Sci Fi rewrote its name to appeal to Non-Sci-Fi & Fantasy Geeks. So it only makes sense that they change their programming to cast a bigger net into the demographic pool.
Really? I always thought SyFy was a reference to 'the syph'... i.e. syphilis.
For all INTENTS and purposes it's not, but since those purposes (if you're looking at supra-galactic time scales) aren't particularly intensive... I guess GP is right.:(
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but at best they can guess that's what it is. It's like looking at a picture of kim kardashian's ass (with clothes on!) and caliming to find sperm in her cooch.
No, it's like taking an infrared picture every day for a fortnight and finding her skin temperature is 0.4 degrees C higher than average. From that you can say with pretty good confidence that *someone's* sperm has been in her cooch in the last three weeks.
I don't see how it could be made secure at all, unless it's a virtual machine - you are giving it execute privileges. That means at least full read access to all hardware, including the hard disk
Does having execute privileges give you 'full read access to all hardware including the hard disk', though? I don't think it does - for instance, try reading another user's files in Linux. If the permissions are set properly, the OS will stop you from reading them. If a user (who can run programs) can be locked down like this, why not a program?
'Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn't exist. In fact, my memory is quite average,' concludes Ed Cooke...
And yet this man has memory palaces. Average, indeed.
I can't comment on this dude having a normal memory or otherwise, but he certainly has a pretty closed mind. There's a big difference between a well trained mind and a true photographic memory. Some people just remember *everything*. It's not something they train themselves to do, or use a technique, it's something physically different about their brain that makes it work that way.
He's like a guy who's red/green colourblind but has trained himself to distinguish the two by brightness or context, who then claims that full-colour vision is a detestable myth and people who claim to have it are lying.
I've never clicked any Google or Facebook ads because they have never hit anything that I would want. Until that gets addressed, there's not a huge future in that either.
I've clicked on far more Google ads in Gmail (ie. maybe half a dozen times) than I've clicked on random non-targeted banner ads (I think once, ever, on purpose, plus a few mis-clicks which I closed immediately). There's a perception (not in your post, just in general) that advertising is always a bad thing. I actually LIKE well-targeted ads, because they connect me with a company which provides goods or services for which I have a need, and thus they save me time and effort.
But that's the thing Westboro members could be Anonymous too, it's interesting how this "non-group" can denounce a release as not representative of Anonymous.
What I find fascinating (not to mention hilarious!) is that some person claiming to represent Anonymous (!) has more credibility than WBC.
I want to know more about this 'prevented from progression' thing. What were they prevented from doing? What did Oracle tell them they weren't allowed to do? Was it significant enough to make the front page of/. or, more important, significant enough to throw away whatever dev. work Oracle would have paid for in the future?
I don't disagree. Then again, one's definition of 'designed it properly' changes radically after the first time you hear "well, we haven't had any problems with the servers or network for a while, I guess now they're properly set up we don't need a sysadmin."
Whether or not they need DRM for free apps, free (as in open source) apps can still generate a revenue stream. They are providing a distribution network for the app as a service and may charge to cover the costs of that distribution. I have a feeling that may restrict them to being 'non profit' (ie. only covering their costs) but if so, maybe it's time that clause was changed to "you may charge to cover distribution and a fair profit margin on top of that."
Surely that can only mean you were doing your job well.
That's one reason I've always liked IT / infrastructure administration. The better you do your job, the less work you have to do.:) The other reason is that it's one of the few tech jobs that scales well without pushing you out of tech and into management. (Compare with programming, mechanical / civil / electrical engineering, and any other X where you can only be promoted a couple of times from 'junior X' to 'X analyst' to 'senior X' before you get promoted to 'lead X' which is really 'X manager'.)
Then again, it has the down side that if you do your job properly, you LOOK expendable. And in a way you are, until you've been gone for about six months and everything suddenly falls in a flaming heap.
Actually this, in reverse, was the first thing that crossed my mind. If enough individuals 'open source' their genetic data, they're going to make it very difficult for large companies to obtain patents on genes. This may or may not be a good thing - like it or not, medical research is funded by profitable medical discoveries. If there's no potential profit in gene therapy then companies are unlikely to pursue it. On the other hand, simple remedies based on genetics may be more likely to be discovered if a large volume of genetic data is freely available online.
...an immortal line of cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. HeLa cells have been used in numerous labs around the world, per mass, there is more HeLa than there ever was Henrietta Lacks. I don't think anyone would have ever expected that at the time.
Sounds very much like Mrs 'Awkins, a tissue culture mentioned in the Lazarus Long stories by Heinlein, except that began as a chicken heart, iirc, rather than as cancer cells.
No, they only do that when there's TV cameras around. Notice that sometimes when you're seeing "jubilant arabs" on TV, most of them are just standing around wondering what's going on until they see the camera swing towards them, at which point they look around to see what the last people in front of the camera were doing, which is usually jumping up and down waving their arms in the air, and copy that.
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Sci Fi rewrote its name to appeal to Non-Sci-Fi & Fantasy Geeks. So it only makes sense that they change their programming to cast a bigger net into the demographic pool.
Really? I always thought SyFy was a reference to 'the syph'... i.e. syphilis.
That's why I never follow a sport where you can see more than a helmet and either a roll cage or a pair of wheels and a ridickorously big engine.
Woah, you must be the only survivor besides that one star mangled spanner.
;)
(OK, OK, but I always assumed that story was a silent nod to General Products. Call it product placement if you will.
For all INTENTS and purposes it's not, but since those purposes (if you're looking at supra-galactic time scales) aren't particularly intensive... I guess GP is right. :(
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but at best they can guess that's what it is. It's like looking at a picture of kim kardashian's ass (with clothes on!) and caliming to find sperm in her cooch.
No, it's like taking an infrared picture every day for a fortnight and finding her skin temperature is 0.4 degrees C higher than average. From that you can say with pretty good confidence that *someone's* sperm has been in her cooch in the last three weeks.
...seems like a stretch.
The gravity gradient will do that to you if you look close enough. ;)
I don't see how it could be made secure at all, unless it's a virtual machine - you are giving it execute privileges. That means at least full read access to all hardware, including the hard disk
Does having execute privileges give you 'full read access to all hardware including the hard disk', though? I don't think it does - for instance, try reading another user's files in Linux. If the permissions are set properly, the OS will stop you from reading them. If a user (who can run programs) can be locked down like this, why not a program?
On the very rare occasion it's been both. ;)
MMOs are like beer. They keep sucking moderate amounts of money out of your wallet, month after month.
You don't drink, do you? Or if you do, you'll quit now? That one reusable water bottle is a lot cheaper and you can still drink out of it...
Heh, I took the opposite approach. "Why bother training myself to remember where I left my keys? I have a wife for that!" ;)
'Photographic memory is a detestable myth. Doesn't exist. In fact, my memory is quite average,' concludes Ed Cooke...
And yet this man has memory palaces. Average, indeed.
I can't comment on this dude having a normal memory or otherwise, but he certainly has a pretty closed mind. There's a big difference between a well trained mind and a true photographic memory. Some people just remember *everything*. It's not something they train themselves to do, or use a technique, it's something physically different about their brain that makes it work that way.
He's like a guy who's red/green colourblind but has trained himself to distinguish the two by brightness or context, who then claims that full-colour vision is a detestable myth and people who claim to have it are lying.
I've never clicked any Google or Facebook ads because they have never hit anything that I would want. Until that gets addressed, there's not a huge future in that either.
I've clicked on far more Google ads in Gmail (ie. maybe half a dozen times) than I've clicked on random non-targeted banner ads (I think once, ever, on purpose, plus a few mis-clicks which I closed immediately). There's a perception (not in your post, just in general) that advertising is always a bad thing. I actually LIKE well-targeted ads, because they connect me with a company which provides goods or services for which I have a need, and thus they save me time and effort.
The interesting thing is that, in a sense, the person claiming to be Anonymous is correct too. O.o
Except in the obvious trivial sense if they provide an identity, of course.
But that's the thing Westboro members could be Anonymous too, it's interesting how this "non-group" can denounce a release as not representative of Anonymous.
What I find fascinating (not to mention hilarious!) is that some person claiming to represent Anonymous (!) has more credibility than WBC.
Yeah and I bet he totally freaked out when he saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Looney Tunes, let alone Winnie the Pooh.
I want to know more about this 'prevented from progression' thing. What were they prevented from doing? What did Oracle tell them they weren't allowed to do? Was it significant enough to make the front page of /. or, more important, significant enough to throw away whatever dev. work Oracle would have paid for in the future?
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I don't disagree. Then again, one's definition of 'designed it properly' changes radically after the first time you hear "well, we haven't had any problems with the servers or network for a while, I guess now they're properly set up we don't need a sysadmin."
Apparently when I was a toddler I once asked mum to 'turn the dark on'. :)
Whether or not they need DRM for free apps, free (as in open source) apps can still generate a revenue stream. They are providing a distribution network for the app as a service and may charge to cover the costs of that distribution. I have a feeling that may restrict them to being 'non profit' (ie. only covering their costs) but if so, maybe it's time that clause was changed to "you may charge to cover distribution and a fair profit margin on top of that."
Surely that can only mean you were doing your job well.
That's one reason I've always liked IT / infrastructure administration. The better you do your job, the less work you have to do. :) The other reason is that it's one of the few tech jobs that scales well without pushing you out of tech and into management. (Compare with programming, mechanical / civil / electrical engineering, and any other X where you can only be promoted a couple of times from 'junior X' to 'X analyst' to 'senior X' before you get promoted to 'lead X' which is really 'X manager'.)
Then again, it has the down side that if you do your job properly, you LOOK expendable. And in a way you are, until you've been gone for about six months and everything suddenly falls in a flaming heap.
Actually this, in reverse, was the first thing that crossed my mind. If enough individuals 'open source' their genetic data, they're going to make it very difficult for large companies to obtain patents on genes. This may or may not be a good thing - like it or not, medical research is funded by profitable medical discoveries. If there's no potential profit in gene therapy then companies are unlikely to pursue it. On the other hand, simple remedies based on genetics may be more likely to be discovered if a large volume of genetic data is freely available online.
...an immortal line of cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. HeLa cells have been used in numerous labs around the world, per mass, there is more HeLa than there ever was Henrietta Lacks. I don't think anyone would have ever expected that at the time.
Sounds very much like Mrs 'Awkins, a tissue culture mentioned in the Lazarus Long stories by Heinlein, except that began as a chicken heart, iirc, rather than as cancer cells.
More like yo' momma.
No, they only do that when there's TV cameras around. Notice that sometimes when you're seeing "jubilant arabs" on TV, most of them are just standing around wondering what's going on until they see the camera swing towards them, at which point they look around to see what the last people in front of the camera were doing, which is usually jumping up and down waving their arms in the air, and copy that.