Whatever format you choose to use, CD, DVD, blue-ray, harddisk, VHS tape... Seal a playback device along with it. Remove the batteries, even the tiny button cells packed inside the circuit boards, if possible. They might corrode and leak and damage the circuits. Record what all you have taken out and the specs in good quality paper, so that you could restore them. 25 years from now, either the 110 V electricity supply and a service industry to restore the play back devices will still be available, May be store two play back devices so that one can be cannibalized for parts.
Talking about cannibalism, if the electricity supply has gone, or if a suitable transformer is not available, not the society has already fallen apart and the roving bands of hungry feral humans have already killed you and eaten your corpses so it would not matter.
These Search Engine Optimization guys are well experienced in gaming the search engine algorithms. It will be child's play for them to game this twitter psychopath detection algorithms. They will branch off into side business,
"Are you afraid your tweets will trigger the FBI psychopath detection hot buttons? Are you afraid the Government jack booted thugs are going to knock down your door? Don't despair! Don't log off!! Tweet to your heart's content! Just subscribe to our UTR [*] service for just $9.99 a month and we will unobtrusively intervene and moderate your tweets! Your message will get through! FBI would not know. Subscribe now.
[*] UTR is the registered trademark of Under The Radar technologies, all rights reserved."
Now we won't be back to the square one. We would be back to the square negative 10. FBI is overloaded with the false positives. The real psychopaths are laughing at you too.
hey hey you want me to shoot for frist psot and still be 100% correct? Yes, it is true, the money had already been spent way back in 2007 and they admit they got zilch for that investment. It also includes about 2 billion it had spent on the online arena without much results. Wonder where that money went? Could they have been giving 2 billion in bing rewards? Or it was all just paying shills to post in Slashdot?
In addition to its $6.2 billion disaster of a purchase, Microsoft made another critical mistake in 2007: It failed to recognize the debut of Apple's iPhone as the game-changer it turned out to be and missed the launch of the touchscreen revolution. Its partnership with troubled Finnish cell phone company Nokia notwithstanding, Windows phones barely have a toehold in the iOS-Android duopoly.
It is par for the course for Microsoft to phoo phoo anything new (Remember "640K memory is enough for everyone", "You mean companies are going to print their URLs in their advertisements?" ) and then play catch up. Usually that strategy worked out for Microsoft because corporate computers formed 90% or more of the computing platforms in the world, and it had a stranglehold on that market.
Two things stymied Microsoft in the cell phone arena. First was obvious: It lacked market dominance for ram through bad but barely adequate competitor and swamp out the competition.
But there was a second player, that we slashdotter would loathe to give credit to. The much maligned evil phone companies. They are used to getting hefty margins peddling corded and cordless plain old telephone equipment. They saw what happened to the manufacturers of the ubiquitous beige boxes. They were reducing competing purely on price, the brutal price war changed the landscape. In the 1990s the hardware accounted for 95% of the cost of the computer and the software was hardly 5%. While software prices remained stable and went up (MS-Office retailed for $550 when the PCs had fallen below 500$ mark). The telcos were determined to not to let that happen to them. Being incompatible with Microsoft, and not giving it any toehold was the common strategy.
So even if someone in Microsoft saw the threat of iPhone that company is too big to move nimbly, too bogged down in earlier mode of competing, it had made too many enemies, it has stabbed the back of too many partners and it has scared off too many partners.
No, Microsoft did not bring in less money than it spent. It has decided to wash its hands off of some of the investments it made. It wrote down the value of some of the stuff it owns, and that is shown as a loss.
All these species, chicken, cows, pigs, etc are afflicted by one of the most deadly parasites of the species Homo sapiens. This is a slow acting cunning parasite, that allows the animals to reproduce before killing them. Thus they never develop an immunity to this parasite.
These are recent. Microsoft systematically attacked its competitors with selective bugs. IIS will have bugs that violate MS's own API guidelines and documentation but somehow mysteriously they would not affect IE, but would make Netscape bad and unstable. MS-Office will have bugs in save/restore that will make WordPerfect first and OpenOffice later to fail in reading them right. Initially Word alone would read/write them correctly. It eventually came back to bite their own as^H^H tails because they could not keep the selective disinteroperative bugs affecting only other products. Later days OpenOffice became better in rendering old pre-Word2000 files than Ms-Office itself!
They took full advantage of open unix file system architecture to mount unix filesystems in windows. Made sure windows filesystems could never be shared/authenticated in unix side. They fought Samba with bugs as much as they did with lawyers. That is how exchange-server came to dominate the authentication servers in corporate IT. The list is endless.
As I understand it, the waiting period after registering to vote serves the same purpose as the waiting period for buying certain kinds of deadly weapon: a criminal background check.
Could be true, I am not disputing that. But it is funny all the Republicans show determination to make it easier to get a gun, but somehow they show equal amount of fervor in reducing voter turn out.
Why not try to create a better informed electorate?
While you may believe that a "better informed electorate" is the key to solve the problem, I'm telling you this fact:
90% of the human population just-don't-give-a-fuck about 90% of the things that happen around them
All they want is to have an easy life, get laid, and be fed
Most of them just do-not-care-enough to lift their little finger to make any change, unless their livelihood got threatened
Many states are pushing hard on voter id laws. Well, if states require voter-id with the current address on them, why require registration too? People with valid id should be able to register and vote on the same day, right?
In a Perry Mason novel, (probably The Case of the Ice Cold Hands), the witness in the stand will confess to murder, and the DA Ham Burger would be forced to argue, (because he is charging his sister with that murder), "no you did not!".
In most cases bugs in your code is usually bad for your business. But Microsoft has bugs that are peculiar in that, it helps the company. It breaks competitor's products from the DR-DOS days or help it avoid compliance with court rulings... You know at some point people are going to say, "this level of incompetence is simply not possible, it must be intentional". And Microsoft will pull a Ham Burger and argue, "No! We are that incompetent!".
When the digital clocks came, our children slowly lost the ability to read analog clocks. Then ubiquitous calculators eroded arithmetic skills. The with ever acclerating speed GPS killed our map reading abilities and PDAs and smartphones eroded our memory by taking over address lists and phone numbers. I could see eventually being connected to all the stored information of mankind all the time, and being able to store individual experiences cheaply will allow us to outsource most of our brain functions. But brain is not a factory where the released capacity will be put to some other use. Brain and muscle atrophy without usage. What we don't use, we lose, we don't redeploy.
Sometime in the future, if Microsoft decides you need to pay every month some money to have continued access to your own documents, you have to pay. You have just encrypted every thing you do in some third party's proprietary, closed system. Would you put all your document in a third party's safe no matter how much they guarantee you continued access?
Both have partisan viewpoints, but that is all the commonality. When it comes to admitting errors, saying "There I go, but for the grace of God" when CNN flubbed the ACA decision, issuing corrections, Maddow is way way better than Hannity.
Enough with the speech recognition system. With their extensive experience with Goldman Sachs they are building a fraud recognition system. But alas, it is not going to make them much money. Their system is basically,
bool RecognizeFraud(){
if ( GetCounterPartyName() == "Goldman Sachs") then
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}
Now, every victim could potentially sue Facebook for not protecting them from predators. "We read news report about Facebook monitoring our chats and catching the criminals. It is all Facebook's fault I lied to my parents, played hookey with school and took a bus to Middle Ofnowhere from Gated Condos, Florida".
And every false positive could end up with a suit against Facebook for slander, loss of reputation. And privacy advocates could sue Facebook for violation expectations of privacy. It looks like an all around lose-lose-lose proposition. Why are they doing it?
In India the street and road names are not marked very prominently as they are in USA. Even those few street name plates/boards are likely to be covered posters touting everything from "Certificate in ANSYS CAD software in 30 days!" to latest offering by the local "Mega Star". Nor are the local customs of giving directions involve the cardinal directions. Very rarely you hear, "Take Subramxysjdjhd street North and then go east on Johnshdhs road". Often you will hear, "Take left after the Pillsjdj temple, and then a right after the Indian Bank. You will see a autorickshaw stand opposite to the transformer. Third house..."
Last trip there, I was pleasantly surprised to see the maps.google.co.in giving directions based on landmarks and the street names were shown in fainter font. It had three or four "mode"s. Car, motorcycle/scooter, public transportation. It knew the bridge across Cauvery at Anaikkarai was closed for repairs. Granted, that bridge has been down for about six years. But none of the printed maps were more recent than six years. It was able to find a very new apartment complex near Chennai when even the local Electricity Board meter reader guy could not help us.
Of course there were some funny stuff. The Old Mahabalipuram Road, (three lanes up, three lanes down, center median toll road) was shown with same level of prominence as Pillaiyaar Koil Street that was barely wide enough to accommodate an autorickshaw. But this is great progress. I would strongly advice people to get a USB stick 3G service and carry a laptop and you can find things your own cabby or autorickshaw driver or even the electricity board meter reader guy does not know.
My brother was joking, "all these techies go to USA with dreams of working for Google. Then they get a job in Google and the assignment they get is to punch in the local town bus timings of their own rural home town! "
No PC numbers will go down. Most people who use PCs are using it for just one or two tasks. They bought PCs because the dedicated machines were not available then. The hardware prices have fallen so low, it is possible to create dedicated machines for the few tasks most people use. Web, store & view personal photo collections, store and listen to music, covers 100% of use by 90% of the people, and 90% of use by the remaining 10%. So they all will go away from Desktops and laptops.
Once that large base leaves, they would not be subsidizing the cost of Desktops/laptops. This will increase the price of PCs and it will drive more people away. Eventually Desktops will go back to be workstations used by engineers at work. I see very few hobbyists doing video editing and such stuff needing Desktops in the future.
The author of the article, Nicholas Wade, compares the inheritance and mutation trees of different things to deduce what happened in the prehistory. Actually professional scientists do it, and Wade makes it readable for others.
In hist book, Before the Dawn, he describes the mutations in the parasite body louse (different from head louse) that lives of humans. From it you can build a tree of migration of human bands. You can also look at the mutations in Y chromosome. Or the mito-chondrial DNA. Or the language families and their inheritance traits.
The most significant finding is that, all these lines of evidence agree. They don't contradict each other. And they are not very broad either so the concordance is significant. Other interesting things are, we started wearing clothes 75000 years ago. Body louse can live only in clothing, it split off from head louse 75000 years ago. There was a Y chromosome Adam, last common ancestors to all living humans about 75000 years ago. There was a mitochondrial eve, last common female ancestor who lived in Africa some 130000 years ago.
I think he mentioned that dogs were domesticated in East Asia/Siberia some 20000 years ago. Did Amerindians have domesticated dogs? That would be a very interesting marker.
Slashdot Mirror
Talking about cannibalism, if the electricity supply has gone, or if a suitable transformer is not available, not the society has already fallen apart and the roving bands of hungry feral humans have already killed you and eaten your corpses so it would not matter.
"Are you afraid your tweets will trigger the FBI psychopath detection hot buttons? Are you afraid the Government jack booted thugs are going to knock down your door? Don't despair! Don't log off!! Tweet to your heart's content! Just subscribe to our UTR [*] service for just $9.99 a month and we will unobtrusively intervene and moderate your tweets! Your message will get through! FBI would not know. Subscribe now.
[*] UTR is the registered trademark of Under The Radar technologies, all rights reserved."
Now we won't be back to the square one. We would be back to the square negative 10. FBI is overloaded with the false positives. The real psychopaths are laughing at you too.
... the largesse amounts to about $1 per day per worker.
Hey, how did you get Microsoft's private signature?
It was just microsoft's signature, identifying who they are. Why is it considered sexist I can't understand.
hey hey you want me to shoot for frist psot and still be 100% correct? Yes, it is true, the money had already been spent way back in 2007 and they admit they got zilch for that investment. It also includes about 2 billion it had spent on the online arena without much results. Wonder where that money went? Could they have been giving 2 billion in bing rewards? Or it was all just paying shills to post in Slashdot?
In addition to its $6.2 billion disaster of a purchase, Microsoft made another critical mistake in 2007: It failed to recognize the debut of Apple's iPhone as the game-changer it turned out to be and missed the launch of the touchscreen revolution. Its partnership with troubled Finnish cell phone company Nokia notwithstanding, Windows phones barely have a toehold in the iOS-Android duopoly.
It is par for the course for Microsoft to phoo phoo anything new (Remember "640K memory is enough for everyone", "You mean companies are going to print their URLs in their advertisements?" ) and then play catch up. Usually that strategy worked out for Microsoft because corporate computers formed 90% or more of the computing platforms in the world, and it had a stranglehold on that market.
Two things stymied Microsoft in the cell phone arena. First was obvious: It lacked market dominance for ram through bad but barely adequate competitor and swamp out the competition.
But there was a second player, that we slashdotter would loathe to give credit to. The much maligned evil phone companies. They are used to getting hefty margins peddling corded and cordless plain old telephone equipment. They saw what happened to the manufacturers of the ubiquitous beige boxes. They were reducing competing purely on price, the brutal price war changed the landscape. In the 1990s the hardware accounted for 95% of the cost of the computer and the software was hardly 5%. While software prices remained stable and went up (MS-Office retailed for $550 when the PCs had fallen below 500$ mark). The telcos were determined to not to let that happen to them. Being incompatible with Microsoft, and not giving it any toehold was the common strategy.
So even if someone in Microsoft saw the threat of iPhone that company is too big to move nimbly, too bogged down in earlier mode of competing, it had made too many enemies, it has stabbed the back of too many partners and it has scared off too many partners.
No, Microsoft did not bring in less money than it spent. It has decided to wash its hands off of some of the investments it made. It wrote down the value of some of the stuff it owns, and that is shown as a loss.
All these species, chicken, cows, pigs, etc are afflicted by one of the most deadly parasites of the species Homo sapiens. This is a slow acting cunning parasite, that allows the animals to reproduce before killing them. Thus they never develop an immunity to this parasite.
They took full advantage of open unix file system architecture to mount unix filesystems in windows. Made sure windows filesystems could never be shared/authenticated in unix side. They fought Samba with bugs as much as they did with lawyers. That is how exchange-server came to dominate the authentication servers in corporate IT. The list is endless.
As I understand it, the waiting period after registering to vote serves the same purpose as the waiting period for buying certain kinds of deadly weapon: a criminal background check.
Could be true, I am not disputing that. But it is funny all the Republicans show determination to make it easier to get a gun, but somehow they show equal amount of fervor in reducing voter turn out.
Why not try to create a better informed electorate?
While you may believe that a "better informed electorate" is the key to solve the problem, I'm telling you this fact: 90% of the human population just-don't-give-a-fuck about 90% of the things that happen around them All they want is to have an easy life, get laid, and be fed Most of them just do-not-care-enough to lift their little finger to make any change, unless their livelihood got threatened
Then they deserve the government they get.
Many states are pushing hard on voter id laws. Well, if states require voter-id with the current address on them, why require registration too? People with valid id should be able to register and vote on the same day, right?
In most cases bugs in your code is usually bad for your business. But Microsoft has bugs that are peculiar in that, it helps the company. It breaks competitor's products from the DR-DOS days or help it avoid compliance with court rulings... You know at some point people are going to say, "this level of incompetence is simply not possible, it must be intentional". And Microsoft will pull a Ham Burger and argue, "No! We are that incompetent!".
When the digital clocks came, our children slowly lost the ability to read analog clocks. Then ubiquitous calculators eroded arithmetic skills. The with ever acclerating speed GPS killed our map reading abilities and PDAs and smartphones eroded our memory by taking over address lists and phone numbers. I could see eventually being connected to all the stored information of mankind all the time, and being able to store individual experiences cheaply will allow us to outsource most of our brain functions. But brain is not a factory where the released capacity will be put to some other use. Brain and muscle atrophy without usage. What we don't use, we lose, we don't redeploy.
Sometime in the future, if Microsoft decides you need to pay every month some money to have continued access to your own documents, you have to pay. You have just encrypted every thing you do in some third party's proprietary, closed system. Would you put all your document in a third party's safe no matter how much they guarantee you continued access?
And here is the clincher: Maddow has a light saber in her desk. Hannity comes nowhere close to being as cool as Maddow.
bool RecognizeFraud(){
if ( GetCounterPartyName() == "Goldman Sachs") then
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}
1. A man carrying a flag must walk in front of the car to warn others.
2. The flag man should not alarm or panic the horses.
3. On approaching the intersection, the car should stop, the flag man should check for traffic and signal the auto to proceed.
Hundreds of such laws are possible and each city and village should create its own set.
The speed limit of 5 mph in the city of Bent Fork, Tennessee, should be adopted nationwide for the autonomous autos.
Now, every victim could potentially sue Facebook for not protecting them from predators. "We read news report about Facebook monitoring our chats and catching the criminals. It is all Facebook's fault I lied to my parents, played hookey with school and took a bus to Middle Ofnowhere from Gated Condos, Florida". And every false positive could end up with a suit against Facebook for slander, loss of reputation. And privacy advocates could sue Facebook for violation expectations of privacy. It looks like an all around lose-lose-lose proposition. Why are they doing it?
Last trip there, I was pleasantly surprised to see the maps.google.co.in giving directions based on landmarks and the street names were shown in fainter font. It had three or four "mode"s. Car, motorcycle/scooter, public transportation. It knew the bridge across Cauvery at Anaikkarai was closed for repairs. Granted, that bridge has been down for about six years. But none of the printed maps were more recent than six years. It was able to find a very new apartment complex near Chennai when even the local Electricity Board meter reader guy could not help us.
Of course there were some funny stuff. The Old Mahabalipuram Road, (three lanes up, three lanes down, center median toll road) was shown with same level of prominence as Pillaiyaar Koil Street that was barely wide enough to accommodate an autorickshaw. But this is great progress. I would strongly advice people to get a USB stick 3G service and carry a laptop and you can find things your own cabby or autorickshaw driver or even the electricity board meter reader guy does not know.
My brother was joking, "all these techies go to USA with dreams of working for Google. Then they get a job in Google and the assignment they get is to punch in the local town bus timings of their own rural home town! "
Why take risk on something that should be readable in a million years? Write in both ASCII and EBCDIC. But always have the parity bit on.
I am a splleing and grammer Nazi, yoo insesntvie clod!
Once that large base leaves, they would not be subsidizing the cost of Desktops/laptops. This will increase the price of PCs and it will drive more people away. Eventually Desktops will go back to be workstations used by engineers at work. I see very few hobbyists doing video editing and such stuff needing Desktops in the future.
In hist book, Before the Dawn, he describes the mutations in the parasite body louse (different from head louse) that lives of humans. From it you can build a tree of migration of human bands. You can also look at the mutations in Y chromosome. Or the mito-chondrial DNA. Or the language families and their inheritance traits.
The most significant finding is that, all these lines of evidence agree. They don't contradict each other. And they are not very broad either so the concordance is significant. Other interesting things are, we started wearing clothes 75000 years ago. Body louse can live only in clothing, it split off from head louse 75000 years ago. There was a Y chromosome Adam, last common ancestors to all living humans about 75000 years ago. There was a mitochondrial eve, last common female ancestor who lived in Africa some 130000 years ago.
I think he mentioned that dogs were domesticated in East Asia/Siberia some 20000 years ago. Did Amerindians have domesticated dogs? That would be a very interesting marker.