We really do not know what is really discussed in the ACTA context. But the few things which leaked are not compatible with the German and the French constitution. It is against rules in the European human rights agreement and the Lisbon-Treaty (which made the EU a little bit more democratic). The European Parliament has expressed their concern that ACTA is not discussed in the public, which is not very democratic, but big companies especially US-companies can have treaty documents. So a elected parliament is kept in the dark while the money jerks are directly involved. In short the parliament is pissed. And they will dismiss it, just they did with the SWIFT-spying treaty between the EU and the USA. When do executive politicians learn that we life in a democracy?
They did not say. Stop using firefox. They said there is a serious bug in FF and until this is fixed, be cautious. Oh and by the way that is exactly what a agency for information technology should do. Tell people that there are risks and how to deal with them.
The BSI is not the government. It is a federal agency. BSI = Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (engl. Federal Agency for safety and security in Information Technology). They are more something like CERT. Even though the US government thinks the BSI is some sort of NSA, because the NSA also does security in information technology (e.g. seLinux). However, the BSI does not spy on people. This is done by another agency.
And the BSI is so much the government as it is the police or judges.
ACTA will only work when every (first world) country is implementing it, but the EU-Parliament is already against it, because the discussion on ACTA and all documents are kept undisclosed. You could say: Who cares what this parliament is thinking? Well Obama should care, because if the parliament is not involved and the documents are not public, then the EU will not implement ACTA which means almost 500 mio people will not be threatened by ACTA. Third world countries will not adopt to ACTA either when the EU is not doing so.
Even though, some information leaked and it looks like that ACTA would not be legal in Germany as the constitutions defines certain rights. For example the state is not allowed to transfer information on Internet-traffic to private organizations without reasonable suspicion and a letter from a judge. Also the three-strikes-law-idea is against the rules in the EU, and obviously it is against the French constitution. And I am absolutely sure if they would try it in Germany it will fail too. As cutting you of from the Internet violates your right to be informed. And this right is very important in a democracy. It is definitely not an allowed sanction by any European constitution or agreement. So ACTA may be a dead horse and Obama is riding it. It would be better when he would tell all these US-Americans that general health care is good and that securing the existential basis of any person in a country is a necessary thing.
Most Apple users are not so M$ friendly. When Apple would switch to Bing, they will loose some of their reputation. However, they can get Forestle (www.forestle.org). That would fit with their customers.
Today's IDE use special windows and sections to display structures of classes, XML files, schema definitions. Automatic generated program documentation is also already in proportional fonts. While most of the reading is done to lookup features (method names, tags, structural semantics) this is already done with proportional fonts. The only place where you read actual mono spaced text is in an editor to edit a class or function (if you are programming in a non OOP language).
However, there are other techniques which can improve reading speed at an even bigger scale. You could use domain specific languages (DSL) to generate C, Java, Python, Ruby, Fortran, etc. code. So instead of describing every aspect of every class you can use a problem specific language to model everything. Combined with AOP you can reduce the code base which must be read by humans by 300-400%. And if you are writing another application for the same domain you are able to reuse a lot of the template and artefacts you used for the first time.
The "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" (BSI), engl. Federal Bureau for Security in Information Technology, is not a governmental, but a state institution. It is not strictly driven by the government. And it is controlled by the parliament. Even though it works in the domain of the ministry of the interior. So no minister was involved in the "do not use IE" speech.
BTW: IE has not the biggest market share in Germany.
Go for graph theory, sets, etc. as these things appear in CS all over the place. Graph theory stuff can be used with DFAs and other automata and Petri-nets. It can also help in managing semantic data. Sets are used for almost everything. In my actual position I will develop a domain specific language (DSL) which includes the description of some sort of automaton maybe something based on sync charts. Also the DSL shall be able describe things on different abstraction levels or for different abstraction levels. And on the upper level networks have to be described and verified analytically (if possible). This all involves graph theory. Vectors, euclidean space, differentials (analysis) is used mostly in simulations and sometimes (rarely) in stochastic/statistics. So go for the graphs. I also recommend learning something about description logic, Turing machines, horn clauses, languages etc. (but that should be already part of the required curriculum in any Bachelor program).
The problem of the US is, that they do not educate enough people in the sciences. One problem is, that the universities and colleges train people to fit job descriptions very well, which makes these people less flexible for future developments. Also most people only have a bachelor degree. It would be better when everyone would go for a scientific master degree. In the past the US compensated this problem by importing scientists and engineers from Europe, India, and other continents and countries. Since the US became more restrictive, these scientists stay in other countries. Also the Dollar is losing value, so it makes less sense to work abroad and bring back Dollars.
Such reactors may be less dangerous and the may produce less radioactive waste. But even though. They still produce radioactive waste, which we cannot handle. And it uses still a extremely limited resource. We will eat up the reserves in no time. And it would be again a centralized energy production. We want a decentralized energy production to become independent from big energy companies and to produce the energy more safely. And a large number of small generators are much less vulnerable to a total loss than one big one. Big technology is bad technology.
An artist or a lawyer normally do not have the necessary skills to switch a lightbulb so how could they probably build a bomb. Furthermore lawyers are better in targeting and destroying companies or the legal system. Artists are good in making fun of western symbols and values e.g. ($ EUR YEN). Also engineering students are more likely to be treated badly by others. Hey they are geeks so they respond "good" when they are the target of jokes. They are more likely introvert. The same persons tend to shoot of peoples heads in high schools for the same reasons.
So if someone thinks he is mistreated by all other people he most likely does not have any sympathy left for those jerks. Therefore the best way to prevent terror recruitment is to integrate geeks and even dorks back in society. Also as societies: We should not treat other societies as inferior, which is also a source of terrorism.
I do not find this that expressive. 56 trains is even a little vague, but assuming the mean 56 trains running over the whole distance, than that would mean 2.33 trains an hour over the whole day. Further assuming they will not run trains during the night. Then this results in a 30 minute schedule for both directions. The Japanese are running their trains in a tighter schedule and in Germany there run more trains on the tracks with even different speeds between the stations. So this looks only impressive to US-Americans. The impressive thing about that Chinese train system is, that a developing country is building a developed country rail system. And they want to build a rail grid with 16000 km length. That is really impressive even though Germany's total track length is 41000 km (20000km electrified).
As for the US you really should invest in your rail infrastructure, while fossil fuels will get very expensive in future, many flights might become very expensive too. Trains however can be powered with electricity from renewable sources. And the east and west coast are densely populated to make trains a good alternative to plains. And building infrastructure would be a far better way to spend money than giving it to banks. It will even generate lots of jobs for years. To make most of a trains system you should combine it with a local train subnet and streetcars(trams) and city railways.
No you cannot. For example in Western-Europe especially in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland or Austria the countries are very well "developed". In Germany you can get to a highway (Autobahn) in a 50 km radius. Also most towns are accessible by train. And every big city is connected to others on an hourly schedule (with fast trains) and additional local trains.
It looks like the train is based on the ICE train in Germany (at least from the pictures). However, there is only one 350 km/h capable track in Germany (between Cologne and Frankfurt). It is nice to see that similar technology is used in other countries and the developers of ICE- and TGV-trains are working together. However, it is not very energy efficient to run trains on these speeds. And the attrition of wheels and tracks increase drastically.
And the article has one error the fastest train is the TGV-Atlantique with a top speed of 515,3 km/h. Even though that speed is not achieved in normal operations, as this is not really econimical to run trains that fast in Europe with stops every 50-100 km. The standard speed of the TGV on some of its tracks is 380 km/h on others it is even slower.
Maybe without Linux we would use Minix or Hurd today. While Linus caused an crystallization point for hundreds of developers he did not write the thing alone. these people were already there. More or less waiting for something like this to happen. Most of them were already part of the Minix mailing list. So most likely Linux was already waiting to happen then. From my own time as an undergraduate. all the good programmers wanted to write an OS. And when it Linux came into existence everyone said cool. I take it and I do something with it. The same happened later with the browser as well. And if X11 would have had a better programming interface there would have been more different browsers out there. Still. Thanks to Linus for starting it.
Page 7: Buy too much electronic junk and put it in a car.
$ 25 000 are about 20 000 EUR which could pay my rent for the next 35 month. But event though I do not have a car not even one worth $ 500. So this way of wasting money won't work for me.
Neither it is too many stupid questions. Why do women not study CS? Well they don't want to. Why do women not want to study CS? Because they think it is boring. That's why they all study math. And something else. I heard lots of complains about the bad payment, the hard work, the long working hours, and these many foreigners in the US which make so much competition. Well the point is they all speak English, so they can easily work in their home country and in yours. However, there are plenty of job opportunities in Europe. And in most companies you might even be able to work in English. But it would be helpful to speak the language of that country too. You could take courses. For example: You could go to Germany. With am master degree in CS you get something between 36 000 EUR and 43 000 EUR if you are fresh out of university. And you get a paid leave (if I'm not mistaken that are 25 or 28 work days eg. 5 to 5.5 weeks). You get health-care and the company pays half of the cost. And it does not cost more when you have a family. They are all inclusive. And you pay less tax when you have children. And they cannot dump you after probation period, you get at least 3 month cancellation period.
There have more of those socialist laws here. You cannot be kicked out of a flat you rented. And people normally do not carry around guns. The only bad thing. The school system sucks as much as in the US (official OECD values). But may be you could go to any other west or north European country like the Netherlands (good schools) or Sweden (good schools and even better health care)
That's why you should get a master degree. And when think you cannot get a job in the US, because of all those foreigners. Go to Europe, computer scientists are rare here. And we need more of them. Especially software engineers.
In a recession people start saving money instead of spending it. Also in some countries (like the US) many people used credit buying to get the items they wanted. They also bought houses the same way. Now many people have lost their jobs and other people are encouraged by their banks to pay back the credits. So people stop buying unimportant luxury stuff, like games or game consoles. When they bau they try to spend less money. That's why they buy netbooks rather than full fledged notebooks.
In addition to the recession. The consoles are now on the market for quite some time. And the number of people who really want such device already bought it. So fewer people want new units. In some cases people buy replacement units for their old machines. But honestly, the market is satisfied and new devices are not needed. The next thing would be to create new consoles which can do things the old one cannot, but what shall that be? As graphics is not the primary sales argument, it is story line. That's why Nintendo was so successful lately. They invented interactive games which can be used in groups. A little like Activity or Cranium (board games where you have to perform).
You got my vote. We really have to limit the use of data mining. The improvements in people manipulation based on data mining and psychology shall not be used in marketing methods. However, it will become very complicated to get it outlawed. As the manipulation techniques are also used in politics in favor of the powerful class in our societies.
Earth itself is made out of materials from outer space. Some super novae transported the heavy metals to our solar system. And even that was not there all the time. Hell no. And even some people think that happened on Tuesday. I am absolutely sure the whole Earth creation stuff happened on Monday as God rested on Saturday. And on Monday he made a loud noise.
Honestly if you want to increase the average health care, which means the health care for most people and only pay 50% of what you pay now, just change your health care system to any system in West Europe (except the British one). Even the German one is better and that still sucks. BTW computer can be a helpful tool to manage data, but that is often not the real problem. In most cases it is bad management, induced by the wrong goals.
This is not totally true. Köhler (the president) is still a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) (neo-conservatices). And there is no such rule in the German constitution (Grundgesetz) which states, that the president cannot be member of a party.
The German President is the "pet" of our Chancellor Merkel. And as the law was only required to let the social democrats look like fools (which worked perfectly) it can now be dropped. However, this would need normally another law. And this would mean a lot of discussion. And it would look bad for the present neo-liberal/neo-conservative government. So the best way was to call the President and tell him to stop the law. And now it can be dropped or held for some time and dropped later. As the actual government messed up a lot in the first month, I guess they want to reduce possible additional hazards. (they messed up in Afghanistan too the former minister for defense (what an euphemism) who was then the minister of labour resign just this weekend, because his misjudgments).
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We really do not know what is really discussed in the ACTA context. But the few things which leaked are not compatible with the German and the French constitution. It is against rules in the European human rights agreement and the Lisbon-Treaty (which made the EU a little bit more democratic). The European Parliament has expressed their concern that ACTA is not discussed in the public, which is not very democratic, but big companies especially US-companies can have treaty documents. So a elected parliament is kept in the dark while the money jerks are directly involved. In short the parliament is pissed. And they will dismiss it, just they did with the SWIFT-spying treaty between the EU and the USA. When do executive politicians learn that we life in a democracy?
They did not say. Stop using firefox. They said there is a serious bug in FF and until this is fixed, be cautious. Oh and by the way that is exactly what a agency for information technology should do. Tell people that there are risks and how to deal with them.
The BSI is not the government. It is a federal agency. BSI = Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (engl. Federal Agency for safety and security in Information Technology). They are more something like CERT. Even though the US government thinks the BSI is some sort of NSA, because the NSA also does security in information technology (e.g. seLinux). However, the BSI does not spy on people. This is done by another agency. And the BSI is so much the government as it is the police or judges.
ACTA will only work when every (first world) country is implementing it, but the EU-Parliament is already against it, because the discussion on ACTA and all documents are kept undisclosed. You could say: Who cares what this parliament is thinking? Well Obama should care, because if the parliament is not involved and the documents are not public, then the EU will not implement ACTA which means almost 500 mio people will not be threatened by ACTA. Third world countries will not adopt to ACTA either when the EU is not doing so.
Even though, some information leaked and it looks like that ACTA would not be legal in Germany as the constitutions defines certain rights. For example the state is not allowed to transfer information on Internet-traffic to private organizations without reasonable suspicion and a letter from a judge. Also the three-strikes-law-idea is against the rules in the EU, and obviously it is against the French constitution. And I am absolutely sure if they would try it in Germany it will fail too. As cutting you of from the Internet violates your right to be informed. And this right is very important in a democracy. It is definitely not an allowed sanction by any European constitution or agreement. So ACTA may be a dead horse and Obama is riding it. It would be better when he would tell all these US-Americans that general health care is good and that securing the existential basis of any person in a country is a necessary thing.
Most Apple users are not so M$ friendly. When Apple would switch to Bing, they will loose some of their reputation. However, they can get Forestle (www.forestle.org). That would fit with their customers.
Today's IDE use special windows and sections to display structures of classes, XML files, schema definitions. Automatic generated program documentation is also already in proportional fonts. While most of the reading is done to lookup features (method names, tags, structural semantics) this is already done with proportional fonts. The only place where you read actual mono spaced text is in an editor to edit a class or function (if you are programming in a non OOP language).
However, there are other techniques which can improve reading speed at an even bigger scale. You could use domain specific languages (DSL) to generate C, Java, Python, Ruby, Fortran, etc. code. So instead of describing every aspect of every class you can use a problem specific language to model everything. Combined with AOP you can reduce the code base which must be read by humans by 300-400%. And if you are writing another application for the same domain you are able to reuse a lot of the template and artefacts you used for the first time.
and who's going to try stopping a jet traveling Mach 2?
An anti aircraft missile. Like Stinger or other mach 2+ missiles.
The "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" (BSI), engl. Federal Bureau for Security in Information Technology, is not a governmental, but a state institution. It is not strictly driven by the government. And it is controlled by the parliament. Even though it works in the domain of the ministry of the interior. So no minister was involved in the "do not use IE" speech.
BTW: IE has not the biggest market share in Germany.
Go for graph theory, sets, etc. as these things appear in CS all over the place. Graph theory stuff can be used with DFAs and other automata and Petri-nets. It can also help in managing semantic data. Sets are used for almost everything. In my actual position I will develop a domain specific language (DSL) which includes the description of some sort of automaton maybe something based on sync charts. Also the DSL shall be able describe things on different abstraction levels or for different abstraction levels. And on the upper level networks have to be described and verified analytically (if possible). This all involves graph theory. Vectors, euclidean space, differentials (analysis) is used mostly in simulations and sometimes (rarely) in stochastic/statistics. So go for the graphs. I also recommend learning something about description logic, Turing machines, horn clauses, languages etc. (but that should be already part of the required curriculum in any Bachelor program).
The problem of the US is, that they do not educate enough people in the sciences. One problem is, that the universities and colleges train people to fit job descriptions very well, which makes these people less flexible for future developments. Also most people only have a bachelor degree. It would be better when everyone would go for a scientific master degree. In the past the US compensated this problem by importing scientists and engineers from Europe, India, and other continents and countries. Since the US became more restrictive, these scientists stay in other countries. Also the Dollar is losing value, so it makes less sense to work abroad and bring back Dollars.
Such reactors may be less dangerous and the may produce less radioactive waste. But even though. They still produce radioactive waste, which we cannot handle. And it uses still a extremely limited resource. We will eat up the reserves in no time. And it would be again a centralized energy production. We want a decentralized energy production to become independent from big energy companies and to produce the energy more safely. And a large number of small generators are much less vulnerable to a total loss than one big one. Big technology is bad technology.
An artist or a lawyer normally do not have the necessary skills to switch a lightbulb so how could they probably build a bomb. Furthermore lawyers are better in targeting and destroying companies or the legal system. Artists are good in making fun of western symbols and values e.g. ($ EUR YEN). Also engineering students are more likely to be treated badly by others. Hey they are geeks so they respond "good" when they are the target of jokes. They are more likely introvert. The same persons tend to shoot of peoples heads in high schools for the same reasons.
So if someone thinks he is mistreated by all other people he most likely does not have any sympathy left for those jerks. Therefore the best way to prevent terror recruitment is to integrate geeks and even dorks back in society. Also as societies: We should not treat other societies as inferior, which is also a source of terrorism.
I do not find this that expressive. 56 trains is even a little vague, but assuming the mean 56 trains running over the whole distance, than that would mean 2.33 trains an hour over the whole day. Further assuming they will not run trains during the night. Then this results in a 30 minute schedule for both directions. The Japanese are running their trains in a tighter schedule and in Germany there run more trains on the tracks with even different speeds between the stations. So this looks only impressive to US-Americans. The impressive thing about that Chinese train system is, that a developing country is building a developed country rail system. And they want to build a rail grid with 16000 km length. That is really impressive even though Germany's total track length is 41000 km (20000km electrified).
As for the US you really should invest in your rail infrastructure, while fossil fuels will get very expensive in future, many flights might become very expensive too. Trains however can be powered with electricity from renewable sources. And the east and west coast are densely populated to make trains a good alternative to plains. And building infrastructure would be a far better way to spend money than giving it to banks. It will even generate lots of jobs for years. To make most of a trains system you should combine it with a local train subnet and streetcars(trams) and city railways.
No you cannot. For example in Western-Europe especially in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland or Austria the countries are very well "developed". In Germany you can get to a highway (Autobahn) in a 50 km radius. Also most towns are accessible by train. And every big city is connected to others on an hourly schedule (with fast trains) and additional local trains.
It looks like the train is based on the ICE train in Germany (at least from the pictures). However, there is only one 350 km/h capable track in Germany (between Cologne and Frankfurt). It is nice to see that similar technology is used in other countries and the developers of ICE- and TGV-trains are working together. However, it is not very energy efficient to run trains on these speeds. And the attrition of wheels and tracks increase drastically.
And the article has one error the fastest train is the TGV-Atlantique with a top speed of 515,3 km/h. Even though that speed is not achieved in normal operations, as this is not really econimical to run trains that fast in Europe with stops every 50-100 km. The standard speed of the TGV on some of its tracks is 380 km/h on others it is even slower.
Maybe without Linux we would use Minix or Hurd today. While Linus caused an crystallization point for hundreds of developers he did not write the thing alone. these people were already there. More or less waiting for something like this to happen. Most of them were already part of the Minix mailing list. So most likely Linux was already waiting to happen then. From my own time as an undergraduate. all the good programmers wanted to write an OS. And when it Linux came into existence everyone said cool. I take it and I do something with it. The same happened later with the browser as well. And if X11 would have had a better programming interface there would have been more different browsers out there. Still. Thanks to Linus for starting it.
Page 7: Buy too much electronic junk and put it in a car.
$ 25 000 are about 20 000 EUR which could pay my rent for the next 35 month. But event though I do not have a car not even one worth $ 500. So this way of wasting money won't work for me.
Neither it is too many stupid questions. Why do women not study CS? Well they don't want to. Why do women not want to study CS? Because they think it is boring. That's why they all study math. And something else. I heard lots of complains about the bad payment, the hard work, the long working hours, and these many foreigners in the US which make so much competition. Well the point is they all speak English, so they can easily work in their home country and in yours. However, there are plenty of job opportunities in Europe. And in most companies you might even be able to work in English. But it would be helpful to speak the language of that country too. You could take courses. For example: You could go to Germany. With am master degree in CS you get something between 36 000 EUR and 43 000 EUR if you are fresh out of university. And you get a paid leave (if I'm not mistaken that are 25 or 28 work days eg. 5 to 5.5 weeks). You get health-care and the company pays half of the cost. And it does not cost more when you have a family. They are all inclusive. And you pay less tax when you have children. And they cannot dump you after probation period, you get at least 3 month cancellation period.
There have more of those socialist laws here. You cannot be kicked out of a flat you rented. And people normally do not carry around guns. The only bad thing. The school system sucks as much as in the US (official OECD values). But may be you could go to any other west or north European country like the Netherlands (good schools) or Sweden (good schools and even better health care)
That's why you should get a master degree. And when think you cannot get a job in the US, because of all those foreigners. Go to Europe, computer scientists are rare here. And we need more of them. Especially software engineers.
In a recession people start saving money instead of spending it. Also in some countries (like the US) many people used credit buying to get the items they wanted. They also bought houses the same way. Now many people have lost their jobs and other people are encouraged by their banks to pay back the credits. So people stop buying unimportant luxury stuff, like games or game consoles. When they bau they try to spend less money. That's why they buy netbooks rather than full fledged notebooks.
In addition to the recession. The consoles are now on the market for quite some time. And the number of people who really want such device already bought it. So fewer people want new units. In some cases people buy replacement units for their old machines. But honestly, the market is satisfied and new devices are not needed. The next thing would be to create new consoles which can do things the old one cannot, but what shall that be? As graphics is not the primary sales argument, it is story line. That's why Nintendo was so successful lately. They invented interactive games which can be used in groups. A little like Activity or Cranium (board games where you have to perform).
You got my vote. We really have to limit the use of data mining. The improvements in people manipulation based on data mining and psychology shall not be used in marketing methods. However, it will become very complicated to get it outlawed. As the manipulation techniques are also used in politics in favor of the powerful class in our societies.
Earth itself is made out of materials from outer space. Some super novae transported the heavy metals to our solar system. And even that was not there all the time. Hell no. And even some people think that happened on Tuesday. I am absolutely sure the whole Earth creation stuff happened on Monday as God rested on Saturday. And on Monday he made a loud noise.
Honestly if you want to increase the average health care, which means the health care for most people and only pay 50% of what you pay now, just change your health care system to any system in West Europe (except the British one). Even the German one is better and that still sucks. BTW computer can be a helpful tool to manage data, but that is often not the real problem. In most cases it is bad management, induced by the wrong goals.
This is not totally true. Köhler (the president) is still a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) (neo-conservatices). And there is no such rule in the German constitution (Grundgesetz) which states, that the president cannot be member of a party.
The German President is the "pet" of our Chancellor Merkel. And as the law was only required to let the social democrats look like fools (which worked perfectly) it can now be dropped. However, this would need normally another law. And this would mean a lot of discussion. And it would look bad for the present neo-liberal/neo-conservative government. So the best way was to call the President and tell him to stop the law. And now it can be dropped or held for some time and dropped later. As the actual government messed up a lot in the first month, I guess they want to reduce possible additional hazards. (they messed up in Afghanistan too the former minister for defense (what an euphemism) who was then the minister of labour resign just this weekend, because his misjudgments).