"empathy": I dont think that word mean what any of the above posts think it means. Empathy is where you understand and therefore can relate to what someone else's situation and circumstances makes them feel and think. And we know no one on Wall Street even cared about those who were screwed over let alone tried to imagine themselves on the other side of the equation. I think the word the last post was looking for is "altruistic" but that cant be right either because we know the only reason 99.9% of companies do anything altruistic is in order to increase profits or reputation (which is just another way of ensuring profit) which is, in its true intrrpretation, not altrustic aftrr all.
The source code inside Android is different from Java because Google wrote it from scratch. Mr. Jacobs said yesterday that there was copying, but that there was not a lot of it. 9 lines out of 15,000,000. These lines came from a developer that Google hired from Sun late in the development of Android, and it should not have happened.
Didn't Google's lawyer just affirm that an employee of Google did use a small amount of Sun's code and Google knew it was wrong and that it shouldn't have happened?
I thinks its even worse than you think since the only reason this tycoon is being made an example of NOW is that he probably forgot to pay his dues and/or respects to soon-to-be-president-again Putin. At least that has been the narrative in the past when some wealthy Russian falls from grace.
By all means, post an example - just one would be more than sufficient since I stated an absolute - of a corporation lobbying on the behalf of the public good AND that is detrimental to their profits.
Oddly enough, just last week I read an article in the LA Times about 12 companies in California wanting to become the state's first Benefit Corporations, which are designed to allow corporations to be guided by enviromental concerns rather than fudicial. Some people and companies apparently do want to put other responsibilities at least on the same level as making money and it was encouraging to read that this is happening in numerous states.
Emails to and from her Governor-work related email addresses are considered public records. Various media outlets requested the release of all correspondence related to then Governor Palin back in 2008 while she was John McCain's running mate - it just took the state of Alaska this long to actually come up with the emails.
It must have been a Stealth Blackhawk in BETA - never seen before and bound to crash at least once.
All kidding aside, it is quite unfortunate that it's debut was the result of a crash in a country that has been known to export nifty knowledge and new technology they acquire (i.e. A.Q Kahn and nuclear weapons).
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Actually, if history is any indication, Blizzard really doesn't care about its players.
A brief history of Diablo 2...
When everyone realized they could run Pindle many many times per minute, who was easy to get to (3 clicks) and dropped ALL the best items in the game (even if infrequently) Blizzard instituted waiting lines for new games to slow this down. They didn't change where Pindle was located or that he dropped the best items because it wasn't about the players, it was about their own resources being over utilized. It didn't stop the botters since they just added more keys and clients - a bot waiting doesn't get annoyed like a player waiting does.
Well, players got annoyed having to sit there and watch a number count down showing how many people were ahead of them to create a game while the botters kept getting rich. Blizzard's answer was to implement Realm Down - a system by which you can join X amount of games in Y minutes and if you join more than X games in Y minutes you were temporarily banned for anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. Again, this did not address the actual problems since the botters just set their timing variables to be X games in Y+1 minutes and they were never affected by Realm Down. Legitimate players, on the other hand, got screwed just by joining buy games or transferring items from one character to another because, unlike a bot, a human player cannot calculate their games per hour to an accurate enough degree to avoid realm down.
And I don't need to mention duping, which is still prevalent to this day in Diablo 2. Blizzard's answer to this was to implement a delete-dupe-on-joining-a-game method that ensured the people who actually created the dupes NEVER lost their stuff but any NORMAL LEGITIMATE PLAYER who happened to spend their hard earned loot on a duped rune/item (50/50 chance, really) had it disappear on them at some point when they joined a game. Again, cheaters not affected at all while legitimate players got screwed.
Too many SoJ's got duped? Blizzard implemented the World Event (aka Diablo Clone) which dropped a super charm when ~100 SoJs were sold to the merchant. Who benefited from this? Not the legit players since they didn't have caches of duped SoJs to drop at the merchant to make DClone spawn. But the botters and dupers, they got rich spawning dclone! Then the legit players worked together and started collectivly using SoJs to spawn DClone... well, the dupers had a field day and just kept duping SoJs to sell to the legit players now, which is what the World Event was suppose to stop?
I have been both a legitimate player and a botter, so I can speak from both sides of the equation. Blizzard never really cared about either legit players or botters - it was all about what it cost them after you've already paid for the game. That makes lots of sense from an economical stance, but it was one horrible decision after another from a PR and attitude perspective.
I cannot, however, speak to how they have been regarding WoW. After my experience with them in Diablo 2 I could never fathom paying them monthly for anything..
A serious question to any lawyer-type people out there:
When I first read about this court ruling I was left wondering how this applies to citizens using these devices on police, government officials, candidates, etc. I had just read a different article about iPhone apps that let people know where speed traps and DUI checkpoints are set up. The cynic in me thought this ruling must mean that citizens can now GPS bug police cars and the whole process of collecting data for speed traps and stuff would be automated instead of world-of-mouth. Is that a logical conclusion? Or are police and government officials somehow different from citizens in this regard?
Except that it doesn't use AT&T's network to download torrents, it lets you start downloads with ImageShack doing the downloading. Think of it like the iPhone as a remote control for torrenting - it controls the torrents, but does not actually receive them. From TFA...
Earlier this week, Apple approved an iPhone app called IS Drive, which lets users check and manage downloads from ImageShack.us, while also offering users the option to use the company’s BitTorrent service to download files to their ImageShack account.
"As of 2005, 17% of the population of the emirate was made up of UAE nationals. Approximately 85% of the expatriate population (and 71% of the emirate's total population) was Asian, chiefly Indian (51%), Pakistani (16%), Bangladeshi (9%) and Filipino (3%)." - Demographics of Dubai
Less than 20% of the population of Dubai are actual citizens of the UAE. The vast majority of the people in Dubai are imported non-citizen expats. Given that, I'm just surprised stuff like this doesn't surface more often in the name of 'national security' etc.
Always wondered. Why do they have to give origination data. One would think that the communicator already knows it is one Picard.
It should just be *tap*
Enterprise.
Yes captain?
Because otherwise the computer would interpret any mention of "Enterprise" to open communications, even if Picard was, say, telling someone how many years he has been aboard Entreprise, or calling out to LaForge who was right across 10 Forward.
And who talks to themselves in the 3rd person? It was a somewhat safe way to activate the communicator.
I'd say it could be a security measure too, but there were too many episodes were random people successfully used someone else's communicator for one reason or another.
please explain me how internet neutrality is bad for corporations ?
It's certainly bad for CONTENT distributors who also happen to be ISPs. When ISPs are also content distributors (as will be the case when Comcast buys NBC, for example) they have a profit motive for making their offerings more appealing than their rivals. Comcast would LOVE to be able to make NBCs offerings look 'better' than Disney or Netflix while controlling the entry point for both internet and cable TV access, ensuring the commodity internet access does not cannibalize the lucrative content distribution.
Net neutrality is a huge conflict of interest for anyone providing both the means to connect to content and the actual content.
CNN has a nice video of the launch which shows everything up to the 2nd stage ignition. Apparently the Dragon capsule was put into orbit, which was the ultimate milestone of the launch. Congratz, SpaceX!
BP's original estimate was 1000 barrels per day. After doing their own estimates from satallite images and viewing the first available footage shown from the leaks publicly, various scientists/engineers disagreed with BP and claimed it looked more like 5000 barrels per day. After a day or so, BP and the various government agencies relented and agreed the 5000 barrel estimate was probably more accurate. The most recent, and supposedly more accurate estimate, is 12,000-19,000 barrels per day.
It's a great way to learn about the various images/data being captured, both in our solar system and beyond, while actually contributing something to the scientific community. There is something extremely exciting about watching a clip of the sun and seeing a comet appear out of nowhere and zoom around the sun with its tail pointing away. Or being among the first to notice a new solar storm which might affect astronauts in orbit. Or spotting tiny little foot prints on the lunar surface from one of the Apollo missions in one of the images presented! It does get tedious at times, but the little discoveries make it interesting and rewarding overall. Plus they are great learning tools for curious people, both young and old - the scientists seem to frequently answer all sorts of questions on the forums regarding the images, projects and basic science surrounding them.
I'm not associated with any of the projects, I just find them interesting from time to time. I've learned a lot from the projects and have SEEN a lot more of the Universe around me because of them.
If the incompetence of some of the drivers I see on the roads is any indication, I doubt an internet license will ultimately be very effective either in many cases.
"In addition, the iPhone userâ(TM)s entire Contacts database is transferred to Googleâ(TM)s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways."
About a year ago my step-father bought an iPhone and asked me to help him figure out how to use voice activated dialing - a feature that came standard on his previous cell phone. The iPhone did not come with that functionality, I found out, so I figured there's gotta be "an app for that" and began looking through the App Store. On one of the apps, 95% of which were from companies I'd never even heard of before, stuffed a few pages down on the app description was essentially the statement "In order for Company X to provide this functionality we must upload your entire Contact database to our serves in order to match your voice request to a contact number."
I don't have an iPhone and I haven't looked into the matter since then, but if this is still how voice activated dialing works on the iPhone it makes me wonder what assurances Apple got from those companies regarding use of the Contact database and how Google differs in this regard.
Meanwhile, because shops and homes around you keep getting robbed your neighborhood is going to shit and people are moving out while nothing gets done cause no one cares about that news and the price of homes in the area is dropping and your home value just dropped $5k. But yes, that $2k the feds want is more important by comparison, right?
Or maybe it won't affect you that a federal panel ordered the release of 43,000 state prisoners because a state's (maybe your) prison system is so overcrowded that they are calling it unconstitutional. Are you against the conditions prisoners are subjected to or, on the flip side, are you against giving criminals a break and letting em out on your streets early? Do you have any idea what conditions led to this and how to alleviate it, one way or the other, in the future?
I never quite understood how people can say that local news is somehow less meaningful than national or international news. Don't get me wrong - I don't get my panties in a bunch over local news either, but to claim it doesn't matter is rather short-sighted and willfully ignorant IMO.
And no, the 10 second to 2 minute regurgitated talking points that you get from TV news are not the same as what you get from newspapers (or the internet, though I've often found much of the news on the internet to be almost as shallow as that on TV anymore).
Due to lower circulation newspapers are cutting the staff, at a staggering rate, that actually collect, investigate, and fact-check the comprehensive news which they report and I see no meaningful and trustworthy replacement of this indispensable function being fostered by the internet or TV.
The real problem is many people don't find value in comprehensive news anymore - they are just happy to be fed the one-paragraph, 'tell-me-what-to-think" news so they can feel they have an idea what's going on, even if it's just skin deep.
I think we will more than deserve the society we will have when the consequences of this mentality fully kick in.
"An error occured while rendering your error request."
If the internal server errors on her website are any indication, technology and the internet are lost on her.
I use to love that she was my state Senator, but the last few years she has... changed. I've lost a lot of respect for her based on the stances she has taken recently, including sticking up for the telcos in the whole warrentless wiretapping issue.
Comcast: "We're sorry, your internet account has already reached its limit for the month."
Customer: "From our 3 TVs that are hooked up to the internet now that the internet is becoming a viable option to Cable and Satallite for content?"
Comcast: "Yes, but you can always sign up for Comcast Cable and have uninterrupted access! And we dedicate far more of our coaxial bandwidth to that than internet anyways."
Why not? All the companies listed have a vested interest in getting rid of the middle-man (telcos) in order to ensure maximum profit for their respective businesses. Google wants to make sure you can see their ads on any device anywhere. Motorola wants to make a lot of those devices. Microsoft wants to do both. The telcos have done nothing but limit all of these companies (and thus, us, the consumer) with their strangle-hold on the spectrum thus far.
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When 46 percent of America's population outright rejects the scientific process based on religion I'd say it is a serious concern.
"empathy": I dont think that word mean what any of the above posts think it means. Empathy is where you understand and therefore can relate to what someone else's situation and circumstances makes them feel and think. And we know no one on Wall Street even cared about those who were screwed over let alone tried to imagine themselves on the other side of the equation. I think the word the last post was looking for is "altruistic" but that cant be right either because we know the only reason 99.9% of companies do anything altruistic is in order to increase profits or reputation (which is just another way of ensuring profit) which is, in its true intrrpretation, not altrustic aftrr all.
The source code inside Android is different from Java because Google wrote it from scratch. Mr. Jacobs said yesterday that there was copying, but that there was not a lot of it. 9 lines out of 15,000,000. These lines came from a developer that Google hired from Sun late in the development of Android, and it should not have happened.
Didn't Google's lawyer just affirm that an employee of Google did use a small amount of Sun's code and Google knew it was wrong and that it shouldn't have happened?
FTA: "The largest sinkhole appeared in 2007."
I thinks its even worse than you think since the only reason this tycoon is being made an example of NOW is that he probably forgot to pay his dues and/or respects to soon-to-be-president-again Putin. At least that has been the narrative in the past when some wealthy Russian falls from grace.
In Soviet Russia, the corrupt decorrupt you.
By all means, post an example - just one would be more than sufficient since I stated an absolute - of a corporation lobbying on the behalf of the public good AND that is detrimental to their profits.
Oddly enough, just last week I read an article in the LA Times about 12 companies in California wanting to become the state's first Benefit Corporations, which are designed to allow corporations to be guided by enviromental concerns rather than fudicial. Some people and companies apparently do want to put other responsibilities at least on the same level as making money and it was encouraging to read that this is happening in numerous states.
Emails to and from her Governor-work related email addresses are considered public records. Various media outlets requested the release of all correspondence related to then Governor Palin back in 2008 while she was John McCain's running mate - it just took the state of Alaska this long to actually come up with the emails.
The only image I could find was a drawing depicting what it might look like compared to the Blackhawk.
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It must have been a Stealth Blackhawk in BETA - never seen before and bound to crash at least once.
All kidding aside, it is quite unfortunate that it's debut was the result of a crash in a country that has been known to export nifty knowledge and new technology they acquire (i.e. A.Q Kahn and nuclear weapons).
Actually, if history is any indication, Blizzard really doesn't care about its players.
A brief history of Diablo 2...
When everyone realized they could run Pindle many many times per minute, who was easy to get to (3 clicks) and dropped ALL the best items in the game (even if infrequently) Blizzard instituted waiting lines for new games to slow this down. They didn't change where Pindle was located or that he dropped the best items because it wasn't about the players, it was about their own resources being over utilized. It didn't stop the botters since they just added more keys and clients - a bot waiting doesn't get annoyed like a player waiting does.
Well, players got annoyed having to sit there and watch a number count down showing how many people were ahead of them to create a game while the botters kept getting rich. Blizzard's answer was to implement Realm Down - a system by which you can join X amount of games in Y minutes and if you join more than X games in Y minutes you were temporarily banned for anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. Again, this did not address the actual problems since the botters just set their timing variables to be X games in Y+1 minutes and they were never affected by Realm Down. Legitimate players, on the other hand, got screwed just by joining buy games or transferring items from one character to another because, unlike a bot, a human player cannot calculate their games per hour to an accurate enough degree to avoid realm down.
And I don't need to mention duping, which is still prevalent to this day in Diablo 2. Blizzard's answer to this was to implement a delete-dupe-on-joining-a-game method that ensured the people who actually created the dupes NEVER lost their stuff but any NORMAL LEGITIMATE PLAYER who happened to spend their hard earned loot on a duped rune/item (50/50 chance, really) had it disappear on them at some point when they joined a game. Again, cheaters not affected at all while legitimate players got screwed.
Too many SoJ's got duped? Blizzard implemented the World Event (aka Diablo Clone) which dropped a super charm when ~100 SoJs were sold to the merchant. Who benefited from this? Not the legit players since they didn't have caches of duped SoJs to drop at the merchant to make DClone spawn. But the botters and dupers, they got rich spawning dclone! Then the legit players worked together and started collectivly using SoJs to spawn DClone... well, the dupers had a field day and just kept duping SoJs to sell to the legit players now, which is what the World Event was suppose to stop?
I have been both a legitimate player and a botter, so I can speak from both sides of the equation. Blizzard never really cared about either legit players or botters - it was all about what it cost them after you've already paid for the game. That makes lots of sense from an economical stance, but it was one horrible decision after another from a PR and attitude perspective.
I cannot, however, speak to how they have been regarding WoW. After my experience with them in Diablo 2 I could never fathom paying them monthly for anything..
A serious question to any lawyer-type people out there:
When I first read about this court ruling I was left wondering how this applies to citizens using these devices on police, government officials, candidates, etc. I had just read a different article about iPhone apps that let people know where speed traps and DUI checkpoints are set up. The cynic in me thought this ruling must mean that citizens can now GPS bug police cars and the whole process of collecting data for speed traps and stuff would be automated instead of world-of-mouth. Is that a logical conclusion? Or are police and government officials somehow different from citizens in this regard?
Earlier this week, Apple approved an iPhone app called IS Drive, which lets users check and manage downloads from ImageShack.us, while also offering users the option to use the company’s BitTorrent service to download files to their ImageShack account.
"As of 2005, 17% of the population of the emirate was made up of UAE nationals. Approximately 85% of the expatriate population (and 71% of the emirate's total population) was Asian, chiefly Indian (51%), Pakistani (16%), Bangladeshi (9%) and Filipino (3%)." - Demographics of Dubai
Less than 20% of the population of Dubai are actual citizens of the UAE. The vast majority of the people in Dubai are imported non-citizen expats. Given that, I'm just surprised stuff like this doesn't surface more often in the name of 'national security' etc.
Always wondered. Why do they have to give origination data. One would think that the communicator already knows it is one Picard. It should just be *tap* Enterprise. Yes captain?
Because otherwise the computer would interpret any mention of "Enterprise" to open communications, even if Picard was, say, telling someone how many years he has been aboard Entreprise, or calling out to LaForge who was right across 10 Forward.
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And who talks to themselves in the 3rd person? It was a somewhat safe way to activate the communicator.
I'd say it could be a security measure too, but there were too many episodes were random people successfully used someone else's communicator for one reason or another.
That's my theory anyway
please explain me how internet neutrality is bad for corporations ?
It's certainly bad for CONTENT distributors who also happen to be ISPs. When ISPs are also content distributors (as will be the case when Comcast buys NBC, for example) they have a profit motive for making their offerings more appealing than their rivals. Comcast would LOVE to be able to make NBCs offerings look 'better' than Disney or Netflix while controlling the entry point for both internet and cable TV access, ensuring the commodity internet access does not cannibalize the lucrative content distribution.
Net neutrality is a huge conflict of interest for anyone providing both the means to connect to content and the actual content.
CNN has a nice video of the launch which shows everything up to the 2nd stage ignition. Apparently the Dragon capsule was put into orbit, which was the ultimate milestone of the launch. Congratz, SpaceX!
BP's original estimate was 1000 barrels per day. After doing their own estimates from satallite images and viewing the first available footage shown from the leaks publicly, various scientists/engineers disagreed with BP and claimed it looked more like 5000 barrels per day. After a day or so, BP and the various government agencies relented and agreed the 5000 barrel estimate was probably more accurate. The most recent, and supposedly more accurate estimate, is 12,000-19,000 barrels per day.
Moon Zoo is one of many projects on http://www.zooniverse.org/
It's a great way to learn about the various images/data being captured, both in our solar system and beyond, while actually contributing something to the scientific community. There is something extremely exciting about watching a clip of the sun and seeing a comet appear out of nowhere and zoom around the sun with its tail pointing away. Or being among the first to notice a new solar storm which might affect astronauts in orbit. Or spotting tiny little foot prints on the lunar surface from one of the Apollo missions in one of the images presented! It does get tedious at times, but the little discoveries make it interesting and rewarding overall. Plus they are great learning tools for curious people, both young and old - the scientists seem to frequently answer all sorts of questions on the forums regarding the images, projects and basic science surrounding them.
I'm not associated with any of the projects, I just find them interesting from time to time. I've learned a lot from the projects and have SEEN a lot more of the Universe around me because of them.
In the context of being an important part of the web, what is the page rank for the species homo sapiens?
If the incompetence of some of the drivers I see on the roads is any indication, I doubt an internet license will ultimately be very effective either in many cases.
"In addition, the iPhone userâ(TM)s entire Contacts database is transferred to Googleâ(TM)s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways."
About a year ago my step-father bought an iPhone and asked me to help him figure out how to use voice activated dialing - a feature that came standard on his previous cell phone. The iPhone did not come with that functionality, I found out, so I figured there's gotta be "an app for that" and began looking through the App Store. On one of the apps, 95% of which were from companies I'd never even heard of before, stuffed a few pages down on the app description was essentially the statement "In order for Company X to provide this functionality we must upload your entire Contact database to our serves in order to match your voice request to a contact number."
I don't have an iPhone and I haven't looked into the matter since then, but if this is still how voice activated dialing works on the iPhone it makes me wonder what assurances Apple got from those companies regarding use of the Contact database and how Google differs in this regard.
Meanwhile, because shops and homes around you keep getting robbed your neighborhood is going to shit and people are moving out while nothing gets done cause no one cares about that news and the price of homes in the area is dropping and your home value just dropped $5k. But yes, that $2k the feds want is more important by comparison, right?
Or maybe it won't affect you that a federal panel ordered the release of 43,000 state prisoners because a state's (maybe your) prison system is so overcrowded that they are calling it unconstitutional. Are you against the conditions prisoners are subjected to or, on the flip side, are you against giving criminals a break and letting em out on your streets early? Do you have any idea what conditions led to this and how to alleviate it, one way or the other, in the future?
I never quite understood how people can say that local news is somehow less meaningful than national or international news. Don't get me wrong - I don't get my panties in a bunch over local news either, but to claim it doesn't matter is rather short-sighted and willfully ignorant IMO.
And no, the 10 second to 2 minute regurgitated talking points that you get from TV news are not the same as what you get from newspapers (or the internet, though I've often found much of the news on the internet to be almost as shallow as that on TV anymore).
Due to lower circulation newspapers are cutting the staff, at a staggering rate, that actually collect, investigate, and fact-check the comprehensive news which they report and I see no meaningful and trustworthy replacement of this indispensable function being fostered by the internet or TV.
The real problem is many people don't find value in comprehensive news anymore - they are just happy to be fed the one-paragraph, 'tell-me-what-to-think" news so they can feel they have an idea what's going on, even if it's just skin deep.
I think we will more than deserve the society we will have when the consequences of this mentality fully kick in.
From the sectera page you linked....
"Internet Explorer® Web Browser
Access to commercial Internet, classified and unclassified web pages"
This is the SECURE version of a blackberry?
"An error occured while rendering your error request."
If the internal server errors on her website are any indication, technology and the internet are lost on her.
I use to love that she was my state Senator, but the last few years she has... changed. I've lost a lot of respect for her based on the stances she has taken recently, including sticking up for the telcos in the whole warrentless wiretapping issue.
I can see it now....
Comcast: "We're sorry, your internet account has already reached its limit for the month."
Customer: "From our 3 TVs that are hooked up to the internet now that the internet is becoming a viable option to Cable and Satallite for content?"
Comcast: "Yes, but you can always sign up for Comcast Cable and have uninterrupted access! And we dedicate far more of our coaxial bandwidth to that than internet anyways."
I don't like the sound of that.
Why not? All the companies listed have a vested interest in getting rid of the middle-man (telcos) in order to ensure maximum profit for their respective businesses. Google wants to make sure you can see their ads on any device anywhere. Motorola wants to make a lot of those devices. Microsoft wants to do both. The telcos have done nothing but limit all of these companies (and thus, us, the consumer) with their strangle-hold on the spectrum thus far.