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Re: Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software

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Post by flukus » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 3:44 AM UTC

a_imho wrote: post #56

exergy wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it's the fact that I'm inexorably falling deeper into academia every year, but government research is definitely NOT a waste from my perspective. Some of the best PhD students, working on some of the most interesting projects in my experience all had DOE or EPA grant projects. I think this sort of research deserves a lot more money since, in my (biased) opinion, it pushes humanity forward through public acces…

I think it is meant as not cost effective, as governments are usually very wasteful in redistributing resources.

I took it to mean that it would be targeted by people/media/politicians when they are trying to find ways to tighten their budgetary belts.

Re: Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software

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Post by nickpsecurity » Thu, Dec 08, 2016, 3:47 AM UTC

nickpsecurity wrote: post #45

solatic wrote: post #43

Specifically about Google's Project X delivery drone project: The first guy to head the project was one Nicholas Roy, an MIT Robotics professor whose professional claim to the position seems to be mentoring a pair of students who succeeded in building a drone that flew around a parking garage - predetermined layout, no weather. Completely out of his depth, he failed. After he failed, Google hired Dave Vos, another gu…

"The best course of action that Alphabet has is to acquire a proven aerospace company" It's a good long-term bet if it's a defense contractor that's been getting contracts for decades. Could hedge a bit against what the market might hit them with. Plus, they're trying to get tighter with government anyway. They'd likely acquire people good at doing that, too. Then start brining their tech or services in defense indus…

Reply to the person who deleted the comment about aerospace companies having overruns and being late. It's a common misconception that this is incompetence. It was worth this reply if you're still reading:

That's on purpose. They bribe politicians overseeing or in the military. Those deliver them contracts worth many times what they paid in bribes. It's called the "revolving door" of the Pentagon by those that follow it. It becomes obvious when you notice all these failures are tolerated with none of the proven fraud resulting in prison sentences. The same ineffective companies keep getting big contracts with the effective, smaller ones fighting for scraps. As it's designed to be.

Nice example posted here a while back:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/03/spyagency200703

Re: Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software

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Post by webmaven » Sat, Dec 10, 2016, 10:16 AM UTC

diggan wrote: post #37

hueving wrote: post #25

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incognito doesn't include cookies from your regular sessions

Sure, my point being that you should search for the URL, not just go to it without cookies. So your refer header is set to be from Google

Aaaand... it looks like the blanket statement in my other (sibling) reply is not currently true of the WSJ (though it still works for NYTimes). IOW, you're right, an incognito window by itself is not sufficient, you do need to be referred by a search engine.

Or at least, WSJ continues to test various policies: http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-go...

How annoying. Well, we can always use an that lets you set the REFERER header on a per-site basis,[1] or even one preset specifically for bypassing paywalls.[2]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paywall-bypass/fnm...