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This is such nonsense. If he has violated it, tell him where. Giving a non-specific reason and telling him to try and work it out for himself is ridiculous.
(Yes, obviously this is a "we are banning you but not explicitly saying why, mwahaha!" but it is still bullshit)
Note: I've not read the pdf as it isn't loading for me.
I hate when studies like this consider accidents due to "cell phone use". That is far too general. You need to split it up into talking and texting. As much as I'm sure that talking on a phone does increase your risk of having an accident, that effect would be trivial when compared to the risk increase due to texting. However, people text with their phones in their lap, so it can't be seen from a passing police car so they have a blanket ban on phone use and fine people for talking on their phones when that isn't really the problem.
I lock my android phone with a pattern which is fairly pointless as you can see streaks on the screen from where I've swiped it in
Yes, I'm aware that I can change it to a password or pin which would be more secure, but to be honest having any sort of "lock" on my phone is less about security and more about not making calls etc while the phone is in my pocket.
I'd like to think that this has come about due to someone at Sony saying that the act was done by "an anonymous hacker" being misunderstood as "an Anonymous hacker".
I disagree that people don't use the event planning function.
It is an unfortunate truth that in this day and age, many events "exist" entirely on facebook. If you didn't get the facebook invite, you may never even know that the event took place until the photos are uploaded on facebook the next morning...
If I keep backups/digital copies of every cd/dvd/etc I have (and lets face it, I'm downloading shit, mostly), and many ISPs (in Australia) now have plans with monthly downloads (or at least data - up and down) of 1TB, I don't think that supply of hard disk space as exceeded anything. Obviously this would come under grandparents "cyber-hoarders", but still.
Also, I hoard scientific data (and by "hoard" I mean "have for legitimate research purposes", but I am a bit of a hoarder...) which is many TB currently and constantly increasing. So again, hard disk space has not "clearly exceeded" anything (this probably comes under grandparents "legitimate business use", I guess).
But I'd imagine that the two classes I've mentioned (loose definitions of cyber-hoarders and business use) are pretty significant demographics....
So the money for the iPads which were used in this study did come from the government in the form of grant money.
As with most pilot programs, the pilot grant to test whether or not the hypothesis is valid (in this case: is it useful for students to have a tablet PC) gets used up on the pilot program, everyone gets excited about the idea because it looks like it will work and then they realise that now that they don't have this extra grant for their pilot program they can't actually implement the idea....
The Howard government brought in Voluntary Student Unionism around 5 years ago. Prior to that we had the same system - each student had to pay a fee at the start of each year to join the Student Union, which funded many services (which most students would rarely use, similar to your case). So this is kind of irrelevant since that is not the system here any more.
44 students were given iPads. (In saying that, no where does it actually say that they were given free of charge....)
You're then basically asking "Are you happy with this free electronic gadget we've given you?". To which the response is incredibly likely to be "yes!".
I think it's obvious that a tablet PC would be a useful tool, but it really bothers me that the only option they see to use in the Apple iPad...
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I've seen ads to this effect. I can't say that they haven't been banned, but I doubt that they have.
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This is such nonsense. If he has violated it, tell him where. Giving a non-specific reason and telling him to try and work it out for himself is ridiculous.
(Yes, obviously this is a "we are banning you but not explicitly saying why, mwahaha!" but it is still bullshit)
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Note: I've not read the pdf as it isn't loading for me.
I hate when studies like this consider accidents due to "cell phone use". That is far too general. You need to split it up into talking and texting. As much as I'm sure that talking on a phone does increase your risk of having an accident, that effect would be trivial when compared to the risk increase due to texting. However, people text with their phones in their lap, so it can't be seen from a passing police car so they have a blanket ban on phone use and fine people for talking on their phones when that isn't really the problem.
It kind of bothers me that the same rules apply to the same people (read: civilians) regardless of driver training.
Yet another reason not to use either of those ISPs
I'll not be seeing the second one for reasons of "Fool me once, shame on you..."
Yeah, but if I deleted "The Hangover" from my memory there is a chance that I'd eventually watch it again only to be horrifically dissappointed again.
And you can stop losing the game.
MIB standard issue.
I lock my android phone with a pattern which is fairly pointless as you can see streaks on the screen from where I've swiped it in
Yes, I'm aware that I can change it to a password or pin which would be more secure, but to be honest having any sort of "lock" on my phone is less about security and more about not making calls etc while the phone is in my pocket.
I think the argument is that you shouldn't need an Add-on to display a god damned status bar
I'd like to think that this has come about due to someone at Sony saying that the act was done by "an anonymous hacker" being misunderstood as "an Anonymous hacker".
It's weird that this article shows up - I've got the "Ads Disabled" option checked...
But will anonymous now respond to the accusation that they were behind this by attacking Sony? Personally, I kind of hope so.
"Just passing Uranus LOL"
You use the App store to buy App[lication]s, not App[le]s, so it is obvious an abbreviation of application in that context.
I will be very disappointed if Apple win this.
I disagree that people don't use the event planning function.
It is an unfortunate truth that in this day and age, many events "exist" entirely on facebook. If you didn't get the facebook invite, you may never even know that the event took place until the photos are uploaded on facebook the next morning...
Off topic and what not, but sobering is an understatement....
This happens if it is a "public event". I share your amazement re: phone number "events".
I disagree.
If I keep backups/digital copies of every cd/dvd/etc I have (and lets face it, I'm downloading shit, mostly), and many ISPs (in Australia) now have plans with monthly downloads (or at least data - up and down) of 1TB, I don't think that supply of hard disk space as exceeded anything. Obviously this would come under grandparents "cyber-hoarders", but still.
Also, I hoard scientific data (and by "hoard" I mean "have for legitimate research purposes", but I am a bit of a hoarder...) which is many TB currently and constantly increasing. So again, hard disk space has not "clearly exceeded" anything (this probably comes under grandparents "legitimate business use", I guess).
But I'd imagine that the two classes I've mentioned (loose definitions of cyber-hoarders and business use) are pretty significant demographics....
Pi Day bothers me because it uses the American date format which I really don't like.
:D
DD MM YYYY makes more sense than MM DD YYYY.
Personally I prefer YYYY MM DD because then dates are ordered correctly
I'm quite genuinely surprised that this has not been done sooner.
In hindsight, it seems quite an obvious thing to do.
This is a pilot program.
So the money for the iPads which were used in this study did come from the government in the form of grant money.
As with most pilot programs, the pilot grant to test whether or not the hypothesis is valid (in this case: is it useful for students to have a tablet PC) gets used up on the pilot program, everyone gets excited about the idea because it looks like it will work and then they realise that now that they don't have this extra grant for their pilot program they can't actually implement the idea....
The Howard government brought in Voluntary Student Unionism around 5 years ago. Prior to that we had the same system - each student had to pay a fee at the start of each year to join the Student Union, which funded many services (which most students would rarely use, similar to your case). So this is kind of irrelevant since that is not the system here any more.
44 students were given iPads. (In saying that, no where does it actually say that they were given free of charge....)
You're then basically asking "Are you happy with this free electronic gadget we've given you?". To which the response is incredibly likely to be "yes!".
I think it's obvious that a tablet PC would be a useful tool, but it really bothers me that the only option they see to use in the Apple iPad...