There are elements to astrology that might have scientific explanations, even if the causal model provided by astrology is wrong. For example, according to astrology Leos often act as if they have something to prove. Well, in the West, Leos are usually the youngest in their school class, and at the age at which they start school that's a big difference; they're a *long* way behind their "peers" so it's hardly surprising if they learn behaviours that make them look "big". Nothing to fo with where the stars were when they were born, but (possibly) a significant observation nonetheless. Just because astrology teaches it doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong.
So people are really so stuck in their ways that work has to start when the clock says 9? No, but they're so stuck in their ways that if you leave an hour before everybody else you're seen as slacking.
No, you're not the only one dissatisfied with Vista. I'm not dissatisfied with Vista. For the simple reason I don't have it on any machine I work with, so it's no problem at all.
That list was written by a hack journo with no intent to reflect anyone's real world attitudes and every intent of boosting ad impressions by getting it posted to Slashdot and Reddit. No, it does reflect real world attitudes. A few years ago I got a haircut and started wearing a suit to work, and suddenly started getting promotions (I don't work there any more, by the way, and don't have enough hair left to be worth cutting). They may not be attitudes we like, but they're real-world attitudes.
While I agree with you (and have used your solution @work for years), imagine the problems if one's notebook/laptop were stolen? Well, there would be two potential problems. One is data loss, which is why I synch to the company server. The other is data theft. In my case, the chance of the data finding its way to somebody who would know what it was and could use it is slim -- I'm in something of a niche. But anyway, encryption is pretty straightforward, at least to an adequate level to stop the casual thief.
Well, it would lock me out of my data. A lot of places I work I have no internet access (not even via mobile -- not allowed to use one in some locations, and I've not found a way to access the net when riding the London tube). I deal with the issues of having data available wherever I am the easy way -- I keep anything I might need on my laptop, and synch to a server when I get back to base. If there's anything I've forgotten, or I need to check email, then I need to find an internet connection. Works anywhere this guy's solution will work, and a lot of other places besides, and I don't need to buy anything new.
Maybe I'm a luddite, but I don't see the point in moving stuff onto the web that's better placed on one's desk or laptop.
The point was that it's not about whether you trust the police to do the right thing and not abuse the information. It's about whether you trust the police to have the most private information about yourself---information that could be extremely embarrassing or even dangerous if leaked more broadly. Actually, it's both. Private information can only safely be trusted to parties that are both competent and benign. Here in the UK we have had cases in the past of police manipulating or even fabricating evidence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six) for example, so even if most of us can trust most of the police most of the time, we can't all trust all of the police all of the time (and that applies double for other agencies). But, as you say, competence in maintaining the security of the data (not to mention competence in interpretation of the data) is another important issue.
If the (third party) allegations on the plaintiff's website about the defendant being in with the Russian mafia then that's not the only kind of recovery he'll need to worry about...
The judge should have broken them. At 20k it's just the cost of doing business. If you read the article, it seems that the judge couldn't do that. The plaintiff could have sued for the profits derived from the infringement, and originally did, but subsequently dropped that part of the claim. Pity, but I guess they had enough on their plate.
Do you really believe that the judicial system gets it wrong that often? Well, it seems that the judicial system landing somewhere in the region of "right" counts as news, which suggests that it's considered out of the ordinary.
As an individual shareholder I'd be primarily worried about that scenario, and I wonder why a fund forgets about it. I doubt they forgot about it. MS valued the company way above current market value, so the fund was probably banking on a price jump at which point they (and a whole lot of other carpetbaggers) would divest and send the price plummeting again.
I *think* you mean "salacious" (which broadly speaking means "appealing to one's baser instincts"), but I love the word "sellacious". Folks, we have the neologism of the day. I had assumed it to be deliberate. I like it too!
Stuff like this makes me wonder just how much invasion/erosion of privacy will be tolerated in the UK before people rise up and flood into the streets in protest. We can't. Effectively, we need police permission to protest nowadays. And because they enforce that under anti-terrorist legislation, they can be pretty heavy handed about enforcing it. Not third-world type heavy-handed (yet), but heavy enough.
The point is that that there are only about 2 million broadband subscribers in the UK http://www.liquidzope.com/abc/2/4currentusage/currentstatebbd/view, so 6 million using it for illegal downloads effectively means everybody with broadband access (excluding libraries, etc, where you can't usually plug your iPod in to take the download away with you). So the government is saying that all broadband users are using it for illegal downloads; clearly the answer is to make broadband illegal!
That's a lot more typing. I often use a first-letter scheme as described (it's handy for systems that offer password hints, too: "Beetles" [sic] isn't giving too much away for the given password), but I'd hate to have to type the whole thing out every time.
Imagination is a great thing IF AND ONLY IF it is tempered with a rational/reasoning intellect. Otherwise it is just pure fiction. You need that balance within a society, but not necessarily in an individual. S T Coleridge doesn't seem to have had much, if any, of a "rational/reasoning intellect", but we'd be poorer without his poetry. To say that a bureaucratic drudge without a spark of imagination is "better" than S T Coleridge was is only true for a rather narrow (and, dare I say, unimaginative) range of meanings of "better".
But all progress is down to those who don't "overcome their imagination and stick to reality". In fact, surely it's the person of imagination who is most likely to challenge those politicians, clergymen and businessmen, because they're the ones who imagine that things might not be the way that they're told. "Sticking to reality" might be fine if we really/knew/ what reality was, but pretty much everything we know about reality is to some extent speculative, and in that context "sticking to reality" is a synonym for not questioning received wisdom.
grandparent had a very good point So did parent (to your post).
People who are capable of overcoming their imagination and sticking to reality ARE BETTER PEOPLE. In what sense of "better"?
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There are elements to astrology that might have scientific explanations, even if the causal model provided by astrology is wrong. For example, according to astrology Leos often act as if they have something to prove. Well, in the West, Leos are usually the youngest in their school class, and at the age at which they start school that's a big difference; they're a *long* way behind their "peers" so it's hardly surprising if they learn behaviours that make them look "big". Nothing to fo with where the stars were when they were born, but (possibly) a significant observation nonetheless. Just because astrology teaches it doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong.
Oh, I think the bank has a role to play: http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2005/04/16/news/news01.txt.
How come it's a "Schema", not a "Scheme"?
s/dissatisfied/not dissatisfied/ of course. Sorry.
No, you're not the only one dissatisfied with Vista. I'm not dissatisfied with Vista. For the simple reason I don't have it on any machine I work with, so it's no problem at all.
It might be worth trying sprinkling salt on them...
Well, it would lock me out of my data. A lot of places I work I have no internet access (not even via mobile -- not allowed to use one in some locations, and I've not found a way to access the net when riding the London tube). I deal with the issues of having data available wherever I am the easy way -- I keep anything I might need on my laptop, and synch to a server when I get back to base. If there's anything I've forgotten, or I need to check email, then I need to find an internet connection. Works anywhere this guy's solution will work, and a lot of other places besides, and I don't need to buy anything new.
Maybe I'm a luddite, but I don't see the point in moving stuff onto the web that's better placed on one's desk or laptop.
If the (third party) allegations on the plaintiff's website about the defendant being in with the Russian mafia then that's not the only kind of recovery he'll need to worry about...
I *think* you mean "salacious" (which broadly speaking means "appealing to one's baser instincts"), but I love the word "sellacious". Folks, we have the neologism of the day. I had assumed it to be deliberate. I like it too!
You're right -- I picked up the 2008 copyright, not the date of the data. Sorry!
Which is pretty much the ratio I used to get from 2 million subscribers -> 6 million users.
The point is that that there are only about 2 million broadband subscribers in the UK http://www.liquidzope.com/abc/2/4currentusage/currentstatebbd/view, so 6 million using it for illegal downloads effectively means everybody with broadband access (excluding libraries, etc, where you can't usually plug your iPod in to take the download away with you). So the government is saying that all broadband users are using it for illegal downloads; clearly the answer is to make broadband illegal!
That's a lot more typing. I often use a first-letter scheme as described (it's handy for systems that offer password hints, too: "Beetles" [sic] isn't giving too much away for the given password), but I'd hate to have to type the whole thing out every time.
But all progress is down to those who don't "overcome their imagination and stick to reality". In fact, surely it's the person of imagination who is most likely to challenge those politicians, clergymen and businessmen, because they're the ones who imagine that things might not be the way that they're told. "Sticking to reality" might be fine if we really /knew/ what reality was, but pretty much everything we know about reality is to some extent speculative, and in that context "sticking to reality" is a synonym for not questioning received wisdom.