We don't need to boost ourselves. We need to figure out the earliest life forms that we evolved from, and then blast great numbers, but small lightweight quantities, of that stuff towards any apparently habitable planets. If it takes a few billions years, so what. By spreading the human-precursor lifeforms we can colonize a larger number of planets and take advantage of evolution to ensure that the resulting lifeforms are suited to each venue.
I have a Blackberry and use it to browse the net. It doesn't have Flash. Something like >14 million people have Blackberries, and >8 million people have iPhones. Those devices don't support Flash yet,though a player is in development for the iPhone. Additionally some of the most savvy web users don't run scripts, including Flash, for security reasons. This story sounds like Adobe-flavored Kool Aid.
This practice is called Meat Puppetry. Hiring shills is a bad idea because it only works until the results start to make a difference. Then somebody notices and your reputation gets shot to hell.
Because with the internet things are almost always crossing state lines. This creates a federal issues. If a neighborhood kid bullies your kid, you call the local cops, not the FBI.
The local cops probably don't have the necessary tools to investigate and prosecute internet crimes. The feds are in a better position to handle such complaints.
The reason they don't publish the actual limit is that they are smart and they understand game theory. If they publish a limit, abusive users will carefully monitor bandwidth and go right up to the limit, and then switch accounts. It's standard practice not to publish exact limits when you don't want to be "gamed".
You can hate Comcast, that's fine, but give credit where credit is due. They are smart a-holes.
Could it be that your internal search sucks because your internal data is poorly organized, poorly written, and poorly tagged? Google isn't very good at finding stuff without the necessary clues. Search is only as good as the data stream. That's why SEOs always have lots of work - so many bad websites, so little time.
If you know what you want, Google is great. If you don't know what you want (don't know the keywords), read Wikipedia to learn what to ask for.
In order to successfully Google Bomb an important phrase, like a candidates name, the candidate has to be fairly clueless about search engine otpimization. If the candidate's own site is strong, and the candidate is conducting an effective web marketing campaign, the Google bombers will be stuck on page 2.
There could be sentient being living there. Odds are 50/50 they have more advanced technology than we do. If they can travel at near light speed, they could arrive here 82+ years after we started beaming massive amounts of radio and tv into space, which would be soon. Maybe we should prepare a "reception" for them or something.
It's only a matter of time until somebody picks up our signals and comes to crash the party.
And how do you think this differs from your average corporate hierarchy?
Either the directors or shareholders will fire incompetent management, or the market will punish the company's share price until it get's taken over. Then the new owner will clear out all the fools. With non-democratic government there is no chance of cleansing, short of a revolution.
This exposes one of the great flaws of a command economy: the politicization of everything. People get appointed to positions because of government connections and ideaology. Unfortunately, these appointees often aren't the most qualified people, and they are usually amoral. They'll do or say whatever they must to get what they want from the political machine.
I spent several years working in Russia and saw this effect up close. We see the same thing in the United States when government gets involved in economic development activities.
Who was this IP stolen from? How did it happen? How much will China be paying in damages? This sounds like a story with explosive potential.
The shrillness of the Professor's criticism exposes the weakness of his arguments. If he had a killer argument, he could make an "Aw Shucks," Columbo-style delivery with devastating effect.
With seasickness, one of the best cures is to sit on deck, feel the wind, see the waves, and watch the horizon. Going below where you feel the motion but don't see it is absolutely the worst thing to do. Perhaps the brain likes all it's sensory inputs to give consistent information. So if you are in VR and your eyes and ears indicate "motion," but your sense of touch (pressure on what supports you) says "standing still," that will probably lead to sickness. I am not sure what to make of this discovery. Maybe they have established better sensory consistency so there is less sickness.
Agree that it's a call for help. The writer should not be doing web development in house. He should have come up with a list of requirements, obtained quotations and time estimates, selected a contractor, signed a contract, and been done with this months ago.
He's using brute force where knowledge would be a better input. Classic.
There's a big difference between blocking sites, and making it illegal for those sites to use the US financial system to collect illegal wagers from within US jurisdiction. So long as the bill is written correctly, there should be no problem with WTO, and no problem with enforcement.
Click fraud runs about 40% when noobs manage a Google Adwords account. Much of that comes from Adsense via the Google content network, because it's a way for webmasters to line their pockets at the advertisers' expense. Competitor click fraud happens too.
The ways to control click fraud are:
1. Set low bids on the content network. Click fraudsters pick on the richest bids.
2. Exclude sites from the content network that show below average conversion rates.
3. Use your own tracking URLs to double check Google's conversion figures.
4. Don't show your ads in cheap offshore locales. Some sleezebags have set up click fraud offices in these places where people are paid to surf and click on your ads.
Discount your bids to account for the cost of click fraud. As long as you are happy with your net cost per conversion, click fraud is just a cost of doing business. Your bids are lower, Google earns less. If Google wants to earn more, they should the eliminate fraud.
Thanks, Tom. I couldn't have said it better myself! It ain't easy to get FirstPost on a hot Slashdot article, so sometimes there's a tradeoff between broad distribution and quality of the post.
Yes, you are exactly right. That's the flip side of my original post. We Americans are buying cheap crap at Walmart (not me, though), and somebody on the other side of the world is being exploited to make that crap so cheaply. Their life is hell because they have terrible working conditions. Some fat cat in the middle is getting rich, while both ends of the supply chain become poor.
The solution is to provide the same protections to Indian and Chinese workers as American workers. Once we all play by the same rules, I will fully support free trade.
The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India
How many of you are making more money because of all the people in China, India, and other cheap-labor locales, who buy stuff that you produce?
To vote, Click here
Now, how many of you know somebody who lost their job because of overseas competition?
To vote, Click here
Based on that unscientific survey, I'd say that George Bush is talking smack. The only people
who really benefit from offshoring are the business owners who can costs by firing American workers and
replacing them with cheap overseas labor. There may be more wealth, but it's all concentrated in a few hands.
Bush can't understand what's it's like for an ordinary family to suffer the devastation of unemployment because he's never lived through it.
Oh come on, Comcast wouldn't be anti-competitive. They're in business for the good of their customers, and so is Vonage.
Have you ever tried to switch your service away from Vonage? Can you port your number to another provider? No. Should you be able to? Yes. Is Vonage just as guilty as Comcast? Yes. Will both companies hose customers if they can make more money? Yes. What can we do about it? Expose them and recommend that people switch.
getting the people who agree with you more pointlessly agitated
You make valid points, except this one. The way the Republicans won or "won" (depending on what you believe), was by energizing their base. Getting your supporters agitated isn't pointless. It's a proven strategy.
Bush stole the election fair and square. It's our (Americans') fault for not creating
a massive landslide against him. The fact that a near plurality of people
voted for the wanker created an opportunity for Bush 43, his brother,
Kathleen Harris and the Republicans to seize power.
History will show that this election was a coup d'état, and that we were the
fools who let it happen.
Want to prevent this from happening again? Andrew Tobias is the DNC treasurer: http://www.andrewtobias.com/,
send Andy a message and he will tell you how to get involved.
Good idea. Mainframe strategy. Let each student have a thin client, or whatever kind of stuff they want to bring from home, as long as it will run Citrix or whatever people are using today. That way you control the apps, the licenses, and the security.
I think it's a horrible mistake to tell somebody else what kind of hardware they have to use. That's just wrong. Build your system on some sort of standard so people can choose the hardware that works best for them (and may serve multiple purposes).
Also, you must provide a lab with some desktops, because if somebody's machine breaks, gets lost, or they are SOL on bursars hold for non-payment, they still have to be able to do their work.
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We don't need to boost ourselves. We need to figure out the earliest life forms that we evolved from, and then blast great numbers, but small lightweight quantities, of that stuff towards any apparently habitable planets. If it takes a few billions years, so what. By spreading the human-precursor lifeforms we can colonize a larger number of planets and take advantage of evolution to ensure that the resulting lifeforms are suited to each venue.
I have a Blackberry and use it to browse the net. It doesn't have Flash. Something like >14 million people have Blackberries, and >8 million people have iPhones. Those devices don't support Flash yet,though a player is in development for the iPhone. Additionally some of the most savvy web users don't run scripts, including Flash, for security reasons. This story sounds like Adobe-flavored Kool Aid.
This practice is called Meat Puppetry. Hiring shills is a bad idea because it only works until the results start to make a difference. Then somebody notices and your reputation gets shot to hell.
THAT'S all it took to get rid of them? Man, all that wasted money on lawyers, shoulda just bought some sand.
Mainers are frugal!
The Borg implant their technology in your brain. You now prefer cubes.
Because with the internet things are almost always crossing state lines. This creates a federal issues. If a neighborhood kid bullies your kid, you call the local cops, not the FBI. The local cops probably don't have the necessary tools to investigate and prosecute internet crimes. The feds are in a better position to handle such complaints.
The reason they don't publish the actual limit is that they are smart and they understand game theory. If they publish a limit, abusive users will carefully monitor bandwidth and go right up to the limit, and then switch accounts. It's standard practice not to publish exact limits when you don't want to be "gamed". You can hate Comcast, that's fine, but give credit where credit is due. They are smart a-holes.
Could it be that your internal search sucks because your internal data is poorly organized, poorly written, and poorly tagged? Google isn't very good at finding stuff without the necessary clues. Search is only as good as the data stream. That's why SEOs always have lots of work - so many bad websites, so little time. If you know what you want, Google is great. If you don't know what you want (don't know the keywords), read Wikipedia to learn what to ask for.
In order to successfully Google Bomb an important phrase, like a candidates name, the candidate has to be fairly clueless about search engine otpimization. If the candidate's own site is strong, and the candidate is conducting an effective web marketing campaign, the Google bombers will be stuck on page 2.
There could be sentient being living there. Odds are 50/50 they have more advanced technology than we do. If they can travel at near light speed, they could arrive here 82+ years after we started beaming massive amounts of radio and tv into space, which would be soon. Maybe we should prepare a "reception" for them or something.
It's only a matter of time until somebody picks up our signals and comes to crash the party.
And how do you think this differs from your average corporate hierarchy? Either the directors or shareholders will fire incompetent management, or the market will punish the company's share price until it get's taken over. Then the new owner will clear out all the fools. With non-democratic government there is no chance of cleansing, short of a revolution.
This exposes one of the great flaws of a command economy: the politicization of everything. People get appointed to positions because of government connections and ideaology. Unfortunately, these appointees often aren't the most qualified people, and they are usually amoral. They'll do or say whatever they must to get what they want from the political machine. I spent several years working in Russia and saw this effect up close. We see the same thing in the United States when government gets involved in economic development activities. Who was this IP stolen from? How did it happen? How much will China be paying in damages? This sounds like a story with explosive potential.
The shrillness of the Professor's criticism exposes the weakness of his arguments. If he had a killer argument, he could make an "Aw Shucks," Columbo-style delivery with devastating effect.
With seasickness, one of the best cures is to sit on deck, feel the wind, see the waves, and watch the horizon. Going below where you feel the motion but don't see it is absolutely the worst thing to do. Perhaps the brain likes all it's sensory inputs to give consistent information. So if you are in VR and your eyes and ears indicate "motion," but your sense of touch (pressure on what supports you) says "standing still," that will probably lead to sickness. I am not sure what to make of this discovery. Maybe they have established better sensory consistency so there is less sickness.
Agree that it's a call for help. The writer should not be doing web development in house. He should have come up with a list of requirements, obtained quotations and time estimates, selected a contractor, signed a contract, and been done with this months ago.
He's using brute force where knowledge would be a better input. Classic.
There's a big difference between blocking sites, and making it illegal for those sites to use the US financial system to collect illegal wagers from within US jurisdiction. So long as the bill is written correctly, there should be no problem with WTO, and no problem with enforcement.
Click fraud runs about 40% when noobs manage a Google Adwords account. Much of that comes from Adsense via the Google content network, because it's a way for webmasters to line their pockets at the advertisers' expense. Competitor click fraud happens too.
The ways to control click fraud are:
1. Set low bids on the content network. Click fraudsters pick on the richest bids.
2. Exclude sites from the content network that show below average conversion rates.
3. Use your own tracking URLs to double check Google's conversion figures.
4. Don't show your ads in cheap offshore locales. Some sleezebags have set up click fraud offices in these places where people are paid to surf and click on your ads.
Discount your bids to account for the cost of click fraud. As long as you are happy with your net cost per conversion, click fraud is just a cost of doing business. Your bids are lower, Google earns less. If Google wants to earn more, they should the eliminate fraud.
It's interesting that Peter Naur is being recognized 40 years later, when another Algol team member, Alan Perlis, received the first Turing Award in 1966. Here's a photo of Perlis, Naur and the other Algol 1960 conference participants.
Thanks, Tom. I couldn't have said it better myself! It ain't easy to get FirstPost on a hot Slashdot article, so sometimes there's a tradeoff between broad distribution and quality of the post.
Yes, you are exactly right. That's the flip side of my original post. We Americans are buying cheap crap at Walmart (not me, though), and somebody on the other side of the world is being exploited to make that crap so cheaply. Their life is hell because they have terrible working conditions. Some fat cat in the middle is getting rich, while both ends of the supply chain become poor.
The solution is to provide the same protections to Indian and Chinese workers as American workers. Once we all play by the same rules, I will fully support free trade.
How many of you are making more money because of all the people in China, India, and other cheap-labor locales, who buy stuff that you produce? To vote, Click here
Now, how many of you know somebody who lost their job because of overseas competition? To vote, Click here
Based on that unscientific survey, I'd say that George Bush is talking smack. The only people who really benefit from offshoring are the business owners who can costs by firing American workers and replacing them with cheap overseas labor. There may be more wealth, but it's all concentrated in a few hands.
Bush can't understand what's it's like for an ordinary family to suffer the devastation of unemployment because he's never lived through it.
Oh come on, Comcast wouldn't be anti-competitive. They're in business for the good of their customers, and so is Vonage.
Have you ever tried to switch your service away from Vonage? Can you port your number to another provider? No. Should you be able to? Yes. Is Vonage just as guilty as Comcast? Yes. Will both companies hose customers if they can make more money? Yes. What can we do about it? Expose them and recommend that people switch.
getting the people who agree with you more pointlessly agitated You make valid points, except this one. The way the Republicans won or "won" (depending on what you believe), was by energizing their base. Getting your supporters agitated isn't pointless. It's a proven strategy.
Stop whining.
Bush stole the election fair and square. It's our (Americans') fault for not creating a massive landslide against him. The fact that a near plurality of people voted for the wanker created an opportunity for Bush 43, his brother, Kathleen Harris and the Republicans to seize power.
History will show that this election was a coup d'état, and that we were the fools who let it happen.
Want to prevent this from happening again? Andrew Tobias is the DNC treasurer: http://www.andrewtobias.com/, send Andy a message and he will tell you how to get involved.
Good idea. Mainframe strategy. Let each student have a thin client, or whatever kind of stuff they want to bring from home, as long as it will run Citrix or whatever people are using today. That way you control the apps, the licenses, and the security.
I think it's a horrible mistake to tell somebody else what kind of hardware they have to use. That's just wrong. Build your system on some sort of standard so people can choose the hardware that works best for them (and may serve multiple purposes).
Also, you must provide a lab with some desktops, because if somebody's machine breaks, gets lost, or they are SOL on bursars hold for non-payment, they still have to be able to do their work.