But it is indeed more important to the person that's experiencing it. We're not a Borg. You feed your stomach first...
I don't know why he's making such a fuss about it all, he doesn't have to read all of it. OK the quizzes are a bit of a spam problem since facebook treats each of them differently so you can't just exclude them all in one go.
But I think it's a bit like sitting in the same room as friends who are going "Ouch, I just cut my pinky", or "Yay I just got a new haircut", if you're not willing to ignore it and find that such a huge annoyance, why are you in the "same room" as them? Why are you even friends with them?
Don't like it, don't "sit in the same room". Fact is, most of the rest of us in the world don't actually see your facebook friends "mundane postings" so they aren't really announcing it to the world. They're just announcing it to their friends, and stalkers...
> There were a couple of IM programs that let you see the other person's message as it was typed too, but everyone dropped that feature because nobody liked it.
Yeah I think it's a stupid idea to let people see your typos as you type them.
And it's a waste of time to watch someone make typos and wait for them to finally correct everything (mostly) and "press enter".
If the answer is "don't watch them then", then why waste time, resources and network bandwidth sending useless info - just wait till they've _committed_ on their message before sending it to me.
It's about as productive as being able to watch someone write a 3000 word email to me, as they are writing it, before they finally click "send". They might realize what they really want to say and decide to only send 10 words in the end.
Or after reading what they were about to send on the screen people might regain their sanity, decide it's not such a great idea to flame their boss on that issue, and just politely agree to disagree.
You can manage your heart rates. Calm yourself down and it goes down.
I'm sure the pulse has an effect, just hold and point a laser pointer at the far wall and watch it move. Maybe it's rock steady for you. But I think competitive shooters will be interested in whatever edge they can get.
How do they power the heart though, and how long does it run "portable".
It might well be that people/animals with artificial hearts are more likely to survive drowning since the artificial heart might still merrily pump away even if the blood oxygen drops low. And when someone finally does get the air into the lungs (and the water out first), there's no need to kickstart the heart - it's already pumping the oxygenized blood.
Even so, if there are other drunk people around who've watched a bit too many movies, she might get a stake through her "heart" or worse.
Re:Why all that antismoking bullshit?
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Heh I told someone (a smoker) why smoking was actually a good thing for the country, and when he realized I was correct he tried to quit. He tried for a few days, but I don't think he succeeded though.
> It's not the rate of energy release that is an issue, but rather energy density
In some ways it's also the other way around. It's hard to stick a lump of coal or fat into your phone and use it to keep your phone running for hours. We have lots of fuels with high energy density. The trouble is getting it in and out safely, consistently and in the form we want.
If someone managed to produce a suitable fuel cell, we could be refueling our devices with alcohol/vegetable oil or something similar and be able to run it for two weeks nonstop instead of a mere 6 hours. A laptop battery isn't cheap and I expect it to only last 2 years or so. Spending a similar amount for fuel packs isn't going to be a big issue.
As for ways to go... The other day I was watching a tiny fruit/pomace fly flying around - you know the ones not much bigger than a period, and going wow - imagine how hard it would be to build something like that. They can fly for way more than a few minutes. Compared to li-po powered RC helis which only do about 6-10 minutes. Flies and mosquitoes certainly don't die after flying for 10 minutes without food...
Also consider the migration of hummingbirds - apparently 800km across the Gulf of Mexico without refuelling! The last I checked hummingbirds don't glide very well - so it's keep flapping or die.
Sadly it's no joke. On one 512MB RAM WinXP system, the AV software was taking up 280MB RAM peak. And the system was so slow - swapping a lot.
512MB should be enough ram for WinXP and an office app. But it's not going to be enough when the AV software takes up more than half of it during the boot up phase till "steady state".
Why all that antismoking bullshit?
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> I'd be more impressed if it went to healthcare.
In the UK, apparently smokers cost the NHS (the UK healthcare system) an extra 5 billion pounds a year. However, the tobacco taxes come up to about 10 billion pounds a year. Simple math there. I believe the math is similar in many other "developed" countries. And if there are countries without much of a subsidized healthcare system but with tobacco taxes - smokers there would be even better "contributors" (and they already pay higher insurance premiums anyway).
I'm a nonsmoker, and if I was in the UK, I'd say let the smokers smoke if they want to. Sure discourage people from smoking tell them of the risks (starting from a young age) etc, but if they want to smoke, let them smoke. Don't ban restaurants/pubs/clubs that allow smoking, just tax them more than those that don't. Maybe even tax apartments and office buildings that allow smoking more than those that don't (get decent economists, statisticians/actuaries to work out reasonable numbers).
I find it rather stupid that Governments keep making worrying noises about aging populations when smokers (and the obese) are helping to solve the problem.
After all, in my country if someone on a pension dies, the spouse just gets half (no payout if no spouse). So if those people die earlier after they stop working they save a lot of money. In contrast if they live till 80+ then get dementia/some other cancer and need to be kept in a nursing home/hospital till they finally keel over at 90, they're costing quite a lot more.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everyone should smoke or everyone should die earlier. But if people insist on sacrificing their lives for their country why make such a big fuss about some second hand smoke?
Sure if you're a nonsmoker and sat next to a puffing smoker all day your odds of dying go up. But with my tax suggestion there are more likely to be places - pubs, restaurants, malls, apartments, companies where smoking isn't allowed, and so you can go there if you want.
Heck, with some of the savings, the gov could present the families of the top contributing smokers a "Black Lung" award just like the "Purple Heart"... Of course that'll be rather politically incorrect.;)
An AC pointed out that some people are working on "brakes" now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP
It's substantially different from my idea - a lot more sophisticated. But yeah maybe we'll eventually get brakes.
FWIW, I submitted my suggestions to the www-html mailing list and mozilla about 7 years ago. One or two list readers said they wanted something like that, but the rest said stuff like "No you should use libraries".
The myspace and google worms had their merry way... So I resubmitted it again.
That's a pretty long time. Oh well, maybe we'll see a brake pedal eventually. Like I said, I don't care how it looks as long as it works and is easy to use.
Heh at least I'm not a patent troll. In my experience ideas are easy - getting stuff implemented is the hard part. I'm happy if people just improved stuff faster.
p.s. Maybe it'll be another 7 years before someone actually implements something like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693 Too bad after all the years and alleged billions all we got was UAC from Microsoft, and maybe a few sandboxed browsers.
And how do you know your one filter subroutine is going to see the same pedals the same way as the major browsers out there, and all the various minor versions of them, and in the various different language configurations?
I think you underestimate the problem.
You may expect the major browsers to parse everything the same way, and the same way as your escaping/filtering library from a websecurity POV.
I bet they won't.
Go check out the various links in my other posts on this article and see the joys of dealing with Unicode/UTF7/UTF8, etc.
Worse if you need to allow _some_ fancy stuff but not all.
To use a car analogy, browsers nowadays are like cars with 1000+ gas pedals, many placed in strange and unexpected places. But not a single brake pedal.
To stop, you must ensure that NONE of the 1000+ gas pedals are pressed.
If a hacker rides past and manages to press one of those pedals, you crash and burn.
I really don't care what it ends up looking like as long as it works and is easy to use.
What if one day your filters disagree with some of your users browsers in their parsing? All the different browsers and filters might be correct according to different interpretations of the standard(s) - just some ambiguity makes them all right and yet some different.
With my proposal as long as they interpret the brake pedal correctly, they could still be safe (there's no 100%, but hey at least things will be safer).
I personally think it'll be funny to watch the fireworks if Kingsoft introduces a Microsoft Outlook clone (and maybe even an Exchange backend). Especially if Kingsoft Office skips the ribbon interface or makes it optional.
Go check out Kingsoft. Did they do a "huawei" on Microsoft;).
But really the opensource bunch have and will change the UI. And since a large number of the developers are not as market driven, they may do even sillier stuff. Microsoft does eventually listen - just look at Vista -> Windows 7.
Whereas do the KDE bunch listen? My experience is they're just going to say "WORKSFORME". Believe me KDE is inferior in many ways when compared to the Windows stuff. KDE tiles tasks on their taskbar top to bottom first then left to right. That's broken since if you close one task everything to the right shuffles position. So I'm not optimistic when looking at KDE 4.x.
My desktop system is running Windows XP SP3, and my server system is running Ubuntu (but with no GUI). And I'll say to the OSS purists/fanatics out there: "WORKSFORME".
But really the fact you bunch are still around and "everywhere" (science, arts, media, finance, etc) for your relatively small numbers, does make some people go "hmmm...".
Some guy I know says it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but still...
On a vaguely related note, the Arabs are Semites too, a lot of people tend to forget that when they use the term anti-semitic (especially on Arabs;) ).
In the Bible it's said: "Ishmael will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him". Many of the Arabs regard themselves as descendants of Ishmael.
But it's interesting to see the relationship between Egypt and Israel still remains somewhat different from Israel vs the Arabs. A fair number of Egyptians till today don't regard themselves as Arabs - they say they are Egyptians (don't bring it up if you're amongst two or more Egyptians who may disagree on this though;) ).
> say someone like SAP as the high end restaurant - they'll customize your order and give you whatever you want, just don't ask how much it will cost.
Maybe times have changed, but back in the days SAP was like one of those high end restaurants indeed.
The one where you're going to eat it the way the chef likes it. If you'd rather it different, sorry you're WRONG. No compromises.
Yes it's going to cost you a lot too, and after spending a fortune (yours or your company's $$$) on it, you're going to pretend you like it just like everyone else at the table:).
Still being somewhat unsatisfied, you might call one of your underlings to whip you up something, and voila instant spaghetti with Open Sauce. And everyone gets heartburn...
> and with the exception of KDE 3.5->4.X, you just don't see the major UI changes in Linux that you do in Windows.
Don't worry, I hear the Mozilla bunch are going to introduce a ribbon too. OK after the uproar I hear they're not going to call it a ribbon, but they still intend to change the UI significantly:).
As for the KDE change, that's the reason I stopped using KDE after so many years of using KDE. I don't really like GNOME, but it became a lesser evil in comparison to KDE 4.x.
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But it is indeed more important to the person that's experiencing it. We're not a Borg. You feed your stomach first...
I don't know why he's making such a fuss about it all, he doesn't have to read all of it. OK the quizzes are a bit of a spam problem since facebook treats each of them differently so you can't just exclude them all in one go.
But I think it's a bit like sitting in the same room as friends who are going "Ouch, I just cut my pinky", or "Yay I just got a new haircut", if you're not willing to ignore it and find that such a huge annoyance, why are you in the "same room" as them? Why are you even friends with them?
Don't like it, don't "sit in the same room". Fact is, most of the rest of us in the world don't actually see your facebook friends "mundane postings" so they aren't really announcing it to the world. They're just announcing it to their friends, and stalkers...
> There were a couple of IM programs that let you see the other person's message as it was typed too, but everyone dropped that feature because nobody liked it.
Yeah I think it's a stupid idea to let people see your typos as you type them.
And it's a waste of time to watch someone make typos and wait for them to finally correct everything (mostly) and "press enter".
If the answer is "don't watch them then", then why waste time, resources and network bandwidth sending useless info - just wait till they've _committed_ on their message before sending it to me.
It's about as productive as being able to watch someone write a 3000 word email to me, as they are writing it, before they finally click "send". They might realize what they really want to say and decide to only send 10 words in the end.
Or after reading what they were about to send on the screen people might regain their sanity, decide it's not such a great idea to flame their boss on that issue, and just politely agree to disagree.
> Confusing Watts and Joules much?
The EPA max limit for fuel dispensing is 10 gallons per minute.
One litre of petrol has about 34.2 megajoules in combustion energy.
So that works out to about 21.5 Megawatts as the upper limit for fuel dispensers (some of which could clearly hit those - hence the regulations).
Assuming the pumps now operate at half the flow it's still about 10MW.
It's fine if you use fuel cells that run on petrol/gasoline instead of batteries[1].
:) ).
50 litres of petrol in two minutes = 50 * 34 megajoules in 120 seconds = 14 megawatts.
Random fact: the EPA limits fuel pumps to a max of 37.9 litres / minute (or 21.5 megawatts
[1] You'd still want super capacitors or much smaller batteries to store energy for regenerative braking.
It's 2 minutes not 2 hours. So your figures are 60x less than what they should be.
Try: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=32+megajoules+*+50+%2F+(2+*60+seconds)
About 13MW.
You can manage your heart rates. Calm yourself down and it goes down.
I'm sure the pulse has an effect, just hold and point a laser pointer at the far wall and watch it move. Maybe it's rock steady for you. But I think competitive shooters will be interested in whatever edge they can get.
Maybe the judge finally bothered to do some reading up on the actual novelty of the invention.
Well I hope they don't try the defibrillator ;).
How do they power the heart though, and how long does it run "portable".
It might well be that people/animals with artificial hearts are more likely to survive drowning since the artificial heart might still merrily pump away even if the blood oxygen drops low. And when someone finally does get the air into the lungs (and the water out first), there's no need to kickstart the heart - it's already pumping the oxygenized blood.
Even so, if there are other drunk people around who've watched a bit too many movies, she might get a stake through her "heart" or worse.
Heh I told someone (a smoker) why smoking was actually a good thing for the country, and when he realized I was correct he tried to quit. He tried for a few days, but I don't think he succeeded though.
:).
Drug money
> It's not the rate of energy release that is an issue, but rather energy density
In some ways it's also the other way around. It's hard to stick a lump of coal or fat into your phone and use it to keep your phone running for hours. We have lots of fuels with high energy density. The trouble is getting it in and out safely, consistently and in the form we want.
If someone managed to produce a suitable fuel cell, we could be refueling our devices with alcohol/vegetable oil or something similar and be able to run it for two weeks nonstop instead of a mere 6 hours. A laptop battery isn't cheap and I expect it to only last 2 years or so. Spending a similar amount for fuel packs isn't going to be a big issue.
As for ways to go... The other day I was watching a tiny fruit/pomace fly flying around - you know the ones not much bigger than a period, and going wow - imagine how hard it would be to build something like that. They can fly for way more than a few minutes. Compared to li-po powered RC helis which only do about 6-10 minutes. Flies and mosquitoes certainly don't die after flying for 10 minutes without food...
Also consider the migration of hummingbirds - apparently 800km across the Gulf of Mexico without refuelling! The last I checked hummingbirds don't glide very well - so it's keep flapping or die.
Sadly it's no joke. On one 512MB RAM WinXP system, the AV software was taking up 280MB RAM peak. And the system was so slow - swapping a lot.
512MB should be enough ram for WinXP and an office app. But it's not going to be enough when the AV software takes up more than half of it during the boot up phase till "steady state".
> I'd be more impressed if it went to healthcare.
;)
In the UK, apparently smokers cost the NHS (the UK healthcare system) an extra 5 billion pounds a year. However, the tobacco taxes come up to about 10 billion pounds a year. Simple math there. I believe the math is similar in many other "developed" countries. And if there are countries without much of a subsidized healthcare system but with tobacco taxes - smokers there would be even better "contributors" (and they already pay higher insurance premiums anyway).
I'm a nonsmoker, and if I was in the UK, I'd say let the smokers smoke if they want to. Sure discourage people from smoking tell them of the risks (starting from a young age) etc, but if they want to smoke, let them smoke. Don't ban restaurants/pubs/clubs that allow smoking, just tax them more than those that don't. Maybe even tax apartments and office buildings that allow smoking more than those that don't (get decent economists, statisticians/actuaries to work out reasonable numbers).
I find it rather stupid that Governments keep making worrying noises about aging populations when smokers (and the obese) are helping to solve the problem.
After all, in my country if someone on a pension dies, the spouse just gets half (no payout if no spouse). So if those people die earlier after they stop working they save a lot of money. In contrast if they live till 80+ then get dementia/some other cancer and need to be kept in a nursing home/hospital till they finally keel over at 90, they're costing quite a lot more.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everyone should smoke or everyone should die earlier. But if people insist on sacrificing their lives for their country why make such a big fuss about some second hand smoke?
Sure if you're a nonsmoker and sat next to a puffing smoker all day your odds of dying go up. But with my tax suggestion there are more likely to be places - pubs, restaurants, malls, apartments, companies where smoking isn't allowed, and so you can go there if you want.
Heck, with some of the savings, the gov could present the families of the top contributing smokers a "Black Lung" award just like the "Purple Heart"... Of course that'll be rather politically incorrect.
An AC pointed out that some people are working on "brakes" now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP
It's substantially different from my idea - a lot more sophisticated. But yeah maybe we'll eventually get brakes.
FWIW, I submitted my suggestions to the www-html mailing list and mozilla about 7 years ago. One or two list readers said they wanted something like that, but the rest said stuff like "No you should use libraries".
The myspace and google worms had their merry way... So I resubmitted it again.
How about phone banking then?
That pussy-ass universe you talk about is very intriguing, but I'm still stuck in the basement. Send some pictures you insensitive clod!
Maybe that's a more sensible proposal.
But what's not so sensible is it's taken about 7 years since I tried to get people to do something about it:
http://markmail.org/message/pgcka6wlxgbfyep7
http://www.mail-archive.com/mozilla-security@mozilla.org/msg01448.html
That's a pretty long time. Oh well, maybe we'll see a brake pedal eventually. Like I said, I don't care how it looks as long as it works and is easy to use.
Heh at least I'm not a patent troll. In my experience ideas are easy - getting stuff implemented is the hard part. I'm happy if people just improved stuff faster.
p.s. Maybe it'll be another 7 years before someone actually implements something like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
Too bad after all the years and alleged billions all we got was UAC from Microsoft, and maybe a few sandboxed browsers.
And how do you know your one filter subroutine is going to see the same pedals the same way as the major browsers out there, and all the various minor versions of them, and in the various different language configurations?
I think you underestimate the problem.
You may expect the major browsers to parse everything the same way, and the same way as your escaping/filtering library from a websecurity POV.
I bet they won't.
Go check out the various links in my other posts on this article and see the joys of dealing with Unicode/UTF7/UTF8, etc.
> Filtering user input properly would have stopped this though
Yeah but I think a lot of people underestimate the difficulty of "properly".
Even when it comes to simple stuff like escaping angled brackets:
http://cansecwest.com/csw09/csw09-weber.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437948/30/0/threaded
More here:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200704/xss_with_utf7.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31183/discuss
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060817/variable-width-encoding/
Worse if you need to allow _some_ fancy stuff but not all.
To use a car analogy, browsers nowadays are like cars with 1000+ gas pedals, many placed in strange and unexpected places. But not a single brake pedal.
To stop, you must ensure that NONE of the 1000+ gas pedals are pressed.
If a hacker rides past and manages to press one of those pedals, you crash and burn.
I've been proposing a brake pedal for browsers for years: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1384497&cid=29565569
I really don't care what it ends up looking like as long as it works and is easy to use.
What if one day your filters disagree with some of your users browsers in their parsing? All the different browsers and filters might be correct according to different interpretations of the standard(s) - just some ambiguity makes them all right and yet some different.
With my proposal as long as they interpret the brake pedal correctly, they could still be safe (there's no 100%, but hey at least things will be safer).
Agh, the line: browser treated some unicode characters as ""
Should read:
browser treated some unicode characters as "<".
See this: http://cansecwest.com/csw09/csw09-weber.pdf
Forgot that Plain Old Text is not Plain Old Text in Slashdot.
Oh yeah there's also: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437948/30/0/threaded
Hey you brought up Office 2007 first ;).
;).
I personally think it'll be funny to watch the fireworks if Kingsoft introduces a Microsoft Outlook clone (and maybe even an Exchange backend). Especially if Kingsoft Office skips the ribbon interface or makes it optional.
Go check out Kingsoft. Did they do a "huawei" on Microsoft
But really the opensource bunch have and will change the UI. And since a large number of the developers are not as market driven, they may do even sillier stuff. Microsoft does eventually listen - just look at Vista -> Windows 7.
Whereas do the KDE bunch listen? My experience is they're just going to say "WORKSFORME". Believe me KDE is inferior in many ways when compared to the Windows stuff. KDE tiles tasks on their taskbar top to bottom first then left to right. That's broken since if you close one task everything to the right shuffles position. So I'm not optimistic when looking at KDE 4.x.
My desktop system is running Windows XP SP3, and my server system is running Ubuntu (but with no GUI). And I'll say to the OSS purists/fanatics out there: "WORKSFORME".
Plenty of Jews don't believe God exists.
;) ).
;) ).
But really the fact you bunch are still around and "everywhere" (science, arts, media, finance, etc) for your relatively small numbers, does make some people go "hmmm...".
Some guy I know says it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but still...
On a vaguely related note, the Arabs are Semites too, a lot of people tend to forget that when they use the term anti-semitic (especially on Arabs
In the Bible it's said: "Ishmael will be a wild donkey of a man, His hand will be against everyone, And everyone's hand will be against him". Many of the Arabs regard themselves as descendants of Ishmael.
But it's interesting to see the relationship between Egypt and Israel still remains somewhat different from Israel vs the Arabs. A fair number of Egyptians till today don't regard themselves as Arabs - they say they are Egyptians (don't bring it up if you're amongst two or more Egyptians who may disagree on this though
> say someone like SAP as the high end restaurant - they'll customize your order and give you whatever you want, just don't ask how much it will cost.
:).
Maybe times have changed, but back in the days SAP was like one of those high end restaurants indeed.
The one where you're going to eat it the way the chef likes it. If you'd rather it different, sorry you're WRONG. No compromises.
Yes it's going to cost you a lot too, and after spending a fortune (yours or your company's $$$) on it, you're going to pretend you like it just like everyone else at the table
Still being somewhat unsatisfied, you might call one of your underlings to whip you up something, and voila instant spaghetti with Open Sauce. And everyone gets heartburn...
> and with the exception of KDE 3.5->4.X, you just don't see the major UI changes in Linux that you do in Windows.
:).
Don't worry, I hear the Mozilla bunch are going to introduce a ribbon too. OK after the uproar I hear they're not going to call it a ribbon, but they still intend to change the UI significantly
As for the KDE change, that's the reason I stopped using KDE after so many years of using KDE. I don't really like GNOME, but it became a lesser evil in comparison to KDE 4.x.
There's also (d) This is just a publicity stunt and NASA is going to mostly ignore the submissions anyway.
See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30217550/
So go ahead waste your time. I'm not even sure if they will bother reading submissions after the first randomly sampled 1000 or so.