Yeah, except economics is a serious subject that takes years of study, and you are a nobody repeating overly simplistic ideas which the experts have unanimously rejected.
Keep fighting the man though, I'm sure "Austrian economics" will get accepted if enough people with no economic knowledge on the internet believe it. Just like the gold standard.
That's how economic policy works, right?
The boffins don't anticipate resuming operations until at least 18:30 local time today
Please don't call workers at CERN (or anyone for that matter) "boffins".. Unless you are a writer in the 1930s working on a Beano comic you have no right to use the words "boffin", "toff", or "boner" (at least not to describe a joke).
I stopped reading after "Austrian economics." Post some credentials of your own and reasons I should take your point of view seriously and I'll give it a re-read.
Thanks for linking to the Wikipedia article, we hadn't heard of this "Chernobyl" thing before now..
Reports into Chernobyl at the time of the accident were that the US had nothing to learn from it, reactor lifetimes have been extended because they underestimated the lifetimes when they were first built.
I thought I was being objective.. I laid out my problems with the report and "feeling a political motive behind it" wasn't among them.
Why are you telling me to remain objective and not be dismissive, and at the same time dismissing my reasoning because it supposedly creates complacency?
The PRC is also recruiting from its
growing population of technically skilled people, including those
from the private sector, to increase its cyber capabilities. It is recruiting
skilled cyber operators from information technology
firms and computer science programs into the ranks of numerous
Information Warfare Militia units.
"cyber operators".. "Information Warfare Militia".. What?
Try actually reading the linked PDF and see if you can take it seriously. All this stuff about increased "cyber attack incidences" and I can find absolutely nothing explicitly linking any incident with the Chinese government or anything even making explicit what a "cyber attack incident" is. (Also "cyber warfare" is a pretty small part of the report itself; the report isn't about "cyber-warfare", but US-China relations.)
cyber-space (the electro-magnetic spectrum)
I think that quote just about sums it up. I am stunned that people here on slashdot are taking this seriously, this is the sort of thing I'd expect to see on Fox News.
So "You know the funny thing about companies that collect and sell my personal data? Their prices are higher than companies who do not." was bullshit? I would never have guessed..
Don't:-) Well okay google a guide to GLUT (there are many out there), try and build something and make it more and more detailed. Once you reach a point of diminishing returns, and if you like it, you can browse for a book that'll take it to the next level.
OSDN makes money via advertising and have every reason to track what software you download from sourceforge.net and check out on freshmeat.net, what stories you read on slashdot.org to try and profile you to provide better targeted ads.
Your purchases in any major store are stored in a database in your bank and (depending on the store) in the store's databases to build data determining trends and what products people who fit certain profiles are likely to buy.
All this data could be used to profile you, just like the Google Analytics data, yet you seem to be concerned only with Google Analytics and ad tracking. That is a double-standard.
Re: "yes you are insecure because cars, and I'm not convinced, and I won't agree no matter what you say so I'm right so there." I'm not getting drawn into personal attacks, stick to the subject.
You consider the data analytics and adverts track to be "personal data", but when/. (and RL stores, banks, CCTV, etc, etc) log equally or more personal data (or identical datasets) you have no problem with it.
This implies your reason for blocking certain content isn't about protecting your user data.
It's a plain double-standard, whether I'm insecure or magicians have me under their spell doesn't really come into it.
What's paranoid about insisting that a company bring a proposal, make me an offer, and sign a contract if they want to derive monetary value from my personal data?
It's not paranoid, just unworkable. Your info is stored on/.'s servers, most likely still used to "derive monetary value" by scaling up viewer figures for advertisers. You want/. to send you a contract to sign before you can comment?
If they wanted they could submit data directly to google analytics from their own logs, or track via an image (slashdot could export its static content to external servers to make prevent blocking external servers), because the net is public and they're collecting data you transmit with every request you make.
Every time you pay for something that isn't person to person the data will almost certainly be stored in one or more databases, and used to "derive monetary value", so do you buy all your goods in market places? Of course not, but why? They sure don't make you sign a contract to shop with them, what's the difference between that and browser data? I suspect the difference has a more to do with blocking ads than some real moral objection to mass data collection.
And based on the lack of a donor * I'm guessing you didn't apply your rules and go to OSDN with "a proposal for the exchanging of monetary values for contractual obligations regarding server usage", or however you want to put it.
Basically you don't want to see ads, so you blocked them along with analytics, but you want to see/. stories so you'll surrender your precious data without hesitation (let alone signed contract).
That's fine, but don't go trumpeting it around like you're on some crusade; you're blocking something that annoys you, and if everyone did they'd find a different way to achieve the same results (it's not hard to think up ways to perform tracking via images and serve ads integrated directly into the page HTML)
You can think up some distinction between this information and that information or this purpose vs that purpose, if feeling a twinge of guilt for blocking ads just won't get with your ego, but it's pretty transparent.
The anti-trust suits against Intel were/are mostly going to go to the EU, with appeals and legal wrangling AMD probably decided 1.25bn now would be better than an optimistic 2.5bn in 8 years when they've become the new SGI.
I modded my xbox (xbox 1) and since doing so haven't bought any games for it. It's just so much easier than buying them.
I also used to pirate loads of PC games, it was just so easy. Then Steam came out and it became easier to pay for them than pirate them, so now I do that. I suspect most pirates aren't evil thieves, just lazy (thieves).
Make it easier to pay for than pirate in terms of pure time (game-price/hourly-wage vs time-to-pirate) and we won't pirate it, then you can lower costs as more people pay (and lower costs a while after the release date) and you'll get more sales, and then less pirates, and so on.
This isn't one of those stupid theoretical "just make it free, man, and then I'll pay for it" arguments, this is backed up by the fact, works in practice, and is slowly changing the game industry for the better.
I'm a firefox user and I accept this study and that IE8 may well be more secure. They have made huge leaps in security since IE6, using sandboxing and whatnot to lessen the impacts of vulnerabilities found as well, and their security zone settings allow fine-grained choices regarding how secure you want to be vs what you need to run, and the integration with Active Directory allows security policy to be spread across enterprises easily.
Firefox is much more tuned to individual users, and needs extra plugins like NoScript to give rudimentary access level controls.
But Firefox supports the latest and greatest web standards, has a real community of users which make great plugins like NoScript and Adblock and Firebug, and is always trying new things like the awesome bar. If I wanted tin-foil-hat level security I'd use IE8 with a restrictive security policy, but realistically these days the difference between highly secure and pretty-damned-secure isn't that great; you're more likely to get a virus by being a dumbass and installing something you shouldn't than from an actual web-browser vulnerability.
I do think trying to find flaws in the study and questioning the motives when it doesn't look favorably on your favorite browser, as most people here are doing, is just narrow minded and petty.
So they might use a bloom filter as a way to find which machine is hosting a message, sending the message id to each machine for lookup, periodically rebuilding the filters from scratch by iterating over every message in the system?
Of all the ways to subdivide id-indexed data among a distributed system that is the most peculiar suggestion I've heard.
And like most CS people I am mysteriously desperate to find uses for Bloom filters. A partitioned ldap directory just isn't as neat
Yeah, and in other totally stupid news [$president] was seriously [$event], rushed to [$place] where he's receiving major [$variable]. Pff, wake me up when Firefox 3.6 is out.
Highly enriched nuclear bomb materials are like the old surface oil wells, or gold nuggets lying in the Australian desert, way too easy to pass up. Doesn't mean there aren't stupendous reserves yet to be mined.
An index is for taking an input and finding a set of records, a bloom filter takes an input and tells you whether it hasn't been given before. (And being unable to delete messages from your inbox is a bit of a showstopper.) Not sure how it applies
Are all college professors doing this? I think there are always in every generation going to be professors who don't want to put much effort into teaching classes. They are either there for doing research and thus don't care about learning or they aren't sure what they are doing there and just needed a job. There are a few annoying classes I took (in computer science even) where the professor would simply read from the book.
Where I study CS is always taught from powerpoint slides. I have one open right now in fact and here's a snippet:
The arrival of GUI technology has opened up
new degrees of freedom in the use of colour,
typography, and imagery.
Most of the world’s character-based
applications are rapidly being ported to MS
Windows, the Macintosh, or Linux.
It's from a computer graphics unit that would have been getting out of date 10 years ago. Here we learn Oracle and glut, bash and tcsh are taught side by side, we've had 4 units on using C for low-level linux apps and 1/2 a unit each for perl&java, course information is maintained on static html pages, and a good portion of our lecturers and tutors (~1/2) barely speak English. The non-obsolete info is the stuff that hasn't changed in decades like automata and turing machines.
Back in high school physics and chem teachers would go to relatively great lengths setting up experiments and demos to help get concepts across, so it seems bizarre that computer science lectures are given on projectors hooked up to computers yet I've never seen a demonstration of a concept. My only hope is that the people who were any good got good jobs and we have what remains.
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Yeah, except economics is a serious subject that takes years of study, and you are a nobody repeating overly simplistic ideas which the experts have unanimously rejected.
Keep fighting the man though, I'm sure "Austrian economics" will get accepted if enough people with no economic knowledge on the internet believe it. Just like the gold standard.
That's how economic policy works, right?
You're new to IT, aren't you?
The boffins don't anticipate resuming operations until at least 18:30 local time today
Please don't call workers at CERN (or anyone for that matter) "boffins".. Unless you are a writer in the 1930s working on a Beano comic you have no right to use the words "boffin", "toff", or "boner" (at least not to describe a joke).
I stopped reading after "Austrian economics." Post some credentials of your own and reasons I should take your point of view seriously and I'll give it a re-read.
Thanks for linking to the Wikipedia article, we hadn't heard of this "Chernobyl" thing before now..
Reports into Chernobyl at the time of the accident were that the US had nothing to learn from it, reactor lifetimes have been extended because they underestimated the lifetimes when they were first built.
I thought I was being objective.. I laid out my problems with the report and "feeling a political motive behind it" wasn't among them.
Why are you telling me to remain objective and not be dismissive, and at the same time dismissing my reasoning because it supposedly creates complacency?
Oh alright, you got me, I'm in the 50 cent gang. But now that I've told you I'm afraid I have to kill you.
The PRC is also recruiting from its growing population of technically skilled people, including those from the private sector, to increase its cyber capabilities. It is recruiting skilled cyber operators from information technology firms and computer science programs into the ranks of numerous Information Warfare Militia units.
"cyber operators".. "Information Warfare Militia".. What?
Try actually reading the linked PDF and see if you can take it seriously. All this stuff about increased "cyber attack incidences" and I can find absolutely nothing explicitly linking any incident with the Chinese government or anything even making explicit what a "cyber attack incident" is. (Also "cyber warfare" is a pretty small part of the report itself; the report isn't about "cyber-warfare", but US-China relations.)
cyber-space (the electro-magnetic spectrum)
I think that quote just about sums it up. I am stunned that people here on slashdot are taking this seriously, this is the sort of thing I'd expect to see on Fox News.
So "You know the funny thing about companies that collect and sell my personal data? Their prices are higher than companies who do not." was bullshit? I would never have guessed..
Don't :-) Well okay google a guide to GLUT (there are many out there), try and build something and make it more and more detailed. Once you reach a point of diminishing returns, and if you like it, you can browse for a book that'll take it to the next level.
This is obviously true for all companies and completely invalidates the GP's points.
See the difference?
OSDN makes money via advertising and have every reason to track what software you download from sourceforge.net and check out on freshmeat.net, what stories you read on slashdot.org to try and profile you to provide better targeted ads.
Your purchases in any major store are stored in a database in your bank and (depending on the store) in the store's databases to build data determining trends and what products people who fit certain profiles are likely to buy.
All this data could be used to profile you, just like the Google Analytics data, yet you seem to be concerned only with Google Analytics and ad tracking. That is a double-standard.
Re: "yes you are insecure because cars, and I'm not convinced, and I won't agree no matter what you say so I'm right so there." I'm not getting drawn into personal attacks, stick to the subject.
You consider the data analytics and adverts track to be "personal data", but when /. (and RL stores, banks, CCTV, etc, etc) log equally or more personal data (or identical datasets) you have no problem with it.
This implies your reason for blocking certain content isn't about protecting your user data.
It's a plain double-standard, whether I'm insecure or magicians have me under their spell doesn't really come into it.
What's paranoid about insisting that a company bring a proposal, make me an offer, and sign a contract if they want to derive monetary value from my personal data?
It's not paranoid, just unworkable. Your info is stored on /.'s servers, most likely still used to "derive monetary value" by scaling up viewer figures for advertisers. You want /. to send you a contract to sign before you can comment?
/. stories so you'll surrender your precious data without hesitation (let alone signed contract).
If they wanted they could submit data directly to google analytics from their own logs, or track via an image (slashdot could export its static content to external servers to make prevent blocking external servers), because the net is public and they're collecting data you transmit with every request you make.
Every time you pay for something that isn't person to person the data will almost certainly be stored in one or more databases, and used to "derive monetary value", so do you buy all your goods in market places? Of course not, but why? They sure don't make you sign a contract to shop with them, what's the difference between that and browser data? I suspect the difference has a more to do with blocking ads than some real moral objection to mass data collection.
And based on the lack of a donor * I'm guessing you didn't apply your rules and go to OSDN with "a proposal for the exchanging of monetary values for contractual obligations regarding server usage", or however you want to put it.
Basically you don't want to see ads, so you blocked them along with analytics, but you want to see
That's fine, but don't go trumpeting it around like you're on some crusade; you're blocking something that annoys you, and if everyone did they'd find a different way to achieve the same results (it's not hard to think up ways to perform tracking via images and serve ads integrated directly into the page HTML)
You can think up some distinction between this information and that information or this purpose vs that purpose, if feeling a twinge of guilt for blocking ads just won't get with your ego, but it's pretty transparent.
The anti-trust suits against Intel were/are mostly going to go to the EU, with appeals and legal wrangling AMD probably decided 1.25bn now would be better than an optimistic 2.5bn in 8 years when they've become the new SGI.
I modded my xbox (xbox 1) and since doing so haven't bought any games for it. It's just so much easier than buying them.
I also used to pirate loads of PC games, it was just so easy. Then Steam came out and it became easier to pay for them than pirate them, so now I do that. I suspect most pirates aren't evil thieves, just lazy (thieves).
Make it easier to pay for than pirate in terms of pure time (game-price/hourly-wage vs time-to-pirate) and we won't pirate it, then you can lower costs as more people pay (and lower costs a while after the release date) and you'll get more sales, and then less pirates, and so on.
This isn't one of those stupid theoretical "just make it free, man, and then I'll pay for it" arguments, this is backed up by the fact, works in practice, and is slowly changing the game industry for the better.
I'm a firefox user and I accept this study and that IE8 may well be more secure. They have made huge leaps in security since IE6, using sandboxing and whatnot to lessen the impacts of vulnerabilities found as well, and their security zone settings allow fine-grained choices regarding how secure you want to be vs what you need to run, and the integration with Active Directory allows security policy to be spread across enterprises easily.
Firefox is much more tuned to individual users, and needs extra plugins like NoScript to give rudimentary access level controls.
But Firefox supports the latest and greatest web standards, has a real community of users which make great plugins like NoScript and Adblock and Firebug, and is always trying new things like the awesome bar. If I wanted tin-foil-hat level security I'd use IE8 with a restrictive security policy, but realistically these days the difference between highly secure and pretty-damned-secure isn't that great; you're more likely to get a virus by being a dumbass and installing something you shouldn't than from an actual web-browser vulnerability.
I do think trying to find flaws in the study and questioning the motives when it doesn't look favorably on your favorite browser, as most people here are doing, is just narrow minded and petty.
Zend framework, pear, namespaces. PHP has grown as the net has grown.
I think the official name is a "Basement Level Event"
So they might use a bloom filter as a way to find which machine is hosting a message, sending the message id to each machine for lookup, periodically rebuilding the filters from scratch by iterating over every message in the system?
Of all the ways to subdivide id-indexed data among a distributed system that is the most peculiar suggestion I've heard.
And like most CS people I am mysteriously desperate to find uses for Bloom filters. A partitioned ldap directory just isn't as neat
Yeah, and in other totally stupid news [$president] was seriously [$event], rushed to [$place] where he's receiving major [$variable]. Pff, wake me up when Firefox 3.6 is out.
Highly enriched nuclear bomb materials are like the old surface oil wells, or gold nuggets lying in the Australian desert, way too easy to pass up. Doesn't mean there aren't stupendous reserves yet to be mined.
An index is for taking an input and finding a set of records, a bloom filter takes an input and tells you whether it hasn't been given before. (And being unable to delete messages from your inbox is a bit of a showstopper.) Not sure how it applies
Are all college professors doing this? I think there are always in every generation going to be professors who don't want to put much effort into teaching classes. They are either there for doing research and thus don't care about learning or they aren't sure what they are doing there and just needed a job. There are a few annoying classes I took (in computer science even) where the professor would simply read from the book.
Where I study CS is always taught from powerpoint slides. I have one open right now in fact and here's a snippet:
It's from a computer graphics unit that would have been getting out of date 10 years ago. Here we learn Oracle and glut, bash and tcsh are taught side by side, we've had 4 units on using C for low-level linux apps and 1/2 a unit each for perl&java, course information is maintained on static html pages, and a good portion of our lecturers and tutors (~1/2) barely speak English. The non-obsolete info is the stuff that hasn't changed in decades like automata and turing machines.
Back in high school physics and chem teachers would go to relatively great lengths setting up experiments and demos to help get concepts across, so it seems bizarre that computer science lectures are given on projectors hooked up to computers yet I've never seen a demonstration of a concept. My only hope is that the people who were any good got good jobs and we have what remains.