That video was ridiculous. Those are the same people whose American equivalents end up on that show Street Smarts. Those people don't even know how many states are in the US.
I'll be impressed when they get that test through a bunch of CS majors at a college.
What the!? Someone else that thinks Social Security shouldn't exist at all? I thought there were only two of us and that my second personality didn't technically count... hmmm.
Then those 99% of people can suffer the consequences. It's no different than asking you if you're on any new meds when you go in to see the doctor. If you say "no" and then they prescribe you something that mixes horribly with what you're on, it's your own fault for not saying anything.
The potential for abuse is far too high here. I'm sure that not all medical staff are happy with their current pay. Why not supplement it with some nice data grabbing? This also creates one very big target for attack. The more people's data you have in one place the more likely it is that someone's going to try and get it.
The GPs mention of the potential for abuse by insurance companies is right on. Look at credit - how easy is it to fix your credit score if it's been all jacked up? It's not. I can't wait for "health scores" that are similarly disastrous. That'll be all kinds of fun.:-/
Bolded part is also part of the poorly written summary. Are we just reading headlines now? Ugh. Why bother commenting without even reading the summary?
I've never looked at an actual bill (I've read laws, but only once they've already been passed and handed down as code.) so correct me if I'm wrong... but it seems kind of crazy to me to be using PDF at all. What's the point? What kind of amazing formatting could they possibly be using for a simple text document? Do we have pretty pictures and graphs integrated into our bills now? I'm just trying to understand why anyone would even come up with a scheme like that outside of the devious reasoning the parent mentioned.
Yes it is. Console gaming is different than PC Gaming. People running consoles don't usually want to spend a ton of money on the system, they want to buy fun games and play them. The graphics aren't necessarily the number 1 priority. I'd bet most PS2 owners still just own a regular standard definition TV too. Just more proof that gameplay will always be more important than graphics and lame gaming communities. The entire Wii system is built around this fact. Cheap next gen console = cheap fun.
I think pricing is a big one. I rarely buy games as soon as they come out. I'm just not going to spend $50 on a game. I'll usually wait until they come down to $35 or less - and that's for a title from a big developer with AAA quality. For an indie game, I wouldn't expect to pay more than $20. I've seen some great indie games but very rarely do they even begin to have the depth and polish of a big name title. You just can't charge the same price for a Geo as you do an Aston Martin. People aren't dumb.
Yes, but musicians also get revenue from playing shows (which can't be pirated). A musician could make a living just from playing shows while all of his music is being pirated or given away for free.
This isn't true of software. Indie developers have one source of income - their game. If people pirate that game, that dev is not getting paid. I'm not going to get into a pissing match about whether piracy on a small scale actually ends up helping game sales. I am, however, willing to contend that music and games are completely different in this area.
Sadly, I once had someone spell Cue / Queue as "Que" in scrabble (I still don't know which one they were after). After some sad laughing to myself I got out the dictionary and told them they could take their fake word off of my board.
There are people that can't parallel park or back into a parking space... Let alone recover from a basic skid or swerve to avoid something in the road without ending up OFF the road or in oncoming traffic. Education is truly the key. Sadly I have personally known people that have done all of the aforementioned things. I never know whether to laugh or cry. Thank God I was never in the car with them.
I absolutely agree. People driving 50 in the fast lane, cutting others off, and failing to signal cause far more trouble than people just driving fast. I believe that the following too closely issue has more to do with people trying to avoid being cutoff (by people going much slower) than anything else. Any time I try to leave space inevitably someone pulls in front of me going 20 mph slower than I am.
Goatse is different because (on slashdot at least) you see a domain. So unless someone takes the time to setup a redirect page you're not going to end up there by accident. I have been fortunate enough to dodge every one of those goatse links.
Old system was side by side lights that looked roughly like this:
| x |
|x x|
|x x|
Where the topmost x was a red light. The bottom left hand side lights were both left arrows indicating that they controlled left turn traffic. Green arrow meant you had a protected turn (as always). If nothing on the left was lit and you only had a green light on the right it meant you had to yield. There was a sign next to the light saying "Left turn yield on green" with a picture of the solid green circle you'd see on the right hand side of the tree.
This was replaced with a typical light tree with the addition of a flashing yellow arrow. I don't remember the exact configuration of the light because I've only been to the town a few times since it was changed. I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find anything that looked like the exact configuration I'd seen.
My point exactly. The politicians couldn't handle that and they'd pass a new law to make sure this "useless money" could be "fully utilized". Before you know it it's in the "general fund" and being spent on lunches and projects for supporters.
I agree. I've been cruising around the 'net since around the same time ('93/'94) and I've never accidentally found myself on a NSFW page. I've been rick rolled plenty, but thankfully there are no memes that involve duping people into going to NSFW sites and getting written up by HR.
However, I'm not going to say it's impossible. I know of people that have accidentally gone to whitehouse.com rather than.gov. A child learning about the Internet and trying to do a report on the White House could easily make the same mistake.
Slashdot Mirror
That video was ridiculous. Those are the same people whose American equivalents end up on that show Street Smarts. Those people don't even know how many states are in the US.
I'll be impressed when they get that test through a bunch of CS majors at a college.
Had you been french or italian ladies, things would have been different.
It's a trap!
Hmm, in this economy that's starting like a pretty easy way to make a living...
Got one of those old IBM keyboards do ya?
What the!? Someone else that thinks Social Security shouldn't exist at all? I thought there were only two of us and that my second personality didn't technically count... hmmm.
Then those 99% of people can suffer the consequences. It's no different than asking you if you're on any new meds when you go in to see the doctor. If you say "no" and then they prescribe you something that mixes horribly with what you're on, it's your own fault for not saying anything.
:-/
The potential for abuse is far too high here. I'm sure that not all medical staff are happy with their current pay. Why not supplement it with some nice data grabbing? This also creates one very big target for attack. The more people's data you have in one place the more likely it is that someone's going to try and get it.
The GPs mention of the potential for abuse by insurance companies is right on. Look at credit - how easy is it to fix your credit score if it's been all jacked up? It's not. I can't wait for "health scores" that are similarly disastrous. That'll be all kinds of fun.
Bolded part is also part of the poorly written summary. Are we just reading headlines now? Ugh.
Why bother commenting without even reading the summary?
I've never looked at an actual bill (I've read laws, but only once they've already been passed and handed down as code.) so correct me if I'm wrong... but it seems kind of crazy to me to be using PDF at all. What's the point? What kind of amazing formatting could they possibly be using for a simple text document? Do we have pretty pictures and graphs integrated into our bills now? I'm just trying to understand why anyone would even come up with a scheme like that outside of the devious reasoning the parent mentioned.
Ooooh, you had me for a second there. (That's what she said.)
Wow. That's SFW but it'll definitely scare the crap outta ya. Do Not Want.
Celsius users beware! In this case, 0 degrees does not mean "Sweater Weather".
Yeah, what's the point of "better tab handling" and a "niftier search bar" if the results look like crap because it can't render everything properly?
Well, you know, it's one way to kill Facebook.
Yes it is. Console gaming is different than PC Gaming. People running consoles don't usually want to spend a ton of money on the system, they want to buy fun games and play them. The graphics aren't necessarily the number 1 priority. I'd bet most PS2 owners still just own a regular standard definition TV too. Just more proof that gameplay will always be more important than graphics and lame gaming communities. The entire Wii system is built around this fact. Cheap next gen console = cheap fun.
I think pricing is a big one. I rarely buy games as soon as they come out. I'm just not going to spend $50 on a game. I'll usually wait until they come down to $35 or less - and that's for a title from a big developer with AAA quality. For an indie game, I wouldn't expect to pay more than $20. I've seen some great indie games but very rarely do they even begin to have the depth and polish of a big name title. You just can't charge the same price for a Geo as you do an Aston Martin. People aren't dumb.
Yes, but musicians also get revenue from playing shows (which can't be pirated). A musician could make a living just from playing shows while all of his music is being pirated or given away for free.
This isn't true of software. Indie developers have one source of income - their game. If people pirate that game, that dev is not getting paid. I'm not going to get into a pissing match about whether piracy on a small scale actually ends up helping game sales. I am, however, willing to contend that music and games are completely different in this area.
It's like a bad porn movie. The background music, the terrible acting, the uninterested actors mumbling out random keywords.
Sadly, I once had someone spell Cue / Queue as "Que" in scrabble (I still don't know which one they were after). After some sad laughing to myself I got out the dictionary and told them they could take their fake word off of my board.
Let's get this thing to bite a pig!
SPIDER PIG
SPIDER PIG
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does
Can he swing
From a web
No he cant
He's a pig
LOOK OOOUUUTTT!!!!
He is a SPIDER PIG!!
You're welcome for getting that stuck in your head for the rest of the day...
There are people that can't parallel park or back into a parking space... Let alone recover from a basic skid or swerve to avoid something in the road without ending up OFF the road or in oncoming traffic. Education is truly the key. Sadly I have personally known people that have done all of the aforementioned things. I never know whether to laugh or cry. Thank God I was never in the car with them.
I absolutely agree. People driving 50 in the fast lane, cutting others off, and failing to signal cause far more trouble than people just driving fast. I believe that the following too closely issue has more to do with people trying to avoid being cutoff (by people going much slower) than anything else. Any time I try to leave space inevitably someone pulls in front of me going 20 mph slower than I am.
Goatse is different because (on slashdot at least) you see a domain. So unless someone takes the time to setup a redirect page you're not going to end up there by accident. I have been fortunate enough to dodge every one of those goatse links.
Old system was side by side lights that looked roughly like this:
| x |
|x x|
|x x|
Where the topmost x was a red light. The bottom left hand side lights were both left arrows indicating that they controlled left turn traffic. Green arrow meant you had a protected turn (as always). If nothing on the left was lit and you only had a green light on the right it meant you had to yield. There was a sign next to the light saying "Left turn yield on green" with a picture of the solid green circle you'd see on the right hand side of the tree.
This was replaced with a typical light tree with the addition of a flashing yellow arrow. I don't remember the exact configuration of the light because I've only been to the town a few times since it was changed. I tried googling a bit but I couldn't find anything that looked like the exact configuration I'd seen.
Relatively small town in Oregon.
My point exactly. The politicians couldn't handle that and they'd pass a new law to make sure this "useless money" could be "fully utilized". Before you know it it's in the "general fund" and being spent on lunches and projects for supporters.
I agree. I've been cruising around the 'net since around the same time ('93/'94) and I've never accidentally found myself on a NSFW page. I've been rick rolled plenty, but thankfully there are no memes that involve duping people into going to NSFW sites and getting written up by HR.
.gov. A child learning about the Internet and trying to do a report on the White House could easily make the same mistake.
However, I'm not going to say it's impossible. I know of people that have accidentally gone to whitehouse.com rather than