However, I want to know who these people are who owed the IRS 1 million dollars but only had to pay three thousand! i hate the IRS as much as the next guy, but those ads make me kind of mad!
That is a good point. Even though i would be too ashamed to want to see my mom, she would probably want to see me and shouldn't be punished as part of my incarceration.
my other thought, that i didn't bring up, is 300 miles isn't that far. My family has a cabin 300 miles away from home. we regularly drive up there. i've been known to make the trip there and back in 1 day. it's roughly a 5 hour drive.
That's not just some sort of crime. It's trespassing and it's absolutely punishable. And i think people do take it pretty seriously. Even in the event that there is no barrier, there are laws that govern if you can or can not enter an area. You can walk from federal land onto private land, and if convicted here, you could face jail time. There is nothing between the two parcels of land but an imaginary border.
a password, no matter how flimsy, is a barrier that must be circumvented. It's in the victim's best interest to choose a strong password, just as it's in the homeowner's best interest to erect the proper barriers. it's better to not be a victim in the first place and all that.
I see it the other way around, for such a crime to deserve a prison sentence it should be much more severe. Guessing someones password to yahoo mail, does not seem like a severe crime to me
The strength of a password has no bearing on the severity of the crime. kicking in a deadbolt and breaking a window to get in a house are both breaking and entering. Nobody ever suggests a homeowner should have nothing but concrete block walls.
Making examples of people just because they have upset a celebrity figure is barbarian and i'm glad i'm not an American if this sort of thing is acceptable there. Where i come from everyone is equal, a crime against a politician holds the same weight as a crime against your average citizen.
Is there some law of prison quality that states the comfort of prison is inversely proportional to the distance from the prisoner's home? A small enough data sample sort of points to this as house arrest is probably the most comfortable, but i think the hypothesis falls apart after that. Many people who are in prison might not even have a good home.
For me, I'd think it would be the opposite. I think if i land in prison, i'd rather not have a steady influx of family visitors. I'd hope i was as far from home as possible.
you provided the best use cases i've seen for this tech, but aren't the people who whine about exposure to RF also the people who can detect the blinking of florescent lights? i think just as many people are going to complain about these lights giving them migranes and hypnotizing them.
if you need wireless, I could see lightwave wireless as being a pretty viable solution..
yeah, but what's better for the bottom line? it seems really impractical to get a bunch of new light fixtures wired up when you could just bolt one box to the wall and get 30x the speed at least.
i agree, it's little different from wifi, but i don't understand why it's better than wifi? It doesn't sound cheaper to install. It's definitely not faster. It doesn't work through drywall. It doesn't sound like it's friendly to portable systems.
the TFA says it's better because it uses visible light rather than magnetic radio waves. It doesn't give any reasons why thats better. Though i imagine visible light is less prone to certain kinds of interference, its far more prone to the interference of walls. Plus, the days of microwaves disrupting wi-fi seem to be over. Unless you have an MRI machine next to your desk, you probably have a reliable wifi signal.
I guess it could be some kind of homeopathic new network transport. It might make all those people who are scared of wifi feel better. that may be true, but in my experience, the bands of the electromagnetic spectrum that do the most damage to me seem to be closest to visible light.
It's definitely cool that a program can play jeopardy, but i don't know if beating humans is all that amazing. Humans are terrible at jeopardy. They have terrible multi millisecond reaction times. They have poorly indexed data stores. They get easily distracted. Human brains are horribly prone to race conditions. When you get right down to it, the only part of the game people are good at is understanding the question. after you can do that, of course you can beat them.
I'm an Apple fan and ios developer, and i think MS has a strong case here. The word app has been in use for a long time, in fact, the best prior art i can think of comes from MS' own asp.net which constantly refers to web applications, which developers always seemed to shorten to web app. in the late 90's we were always talking about web apps. Apple didn't invent the word. They could call it the Apple App Store, or the iOS App Store and own that combination, but just App Store is awful generic.
I have it (iphone 4 on at&t). It's hard to say if i would miss it or not. I have, on occasion, looked something up on google maps while on the phone with someone. I didn't stop and appreciate how blessed i was at that moment, and those occasions have been relatively few and far between. It doesn't seem like telling the other person to hang up while i get the info and call them back would be that big a deal.
maybe i would have been annoyed the 3 - 5 times i actually had to use the feature if it wasn't there. It's far more annoying to not get cell service at my desk. If the verizon iphones truly do have a rock solid signal here, i'll be a tad jealous.
Are you claiming that people don't have a need to communicate? Even antisocial people like us slashdot users have an overwhelming need to reach out to other people. We wouldn't be making posts on this social network if we didn't.
That's just what mothers do. They talk endlessly about their kids and take every chance to show you a picture. I find it weird that people on slashdot Blame normal human interactions on facebook. It's like fb is the first thing to actually bridge the gap between us and them and we are terrified of what's on the other side.
I dont know about you, but my facebook network consists of family and friends. They are people who do care about what I'm doing. Shockingly, I care to hear about them as well. I don't remember the days when aunt Betty would hop in irc to let everyone know she finished third in her age group in her cross country ski race. I actually don't think irc would even be a good medium for that.
Nobody forces you to put your wife's maiden name on facebook. Facebook even prevents unauthorized access to any info you post. I assume you also wouldn't send an email containing a picture of grandpa jones because that can be easily intercepted. Even if you encrypt it, one careless recipient could forward it without encryption.
Your best protection against identity theft is knowing what you can and can't post. You seem to have that knowledge so I don't know what you would have to lose by posting some casual fb updates.
i don't have a hard time typing on the ipad. in fact i don't find it that difficult to touch type on it. my fingers know where they are supposed to be. I'm no where near as fast as i am with a physical keyboard but i find it far more usable than i ever thought i would. longish emails and slashdot posts are not an issue for me. Writing code is, but that generally requires a lot of arcane punctuation that just isn't right there on the ipad keyboard. When the symbols do come up, they are not in their standard qwerty locations. It takes a while to locate something, and the curly bracket, the staple of my trade, is buried 3 levels deep.
Aside from layout, I think the biggest problem stems from having to hover over it. if more than one finger happens to come in contact with the surface, the results are unpredictable. i don't know if haptics are nearly as essential as some kind of velocity gathered with the touch. Something that would let the device know that just because you were touching asdf and y, you meant to enter y because that touch had some impact.
or, people's power of deductive reasoning is actually very good and we can accurately predict many future events by extrapolating from information we gather with our known physical senses. We could all be sherlock holmes to some degree.
We censor profanity on tv and in songs all the time. Sure, some people think it's some kind of totalitarian measure of control, but really it doesn't hurt much.
However, does the radio edit of Gold Digger (with "nigger" removed) work as well as the explicit version? I actually don't think it does. It's kind of absurd to compare Kanye to Mark Twain, but if a message is diluted or lost from something as insignificant as that song, the loss is even greater in a classic like Huck Finn.
Further one of the main points of the book is that Jim is a good man. He's the best person Huck and Tom meet and Twain wants you to know that society treats him like crap.
Slave clearly doesn't carry the same weight as Nigger otherwise it wouldn't be considered more sanitary. The concept of inserting that word only dulls the edge of what is a scathing social commentary that's right in line with the views of the people who want to remove the word. It's pretty much irony that they would do this.
Another comment I would spend mod points on if I had it. Asimov wrote stories about people and how people's relationships to themselves and their robots would be if there were robots (among other stories). His work is brilliant because he's dead on about the people not about how a positronic brain works.
Gattica and blade runner were also about the human condition so I can't really fault them as I agree they are great sci-fi films. but the article seems to be rather pedantic.
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that does sound a bit more legitimate. also i find it odd that i was modded insightful. i really didn't comment about the story at all.
However, I want to know who these people are who owed the IRS 1 million dollars but only had to pay three thousand! i hate the IRS as much as the next guy, but those ads make me kind of mad!
That is a good point. Even though i would be too ashamed to want to see my mom, she would probably want to see me and shouldn't be punished as part of my incarceration.
my other thought, that i didn't bring up, is 300 miles isn't that far. My family has a cabin 300 miles away from home. we regularly drive up there. i've been known to make the trip there and back in 1 day. it's roughly a 5 hour drive.
That's not just some sort of crime. It's trespassing and it's absolutely punishable. And i think people do take it pretty seriously. Even in the event that there is no barrier, there are laws that govern if you can or can not enter an area. You can walk from federal land onto private land, and if convicted here, you could face jail time. There is nothing between the two parcels of land but an imaginary border.
a password, no matter how flimsy, is a barrier that must be circumvented. It's in the victim's best interest to choose a strong password, just as it's in the homeowner's best interest to erect the proper barriers. it's better to not be a victim in the first place and all that.
i'm not sure if you are asking if i want to be put in solitary confinement or not. Obviously i wouldn't want that.
I imagine i would be sufficiently ashamed to not want my mom coming to prison to check up on me. plus what would the other prisoners think?
I'm pretty sure i'm not doing anything i'm going to go to prison for though.
I see it the other way around, for such a crime to deserve a prison sentence it should be much more severe. Guessing someones password to yahoo mail, does not seem like a severe crime to me
The strength of a password has no bearing on the severity of the crime. kicking in a deadbolt and breaking a window to get in a house are both breaking and entering. Nobody ever suggests a homeowner should have nothing but concrete block walls.
Making examples of people just because they have upset a celebrity figure is barbarian and i'm glad i'm not an American if this sort of thing is acceptable there. Where i come from everyone is equal, a crime against a politician holds the same weight as a crime against your average citizen.
Where are you from? Antarctica?
Is there some law of prison quality that states the comfort of prison is inversely proportional to the distance from the prisoner's home? A small enough data sample sort of points to this as house arrest is probably the most comfortable, but i think the hypothesis falls apart after that. Many people who are in prison might not even have a good home.
For me, I'd think it would be the opposite. I think if i land in prison, i'd rather not have a steady influx of family visitors. I'd hope i was as far from home as possible.
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Yeah, I can see the benefits of that. It's weird that TFA doesn't seem to spell it out. They just leave it at it's not radio.
you provided the best use cases i've seen for this tech, but aren't the people who whine about exposure to RF also the people who can detect the blinking of florescent lights? i think just as many people are going to complain about these lights giving them migranes and hypnotizing them.
Why is this a bad idea
Because the WiFis cause the cancers!
Across the whole electromagnetic spectrum, it's visible light and it's immediate neighbors that seem to cause me the most measurable harm.
if you need wireless, I could see lightwave wireless as being a pretty viable solution. .
yeah, but what's better for the bottom line? it seems really impractical to get a bunch of new light fixtures wired up when you could just bolt one box to the wall and get 30x the speed at least.
i agree, it's little different from wifi, but i don't understand why it's better than wifi? It doesn't sound cheaper to install. It's definitely not faster. It doesn't work through drywall. It doesn't sound like it's friendly to portable systems.
the TFA says it's better because it uses visible light rather than magnetic radio waves. It doesn't give any reasons why thats better. Though i imagine visible light is less prone to certain kinds of interference, its far more prone to the interference of walls. Plus, the days of microwaves disrupting wi-fi seem to be over. Unless you have an MRI machine next to your desk, you probably have a reliable wifi signal.
I guess it could be some kind of homeopathic new network transport. It might make all those people who are scared of wifi feel better. that may be true, but in my experience, the bands of the electromagnetic spectrum that do the most damage to me seem to be closest to visible light.
It's definitely cool that a program can play jeopardy, but i don't know if beating humans is all that amazing. Humans are terrible at jeopardy. They have terrible multi millisecond reaction times. They have poorly indexed data stores. They get easily distracted. Human brains are horribly prone to race conditions. When you get right down to it, the only part of the game people are good at is understanding the question. after you can do that, of course you can beat them.
I'm an Apple fan and ios developer, and i think MS has a strong case here. The word app has been in use for a long time, in fact, the best prior art i can think of comes from MS' own asp.net which constantly refers to web applications, which developers always seemed to shorten to web app. in the late 90's we were always talking about web apps. Apple didn't invent the word. They could call it the Apple App Store, or the iOS App Store and own that combination, but just App Store is awful generic.
I have it (iphone 4 on at&t). It's hard to say if i would miss it or not. I have, on occasion, looked something up on google maps while on the phone with someone. I didn't stop and appreciate how blessed i was at that moment, and those occasions have been relatively few and far between. It doesn't seem like telling the other person to hang up while i get the info and call them back would be that big a deal.
maybe i would have been annoyed the 3 - 5 times i actually had to use the feature if it wasn't there. It's far more annoying to not get cell service at my desk. If the verizon iphones truly do have a rock solid signal here, i'll be a tad jealous.
back to work you! every post you make to slashdot is one less post that could have been made from mars!
Are you claiming that people don't have a need to communicate? Even antisocial people like us slashdot users have an overwhelming need to reach out to other people. We wouldn't be making posts on this social network if we didn't.
That's just what mothers do. They talk endlessly about their kids and take every chance to show you a picture. I find it weird that people on slashdot Blame normal human interactions on facebook. It's like fb is the first thing to actually bridge the gap between us and them and we are terrified of what's on the other side.
I dont know about you, but my facebook network consists of family and friends. They are people who do care about what I'm doing. Shockingly, I care to hear about them as well. I don't remember the days when aunt Betty would hop in irc to let everyone know she finished third in her age group in her cross country ski race. I actually don't think irc would even be a good medium for that.
Nobody forces you to put your wife's maiden name on facebook. Facebook even prevents unauthorized access to any info you post. I assume you also wouldn't send an email containing a picture of grandpa jones because that can be easily intercepted. Even if you encrypt it, one careless recipient could forward it without encryption.
Your best protection against identity theft is knowing what you can and can't post. You seem to have that knowledge so I don't know what you would have to lose by posting some casual fb updates.
i don't have a hard time typing on the ipad. in fact i don't find it that difficult to touch type on it. my fingers know where they are supposed to be. I'm no where near as fast as i am with a physical keyboard but i find it far more usable than i ever thought i would. longish emails and slashdot posts are not an issue for me. Writing code is, but that generally requires a lot of arcane punctuation that just isn't right there on the ipad keyboard. When the symbols do come up, they are not in their standard qwerty locations. It takes a while to locate something, and the curly bracket, the staple of my trade, is buried 3 levels deep.
Aside from layout, I think the biggest problem stems from having to hover over it. if more than one finger happens to come in contact with the surface, the results are unpredictable. i don't know if haptics are nearly as essential as some kind of velocity gathered with the touch. Something that would let the device know that just because you were touching asdf and y, you meant to enter y because that touch had some impact.
or, people's power of deductive reasoning is actually very good and we can accurately predict many future events by extrapolating from information we gather with our known physical senses. We could all be sherlock holmes to some degree.
We censor profanity on tv and in songs all the time. Sure, some people think it's some kind of totalitarian measure of control, but really it doesn't hurt much.
However, does the radio edit of Gold Digger (with "nigger" removed) work as well as the explicit version? I actually don't think it does. It's kind of absurd to compare Kanye to Mark Twain, but if a message is diluted or lost from something as insignificant as that song, the loss is even greater in a classic like Huck Finn.
Further one of the main points of the book is that Jim is a good man. He's the best person Huck and Tom meet and Twain wants you to know that society treats him like crap.
Slave clearly doesn't carry the same weight as Nigger otherwise it wouldn't be considered more sanitary. The concept of inserting that word only dulls the edge of what is a scathing social commentary that's right in line with the views of the people who want to remove the word. It's pretty much irony that they would do this.
Another comment I would spend mod points on if I had it. Asimov wrote stories about people and how people's relationships to themselves and their robots would be if there were robots (among other stories). His work is brilliant because he's dead on about the people not about how a positronic brain works.
Gattica and blade runner were also about the human condition so I can't really fault them as I agree they are great sci-fi films. but the article seems to be rather pedantic.