When corporations get involved with government, it gets ugly. Same with church and state. So regardless of my feelings on Google's position, my thought is they should shut up.
Of course, as you indirectly mention, the Mormon Church should shut up too. From Utah, they launched a huge multi-million dollar campaign to support "Yes on 8" in California. Check out this Google Trends for some interesting insight.
One can only hope that in the future [Reeves] will devote himself to playing androids, less-self-aware species of undead, stylish pieces of contemporary furniture, and other roles that do not require the exhibition of any recognizably human traits.
Reeves is a horrible actor and it's so disappointing that producers keep giving him roles. I guess it's done because the movie will sell more tickets, as opposed to using a lesser-known actor who might actually be able to act.
I think the real question is why she filled out a "registration form" with any sort of real information. Automatically filling out forms on the Internet with real information is a bad habit. Unless they are billing you, they don't need to know anything about you.
No organization on earth is going to be able to brute force a 15 character password (over 98 bits as you mention) made of randomly generated printable ASCII characters. Not for decades.
Even brute forcing 8 characters (over 52 bits) would require a modestly funded organization. Breaking your WPA key just wouldn't be worth the thousands of dollars to do it. It would be much easier to pick your locks while you are away at work and read the key directly from the router's memory.
32 randomly generated printable ASCII characters is completely unnecessary. It would be a big hassle for no security gain.
Unless you have highly trusted human security guards posted around your computer 24-hours a day, you don't need to worry about secret IDE/SCSI commands planted by the government. If an organization as powerful as a government or large criminal organization (heh, same thing, right!:-P) wanted your data, they would have them. While you are away, they have physical access and could easily bug your computer, install a hardware keylogger, and so on, to get access. Or worse, they get out the rubber hoses.
Locks won't work either. You need real trusted, human eyes at all times. Locks are inconvenient enough to keep away a petty thief -- or make them gain access to your belongings by a cheaper method like smashing a window -- but are generally trivial to pick.
If your data are so important that it is under live guard, it's probably so important you would physically shred the hard drive anyway, secret IDE/SCSI be damned.
On my ubuntu box I'd estimate a good 50% of my boot time is after the login screen before I'm able to do what I wanted to do.
A couple of years ago in college I used the computer labs for printing, and the nearest one had some brand-new macs. I would prepare a PDF on my own machine, then e-mail it to myself where I could access it from the lab. The frustrating part was that logging in took over a minute. The computer was already booted but I still had to waste a minute before I could do anything with it.
Massive lecture halls were completely pointless in my experience. The only correlation between attendance and my grade was actually a negative correlation: the less I went, the better my grades got.
My experience was the same. The engineering program I was in required 3 semesters of physics, which were all taught in massive lecture halls. For the first semester (kinematics and the basics), I showed up to the first few classes and that was it. For the second one (electricity and magnetism), I only showed up for the first class out of caution. For the third one (quantum physics), I didn't bother going to a single class. I never saw the professor once. During my first semester, I also had a weed-out lecture hall chemistry class, which I attended maybe 3 or 4 times the whole semester.
The result? Straight A's for these classes. I didn't even have to study for the physics exams (I must partially credit this to an excellent high school physics teacher). All you have to do is keep up with the homework and fully understand it. Don't skimp on doing it. Class is there to provide some information on completing the homework problems. That's the secret to doing well in any technical class, really.
Very little learning goes on in these lecture halls. The pace is way too slow (lowest common denominator speed), and the setting way too tiresome. They aren't entirely pointless, though: large lectures are efficient at quickly weeding out students that won't make it. I lived in an engineering dorm, and every year I saw freshmen in engineering programs that really didn't belong in engineering at all (it was pretty easy to distinguish after a couple weeks living around them). They would struggle in these lecture hall classes and, after just one semester of it, change their majors. Only one semester wasted.
Good grief. "Sharing" copyrighted music files on a P2P network was always an extremely bad idea.
What a wild, stupid, ignorant claim. It's the same thinking as the *AA propaganda "BitTorrent is an illegal filesharing program", which is a bold-faced lie.
First of all, music under free distribution licenses, like all of the Creative Commons licenses, is still under copyright, but the license grants permission for anyone to share the music with anyone they like. Websites like Jamendo use BitTorrent to distribute CC music -- all legally. Sharing these is in no way a "bad idea", especially since the author is encouraging it. This fact alone makes this statement dead wrong.
Second, why can't I share music that was written, oh, 40 years ago? Copyright is supposed to serve me the reader/listener/viewer, not some artists or authors, and especially not some middle-men record labels! It is supposed to provide incentive for artists and authors to paint/sing/record/write works so that the public domain, our cultures realm of free works, will grow. They get absolute control of their work for a short period and we get to access it as public domain thereafter. That's how the deal is supposed to work.
Sharing our culture is our natural right. We, as a society, decide to temporarily grant exclusive copying rights, hence "copyright", to artists and authors to encourage them, which temporarily waives our copying right. That's right: it is granted to them by us. Many people get confused and think it is the other way around, that authors naturally have these exclusive rights. Don't make this mistake. They don't.
It's ridiculous that music from 20, 30, 40 years ago, and more, would not be in the public domain. This is a breach of that copying contract between the public and the artist. The artists, or really the distributors of the works, are not holding up their part of the bargain here by allowing works into the public domain, and therefore we don't have to uphold our end (i.e. not sharing/copying).
Also, just because something is against the law doesn't make it wrong or a bad idea. 20 years ago, most forms of sex were illegal in half of the United States. And these weren't invalidated until just 6 years ago. There are all kinds of stupid laws like this everywhere. In my state a person can't legally sit on a jury, among other things, unless he believes in an invisible sky wizard (no jury duty for me, woo!!!).
So, was engaging in oral sex with your spouse in the 2002 in the state of Virginia -- literally a crime -- an "extremely bad idea"? I think not. I don't think sharing decades old music that belongs in the public domain is either.
The folks I know who use Excel for analysis use it because it's the package that everyone gets in their organization
That's a shame, because Excel has some serious deficiencies when it comes to statistics and analysis. You simply can't trust any of the numbers it gives you. It's just flat out wrong a lot of the time.
Holy frak. What sort of high-spec machine is our universe running on then?
Remember that your perception of passage of time is determined within he universe machine itself, so the universe machine need not be powerful, just have the proper amounts of (real) time, memory, and energy.
Actually, that assumes it's running in a universe like the one it's simulating.
That's the kind of poor thinking that gets us those crappy password strength measuring scripts on websites. These things are totally wrong. Just like every single e-mail address validator out there, they annoyingly, incorrectly reject my perfectly valid (i.e. strong) diceware passwords.
Someone already linked this, but here it is again explaining why dictionary words are fine, as long as you do it right (i.e. with something like diceware): Diceware FAQ.
Right on. Riding just behind current gen for consoles is the best way to do it. Everything is really cheap, and all the games have been played by lots of people, providing a solid quality filter when making selections. Today, with $100 you could get a PS2 and around 15-20 games for it. PS3 costs don't even come close.
My fiance did this; she picked up a used PS2 and now we can grab new games for a couple bucks at a GameStop. She also has an old Xbox, so I picked up KotOR 1 and 2 for $~5 each. And I am not even a real console gamer (I generally despise consoles for crappy controls).
New Jersey does this too and I find it incredibly annoying. Because of it, when I travel through Jersey I intentionally plan my trip so that I am getting my gas outside of the state, often just inside Pennsylvania.
Your hidden text boxes will break your site for text browsers, screen readers, and other users that don't want to run your Javascript (like Firefox with NoScript). I wouldn't say this is an acceptable solution.
I have found that this little known website tends to get them up within a couple hours of the episode airing, works in any country, higher quality, aren't DRM crippled (i.e. you can watch them with pretty much any media player), and I guess they made some sort of really sweet deal with all of the television studios because they don't even have commercials. These guys must be better at negotiating than Hulu.
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When corporations get involved with government, it gets ugly. Same with church and state. So regardless of my feelings on Google's position, my thought is they should shut up.
Of course, as you indirectly mention, the Mormon Church should shut up too. From Utah, they launched a huge multi-million dollar campaign to support "Yes on 8" in California. Check out this Google Trends for some interesting insight.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=proposition+8
That's right. The largest group of people looking up information online on California's Proposition 8 were mormons from Salt Lake City, UT!
Religion needs to back the hell down.
No, but you must be the only one that didn't just google it.
But he wants ROOM SERVICE!!!
Don't forget about the Cowboy Bebop movie, cleverly named Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
I never watched the series, but I did see the film once and enjoyed it.
One can only hope that in the future [Reeves] will devote himself to playing androids, less-self-aware species of undead, stylish pieces of contemporary furniture, and other roles that do not require the exhibition of any recognizably human traits.
Reeves is a horrible actor and it's so disappointing that producers keep giving him roles. I guess it's done because the movie will sell more tickets, as opposed to using a lesser-known actor who might actually be able to act.
Using the NVidia driver gives me more freedom
Only in the short term, and it's detrimental for freedom the long term.
Everybody else sits in their parents' basement eating Cheetos and masturbating to Japanese tentacle porn?
What an insulting thing to say! I don't even like Cheetos, let alone eat them.
I think the real question is why she filled out a "registration form" with any sort of real information. Automatically filling out forms on the Internet with real information is a bad habit. Unless they are billing you, they don't need to know anything about you.
That's what disposable e-mail addresses are for.
No organization on earth is going to be able to brute force a 15 character password (over 98 bits as you mention) made of randomly generated printable ASCII characters. Not for decades.
Even brute forcing 8 characters (over 52 bits) would require a modestly funded organization. Breaking your WPA key just wouldn't be worth the thousands of dollars to do it. It would be much easier to pick your locks while you are away at work and read the key directly from the router's memory.
32 randomly generated printable ASCII characters is completely unnecessary. It would be a big hassle for no security gain.
Unless you have highly trusted human security guards posted around your computer 24-hours a day, you don't need to worry about secret IDE/SCSI commands planted by the government. If an organization as powerful as a government or large criminal organization (heh, same thing, right! :-P) wanted your data, they would have them. While you are away, they have physical access and could easily bug your computer, install a hardware keylogger, and so on, to get access. Or worse, they get out the rubber hoses.
Locks won't work either. You need real trusted, human eyes at all times. Locks are inconvenient enough to keep away a petty thief -- or make them gain access to your belongings by a cheaper method like smashing a window -- but are generally trivial to pick.
If your data are so important that it is under live guard, it's probably so important you would physically shred the hard drive anyway, secret IDE/SCSI be damned.
On my ubuntu box I'd estimate a good 50% of my boot time is after the login screen before I'm able to do what I wanted to do.
A couple of years ago in college I used the computer labs for printing, and the nearest one had some brand-new macs. I would prepare a PDF on my own machine, then e-mail it to myself where I could access it from the lab. The frustrating part was that logging in took over a minute. The computer was already booted but I still had to waste a minute before I could do anything with it.
Massive lecture halls were completely pointless in my experience. The only correlation between attendance and my grade was actually a negative correlation: the less I went, the better my grades got.
My experience was the same. The engineering program I was in required 3 semesters of physics, which were all taught in massive lecture halls. For the first semester (kinematics and the basics), I showed up to the first few classes and that was it. For the second one (electricity and magnetism), I only showed up for the first class out of caution. For the third one (quantum physics), I didn't bother going to a single class. I never saw the professor once. During my first semester, I also had a weed-out lecture hall chemistry class, which I attended maybe 3 or 4 times the whole semester.
The result? Straight A's for these classes. I didn't even have to study for the physics exams (I must partially credit this to an excellent high school physics teacher). All you have to do is keep up with the homework and fully understand it. Don't skimp on doing it. Class is there to provide some information on completing the homework problems. That's the secret to doing well in any technical class, really.
Very little learning goes on in these lecture halls. The pace is way too slow (lowest common denominator speed), and the setting way too tiresome. They aren't entirely pointless, though: large lectures are efficient at quickly weeding out students that won't make it. I lived in an engineering dorm, and every year I saw freshmen in engineering programs that really didn't belong in engineering at all (it was pretty easy to distinguish after a couple weeks living around them). They would struggle in these lecture hall classes and, after just one semester of it, change their majors. Only one semester wasted.
How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Hey, wanna go ride bikes?!
Good grief. "Sharing" copyrighted music files on a P2P network was always an extremely bad idea.
What a wild, stupid, ignorant claim. It's the same thinking as the *AA propaganda "BitTorrent is an illegal filesharing program", which is a bold-faced lie.
First of all, music under free distribution licenses, like all of the Creative Commons licenses, is still under copyright, but the license grants permission for anyone to share the music with anyone they like. Websites like Jamendo use BitTorrent to distribute CC music -- all legally. Sharing these is in no way a "bad idea", especially since the author is encouraging it. This fact alone makes this statement dead wrong.
Second, why can't I share music that was written, oh, 40 years ago? Copyright is supposed to serve me the reader/listener/viewer, not some artists or authors, and especially not some middle-men record labels! It is supposed to provide incentive for artists and authors to paint/sing/record/write works so that the public domain, our cultures realm of free works, will grow. They get absolute control of their work for a short period and we get to access it as public domain thereafter. That's how the deal is supposed to work.
Sharing our culture is our natural right. We, as a society, decide to temporarily grant exclusive copying rights, hence "copyright", to artists and authors to encourage them, which temporarily waives our copying right. That's right: it is granted to them by us. Many people get confused and think it is the other way around, that authors naturally have these exclusive rights. Don't make this mistake. They don't.
It's ridiculous that music from 20, 30, 40 years ago, and more, would not be in the public domain. This is a breach of that copying contract between the public and the artist. The artists, or really the distributors of the works, are not holding up their part of the bargain here by allowing works into the public domain, and therefore we don't have to uphold our end (i.e. not sharing/copying).
Also, just because something is against the law doesn't make it wrong or a bad idea. 20 years ago, most forms of sex were illegal in half of the United States. And these weren't invalidated until just 6 years ago. There are all kinds of stupid laws like this everywhere. In my state a person can't legally sit on a jury, among other things, unless he believes in an invisible sky wizard (no jury duty for me, woo!!!).
So, was engaging in oral sex with your spouse in the 2002 in the state of Virginia -- literally a crime -- an "extremely bad idea"? I think not. I don't think sharing decades old music that belongs in the public domain is either.
Well, it's not meta-moderating anymore. It's just plain moderating, with ambiguous instructions. I stopped doing it after that change was made.
The folks I know who use Excel for analysis use it because it's the package that everyone gets in their organization
That's a shame, because Excel has some serious deficiencies when it comes to statistics and analysis. You simply can't trust any of the numbers it gives you. It's just flat out wrong a lot of the time.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jsimonof/classes/1305/pdf/excelreg.pdf
Also, searching the interwebs will dig up all kinds of articles about problems with Excel doing odd things. Excel is the wrong tool for the job.
Holy frak. What sort of high-spec machine is our universe running on then?
Remember that your perception of passage of time is determined within he universe machine itself, so the universe machine need not be powerful, just have the proper amounts of (real) time, memory, and energy.
Actually, that assumes it's running in a universe like the one it's simulating.
That's the kind of poor thinking that gets us those crappy password strength measuring scripts on websites. These things are totally wrong. Just like every single e-mail address validator out there, they annoyingly, incorrectly reject my perfectly valid (i.e. strong) diceware passwords.
Someone already linked this, but here it is again explaining why dictionary words are fine, as long as you do it right (i.e. with something like diceware): Diceware FAQ.
"Computer.
Earl Grey.
Hot."
But it will invariably produce a concoction that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
Right on. Riding just behind current gen for consoles is the best way to do it. Everything is really cheap, and all the games have been played by lots of people, providing a solid quality filter when making selections. Today, with $100 you could get a PS2 and around 15-20 games for it. PS3 costs don't even come close.
My fiance did this; she picked up a used PS2 and now we can grab new games for a couple bucks at a GameStop. She also has an old Xbox, so I picked up KotOR 1 and 2 for $~5 each. And I am not even a real console gamer (I generally despise consoles for crappy controls).
Will the uniforms ride up every single time you sit down?
Yes, but I hear they are developing a manoeuvre to fix it.
New Jersey does this too and I find it incredibly annoying. Because of it, when I travel through Jersey I intentionally plan my trip so that I am getting my gas outside of the state, often just inside Pennsylvania.
Your hidden text boxes will break your site for text browsers, screen readers, and other users that don't want to run your Javascript (like Firefox with NoScript). I wouldn't say this is an acceptable solution.
People don't like to get newspaper ink on their hands. The internet has just been a very elaborate solution to that problem.
Yeah, but I hear that the Internet causes worse things to get on people's hands.
And if something happens to it, the singleton will take care of instantiating a new one.
I have found that this little known website tends to get them up within a couple hours of the episode airing, works in any country, higher quality, aren't DRM crippled (i.e. you can watch them with pretty much any media player), and I guess they made some sort of really sweet deal with all of the television studios because they don't even have commercials. These guys must be better at negotiating than Hulu.
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