Not to mention that it wasn't the plot that sucked, but the cheesy lines full of clichés, the weak portrayal of groups of characters, and Sam Worthnothington.
When you troll an otherwise good film, at least do it right.
Yeah, right. Where's the (-1, Bad wishful thinking) option? First, Google would never do that. If it did, VP8 would be more likely than Theora. Microsoft can add either codec whenever they like, they won't lose that much from doing so, although I assume they would much prefer to support only H.264. Oh, and Google is unlikely to break IE, especially on purpose, unless its market share drops a fucking lot. And Theora would be bad for all those of us who want to want to get the quality that H.264 offers at current bandwidths, so, again, it would have to be "VP8" to get me on your boat.
Inconvenience everyone, and ask them to change their password, because 0.33% of your users were to careless, ignorant or stupid to protect their passwords? No, thank you.
What would you do if Slashdot ever did something like this?
That's one of the most ridiculous hypotheses I've ever read. Sure, it is possible, Sure, everything we know about aliens is based on speculations that don't go against our knowledge. But most speculations at least seem plausible and match the only example of an advanced civilization we know of.
And this single example has shown us a few things for which I would be surprised if they don't apply universally. The first is that no matter what the general population are, there would always be deviations and a small percentage of people who are different is enough to affect world-wide matters. The second is that if these different people don't exist or are unable to push the rest of the society like we do, the whole population would probably still be in the caves, because most of our progress depended on them.
Well, the last one seems plausible, though. However, I thought that the possibility that all aliens are still in the caves was already considered, and thus this story brings nothing new to us.
I don't think there's one reason for it all, though.
1. While I want to believe that life is abundant in the universe, complex life as ours might turn out to be rare. 2. For four billion years all life here was essentially living in the caves. We created our civilization in a wink lasting the mere fifty thousand years because homo sapiens somehow managed to look outside of the box by chance. Sure, being intelligent was an evolutionary advantage for the billions of years that the homo genus survived, so we didn't come out of nowhere, but there's still no guarantee that this happens often in the universe. We might be one of the few advanced civilizations. 3. What makes us think we can hear them? Have they developed the radio? Do they use broadcasts? What if they use encryption making the signals indistinguishable from noise? Why would they care to send signals to us? Maybe some of them "know" that there's a little chance that there's someone out there?
No sources say how the video was encrypted. Maybe it used weak crypto. Bad algorithm, a key based on a weak password that was easy to guess, or the key was available in some way from some source. I doubt that the story is about bruteforcing the key to AES 128 or something similar.
"We kpdf developers want to add it, but kde core developers won't allow it.
[...]
So unless you can convince the non believers you are not going to get that feature, sorry:-/"
Good quote from the discussion. That's how (many) people view disabling features for security reasons. The developers get to be called "non believers". How do you tell these users how bad the feature they want is? And these are geeks posting bugs, and developers, not average Joes. The average Joe might even refuse to use the more secure version, even though he's most vulnerable, ironically.
I thought IIS history had enough security problems, I'm don't think bringing PnP support would be a great idea. What does IIS have to do with hardware support anyway?
This should be opt-in, not opt-out. As cool as the idea is, someone messing with your emergency services by lighting emergency signals from space on your country just isn't cool. The countries should sign that they agree to have such emergency warnings issued above their territory. And maybe should otherwise participate in the system. Such deals are much better done with opt in, not opt out.
Also, who runs the system? It should be multinational, otherwise someone might decide to run false warnings during a war, or to otherwise hurt an enemy nation through it. Also, how long before someone launches an amateur satellite that makes fake warnings as a prank? The last one is not a big deal, but also worth spending a second thinking about.
Strangelets are hypothetical, nobody has ever seen, so they might not exist at all. LHC is less likely to produce strangelets than RHIC, but I can't read the paper to see why, but it has something to do with the different nature of the collisions. The energies are too low for production of micro black holes, though.
There's a driver for the card, but it's 2D only, and hasn't been improved in any way for the last 10 years or so. Of course, the card 3D performance is so weak that software acceleration on a modern CPU would probably be faster, however I was hugely disappointed when I wanted to get some 3D acceleration on one of my old Pentium 2 PC. And if you want a cheap card with no 3D or unusable 3D and free drivers, I'm pretty sure there are better options available.
I guess most people don't care, and select one of the browser at random, or click the first one. Of course, given that IE has the biggest market share, it is going to drop.
For the statistics to mean anything, they should tell what percentage of the people choose which browser on the ballot, otherwise it's meaningless.
Even if most people are choosing IE, it is still likely for IE to fall. So where are the stats about what the users choose on the ballot itself?
I don't know if it happens when somebody tries to connect to a normal network, but it sure does happen when somebody tries to connect to an ad-hoc network. I had been accused of planting eavesdropping devices at her home, after my ad-hoc network remained at her house after my visit to her, just like as described. So the theory might not explain how did that network appear in the first place, but it explains how it replicates and stays alive. It is a sound theory.
I wonder if replies such as this are an automatic reply, and if a study really confirms that cellular and WiFi signals increase the chances of cancer, without skewing the tests, would the responses on Slashdot be the same? I was about to make one like your before looking at the article, and then I thought, whoa, what if the studies were correctly executed? While I'm absolutely unconvinced that there is a link between cancer rates and microwave signals in cell phones and other wireless networks, but if a study shows the opposite I would have to reconsider this.
In this case, fortunately, it looks like out of the three studies tried to show a link, one was obviously skewed, one was complete bull, and the third I didn't bother to look at because TFA itself was full of crap (I stopped reading when I was the "Warning" idiocy). But if a study that's not obviously flawed, I'll hold my horses until someone finds the holes in it (this guys should at least try to make their studies *look* correct. Come on...)
I'm unattractive and lack social skills (who could tell!), so, well I didn't get the best of the bunch, either. Not only most of the girls I've been close with weren't attractive, but they weren't much clever either. There were ones who were unable to express an opinion in words on any matter, and even had trouble forming complete sentences, and sought my help for some classes.
For some weird reason, all of them with no exception, could use more than one application at a time, and knew how to close them.
The only person I knew who couldn't grasp multitasking was an elderly lady who wasn't able to replace the toilet paper in the toilet. I don't know why, but I have doubts that she would be able to use an iPad... Perhaps it should be dumbed down even more?
Sure, I *can* understand why she would like to get an iPad. I don't wonder at all. The point is that, especially when it is taken to such extreme, it is, well, utterly ridiculous.
Simplifying the user interface is one thing -- it's what people should aim at, especially for mobile devices. However: 1. It's orthogonal to whether the device is friendly to the advanced user (e.g. whether it is "hackable", what a silly word). But you're making it sound like this is somehow incompatible with a simple friendly user interface... Oh, and by the way it's the advanced user who one calls for help. 2. There is simplification and there is extreme inability to learn to do simply things such as closing an application. The second is especially ludicrous when it's combined with sacrificing a fundamental feature that almost all computer users utilize. Your claim that the fact that it is lacking is "feature" is laughable.
Your example with multitasking is bad. Sorry, your wife is one of the few. Even the most non-savvy users I've seen want to open more than one app at a time.
Either your wife is terribly stupid, or you fail terribly at explaining.
If someone is stupid enough to be unable understand that they need to close a program after they've finished using it, know what? It's their own fucking problem. Does she leave all her kitchen appliances plugged in the mains and on after she finishes cooking? Does she yell "Why are these fuse things so stupid?" when the power lines become overloaded and everything shuts down? Though maybe you have a single socket so that she doesn't try to do multitasking...
While trusting Microsoft on several seemingly "non-evil" moves would be foolish, "resetting your clock" for everything you consider a "violation" isn't less foolish. See, even if Microsoft ever becomes FLOSS-friendly they won't just say "Hey, let's not hamper this FLOSS project, we're FLOSS-friendly company!" if they see benefit in doing it.
I'm sure that everybody (myself included) would consider Google FLOSS-friendly, and I'm certain they did enough "clock-reset"-worthy "violations".
Both kinds of attitudes are extreme.
Just look at their recent track record and consider how much you can trust them. And that's never "fully", nor "not at all". Currently they are much worse then many other players, but are slightly better than what they used to be (mostly because they can do less to hurt FLOSS right now, and they have no choice but to play a little more friendly).
Also, this story doesn't show that Microsoft are becoming trustworthy for FLOSS folks, you are the first post here mentioning such possibility. It shows that FLOSS is doing well, and won a small victory here.
That's why I use real free and open source licenses, non abominations like the GPL. Making your software "free" and then fighting people using it with legal pressure, eh?
I put everything in the public domain, and I sleep well at night without having nightmares that someone might have violated my license.
Slashdot Mirror
Like the plot was only thing in a moving picture.
Not to mention that it wasn't the plot that sucked, but the cheesy lines full of clichés, the weak portrayal of groups of characters, and Sam Worthnothington.
When you troll an otherwise good film, at least do it right.
Yeah, right. Where's the (-1, Bad wishful thinking) option? First, Google would never do that. If it did, VP8 would be more likely than Theora. Microsoft can add either codec whenever they like, they won't lose that much from doing so, although I assume they would much prefer to support only H.264. Oh, and Google is unlikely to break IE, especially on purpose, unless its market share drops a fucking lot. And Theora would be bad for all those of us who want to want to get the quality that H.264 offers at current bandwidths, so, again, it would have to be "VP8" to get me on your boat.
That's a no, no, no, no and no.
Inconvenience everyone, and ask them to change their password, because 0.33% of your users were to careless, ignorant or stupid to protect their passwords? No, thank you.
What would you do if Slashdot ever did something like this?
That's one of the most ridiculous hypotheses I've ever read. Sure, it is possible, Sure, everything we know about aliens is based on speculations that don't go against our knowledge. But most speculations at least seem plausible and match the only example of an advanced civilization we know of.
And this single example has shown us a few things for which I would be surprised if they don't apply universally. The first is that no matter what the general population are, there would always be deviations and a small percentage of people who are different is enough to affect world-wide matters. The second is that if these different people don't exist or are unable to push the rest of the society like we do, the whole population would probably still be in the caves, because most of our progress depended on them.
Well, the last one seems plausible, though. However, I thought that the possibility that all aliens are still in the caves was already considered, and thus this story brings nothing new to us.
I don't think there's one reason for it all, though.
1. While I want to believe that life is abundant in the universe, complex life as ours might turn out to be rare.
2. For four billion years all life here was essentially living in the caves. We created our civilization in a wink lasting the mere fifty thousand years because homo sapiens somehow managed to look outside of the box by chance. Sure, being intelligent was an evolutionary advantage for the billions of years that the homo genus survived, so we didn't come out of nowhere, but there's still no guarantee that this happens often in the universe. We might be one of the few advanced civilizations.
3. What makes us think we can hear them? Have they developed the radio? Do they use broadcasts? What if they use encryption making the signals indistinguishable from noise? Why would they care to send signals to us? Maybe some of them "know" that there's a little chance that there's someone out there?
Do I root for the layers because they are the ones who will win, or because they are less evil than both sides?
No sources say how the video was encrypted. Maybe it used weak crypto. Bad algorithm, a key based on a weak password that was easy to guess, or the key was available in some way from some source. I doubt that the story is about bruteforcing the key to AES 128 or something similar.
"We kpdf developers want to add it, but kde core developers won't allow it.
[...]
So unless you can convince the non believers you are not going to get that feature, sorry :-/"
Good quote from the discussion. That's how (many) people view disabling features for security reasons. The developers get to be called "non believers". How do you tell these users how bad the feature they want is? And these are geeks posting bugs, and developers, not average Joes. The average Joe might even refuse to use the more secure version, even though he's most vulnerable, ironically.
I thought IIS history had enough security problems, I'm don't think bringing PnP support would be a great idea. What does IIS have to do with hardware support anyway?
This should be opt-in, not opt-out. As cool as the idea is, someone messing with your emergency services by lighting emergency signals from space on your country just isn't cool. The countries should sign that they agree to have such emergency warnings issued above their territory. And maybe should otherwise participate in the system. Such deals are much better done with opt in, not opt out.
Also, who runs the system? It should be multinational, otherwise someone might decide to run false warnings during a war, or to otherwise hurt an enemy nation through it. Also, how long before someone launches an amateur satellite that makes fake warnings as a prank? The last one is not a big deal, but also worth spending a second thinking about.
Strangelets are hypothetical, nobody has ever seen, so they might not exist at all. LHC is less likely to produce strangelets than RHIC, but I can't read the paper to see why, but it has something to do with the different nature of the collisions. The energies are too low for production of micro black holes, though.
I'm quite suprised that I can reach Slashdot's server now that Earth is destroyed and gone.
This is incorrect. I own an i740 graphics adapter and, unfortunately, it is unsupported:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel
There's a driver for the card, but it's 2D only, and hasn't been improved in any way for the last 10 years or so. Of course, the card 3D performance is so weak that software acceleration on a modern CPU would probably be faster, however I was hugely disappointed when I wanted to get some 3D acceleration on one of my old Pentium 2 PC. And if you want a cheap card with no 3D or unusable 3D and free drivers, I'm pretty sure there are better options available.
The GPL says that you're free to study the source code for any purpose.
http://secunia.com/advisories/search/?search=lynx
I guess most people don't care, and select one of the browser at random, or click the first one. Of course, given that IE has the biggest market share, it is going to drop.
For the statistics to mean anything, they should tell what percentage of the people choose which browser on the ballot, otherwise it's meaningless.
Even if most people are choosing IE, it is still likely for IE to fall. So where are the stats about what the users choose on the ballot itself?
I don't know if it happens when somebody tries to connect to a normal network, but it sure does happen when somebody tries to connect to an ad-hoc network. I had been accused of planting eavesdropping devices at her home, after my ad-hoc network remained at her house after my visit to her, just like as described. So the theory might not explain how did that network appear in the first place, but it explains how it replicates and stays alive. It is a sound theory.
I wonder if replies such as this are an automatic reply, and if a study really confirms that cellular and WiFi signals increase the chances of cancer, without skewing the tests, would the responses on Slashdot be the same? I was about to make one like your before looking at the article, and then I thought, whoa, what if the studies were correctly executed? While I'm absolutely unconvinced that there is a link between cancer rates and microwave signals in cell phones and other wireless networks, but if a study shows the opposite I would have to reconsider this.
In this case, fortunately, it looks like out of the three studies tried to show a link, one was obviously skewed, one was complete bull, and the third I didn't bother to look at because TFA itself was full of crap (I stopped reading when I was the "Warning" idiocy). But if a study that's not obviously flawed, I'll hold my horses until someone finds the holes in it (this guys should at least try to make their studies *look* correct. Come on...)
Tell me more about it.
I'm unattractive and lack social skills (who could tell!), so, well I didn't get the best of the bunch, either. Not only most of the girls I've been close with weren't attractive, but they weren't much clever either. There were ones who were unable to express an opinion in words on any matter, and even had trouble forming complete sentences, and sought my help for some classes.
For some weird reason, all of them with no exception, could use more than one application at a time, and knew how to close them.
The only person I knew who couldn't grasp multitasking was an elderly lady who wasn't able to replace the toilet paper in the toilet. I don't know why, but I have doubts that she would be able to use an iPad... Perhaps it should be dumbed down even more?
You're the one missing the point here.
Sure, I *can* understand why she would like to get an iPad. I don't wonder at all. The point is that, especially when it is taken to such extreme, it is, well, utterly ridiculous.
Simplifying the user interface is one thing -- it's what people should aim at, especially for mobile devices. However:
1. It's orthogonal to whether the device is friendly to the advanced user (e.g. whether it is "hackable", what a silly word). But you're making it sound like this is somehow incompatible with a simple friendly user interface... Oh, and by the way it's the advanced user who one calls for help.
2. There is simplification and there is extreme inability to learn to do simply things such as closing an application. The second is especially ludicrous when it's combined with sacrificing a fundamental feature that almost all computer users utilize. Your claim that the fact that it is lacking is "feature" is laughable.
Your example with multitasking is bad. Sorry, your wife is one of the few. Even the most non-savvy users I've seen want to open more than one app at a time.
Either your wife is terribly stupid, or you fail terribly at explaining.
If someone is stupid enough to be unable understand that they need to close a program after they've finished using it, know what? It's their own fucking problem. Does she leave all her kitchen appliances plugged in the mains and on after she finishes cooking? Does she yell "Why are these fuse things so stupid?" when the power lines become overloaded and everything shuts down? Though maybe you have a single socket so that she doesn't try to do multitasking...
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Don't worry, they are already slashdotted. That's what you get for requiring multiple requests to read a single article.
That they should sue Slashdot now, too!
While trusting Microsoft on several seemingly "non-evil" moves would be foolish, "resetting your clock" for everything you consider a "violation" isn't less foolish. See, even if Microsoft ever becomes FLOSS-friendly they won't just say "Hey, let's not hamper this FLOSS project, we're FLOSS-friendly company!" if they see benefit in doing it.
I'm sure that everybody (myself included) would consider Google FLOSS-friendly, and I'm certain they did enough "clock-reset"-worthy "violations".
Both kinds of attitudes are extreme.
Just look at their recent track record and consider how much you can trust them. And that's never "fully", nor "not at all". Currently they are much worse then many other players, but are slightly better than what they used to be (mostly because they can do less to hurt FLOSS right now, and they have no choice but to play a little more friendly).
Also, this story doesn't show that Microsoft are becoming trustworthy for FLOSS folks, you are the first post here mentioning such possibility. It shows that FLOSS is doing well, and won a small victory here.
That's why I use real free and open source licenses, non abominations like the GPL. Making your software "free" and then fighting people using it with legal pressure, eh?
I put everything in the public domain, and I sleep well at night without having nightmares that someone might have violated my license.