China would care if we could get a backbone and actually stop buying all the cheap products which help produce this level of pollution. Plenty of other countries want to have strong industrial economies and we could work with the more reasonable governments to install EPA like restrictions from the get go. It wouldn't happen over night, but eventually China would be forced to clean up its act as they saw the numbers drop.
That is exceedingly sloppy thinking. Pollution is a problem of combined effects from multiple sources. Your claim that the USA, or Europe, or Japan reducing their respective pollution outputs "won't make a difference" isn't just an overstatement, it is false. EVERY bit makes a difference. The same logic you just used justifies every kind of petty offense in the world.
Collective problems require incremental solutions. Just because you cannot personally observe the effects of every increment doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
No, he is saying that you should spend your money where you get the greatest affect. Asking for a 5% increase in US output for 5 trillion dollars is a waste if we can get a 80% increase in china for 50 billion. And with developing nations that do not even use basic scrubbers that 80% will account several times the clean up that we can eak out of our own country. So, create the equipment here export and maybe even help fund the process, but if we really care about pollution the US has to stop thinking its the center of the Universe and realize we are a world of Nations and we all need to help out.
Start with cleaning up the developing nations and as they catch up continue to improve our own efficiency or else the US will hit an asymptotic behavior nearing zero pollution and China, India, and Africa will have us all still choking to our deaths.
Nope, I'm apparently wrong. Dark Horse makes a line of comics that has been under publication. Its possible though that they never licensed it, but if they did from wiki comes this information
"The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc.[citation needed] Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc.[citation needed]"
Given the lack of citation I do not know if its correct or not.
Even if superman was public domain that would only allow you to reprint the various stories already published. Writing new superman stories as long as DC is still publishing and actively protecting its trade marks is not possible with out licensing. This is different then Connan becoming public domain, because as far as I know no new cannon works had come out since the films and the trademarks were long left unprotected. (I'll go make sure of that now..)
Did not the UK miners union/guild choose to go back to work with out a new contract effectively loosing the strike and costing its members an entire years salary?
I find myself wondering how the producer of the socks makes any financial gain. According to the check out page the socks cost -2.00 USD. I'm heavily thinking of investing in some sock storage because at 2.00 for every sock I adopt I could make a fortune. I'm sure the initial investment will more then pay for the shipping and afterwords I can resale them for additional capitol.
Your missing the point. It isn't that they require it now, but it is easy for legislation to be passed that will require it. Single payer transactions will always be unregulated. Your example is more akin to paying income taxes on your lawn mowing revenue as a teenager. Sure your legally required to, but how can anyone track down that small of a transaction.
I am mostly focusing on the large exchanges which handle multiple transactions a day and have a large public facing advertisement structure bragging about what they do. In the end this is where the bulk of the transactions in and out of the system will come from and they are easy to regulate if they want to keep making money hand over fist. When you start pulling over 250k a year from any activity governments start paying attention.
Still this all requires that you make money the government can track. If you can keep all your transactions inside of bitcoin then you can be as anon as you want, much like your post.
This article show a great deal of pro Bit Coin bias. Sever farms for generating coins may not be common yet, but bot nets are already an issue. However the real stickler point that the Legal Council is trying to get acknowledged in my opinion is the point of Exchange. In this case the point of Exchange from Bit Coin's to USD. (e.g https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox )
For now you can stay anon as long as your jacked in the system and buying goods that people will exchange for Bit Coins (I've personally never been on a website that accepts them, but I may not be paying attention). But the moment you want to trade with someone outside the system you will have to report that exchange to the proper authorities. I think the acknowledgement that BitCoin does have an issue where legal entities can require all sorts of gating protocols at the boarder points is at least worth debate.
I've always found it interesting, how projections get the basic concepts right, but they completely miss on the piratical implementation of things. In TNG everyone caries around a small computing pad, but they seem to keep several of them from different reports and do not have any internal communication systems unless they download from a master main frame
Early on one of the interviews talks about full volumetric holographic displays by the end of the centuries, but ignores the middle ground of real time video transmission on existing displays. And the artistic renderings through out the video's keep displays as simple monochrome 13inch displays, because no one seems to imagine a high resolution color display, but they can predict the need for a network based communication network to transmit idea's.
The basics of the video are valid and a good projection to modern times, but all of the interpretations of how it will be implemented show a limitation based on 1985's existing tech. You see this same limitation in the early 1950/1960's articles on the world of tomorrow.
I guess I don't see the brilliance of a interactive timeline with LoD changes as you zoom.
I've seen a few of these projects in the past and to be honest it runs fairly slow and the fonts were fuzy on this machine at least. My guess would be that the reason this is news is because that Redmond's marketing team is behind it. I really can't understand for a moment why this took 25 people to make.
"That’s when Microsoft Research committed resources to support 25 researchers – including eight current and former UC Berkeley students – in an intense, six-month project to create an entirely new piece of software, also called ChronoZoom, that makes it easy to update the cosmic timeline with more specialized timelines, videos, images and even research papers. ChronoZoom 2.0 is based on Microsoft Azure, a platform that lets developers create applications that manipulate data across a “cloud” of datacenters, and HTML5, the newest — though still evolving — language for displaying content on the Web."
Its not that impressive to generate some base logic and strip down your variable names to cram it in to a small character space. Personally, I was more impressed with.
I find the default dock position should be on the left of the screen on OS X. You can switch this in a few seconds by right clicking on the divider line between applications and stacks and clicking Position Screen ->Left you can also turn on hiding, magnification, but you can't adjust magnification.
My point is it takes a lot longer then 10 minutes to download cygwin and the default font and terminal is cmd.exe which is fairly weak. (others might not care). It takes a minute to change the dock and POSIX is installed by default.
OS X can dumb down apps I don't use all they want. As long as its certified UNIX I will use it any day of the week over windows.
AIDS is a much bigger problem for underdeveloped countries. Look at the rates in Africa compared to the US and like it or not lowering the transmission rates through proper education drastically reduces the transmission rates through transfusions and other methods. No reason not to research a vaccine and a cure, but when you compare AIDS to something like Malaria or Small Pocks things that are passed through the air or by insects that are virtually impossible to avoid I don't find it so hard to understand why a person would rather donate to other causes.
Forced and accidental transmission are a problem with any STD, but really want to lower the incident rate which will require a combination of treatments, vaccines and preventive treatment. Weather you want to admit it or not for all STDs this involves both protective measures during and before engaging in sex and saying its not in our nature isn't really the answer.
I haven't seen a plant for an Xbox, but the last time I looked at motherboard assembly a surprising amount of it was done by hand. The board is printed and cut, then workers attach all the sockets and connectors.
It is odd that by advocating the removal of choice to , with out affecting you at all, cover images deemed inappropriate ( a feature already part of wiki just to manual see moonbook.js filters ) You advocate complete censorship of information in text form on subjects that might have these images attached to them. I find the opposing argument to this completely intolerant and ignorant on multiple levels. Besides, depending on your level of education a ton of medical textbooks do have drawn images. The silly labeled vagina image on wiki is no more useful compared to a clear diagram. Combined they are great reference aids and should both be available, but which you see at the top of an article should be decided by use choice not the random editors of the internet.
Everyone here is really advocating choice here and the only viewpoint I see that limits what the opposing side can do in their wiki time is yours.
Actually, we we go through on this site often is usless arguments who don't know what censorship is and mistake it for choice, moderation, or reason In general censorship is deletion or refusal to publish. It shouldn't be confused with warnings, or choice. Its just as invasive to prevent someone from choosing not to be part of something as it is to refuse for them to participate. Free Speech is about letting opinions be heard and viewed and I don't see how allowing people to click a check box that covers up images they choose not to see, while still letting them view it because it was never deleted or removed is censorship by any definition.
You know "For the children" Has to be the worst possible way to think about these things. You either offer an opt-in filter for people who have a problem with it or you don't and in general it doesn't hurt the pro I want the raw reality people to allow the people who don't want to see it have an opportunity to turn it off. If you insist everyone agree with you your just a zealot like the people on the other side of the fence your yelling about. Almost all censorship in modern times is the result of backlash when both sides meet in the middle so avoiding the subject matter is as easy as consuming it, then the censorship arguments loose ground quickly.
You really have to ask yourself. Is it so bad for moderate-search to be the default on google even though I always click do not filter my images. I think any resonable person would say that it isn't a problem and if we don't want to rip down safe-search why should we scream about safe-wiki
I agree with this. I might go a step further in thinking that most medical images should be covered with a drawn diagram and in the caption say. Photograph avaliable at Which does a javascript swap out when you press it. I played with adding the function to mediawiki, but I never felt the results were strong enough to push up stream. Hell, even the images guidelines mentions that they just don't currently have a solution your welcome to submit one.
The kids in the discussion pages always scream censorship realizing they don't really know the difference between monodist and censorship. I don't think any reasonable person is asking for the pictures to be deleted or removed from the article completely, but I would like to know that by default I can make Wikipeida SFW at least by opt-in like googles safe-search. I have about 12 images blocked on moonbook.js, but frankly once you stumble on the image then click on it to get the ful name so you can block it. Its likely engrained in your head. So, it makes more sense to be proactive, but leave the images available on request.
I personally suggest you get over yourself. From your post I get this feeling you skipped collage and are coming back and now feel your to busy to get a degree someone is pressing you to get. If its not the case and you are only 18-22 I suggest you work out away to go to school part time and drop one of your jobs. Some of the best students I find at Universities are Adults who come back. The fact they have families, jobs, and other issues makes them far more dedicated and less likely to waste time. They typically go year round to get the electives out of the way and I don't see why you can't find away to work it out as well. A Bachelors is a specific field type of education which is aimed at a generally rounded higher education with a small focus on some field of study. While the next level of degree a Masters is a specialized degree with pure focus on a single discipline and generally research experience. If that is not what you want to do or you find the process with out merit I suggest you pursue a different piece of paper to prove your worth. Depending on your true work experience and you coding portfolio you can likely just start paying money to take certification exams to sprinkle all over the resume. Get a few certifications in programming languages and then move on to OS admin and maintenance maybe to impress the bosses you could then move on to networking, databases, and IDEs.
I read a few months back that the expectation is that work experience will start to trump education this decade and that the larger business are starting to reverse trends which focus so much on college education. So, it is a direction to take if you feel that college just isn't for you, but it likely won't be any cheaper as the average test cost about the same as a 3 hour course and you will still need books and courses to prep you for the exams that are actually difficult.
Finally, You will not find a Bachelors at an decent university that doesn't require you to take Math, Physics, History, English, Physiology, Economics, and many more. Hell of a 120 hours to 160 hours of course work 54 might be in your field with 18-30 going to a minor and the rest to general studies.
If you post on blog.us.playstation.com your likely giving Sony oral sex on a regular basis so what isn't a bunch of bots posting positive comments are idiots with no real understanding of the issue
Ok to be fair the only real story hear is the compromised security. This is the first down time since it came up that I know of and I seem to remember this happening to the 360 some time around the first two years of its existence. I could care less about the down time. I want to know what type of useless security allowed the security questions and answers to be stolen. That is the type of stuff you store in one way encryption.
I would like a little more clarity on the issue as I have had to create all new answers to the stupid non secure questions like What City were you born for all accounts that have any association with my e-mail account associated with my log on id.
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China would care if we could get a backbone and actually stop buying all the cheap products which help produce this level of pollution. Plenty of other countries want to have strong industrial economies and we could work with the more reasonable governments to install EPA like restrictions from the get go. It wouldn't happen over night, but eventually China would be forced to clean up its act as they saw the numbers drop.
That is exceedingly sloppy thinking. Pollution is a problem of combined effects from multiple sources. Your claim that the USA, or Europe, or Japan reducing their respective pollution outputs "won't make a difference" isn't just an overstatement, it is false. EVERY bit makes a difference. The same logic you just used justifies every kind of petty offense in the world.
Collective problems require incremental solutions. Just because you cannot personally observe the effects of every increment doesn't mean it's irrelevant.
No, he is saying that you should spend your money where you get the greatest affect. Asking for a 5% increase in US output for 5 trillion dollars is a waste if we can get a 80% increase in china for 50 billion. And with developing nations that do not even use basic scrubbers that 80% will account several times the clean up that we can eak out of our own country. So, create the equipment here export and maybe even help fund the process, but if we really care about pollution the US has to stop thinking its the center of the Universe and realize we are a world of Nations and we all need to help out.
Start with cleaning up the developing nations and as they catch up continue to improve our own efficiency or else the US will hit an asymptotic behavior nearing zero pollution and China, India, and Africa will have us all still choking to our deaths.
Nope, I'm apparently wrong. Dark Horse makes a line of comics that has been under publication. Its possible though that they never licensed it, but if they did from wiki comes this information
"The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc.[citation needed] Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc.[citation needed]"
Given the lack of citation I do not know if its correct or not.
Even if superman was public domain that would only allow you to reprint the various stories already published. Writing new superman stories as long as DC is still publishing and actively protecting its trade marks is not possible with out licensing. This is different then Connan becoming public domain, because as far as I know no new cannon works had come out since the films and the trademarks were long left unprotected. (I'll go make sure of that now..)
Did not the UK miners union/guild choose to go back to work with out a new contract effectively loosing the strike and costing its members an entire years salary?
I find myself wondering how the producer of the socks makes any financial gain. According to the check out page the socks cost -2.00 USD. I'm heavily thinking of investing in some sock storage because at 2.00 for every sock I adopt I could make a fortune. I'm sure the initial investment will more then pay for the shipping and afterwords I can resale them for additional capitol.
Your missing the point. It isn't that they require it now, but it is easy for legislation to be passed that will require it. Single payer transactions will always be unregulated. Your example is more akin to paying income taxes on your lawn mowing revenue as a teenager. Sure your legally required to, but how can anyone track down that small of a transaction.
I am mostly focusing on the large exchanges which handle multiple transactions a day and have a large public facing advertisement structure bragging about what they do. In the end this is where the bulk of the transactions in and out of the system will come from and they are easy to regulate if they want to keep making money hand over fist. When you start pulling over 250k a year from any activity governments start paying attention.
Still this all requires that you make money the government can track. If you can keep all your transactions inside of bitcoin then you can be as anon as you want, much like your post.
This article show a great deal of pro Bit Coin bias. Sever farms for generating coins may not be common yet, but bot nets are already an issue. However the real stickler point that the Legal Council is trying to get acknowledged in my opinion is the point of Exchange. In this case the point of Exchange from Bit Coin's to USD. (e.g https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox )
For now you can stay anon as long as your jacked in the system and buying goods that people will exchange for Bit Coins (I've personally never been on a website that accepts them, but I may not be paying attention). But the moment you want to trade with someone outside the system you will have to report that exchange to the proper authorities. I think the acknowledgement that BitCoin does have an issue where legal entities can require all sorts of gating protocols at the boarder points is at least worth debate.
If a gram of DNA can hold a Library of Congress we are going to need a new unit of measure here at database when having storage debates.
I've always found it interesting, how projections get the basic concepts right, but they completely miss on the piratical implementation of things. In TNG everyone caries around a small computing pad, but they seem to keep several of them from different reports and do not have any internal communication systems unless they download from a master main frame
Early on one of the interviews talks about full volumetric holographic displays by the end of the centuries, but ignores the middle ground of real time video transmission on existing displays. And the artistic renderings through out the video's keep displays as simple monochrome 13inch displays, because no one seems to imagine a high resolution color display, but they can predict the need for a network based communication network to transmit idea's.
The basics of the video are valid and a good projection to modern times, but all of the interpretations of how it will be implemented show a limitation based on 1985's existing tech. You see this same limitation in the early 1950/1960's articles on the world of tomorrow.
I guess I don't see the brilliance of a interactive timeline with LoD changes as you zoom.
I've seen a few of these projects in the past and to be honest it runs fairly slow and the fonts were fuzy on this machine at least. My guess would be that the reason this is news is because that Redmond's marketing team is behind it. I really can't understand for a moment why this took 25 people to make.
"That’s when Microsoft Research committed resources to support 25 researchers – including eight current and former UC Berkeley students – in an intense, six-month project to create an entirely new piece of software, also called ChronoZoom, that makes it easy to update the cosmic timeline with more specialized timelines, videos, images and even research papers. ChronoZoom 2.0 is based on Microsoft Azure, a platform that lets developers create applications that manipulate data across a “cloud” of datacenters, and HTML5, the newest — though still evolving — language for displaying content on the Web."
Agreed,
Its not that impressive to generate some base logic and strip down your variable names to cram it in to a small character space. Personally, I was more impressed with.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/04/04/15/1239203/first-person-shooter---under-100kbs-of-code
I find the default dock position should be on the left of the screen on OS X. You can switch this in a few seconds by right clicking on the divider line between applications and stacks and clicking Position Screen ->Left you can also turn on hiding, magnification, but you can't adjust magnification.
My point is it takes a lot longer then 10 minutes to download cygwin and the default font and terminal is cmd.exe which is fairly weak. (others might not care). It takes a minute to change the dock and POSIX is installed by default.
OS X can dumb down apps I don't use all they want. As long as its certified UNIX I will use it any day of the week over windows.
AIDS is a much bigger problem for underdeveloped countries. Look at the rates in Africa compared to the US and like it or not lowering the transmission rates through proper education drastically reduces the transmission rates through transfusions and other methods. No reason not to research a vaccine and a cure, but when you compare AIDS to something like Malaria or Small Pocks things that are passed through the air or by insects that are virtually impossible to avoid I don't find it so hard to understand why a person would rather donate to other causes.
Forced and accidental transmission are a problem with any STD, but really want to lower the incident rate which will require a combination of treatments, vaccines and preventive treatment. Weather you want to admit it or not for all STDs this involves both protective measures during and before engaging in sex and saying its not in our nature isn't really the answer.
First version of windows not to be exploitable by Virus at launch... at least until the recompile.
I haven't seen a plant for an Xbox, but the last time I looked at motherboard assembly a surprising amount of it was done by hand. The board is printed and cut, then workers attach all the sockets and connectors.
We might as well link the third article on Slashdot to an RSS feed or Mozilla releases. Its starting to get an article every 5 days or so.
It is odd that by advocating the removal of choice to , with out affecting you at all, cover images deemed inappropriate ( a feature already part of wiki just to manual see moonbook.js filters ) You advocate complete censorship of information in text form on subjects that might have these images attached to them. I find the opposing argument to this completely intolerant and ignorant on multiple levels. Besides, depending on your level of education a ton of medical textbooks do have drawn images. The silly labeled vagina image on wiki is no more useful compared to a clear diagram. Combined they are great reference aids and should both be available, but which you see at the top of an article should be decided by use choice not the random editors of the internet.
Everyone here is really advocating choice here and the only viewpoint I see that limits what the opposing side can do in their wiki time is yours.
Actually, we we go through on this site often is usless arguments who don't know what censorship is and mistake it for choice, moderation, or reason In general censorship is deletion or refusal to publish. It shouldn't be confused with warnings, or choice. Its just as invasive to prevent someone from choosing not to be part of something as it is to refuse for them to participate. Free Speech is about letting opinions be heard and viewed and I don't see how allowing people to click a check box that covers up images they choose not to see, while still letting them view it because it was never deleted or removed is censorship by any definition.
You know "For the children" Has to be the worst possible way to think about these things. You either offer an opt-in filter for people who have a problem with it or you don't and in general it doesn't hurt the pro I want the raw reality people to allow the people who don't want to see it have an opportunity to turn it off. If you insist everyone agree with you your just a zealot like the people on the other side of the fence your yelling about. Almost all censorship in modern times is the result of backlash when both sides meet in the middle so avoiding the subject matter is as easy as consuming it, then the censorship arguments loose ground quickly.
You really have to ask yourself. Is it so bad for moderate-search to be the default on google even though I always click do not filter my images. I think any resonable person would say that it isn't a problem and if we don't want to rip down safe-search why should we scream about safe-wiki
I agree with this. I might go a step further in thinking that most medical images should be covered with a drawn diagram and in the caption say. Photograph avaliable at Which does a javascript swap out when you press it. I played with adding the function to mediawiki, but I never felt the results were strong enough to push up stream. Hell, even the images guidelines mentions that they just don't currently have a solution your welcome to submit one.
The kids in the discussion pages always scream censorship realizing they don't really know the difference between monodist and censorship. I don't think any reasonable person is asking for the pictures to be deleted or removed from the article completely, but I would like to know that by default I can make Wikipeida SFW at least by opt-in like googles safe-search. I have about 12 images blocked on moonbook.js, but frankly once you stumble on the image then click on it to get the ful name so you can block it. Its likely engrained in your head. So, it makes more sense to be proactive, but leave the images available on request.
I don't see why people have to worry
I personally suggest you get over yourself. From your post I get this feeling you skipped collage and are coming back and now feel your to busy to get a degree someone is pressing you to get. If its not the case and you are only 18-22 I suggest you work out away to go to school part time and drop one of your jobs. Some of the best students I find at Universities are Adults who come back. The fact they have families, jobs, and other issues makes them far more dedicated and less likely to waste time. They typically go year round to get the electives out of the way and I don't see why you can't find away to work it out as well. A Bachelors is a specific field type of education which is aimed at a generally rounded higher education with a small focus on some field of study. While the next level of degree a Masters is a specialized degree with pure focus on a single discipline and generally research experience. If that is not what you want to do or you find the process with out merit I suggest you pursue a different piece of paper to prove your worth. Depending on your true work experience and you coding portfolio you can likely just start paying money to take certification exams to sprinkle all over the resume. Get a few certifications in programming languages and then move on to OS admin and maintenance maybe to impress the bosses you could then move on to networking, databases, and IDEs.
I read a few months back that the expectation is that work experience will start to trump education this decade and that the larger business are starting to reverse trends which focus so much on college education. So, it is a direction to take if you feel that college just isn't for you, but it likely won't be any cheaper as the average test cost about the same as a 3 hour course and you will still need books and courses to prep you for the exams that are actually difficult.
Finally,
You will not find a Bachelors at an decent university that doesn't require you to take Math, Physics, History, English, Physiology, Economics, and many more. Hell of a 120 hours to 160 hours of course work 54 might be in your field with 18-30 going to a minor and the rest to general studies.
If you post on blog.us.playstation.com your likely giving Sony oral sex on a regular basis so what isn't a bunch of bots posting positive comments are idiots with no real understanding of the issue
Ok to be fair the only real story hear is the compromised security. This is the first down time since it came up that I know of and I seem to remember this happening to the 360 some time around the first two years of its existence. I could care less about the down time. I want to know what type of useless security allowed the security questions and answers to be stolen. That is the type of stuff you store in one way encryption.
I would like a little more clarity on the issue as I have had to create all new answers to the stupid non secure questions like What City were you born for all accounts that have any association with my e-mail account associated with my log on id.
And considering the tools are easily found by any member of Slashdot http://www.kismetwireless.net/