The commend above is very interesting! Specifically on Education Ownership! Public education by and large in inferior and still caught in the 1950s modality. It is no real secret that it is moving toward homeschooling and even online schooling. I think much of this trend has been caused by the Bush Administration. Determining a school's funding based on standardized examination is terribly flawed methodology. There is a reason that standardized exams are falling out of favor and some ivy league schools don't even care about them anymore: it turns out Princeton's research on the accurate predictability of academic success based on high achievement on standardized tests is plain false. Since outdated and outmoded thinking still permiates education, it is high time for a fundamental shift. Politics have no business in education, they are mutually exclusive.
"Those that would sacrifice liberty for security gain nothing the deserve neither" and we should be asking ourselves, "Why do companies think it is good for us to give up our privacy?" We should be thinking of ulterior motives.
Quite the contrary. A business cares about shifting paradigms to pander to stockholders. If there is more money to be had by exposing user's privacy, than the stockholders, in theory, should be all for it.
Well, we do have a lot of lab rats in our society that simply make decisions without thinking about their consequences. I suppose if Americans thought about the consequences of these rewards programs and social networking, less would actually do it. Or maybe Americans are apathetic?
Very well said. In fact, our privacy is taken from us in devious ways. It is taken and then explained to us as somehow beneficial to us. I never see how losing privacy is beneficial. Try explaining that one...
May Diaspora be successful! This social networking platform is the answer to Facebook's contentious privacy policy. I am going to vote with my wallet, not sit here and complain about that which I cannot really change.
It would be curious to know what kind of agreement the student has to sign when voluntarily giving a DNA sample. My guess is that they would have to sign a legal waiver, absolving the UC Berkley of any responsibility should something untoward happen. I am curious to know what is being done to ensure that privacy and protection is being guarranteed. I hate to be a naysayer, but what if the unthinkable happens and law enforcement attempts to get DNA data from UC Berkley and a mistake happens which wrongfully convicts or potentially executes someone.
And Tim Minchin is the fount of all wisdom? Natural, herbal, and homeopathic healing has been around a lot longer than so-called, western medicine. The Japanese and Chinese were expertimenting with all manner of plants and herbs to cure illness centuries before anyone heard of bacteria, let alone an antibiotic. The Japanese and Chinese have vastly more information and experience in healing than westernized medicine and it is outright ignorance and arrogance to disregard such knowlege, no to mention potentially dangerous. Tim Minchin speaks like a lobbyist for Big Pharma!! When has Big Pharma let us down? Imagine the imense financial losses that would occur if if got out that natural remedies for disease and illness are present. I would not agree with an insightful tag to rleibman. His argument is easily shot down.
Well, at the very least he used his own product and this shows some measure of responsibilitiy on his part. He did his fiduciary duty to put out a warning and felt obligated to be honest to his customers. This is A LOT better than many of the food and drug companies out there. Most would rather make profits, deny problems, and try to sweep negatives under the carpet.
Wow, and what, if any, kind of lasting damage would this produce? Could this potentially damage the testicles or lead to birth defects. It would seem that Bill Gates should stick to what he does best, software. By funding this research, what kind of potential pandora's box just go cracked open for men?
I would love to know what flawed research technique they came up with to arrive at a figure of 51 billion in loss. That sounds, at best, like a stretch of the imagination and, at worst, an outright falsification. If the software industry lost 51 billion collectively, why are we not hearing about more software companies going bankrupt? Hmmmm...... I wonder if this is a ploy to lobby congress for tougher anti-piracy laws.
We can argue symantecs till the end of time but isn't a patented, open-source piece of software an oxymoron? I mean I am not exactly jumping for joy and screaming yay that I can use it because I might have the patent trolls jump all over me.
I respectfully disagree. The entire point of open source is to foster and encourage it as well as produce it. Canonical would have been better off trying to throw its weight behind Google and VP8. It is not a question of winners and losers. Remember when Linux was the real underdog? Linux proves that an open source battle can be fought and one.... Linus and the FSF proved that community developed, open source applications can compete neck and neck with their proprietary counterparts and, in some cases, come out quite significantly ahead.
Yes, an end to day-trading would be good. In fact, I would vote for mandates requiring even longer periods of ownership. It makes "pump and dump" schemes much more difficult to pull off and at vastly greater risk to the would-be criminal.
While interesting, the article fails to account of the social pressures of living in a capitalist society. In the US in particular, social status and money are so hopelessly intertwined that the intertia for change would be positively glacial. Society continuously reinforces grabbing as much as possible and as often as possible. The article also fails to account for graft and criminality. Looks at the AIG, Goldman Sachs, and Bernie Ebbers of the world. Unfortunately, money is the motivator.
I just recently heard about the VP8 codec which Google plans to open up and allow its use royalty free. I have even heard that it might be opened up as early as next month. This should render the whole OGG vs. MPEG obsolete.
Funny, I thought the goal was to get away from a patent encumbered format. Does Ogg work? Is it reasonably close to MP3/4? I believe the answer is yes to both. Now is Ogg as efficient as MP3/4, I cannot really comment because I am not that technically versed. If a standard HTML5 Video is adopted, it should and must be patent unencumbered. Rather than this nitpciking, I would love to see that same energy poured into improving Ogg. Like any design, Ogg can be improved upon to reach the same robustness of MP3/4.
I agree with the US Military. I will even take it a step further and state that Powerpoint is the electronic set of crutches for people whom either have no training in public speaking, difficulty in doing so, or both.
Of course the Pope would rail against transparency because transparency is the antithesis of power. Governments and large organizations do not want to be transparent, they want to operate in secrecy because knowledge is power. If the masses have knowledge of government activities, then they have the power to stop them and it makes propaganda that much more difficult to create.
Soekris Engineering makes low power computers that you could easily turn into a router using whatever choice of free/open source operating systems that you like. I have used OpenBSD on one of these with amazing success.
Science and Faith are intertwined more than you would think. A scientist must have faith that what he or she is doing is worthwhile and good. Science leads more towards polytheism than monotheism so it would run contra to the western notion of faith. Science seeks to explain phenomena more than just "blind and narrow" faith that it things are one way because "God says so."
I guess most CIOs and CTOs are still caught with the ancient mindset of control freaks that they must have their whole staff on site in order to ensure productivity.
I don't think my company really chose Microsoft out of its own free will and volition. I think they did it out of FUD. One can run an entire enterprise on free/open source software alone.
If I were looking for paid support Linux, I would go with RHEL. They have more experience in this kind of thing and have been around longer. Plus, I like RHEL for enterprise use. It has good tools for use in the enterprise - a certificate management system, a good directory server, deployment tools, etc.
Honestly, what is wrong with letting your software engineers/developers work from home? Collaboration tools are omnipresent with online meetings and VOIP that the office is almost an anachcronism. Unless, your egineers double as desktop support, working in an office is almost superfluous.
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The commend above is very interesting! Specifically on Education Ownership! Public education by and large in inferior and still caught in the 1950s modality. It is no real secret that it is moving toward homeschooling and even online schooling. I think much of this trend has been caused by the Bush Administration. Determining a school's funding based on standardized examination is terribly flawed methodology. There is a reason that standardized exams are falling out of favor and some ivy league schools don't even care about them anymore: it turns out Princeton's research on the accurate predictability of academic success based on high achievement on standardized tests is plain false. Since outdated and outmoded thinking still permiates education, it is high time for a fundamental shift. Politics have no business in education, they are mutually exclusive.
"Those that would sacrifice liberty for security gain nothing the deserve neither" and we should be asking ourselves, "Why do companies think it is good for us to give up our privacy?" We should be thinking of ulterior motives.
Quite the contrary. A business cares about shifting paradigms to pander to stockholders. If there is more money to be had by exposing user's privacy, than the stockholders, in theory, should be all for it.
Well, we do have a lot of lab rats in our society that simply make decisions without thinking about their consequences. I suppose if Americans thought about the consequences of these rewards programs and social networking, less would actually do it. Or maybe Americans are apathetic?
Very well said. In fact, our privacy is taken from us in devious ways. It is taken and then explained to us as somehow beneficial to us. I never see how losing privacy is beneficial. Try explaining that one ...
May Diaspora be successful! This social networking platform is the answer to Facebook's contentious privacy policy. I am going to vote with my wallet, not sit here and complain about that which I cannot really change.
It would be curious to know what kind of agreement the student has to sign when voluntarily giving a DNA sample. My guess is that they would have to sign a legal waiver, absolving the UC Berkley of any responsibility should something untoward happen. I am curious to know what is being done to ensure that privacy and protection is being guarranteed. I hate to be a naysayer, but what if the unthinkable happens and law enforcement attempts to get DNA data from UC Berkley and a mistake happens which wrongfully convicts or potentially executes someone.
And Tim Minchin is the fount of all wisdom? Natural, herbal, and homeopathic healing has been around a lot longer than so-called, western medicine. The Japanese and Chinese were expertimenting with all manner of plants and herbs to cure illness centuries before anyone heard of bacteria, let alone an antibiotic. The Japanese and Chinese have vastly more information and experience in healing than westernized medicine and it is outright ignorance and arrogance to disregard such knowlege, no to mention potentially dangerous. Tim Minchin speaks like a lobbyist for Big Pharma!! When has Big Pharma let us down? Imagine the imense financial losses that would occur if if got out that natural remedies for disease and illness are present. I would not agree with an insightful tag to rleibman. His argument is easily shot down.
Well, at the very least he used his own product and this shows some measure of responsibilitiy on his part. He did his fiduciary duty to put out a warning and felt obligated to be honest to his customers. This is A LOT better than many of the food and drug companies out there. Most would rather make profits, deny problems, and try to sweep negatives under the carpet.
Wow, and what, if any, kind of lasting damage would this produce? Could this potentially damage the testicles or lead to birth defects. It would seem that Bill Gates should stick to what he does best, software. By funding this research, what kind of potential pandora's box just go cracked open for men?
I would love to know what flawed research technique they came up with to arrive at a figure of 51 billion in loss. That sounds, at best, like a stretch of the imagination and, at worst, an outright falsification. If the software industry lost 51 billion collectively, why are we not hearing about more software companies going bankrupt? Hmmmm ...... I wonder if this is a ploy to lobby congress for tougher anti-piracy laws.
We can argue symantecs till the end of time but isn't a patented, open-source piece of software an oxymoron? I mean I am not exactly jumping for joy and screaming yay that I can use it because I might have the patent trolls jump all over me.
I respectfully disagree. The entire point of open source is to foster and encourage it as well as produce it. Canonical would have been better off trying to throw its weight behind Google and VP8. It is not a question of winners and losers. Remember when Linux was the real underdog? Linux proves that an open source battle can be fought and one .... Linus and the FSF proved that community developed, open source applications can compete neck and neck with their proprietary counterparts and, in some cases, come out quite significantly ahead.
Yes, an end to day-trading would be good. In fact, I would vote for mandates requiring even longer periods of ownership. It makes "pump and dump" schemes much more difficult to pull off and at vastly greater risk to the would-be criminal.
While interesting, the article fails to account of the social pressures of living in a capitalist society. In the US in particular, social status and money are so hopelessly intertwined that the intertia for change would be positively glacial. Society continuously reinforces grabbing as much as possible and as often as possible. The article also fails to account for graft and criminality. Looks at the AIG, Goldman Sachs, and Bernie Ebbers of the world. Unfortunately, money is the motivator.
I just recently heard about the VP8 codec which Google plans to open up and allow its use royalty free. I have even heard that it might be opened up as early as next month. This should render the whole OGG vs. MPEG obsolete.
Funny, I thought the goal was to get away from a patent encumbered format. Does Ogg work? Is it reasonably close to MP3/4? I believe the answer is yes to both. Now is Ogg as efficient as MP3/4, I cannot really comment because I am not that technically versed. If a standard HTML5 Video is adopted, it should and must be patent unencumbered. Rather than this nitpciking, I would love to see that same energy poured into improving Ogg. Like any design, Ogg can be improved upon to reach the same robustness of MP3/4.
I agree with the US Military. I will even take it a step further and state that Powerpoint is the electronic set of crutches for people whom either have no training in public speaking, difficulty in doing so, or both.
Of course the Pope would rail against transparency because transparency is the antithesis of power. Governments and large organizations do not want to be transparent, they want to operate in secrecy because knowledge is power. If the masses have knowledge of government activities, then they have the power to stop them and it makes propaganda that much more difficult to create.
Soekris Engineering makes low power computers that you could easily turn into a router using whatever choice of free/open source operating systems that you like. I have used OpenBSD on one of these with amazing success.
Science and Faith are intertwined more than you would think. A scientist must have faith that what he or she is doing is worthwhile and good. Science leads more towards polytheism than monotheism so it would run contra to the western notion of faith. Science seeks to explain phenomena more than just "blind and narrow" faith that it things are one way because "God says so."
I guess most CIOs and CTOs are still caught with the ancient mindset of control freaks that they must have their whole staff on site in order to ensure productivity.
I don't think my company really chose Microsoft out of its own free will and volition. I think they did it out of FUD. One can run an entire enterprise on free/open source software alone.
If I were looking for paid support Linux, I would go with RHEL. They have more experience in this kind of thing and have been around longer. Plus, I like RHEL for enterprise use. It has good tools for use in the enterprise - a certificate management system, a good directory server, deployment tools, etc.
Honestly, what is wrong with letting your software engineers/developers work from home? Collaboration tools are omnipresent with online meetings and VOIP that the office is almost an anachcronism. Unless, your egineers double as desktop support, working in an office is almost superfluous.