submitter mentioned that the police/government could be complicit so going to the police may not be a smart idea but lawyer and press are good ideas though.
In general, making use of media and putting it all out there is the best chance you have; first, record and reveal, to as wide a public forum as possible, all that you have witnessed and your potential risks as a result. then, start filming your own life as much as you can, at home, at work and in between; broadcast it, put it on youtube, let people watch you and let them watch the people watching you.
it's a really radical step to go the Bourne way, especially with family, but if you really have to do that then your best bet would be actually the Assange way; seek asylum in an embassy that does not have an extradition treaty with any of the G8 countries.
The interwebs is filled with stories, articles and opinions about why getting in on the Facebook IPO is such a bad idea. I can't find a single piece that argues for buying FB shares now (if you do, can you please share?). So I'm wondering, if there is such an overwhelming negativity against the shares, what's driving this demand up and making fb add more shares?! brokerage firms are offering pre-orders for pre-screened buyers with a minimum number of orders and still are not guaranteeing issuance of shares. If so many people are saying don't do it, who are all the people who are doing it, and why? I find it hard to believe that so many people are actually ignoring the news and willing to put money down - surely there's something we're missing?
You, and other people who befall the myth of assuming America has no manufacturing industry need to watch PBS's America Revealed series. Particularly the 4th episode for manufacturing
America Revealed.
The US has one of the most advanced scientific communities in the world, and leads in terms of innovation and creation. This country is seeing enough heartbreak as it is from extremely divisive and counter-productive religion/political debates, let's at least keep the scientific/technological community above such disparaging and gloomy arguments.
your underlying assumption here is that finite population growth affects the supply of said commodity. How about solar energy? The supply of solar energy is not dependent on population growth. It is equally available (well, more or less among latitudes of greatest population density) to all, yet can be tapped with different levels of efficiency, and can be owned / used / traded. Obviously the biggest problem is storing it, which is essential for a tradeable commodity, but assume we invent a way to store large amounts of energy efficiently. Now imagine a world where everyone trades in kJ of energy - isn't that what one would want to connect to, as a constant value?
we probably survived merely by superiority in numbers rather than a genetic/social/physical superiority among the competition. like in a couple of millenia later the world will be just people of chinese descent, going, "Yay us?"
Thanks for talking some sense among this crowd of boo-hoos. Someone complained that Shuttleworth got an iPad and now he's making everything look 'icon'y. well, so what? Its a good thing, at least he's looking at the future, of touch interfaces (perhaps even Ubuntu on mobile devices), instead of staying in the past and designing static UIs for people refusing to adapt.
Also i think the left sidebar option in Unity is clever because nowadays almost all screens are widescreen, while webpages and documents mostly go vertical - so it makes sense to use some of that side space for the launcher, instead of cutting into the vertical real estate. Besides, as parent pointed out - the key is to get work done, not how snazzy you can make your desktop look like with a zillion customization options. I'll take a consistent and convenient UI anyday.
I was a Debian user (into the famed 3.x series) before I switched to Ubuntu ~6-7 years ago, and while Unity has its quirks and dysfunctions, I feel it is a step in the right direction. It is not trying to become Windows or Mac OS while becoming less linux - it's just becoming more Ubuntu.
why is this story tagged 'peeping tom'? if we're able to gain deeper insights into human cognitive abilities and language learning skills (which is a crucial part of developing strong AI), the price of privacy is cheap. the whole up-in-arms-about-privacy that people tend to get into is becoming more and more of a reactionary effect these days without them actually realizing the tradeoff and making a decision on a case-by-case basis.
Thank you for that extremely lucid explanation! Along the same lines, I'd like to add, what Bing should do is carry out a 'reverse sting' by gaming the Google search system - using the same method: create 100 honeypot terms, search using Google, click on first links until the pagerank bubbles up to top.
This alleged 'sting' is, like you said, just a smart way of gaming the Bing system and nothing else.
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I have a choice as a consumer, and I've made one.
Good for you. So why do you keep commenting on every Apple story about the 'walled garden' and your problems with it? Is it because you are unhappy with your current choice and you would like to go with Apple if only they played according to your rules? or do you really think the readers here (on/., of all places) are so ignorant that you feel the need to constantly remind them of Apple's walled garden, when they make their choices? when you proclaim that you have a choice as a consumer and you've made yours, is it that hard to accept others are doing the same thing, and happy for the same reason?
This is not a personal attack on you, I wholly understand your point but I'm curious to know why the insistence - I can see a legitimate complaint when you are torn between choices - but why after you have made your choice? In fact, let's make this twitter-blunt: can you give the reason in 140 characters?
well - that would be quite the Schrödinger's story then, wouldn't it?
If you heard the story in the media - chances are that Apple will be reversing the rejection. the only stories where Apple does not reverse a rejection are those that you never hear.
for scribbling margin notes, highlighting, syncing notes with PC/mac - and more, the Sony Daily Edition perfectly fits the bill. That device is the right size, feature list and perhaps the correct price point. Sony should be peddling that to the universities to finally gain some respectable foothold in the e-book industry.
Seems like we hear this with every Ubuntu release...
that's probably because only the ones with problems after an upgrade speak up to air their grievances. the ones for which the upgrade went smoothly (i'm one of them, i upgraded with the beta in fact) are invisible because they don't have much to say. i'd give more weight to a percentage number of users who have had upgrade issues.
and i agree with you, GP ditching the distro entirely does sound like a knee-jerk reaction - although i realize the button placement issue did cause much heartburn in the community (i switch between linux and mac so that change was godsend for me).
well made counterfeits by...the Android lobby? let's look at the benefits -
They know everyone will automatically assume this is an Apple leak, further tainting the record of an already unpopular marketing dept
They are creating a negative design impact (this ID looks postively non-Ivean). or worse - this is one of HTC's phone IDs and they are testing out public response (as if it were an Apple product)
They are setting out a list of expectations for Apple (that Apple itself may not want to, for its own reasons)
Given the number of comments here that seem to take it as a given this is an Apple leak for publicity (one funny commenter went as far as to bid adieu to journalism), it looks like an idea that couldn't possibly fail. On the other hand, maybe Apple did it and timed it to kill the HTC Incredible buzz...
I am not a fanboi of Apple, just a fanboi of tech conspiracy theories. aren't we all?
i wish i could mod you up to 20, insightful. what you stated is something that sounds obvious now that you've said it - but people rarely see it that way. hindsight is usually shortsighted as well.
as to the purpose of patents - there's a subtlety that many are failing to grasp: you don't patent something just because you invented it; you patent it if you think someone else will use it. That is how you make money off patents. in this case, if you find a simple solution to a common problem that is affecting many, it is a no-brainer to patent it asap because if you know a time will come when others need it - and also not any less important, if you won't, someone else will (if Apple didn't, HTC would've). novelty of invention is inconsequential (and so is prior art if it is not legally filed/valid) - if it is an unused solution to a problem, then you file it. as someone else remarked in this thread, patent is not for protection anymore - it is a marketing weapon (but when you think about it, what is 'protection' if not a euphemism for market security?). It does not make Apple noble to do it, and as self-respecting engineers we have every right to revile Apple, but hey they had the sense to realize what they are patenting could potentially be used by others - this awareness is often understated but extremely critical in IP issues.
on a side note, wow - what unanimous animosity! didn't know Apple has already become the new Microsoft for the Slashdot crowd. IANAAF, but some objectivity please!!
May I point out that what TFS claims as a victory for India with its Chandrayaan-I discovering water on the moon, was actually done by an American instrument (M^3)? Sure India's got the goods and ambitions to compete in the space race, but to think US's space technology will be summarily superceded because Obama cancelled budget for the moon mission is naive and presumptuous. Besides - you really think technological progress is somehow superior to solving social problems? The post-industrial issues that US is facing today are issues that China and India will have to battle with tomorrow. For instance - the chasm that is developing between India's rich and poor today is a simmering recipe for civil unrest and instability that India has no clue how to deal with. Sending vyomanauts into space is not going to solve that.
Perhaps we may find alien intelligence that has been through what we are going through, and will be able to offer solutions on how to cope with our global problems, based on their experience?
When I think of alien intelligence, I am really thinking of the 'intelligence' part. Finding a race that is more intelligent than us is, in a way, like finding ourselves at a point in the future. We may be able to realize several notions that if left to ourselves would take us too much time, effort and irreconcilable damage due to our experimentations - like we are doing with our planet now. It is an inevitable trapping of knowledge that is largely heuristic.
The blur is to mean that it blurs the lines between different social networks and brings them all under one hood. although in reverse it sounds like 'rule bottom', which is exactly where this phone's ending up.
I foresee this as being a step further to understanding the root of human evil.
It all depends on how well the AI captures evil behavior. Bringsjord does have some interesting points as to what constitutes an evil person:
(a) their reasons for an evil action tend be incoherent, such as a mentally-ill psychopath or
(b) they regard the harm caused as a good thing, such as religious fanatics.
Why do we need to understand human evil, you ask? the same reason we need to understand the cause of a disease - it helps in devising a treatment. For instance, if a set of questions elicits the same (or if scored, close enough) responses from a terrorist suspect as from E, that would be a very useful interrogating tactic.
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In general, making use of media and putting it all out there is the best chance you have; first, record and reveal, to as wide a public forum as possible, all that you have witnessed and your potential risks as a result. then, start filming your own life as much as you can, at home, at work and in between; broadcast it, put it on youtube, let people watch you and let them watch the people watching you.
it's a really radical step to go the Bourne way, especially with family, but if you really have to do that then your best bet would be actually the Assange way; seek asylum in an embassy that does not have an extradition treaty with any of the G8 countries.
The interwebs is filled with stories, articles and opinions about why getting in on the Facebook IPO is such a bad idea. I can't find a single piece that argues for buying FB shares now (if you do, can you please share?). So I'm wondering, if there is such an overwhelming negativity against the shares, what's driving this demand up and making fb add more shares?! brokerage firms are offering pre-orders for pre-screened buyers with a minimum number of orders and still are not guaranteeing issuance of shares. If so many people are saying don't do it, who are all the people who are doing it, and why? I find it hard to believe that so many people are actually ignoring the news and willing to put money down - surely there's something we're missing?
what's the pro argument for fb shares?
The US has one of the most advanced scientific communities in the world, and leads in terms of innovation and creation. This country is seeing enough heartbreak as it is from extremely divisive and counter-productive religion/political debates, let's at least keep the scientific/technological community above such disparaging and gloomy arguments.
your underlying assumption here is that finite population growth affects the supply of said commodity. How about solar energy? The supply of solar energy is not dependent on population growth. It is equally available (well, more or less among latitudes of greatest population density) to all, yet can be tapped with different levels of efficiency, and can be owned / used / traded. Obviously the biggest problem is storing it, which is essential for a tradeable commodity, but assume we invent a way to store large amounts of energy efficiently. Now imagine a world where everyone trades in kJ of energy - isn't that what one would want to connect to, as a constant value?
we probably survived merely by superiority in numbers rather than a genetic/social/physical superiority among the competition. like in a couple of millenia later the world will be just people of chinese descent, going, "Yay us?"
Doesn't everyone know that "Everyone knows that X is true" and "X is true" are loosely correlated at best?
Also i think the left sidebar option in Unity is clever because nowadays almost all screens are widescreen, while webpages and documents mostly go vertical - so it makes sense to use some of that side space for the launcher, instead of cutting into the vertical real estate. Besides, as parent pointed out - the key is to get work done, not how snazzy you can make your desktop look like with a zillion customization options. I'll take a consistent and convenient UI anyday.
I was a Debian user (into the famed 3.x series) before I switched to Ubuntu ~6-7 years ago, and while Unity has its quirks and dysfunctions, I feel it is a step in the right direction. It is not trying to become Windows or Mac OS while becoming less linux - it's just becoming more Ubuntu.
It was a money sink that did very little of anything valuable
not true. It gave us many spectacular desktop wallpapers.
why is this story tagged 'peeping tom'? if we're able to gain deeper insights into human cognitive abilities and language learning skills (which is a crucial part of developing strong AI), the price of privacy is cheap. the whole up-in-arms-about-privacy that people tend to get into is becoming more and more of a reactionary effect these days without them actually realizing the tradeoff and making a decision on a case-by-case basis.
sometimes, it is worth it.
dare i say he's having...Grand delusions?
Thank you for that extremely lucid explanation! Along the same lines, I'd like to add, what Bing should do is carry out a 'reverse sting' by gaming the Google search system - using the same method: create 100 honeypot terms, search using Google, click on first links until the pagerank bubbles up to top.
This alleged 'sting' is, like you said, just a smart way of gaming the Bing system and nothing else.
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I have a choice as a consumer, and I've made one.
Good for you. So why do you keep commenting on every Apple story about the 'walled garden' and your problems with it? Is it because you are unhappy with your current choice and you would like to go with Apple if only they played according to your rules? or do you really think the readers here (on /., of all places) are so ignorant that you feel the need to constantly remind them of Apple's walled garden, when they make their choices? when you proclaim that you have a choice as a consumer and you've made yours, is it that hard to accept others are doing the same thing, and happy for the same reason?
This is not a personal attack on you, I wholly understand your point but I'm curious to know why the insistence - I can see a legitimate complaint when you are torn between choices - but why after you have made your choice? In fact, let's make this twitter-blunt: can you give the reason in 140 characters?
If you heard the story in the media - chances are that Apple will be reversing the rejection. the only stories where Apple does not reverse a rejection are those that you never hear.
for scribbling margin notes, highlighting, syncing notes with PC/mac - and more, the Sony Daily Edition perfectly fits the bill. That device is the right size, feature list and perhaps the correct price point. Sony should be peddling that to the universities to finally gain some respectable foothold in the e-book industry.
Seems like we hear this with every Ubuntu release...
that's probably because only the ones with problems after an upgrade speak up to air their grievances. the ones for which the upgrade went smoothly (i'm one of them, i upgraded with the beta in fact) are invisible because they don't have much to say. i'd give more weight to a percentage number of users who have had upgrade issues.
and i agree with you, GP ditching the distro entirely does sound like a knee-jerk reaction - although i realize the button placement issue did cause much heartburn in the community (i switch between linux and mac so that change was godsend for me).
but will the cloaks still work when shaped like small* spheres?
*small where you are almost looking radial from any direction
Given the number of comments here that seem to take it as a given this is an Apple leak for publicity (one funny commenter went as far as to bid adieu to journalism), it looks like an idea that couldn't possibly fail. On the other hand, maybe Apple did it and timed it to kill the HTC Incredible buzz...
I am not a fanboi of Apple, just a fanboi of tech conspiracy theories. aren't we all?
as to the purpose of patents - there's a subtlety that many are failing to grasp: you don't patent something just because you invented it; you patent it if you think someone else will use it. That is how you make money off patents. in this case, if you find a simple solution to a common problem that is affecting many, it is a no-brainer to patent it asap because if you know a time will come when others need it - and also not any less important, if you won't, someone else will (if Apple didn't, HTC would've). novelty of invention is inconsequential (and so is prior art if it is not legally filed/valid) - if it is an unused solution to a problem, then you file it. as someone else remarked in this thread, patent is not for protection anymore - it is a marketing weapon (but when you think about it, what is 'protection' if not a euphemism for market security?). It does not make Apple noble to do it, and as self-respecting engineers we have every right to revile Apple, but hey they had the sense to realize what they are patenting could potentially be used by others - this awareness is often understated but extremely critical in IP issues.
on a side note, wow - what unanimous animosity! didn't know Apple has already become the new Microsoft for the Slashdot crowd. IANAAF, but some objectivity please!!
Disclaimer: I'm an Indian.
When I think of alien intelligence, I am really thinking of the 'intelligence' part. Finding a race that is more intelligent than us is, in a way, like finding ourselves at a point in the future. We may be able to realize several notions that if left to ourselves would take us too much time, effort and irreconcilable damage due to our experimentations - like we are doing with our planet now. It is an inevitable trapping of knowledge that is largely heuristic.
Clearly, NASA likes Saturn...and Beyonce.
The blur is to mean that it blurs the lines between different social networks and brings them all under one hood. although in reverse it sounds like 'rule bottom', which is exactly where this phone's ending up.
I foresee this as being a step further to understanding the root of human evil.
It all depends on how well the AI captures evil behavior. Bringsjord does have some interesting points as to what constitutes an evil person:
Why do we need to understand human evil, you ask? the same reason we need to understand the cause of a disease - it helps in devising a treatment. For instance, if a set of questions elicits the same (or if scored, close enough) responses from a terrorist suspect as from E, that would be a very useful interrogating tactic.
are you saying Apple products are incapable of such stupidity? you sound like a fanboy to me...