You only have to look at creationists, 9/11 truthers, moon landing hoaxers, anti-vaccinationists to know that you could lock such people in a warehouse full of evidence contradictory to their worldviews and they'd still deny it. I really don't see climate change deniers being any different.
There's evidence that supports the official 9/11 story?
I opted for the 20 Mbps VDSL here in Denver (Qwest/CenturyLink's alternative to fiber, the plans for which they dropped in the wake of the 2008 worldwide financial crisis) and restrained myself from splurging on the 40 Mbps VDSL. Even the 20 Mbps is a waste. Most servers only let data out at 10 Mbps tops. I've gotten 20 Mbps only once -- downloading 1940 census images from archives.gov. I suspect people are catching on and are stepping down their last-mile bandwidth choices.
I wonder if there was an Airbus engineer who had suggested mechanical feedback linking the sticks, was overruled, and now feels vindicated. And if so, I wonder whether the culture at Airbus will cause him to be promoted or to be fired.
We've already dropped http:/// and www. ".com" is just the last geeky vestige. From a human, rather than a UNIX, perspective, users should be able to type mcdonalds and get to its website.
Knowledge in the World vs. Knowledge in the Head
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Why eBook DRM Has To Go
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In the 90's, the distinction was popularly called Knowledge in the World vs. Knowledge in the Head. As our communication and recording systems improve, we externalize more of our knowledge. First we recorded knowledge in books rather than memorize poetry. Now we rely on Google instead of memorizing facts.
Every book we read, therefore, constitutes a portion of our externalized knowledge. Some of what we read might get memorized, but most of it gets absorbed as an awareness where we know we can look it up again in the future (moves knowledge from DK-DK to K-DK). By agreeing to DRM, eBook users place control of part of their knowledge -- part of their mind, if you will -- in the hands of corporations. The corporations are practicing mind control with DRM.
It could place providers in the position of requiring warrants for all law enforcement requests.
Wouldn't that reduce the labor/financial burden on the telcos?
The telcos must be acting at the request of politicians, in exchange for good treatment by the politicians on behalf of the telcos on other unrelated matters.
Doubt this will survive at my default +2 for very long...
The Christian point of view is that the breakdown of the family has led to the breakdown of society, and the mistrust, cynicism, and cheating that we see. The Catholic view, in particular, is that the breakdown of the family has come from no-fault divorce and especially contraception. As even a secular business journal has admitted, Pope Paul VI's 1968 predictions in Humanae Vitae were spot on, regarding contraception leading to immorality.
By separating procreation and pleasure in sex, the pill has enabled "free love", which at minimum leads to emotional hurt, which leads to cynicism, mistrust, and the propensity to hurt others.
From TFA, it sounded like there was a separate charge of trade secret theft that continued on independently of the CFAA charge. Does anyone know how that turned out?
For the vast majority of people, it's "sad" only because they weren't even aware of the $1b/launch cost, let alone having it be automatically debited from their bank account.
The Thailand monsoon is NOT helping matters. It's put us a year behind in hard drive capacity.
CPU clock speeds hit a brick wall half a decade ago. So they switched to spending the Moore's law transistors on extra cores instead. Now that's reached a limit on memory bandwidth. There now has to be a major CPU architecture change -- probably to MIMD, loosely connected CPU & memory modules.
Certainly the business and scientific servers will need to be faster and have more storage, as will the home gaming and video editing PCs, but I predict even the corporate desktop PCs will as well as YouTube eclipses PowerPoint and PC displays play catch-up to the iPad 3 retina display.
6502 microprocessor would have withered on the vine...
If the Commodore 64 and the Atari 800 never existed, the Apple ][ would have simply been even more prevalent than it was, until the IBM PC would come on the market.
Just as several states tightened up eminent domain laws in light of Kelo, so now it is time for the states to tighten up strip-search laws, or perhaps strip search liability or when arrestees are placed "in the general population". Sadly, I have not yet heard of any such call for new laws as there was in the wake of Kelo.
Imagine a Republican president, where the call for wars is more overt (none of this Nobel Peace Prize stuff):
"Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained."
(SMS to donate to Fisher House, since a direct donation to Halliburton would be just too crass.)
It looks to me like disk is not that much more expensive than tape. A 1.5TB LTO-5 blank tape is $52.58, or $35/TB. A 4TB USB drive is $229.00, or $57/TB. For backing up 8TB of fileservers at my job, I prefer USB drives. I can just bring them over from the server room and plug them into my laptop if I need to look back in time.
In the place where this would presumably be most useful, where horizontal space is at more of a premium than vertical space, it could well be illegal due to solar access laws. Here in Denver, it has led to some odd-looking asymetric second-stories when they are added to existing bungalows -- where, say, the left half of the A-shaped roof has a shallow or near-flat slope and the right half has a steep pitch.
Not only that, but the car's velocity would no longer be conveyed with a static display. It's why digital numeric-readout speedometers were a failure in 1980's Fords -- they didn't convey acceleration.
Although it's been said a million times before, it's relevant also here and not obviously so.
There are, broadly speaking, two ways one can approach a job. One path is the "job security" path. Hoard information. Hide passwords. Make yourself indispensable. The other path is to continually "make yourself dispensable" by sharing and documenting all information you gather. You create value for your company by continually learning and gathering more information to share.
You've posed your question regarding this "information sharing" as a company requirement. No, this is your opportunity to take the latter (and better) path described above.
First slide of your PowerPoint is a bus about to run over a pedestrian and this is where you introduce the concept of the "bus number". You frighten everyone in the room by announcing that the company has a bus number of one and that you, the speaker, are all that stands between prosperity and collapse at the company. Next slide is a photo of someone handing out candy or gifts to everyone in a crowd and is titled "Sharing".
What are you sharing? Since this is the first presentation, not a lot of detail. First thing you are sharing is the location of your "In case of IT death, look in this directory." Don't have one yet? Make one before your presentation. It should have a "README.1ST" and a concise set of documents with passwords and network diagrams. You know, those things you were (rightly) loathe to put into your presentation.
Next topic for this first presentation are FAQs. How people can fix the printer for themselves. How people can check the status of available DHCP IP's for themselves. Etc. Make people independent to give yourself more time to learn even more things. Like maybe stuff about e-mail servers, VPN's, CRM, or website design. Don't stand still!
Do you realize how valuable this opportunity is and how much it's costing your company? A salesman, like, say, an insurance salesman, would pay big bucks for such an opportunity, and you're getting it for free! Use it to:
Make yourself look expert and confident, and to give everyone a positive impression of you.
Educate others to self-help to:
Make your network robust (to prevent three levels of interrupt on your time)
Free up your time to learn more things
Make it look like you're not hoarding information.
With all of the new learning you'll be able to do:
Increase your value to your current or your future employer
Add even more value to your current employer by improving your employer's IT infrastructure.
Satisfy whatever your supervisor's goals are with the "knowledge sharing" program if they are not covered by the above.
Make yourself dispensable. It's the way to create value. 30 minutes is an enormous gift. Spend it wisely.
The printed page offers some authentication: yellowing of the page attests to age (or carbon dating for more precision), missing pages are readily apparent due to the running sequence counter, and alterations to the typography are difficult to forge. In essence, the printed page employs a redundancy of quadrillions times over -- quadrillions of molecules are involved to present one character of text to the reader. It is this redundancy that affords the secure authentication of the printed page.
EBooks have many drawbacks, but considering the authentication drawback in isolation, eBooks would have to come with a digital signature like an MDA, and a master catalog of MDA's would have to be maintained and well-distributed (to prevent someone from surreptitiously changing an MDA in just one authoritative place).
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There's evidence that supports the official 9/11 story?
I opted for the 20 Mbps VDSL here in Denver (Qwest/CenturyLink's alternative to fiber, the plans for which they dropped in the wake of the 2008 worldwide financial crisis) and restrained myself from splurging on the 40 Mbps VDSL. Even the 20 Mbps is a waste. Most servers only let data out at 10 Mbps tops. I've gotten 20 Mbps only once -- downloading 1940 census images from archives.gov. I suspect people are catching on and are stepping down their last-mile bandwidth choices.
I wonder if there was an Airbus engineer who had suggested mechanical feedback linking the sticks, was overruled, and now feels vindicated. And if so, I wonder whether the culture at Airbus will cause him to be promoted or to be fired.
We've already dropped http:/// and www. ".com" is just the last geeky vestige. From a human, rather than a UNIX, perspective, users should be able to type mcdonalds and get to its website.
In the 90's, the distinction was popularly called Knowledge in the World vs. Knowledge in the Head. As our communication and recording systems improve, we externalize more of our knowledge. First we recorded knowledge in books rather than memorize poetry. Now we rely on Google instead of memorizing facts.
Every book we read, therefore, constitutes a portion of our externalized knowledge. Some of what we read might get memorized, but most of it gets absorbed as an awareness where we know we can look it up again in the future (moves knowledge from DK-DK to K-DK). By agreeing to DRM, eBook users place control of part of their knowledge -- part of their mind, if you will -- in the hands of corporations. The corporations are practicing mind control with DRM.
Wouldn't that reduce the labor/financial burden on the telcos?
The telcos must be acting at the request of politicians, in exchange for good treatment by the politicians on behalf of the telcos on other unrelated matters.
Doubt this will survive at my default +2 for very long...
The Christian point of view is that the breakdown of the family has led to the breakdown of society, and the mistrust, cynicism, and cheating that we see. The Catholic view, in particular, is that the breakdown of the family has come from no-fault divorce and especially contraception. As even a secular business journal has admitted, Pope Paul VI's 1968 predictions in Humanae Vitae were spot on, regarding contraception leading to immorality.
By separating procreation and pleasure in sex, the pill has enabled "free love", which at minimum leads to emotional hurt, which leads to cynicism, mistrust, and the propensity to hurt others.
It is possible to vote in publicly traded corporations, but because one has to pay $ per vote, it can be costly to have any impact.
Technology saves on:
From TFA, it sounded like there was a separate charge of trade secret theft that continued on independently of the CFAA charge. Does anyone know how that turned out?
For the vast majority of people, it's "sad" only because they weren't even aware of the $1b/launch cost, let alone having it be automatically debited from their bank account.
But I couldn't tell from the Windows 8 blog whether 32-bit and 64-bit would be packaged separately or whether the install would automatically detect.
Nice traditional exterior, but sad to see the drop ceiling on the interior. At least the wood floor is original.
Certainly the business and scientific servers will need to be faster and have more storage, as will the home gaming and video editing PCs, but I predict even the corporate desktop PCs will as well as YouTube eclipses PowerPoint and PC displays play catch-up to the iPad 3 retina display.
If the Commodore 64 and the Atari 800 never existed, the Apple ][ would have simply been even more prevalent than it was, until the IBM PC would come on the market.
Just as several states tightened up eminent domain laws in light of Kelo, so now it is time for the states to tighten up strip-search laws, or perhaps strip search liability or when arrestees are placed "in the general population". Sadly, I have not yet heard of any such call for new laws as there was in the wake of Kelo.
Imagine a Republican president, where the call for wars is more overt (none of this Nobel Peace Prize stuff):
"Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained."
(SMS to donate to Fisher House, since a direct donation to Halliburton would be just too crass.)
Hey, I've used MediaFire's free "hosting" to "post" PDFs of my original creation to Facebook because Facebook has no built-in way to do that.
It looks to me like disk is not that much more expensive than tape. A 1.5TB LTO-5 blank tape is $52.58, or $35/TB. A 4TB USB drive is $229.00, or $57/TB. For backing up 8TB of fileservers at my job, I prefer USB drives. I can just bring them over from the server room and plug them into my laptop if I need to look back in time.
In the place where this would presumably be most useful, where horizontal space is at more of a premium than vertical space, it could well be illegal due to solar access laws. Here in Denver, it has led to some odd-looking asymetric second-stories when they are added to existing bungalows -- where, say, the left half of the A-shaped roof has a shallow or near-flat slope and the right half has a steep pitch.
Not only that, but the car's velocity would no longer be conveyed with a static display. It's why digital numeric-readout speedometers were a failure in 1980's Fords -- they didn't convey acceleration.
Although it's been said a million times before, it's relevant also here and not obviously so.
There are, broadly speaking, two ways one can approach a job. One path is the "job security" path. Hoard information. Hide passwords. Make yourself indispensable. The other path is to continually "make yourself dispensable" by sharing and documenting all information you gather. You create value for your company by continually learning and gathering more information to share.
You've posed your question regarding this "information sharing" as a company requirement. No, this is your opportunity to take the latter (and better) path described above.
First slide of your PowerPoint is a bus about to run over a pedestrian and this is where you introduce the concept of the "bus number". You frighten everyone in the room by announcing that the company has a bus number of one and that you, the speaker, are all that stands between prosperity and collapse at the company. Next slide is a photo of someone handing out candy or gifts to everyone in a crowd and is titled "Sharing".
What are you sharing? Since this is the first presentation, not a lot of detail. First thing you are sharing is the location of your "In case of IT death, look in this directory." Don't have one yet? Make one before your presentation. It should have a "README.1ST" and a concise set of documents with passwords and network diagrams. You know, those things you were (rightly) loathe to put into your presentation.
Next topic for this first presentation are FAQs. How people can fix the printer for themselves. How people can check the status of available DHCP IP's for themselves. Etc. Make people independent to give yourself more time to learn even more things. Like maybe stuff about e-mail servers, VPN's, CRM, or website design. Don't stand still!
Do you realize how valuable this opportunity is and how much it's costing your company? A salesman, like, say, an insurance salesman, would pay big bucks for such an opportunity, and you're getting it for free! Use it to:
Make yourself dispensable. It's the way to create value. 30 minutes is an enormous gift. Spend it wisely.
Google+: The Missing Mindshare
Kyllo v. United States ruled that thermal imaging into a home without a warrant is unconstitutional. However, that decision was pre-9/11.
The printed page offers some authentication: yellowing of the page attests to age (or carbon dating for more precision), missing pages are readily apparent due to the running sequence counter, and alterations to the typography are difficult to forge. In essence, the printed page employs a redundancy of quadrillions times over -- quadrillions of molecules are involved to present one character of text to the reader. It is this redundancy that affords the secure authentication of the printed page.
EBooks have many drawbacks, but considering the authentication drawback in isolation, eBooks would have to come with a digital signature like an MDA, and a master catalog of MDA's would have to be maintained and well-distributed (to prevent someone from surreptitiously changing an MDA in just one authoritative place).