...to welcome the our next generation of mind-machine interfaced overlords.
Cyberathletes and micromanagement in Starcraft will take on a whole new meaning...
Trading on the stock market will never be the same...
Someone's home has the greatest level of protection under the constitution (versus say, protection from unreasonable search in your car or walking in a public place). There are so many ways in which a visited hyperlink could be misconstrued that going into someone's home based on this flimsy evidence is totally unjustified. For one thing, what about all the people who leave Wi-Fi networks open (deliberately or otherwise)? If someone visits a honeypotted link, does that mean you deserve to get raided and have the sanctuary of your home violated? What about if you have a worm on your computer?
This seems ridiculous to me. The standard of evidence for intrustion into someone's home seems way too low in this case.
I generally agree but I'm going to play devil's advocate here:
Government spending on military is a subsidy provided to high-tech corporations to stimulate the economy. The dividends of this public money are the knowledge and technology gleaned from these high-tech corporations' research on weapons. These later go on to civilian applications, which profits the private companies very much (and, according to trickle down economic theory, the little guy maybe too).
Now, it is arguable these days that bio-tech companies are actually more profitable for the rich instead of war machines, so maybe we should move away from funding war to funding pills for kids or to make you less fat or whatever. Arguably public subsidy for research and development in other areas can also produce these same salutory benefits on the economy. We don't necessarily have to focus on just bio-tech and weaponry, but can maybe focus on something that society decides is a social good.
It might also be nice if the subsidy money wasn't all going to rich elite investors so that they can feel good about themselves and their social status.
Well they'll probably need trained personnel to control each and every robot out there on the field. Finally, when those remote controlled killing robots come out, will my years of FPS skills finally be worth something!
So... does this mean that all other hard drive companies are now open to being sued?
Will Seagate now advertise all its HDs with the incorrect binary prefix?
WTF is wrong with the trial judge? If Seagate wanted to advertise Gibibytes, then they would have written GiB! That's why they wrote GB instead! Is this not totally simple? What else were they supposed to write?!?!? They were technically correct in advertising the total disk space. I don't understand the judge's reasoning.
He added that he began his Web 2.0 quest by working closely with the company's 10,000-member IT department. "Nothing gets done without the IT department," he noted.
Wow! 10,000 member IT department!! That's a bloody legion of IT workers!
No wonder they had resistance to change, their bureaucracy is simply huge. Are the 10,000 geeks serving 10 million workers? A huge company that must be!
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P.S. It looks like this web page changed its text when I loaded it a 2nd time. What's up with that? It think someone edited it.
Gotta say it. As far as quality : resource consumption ratios are concerned, this game tops all. It's probably because it does not require a 3D card, and must run at 640x480 resolution. It is also pretty well coded I think, because my friend used to run it on a 486 running Windows 95. Yes, 486. Yes, it was painful, but after the game finally loaded, it ran quite smoothly!
And it's still a great, playable game, almost 10 years later.
It is a perhaps not especially strong correlation, but it is there.
Also, a smalle 2D:4D ratio has been shown to make men more aggressive.
I guess this is where the dumb aggressive jock bully vs. frail submissive brainiac dichotomy comes from.
Sadly, given enough peace time, the fat bloated bureaucracy rears its ugly head again. The meritocracy is suppressed. If we had to build another Pentagon today, it would cost too much and take too long, and some company close to certain politicians would get rich. In fact, looking at the corruption and waste of money in Iraq, I'm feeling very depressed.
Indeed, the lack of efficiency with which we are occupying, massacreing and torturing Iraqis is really something we ought to be ashamed of.
What happens when you do something you enjoy over and over again? You stop enjoying it. You need to learn to separate your hobbies from your skills. Well, I guess it's a bit too late for that.
Actually I would say more specifically, when you do what you love because you NEED to for that reward of money which you require to survive, you start to see what you onced loved stressful work that you start to dread and eventually get sick of.
When you do things for the pure sake of doing it, it's easier to love. That's why a lot of people like to keep their hobbies "pure".
Executives need to be on the top floor where there is a plastic bubble instead of a roof....And the engineers must toil away in dark, short-ceilinged caves, narrowly focused on the tasks that their overlords ask of them, in fulfillment of the Grand Vision that having no ceiling has made possible.
Either that or make holographic screens on the ceilings to make them look higher or lower depending on the task at hand.
"[DMCA was] Passed on October 8, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998."
Right, tell that to the kid in the ghetto who goes to the crappy public school with boring classes where they memorize things instead of learning so that the school can scrape by and get those required standardized test scores with their overworked teachers and crappy under funded schools. This replaces "learning" and naturally kids (especially intelligent ones) will be bored to tears by this unnecessary, forced, rigid hoop jumping.
The goody goody positive attitude, closed-minded, cheerful, conformist rule followers will do ok though, cuz they have that sunny, authority loving attitude. Just keep on churning that work out until it's done...
"Global Computer Network" is a prett decent definition.
I think a good alternative would be simply "General Purpose Data Transmission Utility". The internet has been described as the "5th utility" and it is increasingly being used for all sorts of devices that just want to transmit data in a convenient way. My cell phone connects to the internet but it is not what most people would call a "computer" (though technically it is). Eventually your refrigerator will one day connect to the internet, right? And don't forget of course the robot that will take care of your mother in 20 years will also be internet-connected so you can program it when to feed her, give her baths, etc.
So basically the internet is a utility for data transmission upon which you can build many layers of protocols for applications, for any number of purposes, whether industrial, business, gaming, library information and of course pr0n.
You wouldn't be at all concerned about your government controlling yours and everybody's Internet access? Just wait till some legislative do-gooder slaps restrictions and monitoring on it, in the interest of national security, the Children, etc. of course. I doubt you'd be so enthusiastic about that.
You're right, I do fear the possibility it would be much easier for gov'ts to monitor everyone's access and see who's doing what when. Although, I think in the future, it won't matter whether or not private companies run ISPs, the government will be able to monitor it just as well anyway. In any case, I think the only reliable solution to this is the use of encryption.
Of course, getting kicked off the internet for pirating or using too much bandwidth sounds like not a lot of fun...
As for cost, I have no doubt it would be cheaper if the gov't ran it. One nice thing about private ISPs though is that they whine when the gov't asks them to set up costly surveillance equipment... an inadvertent perk of capitalism.
Ok, I agree that maybe for India this is not the best thing if most of their population is destitute but in general, I think this kind of idea is great. I live in Canada and let me say I've been praying for government-funded fiber to the home for the last few years now. This would be much better to me than a telco that doesn't want to do anything unless the profits are enormous. I doubt that any cable/dsl companies will offer affordable fiber in the near future. Of course, if the government ever tried this, the telcos would definitely raise a stink about unfair competition, etc.
If there's going to be ANY hope of a 3rd party winning an election (or even being a serious contender in the first place), there needs to be a way of voting without "wasting your vote", i.e. if by voting for left-wing party #2 you inadvertently vote for Bush, then it wasn't a very good choice, was it?
There needs to be a system of 2nd round voting if your vote doesn't get elected, or else Single Transferable Vote where if your candidate of choice is not elected, your vote automatically goes to your second favorite candidate, then if they don't win, to a third favorite etc. so that your vote is not wasted.
Also, a lack of campaign finance reform and exclusion of 3rd parties from debates on TV also makes it unlikely anyone else gets elected.
Summary: Without electoral reform, the USA's political scene will continue to be fucked for a long time.
Of course the free market is unmanageable. That's the point. Free market theory states that individual actors are best at managing their own affairs, thank you very much, and don't need to be managed.
the truly free market is the most efficient method of wealth generation. A free market operates in pareto efficiency, the most efficient form a market can hope to attain. This means it operates at a level of 99.9999999999% efficiency (ten signifigant digits).
Spoken like a true narrow-minded libertarian. "The market is good! The market works magic! Watch it solve our problems automatically!" Individual actors aren't going to be too good at managing their affairs if the free market they live with collapses (see Great Depression) or if there are simply no jobs (see Urban Ghetto and unemployment).
Oh wait, I forgot. The solution to these problems is just to stop feeling like a victim and start participating in the market.
You are living in your head, in the ideological world of free market mythology. Please grow up and stop spreading wishful thinking nonsense on the web.
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Ya, because it freaked the hell out of everyone and they promised not to. Tells you a lot about Monsanto and what this is all about.
...to welcome the our next generation of mind-machine interfaced overlords. Cyberathletes and micromanagement in Starcraft will take on a whole new meaning... Trading on the stock market will never be the same...
Someone's home has the greatest level of protection under the constitution (versus say, protection from unreasonable search in your car or walking in a public place). There are so many ways in which a visited hyperlink could be misconstrued that going into someone's home based on this flimsy evidence is totally unjustified. For one thing, what about all the people who leave Wi-Fi networks open (deliberately or otherwise)? If someone visits a honeypotted link, does that mean you deserve to get raided and have the sanctuary of your home violated?
What about if you have a worm on your computer?
This seems ridiculous to me. The standard of evidence for intrustion into someone's home seems way too low in this case.
I generally agree but I'm going to play devil's advocate here: Government spending on military is a subsidy provided to high-tech corporations to stimulate the economy. The dividends of this public money are the knowledge and technology gleaned from these high-tech corporations' research on weapons. These later go on to civilian applications, which profits the private companies very much (and, according to trickle down economic theory, the little guy maybe too). Now, it is arguable these days that bio-tech companies are actually more profitable for the rich instead of war machines, so maybe we should move away from funding war to funding pills for kids or to make you less fat or whatever. Arguably public subsidy for research and development in other areas can also produce these same salutory benefits on the economy. We don't necessarily have to focus on just bio-tech and weaponry, but can maybe focus on something that society decides is a social good. It might also be nice if the subsidy money wasn't all going to rich elite investors so that they can feel good about themselves and their social status.
... to welcome our new lip-reading overlords, who will undoubtedly be watching us from every street camera on every corner from now on.
Seems to me that if the universe is a simulation, then the obvious ending condition would be "when the residents figure out they're in a simulation".
they might not be allowed to leave until their god gets whatever it is it wants out of them.
Well they'll probably need trained personnel to control each and every robot out there on the field. Finally, when those remote controlled killing robots come out, will my years of FPS skills finally be worth something!
So... does this mean that all other hard drive companies are now open to being sued?
Will Seagate now advertise all its HDs with the incorrect binary prefix?
WTF is wrong with the trial judge? If Seagate wanted to advertise Gibibytes, then they would have written GiB! That's why they wrote GB instead! Is this not totally simple? What else were they supposed to write?!?!? They were technically correct in advertising the total disk space. I don't understand the judge's reasoning.
He added that he began his Web 2.0 quest by working closely with the company's 10,000-member IT department. "Nothing gets done without the IT department," he noted.
Wow! 10,000 member IT department!! That's a bloody legion of IT workers!
No wonder they had resistance to change, their bureaucracy is simply huge. Are the 10,000 geeks serving 10 million workers? A huge company that must be!
--
P.S. It looks like this web page changed its text when I loaded it a 2nd time. What's up with that? It think someone edited it.
Gotta say it. As far as quality : resource consumption ratios are concerned, this game tops all. It's probably because it does not require a 3D card, and must run at 640x480 resolution. It is also pretty well coded I think, because my friend used to run it on a 486 running Windows 95. Yes, 486. Yes, it was painful, but after the game finally loaded, it ran quite smoothly! And it's still a great, playable game, almost 10 years later.
they could probably infer based on the sender at least what kind of correspondence it is (ebay, facebook, a company, a friend... etc.)
That I'm glad to see he's not a testosterone-fueled raging dumbell.
Thank you for posting an insightful idea on slashdot.
It is a perhaps not especially strong correlation, but it is there. Also, a smalle 2D:4D ratio has been shown to make men more aggressive. I guess this is where the dumb aggressive jock bully vs. frail submissive brainiac dichotomy comes from.
Sadly, given enough peace time, the fat bloated bureaucracy rears its ugly head again. The meritocracy is suppressed. If we had to build another Pentagon today, it would cost too much and take too long, and some company close to certain politicians would get rich. In fact, looking at the corruption and waste of money in Iraq, I'm feeling very depressed.
Indeed, the lack of efficiency with which we are occupying, massacreing and torturing Iraqis is really something we ought to be ashamed of.
This is why I don't blog.
What happens when you do something you enjoy over and over again? You stop enjoying it. You need to learn to separate your hobbies from your skills. Well, I guess it's a bit too late for that.
Actually I would say more specifically, when you do what you love because you NEED to for that reward of money which you require to survive, you start to see what you onced loved stressful work that you start to dread and eventually get sick of.
When you do things for the pure sake of doing it, it's easier to love. That's why a lot of people like to keep their hobbies "pure".
See: Creativity and intrinsic interest diminish if task is done for gain
Executives need to be on the top floor where there is a plastic bubble instead of a roof. ...And the engineers must toil away in dark, short-ceilinged caves, narrowly focused on the tasks that their overlords ask of them, in fulfillment of the Grand Vision that having no ceiling has made possible.
Either that or make holographic screens on the ceilings to make them look higher or lower depending on the task at hand.
Sorry, but...
"[DMCA was] Passed on October 8, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998."
Right, tell that to the kid in the ghetto who goes to the crappy public school with boring classes where they memorize things instead of learning so that the school can scrape by and get those required standardized test scores with their overworked teachers and crappy under funded schools. This replaces "learning" and naturally kids (especially intelligent ones) will be bored to tears by this unnecessary, forced, rigid hoop jumping. The goody goody positive attitude, closed-minded, cheerful, conformist rule followers will do ok though, cuz they have that sunny, authority loving attitude. Just keep on churning that work out until it's done...
"Global Computer Network" is a prett decent definition. I think a good alternative would be simply "General Purpose Data Transmission Utility". The internet has been described as the "5th utility" and it is increasingly being used for all sorts of devices that just want to transmit data in a convenient way. My cell phone connects to the internet but it is not what most people would call a "computer" (though technically it is). Eventually your refrigerator will one day connect to the internet, right? And don't forget of course the robot that will take care of your mother in 20 years will also be internet-connected so you can program it when to feed her, give her baths, etc. So basically the internet is a utility for data transmission upon which you can build many layers of protocols for applications, for any number of purposes, whether industrial, business, gaming, library information and of course pr0n.
You wouldn't be at all concerned about your government controlling yours and everybody's Internet access? Just wait till some legislative do-gooder slaps restrictions and monitoring on it, in the interest of national security, the Children, etc. of course. I doubt you'd be so enthusiastic about that. You're right, I do fear the possibility it would be much easier for gov'ts to monitor everyone's access and see who's doing what when. Although, I think in the future, it won't matter whether or not private companies run ISPs, the government will be able to monitor it just as well anyway. In any case, I think the only reliable solution to this is the use of encryption. Of course, getting kicked off the internet for pirating or using too much bandwidth sounds like not a lot of fun... As for cost, I have no doubt it would be cheaper if the gov't ran it. One nice thing about private ISPs though is that they whine when the gov't asks them to set up costly surveillance equipment... an inadvertent perk of capitalism.
Ok, I agree that maybe for India this is not the best thing if most of their population is destitute but in general, I think this kind of idea is great. I live in Canada and let me say I've been praying for government-funded fiber to the home for the last few years now. This would be much better to me than a telco that doesn't want to do anything unless the profits are enormous. I doubt that any cable/dsl companies will offer affordable fiber in the near future. Of course, if the government ever tried this, the telcos would definitely raise a stink about unfair competition, etc.
I say give free broadband to the masses!
I doubt this will happen any time soon, though...
If there's going to be ANY hope of a 3rd party winning an election (or even being a serious contender in the first place), there needs to be a way of voting without "wasting your vote", i.e. if by voting for left-wing party #2 you inadvertently vote for Bush, then it wasn't a very good choice, was it? There needs to be a system of 2nd round voting if your vote doesn't get elected, or else Single Transferable Vote where if your candidate of choice is not elected, your vote automatically goes to your second favorite candidate, then if they don't win, to a third favorite etc. so that your vote is not wasted. Also, a lack of campaign finance reform and exclusion of 3rd parties from debates on TV also makes it unlikely anyone else gets elected. Summary: Without electoral reform, the USA's political scene will continue to be fucked for a long time.
Of course the free market is unmanageable. That's the point. Free market theory states that individual actors are best at managing their own affairs, thank you very much, and don't need to be managed.
the truly free market is the most efficient method of wealth generation. A free market operates in pareto efficiency, the most efficient form a market can hope to attain. This means it operates at a level of 99.9999999999% efficiency (ten signifigant digits).
Spoken like a true narrow-minded libertarian. "The market is good! The market works magic! Watch it solve our problems automatically!"
Individual actors aren't going to be too good at managing their affairs if the free market they live with collapses (see Great Depression) or if there are simply no jobs (see Urban Ghetto and unemployment).
Oh wait, I forgot. The solution to these problems is just to stop feeling like a victim and start participating in the market.
You are living in your head, in the ideological world of free market mythology. Please grow up and stop spreading wishful thinking nonsense on the web.