Why not? It seems pretty analogous to the "Your last successful login was on [DATE]. There have been X unsuccessful login attempts since then." message that my bank displays any time I do online banking.
Just because some people would be apathetic to the message, doesn't mean it wouldn't work.
What if there was some sort of "UAC Settings Last Changed X Days HH:MM Ago" message that always displayed somewhere (on the login screen? or within the start menu maybe?), with the ability to view side-by-side what the settings used to be before then, and what they are now?
Netnanny? Right, 'cause dumbshit high school kids can't figure out proxies in one afternoon, so prisoners with 24 hours a day to kill certainly won't.
What if you used a white-list of acceptable sites rather than a black-list/blocked-keywords? While I would never advocate such an approach outside a prison, I don't see how that could be worked around.
Although I guess someplace like Wikipedia could offer a sort of digital dead drop.
Agreed, and to add a little more to what you said, if Mozilla ever did start kicking out non-malware plugins, Firefox could always be forked to remove the limitation of only getting plugins from Mozilla's servers.
Actually.. could a plugin be written to only allow plugins to be installed from Mozilla's servers? If so, does such a plugin already exist?
in WoW, not all raptors have heads if you kill them.
Well of course, some of those raptors are probably female.;)
On a more serious note, I remember when the real game began at 60. I've quit WoW since then, but never realized they'd bumped up where the "real" game began along with the level cap increases.:(
Really, how could you miss that joke. Hand in your slashdot ID and go have some sex you traitor! You are not one of us, you probably even talk to girls!
It depends on how you learned it I suppose. Whether or not this is actually a/the way to make Fois Gras (lets just say for the sake of argument that what I was told back in French class in Middle school was incorrect), if you were told that the ducks were force-fed until their livers explode, you'd probably think that cruel.
My thoughts similarly. You're not cloning the same loving individual that you shared part of your life with, you're cloning the biological creature that grew into your cherished companion.
I love my kitties, and I wish they could live forever, but having them cloned wouldn't produce the same loving individuals I'd come to know over the 10-20 years of their lives. Just like if you were to create a clone of Einstein or George Washington, they would not be the same individual that they were when they died. Memories can't be cloned (yet), so having my kitties cloned after death would be no different than adopting new kitties.
If a poster on a forum posted information on where to find Barack Obama, and a death threat, would you expect the server that hosted that forum to be seized?
I think that would depend on if the location listed was "1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC" or if it was some other place. I mean, the location of where the President lives is pretty much common knowledge.:P
But in all seriousness, I do not believe that anyone should be allowed to seize said hypothetical server, but it wouldn't surprise me if it they went ahead and seized it anyway.
Translation: The soldiers (just like everyone else) should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. To help achieve that end, their names should be withheld such that vigilante "justice" does not come down on their necks.
You're right, I didn't buy it for that purpose, that was merely a bonus.
And just to clarify, no where was I trying to state that it did not have value. I was merely trying to point out how opening and using it could have a higher value to someone than if they sold it for a substantial profit, bought a used one for significantly less, and used that instead.
We're talking about the cat food you grab off the shelf when you have no cat food at home, the one your cat likes is sold out, you don't know enough to tell the difference between the ones you see in front of you and you're late for supper so you grab the one with the logo you recognize because it's a symptom of the human condition that things that are familiar are deemed safer than things that are not familiar.
Wrong. If it's sold out I go somewhere else, because I know that suddenly changing brands of cat food on my kitty can adversely effect her stomach. This from personal experience as well as other cat owners words and experiences. If you want to change brands, you do so gradually by mixing in the new food with the existing stock, until your cat is eating just the new food.
Now, I don't think I'm immune to advertising, but everything I can think of where advertising might have influenced me, it's very easy to spot other things that directed my choice. From beverages (I drink what tastes good to me), to medicine (I blame my parents on my initial choice, but since I've no reason to switch..), to cat food (again, it's what my parents feed their cats), to cars (once more, parents), I fail to be able to point out one preference and say "huh, I cannot say why I chose that".
Do you not see the flaw in your reasoning, though? If the real value to you is in the use of the tablet, then you wouldn't mind buying an used one that does the same thing. However, since other people value the mint condition device and are willing to pay you more for it then you are denying others of what they want and denying yourself the different in price between the mint condition product and the used product you want to hook up to your computer. If you sell it, both you and the buyer get more out of it.
Perhaps they also derived pleasure from the knowledge that there is one less of these out in the wild that would have otherwise sat on someone's shelf not doing anything.
I know for me, that pleasure was priceless when I bought an unopened copy of Sonic CD for the Sega CD off of eBay just a few years ago. The reaction of some random person on the internet when I told them that continues to give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
I would hardly qualify stupidity as a "space related disorder". GP's point rests on the belief (which I do not disagree with, but others might) that, in order for a group of humans to survive out in space, it would have to be a very communal group. Everyone pulls their fair share, no one gets to be a lazy ass. Those are the traits that would get weeded out through the natural selection of, if you have those traits you simply won't be allowed with the colony (or if you are, and said traits are allowed to continue to grow, they would eventually lead to the destruction of the colony).
Now if a physician can "cure" such disorders, well, you've still solved the problem of weeding them out of the gene pool, it's just a matter of preference to how you refer to it.
Clearly it's because they stop young Biff from using the almanac. The alternate 1985 that they went back to from 2015 merely happened in order to get them to go back to 1955 and fix things.;)
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Why not? It seems pretty analogous to the "Your last successful login was on [DATE]. There have been X unsuccessful login attempts since then." message that my bank displays any time I do online banking.
Just because some people would be apathetic to the message, doesn't mean it wouldn't work.
Yes, but lets kill the Americans who aren't funding us first, then we start replacing these pills with poison. :)
What if there was some sort of "UAC Settings Last Changed X Days HH:MM Ago" message that always displayed somewhere (on the login screen? or within the start menu maybe?), with the ability to view side-by-side what the settings used to be before then, and what they are now?
Netnanny? Right, 'cause dumbshit high school kids can't figure out proxies in one afternoon, so prisoners with 24 hours a day to kill certainly won't.
What if you used a white-list of acceptable sites rather than a black-list/blocked-keywords? While I would never advocate such an approach outside a prison, I don't see how that could be worked around.
Although I guess someplace like Wikipedia could offer a sort of digital dead drop.
Agreed, and to add a little more to what you said, if Mozilla ever did start kicking out non-malware plugins, Firefox could always be forked to remove the limitation of only getting plugins from Mozilla's servers.
Actually.. could a plugin be written to only allow plugins to be installed from Mozilla's servers? If so, does such a plugin already exist?
in WoW, not all raptors have heads if you kill them.
Well of course, some of those raptors are probably female. ;)
:(
On a more serious note, I remember when the real game began at 60. I've quit WoW since then, but never realized they'd bumped up where the "real" game began along with the level cap increases.
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Really, how could you miss that joke. Hand in your slashdot ID and go have some sex you traitor! You are not one of us, you probably even talk to girls!
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MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Does not your sig also make you a traitor then? ;P
It depends on how you learned it I suppose. Whether or not this is actually a/the way to make Fois Gras (lets just say for the sake of argument that what I was told back in French class in Middle school was incorrect), if you were told that the ducks were force-fed until their livers explode, you'd probably think that cruel.
My thoughts similarly. You're not cloning the same loving individual that you shared part of your life with, you're cloning the biological creature that grew into your cherished companion.
I love my kitties, and I wish they could live forever, but having them cloned wouldn't produce the same loving individuals I'd come to know over the 10-20 years of their lives. Just like if you were to create a clone of Einstein or George Washington, they would not be the same individual that they were when they died. Memories can't be cloned (yet), so having my kitties cloned after death would be no different than adopting new kitties.
This seems more like closing the local grocery store because someone had put up said information on a bulletin board within.
Or to continue with the billboard analogy, impounding the city in which the billboard is installed.
If a poster on a forum posted information on where to find Barack Obama, and a death threat, would you expect the server that hosted that forum to be seized?
I think that would depend on if the location listed was "1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC" or if it was some other place. I mean, the location of where the President lives is pretty much common knowledge. :P
But in all seriousness, I do not believe that anyone should be allowed to seize said hypothetical server, but it wouldn't surprise me if it they went ahead and seized it anyway.
Clearly you have never had the pleasure of coming across intelligent falling.
C pound is a total waste of time and effort.[...]I know they want it pronounced c sharp
I'm a music major, you insensitive clod!
Translation: The soldiers (just like everyone else) should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. To help achieve that end, their names should be withheld such that vigilante "justice" does not come down on their necks.
At least that's how it sounds to me.
Octuples, the computer doubled thrice. ;)
I know you're making a joke, but actually, w is. IIRC, it's short for waru.
You're right, I didn't buy it for that purpose, that was merely a bonus.
And just to clarify, no where was I trying to state that it did not have value. I was merely trying to point out how opening and using it could have a higher value to someone than if they sold it for a substantial profit, bought a used one for significantly less, and used that instead.
We're talking about the cat food you grab off the shelf when you have no cat food at home, the one your cat likes is sold out, you don't know enough to tell the difference between the ones you see in front of you and you're late for supper so you grab the one with the logo you recognize because it's a symptom of the human condition that things that are familiar are deemed safer than things that are not familiar.
Wrong. If it's sold out I go somewhere else, because I know that suddenly changing brands of cat food on my kitty can adversely effect her stomach. This from personal experience as well as other cat owners words and experiences. If you want to change brands, you do so gradually by mixing in the new food with the existing stock, until your cat is eating just the new food.
Now, I don't think I'm immune to advertising, but everything I can think of where advertising might have influenced me, it's very easy to spot other things that directed my choice. From beverages (I drink what tastes good to me), to medicine (I blame my parents on my initial choice, but since I've no reason to switch..), to cat food (again, it's what my parents feed their cats), to cars (once more, parents), I fail to be able to point out one preference and say "huh, I cannot say why I chose that".
I'm always reminded of the borg.
Do you not see the flaw in your reasoning, though? If the real value to you is in the use of the tablet, then you wouldn't mind buying an used one that does the same thing. However, since other people value the mint condition device and are willing to pay you more for it then you are denying others of what they want and denying yourself the different in price between the mint condition product and the used product you want to hook up to your computer. If you sell it, both you and the buyer get more out of it.
Perhaps they also derived pleasure from the knowledge that there is one less of these out in the wild that would have otherwise sat on someone's shelf not doing anything.
I know for me, that pleasure was priceless when I bought an unopened copy of Sonic CD for the Sega CD off of eBay just a few years ago. The reaction of some random person on the internet when I told them that continues to give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
It could be a picture of your fat Uncle Eddie in a mouse suit when he was 8, it doesn't matter. It's considered child porn.
I never thought I'd see the day when an 8 year-old boy in a full-body Halloween costume could be considered "pornography".
I would hardly qualify stupidity as a "space related disorder". GP's point rests on the belief (which I do not disagree with, but others might) that, in order for a group of humans to survive out in space, it would have to be a very communal group. Everyone pulls their fair share, no one gets to be a lazy ass. Those are the traits that would get weeded out through the natural selection of, if you have those traits you simply won't be allowed with the colony (or if you are, and said traits are allowed to continue to grow, they would eventually lead to the destruction of the colony).
Now if a physician can "cure" such disorders, well, you've still solved the problem of weeding them out of the gene pool, it's just a matter of preference to how you refer to it.
Clearly it's because they stop young Biff from using the almanac. The alternate 1985 that they went back to from 2015 merely happened in order to get them to go back to 1955 and fix things. ;)
It's easier to beg for forgiveness, than to ask for permission?
Why does this feel like exactly that?
GP probably thought you were being sarcastic since you mentioned the internet as Al Gore's invention.