Same standard - I may have phrased things badly. When I said "tangible consequences," I didn't mean necessarily directly to the user. Just evidence that there have, indeed, been consequences. Right now, nobody's successfully blamed a fire or freeze on hackers to my knowledge, so "nobody's" doing anything to secure against it.
I guess I was too general when I said "nobody gives a rat's ass". I should have said, "A typical user will not give a rat's ass until after there are tangible consequences." Unless there were widespread reports of systems being hacked and damage being done, most users will not bother to secure anything nor care about how easy they are to hack.
If the service is acting like an Internet radio station without paying for what they offer, something is wrong.
I think so too. But: Wrong != Illegal Illegal != Practical to prosecute TFA wasn't about what's right, it's about what's legal. For many, it's not even about being legal, but being "safe".
I think it's worse than that when you know it on beforehand. Had nothing to do with confusion.
Oh! Now I see! Once we eliminate the absurd notion that a mistake was made during all of the confusion, we're left with the obvious conclusion that the BBC had prior knowledge of the events. It's so clear now! How did I miss it?
Perhaps because I'm not a paranoid, conspiracy-theorist whack-job.
Yes, the BBC can be very accurate, especially when they announced the collapse of WTC building 7 even before it had happened yet.
If your prime example of the BBC falsifying information is a moment of confusion while scrambling around in international turmoil more than 15 years ago, I don't think I'll be abandoning them as as a news source just yet. Prematurely announcing the collapse was an understandable mistake, not remotely an attempt at propaganda.
Surely if they were really a problem you could find something a little more persuasive.
...Fox is pure conservative slanted fantasy and [people] believe it to be fact.
Fox may be "conservative slanted" and it's not to my taste - I stick mostly to CNN & BBC - but it is typically factually accurate. O'Reilly having a miscredited guest on talking about Sweden was enough to make headlines and is a rare exception to the rule. Neither CNN nor Fox make a habit out of mis-stating facts and, when they do, they both have reasonable track records of correcting themselves. Both have stellar records compared to our current White House.
All sources are slanted and there are many places you can seek out and find genuinely bogus stories, but neither CNN nor Fox should be labelled blanketly "fake news."
Since the word has literally changed meanings, it seems to me that you can now use it literally or figuratively. There is literally no reason to abandon it.
But of course a 7-digit UID user wouldn't know about such a bare basic feature, all you guys do is jump in without bothering to see how things function around here.
Surely you're not suggesting that 6-digiters actually RTFM.
Trump is using an unsecured phone to send... tweets.
He might also be carrying it in locations/situations that should be secure. For us mere mortals, just carrying an unsecured phone somewhere that classified information MIGHT be discussed is a big no-no. But, his dinner discussion regarding the North Korean missile launch suggests that he's a little lax on privacy, so why should his phones be any different?
They understand that they set the price of what they're trading. They're thinking they're rich, so they are.
They're setting today's price of what they're trading. They're thinking they're rich, so they feel that way. Today, they can trade their shares for today's price. No longer the case once this particular bubble ceases to be a bubble.
...the point of lossless files is that they can be converted.
And lossy ones are just locked in their final form forever?
...you can have a lower quality file for the cellphone...
You can mix a.mp3 down to whatever bitrate you feel is appropriate. Downloading a 320 kpbs mp3, inflating to a wav, then compressing again to a lower bitrate won't be exactly the same result as compressing to the lower bitrate from the original wav, but it'll be close enough not to make an audible difference.
...even though it might nominally be a 160kbps VBR if it's coming from a lossy file, you're probably not getting all the information you would normally get.
There's no probably about it. You do lose information. The point of mp3 compression is that you selectively ignore the information that isn't as important as the rest.
That's what I was trying to imply by turning around instead of stopping by the moon. I'm not sure how nitehawk plans on saving propellant by using "rockets to get the DU to the moon." I can't imagine many good reasons for shipping a load of DU to the moon. Seems heavy.
Anybody who's pirating "lossless" (CD-quality) copies either doesn't know what he's doing or has an unusual set of ears. Your average Joe (me included) won't hear the difference - A 320kbps.mp3 will be indistinguishable from the original.wav. Most pirates pirate.mp3s.
A chunk of depleted uranium shaped in a thin cylinder with heat shielding on the front could easily get launched, go through Earth's atmosphere without much damage, and do a nuclear-bomb sized blast, all requiring very little propellant.
Except that DU isn't a major component of the moon's mineral deposits. The propellant in question wouldn't be that necessary to get off the moon, but to get TO the moon in the first place. And if you're going through the trouble to move a DU cylinder that far above Earth's surface, why bother stopping off at the moon instead of just turning around? Any rocks launched from the moon would be rocks found on the moon.
I'm so tired of hearing comments like this, nothing was taken!
It's not hard to figure out what he meant - He was replaced by Indians. There's a negligible difference between "took my job" and "took over the job I was doing in spite of my protest". Do you also object to the headline, as robots aren't "taking" jobs, they're just being given jobs that used to belong to humans?
Many people probably assume it starts after 40hs a week like in the US.
For white collar workers with a salary of more than $47,476, that's not necessarily true. I've had positions where it was explicitly explained to me that the 40 hour week was a minimum and less than expected.
Sadly, if these people have been working 60+ hours a week for years, work is their life - send them home and they'll get depressed, fight with their families, and otherwise have to find some meaning to their life outside the company.
I don't disagree BUT: Depression is treatable and, if it's a result of a lifestyle change, temporary. Fights with family are typically resolved and are part of forming family bonds. As for finding meaning to life outside the company, I'm not sure any exists but the opportunity to quest for it should be available to everyone on the planet.
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Same standard - I may have phrased things badly. When I said "tangible consequences," I didn't mean necessarily directly to the user. Just evidence that there have, indeed, been consequences. Right now, nobody's successfully blamed a fire or freeze on hackers to my knowledge, so "nobody's" doing anything to secure against it.
I guess I was too general when I said "nobody gives a rat's ass". I should have said, "A typical user will not give a rat's ass until after there are tangible consequences." Unless there were widespread reports of systems being hacked and damage being done, most users will not bother to secure anything nor care about how easy they are to hack.
If the service is acting like an Internet radio station without paying for what they offer, something is wrong.
I think so too. But:
Wrong != Illegal
Illegal != Practical to prosecute
TFA wasn't about what's right, it's about what's legal. For many, it's not even about being legal, but being "safe".
When someone can hack your thermostat, you are going to care!
When somebody hacks your thermostat, you are (probably) going to care. Nobody gives a rat's ass until the consequences are tangible.
It seems they're drawing the line at downloading a copy that could be shared. Uploading, after all, is the mortal sin.
I think it's worse than that when you know it on beforehand. Had nothing to do with confusion.
Oh! Now I see! Once we eliminate the absurd notion that a mistake was made during all of the confusion, we're left with the obvious conclusion that the BBC had prior knowledge of the events. It's so clear now! How did I miss it?
Perhaps because I'm not a paranoid, conspiracy-theorist whack-job.
Yes, the BBC can be very accurate, especially when they announced the collapse of WTC building 7 even before it had happened yet.
If your prime example of the BBC falsifying information is a moment of confusion while scrambling around in international turmoil more than 15 years ago, I don't think I'll be abandoning them as as a news source just yet. Prematurely announcing the collapse was an understandable mistake, not remotely an attempt at propaganda.
Surely if they were really a problem you could find something a little more persuasive.
...Fox is pure conservative slanted fantasy and [people] believe it to be fact.
Fox may be "conservative slanted" and it's not to my taste - I stick mostly to CNN & BBC - but it is typically factually accurate. O'Reilly having a miscredited guest on talking about Sweden was enough to make headlines and is a rare exception to the rule. Neither CNN nor Fox make a habit out of mis-stating facts and, when they do, they both have reasonable track records of correcting themselves. Both have stellar records compared to our current White House.
All sources are slanted and there are many places you can seek out and find genuinely bogus stories, but neither CNN nor Fox should be labelled blanketly "fake news."
When the moon hits your eye...
We pass the slavings on to you!
Since the word has literally changed meanings, it seems to me that you can now use it literally or figuratively. There is literally no reason to abandon it.
But of course a 7-digit UID user wouldn't know about such a bare basic feature, all you guys do is jump in without bothering to see how things function around here.
Surely you're not suggesting that 6-digiters actually RTFM.
How about "I strongly suspect he is" instead of "He might be"?
Trump is using an unsecured phone to send... tweets.
He might also be carrying it in locations/situations that should be secure. For us mere mortals, just carrying an unsecured phone somewhere that classified information MIGHT be discussed is a big no-no. But, his dinner discussion regarding the North Korean missile launch suggests that he's a little lax on privacy, so why should his phones be any different?
Posting a comment that says no more than the subject would be silly. No need for a one-line summary.
They understand that they set the price of what they're trading. They're thinking they're rich, so they are.
They're setting today's price of what they're trading. They're thinking they're rich, so they feel that way. Today, they can trade their shares for today's price. No longer the case once this particular bubble ceases to be a bubble.
...the point of lossless files is that they can be converted.
And lossy ones are just locked in their final form forever?
...you can have a lower quality file for the cellphone...
You can mix a .mp3 down to whatever bitrate you feel is appropriate. Downloading a 320 kpbs mp3, inflating to a wav, then compressing again to a lower bitrate won't be exactly the same result as compressing to the lower bitrate from the original wav, but it'll be close enough not to make an audible difference.
...even though it might nominally be a 160kbps VBR if it's coming from a lossy file, you're probably not getting all the information you would normally get.
There's no probably about it. You do lose information. The point of mp3 compression is that you selectively ignore the information that isn't as important as the rest.
nitehawk, when you strike on brilliant ideas, you really bat a thousand.
That's what I was trying to imply by turning around instead of stopping by the moon. I'm not sure how nitehawk plans on saving propellant by using "rockets to get the DU to the moon." I can't imagine many good reasons for shipping a load of DU to the moon. Seems heavy.
Anybody who's pirating "lossless" (CD-quality) copies either doesn't know what he's doing or has an unusual set of ears. Your average Joe (me included) won't hear the difference - A 320kbps .mp3 will be indistinguishable from the original .wav. Most pirates pirate .mp3s.
A chunk of depleted uranium shaped in a thin cylinder with heat shielding on the front could easily get launched, go through Earth's atmosphere without much damage, and do a nuclear-bomb sized blast, all requiring very little propellant.
Except that DU isn't a major component of the moon's mineral deposits. The propellant in question wouldn't be that necessary to get off the moon, but to get TO the moon in the first place. And if you're going through the trouble to move a DU cylinder that far above Earth's surface, why bother stopping off at the moon instead of just turning around? Any rocks launched from the moon would be rocks found on the moon.
Google execs.
I'm so tired of hearing comments like this, nothing was taken!
It's not hard to figure out what he meant - He was replaced by Indians. There's a negligible difference between "took my job" and "took over the job I was doing in spite of my protest". Do you also object to the headline, as robots aren't "taking" jobs, they're just being given jobs that used to belong to humans?
Many people probably assume it starts after 40hs a week like in the US.
For white collar workers with a salary of more than $47,476, that's not necessarily true. I've had positions where it was explicitly explained to me that the 40 hour week was a minimum and less than expected.
Sadly, if these people have been working 60+ hours a week for years, work is their life - send them home and they'll get depressed, fight with their families, and otherwise have to find some meaning to their life outside the company.
I don't disagree BUT:
Depression is treatable and, if it's a result of a lifestyle change, temporary.
Fights with family are typically resolved and are part of forming family bonds.
As for finding meaning to life outside the company, I'm not sure any exists but the opportunity to quest for it should be available to everyone on the planet.