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Participant[quote=spdrun]Corporations are composed of people. Would you be comfortable with any one person looking over your shoulder at all of your Internet usage, email, documents, and searches? That’s what Google is trying to do, basically.[/quote]
It is unlikely that any one person has access to raw data through multiple services. And even for individual services there is large risk, it’s not like a DBA can run a query in the production environment with no audit trail.
But the data could be mined for patterns of risky behaviors. People at Target figured out how to recognize that a customer is likely pregnant by monitoring shopping patterns (spike in lotion consumption near the end of first trimester). Just as easily skilled miners could identify patterns of potential sexual predators, tax evaders and terrorists. We could stop all that before it happens!
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]I’m always curious to what the tin foil crowd actually believe could happen to them. In all seriousnessm SP, what do you think google is going to do to you? Do you think they will send droids into your house or something worse?[/quote]
Patriotic Act. The fear is not primarily that Google will abuse you in some unexpected manner. As long as you are aware that you are the product, not the customer everything is fine. But the government might use the data to identify dangerous individuals in order to protect the public.
Participant[quote=craptcha]I received the 8GB version on Tuesday, the speaker(s) blown out on arrival. Spent an hour on the phone waiting for someone to pick up before giving up. Used the contact form to ask for instructions on how to get a replacement unit on Wednesday night, received automated ‘we got your email’ few minutes later, nothing since then.
Feels very much in line with the usual ‘perpetual communally supported beta’ Google culture.[/quote]
Update: Received an email Monday evening, replacement unit shipped on Tuesday morning, arrived Wednesday evening (yesterday).
The speaker(s) on the new unit are fine. Unfortunately, the gyro is not. Laying flat it shows 8° roll, -2° pitch. The old device (broken speakers) shows 0° roll, -1° pitch.
I’m keeping this one since none of my apps use gyro or accelerometer and it does not affect testing, but it is a cheap device (not just affordable) compared to my xoom or ipads. Feels like Reabok shoes, Roleks watch or Cola Cola soda. Also like the final episode of “Lost” where you are supposed to ignore all the crap because they are in heaven (or in this case it costs $200).
Participant[quote=flu]
I’m waiting for the iphone 5 launch and some more details on what happens with the entire Samsung/Apple spat before deciding anything….If they flub the iphone 5 launch, it will be very very interesting…..
Apple’s in a very interesting situation, because the timing of Android Jellybean release and no iphone5 in the near future…well, very interesting….[/quote]Do you expect Jellybean to penetrate faster than ICS? Why is jellybean and the timing of the release important and how is the situation different from last year’s release of ICS (which was followed by iOS5 and iphone 4s, similar to this year’s iOS6 and iphone 5)?
ParticipantI received the 8GB version on Tuesday, the speaker(s) blown out on arrival. Spent an hour on the phone waiting for someone to pick up before giving up. Used the contact form to ask for instructions on how to get a replacement unit on Wednesday night, received automated ‘we got your email’ few minutes later, nothing since then.
Feels very much in line with the usual ‘perpetual communally supported beta’ Google culture.
Participant[quote=flu]Give anyone with a credit score 750 or higher who is well qualified for a loan on either primary home or rental home(s) and/or both 0.0% APR fixed rate loan for 15 years and allow those well qualified people to take out as many loans as their income can support, with the caveat that
(1) The loans only given to U.S. citizens and permanent residence.
(2) The loans would go through extensive screening, checking and verification such that liar loans are nearly impossible.1. Housing market problem goes away
2. Keeps the stock market pumped up (since no one will want to buy fixed income)
3. Put’s this country’s finances in the hands of the more qualified and more responsible people in this county.But most importantly…It would benefit people like me the most.[/quote]
Would that 0% interest be tax deductible?
Participant[quote=sdduuuude]How about a massive dose of doggie laxative.[/quote]
Might not be the best idea if the dog already has the habit of releasing over the OP’s lawn.
July 13, 2012 at 8:07 AM in reply to: Obamacare bill contains 3.8% tax on homes sales capital gains for high income earners #747911Participant[quote=AN] I shut them up pretty quickly when I ask them to prove that God doesn’t exist, since their belief that God doesn’t exist is no different than those who believe God does exist.[/quote]
Reminds me of something I heard on a basketball court when I was a kid – you have 50% chance to make any shot – you either make it, or you don’t.
ParticipantI was hoping you posted something about Barking Dogs by Butthole Surfers.
July 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM in reply to: OT: Politically Correctness has sucken to an all time low…. #747532ParticipantHow do you prove that you have been around for 2 months or 40 years?
July 7, 2012 at 11:30 PM in reply to: OT: Politically Correctness has sucken to an all time low…. #747453Participant[quote=briansd1]
Remember that an H1-B holder is working and earning money in America as a professional while waiting for a Green Card. Many H1-B holders just want experience in America before going back home.
The H1-B process will not change (it could improve under if we have immigration reform) so I don’t see why H1-B holdes should feel envious or resentful when opportunities open up for other immigrants.[/quote]
Yes, H1B are working and earning money, without breaking the law. And illegals are working and earning money, while breaking the law.
People in the EB funnel are bitter because they are being held hostage by Democrats. Using your logic – Hispanic caucus should not be envious or resentful and blocking virtually every initiative that is put forward to help EB’s.
For example, due to inefficient process the annual EB quota was not met for number of years. Applications were in the queue, but the agencies were underfunded and numbers were lost. The quota resets every year and there is no spillover. Every year someone comes out with an initiative to recapture the lost number (which kind of makes sense) and every year Democrats block it.
And what do you think will happen when 12MM+ new cases hit the agencies? Do you believe adequate funding will be provided?
July 7, 2012 at 10:58 PM in reply to: Obamacare bill contains 3.8% tax on homes sales capital gains for high income earners #747452ParticipantClinton decided to invade Serbia instead.
Participant[quote=harvey]What I find interesting about those who are against “illegal” immigration is that almost nobody understands the selection process for “legal” immigrants.
Why are some people allowed in, and others aren’t?
What’s the process, and who controls it?
Who decides which immigrants are “legal?”
And why does everyone assume that the current process is “correct?”[/quote]
There are three designed methods of changing your status from non-resident to resident:
1. Employment based, where an employer initiates the process. The candidate can be in the US. Transition from H1B is the most common scenario, since H1B is a ‘dual intent’ visa, i.e. you do not surrender your right to apply for permanent residency when you apply for H1B. You cannot transfer from visitors (B) or from intra-company (L). In theory the candidate can be outside of the country during the process, but the process in most cases takes too long and few companies will do that. The process generally takes one or more years. If you are from India and the position does not require masters degree you might have to wait a decade or two. About 150K adjusts status every year through EB, and that number includes primary applicants (future employees) and immediate dependents. That includes spouse and children under 18 – the cut off is based on the age at the end of the process and there are cases of children who ‘aged out’ – i.e. turned 18 while waiting.2. Family based. A citizen can sponsor parents and spouse, subject to no quota. Thanks to the previous amnesty and the rule that says no country can get more than certain % of the total, you can’t really sponsor anyone (including unmarried children and siblings) if you are from Mexico or Philippines since the wait time is ~20y. For the rest of the world, the wait time is ~10y for siblings and ~7y for unmarried children. There are 200-250K adjustments/year.
3. Lottery. ~50K visas/year, you have to be from a country that is not ‘over-represented’ already (like UK, Mexico or China), have highschool diploma or equivalent experience.
If you have AIDS or tuberculosis you can’t immigrate.
The only way to adjust status if you overstay your visa (or come here illegally) is to get married to a citizen, or be granted asylum.
There is constant talk about immigration reform, but most recent ‘major’ change is from Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform that removed family-based immigrants from being eligible for certain benefits. Tech companies are pushing for changes on the employment based side, but democrats (Hispanic caucus in particular) are holding EB hostage. The pattern is simple – one year ‘they’ talk about ‘comprehensive solution’ which includes amnesty in some form and that is blocked by republicans. Then when the initiative fails ‘they’ try partial approach, which is blocked by democrats because ‘we need comprehensive solution’. Occasionally someone will start talking about Canadian/Australian style of immigration program where a candidate gets points for certain things, like high demand occupation, age, language skills, arranged employment, family ties and the influx is controlled by the cut-off number (when economy is doing good they lower the bar, when it’s bad they raise the bar), but that is not supported by the same Hispanic caucus.
Generally, Reagan’s amnesty is seen as major cause of the current problems. It clogged the legal family-based channel and it did not solve the problem of new illegals coming. If anything it made it worse since it created a precedent.
ParticipantIs eating a couple of oranges really much different from having a glass of orange juice?
Does this mean that having a glass of Naked’s Green Machine juice 2-3/week is actually bad for a person?I don’t like this thread, it affirms what my wife is saying.
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