The moment Obama took the reins every cent we've spent in Afghanistan and Iraq should be under his name. The second that the Bush tax cuts were extended under Obama, they should be under his name, etc. etc.
Google grabbed this info from the street, without asking permission, and used that information for business purpose (and not a very fair one, see the Skyhook vs. Google lawsuit).
Google recorded something I was intentionally broadcasting. Boohoo.
Meh. The telephone companies have been doing this for a while now. The wifi chip in your phone records nearby SSIDs even when you have turned your wifi off. The telephone companies record which SSIDs you're near and this allows them to more quickly determine your location for the numerous reasons they might want to do so. I don't believe that anything I'm broadcasting over the air-waves is private. The fact that Google also recorded this information is irrelevant to me.
Privatization is not a scam. However, one of the biggest reasons NASA was overpriced was the procurement process. In order for NASA to spend money they had to spread it around as many Congress Critters' districts as possible, which introduced massive wastes. One of the ways defense contractors win their bids is to similarly "spread the wealth" across as many districts as possible of key Congress members so they can win spending votes. I suspect it is only a matter of time before the private space industry has to play the same game. Until then, hooray for saving some money.
Buzz never really caught on anywhere as far as I know. Orkut, on the other hand, while a flop in the US was huge in some other countries (namely Brazil). I wonder what the long term path is for that.
So while you may be safe, Google will still know your friend's internet usage.
I think the word "safe" is a little hyperbole.. Clearly my friend isn't concerned about anyone knowing their internet usage habits. Frankly, I'm not all that concerned about my habits either. I block analytics because it often kills load time on web sites. So far the only tangible result of Google sniffing my information is that I receive more meaningful search results. The cost of that was letting Google know my browsing habits. I'm okay with that.
My understanding is that patents are not like trademark. With trademark if you don't enforce it you will essentially lose it. With patents you can choose to let it go as long as you like, wildly/randomly change your license requirements, etc.
My understanding was that it's essentially a big chimney with a greenhouse instead of a fireplace. At that altitude I'd wager the heat dissipates pretty quickly with the wind blowing in any direction.
The turbines are at the ground level. The height increases suction due to basic thermodynamics. New nuclear power plants are estimated to cost in the $15 Billion range, so that price is not out of scope for a power plant.
Not getting paid a lot because you're only working part time while in college is "opportunity cost" not actual cost. In most states you can get a teaching job after a 4 year degree and then the state will pay for your MA.
If Gates wanted to improve the quality of humans, he should have invested in creating more and better preschool/kindergartens.
By the time the kids are in school more of their brains/minds have already "set".
This reminds me of something I saw about a similar experience with Oprah. She intended to do something similar to Gates by helping inner city kids get a better education. She was disappointed to find that very young kids in elementary and middle school didn't care one whit about education and were only interested in tennis shoes and other fashionable trinkets. This lesson took Oprah about 1 day to learn, took Gates quite a bit more.
If you spend $125k to get your undergrad you're doing it wrong and/or you have wealthy parents. A community college in California costs about $600/yr for full time study (first 2 years) and a full time student at UC pays about $10k/yr in tuition and fees. Even if you went full time to the university for 4 years you're not coming anywhere close to $125k in spending you otherwise would not have had. Things like rent, electricity, food, are all expenses you would have whether you went to school or not.
One of the more interesting Freakanomics studies showed that parents who had purchased child rearing books generally had more successful children even if (and this is the really interesting part) they had *never read a single page in the books*. Why? Because parents who were cognizant enough to even *think* about the concept of how they might become better parents wound up being better parents... they paid more attention to their children and generally were more helpful along the process of the child growing of age. So it's true that having a bunch of books in your house does not automagically make your children smarter, but the types of people who might have a lot of books in their house are likely to put a good bit of emphasis on education/intellectualism and will have a greater tendency to churn out smarter kids. IOW, correlation, not causation.
Education needs to focus on Job Skills and training, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Political Awareness, and Dealing with people.
90% of the jobs out there the best candidate is someone who can read/write, do very little if any math, is willing to do boring/repetitive tasks for hours on end, and feels bound by social contract not to cause a stir about anything. This is the type of person schools churn out in large quantities. A smaller percentage "slip through the cracks" and go on to be come engineers and such. In this way, the school system is not broken, but in fact is quite effective at creating the types of workers that corporations need.
If we were really serious about saving costs and improving lives we'd be replacing 90% of general practitioners with people trained in the social side of being a doctor (recognizing when someone is lying) but largely ignoring any rigorous medical training in favor of algorithms which continuously adjust diagnosis and care with the up to the minute data from around the country. This would not only dramatically reduce the cost of health care but also free up some of our best mental capacity to do something constructive rather than repetitive. Or at the very worst case scenario reduce the need for "smart" people. These are the types of approaches we need to take towards education, reducing the need for it, rather than "improving" something that I would suggest is not broken.
I would add... call me when NASA's infrastructure for doing these things internally has been gone for the better part of a decade and we'll see what SpaceX's costs are when there's no real competition.
The goal is NOT to infiltrate LULz or Anonymous or anything of the sort. The goal is to diminish the rights of the population in favor of size of government and corporate profits.
WRT KGB actually existing or not.. it doesn't really make a bit of difference in the lives of the easily duped average, opinionated, modern person. It only really matters to other governments and information agencies which likely know the truth one way or the other.
That's not true. I purchased my OEM version of XP and it came with a serial cable which the vendor dubbed the "computer." In order to transfer the license legally I'd have to provide the future buyer with the cable.
Meh, "sensitive" is relative. Let me know when it's proven that there's actually some meaningful scandalous data here. Otherwise it's just a "Look what I can do!" Anything the military does or buys is considered sensitive by default. It's silly really.
Your 2-step authentication does nothing when the servers themselves are compromised. Luckily I have nothing but my own personal financial information at risk which is completely worthless to a foreign government and a dime a dozen in the hacking/cracking circles.
Say what you want about wikileaks but they understood media/marketing. Releasing so much stuff so frequently makes it difficult for the media to absorb and create a media frenzy, which is the only way the plebes ever even hear about stuff like this.
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The moment Obama took the reins every cent we've spent in Afghanistan and Iraq should be under his name. The second that the Bush tax cuts were extended under Obama, they should be under his name, etc. etc.
Google grabbed this info from the street, without asking permission, and used that information for business purpose (and not a very fair one, see the Skyhook vs. Google lawsuit).
Google recorded something I was intentionally broadcasting. Boohoo.
Meh. The telephone companies have been doing this for a while now. The wifi chip in your phone records nearby SSIDs even when you have turned your wifi off. The telephone companies record which SSIDs you're near and this allows them to more quickly determine your location for the numerous reasons they might want to do so. I don't believe that anything I'm broadcasting over the air-waves is private. The fact that Google also recorded this information is irrelevant to me.
Privatization is not a scam. However, one of the biggest reasons NASA was overpriced was the procurement process. In order for NASA to spend money they had to spread it around as many Congress Critters' districts as possible, which introduced massive wastes. One of the ways defense contractors win their bids is to similarly "spread the wealth" across as many districts as possible of key Congress members so they can win spending votes. I suspect it is only a matter of time before the private space industry has to play the same game. Until then, hooray for saving some money.
I'm guessing a lot of them get arrested pretty quickly. For example, a local kid got arrested by the FBI for being involved in the Anonymous "hacks." http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-07-20/news/os-fbi-ucf-police-cyber-investigation20110719_1_fbi-agents-ucf-student-fbi-program The hacks tend to make bigger news than the arrests.
Buzz never really caught on anywhere as far as I know. Orkut, on the other hand, while a flop in the US was huge in some other countries (namely Brazil). I wonder what the long term path is for that.
Everything else?
So while you may be safe, Google will still know your friend's internet usage.
I think the word "safe" is a little hyperbole.. Clearly my friend isn't concerned about anyone knowing their internet usage habits. Frankly, I'm not all that concerned about my habits either. I block analytics because it often kills load time on web sites. So far the only tangible result of Google sniffing my information is that I receive more meaningful search results. The cost of that was letting Google know my browsing habits. I'm okay with that.
How about:
Last year the license fee for this technology was $0.
This year the license fee for this technology is $1 Billion.
My understanding is that patents are not like trademark. With trademark if you don't enforce it you will essentially lose it. With patents you can choose to let it go as long as you like, wildly/randomly change your license requirements, etc.
My understanding was that it's essentially a big chimney with a greenhouse instead of a fireplace. At that altitude I'd wager the heat dissipates pretty quickly with the wind blowing in any direction.
The turbines are at the ground level. The height increases suction due to basic thermodynamics. New nuclear power plants are estimated to cost in the $15 Billion range, so that price is not out of scope for a power plant.
Not getting paid a lot because you're only working part time while in college is "opportunity cost" not actual cost. In most states you can get a teaching job after a 4 year degree and then the state will pay for your MA.
If Gates wanted to improve the quality of humans, he should have invested in creating more and better preschool/kindergartens. By the time the kids are in school more of their brains/minds have already "set".
This reminds me of something I saw about a similar experience with Oprah. She intended to do something similar to Gates by helping inner city kids get a better education. She was disappointed to find that very young kids in elementary and middle school didn't care one whit about education and were only interested in tennis shoes and other fashionable trinkets. This lesson took Oprah about 1 day to learn, took Gates quite a bit more.
If you spend $125k to get your undergrad you're doing it wrong and/or you have wealthy parents. A community college in California costs about $600/yr for full time study (first 2 years) and a full time student at UC pays about $10k/yr in tuition and fees. Even if you went full time to the university for 4 years you're not coming anywhere close to $125k in spending you otherwise would not have had. Things like rent, electricity, food, are all expenses you would have whether you went to school or not.
One of the more interesting Freakanomics studies showed that parents who had purchased child rearing books generally had more successful children even if (and this is the really interesting part) they had *never read a single page in the books*. Why? Because parents who were cognizant enough to even *think* about the concept of how they might become better parents wound up being better parents... they paid more attention to their children and generally were more helpful along the process of the child growing of age. So it's true that having a bunch of books in your house does not automagically make your children smarter, but the types of people who might have a lot of books in their house are likely to put a good bit of emphasis on education/intellectualism and will have a greater tendency to churn out smarter kids. IOW, correlation, not causation.
Education needs to focus on Job Skills and training, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Political Awareness, and Dealing with people.
90% of the jobs out there the best candidate is someone who can read/write, do very little if any math, is willing to do boring/repetitive tasks for hours on end, and feels bound by social contract not to cause a stir about anything. This is the type of person schools churn out in large quantities. A smaller percentage "slip through the cracks" and go on to be come engineers and such. In this way, the school system is not broken, but in fact is quite effective at creating the types of workers that corporations need.
If we were really serious about saving costs and improving lives we'd be replacing 90% of general practitioners with people trained in the social side of being a doctor (recognizing when someone is lying) but largely ignoring any rigorous medical training in favor of algorithms which continuously adjust diagnosis and care with the up to the minute data from around the country. This would not only dramatically reduce the cost of health care but also free up some of our best mental capacity to do something constructive rather than repetitive. Or at the very worst case scenario reduce the need for "smart" people. These are the types of approaches we need to take towards education, reducing the need for it, rather than "improving" something that I would suggest is not broken.
I would add... call me when NASA's infrastructure for doing these things internally has been gone for the better part of a decade and we'll see what SpaceX's costs are when there's no real competition.
The goal is NOT to infiltrate LULz or Anonymous or anything of the sort. The goal is to diminish the rights of the population in favor of size of government and corporate profits.
WRT KGB actually existing or not.. it doesn't really make a bit of difference in the lives of the easily duped average, opinionated, modern person. It only really matters to other governments and information agencies which likely know the truth one way or the other.
I'm willing to take both.
I'm pretty sure it's the proxies.
That's not true. I purchased my OEM version of XP and it came with a serial cable which the vendor dubbed the "computer." In order to transfer the license legally I'd have to provide the future buyer with the cable.
Meh, "sensitive" is relative. Let me know when it's proven that there's actually some meaningful scandalous data here. Otherwise it's just a "Look what I can do!" Anything the military does or buys is considered sensitive by default. It's silly really.
Your 2-step authentication does nothing when the servers themselves are compromised. Luckily I have nothing but my own personal financial information at risk which is completely worthless to a foreign government and a dime a dozen in the hacking/cracking circles.
Say what you want about wikileaks but they understood media/marketing. Releasing so much stuff so frequently makes it difficult for the media to absorb and create a media frenzy, which is the only way the plebes ever even hear about stuff like this.