This is exactly what is wrong in (Dutch) politics these days. When a problem rises, and the existing institutions fail.. a new system is invented, which will probably fail also.
If some thing don't works: change it.
Instead, more effort may be put into making the existing institutions work more efficiently with less bureaucratic administration.
Bureaucratic administration is the people between sensible data and unscropolous bussiness.
Bureaucratic administration wasn't invented to make difficult some tasks, it was invented to make difficult to make fraud.
Trivial example, if you want to borrow money from a bank, then the bank would have good reason to query your PODS for information about your financial history.
This example is fobiden by the Data Protection Law in Europe. So it can't be done. And really can't be done, I work for local public entities and data protection its a must do.
In Europe idnetity theft isn't as easy as in the United States. The ID is used every day in every situation, so if some one steals your ID it is easy found.
In the USA the information is more decentraliced, so it's easier to use someone ID arround the country.
I have ever kwnown any case of Id theft in Europe (Germany, France, Spain, Italy,...).
So I don't understant how this list is going to be used to Identity-theft.
Logitech announces their "PC mouse", complete with monitor and networking.
That's just what I thinked when I readed about this mouse. That new features are already done by a normal PC so why put it on a mouse?
If you want a gizmo that tells you when a email arrives there are more useful thinks like the Nokia 770 or a PSP.
What I am curious about is what percentage of the people left behind in New Orleans had the means to evacuate the city but chose not to for some stupid reason.
Some smart people do stupid things too: smoke, drive too fast, vote G.W. Bush,...
To evacuate you must belive some other people that says you than you must leave your home, your friends and your work because maybe there is a catrastophic disaster. People is smart enought to not believe every body all the time.
People haven't evolutionated to cope with such catrastophic disasters. Education it's the way humans can avoid the lack of information. That's why we have such a big brains, to put information into.
So it's a problem of education, not a problem of inteligence. Better education allow better judgement. No education at all allow intelligent people do stupid things.
There are a lot of people around the world helping (money, support, oil, etc.) the victims of Katrina. So the genes for altruism are assuring it's own survival.
Evolution is about the survival of the finest, not the luckiest (at long run).
I can read English and a lot of latin derived languages (italian, french, portuguese...) but I prefer to read spanish, I undertand it better and can read it faster than all the others.
There are only some texts, like poetry, that are better readed in its original languaje.
So I think thats its a great idea having a Europen Google Library, but I don't think that it's very useful for english-speaking countries but all the other non-english.
Most American jobs require, at most, 3 to 4 hrs of concerted effort per day. Beyond that, you're just making work for yourself to appear busy and aquire asskissing points.
I belived that we Europeans were differents from Americans. Now I can see that differences are only a matter of geograpy.
Why submit a link if no body cares to read the links? The moderators that had modded you up for sure don't have read the link neither!
It's easier if you make the work for them: I am thrilled to announce that we recently hired Tor Lillqvist into the Novell Desktop group. Tor is famous for his work to port Gimp and the Gtk+ toolkit to Windows, and these days he helps keep Gimp running on Windows.
For Novell, Tor is working along the same lines, making Gtk+ and various parts of the Linux desktop stack run better on Windows to improve the experience for cross-platform developers. He is currently working on a dbus port to help complete Fredrik Hedberg's port of Beagle to Windows.
Beagle running on Windows
After that is done, however, his major project will be to port Evolution to Windows. The scope and difficulty of this work is currently unknown, so we don't have a timeline (or even a "development plan" to speak of), but you will be able to follow his work on the various mailing lists and on Tor's blog (once he starts one). The Evolution porting will be discussed along with all Evolution development topics on e-h.
If you're interested in helping, I'm sure Tor would welcome you with open arms. It's a big project.
Good luck, Tor! We're all really happy you joined!:-)
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If it's from Microsoft it has to be good!
Bureaucratic administration is the people between sensible data and unscropolous bussiness.
Bureaucratic administration wasn't invented to make difficult some tasks, it was invented to make difficult to make fraud.
In the USA the information is more decentraliced, so it's easier to use someone ID arround the country.
I have ever kwnown any case of Id theft in Europe (Germany, France, Spain, Italy,
So I don't understant how this list is going to be used to Identity-theft.
as this.
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Logitech announces their "PC mouse", complete with monitor and networking.
That's just what I thinked when I readed about this mouse. That new features are already done by a normal PC so why put it on a mouse?
If you want a gizmo that tells you when a email arrives there are more useful thinks like the Nokia 770 or a PSP.
That was done before at Princeton.
And they needed one of this to trap some of the rodents that used its new superior skills to escape.
Mod parent up.
What do you think is better:
a) Slashdot teenager style:
Tim Berners-Lee (if you need explanation, you're reading the wrong site) is interviewed
b) Profesional looking style:
Tim Berners-Lee is interviewed.
It's your choice.
Maybe next Slashdot history could be: Duke Nukem Forever delayed
To evacuate you must belive some other people that says you than you must leave your home, your friends and your work because maybe there is a catrastophic disaster. People is smart enought to not believe every body all the time.
People haven't evolutionated to cope with such catrastophic disasters. Education it's the way humans can avoid the lack of information. That's why we have such a big brains, to put information into.
So it's a problem of education, not a problem of inteligence. Better education allow better judgement. No education at all allow intelligent people do stupid things.
Evolution is about the survival of the finest, not the luckiest (at long run).
There are only some texts, like poetry, that are better readed in its original languaje.
So I think thats its a great idea having a Europen Google Library, but I don't think that it's very useful for english-speaking countries but all the other non-english.
Backups? You can't do that with a paper-book. You can burn Alenxandria, but you can't delete all the Internet.
Patriot Act Enhanced Questions
1. Religion?
2. Who you voted last election?
3. Are you a terrorist?
I think that something like ORA:CLE solution it's a good one, better than a search engine. And Google Answers it's a good approximation.
This guy who wrote this review is a nobodybr>
And is better when Bill Gates - he is somebody - says somthing like "Technology X is going to fail, use instead Microsoft products"?
It's not importat who is talkin, but what is saying.
I say good luck to the Indian call centre workers
-India-
Steal: $350,000
Workers Cost : $200,000
Total: $550,000
-USA-
Workers Cost : $500,000
Tax : $100,000
Total: $600,000
Outsource Wins.
and to be replaced by a Computer.
No I am a dissident.
Why submit a link if no body cares to read the links? The moderators that had modded you up for sure don't have read the link neither!
:-)
It's easier if you make the work for them:
I am thrilled to announce that we recently hired Tor Lillqvist into the Novell Desktop group. Tor is famous for his work to port Gimp and the Gtk+ toolkit to Windows, and these days he helps keep Gimp running on Windows.
For Novell, Tor is working along the same lines, making Gtk+ and various parts of the Linux desktop stack run better on Windows to improve the experience for cross-platform developers. He is currently working on a dbus port to help complete Fredrik Hedberg's port of Beagle to Windows.
Beagle running on Windows
After that is done, however, his major project will be to port Evolution to Windows. The scope and difficulty of this work is currently unknown, so we don't have a timeline (or even a "development plan" to speak of), but you will be able to follow his work on the various mailing lists and on Tor's blog (once he starts one). The Evolution porting will be discussed along with all Evolution development topics on e-h.
If you're interested in helping, I'm sure Tor would welcome you with open arms. It's a big project.
Good luck, Tor! We're all really happy you joined!
Nat Friedman
Irak will be totally oil free by 2010.- Shell.com
Code monkeys do the best that they could as you can see graphically.