I'm fine with them showing me that my friends liked XYZ or etc. They are my friends, it's nice to know what they like. If you're not interested in knowing what your "acquaintances" like start hiding updates from them.
What is annoying is I've noticed recently that I get posts from XYZ just because a friend liked XYZ. If I don't like XYZ I disable ALL posts from XYZ. And If FB is going to charge XYZ for "reaching" me (instead of my friend) then they are doing something wrong.
So are the 1 million people FB are trying to charge Cuban for his actual fans or include friends of his fans? If they include friends of his fans it makes it worth even less.
Maybe it's relative? I think this programme was the one famous for grilling people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARDtalk Is it as hard nosed as HARDtalk?
Funny thing is I'm using Toshiba touchpad software on my workplace Dell, since the Toshiba version has more features (e.g. autodisable touchpad if mouse plugged in).
Unfortunately it also auto-disables the touchpad whenever I enable wireless (which is not that often, so not a big problem for me).
the Republicans are cutting taxes to please one group, while spending more to please others.
If the US Government keeps spending more money than it doesn't have, you end up with inflation.
So your US dollar becomes worth less. This in effect taxes everyone in the world with net positive amounts of US dollars (which includes Japan, China etc).
But it also taxes the US citizens. Now if the US Gov was spending that money on US citizens then it makes them rich at the expense of the rest of the world, which is good for the USA. However they are spending the money on wars that don't appear to be making the average or median US citizen better off. Just makes a rich minority richer.
Ever wonder why Foxcon didn't just grab android and make an iPhone clone?
Because if Foxconn did that, their whole business as a company that makes stuff for other companies is gone. Nobody will get them to make stuff for them.
They aren't as successful as Foxconn. And even if you abolish patent law, I doubt they will be as successful either - since Copyright law would remain and they won't be able to use Apple's IOS in USA with impunity.
1) One of the most dangerous jobs in the world - 9% die for job related reasons (get killed). 2) Almost everyone blames you for everything even though you don't actually have that much power.
As I mentioned, if you run the browser as a different (even more restricted) user, the damage is usually limited, unless the malware uses a privilege escalation exploit. So even if you have javascript enabled, you could still be OK.
From a Computer Science perspective the AV vendors are attempting something "harder" than solving the Halting Problem. They are not always able to have the full inputs or the full description of the program, and "harm"/"evilness" sometimes is harder to define. Halting Problem: given a program and its inputs figure out whether it will halt or run forever. Malware detection problem: given part of a program, and part of the inputs figure out whether it will cause significant harm.
Hence I prefer sandboxing, or running stuff with more limited privileges. Which is a bit like solving the Halting Problem by setting a limit on how long the program can run, no matter what it tries to do.
Of course in the real world, heuristics are sometimes good enough. But when the malware authors also have access to VirusTotal and AV software in general, they can ensure that their stuff passes all the tests.
I believe Android and other systems require the program to specify up front what privileges they want (and presumably then enforce it with sandboxing). I've proposed something similar before to Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
Requiring new programs to state what privileges they need (before deciding whether to run them or not) would be way better than the AV approach. Makes it easier to judge whether they will do something fishy or not - a screensaver is normally not likely to need network access.
And many here said I was stupid not to run antivirus software on my personal system. Fact is, Sophos and the rest of the AV idiots prove that the cure can be worse than the disease especially if you know how to avoid the disease.
I generally still believe that most normal Windows users are better off with some AV software, but nowadays when they still get infected and I still have to fix their frigging machines for them, it starts making me wonder whether they really are better off - the malware people do have access to the AV software so they can tweak their malware till it passes all of them.
Even though I don't use AV software, I won't get badly affected by most drive-bys since my browser does not run as the same user account as the account I use to log in to windows. The drive-by might set up the autorun and start up hooks, but they only apply to the browser account, which I don't use to log in. That browser has noscript and adblock too. I also use different browsers for banking (so pwning my Slashdot browser won't get you my bank stuff).
And I know how to upload stuff to virustotal to check before running it. So if the 30+ different AV software can't spot the virus, the virus would not be detected either if I installed AV software on my computer. The difference is the installed AV software would be using up my system resources every day, whereas I only need to do that check once in a long while. And the AV stuff is often exploitable[1] and they also have a habit of marking important stuff (or almost everything) as malware every few years.
If you pwn my video driver or do other stuff (zero day OS privilege escalation) then sure you can pwn me, but I bet the AV crap won't stop you either.
[1] Sophos, Symantec, McAfee, etc if you can crash them, they are likely to be exploitable, and their crappy software runs with higher privileges than my browsers.
Not really since that's useless if it doesn't get them elected. The voters could vote against their best interests and vote for the other guy instead of you. How does that help you as a politician?
By the way, don't think too much in cliches, or you won't be as smart as you could be. Cynical cliches (lawyer/politician jokes) or "feel good" cliches (you can do anything if you try hard enough) can be useful, but if you always think like that you're no longer actually thinking.
I said _most_ and the American Revolution was more of a war of independence than a revolution. Many of the people at the top of the US colonies stayed in power, they just didn't report or pay taxes to the British anymore. Plus you had George Washington not seize power (not sure what would have happened if he did - maybe a real revolution or civil war?).
Contrast the French Revolution, which had a lot of extreme nastiness (and did end up with a form of dictatorship) but fortunately for them it got better relatively fast.
I see people managing to fly drones (or drive) fine using 2D computer screens. And I also see people managing to crash often despite having depth perception.
And how does the blind person end up in a real polling place and use a real polling machine instead of a fake one?
Seriously, in countries where a private and secret ballot would matter, there are no elections or the elections are already rigged by The Great Dictator himself. In countries where the police force and judiciary somewhat works, it doesn't really matter - if your evil boss was trying to coerce 1000 votes, you would now have a way to get rid of your boss. If your evil boss was only coercing one vote out of thousands, it doesn't matter that much.
People should be more concerned over: 0) the voters being educated and informed enough to make the right decisions for themselves (yes people are different but too often they are actually voting for candidates who aren't aligned with their own interests). 1) the voters votes being counted correctly - no fraud. 2) gerrymandering
Otherwise you end up heading towards a dictatorship one way or another.
It makes no sense to kick up a big fuss over some random person tampering with a few voters if you have people tampering with the entire voting system and votes. I consider Diebolding an election as tampering with the election.
OK it's like the electronic engine management stuff (ECU etc) that keeps your car engine running well. As long as the car engine runs, it turns the alternator which supplies energy to the electronics and tops up the battery.
And just like you can restart a car engine using the stored battery charge, in theory you might be able to use this tech to store enough charge to shock the heart to restart it in case it stops (an ICD with a battery that's kept charged by the heartbeat).
The thing is who in their right mind would want to be elected President of the USA in the first place, much less re-elected?
It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - about 9% die due to job related issues (e.g. get killed). Everyone blames you for everything, even if you didn't do half of it, and you can't do half of it even if you wanted to.
The pay isn't that much more than the other political posts that would cause you a lot less aggravation and stress.
Business-to-business purchases for the production of goods and services are not taxed.
Under the FairTax, savings and investments are not taxed at all.
Think about the above harder. Are you still 100% sure there will be not enough loopholes to game the system?
If there aren't enough loopholes it'll be an amazing work of legislation. I'd love to see it. Unless of course it's the equivalent of 1000 pages of "IF THEN ELSE" statements;).
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Note that the second one has more difficult numbers for the given values, yet which of the two can you easily do without a calculator?
Yawn. I'd do both with Google. Real problems are those that can't be solved easily with Google or Wolfram Alpha.
I'm fine with them showing me that my friends liked XYZ or etc. They are my friends, it's nice to know what they like. If you're not interested in knowing what your "acquaintances" like start hiding updates from them.
What is annoying is I've noticed recently that I get posts from XYZ just because a friend liked XYZ. If I don't like XYZ I disable ALL posts from XYZ. And If FB is going to charge XYZ for "reaching" me (instead of my friend) then they are doing something wrong.
So are the 1 million people FB are trying to charge Cuban for his actual fans or include friends of his fans? If they include friends of his fans it makes it worth even less.
Maybe it's relative? I think this programme was the one famous for grilling people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARDtalk
Is it as hard nosed as HARDtalk?
For much lower risk and stress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives#Salaries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_pension
Funny thing is I'm using Toshiba touchpad software on my workplace Dell, since the Toshiba version has more features (e.g. autodisable touchpad if mouse plugged in).
Unfortunately it also auto-disables the touchpad whenever I enable wireless (which is not that often, so not a big problem for me).
the Republicans are cutting taxes to please one group, while spending more to please others.
If the US Government keeps spending more money than it doesn't have, you end up with inflation.
So your US dollar becomes worth less. This in effect taxes everyone in the world with net positive amounts of US dollars (which includes Japan, China etc).
But it also taxes the US citizens. Now if the US Gov was spending that money on US citizens then it makes them rich at the expense of the rest of the world, which is good for the USA. However they are spending the money on wars that don't appear to be making the average or median US citizen better off. Just makes a rich minority richer.
Ever wonder why Foxcon didn't just grab android and make an iPhone clone?
Because if Foxconn did that, their whole business as a company that makes stuff for other companies is gone. Nobody will get them to make stuff for them.
By the way there are plenty of companies in China making iphone clones: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/10-iphone-clones-you-never-see-before/
They aren't as successful as Foxconn. And even if you abolish patent law, I doubt they will be as successful either - since Copyright law would remain and they won't be able to use Apple's IOS in USA with impunity.
Still better than President of the USA.
1) One of the most dangerous jobs in the world - 9% die for job related reasons (get killed).
2) Almost everyone blames you for everything even though you don't actually have that much power.
I think there is a world market for about 5 Itanium computers.
You really sure "flashlight on gun" was considered a secret tactic?
See: http://ducttape.glenmurphy.com/
More reasons to not join the military.
http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_on_animals [
There's some evidence that humans shouldn't use marijuana if they are young and their brains are still developing: http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/11417/20120809/marijuana-brain-damage-memory-learning-drug-habit-addiction.htm
My question is with all that fancy stuff did Obama really win by a huge margin?
As I mentioned, if you run the browser as a different (even more restricted) user, the damage is usually limited, unless the malware uses a privilege escalation exploit. So even if you have javascript enabled, you could still be OK.
From a Computer Science perspective the AV vendors are attempting something "harder" than solving the Halting Problem. They are not always able to have the full inputs or the full description of the program, and "harm"/"evilness" sometimes is harder to define.
Halting Problem: given a program and its inputs figure out whether it will halt or run forever.
Malware detection problem: given part of a program, and part of the inputs figure out whether it will cause significant harm.
Hence I prefer sandboxing, or running stuff with more limited privileges. Which is a bit like solving the Halting Problem by setting a limit on how long the program can run, no matter what it tries to do.
Of course in the real world, heuristics are sometimes good enough. But when the malware authors also have access to VirusTotal and AV software in general, they can ensure that their stuff passes all the tests.
I believe Android and other systems require the program to specify up front what privileges they want (and presumably then enforce it with sandboxing). I've proposed something similar before to Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
Requiring new programs to state what privileges they need (before deciding whether to run them or not) would be way better than the AV approach. Makes it easier to judge whether they will do something fishy or not - a screensaver is normally not likely to need network access.
And many here said I was stupid not to run antivirus software on my personal system. Fact is, Sophos and the rest of the AV idiots prove that the cure can be worse than the disease especially if you know how to avoid the disease.
I generally still believe that most normal Windows users are better off with some AV software, but nowadays when they still get infected and I still have to fix their frigging machines for them, it starts making me wonder whether they really are better off - the malware people do have access to the AV software so they can tweak their malware till it passes all of them.
Even though I don't use AV software, I won't get badly affected by most drive-bys since my browser does not run as the same user account as the account I use to log in to windows. The drive-by might set up the autorun and start up hooks, but they only apply to the browser account, which I don't use to log in. That browser has noscript and adblock too. I also use different browsers for banking (so pwning my Slashdot browser won't get you my bank stuff).
And I know how to upload stuff to virustotal to check before running it. So if the 30+ different AV software can't spot the virus, the virus would not be detected either if I installed AV software on my computer. The difference is the installed AV software would be using up my system resources every day, whereas I only need to do that check once in a long while. And the AV stuff is often exploitable[1] and they also have a habit of marking important stuff (or almost everything) as malware every few years.
If you pwn my video driver or do other stuff (zero day OS privilege escalation) then sure you can pwn me, but I bet the AV crap won't stop you either.
[1] Sophos, Symantec, McAfee, etc if you can crash them, they are likely to be exploitable, and their crappy software runs with higher privileges than my browsers.
Not really since that's useless if it doesn't get them elected. The voters could vote against their best interests and vote for the other guy instead of you. How does that help you as a politician?
By the way, don't think too much in cliches, or you won't be as smart as you could be. Cynical cliches (lawyer/politician jokes) or "feel good" cliches (you can do anything if you try hard enough) can be useful, but if you always think like that you're no longer actually thinking.
I said _most_ and the American Revolution was more of a war of independence than a revolution. Many of the people at the top of the US colonies stayed in power, they just didn't report or pay taxes to the British anymore. Plus you had George Washington not seize power (not sure what would have happened if he did - maybe a real revolution or civil war?).
Contrast the French Revolution, which had a lot of extreme nastiness (and did end up with a form of dictatorship) but fortunately for them it got better relatively fast.
I see people managing to fly drones (or drive) fine using 2D computer screens. And I also see people managing to crash often despite having depth perception.
So I think her problem lies elsewhere.
Counting by hand scales linearly, without problem.
Only if you can find enough people who can count without problem. ;)
And how does the blind person end up in a real polling place and use a real polling machine instead of a fake one?
Seriously, in countries where a private and secret ballot would matter, there are no elections or the elections are already rigged by The Great Dictator himself. In countries where the police force and judiciary somewhat works, it doesn't really matter - if your evil boss was trying to coerce 1000 votes, you would now have a way to get rid of your boss. If your evil boss was only coercing one vote out of thousands, it doesn't matter that much.
People should be more concerned over:
0) the voters being educated and informed enough to make the right decisions for themselves (yes people are different but too often they are actually voting for candidates who aren't aligned with their own interests).
1) the voters votes being counted correctly - no fraud.
2) gerrymandering
Otherwise you end up heading towards a dictatorship one way or another.
It makes no sense to kick up a big fuss over some random person tampering with a few voters if you have people tampering with the entire voting system and votes. I consider Diebolding an election as tampering with the election.
In those sort of places they shoot bullets at each other. The leader is the one who has killed or subdued everyone else.
That's why most violent revolutions end up in dictatorships.
See also: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2012/09/10/the-science-of-pomato-plants-and-fruit-salad-trees/ ;).
http://www.fruitsaladtrees.com/
In theory you might be able to do tomato+ chilli + potato + other stuff in the same family. Not sure if they'd taste good though
OK it's like the electronic engine management stuff (ECU etc) that keeps your car engine running well. As long as the car engine runs, it turns the alternator which supplies energy to the electronics and tops up the battery.
And just like you can restart a car engine using the stored battery charge, in theory you might be able to use this tech to store enough charge to shock the heart to restart it in case it stops (an ICD with a battery that's kept charged by the heartbeat).
The thing is who in their right mind would want to be elected President of the USA in the first place, much less re-elected?
It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - about 9% die due to job related issues (e.g. get killed). Everyone blames you for everything, even if you didn't do half of it, and you can't do half of it even if you wanted to.
The pay isn't that much more than the other political posts that would cause you a lot less aggravation and stress.
Add tcp 3 way handshake and more for https.
What pisses me off is Nagle's Algo still defaulting to enabled. It's a hack job that belongs in the past.
From: http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FAQs
Business-to-business purchases for the production of goods and services are not taxed.
Under the FairTax, savings and investments are not taxed at all.
Think about the above harder. Are you still 100% sure there will be not enough loopholes to game the system?
If there aren't enough loopholes it'll be an amazing work of legislation. I'd love to see it. Unless of course it's the equivalent of 1000 pages of "IF THEN ELSE" statements ;).