Yeah. Good thing he's the consumer, going into the store hoping to find more information, and not the subject matter expert who is selling the apparatus. Just because I can't remember the thing that recharges the ADP back into ATP from biology 101 from 7 years ago doesn't mean that I can't call creationism bullshit. Likewise, I don't need to know the function of a catalytic converter to know that a mechanic is going to bend me over a barrel for a new one.
Wattage. Voltage. Its just numbers on the box, man. You shouldn't be so picky, God, I hate these customers. Oh well, time to go on break and smoke a fatty behind the store with Tim from stereos.
How do you deal with it while maximizing liberties? Answer: you try to have people responsible for the costs of their actions. And that's where cost taxes come in.
You're completely right. Let's start by stringing the politicians up by their balls for enacting regulations under coercion (bribes) by the corn lobbyists to make HFCS artificially cheaper than cane sugar. We can also string up the politicians that let the cigarette companies hide the actual ingredients in their products. Finally, we can string up the politicians who allow insurance to be so expensive through regulation (or in some cases, lack of regulation). Lets then string up the politicians who inflict other costs upon society, monetary and otherwise, though their collusion with both corporate and their own self-interest. There were not these problems 100 years ago. They have occurred though self-interest over the good of the people. If we're going to make people responsible for their actions, then we should make the people who are ACTUALLY responsible be the ones who are held responsible.
"He said anyone coming across could be a terrorist, drug dealer or someone trying to carry or take information out of the country by hiding it in a smaller device."
Why not just FTP it. Or hide a microSD card inside a cake? It should bake okay, the chip inside gets put under higher temps than the inside of cupcake when they place them on a PCB. The plastic on a uSD might melt a little, but I suspect the information will still be there.
It's because it's not actually about people trying to move data out of the country anymore than it is about the war we've been in with Eastasia for as long as I can remember.
that's all well and good, but if you don't understand statistics, you probably shouldn't be complaining about the statistics in a study that is undergoing peer review.
I'm not saying you're complaining about the study, I just don't think the excuse you presented holds water.
that's all well and good, but if you don't understand how the government/economy works, you shouldn't be complaining about the president when there is a recession?
People complain for the sake of complaining, and usually those who complain the loudest know the least about what they're complaining about. I cover an escalation spot on a technical helldesk, and I've heard people bitch about some of the biggest non-issues I've ever heard. Sometimes their bitch was about things they were entirely wrong about. It's called misplaced aggression. People have to bitch at everything they can because it's illegal to just go out and kill the person who pissed you off to begin with.
Why is it that on slashdot of all places that should be full of nerds we get idiots that don't grasp basic statistics and people that mod it up? As long as you got a proper control group it's simple to say "If we assume the true probability is the same, how unlikely is it that we get these results?" Of course there's something about the level of confidence - a 99% confidence means there's a 1% your observation is random fluctuations. But the whole "we reject math and logic because the numbers feel to small" sounds like the results of retarded anti-schooling.
True, but I don't think it's anti-math, I think it is a deeply ingrained sense that anytime anyone breaks out statistics, its because they're using it to lie about something. I blame it on the overuse of them in overbearing advertising (4/5 doctors agree that the Happy Time Fun Company antibacterial whatever, made from all organic compounds, will kill 99.9% of bacteria*)
* (in microscopic fine print) Bacteria that was killed was either harmless bacteria or crazy moon bacteria you will never interact with. Harmful bacteria is unharmed by all Happy Time products. None of the above statements are evaluated by the FDA. Our product does nothing at best, and is harmful to you at worst.
The scary thing is how much public information is just out there. Even if you try your hardest to stay "off the grid", keep all of your usernames at each site you go to different/fake, and use encryption as much as possible, how do you know that they're not correlating that information indirectly? Case in point: Facebook. People are 100% happy to throw their entire lives out there for public consumption, but how much of other people's lives do they include? For example, I know that even though I do not have a Facebook account, there are pictures on there that reference me by name that link me to other people. Based upon that, you can programmatically determine who I associate with.
System response: Operator, this person is using encryption without a licensed key per the Friendly Government Big Brother Act of 2010, Section VI, Paragraph 5. Please allocate manual surveillance of subject. Expected to be armed and dangerous.
See, you say that, and I read it on my IBM monitor, with signal provided to it by my CentOS box. I haven't seen an IBM ad for years, and I've NEVER seen advertising for Linux (let alone CentOS). If you have a product truly worthwhile and innovative, it will sell itself to those in need. If your product needs to have an ad every single commercial break in an hour long slot, or if you have every single ad slot in every single episode of South Park on Hulu, then there is something wrong with your product, or you need to be giving all this excess cash you have back to your buyers as incentive for buying the product. I'm bitter and cynical, but if I see an ad for a product so much that it gets burned into my memory, I avoid it as much as I can. Bacardi Rum, iPhones (cell phones in general), Macs, now Windows due to the new advertisements that are coming out more and more, just to name a few. You want my business? Cut out the overbearing advertisement. If you need my attention that much, you're selling something I don't need and shouldn't want. You give me a simple ad showing why I want it without being that carefully diluted banal mix of being "edgy" yet "family friendly", and don't beat me to death with it, and I'll take it.
And what a good idea for a Saturday project, although for best results, you'd want to communicate with the device directly (which would probably require alternate firmware, or at least significant hackery).
Yeah, I miss my old phillips cd player. It had some strange mini-jack with four contacts in it, and had a inline "remote" that allowed for volume control and basic skip/play/pause controls. That thing was great for having in a backpack or pocket and being able to skip songs. I wish they would standardize something like that. Sony, try putting a control knob on the earbuds to skip songs.
I find it interesting that Malaysia would be claiming there should be copyright protection for foods, when there isn't any kind of copyright protection for anything else in that country/region -- not in any real sense.
Well, it's all well and fine until it's something YOU could make money off of..
Makes sense. How else would you notify the device playing music that you wish for the music to stop?
As an aside, I'm not sure about iPods, but the Zune will automatically pause music if the headphones have been removed. You could make an analogue to this technology by implementing something similar to that in an ordinary mp3/cd player and having a cutoff switch for the circuit in the ear piece (or on the cord, or wherever), and just trip it when appropriate. Resuming play automatically would be a trick, but then again, honestly how lazy are we?
It is overloading the function of touch to allow for it to be meaningful in ways other than conventionally allowed. Additionally, there may be psychological differences to having it provide constant tactile feedback and it being a separate thing that you look down upon. Typically people mentally associate location with sight (at least, I know I do). If I'm mixed up enough to not know which way I'm facing, I look at a compass if I have one. If not, I look at my watch to see if the sun is setting or rising, and then look to see where it is.
Admittedly they're hyping it up to make it more grandiose than it really is, but imagine if you will, taking this general idea and building on it, providing a more thorough navigation system that you don't have to hold in your hands. The way that meaningful things are invented is by usually taking a simple or underwhelming idea and then adding to it. Some sort of "Oh, why didn't I think of that?" sort of thing. Unless of course, you think that the wheel was overrated too.
Bad Science (hereafter referred to as BS), or "differently interpreted" is worse than faith-based arguments, because you know to immediately dismiss the faith-based one, where as the BS takes additional time and effort to disprove, and heavily (and negatively) influences public opinion when the BSers set up huge campaigns to shove it down people's throats as much as possible. And while I don't understand what warranted the Godwin invocation at this point, Al Gore is a Nazi who eats babies and staged the moon landing because god told him to?
Good point. Really it is only generated through a performance with an instrument of sorts, not completely unlike a trumpet or another horn of some sort. Better call in the RIAA on this one.
It's as much philosophy as anything in existentialism is. Read up on Hume and the positivists. Or even more so, Zeno and the Stoics. Just because it doesn't necessary fit the abstract of your PHIL 101 class doesn't make it not philosophy. I reject your selective definition, as raise you this one:
philosophy (f-ls-f) n. pl. phi-los-o-phies
A system of values by which one lives.
Pick any popular app for Windows, go to pirate bay, download it, run it, and guess what? You have an infection.
Really? I must not be trying hard enough then. And I thought my ratio was bad now...
Its not quite THAT bad, but I do agree that this is the number one way of getting the nasties on your computer. The thing that bothers me is when I start to wonder what percentage of mac users there are out there that will pompously go to whatever sites they feel like, downloading and installing whatever software they feel like, on the basis that "Mac's don't get viruses." This is a step in the right direction. I applaud the idea of the built-in virus protection. Hopefully it comes out more useful than the Windows Malicious File removal tool.
Imagine a historical fiction novel where Napoleon at Waterloo defeated the knights of the Round Table by using the Enola Gay to drop an atom bomb. It's OK because it is "fiction", right?
So what you are saying is that Flickr is exercising their right to support their political party of choice throught he media that they own. Kind of like the opposite of Fox right.
That still doesn't make it right. Furthermore, there is a difference. Flickr is a "community". By manipulating the "real" content in the "community", you do this little thing called shaping the perception of public opinion. Fox News can soapbox the radical right opinion until Bill O'Reilly is blue in the face, but they can't make it seem like nobody hates Obama compared with Bush.
For a fun exercise, imagine what would happen if for the previous election, Google just ignored/down-ranked McCain hits in favour of Obama or even Hillary.
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Yeah. Good thing he's the consumer, going into the store hoping to find more information, and not the subject matter expert who is selling the apparatus. Just because I can't remember the thing that recharges the ADP back into ATP from biology 101 from 7 years ago doesn't mean that I can't call creationism bullshit. Likewise, I don't need to know the function of a catalytic converter to know that a mechanic is going to bend me over a barrel for a new one.
Wattage. Voltage. Its just numbers on the box, man. You shouldn't be so picky, God, I hate these customers. Oh well, time to go on break and smoke a fatty behind the store with Tim from stereos.
How do you deal with it while maximizing liberties? Answer: you try to have people responsible for the costs of their actions. And that's where cost taxes come in.
You're completely right. Let's start by stringing the politicians up by their balls for enacting regulations under coercion (bribes) by the corn lobbyists to make HFCS artificially cheaper than cane sugar. We can also string up the politicians that let the cigarette companies hide the actual ingredients in their products. Finally, we can string up the politicians who allow insurance to be so expensive through regulation (or in some cases, lack of regulation). Lets then string up the politicians who inflict other costs upon society, monetary and otherwise, though their collusion with both corporate and their own self-interest. There were not these problems 100 years ago. They have occurred though self-interest over the good of the people. If we're going to make people responsible for their actions, then we should make the people who are ACTUALLY responsible be the ones who are held responsible.
"He said anyone coming across could be a terrorist, drug dealer or someone trying to carry or take information out of the country by hiding it in a smaller device."
Why not just FTP it. Or hide a microSD card inside a cake? It should bake okay, the chip inside gets put under higher temps than the inside of cupcake when they place them on a PCB. The plastic on a uSD might melt a little, but I suspect the information will still be there.
It's because it's not actually about people trying to move data out of the country anymore than it is about the war we've been in with Eastasia for as long as I can remember.
that's all well and good, but if you don't understand statistics, you probably shouldn't be complaining about the statistics in a study that is undergoing peer review.
I'm not saying you're complaining about the study, I just don't think the excuse you presented holds water.
that's all well and good, but if you don't understand how the government/economy works, you shouldn't be complaining about the president when there is a recession?
People complain for the sake of complaining, and usually those who complain the loudest know the least about what they're complaining about. I cover an escalation spot on a technical helldesk, and I've heard people bitch about some of the biggest non-issues I've ever heard. Sometimes their bitch was about things they were entirely wrong about. It's called misplaced aggression. People have to bitch at everything they can because it's illegal to just go out and kill the person who pissed you off to begin with.
Why is it that on slashdot of all places that should be full of nerds we get idiots that don't grasp basic statistics and people that mod it up? As long as you got a proper control group it's simple to say "If we assume the true probability is the same, how unlikely is it that we get these results?" Of course there's something about the level of confidence - a 99% confidence means there's a 1% your observation is random fluctuations. But the whole "we reject math and logic because the numbers feel to small" sounds like the results of retarded anti-schooling.
True, but I don't think it's anti-math, I think it is a deeply ingrained sense that anytime anyone breaks out statistics, its because they're using it to lie about something. I blame it on the overuse of them in overbearing advertising (4/5 doctors agree that the Happy Time Fun Company antibacterial whatever, made from all organic compounds, will kill 99.9% of bacteria*)
* (in microscopic fine print) Bacteria that was killed was either harmless bacteria or crazy moon bacteria you will never interact with. Harmful bacteria is unharmed by all Happy Time products. None of the above statements are evaluated by the FDA. Our product does nothing at best, and is harmful to you at worst.
The scary thing is how much public information is just out there. Even if you try your hardest to stay "off the grid", keep all of your usernames at each site you go to different/fake, and use encryption as much as possible, how do you know that they're not correlating that information indirectly? Case in point: Facebook. People are 100% happy to throw their entire lives out there for public consumption, but how much of other people's lives do they include? For example, I know that even though I do not have a Facebook account, there are pictures on there that reference me by name that link me to other people. Based upon that, you can programmatically determine who I associate with.
More reasonably:
System response: Operator, this person is using encryption without a licensed key per the Friendly Government Big Brother Act of 2010, Section VI, Paragraph 5. Please allocate manual surveillance of subject. Expected to be armed and dangerous.
See, you say that, and I read it on my IBM monitor, with signal provided to it by my CentOS box. I haven't seen an IBM ad for years, and I've NEVER seen advertising for Linux (let alone CentOS). If you have a product truly worthwhile and innovative, it will sell itself to those in need. If your product needs to have an ad every single commercial break in an hour long slot, or if you have every single ad slot in every single episode of South Park on Hulu, then there is something wrong with your product, or you need to be giving all this excess cash you have back to your buyers as incentive for buying the product. I'm bitter and cynical, but if I see an ad for a product so much that it gets burned into my memory, I avoid it as much as I can. Bacardi Rum, iPhones (cell phones in general), Macs, now Windows due to the new advertisements that are coming out more and more, just to name a few. You want my business? Cut out the overbearing advertisement. If you need my attention that much, you're selling something I don't need and shouldn't want. You give me a simple ad showing why I want it without being that carefully diluted banal mix of being "edgy" yet "family friendly", and don't beat me to death with it, and I'll take it.
And what a good idea for a Saturday project, although for best results, you'd want to communicate with the device directly (which would probably require alternate firmware, or at least significant hackery).
Yeah, I miss my old phillips cd player. It had some strange mini-jack with four contacts in it, and had a inline "remote" that allowed for volume control and basic skip/play/pause controls. That thing was great for having in a backpack or pocket and being able to skip songs. I wish they would standardize something like that.
Sony, try putting a control knob on the earbuds to skip songs.
I find it interesting that Malaysia would be claiming there should be copyright protection for foods, when there isn't any kind of copyright protection for anything else in that country/region -- not in any real sense.
Well, it's all well and fine until it's something YOU could make money off of..
Makes sense. How else would you notify the device playing music that you wish for the music to stop?
As an aside, I'm not sure about iPods, but the Zune will automatically pause music if the headphones have been removed. You could make an analogue to this technology by implementing something similar to that in an ordinary mp3/cd player and having a cutoff switch for the circuit in the ear piece (or on the cord, or wherever), and just trip it when appropriate. Resuming play automatically would be a trick, but then again, honestly how lazy are we?
You're already at +5 interesting, so all I can give you is this comment, agreeing wholeheartedly.
It is overloading the function of touch to allow for it to be meaningful in ways other than conventionally allowed. Additionally, there may be psychological differences to having it provide constant tactile feedback and it being a separate thing that you look down upon. Typically people mentally associate location with sight (at least, I know I do). If I'm mixed up enough to not know which way I'm facing, I look at a compass if I have one. If not, I look at my watch to see if the sun is setting or rising, and then look to see where it is.
Admittedly they're hyping it up to make it more grandiose than it really is, but imagine if you will, taking this general idea and building on it, providing a more thorough navigation system that you don't have to hold in your hands. The way that meaningful things are invented is by usually taking a simple or underwhelming idea and then adding to it. Some sort of "Oh, why didn't I think of that?" sort of thing. Unless of course, you think that the wheel was overrated too.
Bad Science (hereafter referred to as BS), or "differently interpreted" is worse than faith-based arguments, because you know to immediately dismiss the faith-based one, where as the BS takes additional time and effort to disprove, and heavily (and negatively) influences public opinion when the BSers set up huge campaigns to shove it down people's throats as much as possible. And while I don't understand what warranted the Godwin invocation at this point, Al Gore is a Nazi who eats babies and staged the moon landing because god told him to?
When you come up with a way to make type flash yellow and blue on a piece of paper, come back and let us know, hippie.
Good point. Really it is only generated through a performance with an instrument of sorts, not completely unlike a trumpet or another horn of some sort. Better call in the RIAA on this one.
Yes.
It's as much philosophy as anything in existentialism is. Read up on Hume and the positivists. Or even more so, Zeno and the Stoics. Just because it doesn't necessary fit the abstract of your PHIL 101 class doesn't make it not philosophy. I reject your selective definition, as raise you this one:
philosophy (f-ls-f)
n. pl. phi-los-o-phies
A system of values by which one lives.
Global Warming goes on trial. Everybody else loses.
Pick any popular app for Windows, go to pirate bay, download it, run it, and guess what? You have an infection. Really? I must not be trying hard enough then. And I thought my ratio was bad now...
Its not quite THAT bad, but I do agree that this is the number one way of getting the nasties on your computer. The thing that bothers me is when I start to wonder what percentage of mac users there are out there that will pompously go to whatever sites they feel like, downloading and installing whatever software they feel like, on the basis that "Mac's don't get viruses." This is a step in the right direction. I applaud the idea of the built-in virus protection. Hopefully it comes out more useful than the Windows Malicious File removal tool.
-1 Frothing at the Mouth.
Imagine a historical fiction novel where Napoleon at Waterloo defeated the knights of the Round Table by using the Enola Gay to drop an atom bomb. It's OK because it is "fiction", right?
Would have worked for Harry Turtledove.
So what you are saying is that Flickr is exercising their right to support their political party of choice throught he media that they own. Kind of like the opposite of Fox right.
That still doesn't make it right. Furthermore, there is a difference. Flickr is a "community". By manipulating the "real" content in the "community", you do this little thing called shaping the perception of public opinion. Fox News can soapbox the radical right opinion until Bill O'Reilly is blue in the face, but they can't make it seem like nobody hates Obama compared with Bush.
For a fun exercise, imagine what would happen if for the previous election, Google just ignored/down-ranked McCain hits in favour of Obama or even Hillary.
You can't parody a parody? If it were the Times' parody still, then it would be Bush, not Obama.