The problem with the solution suggested by the author is that a certified "expert" can put his approval on an article. When he does this the article is perfect, but what if errors creep in later, edited in. All of the sudden we don't have a page that we need to take with a grain of salt but a certified "truth" that is in fact misinformation that the "expert" wouldn't agree with.
The current system is good because you have the understanding that anything you really want to know should have its references checked.
It's called MAP(minimum advertised price), I don't think the rule needs to change because MAP is plenty good. You may think it's bad because you may not be able to find what you want for quite as cheap but it allows small scale retailers to compete with the big boys. In the end it's probably a net positive effect for the economy.
It's interesting to note that while OS X had 43 vulnerabilities(1 severe) and windows had 39 vulnerabilities(12 severe). So windows had more big threat security holes than OS X by 12 times. Maybe OS X's average patch time is higher because the vulnerabilities they had were less important to patch?
oh, if only the mods got your joke. It's okay, I think you're funny.
On subject: By blocking themselves off to educational parts of the internet these countries only make themselves more backwards. Web 2.0 has taught us that collaboration creates innovation and advances everywhere, in every walk of life.
The Bible says that God confounded language because man working together could achieve anything. It's interesting to see backwards nations removing themselves from a global community like this. Lets see how well that works for them in 20 years.
I'm going backpacking through Europe pretty soon and I'm getting device insurance from USAA(my bank) it usually less than 100 bucks a year and they offer up to 5000 in coverage. A pretty good deal if you ask me. I wouldn't take my Macbook Pro with me unless I had it insured.
I'm sure other insurance companies do similar stuff. Just be upfront about what you're doing when you get it so that you don't end up surprised later.
The argument for pre-installations is really about novice users who can't be bothered to install an OS onto a fresh machine, and just want something that's going to work with minimal fuss. They need a distribution that's as idiot-proof and "polished" as possible, and that's what the criteria for choosing it should be. That's not the only reason. Theres also the question of driver compatibility. The nice thing about offering a linux line is that even if it comes with Ubuntu you can be pretty sure that you'll have driver support for most other distros. That's nice.
Actually, OS X is superior when it comes to sleep. Because Mac's have a set amount of hardware so they can develop for their own platform and make sure everything is fine tuned and working well.
Windows and even linux machines can have such a wide variety of hardware and all it takes is one bad driver to make sleep or suspend not work. Furthermore suspend2 for x86-64 doesn't come compiled in most distros of linux and you have to recompile the kernel to get it to work.
While your notebook may not have any problems with sleep it is probably the exception. Lots of windows boxes will sleep but when you bring them back up sound won't work or usb ports won't work. It's a pain.
I know that's not per capita but I think it is still indicative how welcoming the french are. Theres a lot of reasons for this, one of them being that most african countries speak french so france is a natural destination.
I do, however, stand corrected. Most EU countries do in fact receive refugees. A lot of the immigrants I met in France (mostly from Africa or the middle east) said they came to France because it was the only country that would take them. I dunno what the difference is but I guess I was talking to a pretty select demographic (those already in france).
They do indeed have something akin to the constitution which guarantees human rights as well as freedom of speech.
As someone that loves france (I lived there for a few years) I'm so deeply saddened by this horrible choice they've made. I suspect it won't stand but that remains to be seen. France has been a forward thinker in human rights for so many years(they're one of the only nations in Europe to accept refugees and grant asylum) which just adds the the craziness of this law.
France's motto, Liberté, égalité, fraternité or (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) doesn't seem very well upheld by this new law which does not grant liberty, removes equality and is very unlikely to foster any brotherhood.
This stuff could be really cool for use in MRIs or other tight spaces that claustrophobics normally have to go into. It would give those that are normally afraid to be in small spaces the sense that they were in a vastly infinite space. That's pretty cool IMO.
I'd also like to have my home theater coated with this stuff, think about how large your house would feel! Even with low level ceilings.
Of course this could never malfunction and make your car grind down to 25 mph on the highway.
FUD. If it were true, then it should be happening now. I know for a fact that some cars limit the top speed in software. So far as I know there haven't been cases of this.
Actually the current system for limiting a car's speed is not dynamic. It's preset to a specific speed, for instance 110 mph.
A system that dynamically governs your car's speed has not been invented. What would it use? Maybe it would use RFID tags that were embedded in the road. I'm sure no one could put a spoof tag in the road and of course we can't guarantee that your car will be able to read it in adverse conditions, which would cause problems when you're coming off a 25mph residential street on to a 75 mph highway. So RFID tags are out, but put up any system and there will be problems.
The current manufacture installed governor system works because it is inherently uncomplicated whereas any dynamic system would have a lot of room for error.
If the world were perfect it would make sense to perfectly enforce rules but the world is not perfect and it's better to leave an imperfect gray area to deal with it. There are too many strange and different situations that might need you to go faster than 25 on a residential road to try to blanket force everyone to go the speed limit.
If we, as a society, treat everyone as children that can't be trusted they will act like children and we will not be able to trust them.
Yeah, it would be great if your car dynamically knew how fast you could go based on where you were. Well...unless my wife were pregnant...or I was being chased by "car pirates" trying to take my life, or any other emergency situation.
Of course this could never malfunction and make your car grind down to 25 mph on the highway.
Oh, I thought of another one: passing old cars on hills.
Oh that's silly. We've managed to replace a dangerous, degenerative addiction with a close association to the party and it's principles. Surely these will serve him well for the rest of his life. Thank goodness we have the techniques to help these individuals see the benefits of full party support!
Reminds me of 1984, they always love the party in the end.
Wow, if they're using multiple microphones to triangulate the signal then they'll know it's not a tiny speaker close to the microphone. There goes faking the signal...
I was probably thinking of a 9mm rather than a 45. So now that someone looked up the dBs we'd need what if we changed proximity rather than volume. Get a tiny speaker right up near the mic. Wouldn't that be more manageable and more likely to trick the sensors?
Something else that I hadn't thought of is that it says the cameras detect gun shots. It doesn't say whether these cameras have microphones or not. You'd think so but what if it actually just detects flashes? Then it would be way easy to fake gunshots, maybe just use a flashbulb or something.
Depends on the gun, 22s and even 45s aren't that loud. Especially if theres lots of white noise around it (ie cars etc). If someone were trying to protest urban surveillance it would interesting to see people spoofing gunshots or random other flags.
You're probably right that a cellphone wouldn't be able to do it but building a decent facsimile thats easy to hide wouldn't be hard. You'd probably get arrested though for defrauding police. You'd have to be more innovative, maybe incorporate your sounds into a song then play it over a boom box and say that you were just listening to music.
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Our court system should punish frivolous lawsuits for how much it is costing the government.
The current system is good because you have the understanding that anything you really want to know should have its references checked.
It's called MAP(minimum advertised price), I don't think the rule needs to change because MAP is plenty good. You may think it's bad because you may not be able to find what you want for quite as cheap but it allows small scale retailers to compete with the big boys. In the end it's probably a net positive effect for the economy.
ah, your response is eerily similar to cops with drug raids.
It's interesting to note that while OS X had 43 vulnerabilities(1 severe) and windows had 39 vulnerabilities(12 severe). So windows had more big threat security holes than OS X by 12 times. Maybe OS X's average patch time is higher because the vulnerabilities they had were less important to patch?
Won't someone think of the children!?
You're both wrong, the internet isn't like a sign or even a dumptruck ok? It's a series of tubes!
Ditto that, I already delete bulletin whores. I never knew how many different quizes you could take on the internet until I got a myspace account.
On subject: By blocking themselves off to educational parts of the internet these countries only make themselves more backwards. Web 2.0 has taught us that collaboration creates innovation and advances everywhere, in every walk of life.
The Bible says that God confounded language because man working together could achieve anything. It's interesting to see backwards nations removing themselves from a global community like this. Lets see how well that works for them in 20 years.
I'm sure other insurance companies do similar stuff. Just be upfront about what you're doing when you get it so that you don't end up surprised later.
That's not the only reason. Theres also the question of driver compatibility. The nice thing about offering a linux line is that even if it comes with Ubuntu you can be pretty sure that you'll have driver support for most other distros. That's nice.
errr...wait...but then again they're also not suing anyone.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=225106&cid=18
Windows and even linux machines can have such a wide variety of hardware and all it takes is one bad driver to make sleep or suspend not work. Furthermore suspend2 for x86-64 doesn't come compiled in most distros of linux and you have to recompile the kernel to get it to work.
While your notebook may not have any problems with sleep it is probably the exception. Lots of windows boxes will sleep but when you bring them back up sound won't work or usb ports won't work. It's a pain.
I know that's not per capita but I think it is still indicative how welcoming the french are. Theres a lot of reasons for this, one of them being that most african countries speak french so france is a natural destination.
I do, however, stand corrected. Most EU countries do in fact receive refugees. A lot of the immigrants I met in France (mostly from Africa or the middle east) said they came to France because it was the only country that would take them. I dunno what the difference is but I guess I was talking to a pretty select demographic (those already in france).
They do indeed have something akin to the constitution which guarantees human rights as well as freedom of speech.
As someone that loves france (I lived there for a few years) I'm so deeply saddened by this horrible choice they've made. I suspect it won't stand but that remains to be seen. France has been a forward thinker in human rights for so many years(they're one of the only nations in Europe to accept refugees and grant asylum) which just adds the the craziness of this law.
France's motto, Liberté, égalité, fraternité or (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) doesn't seem very well upheld by this new law which does not grant liberty, removes equality and is very unlikely to foster any brotherhood.
we try so hard edit the submissions but is not have time always to finish! as it were!1@!!@
This stuff could be really cool for use in MRIs or other tight spaces that claustrophobics normally have to go into. It would give those that are normally afraid to be in small spaces the sense that they were in a vastly infinite space. That's pretty cool IMO.
I'd also like to have my home theater coated with this stuff, think about how large your house would feel! Even with low level ceilings.
Actually the current system for limiting a car's speed is not dynamic. It's preset to a specific speed, for instance 110 mph.
A system that dynamically governs your car's speed has not been invented. What would it use? Maybe it would use RFID tags that were embedded in the road. I'm sure no one could put a spoof tag in the road and of course we can't guarantee that your car will be able to read it in adverse conditions, which would cause problems when you're coming off a 25mph residential street on to a 75 mph highway. So RFID tags are out, but put up any system and there will be problems.
The current manufacture installed governor system works because it is inherently uncomplicated whereas any dynamic system would have a lot of room for error.
If the world were perfect it would make sense to perfectly enforce rules but the world is not perfect and it's better to leave an imperfect gray area to deal with it. There are too many strange and different situations that might need you to go faster than 25 on a residential road to try to blanket force everyone to go the speed limit.
If we, as a society, treat everyone as children that can't be trusted they will act like children and we will not be able to trust them.
Of course this could never malfunction and make your car grind down to 25 mph on the highway.
Oh, I thought of another one: passing old cars on hills.
PS hey!: I read your disclaimer
Even if it doesn't create a false positive for gun fire all that talk of killing people with guns and knives should turn some security heads.
Reminds me of 1984, they always love the party in the end.
Wow, if they're using multiple microphones to triangulate the signal then they'll know it's not a tiny speaker close to the microphone. There goes faking the signal...
Something else that I hadn't thought of is that it says the cameras detect gun shots. It doesn't say whether these cameras have microphones or not. You'd think so but what if it actually just detects flashes? Then it would be way easy to fake gunshots, maybe just use a flashbulb or something.
Thats because it lets you win, in casinos that means it has to be cheating.
You're probably right that a cellphone wouldn't be able to do it but building a decent facsimile thats easy to hide wouldn't be hard. You'd probably get arrested though for defrauding police. You'd have to be more innovative, maybe incorporate your sounds into a song then play it over a boom box and say that you were just listening to music.