"Your computer has been infected. Please install this program to clean it."
It's social engineering, and you can't protect against that. The installer needs admin rights to install, so people have to enter their password - and they do.
Seriously - how are you supposed to protect against that?
One of the really really neat things about wind turbines, is that they don't require land. They work just as well at sea, if not better, simply because there's no landscape to shelter the wind.
It may be real, and it is important that we educate those who are fearful with no reason to be so. Why?
Well, the fear of zombies may be at an all time high, but we're not going to be creating any anti-zombie police departments, burn all corpses to ash within 10 minutes of death or kill anyone who has been bitten by something or gotten blood on them.
While not perfect, does the MPAA rating scheme not give you at a glance a general idea as to how kid (or adult) friendly a movie is?
No, it really doesn't.
The MPAA rating system says that it is more harmful for a child to see a breast that it is to to hear "bad words", and that it is worse for it to hear "bad words" than it is to watch people getting killed.
I'm pretty sure you can stop spam with a gun as well.
Your computer is being used as a spam-relay-bot? It gets shot.
You have more than three or more computers in your household being used as a spam-relay-bot? All residents gets shot in the knees, AND all computers in your household gets shot.
Your company is selling wares through spam? The entire board of directors are shot in both knees and both elbows. Your stockholders gets shot in a foot.
You responsible for running a spam-relay-botnet? You get shot in the head.
See - you can stop spam with... well, not ONE gune - just lots of them.
A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?
I would expect that with the proper "gasket" between the two halves, the outside pressure would seal it even more than you could otherwise expect.
Keep in mind that it'll have something like a thousand atmospheres of pressure holding the two parts connected, provided the sphere and gasket can hold up to the pressure.
Those agencies all have a boss, for all but one the same boss
And that boss would be the sitting US president, would it not?
So, before this "Kenyan usurper" cheated his way into power, these agencies dropped the ball. If the buck stops at the boss, then the "Kenyan usurper" got illegally into office, because the Republic President of the United States of America screwed up.
An alternative theory, which I realize is simply a very, very weak claim, is that they didn't screw up, and that Obama is in fact an actual citizen of the US of A.
What I don't understand about this whole 'birther' issue, is why no one has pointed a finger at the DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA and Secret Service for fucking up at an insane level?
If the man is illegitimate, why did NONE of these agencies manage to find out BEFORE the election? They do massive background checks on all people involved, but are apparently so insanely incompetent, that they failed to notice the fake birth certificate that says "i r bron heer on haway".
Billion dollar agencies that the US puts all of their trust in. And they all missed that fake birth certificate.
If this is really the case, then that leads me to one of two conclusions: 1) They did find out but it was made super duper ultra insane top secret by the Bush White House 2) 8 years of the Bush White House managed to make the aforementioned birthers so insanely stupid, that they'd believe the moon was a Nazi Communist plot to take over the world
I have a 32 GB iPhone, and 32 GB in 90 seconds would be 364 MByte/second or 2,900 Mbit/second. Over a USB 2 connection. Suuure.
At most, MOST, you can extract 4.4 GB in 90 seconds (90 seconds * 400 Mbit/s), and I seriously doubt you'll find any phone that delivers that amount of throughput.
And keep in mind, the quote you have says "ALL of the photos and videos". The smalles iPhone is 8 GB, and at a much more realistic speed of 100 Mbit/s, that'd be close to 11 minutes.
If you think about it, streaming services can only go so fast. If youre streaming HD video from Netflix 105Mbit/s sounds a bit like overkill.
Why? If I'm streaming raw Bluray quality, that can be up to 54 Mbit/s, and I quite like having a bit of a buffer to work with.
If I'm in a multiway video conference, why should everybody be reduced to low quality video and sound? Build a proper encoder for a it (even hardware), and you could be doing Bluray quality video conferencing with your family and friends, instead of bad quality for everything.
The reason most services only go so fast, is that almost noone can go faster than that temporary upper limit.
And speaking of Netflix. If I'm paying for it, why shouldn't my household be able to watch five different things at once (wife, three kids, me), like we do with the telly? 720p x264 is around 0.5 MB/s. Five different TV shows at once would be 2.5 MB/s or about 25% of the line capacity.
Up that to 1080p and full surround, and we're starting to get quite close to 6 MB/s, which doesn't leave much room for buffering to be honest.
Now, an iTunes Store also requires you to be 13 or older:
REQUIREMENTS FOR USE OF THE SERVICE
This Service is available for individuals aged 13 years or older. If you are 13 or older but under the age of 18, you should review this Agreement with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand it.
Many parents just take the easy way out and give their kids access to their own full account, meaning that they themselves have been in breach of the terms of service for iTunes Store.
Another point is access. Sure, your 17-year-old kid might enjoy access to your iTunes Store account. So he uses it on the computer in the living room. And you also use it on your office computer. And laptop. And iPhone. And your wife's iPad.
But next year the kid's moving out, and your account is already tied to five devices (living room, office, laptop, iPhone, iPad) - now all the stuff the kid bought can't be used by him/her. Be it music, movies, apps or books. Or you have to give up accessing it on one of your devices. Get the kid a free iTunes Store account instead.
But - my point remains. No need for a debit card. Once the kids have a free account, they can still use the freemium games, this time without being able to buy stuff for ridiculous amounts of money. You can gift them purchases, like music or apps, or even give them a gift certificate for iTunes Store.
Hell, if you INSIST that the kids have access to your credit card enabled iTunes Store account, at least learn how to disable in-app purchases.
And if you don't know any of this stuff, why haven't you called Apple's help line? They give you 90 days free phone support to get to learn the product.
While I find the whole notion of freemium apps disgusting, as they are pretty much all designed to siphon money from kids of irresponsible children, it's not like there aren't ways to prevent the abuse on your own.
I seriously do not understand why people are so irresponsible with stuff that can access their credit cards. iTunes Store can access it. What can access iTunes store - computers, iPhones, iPods, iPads. Sounds like the perfect thing to give to a child then.
"The U.S. regards itself as "the beacon of democracy. However, its democracy is largely based on money. "
- Not that I like the big spending on elections, but is fund raising not part of the democracy? I highly doubt if fund raising for a political party is allowed in China.
Well, comparing it to China is only fair in that the US really only has twice as many viable parties as China does;)
But no, the two aren't comparable in political fund raising or cost of entering politics. Compare it to the EU. They are both western states/countries, they both have quite well established democracies (some individual states/countries of them obviously more corrupt than other).
I doubt China is seriously expecting anyone to look at the examples they've pulled up will go "They're right - China is so much better than the US". I think the point is akin to pointing out that it's rather ridiculous that you have people like John McCain claiming that marriage is sacred when he himself has been divorced AND has been unfaithful before the divorce. Obviously it's not THAT sacred to him.
I saw the video. Yes, the character climbs a ladder up to what I saw as "cloud nine" which has a tax haven. That's why I mentioned cloud nine in my comment.
I can't really ask this question without sounding like I'm trying to offend you personally, but that isn't the point. But I can't really tell if I'm really really smart or if the general public is ignorant.
Please remember, when you see 'haven' instead of 'heaven,' that English isn't everyone's first language.
What the fuck? Now you're mocking people for using the term "haven"? A perfectly acceptable word when talking about tax-free locations.
Dictionary.com definition of "haven"
ha ven [hey-vuhn]
-noun 1. a harbor or port. 2. any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum.
-verb (used with object) 3. to shelter, as in a haven.
Now, as a person for whom English is his 3rd language, allow me to dumb down my judgment of Roblimo's IQ and knowledge of English to a level that even he should be able to understand, despite it having three syllables: Imbecile.
You may also want to look up the term "walking on cloud nine".
Its not politically correct nor a popular notion, but massive technology and societal improvements are the direct result of war.
Certainly depends on the war.
What massive technological improvements did we see as a result of the 6 day war?
And I hate to break it to you, but a war is between the armies of two or more countries. What the US is engaged in in Afghanistan and Iraq are not wars anymore - they are police actions.
But please, do enlighten the curious amongst us - what civilian technological advancements have we seen as a result of the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq? I'll even let you use the first Gulf War, if you can think of anything other than improvements in GPS and autonomous navigation.
Now, it IS true that in the "good old days", both World War I and II brought some rather massive technological improvements, but the main reasons for that was the time they lasted and the amount of rapid evolution needed to keep up against the other sides.
Now, why can't we have similar improvements without war? We probably could, but that will never happen because of one thing - money. When we have an enemy that is on the brink of destroying us, we don't really care if we get paid on time. Or get paid. Keep us fed and clothed, and we'll work 16 hours a day pumping out new weapons and technology.
Let's set tuition at a REALLY high average cost of 100,000 dollars/year - TWICE that of Yale's most expensive program.
It would cost 263 billion dollars a year to give these student a 100,000 dollar college education. The US Defense Department budget was 689 billion dollars in 2010.
To be honest, I was expecting this to be a very different result. I seriously thought that the tuition for these freshmen would have been a LOT higher than the defense budget.
The question is - what would the US be able to achieve, as a nation, if they were to divert 263 billion dollars a year from its defense budget to pay for kids wanting to go to college? Sure, it'd have to drop the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which only cover some 150 billion dollars in the 2011 budget, so it'd have to pull another 120 billion from elsewhere in its budget. But would it really be that much less safe, if it reduced its budget from 661 billion to 398 billion? That would still put it a 3.98 times of what China spends in second place.
But seriously - can you look at these costs and still claim that you can never get any kind of similar boosts to technology and society, if you were willing to pump the same amount of money into education?
If we go with Yale's most expensive program (50k USD/year) and expect every freshman to complete and graduate a four year degree, we're looking at yearly costs of 526 billion USD. That'd still leave the Defense Department with 163 billion USD, which is STILL more than the second place spender.
But since the movie studio or distributor would be trying to force someone else to do something for them for free, something that they aren't paying for, can't pay for an have no absolute right to, I would hope any sane judge would throw that suit out of a 10th floor window. If the lawyer happens to be IN the suit at the time, so much the better.
After all - if they can force a company to give them free advertising, what's to stop them from forcing YOU to carry around a big advertising billboard six hours a week?
Just pull up every single title for every single movie, tv-show etc. on IMDB and have your search engine return
"We're terribly sorry, but since you've searched for the title of a movie, and we can't know if a link is legal or not, we have chosen not to be sued by the creators of $title and won't show any results. If you wish to know more about why you can't find any information about movies online, please call PFA at $phone number for further information."
And since your search engine isn't a paid service, it'd be hard to argue in court that it should return results that the copyright holders decide.
Let's see how the fuckers manage to get along and drum up publicity, if their crap can't be found online at all.
The problem is that when it hits concrete (or the floor of a bus) from any height, including the 2 feet from my pants pocket to the floor, it will shatter the glass.
Two things: 1) How tall are you? I've dropped my iPhone 4 onto the floor (be it hardwood, vinyl and concrete) five times so far, and the only time it's been from less than 3 feet was when it was in my shirt pocket and I was leaning over to tie my shoes (stupid) 2) Despite having dropped it from a higher height than you claim will shatter the glass, that still hasn't happened to mine.
Maybe - just maybe, it's not JUST a matter of the phone having a glass front and back. Maybe it's a matter of how you treat it. Maybe it's a matter of how it hits the surface. Maybe it's gremlins.
What I don't understand though - you obviously knew that "no phone should be made entirely of glass", yet you bought a phone made in that way. Why?
Actually, if say California was hit by a massive 9.0 earth quake, the RIAA and MPAA would suddenly be without any new productions, and they'd have to settle for compilations, reruns and rereleases....
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This isn't exploiting privileges.
"Your computer has been infected. Please install this program to clean it."
It's social engineering, and you can't protect against that. The installer needs admin rights to install, so people have to enter their password - and they do.
Seriously - how are you supposed to protect against that?
One of the really really neat things about wind turbines, is that they don't require land. They work just as well at sea, if not better, simply because there's no landscape to shelter the wind.
The Thanet Offshore Wind Project for instance is 300 MW.
Horns Rev 1 is 160 MW.
Sure, they take up a lot of space, but in case you hadn't noticed, there's a lot of relatively shallow sea bed available as well.
It may be real, and it is important that we educate those who are fearful with no reason to be so. Why?
Well, the fear of zombies may be at an all time high, but we're not going to be creating any anti-zombie police departments, burn all corpses to ash within 10 minutes of death or kill anyone who has been bitten by something or gotten blood on them.
No, it really doesn't.
The MPAA rating system says that it is more harmful for a child to see a breast that it is to to hear "bad words", and that it is worse for it to hear "bad words" than it is to watch people getting killed.
At least they weren't called SEAL Team Delta ...
I'm pretty sure you can stop spam with a gun as well.
Your computer is being used as a spam-relay-bot? It gets shot.
You have more than three or more computers in your household being used as a spam-relay-bot? All residents gets shot in the knees, AND all computers in your household gets shot.
Your company is selling wares through spam? The entire board of directors are shot in both knees and both elbows. Your stockholders gets shot in a foot.
You responsible for running a spam-relay-botnet? You get shot in the head.
See - you can stop spam with ... well, not ONE gune - just lots of them.
I would expect that with the proper "gasket" between the two halves, the outside pressure would seal it even more than you could otherwise expect.
Keep in mind that it'll have something like a thousand atmospheres of pressure holding the two parts connected, provided the sphere and gasket can hold up to the pressure.
And that boss would be the sitting US president, would it not?
So, before this "Kenyan usurper" cheated his way into power, these agencies dropped the ball. If the buck stops at the boss, then the "Kenyan usurper" got illegally into office, because the Republic President of the United States of America screwed up.
An alternative theory, which I realize is simply a very, very weak claim, is that they didn't screw up, and that Obama is in fact an actual citizen of the US of A.
What I don't understand about this whole 'birther' issue, is why no one has pointed a finger at the DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA and Secret Service for fucking up at an insane level?
If the man is illegitimate, why did NONE of these agencies manage to find out BEFORE the election? They do massive background checks on all people involved, but are apparently so insanely incompetent, that they failed to notice the fake birth certificate that says "i r bron heer on haway".
Billion dollar agencies that the US puts all of their trust in. And they all missed that fake birth certificate.
If this is really the case, then that leads me to one of two conclusions:
1) They did find out but it was made super duper ultra insane top secret by the Bush White House
2) 8 years of the Bush White House managed to make the aforementioned birthers so insanely stupid, that they'd believe the moon was a Nazi Communist plot to take over the world
I have to raise doubts about the 90 second claim.
I have a 32 GB iPhone, and 32 GB in 90 seconds would be 364 MByte/second or 2,900 Mbit/second. Over a USB 2 connection. Suuure.
At most, MOST, you can extract 4.4 GB in 90 seconds (90 seconds * 400 Mbit/s), and I seriously doubt you'll find any phone that delivers that amount of throughput.
And keep in mind, the quote you have says "ALL of the photos and videos". The smalles iPhone is 8 GB, and at a much more realistic speed of 100 Mbit/s, that'd be close to 11 minutes.
90 seconds my ass.
Why? If I'm streaming raw Bluray quality, that can be up to 54 Mbit/s, and I quite like having a bit of a buffer to work with.
If I'm in a multiway video conference, why should everybody be reduced to low quality video and sound? Build a proper encoder for a it (even hardware), and you could be doing Bluray quality video conferencing with your family and friends, instead of bad quality for everything.
The reason most services only go so fast, is that almost noone can go faster than that temporary upper limit.
And speaking of Netflix. If I'm paying for it, why shouldn't my household be able to watch five different things at once (wife, three kids, me), like we do with the telly? 720p x264 is around 0.5 MB/s. Five different TV shows at once would be 2.5 MB/s or about 25% of the line capacity.
Up that to 1080p and full surround, and we're starting to get quite close to 6 MB/s, which doesn't leave much room for buffering to be honest.
Or do the simple and responsible thing - create a free account.
Now, an iTunes Store also requires you to be 13 or older:
Many parents just take the easy way out and give their kids access to their own full account, meaning that they themselves have been in breach of the terms of service for iTunes Store.
Another point is access. Sure, your 17-year-old kid might enjoy access to your iTunes Store account. So he uses it on the computer in the living room. And you also use it on your office computer. And laptop. And iPhone. And your wife's iPad.
But next year the kid's moving out, and your account is already tied to five devices (living room, office, laptop, iPhone, iPad) - now all the stuff the kid bought can't be used by him/her. Be it music, movies, apps or books. Or you have to give up accessing it on one of your devices. Get the kid a free iTunes Store account instead.
But - my point remains. No need for a debit card. Once the kids have a free account, they can still use the freemium games, this time without being able to buy stuff for ridiculous amounts of money. You can gift them purchases, like music or apps, or even give them a gift certificate for iTunes Store.
Hell, if you INSIST that the kids have access to your credit card enabled iTunes Store account, at least learn how to disable in-app purchases.
And if you don't know any of this stuff, why haven't you called Apple's help line? They give you 90 days free phone support to get to learn the product.
While I find the whole notion of freemium apps disgusting, as they are pretty much all designed to siphon money from kids of irresponsible children, it's not like there aren't ways to prevent the abuse on your own.
I seriously do not understand why people are so irresponsible with stuff that can access their credit cards. iTunes Store can access it. What can access iTunes store - computers, iPhones, iPods, iPads. Sounds like the perfect thing to give to a child then.
Well, comparing it to China is only fair in that the US really only has twice as many viable parties as China does ;)
But no, the two aren't comparable in political fund raising or cost of entering politics. Compare it to the EU. They are both western states/countries, they both have quite well established democracies (some individual states/countries of them obviously more corrupt than other).
I doubt China is seriously expecting anyone to look at the examples they've pulled up will go "They're right - China is so much better than the US". I think the point is akin to pointing out that it's rather ridiculous that you have people like John McCain claiming that marriage is sacred when he himself has been divorced AND has been unfaithful before the divorce. Obviously it's not THAT sacred to him.
Maybe that's why exercise extends life. They don't really live longer, it's just that their 60 year old body has only experienced 59 or whatever.
I seriously hope it's an XOR ... otherwise I might need to kill myself.
I saw the video. Yes, the character climbs a ladder up to what I saw as "cloud nine" which has a tax haven. That's why I mentioned cloud nine in my comment.
I can't really ask this question without sounding like I'm trying to offend you personally, but that isn't the point. But I can't really tell if I'm really really smart or if the general public is ignorant.
Seriously?
What the fuck? Now you're mocking people for using the term "haven"? A perfectly acceptable word when talking about tax-free locations.
Dictionary.com definition of "haven"
Now, as a person for whom English is his 3rd language, allow me to dumb down my judgment of Roblimo's IQ and knowledge of English to a level that even he should be able to understand, despite it having three syllables: Imbecile.
You may also want to look up the term "walking on cloud nine".
Am I the only one who wants the ACLU to publish a map of the revised US map, if you remove the parts that aren't covered by the US Constitution
Certainly depends on the war.
What massive technological improvements did we see as a result of the 6 day war?
And I hate to break it to you, but a war is between the armies of two or more countries. What the US is engaged in in Afghanistan and Iraq are not wars anymore - they are police actions.
But please, do enlighten the curious amongst us - what civilian technological advancements have we seen as a result of the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq? I'll even let you use the first Gulf War, if you can think of anything other than improvements in GPS and autonomous navigation.
Now, it IS true that in the "good old days", both World War I and II brought some rather massive technological improvements, but the main reasons for that was the time they lasted and the amount of rapid evolution needed to keep up against the other sides.
Now, why can't we have similar improvements without war? We probably could, but that will never happen because of one thing - money. When we have an enemy that is on the brink of destroying us, we don't really care if we get paid on time. Or get paid. Keep us fed and clothed, and we'll work 16 hours a day pumping out new weapons and technology.
Let's put the money part into perspective.
In 2004 there were 2,630,000 first-time freshmen college students enrolled.
Let's set tuition at a REALLY high average cost of 100,000 dollars/year - TWICE that of Yale's most expensive program.
It would cost 263 billion dollars a year to give these student a 100,000 dollar college education. The US Defense Department budget was 689 billion dollars in 2010.
To be honest, I was expecting this to be a very different result. I seriously thought that the tuition for these freshmen would have been a LOT higher than the defense budget.
The question is - what would the US be able to achieve, as a nation, if they were to divert 263 billion dollars a year from its defense budget to pay for kids wanting to go to college? Sure, it'd have to drop the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which only cover some 150 billion dollars in the 2011 budget, so it'd have to pull another 120 billion from elsewhere in its budget. But would it really be that much less safe, if it reduced its budget from 661 billion to 398 billion? That would still put it a 3.98 times of what China spends in second place.
But seriously - can you look at these costs and still claim that you can never get any kind of similar boosts to technology and society, if you were willing to pump the same amount of money into education?
If we go with Yale's most expensive program (50k USD/year) and expect every freshman to complete and graduate a four year degree, we're looking at yearly costs of 526 billion USD. That'd still leave the Defense Department with 163 billion USD, which is STILL more than the second place spender.
Well, you can sue anyone for anything.
But since the movie studio or distributor would be trying to force someone else to do something for them for free, something that they aren't paying for, can't pay for an have no absolute right to, I would hope any sane judge would throw that suit out of a 10th floor window. If the lawyer happens to be IN the suit at the time, so much the better.
After all - if they can force a company to give them free advertising, what's to stop them from forcing YOU to carry around a big advertising billboard six hours a week?
Just pull up every single title for every single movie, tv-show etc. on IMDB and have your search engine return
"We're terribly sorry, but since you've searched for the title of a movie, and we can't know if a link is legal or not, we have chosen not to be sued by the creators of $title and won't show any results.
If you wish to know more about why you can't find any information about movies online, please call PFA at $phone number for further information."
And since your search engine isn't a paid service, it'd be hard to argue in court that it should return results that the copyright holders decide.
Let's see how the fuckers manage to get along and drum up publicity, if their crap can't be found online at all.
How is this really any different than having highly coordinated feet and becoming a highly paid football player?
Two things:
1) How tall are you? I've dropped my iPhone 4 onto the floor (be it hardwood, vinyl and concrete) five times so far, and the only time it's been from less than 3 feet was when it was in my shirt pocket and I was leaning over to tie my shoes (stupid)
2) Despite having dropped it from a higher height than you claim will shatter the glass, that still hasn't happened to mine.
Maybe - just maybe, it's not JUST a matter of the phone having a glass front and back. Maybe it's a matter of how you treat it. Maybe it's a matter of how it hits the surface. Maybe it's gremlins.
What I don't understand though - you obviously knew that "no phone should be made entirely of glass", yet you bought a phone made in that way. Why?
Actually, if say California was hit by a massive 9.0 earth quake, the RIAA and MPAA would suddenly be without any new productions, and they'd have to settle for compilations, reruns and rereleases ....
Wait ...
I am under the impression that it takes more than one shot to hit something if you aren't an expert marksman.
I am under the impression that if you are defending your family during the apocalypse, it'll take more than kill shots to fend off aggressors.