The problem is a lot more fundamental and deep-rooted than what you have described. The short time limits, lack of proper reviews are symptoms of the problem. The real problem is the people, the incentives and the fundamental lines on which our world operates. The majority of the world operates not based on the drive to create something, the passion for perfection but rather on making money and gaining fame.
Also, we don't understand ideas very well. Where do ideas come from? Do they belong to the person who got them? What if multiple people had them at the same time, whether in close proximity of location or in different parts of the world. Who would they belong to then? To the person who gets the patent? Should they really belong to someone, or the person who happens to get the idea first should only get a small part of the attribution?
Who is making the decision to fund patent trolls? The executives sitting in a boardroom. Who is supporting these decisions? Everyone who is a stakeholder - all top level execs as well as senior/middle mgmt as well as stock option holders. Again, incentives supplanting principles/values.
I think the problem is that you, like me, know too much about the underlying details of how the machinery works. And that's why aren't identifying well with the technology-layman. The problem is that websites like Facebook etc. ask for information in a very benign way. "Update your status", "Tag your friend". Seems very innocent. I doubt many people would question that. But most people don't know that there exists massive databases of their profiles and they are all linked together. Some probably think it's magical that gmail is showing them ads that are relevant to them.
People are extra careful giving out their SSNs but when it comes to "checking in" or "Updating statuses" people don't realize what exactly they are giving out since there are several translation layers that translate this seemingly benign info into profile databases and it's hard to comprehend for most people how the interlinking of these services will result in loss of privacy.
Sure you can take an extra careful minimalistic approach to giving out data but social networks have worked hard to screen the details from the people. I think with education and such breaches of privacy people will become better informed and hopefully be more careful giving out their info.
But until then...I think it's a positive thing for people who know better to grow awareness about privacy.
You are a smart guy obviously.
Do you really think every person including 20 somethings and over 50 somethings are as savvy with Internet Technology? Do you think they all know that even though you delete your Facebook profile the pictures/posts still remain cached? On Facebook's servers as well as on Search Engines? Do you think they know that these companies have a legal obligation retain data and submit it to the Gov when asked for? Or that Human Resources depts. are constantly scanning these profiles?
I don't think so!
It's easy to say from where you are. You're probably in technology or a related field or at least a slashdotter and hence very well informed about these issues. This isn't the case with everyone. Sure I agree everybody should inform themselves - that would be great - but the world isn't ideal - not everyone has the same IQ, opportunities, education, acumen, drive, environment, understanding and comprehension. Nor does everyone avidly read about Internet privacy related issues.
Until people get to that point, it's the responsibility of people who know better to educate them. This is obviously IMHO and a subjective thing. You can disagree.
If I had mod points I'd mod you Too Funny. Seems people don't see the humor.
Maybe the developers should have gone with Guys Around Us and left in the Girls around functionality tacitly.
I disagree that you should have zero sympathy for stupid or ignorant people or people who are "duped" into thinking that they are simply updating their status and don't really realize the implications thereof because either they are too young or too immature or not well-versed with the hyper-connectedness of services on the Internet or simply not very good at analyzing things and looking too far ahead.
I think those of us who are not as "stupid" or "ignorant" or are smarter or more informed do have a responsibility for educating and speaking up against abuse of information over the Internet.
In Budget lingo, this pertains to cases “where a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested, receives, in any previous year, from any person being a resident, any consideration for issue of shares that exceeds the face value of such shares, the aggregate consideration received for such shares as exceeds the fair market value of the shares: Provided that this clause shall not apply where the consideration for issue of shares is received by a venture capital undertaking from a venture capital company or a venture capital fund”.
It clearly says resident. How is it trying to prevent foreigners??
I would start with PASCAL or similar to teach basics such as for loops, conditional operators, boolean operators. Then to teach OOP I would probably use C++ (although if there was a simpler language available I'd rather not use C++ to teach OOP).
Yes to all.
It surprises me greatly that one has to articulate your point #3. One would think that most people with average intelligence would understand that and respect other people's privacy by not posting work-related or any other stuff that the other person may not want to make private. But unfortunately many people don't understand this.
Also, if you have your relatives on your f/b profile that's even worse since you probably have a generation gap with them and many of them don't understand what kinds of things can hurt you in what ways (for example your Aunt XYZ might ask you how you did in that interview for this other company that you had the past week)
Seems to me that she is strongly lobbying for Rupert M.
And her strategy against Google seems to be inducing a 1984 style fear (that Google will take over everything) and extreme examples - rather than facts. The fact is that I like to read news over the web, I like the google aggregator - it works for me. Thank you.
I agree that the article makes it sound recent and I got misled too before reading TFA.
But can you explain why you differentiate between cell aging and human aging? Isn't human aging a consequence of cell aging?
In my opinion getting a Palm PRE when you have available good Android phones (I just got the myTouch 3G from T-Mobile and so far I love it) or even an IPhone, is a mistake. If your hobby/business-idea is app development, you won't be able to generate enough of a network effect on a Palm PRE as there are not enough users and hence won't be able to make money or be able to get the pleasure of a lot of people using your app.
Android, in my view, is a good programming platform and has a good chance of catching on to the I-Phone in terms of app users (or at least generating a non-trivial user base). Of course you get the best network effect with the iPhone but then you also face the challenge of making an app which stands out among the plethora of already available apps (apart from dealing with app-store rejection idiosyncrasies).
If you bought the PRE because you happen to love the classic Palm (like me), well, my main reason for liking the Palm was the ability to use the stylo to write on it. It made life easier for me. The PRE doesn't have that...
There is no line (except for those man-made). In absolute, everything, including the dust of the Sahara is alive. Molecules are alive as they are a collective and behave a certain way, albeit unconsciously, and so are atoms and so are electrons and so on and so forth. There is no line.
know our purpose in life? Not many I would say. But we don't end up playing video games for the rest of our lives (well, not all of us do). If we don't know our purpose well enough how do we expect to give someone/something else a purpose?
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The problem is a lot more fundamental and deep-rooted than what you have described. The short time limits, lack of proper reviews are symptoms of the problem. The real problem is the people, the incentives and the fundamental lines on which our world operates. The majority of the world operates not based on the drive to create something, the passion for perfection but rather on making money and gaining fame. Also, we don't understand ideas very well. Where do ideas come from? Do they belong to the person who got them? What if multiple people had them at the same time, whether in close proximity of location or in different parts of the world. Who would they belong to then? To the person who gets the patent? Should they really belong to someone, or the person who happens to get the idea first should only get a small part of the attribution? Who is making the decision to fund patent trolls? The executives sitting in a boardroom. Who is supporting these decisions? Everyone who is a stakeholder - all top level execs as well as senior/middle mgmt as well as stock option holders. Again, incentives supplanting principles/values.
I think the problem is that you, like me, know too much about the underlying details of how the machinery works. And that's why aren't identifying well with the technology-layman. The problem is that websites like Facebook etc. ask for information in a very benign way. "Update your status", "Tag your friend". Seems very innocent. I doubt many people would question that. But most people don't know that there exists massive databases of their profiles and they are all linked together. Some probably think it's magical that gmail is showing them ads that are relevant to them. People are extra careful giving out their SSNs but when it comes to "checking in" or "Updating statuses" people don't realize what exactly they are giving out since there are several translation layers that translate this seemingly benign info into profile databases and it's hard to comprehend for most people how the interlinking of these services will result in loss of privacy. Sure you can take an extra careful minimalistic approach to giving out data but social networks have worked hard to screen the details from the people. I think with education and such breaches of privacy people will become better informed and hopefully be more careful giving out their info. But until then...I think it's a positive thing for people who know better to grow awareness about privacy.
You are a smart guy obviously. Do you really think every person including 20 somethings and over 50 somethings are as savvy with Internet Technology? Do you think they all know that even though you delete your Facebook profile the pictures/posts still remain cached? On Facebook's servers as well as on Search Engines? Do you think they know that these companies have a legal obligation retain data and submit it to the Gov when asked for? Or that Human Resources depts. are constantly scanning these profiles? I don't think so!
It's easy to say from where you are. You're probably in technology or a related field or at least a slashdotter and hence very well informed about these issues. This isn't the case with everyone. Sure I agree everybody should inform themselves - that would be great - but the world isn't ideal - not everyone has the same IQ, opportunities, education, acumen, drive, environment, understanding and comprehension. Nor does everyone avidly read about Internet privacy related issues. Until people get to that point, it's the responsibility of people who know better to educate them. This is obviously IMHO and a subjective thing. You can disagree.
If I had mod points I'd mod you Too Funny. Seems people don't see the humor. Maybe the developers should have gone with Guys Around Us and left in the Girls around functionality tacitly.
I disagree that you should have zero sympathy for stupid or ignorant people or people who are "duped" into thinking that they are simply updating their status and don't really realize the implications thereof because either they are too young or too immature or not well-versed with the hyper-connectedness of services on the Internet or simply not very good at analyzing things and looking too far ahead. I think those of us who are not as "stupid" or "ignorant" or are smarter or more informed do have a responsibility for educating and speaking up against abuse of information over the Internet.
You should look into taking "Sarcasm 101". Or try this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Official-Dictionary-Sarcasm-Lexicon/dp/1402769520/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332514814&sr=1-1
In Budget lingo, this pertains to cases “where a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested, receives, in any previous year, from any person being a resident, any consideration for issue of shares that exceeds the face value of such shares, the aggregate consideration received for such shares as exceeds the fair market value of the shares: Provided that this clause shall not apply where the consideration for issue of shares is received by a venture capital undertaking from a venture capital company or a venture capital fund”.
It clearly says resident. How is it trying to prevent foreigners??
Did you get the job?
I would start with PASCAL or similar to teach basics such as for loops, conditional operators, boolean operators. Then to teach OOP I would probably use C++ (although if there was a simpler language available I'd rather not use C++ to teach OOP).
... and with the lord of the rings we have valuable insight into how our own weaknesses and greed and lust for power hurt us in the long term...
Aaaah the ingenious Lord of the Rings argument!!
Or maybe we should ship you back to "hate-town".
have it stolen than color it pink.
Yes to all. It surprises me greatly that one has to articulate your point #3. One would think that most people with average intelligence would understand that and respect other people's privacy by not posting work-related or any other stuff that the other person may not want to make private. But unfortunately many people don't understand this. Also, if you have your relatives on your f/b profile that's even worse since you probably have a generation gap with them and many of them don't understand what kinds of things can hurt you in what ways (for example your Aunt XYZ might ask you how you did in that interview for this other company that you had the past week)
There is a choice - It's called "Android".
Are you saying dying in a car crash is the same as dying via brain cancer? Which would you prefer?
Seems to me that she is strongly lobbying for Rupert M. And her strategy against Google seems to be inducing a 1984 style fear (that Google will take over everything) and extreme examples - rather than facts. The fact is that I like to read news over the web, I like the google aggregator - it works for me. Thank you.
I agree that the article makes it sound recent and I got misled too before reading TFA. But can you explain why you differentiate between cell aging and human aging? Isn't human aging a consequence of cell aging?
In my opinion getting a Palm PRE when you have available good Android phones (I just got the myTouch 3G from T-Mobile and so far I love it) or even an IPhone, is a mistake. If your hobby/business-idea is app development, you won't be able to generate enough of a network effect on a Palm PRE as there are not enough users and hence won't be able to make money or be able to get the pleasure of a lot of people using your app. Android, in my view, is a good programming platform and has a good chance of catching on to the I-Phone in terms of app users (or at least generating a non-trivial user base). Of course you get the best network effect with the iPhone but then you also face the challenge of making an app which stands out among the plethora of already available apps (apart from dealing with app-store rejection idiosyncrasies). If you bought the PRE because you happen to love the classic Palm (like me), well, my main reason for liking the Palm was the ability to use the stylo to write on it. It made life easier for me. The PRE doesn't have that...
Never the less...
And even then they were considered cool only by other fellow nerds.
I tried it with mine...and here I am now...on Slashdot.
There is no line (except for those man-made). In absolute, everything, including the dust of the Sahara is alive. Molecules are alive as they are a collective and behave a certain way, albeit unconsciously, and so are atoms and so are electrons and so on and so forth. There is no line.
know our purpose in life? Not many I would say. But we don't end up playing video games for the rest of our lives (well, not all of us do). If we don't know our purpose well enough how do we expect to give someone/something else a purpose?
Of course the real number they say, is secret, and zero isn't a real number...
I would like to know what Brahmagupta would have to say about that!