This is kind of stupid. The entire point of a password manager is convenience, not security. People who are truly concerned about security would not even be using a browser's password manager anyway. If you try to secure a browser's password manager, you'll probably end up making it useless.
..you can try teaching them TI-BASIC or MATLAB. They're very simple programming languages that still have common aspects of programming (control structures, variables, etc.). Depending on what calculator you use to teach TI-BASIC, it might even be impossible to make typos (e.g. Than instead of Then).
As I said, these aren't really programming languages, but that's how I started out. Arguably, I'm still "starting out" though...
The problem here is that there isn't even a hair to split in the first place--using one word to refer to a larger thing is common (it's synecdoche, as someone else pointed out). What's even worse is that "premise" is spelled wrong. So actually, the commenter claimed to find an error in the original post but was the source of the actual error.
I've read through at least some of both Halliday and Giancoli, but sometimes it's nice to have someone explain things to you instead. I happened to have some very good physics professors who always explained where every equation came from (although sometimes I couldn't figure out what they were getting at until they said, "Trust me on this math here" and suddenly wrote equations on the board).
Hey, I still listen to only 128 Kbps mp3 (and some AAC). It saves space. If I accidentally obtain an mp3 of higher quality, I downgrade it to 128 Kbps.
When we play LAN games at my apartment we play as though we were on Battle.net. That means no character editing (we haven't found a good editor yet anyway) and no item duping. We all play different builds, so there's rarely any argument as to who should get what item.
Seriously though, who can do serious work on a laptop by itself? There isn't even a mouse! When I want to do serious work or gaming on my laptop, I connect my laptop to an external screen, keyboard, and mouse. If you use an external screen, you're certainly free to choose to have it matte or glossy (I think--I didn't pay attention when getting mine; I just got the cheapest screen, which was matte). Besides, a laptop screen such as the MacBook's is really too small (IMHO) for serious graphic design work..
I agree; the reason they're giving for not having LAN play is full of crap. More secure? LAN play has no effect whatsoever on the security of Closed Battle.net, because nothing you do in one will affect the other. They just want us to play online so they can show us more ads or charge us a subscription fee.
Blizzard used to be an entertainment company with the emphasis on entertainment, but that's changed now.
They could be charging us instead. Anyway, the only SMS I receive from those kinds of companies is spam, because the cost of sending SMSes telling them I want something from them is prohibitively high. If I had Verizon, I would be glad that those spammers were getting charged.
None of that is natural selection, for one thing--none of the people you mentioned are dying because they are not fit enough to live in their environment, unless you count those without food and water. However, those that die from starvation or thirst die because humans are not adapted to living where they live, and surely we are not adapting to living there anytime soon. The few places without food or water that we live in are there because we use modern technology to make it habitable, not because we've suddenly evolved to live there.
You may say that it is artificial, not natural, selection at play in the examples you have given. After all, in a genocide, someone decides that all members of a certain race must die. However, subsets of a race can be considered to have the same allele frequencies as the entire race (of course the subset must be large enough to prevent the bottleneck effect). Thus no alleles are being selected for or against, except for the defining alleles of the race (for example, skin color). However, we still have members of the race left over, and they are free to reproduce in areas not affected by the genocide or after the genocide is over.
As for the homeless and those losing "their jobs, their livelihood, and their healthcare", this is largely random--it is not based on any defining characteristic of those people. Thus, it is not selection and cannot lead to evolution.
We do have limited shifts in allele frequencies in the modern human gene pool however--this is due more to social norms than to any other factors, and only increases the frequencies of alleles that are found in rapidly-growing populations, such as those in Asia. In the West, we do not reproduce so quickly and as such do not increase the number of copies of "Western" alleles as rapidly. Again, however, no alleles are any more adapted or fit than any other, so selection and evolution are still not taking place.
I'm disappointed that there are no geneticists or evolutionary biologists on Slashdot--anyone could see that your statements, while sometimes correct, are in fact fundamentally flawed.
Actually, this is completely unrelated. Bacteria for one thing have a significantly smaller genome, but are present in significantly higher quantities. Thus the capacity for them to evolve is always going to be greater than that for humans.
The main problem here is not that mutations aren't occurring; it's that they're not occurring frequently enough to be acted upon by natural selection. In fact, there is very little selection going on nowadays, as any innate problems are simply taken care of by modern medicine. There is also very little artificial selection (probably less than before, even), due to globalization. Without selection there can be no evolution.
Far from denying that we are animals, this thesis relies on the fact that we are just like every other organism in existence in our reliance on selection to evolve.
What on earth is USC Los Angeles? As opposed to another USC? There's only 1, which is in Los Angeles.
There's a university that's part of the University of California system called University of California, Los Angeles, or UCLA. That's not USC Los Angeles either.
By the way, it's USC that hosted this project.
This is certainly one of the stupidest comments I've ever had the misfortune to read on Slashdot.
First of all, I do have to admit that you are correct in stating "delete" != "backspace". However, you're using it to support the standard Windows-type keyboard, when in fact this little fact supports the Mac label. Backspace is supposed to move your current typing position one space backwards, not delete the character to the left of the cursor. Thus, "delete" is actually more appropriate. Some Mac-labeled keyboards are labeled with a symbol next to the delete keys explaining whether they are forward or backward delete.
Cmd is a DOS shell, but only in later Windows (probably the NT family). Otherwise, command is the DOS shell. Also, you'll note that "command" or that funky symbol is the actual label for the key, not "cmd". At any rate, command makes far more sense than control as a shortcut. I want to issue the command with a code of q, x, c, v, or w. So I type command q, command x, etc. What the hell does control mean? I want to control the letter q? I want to control the command indicated by the letter q?
As for the option key, that makes sense as well--pressing it will give you different options based on what other stuff you pressed. Right clicking on an application in the Dock will allow you to quite the application, but if you press option, you get the option to force quit instead. Besides, the option key is also labeled with alt, which, by the way, doesn't make sense when used without control. At least option makes sense without command.
Also, buying a Mac keyboard for his desktop will not solve the problem; in fact that will only make things worse. The command key is the Windows key, but the relative position of that key on a Mac keyboard is switched as compared to a Windows keyboard. So he would try to type alt, but would get Winkey instead. Also, that wouldn't enable him to use command shortcuts in Linux, which was the entire point of the question.
That said, I use a Windows keyboard with Mac OS X. I remapped the alt key to the command key and the Windows key to the option key. It works quite nicely.
Actually, Wikipedia relies on editors to find pages themselves; the detection is far from automatic. I'm assuming that at least 1 Slashdot reader knew what to do in this case, and let the Wikimedia Foundation know about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading
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This is kind of stupid. The entire point of a password manager is convenience, not security. People who are truly concerned about security would not even be using a browser's password manager anyway. If you try to secure a browser's password manager, you'll probably end up making it useless.
They said the worst-case scenario was 3 months of work: isn't February 2009 3 months from now?
"Le Trung" is not a Japanese name. Also, he lives in Canada.
Knowing some of my fellow Mac users, I wouldn't be surprised at all if at least some of them fell for it. :-/
..you can try teaching them TI-BASIC or MATLAB. They're very simple programming languages that still have common aspects of programming (control structures, variables, etc.). Depending on what calculator you use to teach TI-BASIC, it might even be impossible to make typos (e.g. Than instead of Then). As I said, these aren't really programming languages, but that's how I started out. Arguably, I'm still "starting out" though...
The problem here is that there isn't even a hair to split in the first place--using one word to refer to a larger thing is common (it's synecdoche, as someone else pointed out). What's even worse is that "premise" is spelled wrong. So actually, the commenter claimed to find an error in the original post but was the source of the actual error.
Hey, it's not just the inner city. My university in particular used to have problems with computers being stolen until they got locks.
I've read through at least some of both Halliday and Giancoli, but sometimes it's nice to have someone explain things to you instead. I happened to have some very good physics professors who always explained where every equation came from (although sometimes I couldn't figure out what they were getting at until they said, "Trust me on this math here" and suddenly wrote equations on the board).
That, and they probably have the best lego brick-making techniques in the world. The "fake legos" I've bought in the past are really quite crappy.
That's odd. I actually have that same amount of hard disk space available to me, but I'm constantly running out of room. Hmm......
Hey, I still listen to only 128 Kbps mp3 (and some AAC). It saves space. If I accidentally obtain an mp3 of higher quality, I downgrade it to 128 Kbps.
Oh crap, here comes an...wait, your apostrophe is after your "s". I am confused.
Actually, California's ZIP codes are all over 90000.
Last I checked, Dell laptops have the 4 pin FireWire port, meaning they can't supply power to connected devices. The 6 pin port is far more useful.
When we play LAN games at my apartment we play as though we were on Battle.net. That means no character editing (we haven't found a good editor yet anyway) and no item duping. We all play different builds, so there's rarely any argument as to who should get what item.
Seriously though, who can do serious work on a laptop by itself? There isn't even a mouse! When I want to do serious work or gaming on my laptop, I connect my laptop to an external screen, keyboard, and mouse. If you use an external screen, you're certainly free to choose to have it matte or glossy (I think--I didn't pay attention when getting mine; I just got the cheapest screen, which was matte). Besides, a laptop screen such as the MacBook's is really too small (IMHO) for serious graphic design work..
I agree; the reason they're giving for not having LAN play is full of crap. More secure? LAN play has no effect whatsoever on the security of Closed Battle.net, because nothing you do in one will affect the other. They just want us to play online so they can show us more ads or charge us a subscription fee.
Blizzard used to be an entertainment company with the emphasis on entertainment, but that's changed now.
They could be charging us instead. Anyway, the only SMS I receive from those kinds of companies is spam, because the cost of sending SMSes telling them I want something from them is prohibitively high. If I had Verizon, I would be glad that those spammers were getting charged.
None of that is natural selection, for one thing--none of the people you mentioned are dying because they are not fit enough to live in their environment, unless you count those without food and water. However, those that die from starvation or thirst die because humans are not adapted to living where they live, and surely we are not adapting to living there anytime soon. The few places without food or water that we live in are there because we use modern technology to make it habitable, not because we've suddenly evolved to live there.
You may say that it is artificial, not natural, selection at play in the examples you have given. After all, in a genocide, someone decides that all members of a certain race must die. However, subsets of a race can be considered to have the same allele frequencies as the entire race (of course the subset must be large enough to prevent the bottleneck effect). Thus no alleles are being selected for or against, except for the defining alleles of the race (for example, skin color). However, we still have members of the race left over, and they are free to reproduce in areas not affected by the genocide or after the genocide is over.
As for the homeless and those losing "their jobs, their livelihood, and their healthcare", this is largely random--it is not based on any defining characteristic of those people. Thus, it is not selection and cannot lead to evolution.
We do have limited shifts in allele frequencies in the modern human gene pool however--this is due more to social norms than to any other factors, and only increases the frequencies of alleles that are found in rapidly-growing populations, such as those in Asia. In the West, we do not reproduce so quickly and as such do not increase the number of copies of "Western" alleles as rapidly. Again, however, no alleles are any more adapted or fit than any other, so selection and evolution are still not taking place.
I'm disappointed that there are no geneticists or evolutionary biologists on Slashdot--anyone could see that your statements, while sometimes correct, are in fact fundamentally flawed.
Actually, this is completely unrelated. Bacteria for one thing have a significantly smaller genome, but are present in significantly higher quantities. Thus the capacity for them to evolve is always going to be greater than that for humans.
The main problem here is not that mutations aren't occurring; it's that they're not occurring frequently enough to be acted upon by natural selection. In fact, there is very little selection going on nowadays, as any innate problems are simply taken care of by modern medicine. There is also very little artificial selection (probably less than before, even), due to globalization. Without selection there can be no evolution.
Far from denying that we are animals, this thesis relies on the fact that we are just like every other organism in existence in our reliance on selection to evolve.
ESPN seems to disagree with you:
Here's South Carolina (abbreviated S. Car): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4025270771943828974&ei=ZnjmSLjEJYTyqAPgjpzWDw&q=south+carolina+football&vt=lf
And here's USC: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=usc&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#
Note that these are both from ESPN.
That, apparently, would be SC. http://www.sc.edu/
What on earth is USC Los Angeles? As opposed to another USC? There's only 1, which is in Los Angeles. There's a university that's part of the University of California system called University of California, Los Angeles, or UCLA. That's not USC Los Angeles either. By the way, it's USC that hosted this project.
This is certainly one of the stupidest comments I've ever had the misfortune to read on Slashdot.
First of all, I do have to admit that you are correct in stating "delete" != "backspace". However, you're using it to support the standard Windows-type keyboard, when in fact this little fact supports the Mac label. Backspace is supposed to move your current typing position one space backwards, not delete the character to the left of the cursor. Thus, "delete" is actually more appropriate. Some Mac-labeled keyboards are labeled with a symbol next to the delete keys explaining whether they are forward or backward delete.
Cmd is a DOS shell, but only in later Windows (probably the NT family). Otherwise, command is the DOS shell. Also, you'll note that "command" or that funky symbol is the actual label for the key, not "cmd". At any rate, command makes far more sense than control as a shortcut. I want to issue the command with a code of q, x, c, v, or w. So I type command q, command x, etc. What the hell does control mean? I want to control the letter q? I want to control the command indicated by the letter q?
As for the option key, that makes sense as well--pressing it will give you different options based on what other stuff you pressed. Right clicking on an application in the Dock will allow you to quite the application, but if you press option, you get the option to force quit instead. Besides, the option key is also labeled with alt, which, by the way, doesn't make sense when used without control. At least option makes sense without command.
Also, buying a Mac keyboard for his desktop will not solve the problem; in fact that will only make things worse. The command key is the Windows key, but the relative position of that key on a Mac keyboard is switched as compared to a Windows keyboard. So he would try to type alt, but would get Winkey instead. Also, that wouldn't enable him to use command shortcuts in Linux, which was the entire point of the question.
That said, I use a Windows keyboard with Mac OS X. I remapped the alt key to the command key and the Windows key to the option key. It works quite nicely.
Actually, Wikipedia relies on editors to find pages themselves; the detection is far from automatic. I'm assuming that at least 1 Slashdot reader knew what to do in this case, and let the Wikimedia Foundation know about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading