Not to forget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_Vista A lot of little things are no longer there, for example the ability to display activity icons for each network connection (dial-up, VPN, WiFi, LAN) in the systray so you can actually see which interfaces are being used right now. Does anybody know a third party replacement for that?
I think "worse outcome" is supposed to be an average. Someone without health insurance would probably do nothing and wait until the pain in his knee gets so bad that a few thousand dollars of debt more seem like a minor problem.
Re: international gross, maybe it would have helped to show "Serenity" in the cinemas after "Firefly" had been aired on a local TV network. Releasing it to an unprepared audience was just stupid.
Not very likely. Pottery for example has been produced by pretty much every known civilization and lasts "forever". The same would go for gold objects. Did you find any shards or jewelery that don't fit to any known human civilization?
Dare I mention that he at the scene had more information than you do right here? The outcome seems to indicate that he did and that he made the right decision.
And his children watched their daddy wreck the family car doing something incredibly heroic without injuring anyone. That should settle the whole "respect for your parents" issue well into puberty.
The way I see it, these were his options: 1) do what he actually did. Two possible outcomes: 1a: Everybody lives, no one is seriously injured 1b: His passengers and/or the truck driver and/or other people are injured or killed 2) He does nothing. Two possible outcomes: 2a A merciful god winks and the truck shoots across the intersection, nobody is injured. Later the truck stalls and stops. 2b an horrific accident happens
Given that 2a seems very improbable, option 1 seems like a winner to me. Sure it can go wrong, but the odds are much better than with option two. Now, nobody would hold it against the engineer, it he did nothing. No one, except himself, every morning when he looks into the mirror and every night when he tries to fall asleep.
Now if I only could work the geek reference "Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed." into this post, +5 would be all but certain.
In the last months, I see more and more malware that does not even require admin permissions. On the plus side, it is of course much easier to clean up an infected user account.
IMHO nuclear power requires a kind of long-term thinking that is utterly alien to modern politicians and industry managers. Case in point: Back in the 1980s there was a political decision to develop an old salt mine (Gorleben) into a long term storage for highly radioactive waste. But today it seems that the major reasons for that decision were A) Gorleben was close to the Border to East Germany B) The people there would be grateful for any jobs and would keep voting for the conservative parties forever
Geology seems not to have influenced the decision very much, which is a pity as a similar testing facility (Schacht Asse) developed great problems. Only a few decades later, those criteria seem irrelevant today, and yet the stuff will be dangerous for thousands of years.
I take issue with your first statement. Luckily, there is an easy test to see what is and what isn't torture: A claims that method X isn't torture, B says it is. Just have B apply Method X to A, until A confesses that he was wrong.
For one thing, you'll notice that the conspiracy nuts are, well, always wrong.
Others have already pointed out that the US government alone did some things that were worthy of a conspiracy theory, though I'm not sure if anybody even suspected a conspiracy there. Do you think it is already a conspiracy theory if a pacifist tells a free speech advocate "I think the DHS is infiltrating our organizations"? (Hint: he could be right) Also, a successful conspiracy leaves no (accessible) evidence and might even falsify evidence against its own existence.
And perfectly safe airplanes with naked passengers securely chained to their seats would not prevent a terrorist from detonating a bomb in a densely populated area. He and his bomb just wouldn't be on this plane.
Pretexting is a specific type of lie that means setting up the false pretext to be someone else - typically by using valid and/or confidential information about that person or by using the pretext over a prolonged period of time to make the ruse seem more convincing.
Because CO2 is not the issue with cow burps and farts. It's methane, which is apparently a more potent greenhouse gas. A truly elegant solution would be to harvest that methane.
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Not to forget:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_Vista
A lot of little things are no longer there, for example the ability to display activity icons for each network connection (dial-up, VPN, WiFi, LAN) in the systray so you can actually see which interfaces are being used right now. Does anybody know a third party replacement for that?
How would you stop a sober moron from doing the same?
There is no cloud. Your data are just on somebody else's server. If you are lucky, you and your data are important enough to them to warrant a backup.
So, McDonalds provides the best food?
I think "worse outcome" is supposed to be an average. Someone without health insurance would probably do nothing and wait until the pain in his knee gets so bad that a few thousand dollars of debt more seem like a minor problem.
Re: international gross, maybe it would have helped to show "Serenity" in the cinemas after "Firefly" had been aired on a local TV network. Releasing it to an unprepared audience was just stupid.
Not very likely. Pottery for example has been produced by pretty much every known civilization and lasts "forever". The same would go for gold objects.
Did you find any shards or jewelery that don't fit to any known human civilization?
Dare I mention that he at the scene had more information than you do right here? The outcome seems to indicate that he did and that he made the right decision.
And his children watched their daddy wreck the family car doing something incredibly heroic without injuring anyone. That should settle the whole "respect for your parents" issue well into puberty.
The way I see it, these were his options:
1) do what he actually did. Two possible outcomes:
1a: Everybody lives, no one is seriously injured
1b: His passengers and/or the truck driver and/or other people are injured or killed
2) He does nothing. Two possible outcomes:
2a A merciful god winks and the truck shoots across the intersection, nobody is injured. Later the truck stalls and stops.
2b an horrific accident happens
Given that 2a seems very improbable, option 1 seems like a winner to me. Sure it can go wrong, but the odds are much better than with option two. Now, nobody would hold it against the engineer, it he did nothing. No one, except himself, every morning when he looks into the mirror and every night when he tries to fall asleep.
Now if I only could work the geek reference "Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed." into this post, +5 would be all but certain.
*points to sig*
In the last months, I see more and more malware that does not even require admin permissions. On the plus side, it is of course much easier to clean up an infected user account.
I think that depends on your definition of surprise.
"I expected this, but not so soon" could be written on many tombstones.
Do. Or do not. There is no try.
IMHO nuclear power requires a kind of long-term thinking that is utterly alien to modern politicians and industry managers.
Case in point: Back in the 1980s there was a political decision to develop an old salt mine (Gorleben) into a long term storage for highly radioactive waste. But today it seems that the major reasons for that decision were
A) Gorleben was close to the Border to East Germany
B) The people there would be grateful for any jobs and would keep voting for the conservative parties forever
Geology seems not to have influenced the decision very much, which is a pity as a similar testing facility (Schacht Asse) developed great problems.
Only a few decades later, those criteria seem irrelevant today, and yet the stuff will be dangerous for thousands of years.
The next best thing would be a dedicated live-CD for online banking. There is Bankix http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/Sicheres-Online-Banking-mit-Bankix-284099.html, but afaik only in German.
This idea is already a few weeks old
http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=378
I take issue with your first statement. Luckily, there is an easy test to see what is and what isn't torture:
A claims that method X isn't torture, B says it is. Just have B apply Method X to A, until A confesses that he was wrong.
IMHO it is a flaw in the way FF handles extensions, if an extension can protect itself from being uninstalled.
And perfectly safe airplanes with naked passengers securely chained to their seats would not prevent a terrorist from detonating a bomb in a densely populated area. He and his bomb just wouldn't be on this plane.
The farmer sprays his field with Roundup.
If everything dies, he loses all his crops and doesn't have to pay Monsanto.
Actually he would. You might want to check who produces Roundup.
Pretexting is a specific type of lie that means setting up the false pretext to be someone else - typically by using valid and/or confidential information about that person or by using the pretext over a prolonged period of time to make the ruse seem more convincing.
Isn't that usually known as "identity theft"?
That was a bit over the top, just to get back two books, wasn't it?
Because CO2 is not the issue with cow burps and farts. It's methane, which is apparently a more potent greenhouse gas.
A truly elegant solution would be to harvest that methane.
i would agree, the quotes alone are golden. :)
No doubt about that