If the stock market crashes, gold will do you no good. People will be bartering for food, gas, and other staples. Gold will not do a thing for you. Look at any economy after a natural disaster or crash - people will give anything for clean water.
Gold will drop just as well as anything else. It is not a safe place for investing.
Well, it is an interesting response for a few reasons:
1. It is best to have a number of defense options in court. You'd be surprised what a jury can allow to happen, especially in a civil situation, where it can only require a liklihood that it is true.
2. A person on a jury can be sympathetic to a person's percieved ailment. A lot of people have had pain they can't prove, and the man in this case could say it is too hard to prove he doesn't have the symptoms, so to err on the side of not making the man suffer. However, many people find that what they do in their own homes is inviolate, within reason, so it switches the focus from pity on the sick to trying to retain our rights which many feel are eroding anyway. It is a good response to percieved ailments that hits at the visceral level.
3. Yup, you can go wired. But, why should he have to? If one can prove the the strength of the signal erodes as quickly as it does, then why should he not be allowed to use his laptop in any room he wants. And who's to say the man's microwave isn't far worse for him?
I appreciate you playing devil's advocate. I agree - internet access is not a core right to be human (no matter what the Dutch say). But it can be an effective litigation strategy.
I didn't say the article had merit, I'm just letting you know it is getting a lot of attention lately in more than the usual places (although a different person is featured in the popsci article - I guess this is the new cool psychosis).
The right to control what you do in your own home certainly is, and some may say that the pursuit of happiness may include youtube, etc.
Many use cell phones and remote internet access to do work, so being able to work to do your job is likely a right.
The concern comes when rights intersect - Playing loud music, putting a billboard in your yard, windfarm on the cape.... The issue here is that unless he can prove his malady, it is frivolous, and frankly, the power companies are going to be sued next, and they are going to contest this to death.
So, yes, being able to use your laptop in your own home can be considered a right that on your property, you can do what you want.
And didn't the Netherlands just say internet access was a basic human right?
I was thinking the same thing after reading an article in PopSci a couple of months ago. It seems many are just willing to believe it is true. I think a nice double blind test would be in order (much like JREF does when having psychics, etc, prove their abilities). If they try and say it is a long term thing, where the issue is "build-up", then you can do a 5 day test for each. But first they have to list the symptoms....
Also, how much more interference is caused by the electrical wiring within the persons own house, not to mention tv, microwaves, etc. If you have to have a powered antenna to pick up the frequencies (which you do - hence the wifi card), then the frequencies are minimal compared to the tons of other interference out there. Can this person also never go to a concert where there are wireless mics (or a presentation, etc)? Frankly, how can they even work?
Actually this is a slippery slope. If one court finds that it is a real malady, it could be the next disability payment since the person can't work, can't go into supermarkets or any other store, etc. They just have to stay holed up in their house all the time.
For my own edification however, I would still appreciate links to the "outright lies" you reference, so I can research them for myself, and come to my own conclusion.
If the register is incorrect, then I will take future articles with a bigger grain of salt. If you have no proof as to the lies and inaccuracies (other than the one I mentioned), I will continue to assume they were researched, based on the links which I followed from the articles themselves.
So, then I assume you are in support of the Resolution?
Since there appears to be misinformation on both sides (as always, and I'm not convinced the Register is wrong just because there have been articles questioning global warming - I would like references to the outright lies you reference, I know of a mistake about ice density, but the author issued a correction), it stands to reason we need to take a step break from our panic mode responses to have an in-depth verification and true peer-review of the data.
As we all know, statistics and numbers can be played in every direction. Everything is being cast as a "worst-ever" by politicians on both sides, and it is being used to push agendas, not to mention throwing money at solutions that may not exist.
Everyone needs to take a breath, calm down, and look at the real data (not the adjusted ones), and do some double blind and placebo testing (with intentionally false data to prove the models work the other way as well). Then we can properly evaluate our stance, and where to go.
Climate change has turned into a religion, with both sides covering their ears and screaming LA LA LA when they don't like the answers. Can we get some moderates with no stake in the game to look at this stuff?
From a German perspective it sounds a bit weird, I mean, can there be any good argument against greater energy efficiency? Even if there was no climate change, why waste energy?
Several notes, with me agreeing that energy shouldn't be needlessly wasted.
1. Most people don't want to spend money on any energy they don't need. Companies lose profits, people lose their hard earned paychecks. It is in everyones best interest to use energy wisely.
2. Future tech being more efficient does not mean we are being intentionally wasteful now.
3. The real issue here is people having to pay extra for sped up tech research on technologies that may or may not be ready yet (or the infrastructure is not there yet, see what happened to T Boone Pickuns), paying extra for carbon credits which are just profit centers for a few smaller companies (and the consumer ends up paying for), etc.
4. Seeing as the world is out of control with debt now, people using their pickups for 2 years to save up for a new car is far better than everyone going into debt on buying new cars. That is good fiscal responsibility.
5. The climate change issue puts everyone in panic mode, so more money is wasted on rushed ideas and research, with no proper testing and oversight. That's fiscal waste, and possibly bad for the environment as well. Stepping back to re-assess is a good thing.
It would also have to be a very far sighted researcher to created biased data back in the 50s. There would have to be an incredibly massive conspiracy to skew the data decades before the theories were postulated.
Agreed on all points, and php5's fixed OOP is key to be able to do many of those things (including pdo) correctly.
I'm just frustrated as I want to try using a framework (such as symfony) for my sites instead of having to keep up my own cms all the time, but I can't because I can't use something which should not only be installed, but preferred/recommended by the hosting company.
The only problem is that a number of shared hosts don't allow for pdo with mysql (or postgres). For example, I use FatCow, and they only have PDO enabled for sqlite, which is the php default setting. I've asked them to change this during their quarterly suggestion review, but they have yet to enable it.
And I am loathe to use mysqli's version, as you have to have an output variable for each item, and I am creating dynamic queries for a cms.
So, we are still caught using real escape string....
I just had to post an invoice to the marine corp's web site. I luckily had one computer at work that was not upgraded to ie8. It would only respect ie6 or 7, and had some issues if I just changed the user agent on FF.
If people keep being forced to upgrade their browsers, no one will be able to use the government systems anymore.
I'm sure it will be an issue for the little companies billing, but you'll never hear about it.
Two questions: 1. Does 7's XP mode potentially have this issue, or is there a compatibility layer so xp doesn't talk directly to the network? 2. They seemed to be able to make massive security updates for code that was that old, and still patch a number of other issues. What about this REALLY makes it so hard to code?
In the end, while I understand not wanting to waste resources on way older products, I think it is a marketing move.
According to This Patent, they invented having the XML hold the word processing info... It's just too bad that they didn't invent a way to write the xml file itself.
So, in the current US situation, no one can create an xml word processing document, as you can't write the xml, but even if you could, you aren't allowed to store the font and page number in the file.
Well, let's see, the OpenXML was definitely in the pipeline before Bill left, and the take no prisoners tactics that he loves is what got it pushed through the standards committee.
Next is ODF translators... which don't work, and in fact delete formulas. Not to mention there Smear Campaign. So we are saying maturity is going back to their ruthless kill-them-subversively methods that got them in trouble in the EU?
Oh, wait, maturity is killing declining products... which Bill did often
Sorry, I don't see a real change listed in at least that section
Will just uninstalling it make it not re-install as a critical update? I would think the next time automatic updates checks the installed software it would just re-install it again.
I'm betting there is an issue with the user agent reporting with IE8, or the stats are focused on IE7. MS pushed IE8 out as a security update this month, and I bet most non-business computers got auto-updated.
Either that, or they didn't like IE8 with compatibility mode (hey, there's an idea, let's re-break the sites so they display the way the webs designers had to code it to get around our own bugs), so they went to FF 3.5.
Or, everyone could have just given up and gone to Mac and Linx/Unix derivative. But I think that is too much to hope for.
I disagree.
This is no different from the newspapers posting the same type of ads. Or do you think the newspaper companies should all be fined for doing the same thing since their inception?
The problem is that Microsoft paid those 10K developers all themselves.
With linux, you have people who either want to contribute for free, or a wide number of companies that pay for development, which spreads the cost around.
A smaller company that is built on the greatness of others, but which it has found a niche for itself is far more likely to succeed than a massive company with tons of overhead that has to do much more to make money.
The power of linux is in the desire of the users to make it better, and in the massive number of people able to contribute (if MS opened up its source code, and made it free, I'm sure things would be much different).
They are WELL aware of the issue, and there is a firmware patch (there has been for a while now, actually). The issue only seems to present itself in OSX and Linux, which may or may not be due to their common heritage, or jjust lazy quality management. Either way, a quick phone call to them gets you an email with a floppy and cd image for updating the firmware. My myth box has been loving it. The drives are shipping with an different firmware now anyway.
Also, please note that the bug typically happens during slow speed transfers, such as watching videos, so your nas should be ok.
Also known as "thin clients" 2.0 (or whatever number that concept is up to). In some small scale situations, I think it works (classrooms, etc), but people demand speed and responsiveness, and honestly, bandwidth is not guaranteed.
The only thin client I use is Zimbra, but I can't imagine how long OO.o would take to load or make changes to a 50 page document on the cloud. I know some stuff is cached, but you can only cache so much.
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If the stock market crashes, gold will do you no good. People will be bartering for food, gas, and other staples. Gold will not do a thing for you. Look at any economy after a natural disaster or crash - people will give anything for clean water.
Gold will drop just as well as anything else. It is not a safe place for investing.
Well, it is an interesting response for a few reasons:
1. It is best to have a number of defense options in court. You'd be surprised what a jury can allow to happen, especially in a civil situation, where it can only require a liklihood that it is true.
2. A person on a jury can be sympathetic to a person's percieved ailment. A lot of people have had pain they can't prove, and the man in this case could say it is too hard to prove he doesn't have the symptoms, so to err on the side of not making the man suffer. However, many people find that what they do in their own homes is inviolate, within reason, so it switches the focus from pity on the sick to trying to retain our rights which many feel are eroding anyway. It is a good response to percieved ailments that hits at the visceral level.
3. Yup, you can go wired. But, why should he have to? If one can prove the the strength of the signal erodes as quickly as it does, then why should he not be allowed to use his laptop in any room he wants. And who's to say the man's microwave isn't far worse for him?
I appreciate you playing devil's advocate. I agree - internet access is not a core right to be human (no matter what the Dutch say). But it can be an effective litigation strategy.
I didn't say the article had merit, I'm just letting you know it is getting a lot of attention lately in more than the usual places (although a different person is featured in the popsci article - I guess this is the new cool psychosis).
The right to control what you do in your own home certainly is, and some may say that the pursuit of happiness may include youtube, etc.
Many use cell phones and remote internet access to do work, so being able to work to do your job is likely a right.
The concern comes when rights intersect - Playing loud music, putting a billboard in your yard, windfarm on the cape.... The issue here is that unless he can prove his malady, it is frivolous, and frankly, the power companies are going to be sued next, and they are going to contest this to death.
So, yes, being able to use your laptop in your own home can be considered a right that on your property, you can do what you want.
And didn't the Netherlands just say internet access was a basic human right?
PopSci just had a major article on it: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected
I was thinking the same thing after reading an article in PopSci a couple of months ago. It seems many are just willing to believe it is true. I think a nice double blind test would be in order (much like JREF does when having psychics, etc, prove their abilities). If they try and say it is a long term thing, where the issue is "build-up", then you can do a 5 day test for each. But first they have to list the symptoms....
Also, how much more interference is caused by the electrical wiring within the persons own house, not to mention tv, microwaves, etc. If you have to have a powered antenna to pick up the frequencies (which you do - hence the wifi card), then the frequencies are minimal compared to the tons of other interference out there. Can this person also never go to a concert where there are wireless mics (or a presentation, etc)? Frankly, how can they even work?
Actually this is a slippery slope. If one court finds that it is a real malady, it could be the next disability payment since the person can't work, can't go into supermarkets or any other store, etc. They just have to stay holed up in their house all the time.
So, generally we agree.
For my own edification however, I would still appreciate links to the "outright lies" you reference, so I can research them for myself, and come to my own conclusion.
If the register is incorrect, then I will take future articles with a bigger grain of salt. If you have no proof as to the lies and inaccuracies (other than the one I mentioned), I will continue to assume they were researched, based on the links which I followed from the articles themselves.
So, then I assume you are in support of the Resolution?
Since there appears to be misinformation on both sides (as always, and I'm not convinced the Register is wrong just because there have been articles questioning global warming - I would like references to the outright lies you reference, I know of a mistake about ice density, but the author issued a correction), it stands to reason we need to take a step break from our panic mode responses to have an in-depth verification and true peer-review of the data.
As we all know, statistics and numbers can be played in every direction. Everything is being cast as a "worst-ever" by politicians on both sides, and it is being used to push agendas, not to mention throwing money at solutions that may not exist.
Everyone needs to take a breath, calm down, and look at the real data (not the adjusted ones), and do some double blind and placebo testing (with intentionally false data to prove the models work the other way as well). Then we can properly evaluate our stance, and where to go.
Climate change has turned into a religion, with both sides covering their ears and screaming LA LA LA when they don't like the answers. Can we get some moderates with no stake in the game to look at this stuff?
From a German perspective it sounds a bit weird, I mean, can there be any good argument against greater energy efficiency? Even if there was no climate change, why waste energy?
Several notes, with me agreeing that energy shouldn't be needlessly wasted.
1. Most people don't want to spend money on any energy they don't need. Companies lose profits, people lose their hard earned paychecks. It is in everyones best interest to use energy wisely.
2. Future tech being more efficient does not mean we are being intentionally wasteful now.
3. The real issue here is people having to pay extra for sped up tech research on technologies that may or may not be ready yet (or the infrastructure is not there yet, see what happened to T Boone Pickuns), paying extra for carbon credits which are just profit centers for a few smaller companies (and the consumer ends up paying for), etc.
4. Seeing as the world is out of control with debt now, people using their pickups for 2 years to save up for a new car is far better than everyone going into debt on buying new cars. That is good fiscal responsibility.
5. The climate change issue puts everyone in panic mode, so more money is wasted on rushed ideas and research, with no proper testing and oversight. That's fiscal waste, and possibly bad for the environment as well. Stepping back to re-assess is a good thing.
It would also have to be a very far sighted researcher to created biased data back in the 50s. There would have to be an incredibly massive conspiracy to skew the data decades before the theories were postulated.
Or, you could change the data retroactively:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/goddard_nasa_thermometer/
Agreed on all points, and php5's fixed OOP is key to be able to do many of those things (including pdo) correctly.
I'm just frustrated as I want to try using a framework (such as symfony) for my sites instead of having to keep up my own cms all the time, but I can't because I can't use something which should not only be installed, but preferred/recommended by the hosting company.
The only problem is that a number of shared hosts don't allow for pdo with mysql (or postgres). For example, I use FatCow, and they only have PDO enabled for sqlite, which is the php default setting. I've asked them to change this during their quarterly suggestion review, but they have yet to enable it.
And I am loathe to use mysqli's version, as you have to have an output variable for each item, and I am creating dynamic queries for a cms.
So, we are still caught using real escape string....
Read my post - I was saying this will turn into marketing speak to get companies to upgrade. I was not alluding that such hacking could/would occur.
Most Ceos don't read security bulletins - they do however hear that flaws are no longer being fixed.
I just had to post an invoice to the marine corp's web site. I luckily had one computer at work that was not upgraded to ie8. It would only respect ie6 or 7, and had some issues if I just changed the user agent on FF.
If people keep being forced to upgrade their browsers, no one will be able to use the government systems anymore.
I'm sure it will be an issue for the little companies billing, but you'll never hear about it.
So, basically, upgrade or you'll be hacked?
Two questions:
1. Does 7's XP mode potentially have this issue, or is there a compatibility layer so xp doesn't talk directly to the network?
2. They seemed to be able to make massive security updates for code that was that old, and still patch a number of other issues. What about this REALLY makes it so hard to code?
In the end, while I understand not wanting to waste resources on way older products, I think it is a marketing move.
The circle of life:
According to This Patent, they invented having the XML hold the word processing info... It's just too bad that they didn't invent a way to write the xml file itself.
So, in the current US situation, no one can create an xml word processing document, as you can't write the xml, but even if you could, you aren't allowed to store the font and page number in the file.
This is beyond ridiculous
Personally, I'm about thinking of launching a cow airbrushing service website.
Ummm... Oops. Whoever read that above sentence needs to sign an NDA.
Well, let's see, the OpenXML was definitely in the pipeline before Bill left, and the take no prisoners tactics that he loves is what got it pushed through the standards committee.
Next is ODF translators... which don't work, and in fact delete formulas. Not to mention there Smear Campaign. So we are saying maturity is going back to their ruthless kill-them-subversively methods that got them in trouble in the EU?
Oh, wait, maturity is killing declining products... which Bill did often
Sorry, I don't see a real change listed in at least that section
Will just uninstalling it make it not re-install as a critical update? I would think the next time automatic updates checks the installed software it would just re-install it again.
I'm betting there is an issue with the user agent reporting with IE8, or the stats are focused on IE7.
MS pushed IE8 out as a security update this month, and I bet most non-business computers got auto-updated.
Either that, or they didn't like IE8 with compatibility mode (hey, there's an idea, let's re-break the sites so they display the way the webs designers had to code it to get around our own bugs), so they went to FF 3.5.
Or, everyone could have just given up and gone to Mac and Linx/Unix derivative. But I think that is too much to hope for.
I disagree.
This is no different from the newspapers posting the same type of ads. Or do you think the newspaper companies should all be fined for doing the same thing since their inception?
I prefer Eli Stone, who used Chock Full O Nuts (which was symbolic.... and fitting).
The problem is that Microsoft paid those 10K developers all themselves.
With linux, you have people who either want to contribute for free, or a wide number of companies that pay for development, which spreads the cost around.
A smaller company that is built on the greatness of others, but which it has found a niche for itself is far more likely to succeed than a massive company with tons of overhead that has to do much more to make money.
The power of linux is in the desire of the users to make it better, and in the massive number of people able to contribute (if MS opened up its source code, and made it free, I'm sure things would be much different).
They are WELL aware of the issue, and there is a firmware patch (there has been for a while now, actually). The issue only seems to present itself in OSX and Linux, which may or may not be due to their common heritage, or jjust lazy quality management. Either way, a quick phone call to them gets you an email with a floppy and cd image for updating the firmware. My myth box has been loving it. The drives are shipping with an different firmware now anyway.
Also, please note that the bug typically happens during slow speed transfers, such as watching videos, so your nas should be ok.
Also known as "thin clients" 2.0 (or whatever number that concept is up to). In some small scale situations, I think it works (classrooms, etc), but people demand speed and responsiveness, and honestly, bandwidth is not guaranteed.
The only thin client I use is Zimbra, but I can't imagine how long OO.o would take to load or make changes to a 50 page document on the cloud. I know some stuff is cached, but you can only cache so much.