Except the NSA has something like 30,000 people. It's hardly as though every one of them are involved in monitoring US civilian communications. Maybe, just maybe, some of them are demoralized because they have not a damn thing to do with anything in the news, yet they're being treated like demons.
There's this thing called "guilty by association".
If you work for the Mafia, even if you're just driving the boss around and never do anything illegal yourself, you are still a member of the organized crime. And you are doing your part in supporting it and keeping it running, even if all you do is drive a car. You are a cog in a machine, no matter if you work at the NSA or at Google. But you can't claim "I'm just a cog" as an excuse if you know the machine is evil.
They let a contractor walk away with classified documents? How is he still alive?
Because he's smart and staying in the public spotlight. It is probably exactly because he worked at the NSA that he knows that if he had leaked anonymously, they would've found and silenced him long ago.
If they kill him now, heck if he has a perfectly normal car accident, everyone will know the NSA did it and public opinion would come crushing down on them like a ton of bricks.
Better headline: IDC expects current trend to continue, extrapolates linearily despite thousands of years of evidence that few things scale in a linear fashion.
Like all trends in tech, this hype will hit a saturation somewhere and then something else is hot. We've seen this a dozen times before, why do we always look at the newest trend as if we're newborns seing the sun for the first time?
Most of that is true. We have a principle called "flying court" in Germany where you can basically choose your court, based on certain circumstances. For Internet-related cases, those were usually true.
However, due to this being abused massively, courts have started to refuse cases from outside their own jurisdictions, so this practice is coming to an end.
Also note that contrary to the US system, our legal system is based on the "loser pays all" system. While this increases the risk if the other party does have a good case, it also means you can fight baseless cases and have a very good chance to get your costs back. This does reduce the number of total nonsense cases.
This particular court is the laughing stock of the german legal system, and its decisions are routinely overturned at the higher courts. They are famous for "creative" interpretations of the copyright laws.
Source: I live in Hamburg, Germany and I've been following copyright-related civil rights matters for more than a decade.
I'm not sure size matters except at the extreme scales. I've worked in everything between 100 and 2500 employees, and while the details change, the basics remain: Management is interested in business cases. To get their support, speak their language.
who no doubt cleared traffic to make the test a little easier.
Nothing in the article nor in the video backs up this assumption. So why was it in the summary? Having been to Japan, I doubt they would've done this, as the whole point of running the test on a public highway is to show it can cope with other traffic and real-life conditions, and making the test invalid in such a stupid and public way would mean quite a bit of lost face.
When you talk to managers, you need to talk business. Throw every reason you think important into the trashcan. Then build your case from the ground up as a business case. Show that it saves the company money or increases productivity. Basically, make the case that your proposal == more $$$.
If management has ever complained about IT being slow or unproductive or their new iPad taking a week to set up - that's your door. Show them how productivity would increase with the expensive IT guys doing the IT work and lots-cheaper help desk guys doing the cheap work. Make sure to use the word "waste" a lot, because it's a red flag to managers - you they leave with the fear that they are wasting company resources unless they follow your proposal, but without you having said that directly, because they have to think they came up with that conclusion themselves.
And read up on the bikeshed problem - include some trivial, easily understood parameters in your proposal that management can discuss and decide upon.
And finally, understand that there may be reasons you don't know about that could lead to your proposal being rejected no matter how good it is. I once got a project rejected that everyone agreed was good because the company was about to merge with another one and nobody wanted to make a decision in that order of magnitude (a few million) because management had already begun the "there's one of us in each company but only one position in the merged one..." game.
Yet another HMD with a really crappy resolution (960x540).
This. As soon as I heard the resolution, my interest dropped to zero, then through the floor, left a hole somewhere in the basement and is probably on its way to the center of the earth right now.
Smartphone screens have more resolution than that these days. Wake me when they've doubled it.
The whole "rider" thing in the USA puzzles me to no end.
How isn't this considered fraud? To attach something entirely unrelated to a law as a trick to get it passed? To me that's the definition of fraud and deceit.
Really? The country that had official racial segregation until 1968 lecturing others about racism?
And then wondering why the rest of the world considers them idiots and laughs whenever they don't have guns pointed at them.:-)
To my point: The basic education in these countries in considerably higher than in most of the big countries because they understand that brain is their primary capital. In Lithuania, for example, not having a college degree is considered shameful and despite just having 3 mio. people it has 15 public and 6 private universities.
In all the smaller european countries, being fluent in at least two or three languages is standard. What americans often don't understand is how much speaking a foreign language adds to your general education, because language and thought are closely related and having more than one way to think about something available is a dramatic improvement. There's a reason that until the early 20th century, an educated gentleman in the western world was expected to speak about half a dozen languages. So much, in fact, that if you read philosophers from that time, you will find plenty of quotes in ancient greek, latin, french, italian, english or german with no translation provided because they expected their readers to understand all those languages.
I am surprised about the 6th. Does that mean they have the right to be judged by their peers, i.e. other corporations instead of a human jury? How far of is that, do you think?
These are the people of which Churchill said, "the best argument against democracy is a 2 minute conversation with the typical voter."
Which depends dramatically on the country. Small, educated countries like the northern european ones or Lithuania, for example, would give a very different picture than a large one with tons of idiots like, say, the USA or Russia.
Same thing in Europe. Even the same limit - withdraw or deposit above 10k âuros and you are in for a bit of paperwork. It's not a big hassle, more of an inconvenience, so I'm not singing the "evil government nazi control freaks" song because I realize that the opposite of control is not only freedom, but also anarchy, crime and (after a while) tyranny.
(and before anyone trolls, of course that doesn't mean I'm all for total control. Part of growing up is understanding that the real world is complex, has shades of grey and most things are not binary.)
But cash is hard to automate. Washing $100 you stole from someone's wallet clean is easy, you just go shopping. But washing $1 mio. you picked up in a drug deal or bank robbery isn't that easy anymore.
Also, how did a value, any value, ever get assigned to a bitcoin?
The same way value gets assigned to everything. If you find someone who is willing to give you $10 for your X, then your X has a value of $10. It also works the other way around: If you can buy dinner for $10, then the dinner is worth $10 - and your $10 are worth one dinner.
In a fantasy world, yes. I did say that they only started to exist because of copyright.
But now, they do exist, and if we were to abolish copyright tomorrow, they would not magically cease to be. They would whine for a while, but they would also frantically look for ways to continue existing.
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Except the NSA has something like 30,000 people. It's hardly as though every one of them are involved in monitoring US civilian communications. Maybe, just maybe, some of them are demoralized because they have not a damn thing to do with anything in the news, yet they're being treated like demons.
There's this thing called "guilty by association".
If you work for the Mafia, even if you're just driving the boss around and never do anything illegal yourself, you are still a member of the organized crime. And you are doing your part in supporting it and keeping it running, even if all you do is drive a car. You are a cog in a machine, no matter if you work at the NSA or at Google. But you can't claim "I'm just a cog" as an excuse if you know the machine is evil.
They let a contractor walk away with classified documents? How is he still alive?
Because he's smart and staying in the public spotlight. It is probably exactly because he worked at the NSA that he knows that if he had leaked anonymously, they would've found and silenced him long ago.
If they kill him now, heck if he has a perfectly normal car accident, everyone will know the NSA did it and public opinion would come crushing down on them like a ton of bricks.
Better headline: IDC expects current trend to continue, extrapolates linearily despite thousands of years of evidence that few things scale in a linear fashion.
Like all trends in tech, this hype will hit a saturation somewhere and then something else is hot. We've seen this a dozen times before, why do we always look at the newest trend as if we're newborns seing the sun for the first time?
To get rid of the cat? I think this size should work:
http://www.capecentralhigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/First-Presbyterian-Church-Bell-11-31-1965-10.jpg
The most practical thing you can do to help birds is put a bell on your cat's collar.
I doubt that applies to large eagles. Though it might help them find the meal for today, in case you wanted to get rid of your cat anyways.
More innovation - yes. But please not the hacker spirit of Silicon Valley.
You see, if your website is full of holes, that's bad for your company. But if your nuclear reactor is full of holes, that's bad for everyone.
What's obviously missing is a Mock App - something that will satisfy all those requests and provide them with the data they want - fake data.
Sadly, I don't expect Google - whose revenue stream is largely based on advertisement - would make that possible in Android.
Most of that is true. We have a principle called "flying court" in Germany where you can basically choose your court, based on certain circumstances. For Internet-related cases, those were usually true.
However, due to this being abused massively, courts have started to refuse cases from outside their own jurisdictions, so this practice is coming to an end.
Also note that contrary to the US system, our legal system is based on the "loser pays all" system. While this increases the risk if the other party does have a good case, it also means you can fight baseless cases and have a very good chance to get your costs back. This does reduce the number of total nonsense cases.
he Hamburg Regional Court decided
You can stop reading there.
This particular court is the laughing stock of the german legal system, and its decisions are routinely overturned at the higher courts. They are famous for "creative" interpretations of the copyright laws.
Source: I live in Hamburg, Germany and I've been following copyright-related civil rights matters for more than a decade.
I'm not sure size matters except at the extreme scales. I've worked in everything between 100 and 2500 employees, and while the details change, the basics remain: Management is interested in business cases. To get their support, speak their language.
Yeah, obviously nobody has ever thought about that possibility before, so engineers have certainly not worked on making the system fault-tolerant.
who no doubt cleared traffic to make the test a little easier.
Nothing in the article nor in the video backs up this assumption. So why was it in the summary? Having been to Japan, I doubt they would've done this, as the whole point of running the test on a public highway is to show it can cope with other traffic and real-life conditions, and making the test invalid in such a stupid and public way would mean quite a bit of lost face.
Been there, done that.
When you talk to managers, you need to talk business. Throw every reason you think important into the trashcan. Then build your case from the ground up as a business case. Show that it saves the company money or increases productivity. Basically, make the case that your proposal == more $$$.
If management has ever complained about IT being slow or unproductive or their new iPad taking a week to set up - that's your door. Show them how productivity would increase with the expensive IT guys doing the IT work and lots-cheaper help desk guys doing the cheap work. Make sure to use the word "waste" a lot, because it's a red flag to managers - you they leave with the fear that they are wasting company resources unless they follow your proposal, but without you having said that directly, because they have to think they came up with that conclusion themselves.
And read up on the bikeshed problem - include some trivial, easily understood parameters in your proposal that management can discuss and decide upon.
And finally, understand that there may be reasons you don't know about that could lead to your proposal being rejected no matter how good it is. I once got a project rejected that everyone agreed was good because the company was about to merge with another one and nobody wanted to make a decision in that order of magnitude (a few million) because management had already begun the "there's one of us in each company but only one position in the merged one..." game.
What a dodge. I think we're done here.
Yet another HMD with a really crappy resolution (960x540).
This. As soon as I heard the resolution, my interest dropped to zero, then through the floor, left a hole somewhere in the basement and is probably on its way to the center of the earth right now.
Smartphone screens have more resolution than that these days. Wake me when they've doubled it.
The whole "rider" thing in the USA puzzles me to no end.
How isn't this considered fraud? To attach something entirely unrelated to a law as a trick to get it passed? To me that's the definition of fraud and deceit.
Really? The country that had official racial segregation until 1968 lecturing others about racism?
And then wondering why the rest of the world considers them idiots and laughs whenever they don't have guns pointed at them. :-)
To my point:
The basic education in these countries in considerably higher than in most of the big countries because they understand that brain is their primary capital. In Lithuania, for example, not having a college degree is considered shameful and despite just having 3 mio. people it has 15 public and 6 private universities.
In all the smaller european countries, being fluent in at least two or three languages is standard. What americans often don't understand is how much speaking a foreign language adds to your general education, because language and thought are closely related and having more than one way to think about something available is a dramatic improvement. There's a reason that until the early 20th century, an educated gentleman in the western world was expected to speak about half a dozen languages. So much, in fact, that if you read philosophers from that time, you will find plenty of quotes in ancient greek, latin, french, italian, english or german with no translation provided because they expected their readers to understand all those languages.
I take it you've never been there nor do you know people from there.
Highly informative, thanks a lot.
I am surprised about the 6th. Does that mean they have the right to be judged by their peers, i.e. other corporations instead of a human jury? How far of is that, do you think?
These are the people of which Churchill said, "the best argument against democracy is a 2 minute conversation with the typical voter."
Which depends dramatically on the country. Small, educated countries like the northern european ones or Lithuania, for example, would give a very different picture than a large one with tons of idiots like, say, the USA or Russia.
10k Ãuros
Really? /. still doesn't have UTF-8 support? That was a € sign. Are you fucking kidding me?
Same thing in Europe. Even the same limit - withdraw or deposit above 10k âuros and you are in for a bit of paperwork. It's not a big hassle, more of an inconvenience, so I'm not singing the "evil government nazi control freaks" song because I realize that the opposite of control is not only freedom, but also anarchy, crime and (after a while) tyranny.
(and before anyone trolls, of course that doesn't mean I'm all for total control. Part of growing up is understanding that the real world is complex, has shades of grey and most things are not binary.)
But cash is hard to automate. Washing $100 you stole from someone's wallet clean is easy, you just go shopping. But washing $1 mio. you picked up in a drug deal or bank robbery isn't that easy anymore.
Also, how did a value, any value, ever get assigned to a bitcoin?
The same way value gets assigned to everything. If you find someone who is willing to give you $10 for your X, then your X has a value of $10. It also works the other way around: If you can buy dinner for $10, then the dinner is worth $10 - and your $10 are worth one dinner.
Without copyright, big media couldn't even exist.
In a fantasy world, yes. I did say that they only started to exist because of copyright.
But now, they do exist, and if we were to abolish copyright tomorrow, they would not magically cease to be. They would whine for a while, but they would also frantically look for ways to continue existing.