I installed the free version of AVG but uninstalled it because I started getting annoying pop-ups from the program asking me to purchase the full version. Which made absolutely no sense to me since one of the the programs functions is specifically to prevent those annoying pop-ups. It didn't instill much confidence in their product.
I love slashdot but jeez, I wish there was more constructive discussion. Mostly when I peruse a topic 90% of the comments are folks trying to be funny and snarky very little useful discussion.
Flame away.
Tablet computing has been talked about as the next great thing every year for the last 10 years. Yet it has never taken off. Why would apple and microsoft's announcement make any difference?
If a contributor leaves because they don't want to spend time using common journalist practices of fact checking, attribution, citation, etc then their contribution most likely isn't quality information. If someone wants the privileges of defining the basic meaning of something to the entire internet then they have to accept the responsibilities that go along with it. Wikipedia has become the de facto encyclopedia on the internet. I would say most people trust wikipedia articles, which to an operation like it is vital to it's success.
2012 debunked: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093
Any reasonably intellegent person knows that 2012 is just another date with no particular significance. It may be a very entertaining movie but the date is just, well... another date.
I don't understand why companies do such obviously greedy things which do nothing but create annoyed customers. I reminds me of those stupid rewind fees Blockbuster would charge. I recall they used to get like 10% of there revenue from that crap. The article is correct it is annoyingly easy to inadvertently select that Get It Now choice. Cooking up a new money stream based on user error, or worse yet encouraging user error is just wrong in my book.
You always hear companies whining "Gah you can prevent (regulate) us from doing this, it would stifle innovation". I'm getting so tired of shafting people being an excuse for funding innovation.
Wouldn't the many thousands of degrees on the asteroid during its decent through the atmosphere and hundreds of thousands of degrees when it hits the ground destroy any organic chemicals?
I just returned from a week long Information Security convention for my government agency. It was eye opening how vulnerable supposedly "secure" systems are. Especially after the Gartner, and NIST speakers finished their presentation. It seems that locking up your computer in a lead lined box and burying it in a hole 12 feet deep is about what you need to do, lol. They also talked about FRID and how very vulnerable, for example, the new passports -- which have much of your private info on them -- with the encryted RFID chips in them are. Also how there are contests to see who can pick up RFID and wifi signals from the farthest away. I believe he said they got up to 100ft for RFIDs and 3 miles for those 300ft radius wifi routers.
For you number crunchers how much energy is there in one gram of material traveling 6 miles per second. This same article on another news site said that's how fast the satellites were traveling relative to each other. I would guess the collision would release some of the debris at that speed as well. I would expect it would be equivalent to a small explosion? I looked it up and a typical rifle bullet travels about 1.5 miles per second. I suspect they couldn't track something that small.
I hope that all the communications/data/etc on both devices are archived. This information belongs to the public, excluding the classified/sensitive items of course I hope he sticks to his transparency mantra. The previous administrations years of "losing" emails I hope doesn't return.
Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of Nature -- ElectroMagnetism, Weak Nuclear Force, Strong Nuclear Force, Gravity. Even with the entire mass of the Earth pulling on a paper-clip all it takes is a wittle tiny ant to overcome that gravity and pick it up off the ground. I heard this on Nova which really put it in perspective how weak gravity is, relatively speaking.
I set my router to not broadcast and to only allow specific MAC addresses access. I also have the WPA passkey very complex and set to its max length, 128 characters I believe. So I have things pretty locked down. I'm not a wireless expert by any stretch so I'm wondering if these settings mitigate somewhat the hack described here.
This game didn't live up to the years of incredible hype. It is really a very simple-minded game that I finished within a few hours. And it has virtually no replay value. Also it has not much to do with evolution. A decision to add two eyes on my ass or 5 eyes on long stalks on my head have absolutely no ramification on my survivability. And the character creator is interesting for about 5 minutes. Don't bother with this game, well maybe buy it for your 9 year old.
People tend to use the liberal, convervative labels too broadly IMO. Most of us vary depending on the issue I'd say. Maybe your socially liberal but fiscally conservative. You're pro-choice but against gay marriage. Hopefully we are all more complex and thoughtful than a simplistic liberal/conservative label. However I've noticed that if someone is indeed across the board conservative or across the board liberal they tend to be pretty close-minded an impervious to rational argument.
I suspect what you meant to say is that your money is on self-delusional behaviors, such as religion, groupthink, dogmatism, fanaticism, etc. Cognitive dissonance is what then happens when reality comes knocking at the door of this fantasy world. Unfortunately, all too often the doorbell goes unanswered or ignored. That's pretty much to what these studies refer: people choosing to maintain a self-delusion rather than answer the door and be faced with uncertainties.
My understanding of cognitive dissonance and the mental process of seeking cognitive harmony is that it is mostly a subliminal process - we are not aware we are doing it. If we had to consciously reconcile every cognitive dissonance I think you'd get mentally overwhelmed constantly. To get past it you need to be aware you are doing it, it be willing to examine why you think what you think, and then be able and willing to examine and change your bias. That is a lot of work and self examination.
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I would venture to say that drivers cause 100% of car driving accidents.
I installed the free version of AVG but uninstalled it because I started getting annoying pop-ups from the program asking me to purchase the full version. Which made absolutely no sense to me since one of the the programs functions is specifically to prevent those annoying pop-ups. It didn't instill much confidence in their product.
I love my ipod but when Apple does things like this, which it seems they do every other month, it really chaps my ass.
I love slashdot but jeez, I wish there was more constructive discussion. Mostly when I peruse a topic 90% of the comments are folks trying to be funny and snarky very little useful discussion. Flame away.
Tablet computing has been talked about as the next great thing every year for the last 10 years. Yet it has never taken off. Why would apple and microsoft's announcement make any difference?
If a contributor leaves because they don't want to spend time using common journalist practices of fact checking, attribution, citation, etc then their contribution most likely isn't quality information. If someone wants the privileges of defining the basic meaning of something to the entire internet then they have to accept the responsibilities that go along with it. Wikipedia has become the de facto encyclopedia on the internet. I would say most people trust wikipedia articles, which to an operation like it is vital to it's success.
2012 debunked: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093 Any reasonably intellegent person knows that 2012 is just another date with no particular significance. It may be a very entertaining movie but the date is just, well... another date.
I don't understand why companies do such obviously greedy things which do nothing but create annoyed customers. I reminds me of those stupid rewind fees Blockbuster would charge. I recall they used to get like 10% of there revenue from that crap. The article is correct it is annoyingly easy to inadvertently select that Get It Now choice. Cooking up a new money stream based on user error, or worse yet encouraging user error is just wrong in my book. You always hear companies whining "Gah you can prevent (regulate) us from doing this, it would stifle innovation". I'm getting so tired of shafting people being an excuse for funding innovation.
I don't know if it is possible from a technical standpoint, but if so, I think there would be a market for Digital to Analog converters.
Does the use of Spread Spectrum reduce any of the spectrum saturation problems.
Wouldn't the many thousands of degrees on the asteroid during its decent through the atmosphere and hundreds of thousands of degrees when it hits the ground destroy any organic chemicals?
I just returned from a week long Information Security convention for my government agency. It was eye opening how vulnerable supposedly "secure" systems are. Especially after the Gartner, and NIST speakers finished their presentation. It seems that locking up your computer in a lead lined box and burying it in a hole 12 feet deep is about what you need to do, lol. They also talked about FRID and how very vulnerable, for example, the new passports -- which have much of your private info on them -- with the encryted RFID chips in them are. Also how there are contests to see who can pick up RFID and wifi signals from the farthest away. I believe he said they got up to 100ft for RFIDs and 3 miles for those 300ft radius wifi routers.
Opps, I think a star missed his anger management class.
Bleh, I found Spore to be mostly hype after I played it. It has about zero re-play value.
For you number crunchers how much energy is there in one gram of material traveling 6 miles per second. This same article on another news site said that's how fast the satellites were traveling relative to each other. I would guess the collision would release some of the debris at that speed as well. I would expect it would be equivalent to a small explosion? I looked it up and a typical rifle bullet travels about 1.5 miles per second. I suspect they couldn't track something that small.
I hope that all the communications/data/etc on both devices are archived. This information belongs to the public, excluding the classified/sensitive items of course I hope he sticks to his transparency mantra. The previous administrations years of "losing" emails I hope doesn't return.
Definitely not. "intellegent design" is a religion not science.
Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of Nature -- ElectroMagnetism, Weak Nuclear Force, Strong Nuclear Force, Gravity. Even with the entire mass of the Earth pulling on a paper-clip all it takes is a wittle tiny ant to overcome that gravity and pick it up off the ground. I heard this on Nova which really put it in perspective how weak gravity is, relatively speaking.
Bleh I hope it's not like Sin City, that movie sucked big time. But from the trailers unfortunately it pretty much looks like a Sin City knockoff.
I set my router to not broadcast and to only allow specific MAC addresses access. I also have the WPA passkey very complex and set to its max length, 128 characters I believe. So I have things pretty locked down. I'm not a wireless expert by any stretch so I'm wondering if these settings mitigate somewhat the hack described here.
This game didn't live up to the years of incredible hype. It is really a very simple-minded game that I finished within a few hours. And it has virtually no replay value. Also it has not much to do with evolution. A decision to add two eyes on my ass or 5 eyes on long stalks on my head have absolutely no ramification on my survivability. And the character creator is interesting for about 5 minutes. Don't bother with this game, well maybe buy it for your 9 year old.
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about.
People tend to use the liberal, convervative labels too broadly IMO. Most of us vary depending on the issue I'd say. Maybe your socially liberal but fiscally conservative. You're pro-choice but against gay marriage. Hopefully we are all more complex and thoughtful than a simplistic liberal/conservative label. However I've noticed that if someone is indeed across the board conservative or across the board liberal they tend to be pretty close-minded an impervious to rational argument.
Is gmail still free. If so, you get what you pay for. I don't understand how a business and make itself dependent upon free third-party email.
I suspect what you meant to say is that your money is on self-delusional behaviors, such as religion, groupthink, dogmatism, fanaticism, etc. Cognitive dissonance is what then happens when reality comes knocking at the door of this fantasy world. Unfortunately, all too often the doorbell goes unanswered or ignored. That's pretty much to what these studies refer: people choosing to maintain a self-delusion rather than answer the door and be faced with uncertainties.
My understanding of cognitive dissonance and the mental process of seeking cognitive harmony is that it is mostly a subliminal process - we are not aware we are doing it. If we had to consciously reconcile every cognitive dissonance I think you'd get mentally overwhelmed constantly. To get past it you need to be aware you are doing it, it be willing to examine why you think what you think, and then be able and willing to examine and change your bias. That is a lot of work and self examination.