Since people are quite adamant about adding each other as 'friends' on social networking sites like Facebook etc., why can't something like the Web-of-Trust be riding along somehow? Or at minimum a GPG key exchange requiring no further steps? There's gotta be a way! Firefox/Thunderbird Plugin that has access to all keys of your 'friends' and uses them automatically? Something like that.
Every minute you spend drooling over the 'data' you collected is a minute you could have spent exercising instead and produced real results, not farking numbers. Seriously...while there are some people few and far between that may have a need/use for extended data and need appropriate gear I promise you that 9 out of ten people usually only buy something like that because they attempt to *buy their fitness*. Which, of course, is nonsense. Yet people spend insane amounts of dough on all kinds of promised miracles, whether they be high-tech gadgets or the latest 'Turn into Arnold in less than 1 minute a day!!' overhyped 'revolutionary exercise system'. I see bicyclers barely able to get up a hill with their >$1000 bikes dressed up as if participating in the Tour-de-France. Meanwhile my 6-year old would have been faster than them looking a lot less than a peacock on wheels. You want data? Take a pencil and a piece of paper and if you can do 25 push-up's this week and only 20 last week you improved. Congrats. Now get back on the floor, shut up and keep going!
> "The Road User Amendment Rule 2009 means drivers will not be able to look at > a navigation aid on a mobile phone when driving, even if it is mounted on > the dashboard.
I'd go a step further and require all windows to be painted black so that drivers may not look at the mountains or ogle at cute women they pass...
> I don't see any hue and cry about excessive UV radiation damaging our > childrens' eyes and giving them skin cancer.
Hue and cries or lack thereof notwithstanding:
Fact is, in excess of 50 percent of just the male population will develop some form of cancer at some point of life. Whatever the causes may be (surely not just one or two), it still has to come from somewhere. Just sayin'.
> Women tell secrets either because they like the feeling of power or > authority when spilling information or because of the response they get from > the people they tell, a feeling of importance and acceptance.
Well, that'd be the interpretation from a male's perspective. AFAIK women share secrets not necessarily to gain feelings of importance for themselves, but for the friend they tell the secret to. As in: You are SO important to me and I value our friendship SO much, that I even tell you that stuff I am really not supposed to.
So basically....unlike with men, it's not the content of the conversation (even though they sure have fun with that too) but what the telling signifies and conveys between the two female parties. A bonding of sorts or deepening of an existing bond. Therefore NOT to tell a secret if one (woman) would possess one to a best friend is almost a violation and betrayal of the friendship. Ever heard a woman on the phone say to her friend "Well, *I* would have told you XYZ" in response to finding out she'd been left out of the loop somewhere. Right!
With other words: You can tell a wo/man a secret with no worries. Just kill 'em off quickly afterwards.:-)
> Out here on the opposite coast, another kind of weed is flourishing. > Japanese Knotweed.
True that. Have seen it take over miles and miles of banks on the Delaware river. Nothing else survives! AFAIK you have to cut it carefully and then actually burn it. This stuff will sprout even on a compost where you threw the cut-off plants. Any ideas to prevent regrowth at the original site...salt on the roots perhaps?
> The girl would not have been found alive in the case of her arm being > removed, but something would have been found. Dismemberment is just too > messy.
> That brat will very quickly find some method around it, such as dousing the > device, or wrapping it in tin foil, so it cannot report on their location
Well, that'll be taken care off by the new periodic call-home feature. If no connection to home-server can be made, an explosive charge will deploy. "NO CARRIER" will get a whole new meaning..mwahahaha!!! >:-)
> what exactly would have happened to Madeleine McCann if she was wearing one > of these when abducted ? Either: (a) it would have been forcibly removed - > causing an alert, or (b) police would have been able to track her.
Or (c) Tracking Police would have found her chopped-off arm, incl. intact bracelet.
Does it actually make sense to use ext3 or any other journalling filesystem on a USB stick? Seriously...wouldn't the journal simply worsen the already pretty bad read/write performance/overhead while providing almost no benefit?
> The software he wrote didn't murder anybody. But now the only thing anybody > ever talks about when they talk about the code is murder. The code deserves > better than that.
True! I'd suggest continuing development of it and renaming it to NinaFS. Would free the code from Hans' name (very necessary to get rid of the creepyness now associated with it!) and simultaneously honor the deceased.
Networking over USB would be awesome. Link 2 PC's with USB cable and voila! Hell, even being able to mount an internal drive that way on the other machine would be cool. Anything like that in the works (haven't checked)?
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> Never type a password into a site unless you see a lock icon in your browser.
So how'd you log into Slashdot?
> People give up privacy and security every 10 seconds for a free hand job it seems.
Free hand job? Want my address? :-)
Since people are quite adamant about adding each other as 'friends' on social networking sites like Facebook etc., why can't something like the Web-of-Trust be riding along somehow? Or at minimum a GPG key exchange requiring no further steps? There's gotta be a way! Firefox/Thunderbird Plugin that has access to all keys of your 'friends' and uses them automatically? Something like that.
Every minute you spend drooling over the 'data' you collected is a minute you could have spent exercising instead and produced real results, not farking numbers.
Seriously...while there are some people few and far between that may have a need/use for extended data and need appropriate gear I promise you that 9 out of ten people usually only buy something like that because they attempt to *buy their fitness*. Which, of course, is nonsense.
Yet people spend insane amounts of dough on all kinds of promised miracles, whether they be high-tech gadgets or the latest 'Turn into Arnold in less than 1 minute a day!!' overhyped 'revolutionary exercise system'. I see bicyclers barely able to get up a hill with their >$1000 bikes dressed up as if participating in the Tour-de-France. Meanwhile my 6-year old would have been faster than them looking a lot less than a peacock on wheels.
You want data? Take a pencil and a piece of paper and if you can do 25 push-up's this week and only 20 last week you improved. Congrats. Now get back on the floor, shut up and keep going!
> mandatory DNS sample
DNA, of course. Your A-records are still safe :-)
Soon to be in an airport near you...mandatory DNS sample of all visitors to this, thank God, free country.
> "The Road User Amendment Rule 2009 means drivers will not be able to look at
> a navigation aid on a mobile phone when driving, even if it is mounted on
> the dashboard.
I'd go a step further and require all windows to be painted black so that
drivers may not look at the mountains or ogle at cute women they pass...
> I don't see any hue and cry about excessive UV radiation damaging our
> childrens' eyes and giving them skin cancer.
Hue and cries or lack thereof notwithstanding:
Fact is, in excess of 50 percent of just the male population will develop some
form of cancer at some point of life. Whatever the causes may be (surely not
just one or two), it still has to come from somewhere. Just sayin'.
> Women tell secrets either because they like the feeling of power or
> authority when spilling information or because of the response they get from
> the people they tell, a feeling of importance and acceptance.
Well, that'd be the interpretation from a male's perspective. AFAIK women
share secrets not necessarily to gain feelings of importance for themselves,
but for the friend they tell the secret to. As in: You are SO important to me
and I value our friendship SO much, that I even tell you that stuff I am
really not supposed to.
So basically....unlike with men, it's not the content of the conversation
(even though they sure have fun with that too) but what the telling signifies
and conveys between the two female parties. A bonding of sorts or deepening of
an existing bond.
Therefore NOT to tell a secret if one (woman) would possess one to a best
friend is almost a violation and betrayal of the friendship. Ever heard a
woman on the phone say to her friend "Well, *I* would have told you XYZ" in
response to finding out she'd been left out of the loop somewhere. Right!
With other words: You can tell a wo/man a secret with no worries. Just kill :-)
'em off quickly afterwards.
> Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave, that is until
> someone decides to declare you an enemy of the state.
Make that 'illegal enemy combatant'. TFTFY.
> The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
I'd like to verify that through some usability studies... :-)
> When it achieves the same level or better of intuitiveness as Windows, then it can compete.
Press START to QUIT...
Right! o_O
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those? :-)
> Out here on the opposite coast, another kind of weed is flourishing.
> Japanese Knotweed.
True that. Have seen it take over miles and miles of banks on the Delaware
river. Nothing else survives!
AFAIK you have to cut it carefully and then actually burn it. This stuff will
sprout even on a compost where you threw the cut-off plants. Any ideas to
prevent regrowth at the original site...salt on the roots perhaps?
> Here in British Columbia we don't wage war on it, it's our #1 export.
Now imagine a hybrid...a joint venture so to speak between AL and BC. :-)
Northern Cogon anyone?
> Life will recover. Life always recovers.
Personally I am looking forward to that...trapped in a bunker with a Megan Fox look-alike... :-P
> The girl would not have been found alive in the case of her arm being
> removed, but something would have been found. Dismemberment is just too
> messy.
What a relief...whew!!
> That brat will very quickly find some method around it, such as dousing the
> device, or wrapping it in tin foil, so it cannot report on their location
Well, that'll be taken care off by the new periodic call-home feature. If no
connection to home-server can be made, an explosive charge will deploy. "NO
CARRIER" will get a whole new meaning..mwahahaha!!! >:-)
> what exactly would have happened to Madeleine McCann if she was wearing one
> of these when abducted ? Either: (a) it would have been forcibly removed -
> causing an alert, or (b) police would have been able to track her.
Or (c) Tracking Police would have found her chopped-off arm, incl. intact bracelet.
> I don't see how this bracelet really compromises much convenience on their
> part, so personally I wouldn't hesitate to use it on younger children.
20 years later: :-/"
"Dad...about that nasty cancer growth...
1. Extend functionality to provide automatic electroshock to BRAT moving beyond configured away-from-home radius
2. ?
3. PROFIT!!!
Does it actually make sense to use ext3 or any other journalling filesystem on a USB stick? Seriously...wouldn't the journal simply worsen the already pretty bad read/write performance/overhead while providing almost no benefit?
> The software he wrote didn't murder anybody. But now the only thing anybody
> ever talks about when they talk about the code is murder. The code deserves
> better than that.
True! I'd suggest continuing development of it and renaming it to NinaFS.
Would free the code from Hans' name (very necessary to get rid of the
creepyness now associated with it!) and simultaneously honor the deceased.
Networking over USB would be awesome. Link 2 PC's with USB cable and voila! Hell, even being able to mount an internal drive that way on the other machine would be cool. Anything like that in the works (haven't checked)?
> Don't expect **anything** you place on a facebook account to be secure - ever.
Don't expect **anything** you place on *the Internet* to be secure - ever (unless encrypted). There...fixed that for 'ya!