a machine no matter how sophisticated. Most, I think, want a human in the loop. Even then the mechanistic idea that humans can be categorized to predict future behavior seems so wrong even if it is necessary if we are to control social problems.
And compulsory sterilization for politicians would be bad?
Here's a thought, let IBM try it out on their own executives first. After it gets through nailing the miscreant executives in its own ranks, the U.S. Justice dept will evaluate it and see if it might be used on Wall Street firms. It must successfully weed out the Business School Product that wasted the U.S. economy first. The next test will be to try it out on the designers of this valuable product. If it catches the social misfits that have worked on this software, then maybe the U.S. could consider it for kids. However, we'll want to see a cleaned up IBM, Wall Street, and developer ranks first.
Ah, the old "it's a conspiracy" theory. The problem for the U.S. isn't the conspiracy you are so certain exists. The problem is Business School Product that make local decisions to outsource, insource, wtf-source to increase their particular bottom line. The macro effect is hollowing out the middle class in the U.S. while it is helping to create a middle class in China.
The fatcats are not out to break the middle class, there is nothing in that attitude for them. They are breaking the middle class out of sheer stupidity and immediate gain for themselves without realizing that in the end, it will take them out too.
The result might be the same, but you need to readjust the tin-foil a bit and learn how economies work.
Nah, the aliens simply cannot afford the insurance on missions to other worlds. The lawyering alone would take eons.
Yeah, I hear you. I think Mars should also be sued for having a monopoly on 3 musketeers candy bars.
Maybe he needs a Windows Smartphone:
Hi there, I see you are about to expire, would like some help with:
* broadcasting sarcastic comments to your friends before you pop your clogs?
* a mournful prayer of remorse for the sinful life you have been leading?
* wiping your calendar clean of future events, 'cause, y'know...you won't be here?
Yeah, but you only get them 79.3% of the time. The other times, you will be asked to phone home and tell them if you are dead or not.
Now, now. The geeks at /. have spent years learning the intricacies of Unix command lines and scripts believing they are somehow tapping into some unearthly secret OS sauce...when in reality all they know is a bit of drivel the OS designers allow them to manipulate in the most inelegant but complicated fashion.
Just wait until Mark Hurd hears about it..."You mean we still have researchers we haven't outsourced or fired yet? Flunky, get me a stack of pink slips, I'll fix this straight away!"
I don't know. My own belief is that you go to the Cat Mother, sort of a feline Gaia. She lives near the Great Food Bowl, and you get to see all your previous pets there too. And the end of days, you are judged by how you treated all living things. She knows if you've been bad or good. If you qualify, unlimited pet treats forever. If you don't, well, let's just say that you get to go to the lawyer planet where you will be treated to endless lawsuits and court trials with no escape...ever.
To find out how to qualify, go to your local shelter today and see if a cat will chose you to be part of its entourage. If so, you are in like Flint, if not...well, you need to work on adjusting your behavior a bit until you do qualify.
"Seems though Republicans have convinced us all that whats in the public good is allowing people to get really really rich. Not making it EASIER to get rich mind you, just making it easier to go from rich to OMG Rich."
If that were the case, then the Republicans would have been for the bailout of the banks. They were bitterly opposed to the bailout. Their argument was that Main Street should not bail out Wall Street just on fairness alone. In addition, it would encourage Wall Street to better game the system in the future knowing Washington would be there to bail them out. They were also against the 'stimulus' on the basis that it would only go to make work jobs and other social experiments which would all disappear when the money stopped. They also argued that increasing the deficit would only cause higher taxes later to pay for it knowing full well that corporations do not pay that much in taxes even though they would benefit from stimulus money.
Bullshit. For one thing, Apple won't get any deserts, they are dry and very hard to move much less buy.
Most users aren't tired of Apple keeping their products locked down, they simply don't care. They buy an appliance, it does what they want, end of story.
Microsoft's OS has few restrictions on writing programs for it and is ubiquitous. And as a result, it manages to support spam producing bot armies. Just keeping up with security drives people nuts. All Apple needs to totally screw up is open up their consumer devices so script kiddies can make bot armies and give themselves the same security image problems MS has. You know that's what will happen, but to satisfy a few techno-dweebs like you, they should bite the bullet and shoot themselves in the foot regardless.
Apple isn't trying to satisfy a few geeks like you, there aren't enough of you to matter.
I cannot seem to get the video's turned off and allow me mod pointing at the same time while using Noscript. Anyone else know?
Yes, the Soviets did indeed do their part. However, we must never forget the agreement Stalin had with Germany prior to Germany invading Russian having been blocked in invading Britain. Stalin feared Germany way back at the beginning of the 1930's and started increasing military production. Hitler had gone on record later in that decade stating that the Soviet Union was a danger to world peace. Stalin thought that by signing the non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, he could direct Germany's aggressive behavior, which was fairly obvious at that point, towards the West. It worked....until Britain totally failed to be invaded. So the Soviet Union took it in the neck in 1941-1943, the end of which the Russian winter helped Stalin's remaining commanders (the ones he hadn't had killed) rally the troops with the idea they could either be shot or shoot at Germans.
In 1942, the Western allies invaded Africa, Stalin had been screaming for a Western front and an invasion of Europe. The U.S. wanted to but Britain thought it was suicidal. So they chose Africa. In 1943, Italy was invaded. Not until 1944 did Europe get its Western front. By that time, the Germans were losing badly to the Soviet Union.
The Americans provided the Soviets with some substantial material help while fighting in Africa and Europe and also in the Pacific against Japan. The British fought well above their weight-class.
After the war, the Soviet Union failed to give Eastern Europe their independence leading to decades of failed economies and pollution from heavy industry.
Would the Soviet Union have beaten Germany without the West and the U.S.? I find it doubtful because Stalin was such a Soviet screwup. They'd have fought to a draw at best. Would the West and the U.S. have beaten Germany without the Soviet Union? I find it doubtful since Germany would have complete domination of most of Europe.
What would have happened if Germany stopped at dominating Europe and gone no further. In a world of nuclear weapons, who knows.
Hi there, I see you are making a pass at a girl half your age. Would you like:
* some helpful pickup lines 'cause, you know, you've been failing miserably up to now.
* a butt lift so she won't have premonitions of your commercial with Jerry Seinfeld.
* a personality adjustment so you don't act like a geek with a developmental disability.
They aren't. Law suits are expensive and winning against a bankrupt company does score beeeellions of $. There is one other court case which might give the corpse a proper Viking burial, IBM. Autozone is a dead duck of a court case, SCOX started it. Red Hat might have counter-sued but the judge, Sue Robinson, seems to be one of the most witless. Anyhow, the case stayed until the IBM case is over. IBM doesn't care about SCOX, just that they go away. They don't need a victory for that to happen, just SCOX death by hook or by crook.
Boeing's 737 production since 1967: 6,285 aircraft
Toyota's production in 2007 alone: 8,880,000 vehicles
Actually, Congress has oversight of NSA. Select committees are briefed on what they do and how the money is being budgeted. What you are complaining about is that you are out of the loop. If Congress wanted you to be in the loop, you'd be in the loop. The same can be said for the CIA, FBI, but I doubt there are hundreds of these other government agencies you apparently believe to exist. But then people believe in UFOs too.
Shitcanning the NSA and starting over would create....the NSA. Of course, you'd lose all the employees and institutional memory, they'd be starting from scratch which would be a huge waste of money. You still wouldn't get NSA memos because broadcasting what the NSA knows about foreign terrorists can be used by foreign terrorists. Only part of Congress would be kept in the loop because it is too large and political to expect it could keep secrets. So your congress-critter would most likely not get the memos. There would be few committees that would provide oversight and we'd have what we have now.
Yep, apparently the juror was "disraught" because she couldn't go on a vacation to Las Vegas with the family. I think with quality jurors like this, it doesn't look good for Novell. SCO presented no evidence the copyrights to SVRX 4.2MP transferred to old SCO. In fact, there is an amendment to the contract stating they did not transfer and that was because old SCO didn't have the money. But new SCO thinks they should have transferred regardless, hence this baseless lawsuit and the moronic court system that allowed this fetid pile of dingo kidneys of a lawsuit to proceed.
McBride was given his walking papers from SCO awhile back by the bankruptcy guy running SCO now. Doesn't seemed to have affected their behavior. And McBride is still wandering around witless with his own company and some startup money looking to catch some of SCO's Imaginary Property.
MS didn't so much get into advertising as they went out to screw Google. The reason: Google could easily screw MS by making the PC irrelevant and thereby any claim for MS to exist...short of a few meeses, computer games for the slackjawed, and cue balls.
And this makes Microsoft honorable? How?
The U.S. also has a treaty to defend Taiwan. In my book, that makes Taiwan a country regardless about the Bejing thugacracy thinking that the world will think they have bigger dicks if they steal Taiwan.
You are confusing culture with citizenship.