This wouldn't be used to treat those people, though. This is a severe measure which would be used to treat people who have actual, chemical things wrong with them, who despite having EVERYTHING in their life going right, can still be thinking about suicide.
Anybody who's known someone with REAL depression knows that it can be completely non-situational.
Oh, stop being such a tinfoil-hat. The FDA determined that the cheese, being covered in all sorts of different green space molds, was unfit for human consumption.
Blah, you can't compare that unless you're using both pieces of software yourself.
I've been using Windows since, well, always, and up until around a year ago used IE exclusively. I have never had one piece of spyware, malware, a virus or worm, etc.
It's all about the users. Dumb users can screw anything up if they have access to it.
For the longest time, people have been saying that linux/firefox is more secure than windows/IE. One of the response to that is that it's likely that the reason windows/IE has more exploits for it is because it's the most targetted since it's the most popular.
Now that we're seeing firefox gain foothold, we're starting to see more exploits for it. I wonder if they will be proven right?
If you look at all of statistics they average out to us being about 10 percent of the Web. There are estimated to be about 1 billion Web users, which means there are about 100 million Firefox users out there. It has only been downloaded about 65 million times, so the other users are people who got it some other way. The most likely place they are likely to have got it from is corporate deployments.
Now, I haven't seen these statistics myself, but they seem a bit off to me - that 10% figure is probably skewed somewhat. Considering that the people with firefox installed on their computer are the people most likely to be on the internet a lot in the first place, usage statistics for it can be misread easily.
Also, they say 65 million downloads of Firefox have been made... how many of those were repeats? I've downloaded the program quite a few times, and considering that each upgrade just requires you to download the full install again, there's no way that 65 million downloads translates into 65 million users.
This just reeks of using statistics in a misleading manner.
Interestingly, you don't see people complaining that children can buy/rent r-rated movies. Those ratings are "toothless" as well. So long as they're not buying porn, kids can go out and buy/rent whatever DVDs they'd like. Why do they not have problems with this?
The ratings there are GOOD ENOUGH. It's the parents that need to improve.
Actually, today people there are probably working harder than they have been for a while.
If the game economy gets screwed up by this, though, it'll effect the farmers quite a bit.
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Hah, this one is even better:
Q: If your "deathstar" subwooofer had a stand-up fight with a "borg cube" all-in-1 hi-fi then who'd win and how? A: The Death Star can destroy a planet. I can't imagine it would struggle against a gramophone with a built in wireless and auto-reverse cassette deck.
People are going to keep reading slashdot regardless of if there's a dupe everyday, so at the very least, they don't lose anything. However, they do have the potential to get increased ad revenue due to all the people who partake in the discussion a second time / complain about it being a dupe / missed it the first time / etc.
Although it would be nice to see some other stories instead of dupes, they really don't have any great motivation to change.
"Fully customize their online experience" doesn't describe at all what Zazzle is. The customization comes in the GOODS that are made, not in the experience itself.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh why can't people actually take the time to look up the facts of this case? If I have to explain this one more time...
People are so horribly misinformed about this, because everyone spews out crap even though they know nothing. Let's look at some things:
1) The coffee was hot enough to give third-degree burns. Yes, THIRD-DEGREE. Over 6 percent of her body. The coffee was served between 180 and 190 degrees, or around 50 degrees higher than coffee is normally served at. At this temperature, third-degree burns will occur between 2 and 7 seconds. Third degree burns will not heal without skin grafting, and will result in permanent disfigurement. 2) McDonalds has had over 700 claims regarding burns from its coffee, some also involving third-degree burns. 3) She only originally sought $20,000, enough to cover medical bills, but McDonalds denied that. THE JURY awarded her $200,000 in damages + $2.7 million in punitive damages, or two days worth of McDonalds coffee sales - this was later dropped to $480,000 by the judge. 4) McDonalds admitted that consumers are not aware the coffee is THAT hot, and that it has no intention of toning down the temperature of the coffee - EVEN THOUGH they admitted that their coffee is "not fit for consumption" when sold because of the severe risk or burns. 5) The lady's physician testified that it was one of the worst scald burns he had EVER seen.
So, not only did she only sue for actual damages, but McDonalds was VERY MUCH in the wrong for serving their coffee hot enough to give third-degree, permanently disfiguring burns. This was a highly-justified and fair lawsuit.
If anyone had even bothered to read the linked article, they'd see that it said MS would "flag it as potential spam". They wouldn't just stop getting it.
As cool as this is (and as much as I want one so badly), the same effect has been achieved already with the Ideazon Zboard. You can basically take keyplates off and put other ones on there, and they have plates for all sorts of applications and games.
Windows continues to be a world where, out of the box, people set up their boxen with everyone at administrator privelege levels.
And this points at where the problem lies - the users. They're generally lazy and uninformed. Even if they CAN set up more secure ways of doing things, they're not likely to actually do it if A) they aren't sure what they're doing and B) it will cause their computer-using experience to be more complex.
Even that isn't the main issue, though. Major problems come with the fact that users don't know what they're supposed to and what they're not supposed to run. Trojans are able to affect any system so long as the users aren't informed. Actual informed users can run administrator accounts on Windows with no problems whatsoever (I have for years without worms/viruses/adware/spyware/etc), however dumb users can still mess ANYTHING up if they're given permission to install/run programs.
Maybe not a HUGE financial loss, but it is a loss nonetheless. Unless producing processors for Apple was holding them back from more lucrative markets, there is still a lack of that revenue, now.
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This wouldn't be used to treat those people, though. This is a severe measure which would be used to treat people who have actual, chemical things wrong with them, who despite having EVERYTHING in their life going right, can still be thinking about suicide.
Anybody who's known someone with REAL depression knows that it can be completely non-situational.
Anyone else notice that Firefox 2.0 is codenamed "The Ocho"?
Oh, stop being such a tinfoil-hat. The FDA determined that the cheese, being covered in all sorts of different green space molds, was unfit for human consumption.
Blah, you can't compare that unless you're using both pieces of software yourself.
I've been using Windows since, well, always, and up until around a year ago used IE exclusively. I have never had one piece of spyware, malware, a virus or worm, etc.
It's all about the users. Dumb users can screw anything up if they have access to it.
For the longest time, people have been saying that linux/firefox is more secure than windows/IE. One of the response to that is that it's likely that the reason windows/IE has more exploits for it is because it's the most targetted since it's the most popular.
Now that we're seeing firefox gain foothold, we're starting to see more exploits for it. I wonder if they will be proven right?
If you look at all of statistics they average out to us being about 10 percent of the Web. There are estimated to be about 1 billion Web users, which means there are about 100 million Firefox users out there. It has only been downloaded about 65 million times, so the other users are people who got it some other way. The most likely place they are likely to have got it from is corporate deployments.
Now, I haven't seen these statistics myself, but they seem a bit off to me - that 10% figure is probably skewed somewhat. Considering that the people with firefox installed on their computer are the people most likely to be on the internet a lot in the first place, usage statistics for it can be misread easily.
Also, they say 65 million downloads of Firefox have been made... how many of those were repeats? I've downloaded the program quite a few times, and considering that each upgrade just requires you to download the full install again, there's no way that 65 million downloads translates into 65 million users.
This just reeks of using statistics in a misleading manner.
Either way, it doesn't matter, as nearly all web browsers will render multiple spaces as one space unless you hardcode them. For example:
. . - five spaces between dots.
. . - three spaces between dots.
. . - one space between dots.
Why not make some fun out of it, then?
Let's all try and get the most ridiculous things posted. Bad links, messed-up HTML, nonsensical grammar, the works.
Bonus points if you insult an editor in the blurb and they still end up posting it.
Rule #1 of pointing out grammatical/spelling errors: Make sure your post doesn't have any of its own.
Interestingly, you don't see people complaining that children can buy/rent r-rated movies. Those ratings are "toothless" as well. So long as they're not buying porn, kids can go out and buy/rent whatever DVDs they'd like. Why do they not have problems with this?
The ratings there are GOOD ENOUGH. It's the parents that need to improve.
Actually, today people there are probably working harder than they have been for a while.
If the game economy gets screwed up by this, though, it'll effect the farmers quite a bit.
Hah, this one is even better:
Q: If your "deathstar" subwooofer had a stand-up fight with a "borg cube" all-in-1 hi-fi then who'd win and how?
A: The Death Star can destroy a planet. I can't imagine it would struggle against a gramophone with a built in wireless and auto-reverse cassette deck.
See, you're making the (frequently-made) mistake of assuming that people actually read anything but the headline of the articles they're referencing.
Really, though, what's their motivation?
People are going to keep reading slashdot regardless of if there's a dupe everyday, so at the very least, they don't lose anything. However, they do have the potential to get increased ad revenue due to all the people who partake in the discussion a second time / complain about it being a dupe / missed it the first time / etc.
Although it would be nice to see some other stories instead of dupes, they really don't have any great motivation to change.
"Fully customize their online experience" doesn't describe at all what Zazzle is. The customization comes in the GOODS that are made, not in the experience itself.
It's basically a glorified Cafepress.
'It will cost less than a good mobile phone'
Free after rebate, but you have to pay $39.99 a month.
Actually, even better, free used PCs sitting by the side of the road. Just cruise through rich neighborhoods on trash day :D
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh why can't people actually take the time to look up the facts of this case? If I have to explain this one more time...
People are so horribly misinformed about this, because everyone spews out crap even though they know nothing. Let's look at some things:
1) The coffee was hot enough to give third-degree burns. Yes, THIRD-DEGREE. Over 6 percent of her body. The coffee was served between 180 and 190 degrees, or around 50 degrees higher than coffee is normally served at. At this temperature, third-degree burns will occur between 2 and 7 seconds. Third degree burns will not heal without skin grafting, and will result in permanent disfigurement.
2) McDonalds has had over 700 claims regarding burns from its coffee, some also involving third-degree burns.
3) She only originally sought $20,000, enough to cover medical bills, but McDonalds denied that. THE JURY awarded her $200,000 in damages + $2.7 million in punitive damages, or two days worth of McDonalds coffee sales - this was later dropped to $480,000 by the judge.
4) McDonalds admitted that consumers are not aware the coffee is THAT hot, and that it has no intention of toning down the temperature of the coffee - EVEN THOUGH they admitted that their coffee is "not fit for consumption" when sold because of the severe risk or burns.
5) The lady's physician testified that it was one of the worst scald burns he had EVER seen.
So, not only did she only sue for actual damages, but McDonalds was VERY MUCH in the wrong for serving their coffee hot enough to give third-degree, permanently disfiguring burns. This was a highly-justified and fair lawsuit.
See, the funny thing here is that you think the general public actually cares, or even knows enough to care.
If anyone had even bothered to read the linked article, they'd see that it said MS would "flag it as potential spam". They wouldn't just stop getting it.
As cool as this is (and as much as I want one so badly), the same effect has been achieved already with the Ideazon Zboard. You can basically take keyplates off and put other ones on there, and they have plates for all sorts of applications and games.
Windows continues to be a world where, out of the box, people set up their boxen with everyone at administrator privelege levels.
And this points at where the problem lies - the users. They're generally lazy and uninformed. Even if they CAN set up more secure ways of doing things, they're not likely to actually do it if A) they aren't sure what they're doing and B) it will cause their computer-using experience to be more complex.
Even that isn't the main issue, though. Major problems come with the fact that users don't know what they're supposed to and what they're not supposed to run. Trojans are able to affect any system so long as the users aren't informed. Actual informed users can run administrator accounts on Windows with no problems whatsoever (I have for years without worms/viruses/adware/spyware/etc), however dumb users can still mess ANYTHING up if they're given permission to install/run programs.
Well, "NT" may just be a catchall term since 2000 and XP are NT-derived.
Honestly. Whoever thinks a little game controversy is more important than a bombing or hurricane needs a reality check.
Maybe not a HUGE financial loss, but it is a loss nonetheless. Unless producing processors for Apple was holding them back from more lucrative markets, there is still a lack of that revenue, now.