This isn't meant to help poor third-world countries, or to deal with natural outbreaks. The concerns you express were never part of the project's goals.
(Not saying that's a good thing; just saying that that's what it is.)
I absolutely hate that your answer true, but you are 100% correct. Damn, what a world it's become.
... but how on earth will the people affected by these diseases get these drugs in time once they are sick? We can't even get decent distribution of (somewhat) affordable malaria drugs to the parts of the world that need it. This will be just one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption in parts of the world that can't afford any more of either.
my point was that it's ridiculous how many Americans pay $80/month to see these shows when you can see them for free.
There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception in most urban areas (I can't speak for suburban areas). On top of that there are condominiums and home owner associations that ban visible antennae. Free isn't an option for everyone.
Murder is (arguably) wrong, but surely we can all agree that if anyone needs "taken care of", it's spammers!
I say we give 'em a fish-hook enema and use them as bait in shark infested waters. It's better than they deserve but it still gives them a fighting chance;-)
So because someone is operating technology they are not able to safely use they should be free of reprimand?
The infected systems should be blocked from internet access... but surely you're not implying that people who aren't technical enough to be a sys or network admins can't own a computer? Would I have to take a test online or at a store before ordering a computer?
Spam causes real financial trouble and being infected either means Windows and therefore Microsoft are at fault, or the user is at fault.
I don't see you pointing a finger at those who start this whole mess: the people writing the virus "packages" for sale, the botnet operators and those who hire them to spew spam, steal bank login information, coordinate DDoS attacks and everything in between.
Someone has to be responsible, if you left the keys to your car in the open and someone took it for a joyride, crashing into a store front and smashing up a bunch of televisions, that's exactly the same as letting someone steal bandwidth and clock cycles for spamming people.
In this analogy those who create and maintain the botnets & spam would be the joyriders... and once again I don't see you putting any blame on them.
Desktops will be dead. No one will have them.
Laptops will be your workhorse. Many will have them for work.
Netbooks will be your casual computing device. Some will have them for novelty.
Phones will be your go-to interface for day-to-day needs. Everyone will have one.
In the future:
Foursquare will be dead. No one will remember it.
Laptops will be replaced by tablets. Many will have used laptops for work a long time ago.
Netbooks will be your go-to device for high-powered computing. Some will still type for novelty instead of using the cerebral interface.
Phones will be phones. Everyone will have one.
You're buying a little too heavily into a Los Angeles stereotype, there. Unless you believe we don't have any Art museums here.;)
Having grown up in Southern California I know that any vertical surface in a school is a magnet for graffiti. The earthquakes, well, if this new school was built with the same quality control as the schools I attended someone slamming a door may be enough to trigger the first domino.
Any *real* museum (in California or anywhere else) builds the facility with protecting the art in mind. Schools? Not so much.
Alarms automagically go off when a poor kid pees in the pool. The rich kids buy 'pee in the pool' credits in advance and simply avoid the embarrassment.
The $5 is probably a way for them to be able ID anyone who wants to sneak malicious code into an extension. If they have your CC number they have a pretty good way of knowing who you might be.
If they took cash the $5 wouldn't stop anyone who wanted to poison their extension. A verifiable electronic payment will prevent most of those who might try it.
Baby steps get you somewhere, leaps leave a lot of people behind. You need to nudge people to make the small changes... and you have to rely on the young and the brave to try something new.
Where's the graph showing Linux's install base compared to the rest of the market? Is it going up, down or staying the same? Sure, Android is going up and that is good for Linux but what about the industry as a whole? Linux can't pin their 'desktop invasion' on the hopes of a mobile OS distro that most users will never fully take advantage of.
Teachers who teach the advanced classes look much better in the test results than the teachers who have a class full of 'slower' students who need the extra attention that they can only get in a call full of their 'peers'. Lots of kids need extra help for a variety of reasons (language barriers, parents who don't do their part, learning disabilities, laziness, etc) and the best way to teach them is to have them all together so they don't get left further behind. That teacher will never look good on these standardized tests.
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I'm not sure but I think someone with Parkinson's is going to have a really bad time with this ...
Note: "possible bioterrorist threats"
This isn't meant to help poor third-world countries, or to deal with natural outbreaks. The concerns you express were never part of the project's goals.
(Not saying that's a good thing; just saying that that's what it is.)
I absolutely hate that your answer true, but you are 100% correct. Damn, what a world it's become.
... but how on earth will the people affected by these diseases get these drugs in time once they are sick? We can't even get decent distribution of (somewhat) affordable malaria drugs to the parts of the world that need it. This will be just one more cure for a disease that is defeated by poverty and corruption in parts of the world that can't afford any more of either.
my point was that it's ridiculous how many Americans pay $80/month to see these shows when you can see them for free.
There are millions (and I mean millions) of cable subscribers in apartment building that cannot have 'free' TV of any quality. Rabbit ears != decent reception in most urban areas (I can't speak for suburban areas). On top of that there are condominiums and home owner associations that ban visible antennae. Free isn't an option for everyone.
Murder is (arguably) wrong, but surely we can all agree that if anyone needs "taken care of", it's spammers!
I say we give 'em a fish-hook enema and use them as bait in shark infested waters. It's better than they deserve but it still gives them a fighting chance ;-)
So because someone is operating technology they are not able to safely use they should be free of reprimand?
The infected systems should be blocked from internet access ... but surely you're not implying that people who aren't technical enough to be a sys or network admins can't own a computer? Would I have to take a test online or at a store before ordering a computer?
Spam causes real financial trouble and being infected either means Windows and therefore Microsoft are at fault, or the user is at fault.
I don't see you pointing a finger at those who start this whole mess: the people writing the virus "packages" for sale, the botnet operators and those who hire them to spew spam, steal bank login information, coordinate DDoS attacks and everything in between.
Someone has to be responsible, if you left the keys to your car in the open and someone took it for a joyride, crashing into a store front and smashing up a bunch of televisions, that's exactly the same as letting someone steal bandwidth and clock cycles for spamming people.
In this analogy those who create and maintain the botnets & spam would be the joyriders ... and once again I don't see you putting any blame on them.
In the future:
Desktops will be dead. No one will have them.
Laptops will be your workhorse. Many will have them for work.
Netbooks will be your casual computing device. Some will have them for novelty.
Phones will be your go-to interface for day-to-day needs. Everyone will have one.
In the future:
Foursquare will be dead. No one will remember it.
Laptops will be replaced by tablets. Many will have used laptops for work a long time ago.
Netbooks will be your go-to device for high-powered computing. Some will still type for novelty instead of using the cerebral interface.
Phones will be phones. Everyone will have one.
You're buying a little too heavily into a Los Angeles stereotype, there. Unless you believe we don't have any Art museums here. ;)
Having grown up in Southern California I know that any vertical surface in a school is a magnet for graffiti. The earthquakes, well, if this new school was built with the same quality control as the schools I attended someone slamming a door may be enough to trigger the first domino.
Any *real* museum (in California or anywhere else) builds the facility with protecting the art in mind. Schools? Not so much.
They need to teach the kids how to pray for more money for their school system ...
Alarms automagically go off when a poor kid pees in the pool. The rich kids buy 'pee in the pool' credits in advance and simply avoid the embarrassment.
and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale [blogspot.com] to buy a bomber
To be fair, their lemon bars are the bomb ...
No, but some graffiti or an earthquake will turn their precious fine art murals and marble memorial into nostalgia discussed in the teachers' lounge.
So you're talking about a fork of Tor with a very specific purpose?
People generally don't have political and ideological motives to exaggerate peak helium like they do peak for coal and oil.
Yet ...
There's plenty of Helium-4 & Helium-3 on the moon. Now get crackin' ...
I'd be able to take Mr. Richardson's claims more seriously if his voice wasn't so artificially high ...
Kim Jong-Il heard about Farmville and thought that sounded fun-.
Really? I heard he was going to use it to better train his farmers.
no different than most other face book users ..
It has a completely meaning when North Korea 'cancels' the account of one of its citizen.
The $5 is probably a way for them to be able ID anyone who wants to sneak malicious code into an extension. If they have your CC number they have a pretty good way of knowing who you might be. If they took cash the $5 wouldn't stop anyone who wanted to poison their extension. A verifiable electronic payment will prevent most of those who might try it.
Baby steps get you somewhere, leaps leave a lot of people behind. You need to nudge people to make the small changes ... and you have to rely on the young and the brave to try something new.
Wow ... reading all that was really stressful ... too bad there isn't a source for stress relief that is easily accessible. sigh
I guess we all need to wait for someone in Sweden's Prosecution Authority office to leak the truth about this ;-)
Foursquare isn't useful for anything important.
Clearly it functions well as the target of Perl scripts and being the butt of /. jokes. Hmm, I see you point.
Where's the graph showing Linux's install base compared to the rest of the market? Is it going up, down or staying the same? Sure, Android is going up and that is good for Linux but what about the industry as a whole? Linux can't pin their 'desktop invasion' on the hopes of a mobile OS distro that most users will never fully take advantage of.
Teachers who teach the advanced classes look much better in the test results than the teachers who have a class full of 'slower' students who need the extra attention that they can only get in a call full of their 'peers'. Lots of kids need extra help for a variety of reasons (language barriers, parents who don't do their part, learning disabilities, laziness, etc) and the best way to teach them is to have them all together so they don't get left further behind. That teacher will never look good on these standardized tests.