This article just smells of bullshit. Heck, I've seen too many kids doing stereograms under the age of seven, or hell, going by the statements in this article using a viewmaster or a pair of binoculars would cause the same issue (And if you don't believe kids played with viewmasters for hours upon hours when I was a kid you're too easily bored).
I'm not even all that interested, personally, in 3-D (Though I think it would be cool, my 'must have' gland is far from pumped for it.) but this feels like an article that compared a 15 year old, really outdated technology that existed inches from the face with a newer technology that exists 7 foot away, and I'm not even sure I buy those results with the older, outdated technology.
Just as a useful tip: I, personally, am lazy and cheap.
My bank has the usual pay bill options set-up - eminently useful for making sure credit cards and so on get paid on time, but more importantly, you can *also* have it send to an address.
Set-up your addresses to include whatever charity you want, and they will happily send $5 a month to whoever you feel needs it, and if you are *really* so tight the $5 makes a difference that month, you can skip it without guilt. I haven't *promised* anything, I just happen to send $5 a month to four different groups (And yes EFF is one of them).
Though, be warned - unsolicited, unpledged donations evidently throw the accounting department of my local PBS station into a tizzy. Seriously, we've gotten calls from them "But . . . you haven't pledged?" "No. And I don't intend to." "But . . . you've donated for 2 years straight? Why won't you pledge?!?!" "I may not donate next month." "But . .." "Hey - I have commitment issues. Do you want the five bucks or not?"
So far they've taken it - {G}. Yeah - PBS, *TAKE* my money - Take my money and LIKE IT . . . Bitches!!!! But I ain't never gonna *pledge*!!
'Cuz I'm a REBEL an' that's how I Roll!! Bitches!!
I love all the people that are acting like stopping related projects is this unprecedented move.
It's the same thing that happens in any other emergency when "Something bad happened and we're not sure what" FAA grounds plane because of suspected defects, FHSA will temporarily say "Don't drive trucks of such and such years", et al.
The fundamental statement by the judge here, that this isn't standard protocol, is factually wrong. When you have an emergency that casts doubt on the procedures you've been using . . . you stop related operations till you find out what the hell happened.
Unless of course you're in the oil industry, and the accident has wiped out the economy and devastated the environment. Then you get conservative morons with their typical sense of entitlement insisting they shouldn't be treated the same way as other people.
Amateurs *can* read books. I read Knuth, Krugman, and other experts on subjects all the time - but there's a considerable difference between that and having a professor look at my answers to specific questions. And even that doesn't take into account the fact that I might not be reading actual experts - reading "Darwin on Trial" is *never* going to make me a biologist, but will actually make me think long debunked arguments are well considered.
A large number of those assumptions seem, to me, to fall under 'Acceptable Breaks from Reality'. Yes, they're going to be wrong some percentage of the time, but trying to design for the use-case in which you're dealing with that small percentage case will result in a design that has traded have functionality that is useful an arbitrarily small percentage of the time for a system that is utterly unwieldy the rest of the time.
I mean, pointing out that a unicode point may not represent a letter in a name? Seriously? Listen, if your name requires an SVG code snippet to represent it, you get called "The artist formerly known as Prince". Live with it Jackass.
To be honest, I have really liked the upgrade. I had decided to drop Dish Network as 'nice but too expensive for what I watch'. So, my converter box (not quite free after rebate) expanded me from one to four PBS channels (Less overlap than you would think), a sports channel, several local news channels, and the main networks came in better than they had before.
After I upgraded to HDTV the converter box actually still had a better TV Guide system than the TV itself had, so it actually still got used for the three months it took me to put together a MythTV DVR.
Theoretically I have some complaints about HDTV - Imperfect analogue tends to be better than imperfect HDTV - slight fuzzy is better than blotchly squares, et al. But that's an issue of dealing with trade offs - the practical advantages far exceed the disadvantages.
I'm always amazed by the 'Originalists' that ignore the 9th amendment and claim there's no right to privacy.
In 200 years, the Supreme Court recognized *one* constitutionally right not explicitly mentioned, arguing that several other rights show this right exists. And to this day people scream that one right in two hundred years recognized under SCOTUS is 'Judicial Activism'.
Admittedly, Sudo allows root access in (to the user) the same way vista/seven UAC allows access.
Now look at how often you actually *need* sudo access versus the number of times UAC pops up in windows seven on a default install.
At the end of the day Windows UAC still comes up on a regular basis. Sudo? Your average user (My Mom for example) will only see it to install or update software. I use it more, but only when I'm doing specific items that require it.
Yeah, this is symptomatic of underlying issues in the Windows security model - too much stuff, even today, requires access levels it should not need. I'm not at all sure I 'blame' Microsoft for this per se - there are historical reasons for the issues and for why they are difficult to resolve, and historical reasons for Unix/Linux having grown up without them, none of which have to do with the creators of Unix being inherently smarter - at best one could wish that Microsoft had taken the opportunity to look ahead and realize they were eventually going to have to deal with the same issues that Unix had the mixed pleasures of dealing with far earlier in its lifecycle.
Has Windows gotten *better*? Yes, but ignoring that the bar being vaulted is a low bar does not render Windows a Security Olympian.
My upgrade to 10.04 broke stuff I've gotten used to working without issue.
Flash in Firefox broke gxine broke MythTV broke, but I'm fairly certain that was at best peripherally related (MythArchive Plugin killed the frontend) Various other smaller but irritating issues
This is obvious stuff that should not have happened, certainly not in an LTS release. Forgivable - I have upgraded every six months for several years now with very little issue, but definitely screwy.
About 18 months ago - price was just too high, and the number of shows we knew we were going to miss to few (Daily Show and Colbert mostly, with scattered news, science fiction/cartoons, and science programs.)
Since then HDTV has come online - we now get five PBS stations with not entirely overlapping programming - which takes care of News and Science programming (The *best* cable science shows are only on par with Nova and nature, and often nowhere near as accurate. And let's not even talk about comparing cable news with Newshour.). With the money I saved I have now bought an HDTV and put together a MythTV box to record the shows I like - and now I can watch the Daily Show over the internet on my living room TV.
I wouldn't drop MythTV on someone not tech savvy (I actually had to reinstall Ubuntu because a plugin killed the frontend badly), but even so - versus something like $80/month for Satellite? So *very* much better.
Yeah- I can see it's been *vigorously* defended by the way all these uses reflect that one person. This is even more annoyingly stupid than Lucasarts owning the term Droid.
Considering that, for the average income, the income tax has gone down under Democratic administrations and up under Republican administrations, actually Democrats are better at keeping out of your wallet *and* your bedroom than Republicans.
Which is a shame - some of these Democrats are hot, I wouldn't mind seeing . . . er, never mind . . .
Password aging should automatically take into account the security of the password someone creates, via some algorithm that estimates 'guessability'
If it's a dictionary word and number, give it three months. If it's a dictionary word, number, and two symbols, give it six months. If it's a passphrase, all regular dictionary words but not a 'standard' phrase like 'lorem Ipsum" or "The quick brown fox' leave it alone for a couple years.
In other words - if someone is using a secure password, fuckin' reward them for it!.
Plus, if a password is being aged, and it's in it's expiration period - give people the entire 14 day (or whatever) period where they can use either the old password or the new password, and every time they use the old one remind them of the new one until they start using it. Let them transition between the two.
For $100 dollars I can buy half the hard drive space I would buy for $80 at Frys, with the additional benefit of buying 20 movies each, for the same price as a DVD I could buy and copy onto my hard drive effortlessly!
If only I could be guaranteed a ridculously short lifetime - oh, wait, it's a SEAGATE - I've had two or three of those over the years and they *all* died!
My Mom drove a truck for about ten years (Various Companies)
You've been misinformed. They track you via GPS, prices everywhere *you* can stop are marked up, Dispatchers give you illegally short times to go distances, believe truckers are a dime a dozen, and happily lie to Highway inspectors when you're caught, and all this in exchange for a job where you get the joy of having your entire truck stolen at gun point.
Above and beyond that, he explicitly cites as violations things long clearly noted as protected categories (art work and such) under SCOTUS decisions, after claiming to have done extensive research.
So, I'm thinking this is a brazen attempt to smear a disliked rival with a bit of 'easily disproven, but you'll never get that spot out' mudslinging.
Given that Regulation is *always* a response to a large, public, politically embarrassing failure of the "Free Market" (and indeed, deregulation almost alway sooner rather than later *results* in a large, public, politically embarrassing failure of the "Free Market"), yeah actually I think we anti-free-market whiners actually can claim that.
Fail to enforce coal regulations - bam - people die in coal mines. Deregulate Credit Unions - bam - massive credit union baolouts. Repeal Glass-Steagal - bam - find banks leveraged well past their limits in credit default swaps.
At some point you would think Free Market advocates could learn to master the same level of logic gets children to quit touching hot stove burners. Instead you get logic that amounts to "Why put fire sprinklers in apartment buildings. I mean really, what kind of idiot would live in the same building as an idiot that would burn down the building they live in?".
Actually, what I've seen is a lot of 'compliance' with regulations that don't actually exist.
I am a tech, not a lawyer, but I often I look at the regulations, and they are, frankly, clearly written and pretty specific. And then there is this implementation that is ordered from the legal department that has virtually nothing to do with either the regulation as written, nor even the spirit of the regulation.
The (few) times I have bothered to 'dig in' past the legal department to figure it out, I have seen all sorts of obfuscation, intimations that I am outside my depth/skillset, and resistance, and then, eventually, an admission that no there's no particular reason to interpret it this way. I suspect it's the same for the times I *haven't* chosen to buck the system, but who can keep that up all the time?
But one does notice it's the same people that talk about how over-regulated {Insert industry here} is that are actually obfuscating pretty cleanly written regulations on a regular basis.
The big question is what were peoples opinions about their decisions after the magnetic field was removed?
I ask because I've had experience with people that have had mental disorders that were treatable with the proper drugs, and it has always fascinated me - when people were on the medicine, they were fine. When they were off the meds, they were irrational.
The really interesting thing is that, once back on their meds, they will recall their actions while off the medication as having been perfect rational and justifiable at the time - the brain will rationalize the past behavior, even though it is other wise okay now.
So, does *that* happen in this instance - do people, once no longer under the influence of the field, realize they were making a bad decision, or do they rationalize it?
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This article just smells of bullshit. Heck, I've seen too many kids doing stereograms under the age of seven, or hell, going by the statements in this article using a viewmaster or a pair of binoculars would cause the same issue (And if you don't believe kids played with viewmasters for hours upon hours when I was a kid you're too easily bored).
I'm not even all that interested, personally, in 3-D (Though I think it would be cool, my 'must have' gland is far from pumped for it.) but this feels like an article that compared a 15 year old, really outdated technology that existed inches from the face with a newer technology that exists 7 foot away, and I'm not even sure I buy those results with the older, outdated technology.
Just as a useful tip: I, personally, am lazy and cheap.
My bank has the usual pay bill options set-up - eminently useful for making sure credit cards and so on get paid on time, but more importantly, you can *also* have it send to an address.
Set-up your addresses to include whatever charity you want, and they will happily send $5 a month to whoever you feel needs it, and if you are *really* so tight the $5 makes a difference that month, you can skip it without guilt. I haven't *promised* anything, I just happen to send $5 a month to four different groups (And yes EFF is one of them).
Though, be warned - unsolicited, unpledged donations evidently throw the accounting department of my local PBS station into a tizzy. Seriously, we've gotten calls from them "But . . . you haven't pledged?" "No. And I don't intend to." "But . . . you've donated for 2 years straight? Why won't you pledge?!?!" "I may not donate next month." "But . . ." "Hey - I have commitment issues. Do you want the five bucks or not?"
So far they've taken it - {G}. Yeah - PBS, *TAKE* my money - Take my money and LIKE IT . . . Bitches!!!! But I ain't never gonna *pledge*!!
'Cuz I'm a REBEL an' that's how I Roll!! Bitches!!
Pug
I love all the people that are acting like stopping related projects is this unprecedented move.
It's the same thing that happens in any other emergency when "Something bad happened and we're not sure what" FAA grounds plane because of suspected defects, FHSA will temporarily say "Don't drive trucks of such and such years", et al.
The fundamental statement by the judge here, that this isn't standard protocol, is factually wrong. When you have an emergency that casts doubt on the procedures you've been using . . . you stop related operations till you find out what the hell happened.
Unless of course you're in the oil industry, and the accident has wiped out the economy and devastated the environment. Then you get conservative morons with their typical sense of entitlement insisting they shouldn't be treated the same way as other people.
It's like dealing with spoiled kids.
Pug
Amateurs *can* read books. I read Knuth, Krugman, and other experts on subjects all the time - but there's a considerable difference between that and having a professor look at my answers to specific questions. And even that doesn't take into account the fact that I might not be reading actual experts - reading "Darwin on Trial" is *never* going to make me a biologist, but will actually make me think long debunked arguments are well considered.
Pug
Right till he used cunt. He lost.
A large number of those assumptions seem, to me, to fall under 'Acceptable Breaks from Reality'. Yes, they're going to be wrong some percentage of the time, but trying to design for the use-case in which you're dealing with that small percentage case will result in a design that has traded have functionality that is useful an arbitrarily small percentage of the time for a system that is utterly unwieldy the rest of the time.
I mean, pointing out that a unicode point may not represent a letter in a name? Seriously? Listen, if your name requires an SVG code snippet to represent it, you get called "The artist formerly known as Prince". Live with it Jackass.
Pug
To be honest, I have really liked the upgrade. I had decided to drop Dish Network as 'nice but too expensive for what I watch'.
So, my converter box (not quite free after rebate) expanded me from one to four PBS channels (Less overlap than you would think), a sports channel, several local news channels, and the main networks came in better than they had before.
After I upgraded to HDTV the converter box actually still had a better TV Guide system than the TV itself had, so it actually still got used for the three months it took me to put together a MythTV DVR.
Theoretically I have some complaints about HDTV - Imperfect analogue tends to be better than imperfect HDTV - slight fuzzy is better than blotchly squares, et al. But that's an issue of dealing with trade offs - the practical advantages far exceed the disadvantages.
Pug
I'm always amazed by the 'Originalists' that ignore the 9th amendment and claim there's no right to privacy.
In 200 years, the Supreme Court recognized *one* constitutionally right not explicitly mentioned, arguing that several other rights show this right exists. And to this day people scream that one right in two hundred years recognized under SCOTUS is 'Judicial Activism'.
Pug
Admittedly, Sudo allows root access in (to the user) the same way vista/seven UAC allows access.
Now look at how often you actually *need* sudo access versus the number of times UAC pops up in windows seven on a default install.
At the end of the day Windows UAC still comes up on a regular basis. Sudo? Your average user (My Mom for example) will only see it to install or update software. I use it more, but only when I'm doing specific items that require it.
Yeah, this is symptomatic of underlying issues in the Windows security model - too much stuff, even today, requires access levels it should not need. I'm not at all sure I 'blame' Microsoft for this per se - there are historical reasons for the issues and for why they are difficult to resolve, and historical reasons for Unix/Linux having grown up without them, none of which have to do with the creators of Unix being inherently smarter - at best one could wish that Microsoft had taken the opportunity to look ahead and realize they were eventually going to have to deal with the same issues that Unix had the mixed pleasures of dealing with far earlier in its lifecycle.
Has Windows gotten *better*? Yes, but ignoring that the bar being vaulted is a low bar does not render Windows a Security Olympian.
Pug
My upgrade to 10.04 broke stuff I've gotten used to working without issue.
Flash in Firefox broke
gxine broke
MythTV broke, but I'm fairly certain that was at best peripherally related (MythArchive Plugin killed the frontend)
Various other smaller but irritating issues
This is obvious stuff that should not have happened, certainly not in an LTS release. Forgivable - I have upgraded every six months for several years now with very little issue, but definitely screwy.
Pug
Sure, it was trying to destroy us with wave after wave of nigh-indestructible gorgeous terminators. But you knew where you stood.
Gleefully fucking with our financial markets just to mess with our heads and make us feel even less in control than now? That's just cruel.
Pug
About 18 months ago - price was just too high, and the number of shows we knew we were going to miss to few (Daily Show and Colbert mostly, with scattered news, science fiction/cartoons, and science programs.)
Since then HDTV has come online - we now get five PBS stations with not entirely overlapping programming - which takes care of News and Science programming (The *best* cable science shows are only on par with Nova and nature, and often nowhere near as accurate. And let's not even talk about comparing cable news with Newshour.). With the money I saved I have now bought an HDTV and put together a MythTV box to record the shows I like - and now I can watch the Daily Show over the internet on my living room TV.
I wouldn't drop MythTV on someone not tech savvy (I actually had to reinstall Ubuntu because a plugin killed the frontend badly), but even so - versus something like $80/month for Satellite? So *very* much better.
Pug
http://www.google.com/search?q=geekgirl
About 70,900 results (0.27 seconds)
Yeah- I can see it's been *vigorously* defended by the way all these uses reflect that one person. This is even more annoyingly stupid than Lucasarts owning the term Droid.
Right.
Pug
Microsoft is planning to kill off the Early Adopter Gene that is Apple's entire demographic!!!
Considering that, for the average income, the income tax has gone down under Democratic administrations and up under Republican administrations, actually Democrats are better at keeping out of your wallet *and* your bedroom than Republicans.
Which is a shame - some of these Democrats are hot, I wouldn't mind seeing . . . er, never mind . . .
Pug
Password aging should automatically take into account the security of the password someone creates, via some algorithm that estimates 'guessability'
If it's a dictionary word and number, give it three months. If it's a dictionary word, number, and two symbols, give it six months. If it's a passphrase, all regular dictionary words but not a 'standard' phrase like 'lorem Ipsum" or "The quick brown fox' leave it alone for a couple years.
In other words - if someone is using a secure password, fuckin' reward them for it!.
Plus, if a password is being aged, and it's in it's expiration period - give people the entire 14 day (or whatever) period where they can use either the old password or the new password, and every time they use the old one remind them of the new one until they start using it. Let them transition between the two.
Just a couple obvious thoughts - Pug
For $100 dollars I can buy half the hard drive space I would buy for $80 at Frys, with the additional benefit of buying 20 movies each, for the same price as a DVD I could buy and copy onto my hard drive effortlessly!
If only I could be guaranteed a ridculously short lifetime - oh, wait, it's a SEAGATE - I've had two or three of those over the years and they *all* died!
I'm just dizzy with the anticipation!
Pug
To be fair I think I'm in the top 10% of drivers, and that thought terrifies me.
{G} - Pug
My Mom drove a truck for about ten years (Various Companies)
You've been misinformed. They track you via GPS, prices everywhere *you* can stop are marked up, Dispatchers give you illegally short times to go distances, believe truckers are a dime a dozen, and happily lie to Highway inspectors when you're caught, and all this in exchange for a job where you get the joy of having your entire truck stolen at gun point.
Ah, the joy of crushing hopes and dreams - {G}..
Pug
I've enjoyed the Wii version (My cut of the $20 minimum purchase for downloadable Wii games).
For a simple elegant game, I've noticed it's easy to implement it badly; The Wii version is great. Even the gimmicky bits are fun 'occasionals'.
Pug
Above and beyond that, he explicitly cites as violations things long clearly noted as protected categories (art work and such) under SCOTUS decisions, after claiming to have done extensive research.
So, I'm thinking this is a brazen attempt to smear a disliked rival with a bit of 'easily disproven, but you'll never get that spot out' mudslinging.
Pretty much disgusted with you Dr. Sanger.
Pug
Given that Regulation is *always* a response to a large, public, politically embarrassing failure of the "Free Market" (and indeed, deregulation almost alway sooner rather than later *results* in a large, public, politically embarrassing failure of the "Free Market"), yeah actually I think we anti-free-market whiners actually can claim that.
Fail to enforce coal regulations - bam - people die in coal mines.
Deregulate Credit Unions - bam - massive credit union baolouts.
Repeal Glass-Steagal - bam - find banks leveraged well past their limits in credit default swaps.
At some point you would think Free Market advocates could learn to master the same level of logic gets children to quit touching hot stove burners. Instead you get logic that amounts to "Why put fire sprinklers in apartment buildings. I mean really, what kind of idiot would live in the same building as an idiot that would burn down the building they live in?".
Pug
Murdoch does not have and Zimbabwe can not print enough money for me to read the self-executing parody that is Fox.
Pug
Actually, what I've seen is a lot of 'compliance' with regulations that don't actually exist.
I am a tech, not a lawyer, but I often I look at the regulations, and they are, frankly, clearly written and pretty specific. And then there is this implementation that is ordered from the legal department that has virtually nothing to do with either the regulation as written, nor even the spirit of the regulation.
The (few) times I have bothered to 'dig in' past the legal department to figure it out, I have seen all sorts of obfuscation, intimations that I am outside my depth/skillset, and resistance, and then, eventually, an admission that no there's no particular reason to interpret it this way. I suspect it's the same for the times I *haven't* chosen to buck the system, but who can keep that up all the time?
But one does notice it's the same people that talk about how over-regulated {Insert industry here} is that are actually obfuscating pretty cleanly written regulations on a regular basis.
Pug
The big question is what were peoples opinions about their decisions after the magnetic field was removed?
I ask because I've had experience with people that have had mental disorders that were treatable with the proper drugs, and it has always fascinated me - when people were on the medicine, they were fine. When they were off the meds, they were irrational.
The really interesting thing is that, once back on their meds, they will recall their actions while off the medication as having been perfect rational and justifiable at the time - the brain will rationalize the past behavior, even though it is other wise okay now.
So, does *that* happen in this instance - do people, once no longer under the influence of the field, realize they were making a bad decision, or do they rationalize it?
Pug