As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you.
Less scary?! A powerful worldwide company forsaked it's own principals (if it ever had any to begin with) in order to make money with the Chinese government's blessings. This only helps reinforce the power of the Chinese government. It can only get scarier if Google themselves were pushing for censorship! It would of been a far more comforting to the Chinese citizens if Google showed a sign of support TOWARDS THEM and stood up to that oppressive government's unjust demands... but that would of hurt Google's bottom line.
So basically, Google's principals can be summed up as follows...
To think that malicious employees waited until flash drives to steal data!
malicious employees come from...
disgruntled employees which are made so by...
tyranical/unrealistic upper-management decisions designed to componsate for...
poor/unsatisfactory performances from certain employees that basically...
have lazy and/or minimal work ethics.
So yes, because lazy employees ultimately beget malicious ones, it would make sense if malicious employees are falicitated into their malicious ways by their original lazy ways.
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What does the education system expose your kids to today? STDs mostly. I'm not kidding, 25% of Americans age 15-39 have genital herpes.
While I generally don't admit it in face-to-face settings, I too fall into that statistic... but I'm not foolish enough to kid myself into blaming the educational system. Even at a young age I understood some of the negative consequences some actions might carry. Most generations since the '80s AIDS scare have grown up with a more realistic perception about sex.
Yes, since the day I found out, I've learned far more about STDs than I ever have at school. And yes, I wish the hassles of living daily with this was imprinted more on me back then, it might of made me more paranoid. But I certainly knew I was taking some chances redeeming those glory hole coupons at the fair last year.
We actually tested out Drupal for possibly doing a customer's portal site last year. It had a lot of features and was quick to set up, but it was a nightmare to customize it beyond anything simple. I think it's a great product for non-techies to get something up with, but it's too restrictive for any complex business logic needs.
As a black man myself, my own experiences in the IT field have been rather positive. In fact, I would rank my work environments as some of the most "incident free" places I've experienced. I attribute this partly to the nature of the field itself, as it favors intelligent open-minded people. We're also mostly from newer generations and, therefore, aren't as engrained in the racist attitudes of the past.
At best, IE will implement a similar but totally incompatible feature... at which point Microsoft will be demonized for adding non-standardized features.
My recommendation is a 50% Tyrant Ass Kissing Tax, where 50% of Western corporations' revenues (not profits) get taken, and if they try to fib on how much money they're taking out of repressive regimes, we simply calculate an estimate, add 25% and take it out of their banks, or their assets if they attempt to hide the cash.
How about you stop buying Chinese related goods/services instead of dictating punishments to others that don't follow-in-step with your crusade?
Boycotting Chinese imports would send a stronger message than hurting American exports.
Without Benjamin Franklin's entreaties to the French
Just to be clear, it was the French royalty that he dealt with... a royalty that had few fans amongst the general French population.
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Probably a pretty good sign I should get off my ass and spend some time learning the language if I don't want to become obsolete to my employer.
I'm sure if your employer starts needing perl solutions, they'll buy you a book. It's not that hard to pick up if you come from a programming background. I once got tasked to modify a perl script, and was able to learn enough perl to get the job done within an afternoon. Been a fan of it ever since!
If Bill was tuely philanthropic, then he'd be making anonymous contributions.
Well maybe he just contributes to get his name on a building or a magazine cover, so what? A building name or silly magazine cover seem meaningless in comparison to the help that contributions provide. Charities don't exist to test/measure our philanthropic virtues, they're just trying to help out the world... and outside monetary contributions, regardless of selfish motives, help them do so.
From reading the article, I gather "quiet" is being used here as a technical term which is roughly synonymous with laminar, or lack of turbulence (rather than "gee I wish my vacuum cleaner were quiet").
Can anybody with the right background tell me whether that's the case?
You're correct, they mean "quiet" in a laminar sense. Mach 6 wind will sound pretty loud to human ears regardless of how turbulance-free it is, just because of the immense air pressure... but it won't be "noisy" loud.
As far as my background, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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As the article goes on to state, when an item is censored Google will tell you it has censored the searched item to comply with local laws. This sort of censorship where you know something is being kept from you is much less scary than the type where you simply don't know what is being kept from you.
Less scary?! A powerful worldwide company forsaked it's own principals (if it ever had any to begin with) in order to make money with the Chinese government's blessings. This only helps reinforce the power of the Chinese government. It can only get scarier if Google themselves were pushing for censorship! It would of been a far more comforting to the Chinese citizens if Google showed a sign of support TOWARDS THEM and stood up to that oppressive government's unjust demands... but that would of hurt Google's bottom line.
So basically, Google's principals can be summed up as follows...
money > freedom
4-6 years, will probably get out in 2.
Just a slap on the hand.
Yeah but this is 2 years in an U.S. prison... do you know what they do to a chubby tech guys with soft hands in a federal prison?!!!
I give the guy 2 days before this happens:
"Oh, so you think you're smarter than me cuz work on 'em magic box things?"
*ziiip*
GAME OVER!
Mine is pretty cool!
it's got a one, two zeros, and a year number that according to wikipedia nothing ever happened in... i.e peaceful, the way I like it!
To think that malicious employees waited until flash drives to steal data!
malicious employees come from...
disgruntled employees which are made so by...
tyranical/unrealistic upper-management decisions designed to componsate for...
poor/unsatisfactory performances from certain employees that basically...
have lazy and/or minimal work ethics.
So yes, because lazy employees ultimately beget malicious ones, it would make sense if malicious employees are falicitated into their malicious ways by their original lazy ways.
What does the education system expose your kids to today?
STDs mostly. I'm not kidding, 25% of Americans age 15-39 have genital herpes.
While I generally don't admit it in face-to-face settings, I too fall into that statistic... but I'm not foolish enough to kid myself into blaming the educational system. Even at a young age I understood some of the negative consequences some actions might carry. Most generations since the '80s AIDS scare have grown up with a more realistic perception about sex.
Yes, since the day I found out, I've learned far more about STDs than I ever have at school. And yes, I wish the hassles of living daily with this was imprinted more on me back then, it might of made me more paranoid. But I certainly knew I was taking some chances redeeming those glory hole coupons at the fair last year.
art is in the eye of the beholder... you stop understanding art the minute you try telling others what it should be to them.
And no email prank is complete without a link to tommorrow's important presentation!
We actually tested out Drupal for possibly doing a customer's portal site last year. It had a lot of features and was quick to set up, but it was a nightmare to customize it beyond anything simple. I think it's a great product for non-techies to get something up with, but it's too restrictive for any complex business logic needs.
Not the first virus. It's the first PC virus, meaning IBM PC running DOS.
The article calls it a PC virus, maybe you should read them sometimes.
And by your reasoning how big are MS's?
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Well if you'd kindly pull them out of your mouth, we'll measure them.
As a black man myself, my own experiences in the IT field have been rather positive. In fact, I would rank my work environments as some of the most "incident free" places I've experienced. I attribute this partly to the nature of the field itself, as it favors intelligent open-minded people. We're also mostly from newer generations and, therefore, aren't as engrained in the racist attitudes of the past.
I'm waiting for the first "BSD is dead" troll to show up.
BSD is alive
learn how to install stuff, you noob
Assuming that IE implements the same feature
At best, IE will implement a similar but totally incompatible feature... at which point Microsoft will be demonized for adding non-standardized features.
My recommendation is a 50% Tyrant Ass Kissing Tax, where 50% of Western corporations' revenues (not profits) get taken, and if they try to fib on how much money they're taking out of repressive regimes, we simply calculate an estimate, add 25% and take it out of their banks, or their assets if they attempt to hide the cash.
How about you stop buying Chinese related goods/services instead of dictating punishments to others that don't follow-in-step with your crusade?
Boycotting Chinese imports would send a stronger message than hurting American exports.
Having checked my website over the last few months, I was surprised at the statistics. Firefox has 56.15%
Well duh, you're running a Firefox support site.
Honestly, it's like buying a new Porsche and ripping out the engine and putting a Dodge Neon engine in it.
Jesus Christ man, where are your nerdly priorities?
Sure, the Porsche might get me some hot babes... but the Dodge Neon will allow me to pwn teh n00bs!
Without Benjamin Franklin's entreaties to the French
Just to be clear, it was the French royalty that he dealt with... a royalty that had few fans amongst the general French population.
Probably a pretty good sign I should get off my ass and spend some time learning the language if I don't want to become obsolete to my employer.
I'm sure if your employer starts needing perl solutions, they'll buy you a book. It's not that hard to pick up if you come from a programming background. I once got tasked to modify a perl script, and was able to learn enough perl to get the job done within an afternoon. Been a fan of it ever since!
Note: I am not a lawyer and I do not mean for this to be taken as legal advice. It is merely the opinion of a private citizen and is presented as-is.
Nice try ambulance chaser!
A real non-lawyer would of had the sensibility to just say IANAL. Your rather unecessarily wordy disclaimer exposes your true identity.
Wow, a better question would be, "What part of my life hasn't been impacted by math?"
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One would guess your sex life, but then again this is
Absolutely! I think it's one of (if not the) best languages for new programmers. My main reasons are:
It has a very simple syntax.
I agree with Python being one of the best, but nothing beats TCL's syntax as far as simplicity.
I just wrote a Hidden Markov Model using the Viterbi Algorithm and did it from scratch in Java using WordNet and this page [wikipedia.org].
You could of saved yourself some time by just googling for the source code.
The electric company just called me regarding a possible power outage... is anyone else's refridgerator running?
If Bill was tuely philanthropic, then he'd be making anonymous contributions.
Well maybe he just contributes to get his name on a building or a magazine cover, so what? A building name or silly magazine cover seem meaningless in comparison to the help that contributions provide. Charities don't exist to test/measure our philanthropic virtues, they're just trying to help out the world... and outside monetary contributions, regardless of selfish motives, help them do so.
From reading the article, I gather "quiet" is being used here as a technical term which is roughly synonymous with laminar, or lack of turbulence (rather than "gee I wish my vacuum cleaner were quiet").
Can anybody with the right background tell me whether that's the case?
You're correct, they mean "quiet" in a laminar sense. Mach 6 wind will sound pretty loud to human ears regardless of how turbulance-free it is, just because of the immense air pressure... but it won't be "noisy" loud.
As far as my background, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.