Comment Re: Who cares? (Score 5, Insightful) 122
It makes the news interesting when you see it from both sides.
Notice how easily they convinced you that there were only two sides...
It makes the news interesting when you see it from both sides.
Notice how easily they convinced you that there were only two sides...
Or perhaps we ought to just take email back to the drawing board. Something I've pondered is an "email 2" where encryption is required. In addition, to kill email spam, any server that sends out email could be required to have a DNS record identifying it as an established SMTP server, and all POP3/IMAP servers only trust them instead of just accepting emails from any IP address that probably belongs to grandma's compromised PC. Of course, reverse arpa addresses are considered invalid.
Webmail providers could do something akin to mega.co.nz style vault access, and only the user's password could decrypt the messages they receive. Something to the effect of having the user store the RSA keys on a key fob (or otherwise just keeping them local) and when they log in they decrypt the messages, and then re-encrypt using their vault key and store them on the server.
Email 2 addresses could be identified by adding say a greater than sign after the @, indicating to the software stack that only secure transmission is permitted, say email2user@>domain.com
That should also take care of your NSA problem, though companies like google would never be on board since they can't keyword match ads to messages.
As opposed to the nuclear PR and billions in wildfarm PR and rich dudes with land to milk subsidies PR and oh dear my energy bill just shot up. Or maybe the "consumption" is original sin Marxist atheist environmentalist PR? Climate "justice"? People are greedy and consume too much and that's why we need to make them reduce consumption, like how the Catholic Church says people want to fornicate and that's a sin so we should ban contraception? Anyway, it is fun to play with points of view. Try it sometime.
Modded Troll? Oh dear. One of the mysteries in life is just how hard it is to tell people something that's fairly true.
You can order a truck load of off the shelf cards and have them at your bunker tomorrow.
It doesnt work like that.
If you want tens of thousands of video cards, you are going to have to make a deal with a manufacturer.. contracts are involved.. delivery dates of more than a few months will apply..
This is exactly what the big distributors do. First they hunt down a lot of small contracts (retail outlets that want anywhere from dozens to a thousand), so that they can make a large multi-thousand unit contract deal with a manufacturer.
There is no way in hell that you could have a truck load of video cards delivered to your door tomorrow. Now stop being a naive dipshit that doesnt know how business works.
Graphics cards are cheaper.
Since when did the government care about cost?
Not that I'm being hopeful or unhopeful (I'm not interested in this project - I'm happy with my smartphone already) it's actually quite common for massive amounts of money to come in at the start of a crowdsourcing project, and then after a big initial rush things slow to a trickle until you get near the end. Will they reach their goal? Who knows, but slowing down like this at this point in time is normal, (and I assume expected) successful projects and failed projects alike.
Please show me one source, one form where she consented to have tissue samples harvested from her for medical research.
Why are you moving the goal post?
She went to that hospital because she had cancer. During her treatment they cut out some of her cancer. She did this all willingly. Nobody stole her cells without permission.
So the argument goes right back to if those cells, after her willingly let them extract them, are her property or not
This is why your scenario of going to someones house and taking their cells against their will is different. This is why your made up scenario does not fit the real scenario. She had cancer. They removed some of it. She did not say "please don't cut out the cancer"
So I can come right over and extract tissue samples without your consent?
Are you suggesting that thats what they did in this case?
Since it isn't, nothing you say that relies on this tripe bullshit actually matters. They did not kidnap this woman, strap her down, and forcefully extract her blood without consent.
She consented. Nobody at all seems to think otherwise 'cept for you.
They tried and I'm sure they know full well their predicament.
What they seem to have been missing though, is a design culture, like you might find in an architect's office or an industrial designer's office. Too many clever geeks are missing that different type of skill it takes to comprehend how and why a gadget would be desirable. Apple seems to have had this culture, but it mattered less on the desktop.
When things shifted to mobile, Apple applied it not just to the shape of the brick, not just as a style for the buttons, or a skin, but through the operating system and apps and functionality and how touch works. And they copied plenty from any other developers who came up with good design ideas also.
I don't think Apple always succeeds with design, like that iTunes social sharing thing they tried, which I for one switched off immediately and wasn't surprised when they dropped it, but good design is usually hard. At least they try.
When Microsoft tries to design something new, it turns out worse than if they hadn't tried. Metro is fine for 1930's style transport signage, it is not good for a desktop interface. Yeah, you looked at typography, great, that's like idea 1. Now try getting to idea 100 and throwing the other 95 in the trash. That's how design works, lots and lots of possibilities, most of which are crap on closer scrutiny.
As for office, at some point, we'll have a more elegant and simpler way to handle business information, which isn't warped to fit a complex desktop publishing to printed page model. Mobile should hopefully finally break that paradigm. But "docs in the cloud" doesn't seem any better. And when Google thought outside the box, they went into some weird universe called Wave, where nobody seems to have thought, why would you want that? Design 101.
You can't vote them out.
People in cages (or dead) can't vote either.
Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
