But if your wife started sweating and her blood pressure rose above its already high point after the TSA asked her if she was carrying explosives... Then it would hopefully peg her as a person of interest.
I've been polygraphed for a job with a security company. They ask you what your name is, and you answer. You're not lying, they know you're not lying, you're calm. They ask you if you're carrying a bomb, (forgive the italics) they think there's a chance you have a fucking bomb. You are no longer calm, if only momentarily. You are now a "person of interest."
There is an 8% false positive rate. Since you apparently don't understand that, let me say it in the simplest possible way you can say that: There is an 8% false positive rate.
Deaths per mile flying are estimated at about 200 times driving. If your flight is less than 1000 miles, you're more likely to be killed in the 5 mile drive to the airport.
You're going to die from a heart attack or prostate cancer. Relax.
Don't worry guys, I did the legwork for you. Here's the secret message:
AJAX Javascript is actually quite powerful look at their source code make your program do something flashy isn't as slow as it actually is browsers have this thing called DOM Standard web forms web bad idea data quietly developing AJAX.
If we don't feed the timothy, it will go away. Please don't encourage this crap.
Or if you must use this space to talk about something, I propose giving links to the kind of stuff that used to make old-school Slashdot cool (at least I think it used to be cool. I have vague, fuzzy memories of being entertained at one point). So in that spirit, for those that haven't seen it:
Actually, they "hate" (i.e. target) those that can afford to fly. Do you think the hype would fly that high if they targeted, say, Greyhound?
That's not why they don't target Greyhound. They don't target Greyhound because we haven't made it fun yet. Blowing up an airplane is a game. We gave it rules. If you can get a bomb on without the screeners finding it, you win. And it's not that hard of a game to win if you're not an idiot and haven't already lost from the start by virtue of having talked to the wrong person while someone was watching, so they get the satisfaction of both crippling us and beating us at our game. It's not a conscious thing, but we gave them something to fixate on and obsess about, and that's not good.
Unfortunately, there's no going back. If we make flying like riding a bus now, the game doesn't just end. We lose 15 or 20 planes in the free-for-all before it gets boring for them, and obviously that can't happen. So we're screwed.
We might as well just move to the end right now: Everyone wears paper hospital gowns with no underwear on planes after having changed in front of an official, and all cargo is shipped seperately via UPS.
We'll still lose 2 planes to poison gas being blown into pilots' faces from regurgitated containers, but at some point you have to just say, "Meh." Of course, if it were me, that point would have been a long time ago.
It's true that it's like a hat trick, triple-double, and that other thing, but if you don't know what any of those things are, it's also like a hole-in-three in golf, or three goals in three non-consecutive games of soccer, or to go in a non-sporting direction, three pieces of ham on a ham sandwich. But I guess the simplest way to explain it is that it does three seperate things. Three! I know it's a bit complicated, so I can explain further using many, many more analogies if need be. Just let me know.
Jim Matheson and Mike McIntyre want to censor video games. So vote out Jim Matheson and Mike McIntyre. Quit voting for or against groups and maybe we could get some decent individuals.
If he was working with a laptop outside in the sun, it's not unthinkable that he wouldn't be able to see what he was doing. But it's very unlikely he would have been able to make anything that would pass casual inspection as an undoctored photo if that were the case. Not having seen anything but the tiny picture in the article, I'll reserve judgement.
From the link in the article: Need a visual? Imagine the universe just a million years after it was born, Cornish suggests. A batch of light travels for a year, covering one light-year. "At that time, the universe was about 1,000 times smaller than it is today," he said. "Thus, that one light-year has now stretched to become 1,000 light-years."
Which is one of the many reasons I consider any science that hasn't gone into producing a working television at least 95% bullshit.
the phrase "I took the initiative" means "I did this"
"I took the initiative in creating the internet." "In creating the internet, I took the initiative."
The sentences are equivalent and interchangeable, but phrased the second way, the intent is perfectly clear. Since it is equivalent to a correct statement, it's a correct statement. But if you're really committed to choosing the wrong connotation of a sentence from a millenia ago by a man with no power for the purposes of a joke that hasn't been funny for any of its last 168 trillion tellings, I guess that's okay.
In any case, he knows it was unclear, he's made fun of himself for it, so continuing to make fun of him for it is a little bit of a dickful thing to do.
Nah, it's fine to tell people it's uncool to be intelligent and politically proactive, just so long as you're funny while you're doing it. If this thing were even a little amusing, it would be perfectly fine.
Even cold-blooded murder is okay if it's funny enough.
the current patent system stifles the small inventor
Yes. Which is why I said the current system isn't good. But there are a few babies in the bathwater that aren't floating face-down, so fixing the problem would be preferable to just throwing them out.
How about eliminating patents and guaarantee the freedom to innovate so true competition may exist? That way a small inventor won't lose his house when trying to compete with the large companies who buy up all the intellectual real estate on the monopoly board.
No, he'll just go broke when trying to compete with the large companies who wait for him to build something cool and then use their huge existing resources to cheaply mass produce his invention before he has a chance to make a dime off it. Not that either the existing or proposed system is "good", but yours would suck pretty bad, too.
Yep. This Web 2.0 stuff should be called Bubble 2.0.
Dagnabit, don't call it that! Calling it that is what popped the first bubble! If we'd called it something better, I'd be making 90k a year doing nothing right now, like back in the good ol' days. Now please, let's get it straight, it's not a bubble, it's an ever-growing mountain of potential cash if people with shameful amounts of money will just keep paying for it for a little while longer.
The last time I used a free OS, wmv's weren't playable. I didn't know there were now, or I would have mentioned that it's Firefox for Windows (XP Home SP2). But the fact that it doesn't happen on yours probably means it's Microsoft's fault for not checking if javascript is enabled and refusing to play gracefully.
They knew that if they ate too much, they would get fat.
99% of them got fat when they were about 5. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to blame a 5-year-old for the bad choices they've made. Nor the 12-year-old who is now significantly fat and begins to have responsibility for what he does but now has to undo a lifetime of damage.
I used to be big. I'm now just as skinny as anybody. I know exactly how much effort it takes to fix it, and it is, in most cases, beyond the capabilities of all but the most exceptional young teenagers, unless they have their decisions made for them.
And then once they are capable of fixing themselves, there's the problem that people spend millions of dollars trying to get fat people to buy into their voodoo diets that won't work while actively trying to persuade them not to try the one that will.
Fat is gross, but sympathy isn't entirely uncalled for.
Since this was bound to come up exactly once in the life of 1 in 2 million people, I'm kind of glad my routine search for what I'm looking for in Control Panel doesn't include a useless-to-virtually-everyone icon.
Unless I'm wrong and changing your OS product key happens all the time. Is that a normal business function that I don't get?
Just a warning, I have no idea what that clip I linked to is. I clicked one of their offerings at random and only confirmed that it didn't show up and caused the error. Now that I look at the name again, it may turn out to be something horrible. Oops. And I'm afraid to check.
First result from a google of "video clips", just to confirm for everyone that I'm not just looking at weird, browser-crashing porn (I, of course, am, but other, not-disgusting things do it, too).
This particular one didn't crash when I tried it, but it does start an unending until you click the 'don't show this anymore' checkbox error message loop whose message I, unfortunately, can't quite remember, advising you to restart the program. Hopefully anyone visiting would get the same and that's good enough.
audio content these days tends to involve some script poking the plugin to start playing or even loading the content, w/o a js poke there might be no content.
it's not that there's no content, I'm fine with no content, it's that going to any site with an embedded wmv with javascript disabled gives an endlessly repeating error message until you click a "stop showing this" checkbox, at which time you have a one in three chance of crashing.
The about: ajavascript: navigator advice brings up a blank page, so I'll just say that the bug has existed from at least Firefox 1.0 to 1.5.0.5.
The about:plugins doesn't give a version for the plugin that I can see, but it's whatever comes with a fully patched XP Home (I assume that's where the plugin is coming from).
I don't know if IE uses the same plugin, but going to the same site in it with javascript disabled just doesn't show the content, so if they are the same problem, then it's at least partially a Firefox problem (IE might do a special check for enabled javascript in IE and then assume it's there in the plugin, which makes it mostly their fault, I suppose. Any chance of getting the developers to drop in that check as a special case? WMVs are fairly common, and the behavior is slightly annoying, but I don't know how much those guys enjoy making special cases for microsoft products).
I guess I'll try to get around to asking mozillazine. Thanks. Kind of was hoping the answer was common knowledge.
This is slightly off-topic, but it's kind of relevent to the solution of turning javascript off. Can anyone explain to me why javascript is required in Firefox to open a.wmv file (in windows, obviously)? And more importantly, what bug makes Firefox crash about 33% of the time when visiting a site that has one on it when javascript is disabled? What are the odds that bug is overflow exploitable?
Exactly! I'm tired of unpredictable movies. I want to know from the second the preview starts that the good guy is going to win and get the girl, and the bad guy is going to be beaten, kicked in the nuts, and then fall in poo. Along the way, the good guy should tell really awful, punny jokes that the actresses will inexplicably giggle and fall in love with him for anyway.
In fact, I don't know why we even need more than one movie. Just make one just like that, call it "The Movie," and we'll just watch it forever and ever. It'll be awesome.
I certainly don't blame Anderson for the problems. The writing was just really lazy-esque for his last couple of seasons, like the writers were just going through the motions while simultaneously taking themselves more seriously than they did before they stopped caring. I'm sure neither of those was actually the case, I'm sure they tried their asses off and it just wasn't quite working, but that was the vibe they were giving off.
Reading the article, I read the 14.6 billion dollar cost and thought, "Oh, I thought this thing was a lot of money." Then I remembered that is a lot of money. Not Bush-bashing or anything at the moment, but it's pretty impressive what the war can do to your concept of what is and isn't a lot of money being blown through by a government.
But then I'm assuming that's mostly not federal money, which would make it a really, really lot of money. But still.
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But if your wife started sweating and her blood pressure rose above its already high point after the TSA asked her if she was carrying explosives... Then it would hopefully peg her as a person of interest.
I've been polygraphed for a job with a security company. They ask you what your name is, and you answer. You're not lying, they know you're not lying, you're calm. They ask you if you're carrying a bomb, (forgive the italics) they think there's a chance you have a fucking bomb. You are no longer calm, if only momentarily. You are now a "person of interest."
There is an 8% false positive rate. Since you apparently don't understand that, let me say it in the simplest possible way you can say that: There is an 8% false positive rate.
After double-checking my numbers, it turns out I didn't remember the numbers quite right. But a quick google gives this:
Driving or Flying?
But you're still going to choke to death on a chunk of insufficiently-chewed beef.
Deaths per mile flying are estimated at about 200 times driving. If your flight is less than 1000 miles, you're more likely to be killed in the 5 mile drive to the airport.
You're going to die from a heart attack or prostate cancer. Relax.
Don't worry guys, I did the legwork for you. Here's the secret message:
AJAX Javascript is actually quite powerful look at their source code make your program do something flashy isn't as slow as it actually is browsers have this thing called DOM Standard web forms web bad idea data quietly developing AJAX.
If we don't feed the timothy, it will go away. Please don't encourage this crap.
Or if you must use this space to talk about something, I propose giving links to the kind of stuff that used to make old-school Slashdot cool (at least I think it used to be cool. I have vague, fuzzy memories of being entertained at one point). So in that spirit, for those that haven't seen it:
How much is inside?
Actually, they "hate" (i.e. target) those that can afford to fly. Do you think the hype would fly that high if they targeted, say, Greyhound?
That's not why they don't target Greyhound. They don't target Greyhound because we haven't made it fun yet. Blowing up an airplane is a game. We gave it rules. If you can get a bomb on without the screeners finding it, you win. And it's not that hard of a game to win if you're not an idiot and haven't already lost from the start by virtue of having talked to the wrong person while someone was watching, so they get the satisfaction of both crippling us and beating us at our game. It's not a conscious thing, but we gave them something to fixate on and obsess about, and that's not good.
Unfortunately, there's no going back. If we make flying like riding a bus now, the game doesn't just end. We lose 15 or 20 planes in the free-for-all before it gets boring for them, and obviously that can't happen. So we're screwed.
We might as well just move to the end right now: Everyone wears paper hospital gowns with no underwear on planes after having changed in front of an official, and all cargo is shipped seperately via UPS.
We'll still lose 2 planes to poison gas being blown into pilots' faces from regurgitated containers, but at some point you have to just say, "Meh." Of course, if it were me, that point would have been a long time ago.
It's true that it's like a hat trick, triple-double, and that other thing, but if you don't know what any of those things are, it's also like a hole-in-three in golf, or three goals in three non-consecutive games of soccer, or to go in a non-sporting direction, three pieces of ham on a ham sandwich. But I guess the simplest way to explain it is that it does three seperate things. Three! I know it's a bit complicated, so I can explain further using many, many more analogies if need be. Just let me know.
Jim Matheson and Mike McIntyre want to censor video games. So vote out Jim Matheson and Mike McIntyre. Quit voting for or against groups and maybe we could get some decent individuals.
If he was working with a laptop outside in the sun, it's not unthinkable that he wouldn't be able to see what he was doing. But it's very unlikely he would have been able to make anything that would pass casual inspection as an undoctored photo if that were the case. Not having seen anything but the tiny picture in the article, I'll reserve judgement.
He didn't say anything about forcing it. He said make it an option, and it's an excellent idea.
From the link in the article:
Need a visual? Imagine the universe just a million years after it was born, Cornish suggests. A batch of light travels for a year, covering one light-year. "At that time, the universe was about 1,000 times smaller than it is today," he said. "Thus, that one light-year has now stretched to become 1,000 light-years."
Which is one of the many reasons I consider any science that hasn't gone into producing a working television at least 95% bullshit.
the phrase "I took the initiative" means "I did this"
"I took the initiative in creating the internet."
"In creating the internet, I took the initiative."
The sentences are equivalent and interchangeable, but phrased the second way, the intent is perfectly clear. Since it is equivalent to a correct statement, it's a correct statement. But if you're really committed to choosing the wrong connotation of a sentence from a millenia ago by a man with no power for the purposes of a joke that hasn't been funny for any of its last 168 trillion tellings, I guess that's okay.
In any case, he knows it was unclear, he's made fun of himself for it, so continuing to make fun of him for it is a little bit of a dickful thing to do.
Nah, it's fine to tell people it's uncool to be intelligent and politically proactive, just so long as you're funny while you're doing it. If this thing were even a little amusing, it would be perfectly fine.
Even cold-blooded murder is okay if it's funny enough.
the current patent system stifles the small inventor
Yes. Which is why I said the current system isn't good. But there are a few babies in the bathwater that aren't floating face-down, so fixing the problem would be preferable to just throwing them out.
How about eliminating patents and guaarantee the freedom to innovate so true competition may exist? That way a small inventor won't lose his house when trying to compete with the large companies who buy up all the intellectual real estate on the monopoly board.
No, he'll just go broke when trying to compete with the large companies who wait for him to build something cool and then use their huge existing resources to cheaply mass produce his invention before he has a chance to make a dime off it. Not that either the existing or proposed system is "good", but yours would suck pretty bad, too.
Yep. This Web 2.0 stuff should be called Bubble 2.0.
Dagnabit, don't call it that! Calling it that is what popped the first bubble! If we'd called it something better, I'd be making 90k a year doing nothing right now, like back in the good ol' days. Now please, let's get it straight, it's not a bubble, it's an ever-growing mountain of potential cash if people with shameful amounts of money will just keep paying for it for a little while longer.
The last time I used a free OS, wmv's weren't playable. I didn't know there were now, or I would have mentioned that it's Firefox for Windows (XP Home SP2). But the fact that it doesn't happen on yours probably means it's Microsoft's fault for not checking if javascript is enabled and refusing to play gracefully.
They knew that if they ate too much, they would get fat.
99% of them got fat when they were about 5. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to blame a 5-year-old for the bad choices they've made. Nor the 12-year-old who is now significantly fat and begins to have responsibility for what he does but now has to undo a lifetime of damage.
I used to be big. I'm now just as skinny as anybody. I know exactly how much effort it takes to fix it, and it is, in most cases, beyond the capabilities of all but the most exceptional young teenagers, unless they have their decisions made for them.
And then once they are capable of fixing themselves, there's the problem that people spend millions of dollars trying to get fat people to buy into their voodoo diets that won't work while actively trying to persuade them not to try the one that will.
Fat is gross, but sympathy isn't entirely uncalled for.
Since this was bound to come up exactly once in the life of 1 in 2 million people, I'm kind of glad my routine search for what I'm looking for in Control Panel doesn't include a useless-to-virtually-everyone icon.
Unless I'm wrong and changing your OS product key happens all the time. Is that a normal business function that I don't get?
Just a warning, I have no idea what that clip I linked to is. I clicked one of their offerings at random and only confirmed that it didn't show up and caused the error. Now that I look at the name again, it may turn out to be something horrible. Oops. And I'm afraid to check.
First result from a google of "video clips", just to confirm for everyone that I'm not just looking at weird, browser-crashing porn (I, of course, am, but other, not-disgusting things do it, too).
http://www.video-clips.co.uk/viewmedia.php?cid=18
This particular one didn't crash when I tried it, but it does start an unending until you click the 'don't show this anymore' checkbox error message loop whose message I, unfortunately, can't quite remember, advising you to restart the program. Hopefully anyone visiting would get the same and that's good enough.
audio content these days tends to involve some script poking the plugin to start playing or even loading the content, w/o a js poke there might be no content.
it's not that there's no content, I'm fine with no content, it's that going to any site with an embedded wmv with javascript disabled gives an endlessly repeating error message until you click a "stop showing this" checkbox, at which time you have a one in three chance of crashing.
The about: ajavascript: navigator advice brings up a blank page, so I'll just say that the bug has existed from at least Firefox 1.0 to 1.5.0.5.
The about:plugins doesn't give a version for the plugin that I can see, but it's whatever comes with a fully patched XP Home (I assume that's where the plugin is coming from).
I don't know if IE uses the same plugin, but going to the same site in it with javascript disabled just doesn't show the content, so if they are the same problem, then it's at least partially a Firefox problem (IE might do a special check for enabled javascript in IE and then assume it's there in the plugin, which makes it mostly their fault, I suppose. Any chance of getting the developers to drop in that check as a special case? WMVs are fairly common, and the behavior is slightly annoying, but I don't know how much those guys enjoy making special cases for microsoft products).
I guess I'll try to get around to asking mozillazine. Thanks. Kind of was hoping the answer was common knowledge.
This is slightly off-topic, but it's kind of relevent to the solution of turning javascript off. Can anyone explain to me why javascript is required in Firefox to open a .wmv file (in windows, obviously)? And more importantly, what bug makes Firefox crash about 33% of the time when visiting a site that has one on it when javascript is disabled? What are the odds that bug is overflow exploitable?
Exactly! I'm tired of unpredictable movies. I want to know from the second the preview starts that the good guy is going to win and get the girl, and the bad guy is going to be beaten, kicked in the nuts, and then fall in poo. Along the way, the good guy should tell really awful, punny jokes that the actresses will inexplicably giggle and fall in love with him for anyway.
In fact, I don't know why we even need more than one movie. Just make one just like that, call it "The Movie," and we'll just watch it forever and ever. It'll be awesome.
I certainly don't blame Anderson for the problems. The writing was just really lazy-esque for his last couple of seasons, like the writers were just going through the motions while simultaneously taking themselves more seriously than they did before they stopped caring. I'm sure neither of those was actually the case, I'm sure they tried their asses off and it just wasn't quite working, but that was the vibe they were giving off.
Completely agree about Atlantis.
Reading the article, I read the 14.6 billion dollar cost and thought, "Oh, I thought this thing was a lot of money." Then I remembered that is a lot of money. Not Bush-bashing or anything at the moment, but it's pretty impressive what the war can do to your concept of what is and isn't a lot of money being blown through by a government.
But then I'm assuming that's mostly not federal money, which would make it a really, really lot of money. But still.