Simple - the phone companies make profit from the fact of the robocallers making calls.
That's why they don't offer a WhilteList.
However, one of the earliest replies offers a solution: Set your default ringtone to Silence and then add an actual ringtone to everyone in your Contacts list... at least the ones from whom you'd want a phone call.
They already do fly-overs in helicopters without the need for a search warrent.
IANAL - but it seems that if the US Supreme Court has declared that there's no problem with photographing you through your non-shuttered window, then you've no right to expect privacy in your non-opaque-domed swimming pool<humor>, You Perve</humor>.
I equate governmental anger to the government causing a body count.
And it's an EMP that's local, then it's unlikely to frighten the government...
So yeah, annoyance.
While parts of the government may get violently angry about such a thing, the gov as a whole probably wouldn't be violently angry. If I get bitten by a mosquito, then the cells in the affected area are normally inflamed, but I as a person only want to squash the one mosquito.
And there's no real (long-lasting, or wide-spread) anger over it.
Hopefully the parent will get modded up for humor. But if taken seriously, it's still a good segue into useful discussion.
It'd be pretty easy to land in jail for that, as well. The "fried tech" would establish a radius, and therefore a center. And while you can try to do a covert op and put it in a box that's remote-controlled (blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, etc), it's amazing how good government forensics can get when you've actually annoyed the government.
It would seem to be one way to get labeled with the terrier-ist word...
Plus - have you considered what such a stunt would do for our individual "rights"? The Supreme Court has already declared that when you're in public spaces (including outside a building) you have no expectation of not being recorded both visually and audibly.
This has to do with how to get maximum money from impulse purchasers. While I may buy singles, I don't buy anything without considering if I'll want it in a few weeks.
So I don't buy games I'm not willing to keep. I don't buy songs I'm not going to listen to for years, and I don't buy a car every 2.1 years (which is, according to a recent car salesman I bumped into, the national average). [We are averaging a new car every 7 years.]
But then, I <humor>am old and </humor>spend money more carefully than I used to.
While the greek word philosophia literally means "friend of wisdom", the common-day philosopher tends to stare at their naval and wonder if they even exist more than they use anything which might resemble wisdom.
Meanwhile, the engineer is creating ways to save lives, feed millions, and travel to Mars.
I - personally - find it frustrating that we listen to the naval-staring philosopher, and forget what wisdom is in the same moment.
While TFA may state that the guest OS must be net-booted, TFA says to use Petitboot as the bootloader.
But Petitboot's installations directions don't mention require loading an image from the network, but do state that Petitboot can only load images that are directly connected to the PS3.
The Petitboot page also mentions other things about the PS3, so it's not as if you have to boot-strap from petiteboot into TFA's OS...
IOW - it seems that TFA is stressing "you have to" when it should merely claim "here's how to use netbooting". There's a world of difference there.
I was worried at first that I'd have to burn a chip or something equally prone to destroying an expensive toy... but after I actually researched it... here, I find that you don't have to mod the PS3 at all - you just have to create a disk that looks like a game disk to the PS3.
And if you want to go back to PS3 behavior, you just reset the PS3 box.
Our universe seems to be a Minkowski space [oppose: Euclidean space]:
In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime (named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski) is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. In this setting the three ordinary dimensions of space are combined with a single dimension of time to form a four-dimensional manifold for representing a spacetime.
In theoretical physics, Minkowski space is often contrasted with Euclidean space. While a Euclidean space has only spacelike dimensions, a Minkowski space also has one timelike dimension. Therefore the symmetry group of a Euclidean space is the Euclidean group and for a Minkowski space it is the Poincaré group.
From the same Wikipedia page, we see that the signature is (,+,+,+)
In the same way that the mathematics of gravity requires a particular Universal Constant, the mathematics of Minkowski space requires that the relativistic distance formula for 4-space be: sqrt( x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2) [where 't' is time's axis]
As you see, the sign for time is opposite for the sign for the "3 normal dimensions".
So where am I going with this?
Philosophically, note that human perception of the "3 normal dimensions" is "outward", yet of the "time dimension" is "inward".
So it's perfectly normal that we'd not remember into the "forward" direction of time.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned/asked - is it an actual bug, or is an area of ambiguity?
I once worked on a project with ambiguous requirements (there's a shocker), and at least two programmers had a different interpretation of what the requirements meant. Since they didn't write code that interacted directly, it didn't normally matter. But every few months there'd be a bit of a circus where their implementations would cause the software to behave poorly in a third area. And it would take a few days to get the Tech Director involved to require them to "play nice".
So - Is it a mis-implementation (a bug) or is it a result of ambiguous requirements? If the latter, then software testing won't help.
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Simple - the phone companies make profit from the fact of the robocallers making calls. That's why they don't offer a WhilteList. However, one of the earliest replies offers a solution: Set your default ringtone to Silence and then add an actual ringtone to everyone in your Contacts list ... at least the ones from whom you'd want a phone call.
They already do fly-overs in helicopters without the need for a search warrent.
IANAL - but it seems that if the US Supreme Court has declared that there's no problem with photographing you through your non-shuttered window, then you've no right to expect privacy in your non-opaque-domed swimming pool<humor>, You Perve</humor>.
It appears to me (who is ignorant of you) that you're getting hung up on my use of a single word.
Fine, replace "annoyed" with whatever word you think appropriate, and let's get on with meaningful discussion.
Really, just 'cause we're on Slashdot doesn't have to remove that as a possibility, right?
I equate governmental anger to the government causing a body count.
And it's an EMP that's local, then it's unlikely to frighten the government...
So yeah, annoyance.
While parts of the government may get violently angry about such a thing, the gov as a whole probably wouldn't be violently angry. If I get bitten by a mosquito, then the cells in the affected area are normally inflamed, but I as a person only want to squash the one mosquito.
And there's no real (long-lasting, or wide-spread) anger over it.
Hm... then the FAA gets involved and requires FAA licensure of anything that's not tethered and has directional control or flight stability.
IOW - balloons can still be released upwards, but no privately-owned drones - only government and corporate.
Hopefully the parent will get modded up for humor. But if taken seriously, it's still a good segue into useful discussion.
It'd be pretty easy to land in jail for that, as well. The "fried tech" would establish a radius, and therefore a center. And while you can try to do a covert op and put it in a box that's remote-controlled (blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, etc), it's amazing how good government forensics can get when you've actually annoyed the government.
It would seem to be one way to get labeled with the terrier-ist word...
Plus - have you considered what such a stunt would do for our individual "rights"? The Supreme Court has already declared that when you're in public spaces (including outside a building) you have no expectation of not being recorded both visually and audibly.
Yes. Exactly.
If P==NP, then any company that wants to pump 10 mil into a fab building will be able to compete with their chip layout strategies.
i live in a country run by morons.
So you live .... on Earth?
It fostered a psychological dependency and triggered a Pavlovian response which fed into addictive behaviors - making "sheeple" for the harvesting.
Remember - these are Average People the label were manipulating.
This has to do with how to get maximum money from impulse purchasers. While I may buy singles, I don't buy anything without considering if I'll want it in a few weeks.
So I don't buy games I'm not willing to keep. I don't buy songs I'm not going to listen to for years, and I don't buy a car every 2.1 years (which is, according to a recent car salesman I bumped into, the national average). [We are averaging a new car every 7 years.]
But then, I <humor>am old and </humor>spend money more carefully than I used to.
While the greek word philosophia literally means "friend of wisdom", the common-day philosopher tends to stare at their naval and wonder if they even exist more than they use anything which might resemble wisdom.
Meanwhile, the engineer is creating ways to save lives, feed millions, and travel to Mars.
I - personally - find it frustrating that we listen to the naval-staring philosopher, and forget what wisdom is in the same moment.
They stay away from Earth, nervous that all humans like to plumb the depths of their physiology?
Oh wait, haven't the aliens been doing that to us for years?
... my boss?
Netbooting?
While TFA may state that the guest OS must be net-booted, TFA says to use Petitboot as the bootloader.
But Petitboot's installations directions don't mention require loading an image from the network, but do state that Petitboot can only load images that are directly connected to the PS3.
The Petitboot page also mentions other things about the PS3, so it's not as if you have to boot-strap from petiteboot into TFA's OS...
IOW - it seems that TFA is stressing "you have to" when it should merely claim "here's how to use netbooting". There's a world of difference there.
I was worried at first that I'd have to burn a chip or something equally prone to destroying an expensive toy... but after I actually researched it... here, I find that you don't have to mod the PS3 at all - you just have to create a disk that looks like a game disk to the PS3.
And if you want to go back to PS3 behavior, you just reset the PS3 box.
Now that is a cool hack.
How can it monetize the existing user base more, without alienating them? Possibly by "replacing" the internet.
Annnnd we're back to an AOL-style universe.
In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime (named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski) is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. In this setting the three ordinary dimensions of space are combined with a single dimension of time to form a four-dimensional manifold for representing a spacetime.
In theoretical physics, Minkowski space is often contrasted with Euclidean space. While a Euclidean space has only spacelike dimensions, a Minkowski space also has one timelike dimension. Therefore the symmetry group of a Euclidean space is the Euclidean group and for a Minkowski space it is the Poincaré group.
From the same Wikipedia page, we see that the signature is (,+,+,+)
In the same way that the mathematics of gravity requires a particular Universal Constant, the mathematics of Minkowski space requires that the relativistic distance formula for 4-space be: sqrt( x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2) [where 't' is time's axis]
As you see, the sign for time is opposite for the sign for the "3 normal dimensions".
So where am I going with this?
Philosophically, note that human perception of the "3 normal dimensions" is "outward", yet of the "time dimension" is "inward".
So it's perfectly normal that we'd not remember into the "forward" direction of time.
Please - don't you remember the last time we did that?
Oh, I guess you wouldn't.
Wait - I thought [insert favorite-company-to-hate] did that!!
I think that he was trying to argue with you ....
because this is Slashdot?
And for that sort of reader, we need a graphic for "just reporting the facts, nothing to argue with here, move along..."
I, for one, welcome our new Ratfish Overlords!!
One thing I haven't seen mentioned/asked - is it an actual bug, or is an area of ambiguity?
I once worked on a project with ambiguous requirements (there's a shocker), and at least two programmers had a different interpretation of what the requirements meant. Since they didn't write code that interacted directly, it didn't normally matter. But every few months there'd be a bit of a circus where their implementations would cause the software to behave poorly in a third area. And it would take a few days to get the Tech Director involved to require them to "play nice".
So - Is it a mis-implementation (a bug) or is it a result of ambiguous requirements? If the latter, then software testing won't help.
Yep - there are times I wish I could just yank my responses when I do that.
"What? Arrrrrgghhhh, it was his mother I was talking about, not yours!"
"Sorry Dad...."
Yep....
I've never characterized Amazon's actions in this matter as "not censorship".
Can we get a "mod +1 - sticking to the facts" and a "mod -1 - responding to alternate reality"??