Ok, so what about games like World of Warcraft which use a P2P system to distribute legit patches? I wonder if any P2P type traffic will be potential victim of this, or if they're specifically looking just at BitTorrent users?
So, will this system be able to distinquish between legitimate uses of BitTorrent and pirate uses? Am I in danger of being flagged when one or all of the three four computers in my house with the World of Warcraft client gets an update?
Basically, I've never used a pirate BitTorrent... but I do have perfectly legal/allowed by the content holder BitTorrent traffic, so what are my chances of getting caught up in this (overly wide) dragnet?
If ever there was a horrible doomsday scenario, this is it.
How long before we have that dystopian apocalypse future that all those movies were warning me about?
Tank Girl, Mad Max, 1984, Brazil, Max Headroom (I know, TV, not movie, but work with me here), Johnny Mnemonic, Buckaroo Banzai, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, A Boy and His Dog, etc...
I've always loved those future dystopia movies, but the idea of actually seeing that kind of shit happen for real? Damn greedy bastards.
Of course, everyone's going to look at their own area - to see how it got right or wrong regarding where they live.
In my case, I'm in Western MA, and I have to say that they got this little part of it exactly right - merging us in this area into "Willimantic" which connects us with CT with Hartford as the capitol instead of being in the "ass end" of Massachusetts.
I've long been bothered by how little we in this part of MA have to do with those east of 128 / or even east of 495.
I can't speak for any other part of the country, though I love some of these kinds of maps. I like the ones like this where you see the US through the eyes of a New Yorker: http://www.refinery29.com/map-of-america-according-to-nyc
I was going to use my mod points to mod up the first person who questioned the new math behind how a $208 million dollar project cancelled halfway through already cost $254 million dollars.
Alas, nobody had yet... and it's just about beer-o-clock here.
I remember fantasticcontraption - got the paid version ages ago and had quite a lot of fun with it... kind of let it drop off the radar though - maybe I'll get my boss hooked on it.
I've got a Sodoku and a Solotaire app on my phone which work nicely for those 5 to 10 minute down times...
Any activity that I can leave at a moment's notice can work though - I might read/. and check my Facebook a few times during the day too...
There are also a million work-related things I can do during downtime... update KB articles, write new demos for our product (we sell an SDK, so you can ALWAYS come up with a new demo... either "how to do X" or "look a the really neat stuff you can do with this component"
All I can say is... those greedy bastards... they OWN the patent to Roundup, right? So why do they need to charge coming and going??? why can't they just let the gene get into whatever seeds it can and then just make a killing selling Roundup since everyones crops will already be "Roundup Ready"?
Noooooo! that's not the greediest possible stance... they have to get you coming and going and then sue folks who end up with their seeds on their farms due to... contamination?
Seriously, this is everything that is wrong with our patent laws and our wholesale selling of our government to big business./GAH!
Sorry for the horrible repetition there - I got called away/distracted from my post a couple times and ended up not really putting it together as well as I meant, Hopefully though the point won't be lost
So, in the course of reading the article on ElReg, I noticed that the folks denying climate change are being referred to as "Skeptical".
I get it - being "skeptical" of something means that you are not taking it at face value - that you dispute it.
However, there's also the self-identified "Skeptical Movement" nowadays which consists of a lot of great folks who are trying to introduce science-based thought and skepticism / critical thinking.
I'm talking about folks like Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame), Phil Plait (of "Bad Astronomy"), Brian Duning's Skeptoid, The Skeptic's guide to the Universe, Skepchick.org, the James Randi Educational Foundation, QackCast, and many many more...
Real science-based medicine and thinking... and to see "Skeptical" with a capitol S, I think of these folks and having the word used to refer to conspiracy nuts and climate deniers... well, it just feels like the same kind of co-opting that happened to the "hacker" monicker.
I guess I just wanted to get the word out that while the climate deniers and conspiracy nuts may be "skeptical" of climate change and such, they're not representative of "the Skeptical Movement" which is all about critical thinking and science-based approach to life, the universe, and everything.
I'm no economist, but the limited exposure I've had to public companies is that nowadays, it's all about ONLY the next quarterly report.
The way the stock market is pushing things, you can't actually make good long term decisions for your company because the only thing that matters is short term stuff.
By buying back the stock, they're possibly giving themselves the opportunity to take control back and run the company in the best interests of long-term strategy/goals.
Here in the US, only a criminal mastermind or a therrust would possibly want/need a SIM without having to submit to a credit check/proof of identity./sarcasm
Seriously, it's just a completely different mindset here than say, Europe. The previous statement is true for many things - sometimes the US is the batshite crazy place, and sometimes, its the EU.
In the case of stupid laws written by/for major corporations, we've got a pretty tight lock on the crazy.
Since the vast majority of people at the South Pole are Scientists and support staff, I'd guess they would be pretty upset if temperatures rose by 40 degrees.. especially since if "Earth temp" rose, that would be average temp and the poles would get a significantly larger share of that than the equator.
I'm guessing they'd be upset because some of them are there to actually study ice and cold and glaciers.Also, the vast majority of scientific opinion is that climate change IS happening and it's man-made, and I'm guessing that they're going to have the general opinion that it's "not a good thing".
That much warming and everyone within ~50 miles of the current shoreline of the oceans of the world would need to start commuting to work in scuba gear. (With exceptions for some local geography that can handle a 200' rise in sea levels that would happen if the South Pole and Greenland ice sheets got hit by that much warming (pretty much a total melt of all the glaciers and ice caps).
Maybe a few mountain climbers wouldn't mind... would maybe make Everest a bit more comfortable to summit - then again, such drastic change would likely F*** up the world's weather patterns so much that it's hard to tell what the result would be.
I seriously wouldn't want to take the chance.
And yes, I know that a 40 degree warming is NOT on even the most dire climatologist predictions - I was just extrapolating on your example.
The biggest issue for me is the whole "full screen only" apps and the context switching issues in Win8... and the waste of screen real estate.
Sorry, that got a bit "Spanish Inquisition" there...
Seriously though: whenever I 'let a coworker drive" my pc, they always go to full screen on each program - and since I run multiple 1920x1200 screens, it just drives me BONKERS to see that much screen wastage.
When I need to go to theirs, its amazing how many folks run their stuff in full screen - I don't know how they manage... it just doesn't work for me.
Doing developer support means that I often have 3 or 4 copies of visual studio running at once and am switching between them (customer's solution open in one and two or three boilerplates or other projects where I've solved similar problems for others open and copying/pasting or comparing things between them) along with a text editor and maybe two or three different browsers (esp. if I'm testing a web app) all the while with email and IM and phone queue management apps sitting on the side where I can see if they need attention.
I'm sure Win8 is ok on a touch device or something, but the abysmal handling of context switching is a deal breaker for me on a desktop. Windows 2000 pretty much had the perfect (for me) UI except for a couple of the nice convenience features of Win7 like a New Folder button in explorer by default (Oh how I love thee), and the search built right in.
I've found taht taking Win7, shrinking the icons a bit, installing UltraMon and using Classic Shell and turning off all that Aero stuff gives me a perfect (for my needs) UI. And I don't mind that it takes a little time to get set up initially. What I care for is that I can hammer it into a great UI for the way I work, MS seems to be taking a "use it our way" mentality with Win8 which is just a giant deal breaker for me. I'm hoping that they'll come to their senses with Win9 and that Win8 is just MS Bob 3.0 (2.0 being Windows ME)
Hell, I prefer VISTA to Windows 8... seriously that should show how bad 8 is right there.
Abrams has really shown great ability to come up with a good story context and set up a world and characters we get pulled into and care about.. and then CONSISTENTLY fails to take them to a satisfying conclusion...
He's the biggest SF-tease evar.
Maybe Abrams could start it up and get the story rolling for VII and VIII but then they could let someone with a history of doing it right (Joss where for art thou?) bring it on home in IX
When you sue Google about auto-correct, thus ensuring that your name and the associated undesired terms end up ranking so high that they are always linked in all search results for either term for eternity.
Oh, I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
Darn, Kuwait is pretty progressive - most countries in that region would have sentenced them to death!
Seriously though, as much as I might complain about what's wrong with America, it's comforting that we are free to criticize our government without fear of prison or worse.
If I want to say that the House of Representatives is the most wretched hive of scum and vil... *pounding at door*... oh, scuse me one sec... +++CARRIER LOST+++
My personal strategy is to first comment it out and put up a nice big comment saying why I removed it and when... then, at a later date, I'll actually remove it.(and comment appropriately about it in check-in)
I own documentary called "The Control Room"... never noticed if it was BBC made, but fly on the wall describes it - I too came away impressed with their sense of journalistic integrity.
I was probably one of the dozen folks in the US who watched Current TV from time to time - they've had some good journalism as well - I'm sad to see it go, but I will certainly give this new Al Jazeera channel a chance.
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Ok, so what about games like World of Warcraft which use a P2P system to distribute legit patches? I wonder if any P2P type traffic will be potential victim of this, or if they're specifically looking just at BitTorrent users?
Oh waitaminute!!! According to WowWiki http://www.wowwiki.com/Blizzard_Downloader , the original Warcraft updater used BitTorrent code.
So, will this system be able to distinquish between legitimate uses of BitTorrent and pirate uses? Am I in danger of being flagged when one or all of the three four computers in my house with the World of Warcraft client gets an update?
Basically, I've never used a pirate BitTorrent... but I do have perfectly legal/allowed by the content holder BitTorrent traffic, so what are my chances of getting caught up in this (overly wide) dragnet?
If ever there was a horrible doomsday scenario, this is it.
How long before we have that dystopian apocalypse future that all those movies were warning me about?
Tank Girl, Mad Max, 1984, Brazil, Max Headroom (I know, TV, not movie, but work with me here), Johnny Mnemonic, Buckaroo Banzai, Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, A Boy and His Dog, etc...
I've always loved those future dystopia movies, but the idea of actually seeing that kind of shit happen for real? Damn greedy bastards.
Not to nitpick (so, here comes the nitpicking), but he quite clearly stated this wasn't a serious proposal...
The idea here was more about raising the issue and making people think about it in a different light.
Of course, everyone's going to look at their own area - to see how it got right or wrong regarding where they live.
In my case, I'm in Western MA, and I have to say that they got this little part of it exactly right - merging us in this area into "Willimantic" which connects us with CT with Hartford as the capitol instead of being in the "ass end" of Massachusetts.
I've long been bothered by how little we in this part of MA have to do with those east of 128 / or even east of 495.
I can't speak for any other part of the country, though I love some of these kinds of maps. I like the ones like this where you see the US through the eyes of a New Yorker:
http://www.refinery29.com/map-of-america-according-to-nyc
I was going to use my mod points to mod up the first person who questioned the new math behind how a $208 million dollar project cancelled halfway through already cost $254 million dollars.
Alas, nobody had yet... and it's just about beer-o-clock here.
I remember fantasticcontraption - got the paid version ages ago and had quite a lot of fun with it... kind of let it drop off the radar though - maybe I'll get my boss hooked on it.
RIGHT!! apparently, one of the things I ~should~ be doing in my down time is learning to spell...
Of course, I meant "Sudoku" and "Solitaire" /hangs head in shame
I've got a Sodoku and a Solotaire app on my phone which work nicely for those 5 to 10 minute down times...
Any activity that I can leave at a moment's notice can work though - I might read /. and check my Facebook a few times during the day too...
There are also a million work-related things I can do during downtime... update KB articles, write new demos for our product (we sell an SDK, so you can ALWAYS come up with a new demo... either "how to do X" or "look a the really neat stuff you can do with this component"
All I can say is ... those greedy bastards... they OWN the patent to Roundup, right? So why do they need to charge coming and going??? why can't they just let the gene get into whatever seeds it can and then just make a killing selling Roundup since everyones crops will already be "Roundup Ready"?
Noooooo! that's not the greediest possible stance... they have to get you coming and going and then sue folks who end up with their seeds on their farms due to ... contamination?
Seriously, this is everything that is wrong with our patent laws and our wholesale selling of our government to big business. /GAH!
Sorry for the horrible repetition there - I got called away/distracted from my post a couple times and ended up not really putting it together as well as I meant, Hopefully though the point won't be lost
So, in the course of reading the article on ElReg, I noticed that the folks denying climate change are being referred to as "Skeptical".
I get it - being "skeptical" of something means that you are not taking it at face value - that you dispute it.
However, there's also the self-identified "Skeptical Movement" nowadays which consists of a lot of great folks who are trying to introduce science-based thought and skepticism / critical thinking.
I'm talking about folks like Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame), Phil Plait (of "Bad Astronomy"), Brian Duning's Skeptoid, The Skeptic's guide to the Universe, Skepchick.org, the James Randi Educational Foundation, QackCast, and many many more...
Real science-based medicine and thinking... and to see "Skeptical" with a capitol S, I think of these folks and having the word used to refer to conspiracy nuts and climate deniers... well, it just feels like the same kind of co-opting that happened to the "hacker" monicker.
I guess I just wanted to get the word out that while the climate deniers and conspiracy nuts may be "skeptical" of climate change and such, they're not representative of "the Skeptical Movement" which is all about critical thinking and science-based approach to life, the universe, and everything.
This could be the best thing for Dell.
I'm no economist, but the limited exposure I've had to public companies is that nowadays, it's all about ONLY the next quarterly report.
The way the stock market is pushing things, you can't actually make good long term decisions for your company because the only thing that matters is short term stuff.
By buying back the stock, they're possibly giving themselves the opportunity to take control back and run the company in the best interests of long-term strategy/goals.
Good Luck Dell
So, Iran's got a bit of history with PhotoShop.:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/
It seems quite reasonable for folks to question ANY photographic evidence / propaganda / news releases from Iranian sources.
My guess: "Type"
Here in the US, only a criminal mastermind or a therrust would possibly want/need a SIM without having to submit to a credit check/proof of identity. /sarcasm
Seriously, it's just a completely different mindset here than say, Europe. The previous statement is true for many things - sometimes the US is the batshite crazy place, and sometimes, its the EU.
In the case of stupid laws written by/for major corporations, we've got a pretty tight lock on the crazy.
~sigh~
I think that's called "In the public domain"
Can't you do that easily enough?
Since the vast majority of people at the South Pole are Scientists and support staff, I'd guess they would be pretty upset if temperatures rose by 40 degrees.. especially since if "Earth temp" rose, that would be average temp and the poles would get a significantly larger share of that than the equator.
I'm guessing they'd be upset because some of them are there to actually study ice and cold and glaciers.Also, the vast majority of scientific opinion is that climate change IS happening and it's man-made, and I'm guessing that they're going to have the general opinion that it's "not a good thing".
That much warming and everyone within ~50 miles of the current shoreline of the oceans of the world would need to start commuting to work in scuba gear. (With exceptions for some local geography that can handle a 200' rise in sea levels that would happen if the South Pole and Greenland ice sheets got hit by that much warming (pretty much a total melt of all the glaciers and ice caps).
Maybe a few mountain climbers wouldn't mind... would maybe make Everest a bit more comfortable to summit - then again, such drastic change would likely F*** up the world's weather patterns so much that it's hard to tell what the result would be.
I seriously wouldn't want to take the chance.
And yes, I know that a 40 degree warming is NOT on even the most dire climatologist predictions - I was just extrapolating on your example.
The biggest issue for me is the whole "full screen only" apps and the context switching issues in Win8... and the waste of screen real estate.
Sorry, that got a bit "Spanish Inquisition" there...
Seriously though: whenever I 'let a coworker drive" my pc, they always go to full screen on each program - and since I run multiple 1920x1200 screens, it just drives me BONKERS to see that much screen wastage.
When I need to go to theirs, its amazing how many folks run their stuff in full screen - I don't know how they manage... it just doesn't work for me.
Doing developer support means that I often have 3 or 4 copies of visual studio running at once and am switching between them (customer's solution open in one and two or three boilerplates or other projects where I've solved similar problems for others open and copying/pasting or comparing things between them) along with a text editor and maybe two or three different browsers (esp. if I'm testing a web app) all the while with email and IM and phone queue management apps sitting on the side where I can see if they need attention.
I'm sure Win8 is ok on a touch device or something, but the abysmal handling of context switching is a deal breaker for me on a desktop. Windows 2000 pretty much had the perfect (for me) UI except for a couple of the nice convenience features of Win7 like a New Folder button in explorer by default (Oh how I love thee), and the search built right in.
I've found taht taking Win7, shrinking the icons a bit, installing UltraMon and using Classic Shell and turning off all that Aero stuff gives me a perfect (for my needs) UI. And I don't mind that it takes a little time to get set up initially. What I care for is that I can hammer it into a great UI for the way I work, MS seems to be taking a "use it our way" mentality with Win8 which is just a giant deal breaker for me. I'm hoping that they'll come to their senses with Win9 and that Win8 is just MS Bob 3.0 (2.0 being Windows ME)
Hell, I prefer VISTA to Windows 8... seriously that should show how bad 8 is right there.
this. So much this...
Abrams has really shown great ability to come up with a good story context and set up a world and characters we get pulled into and care about.. and then CONSISTENTLY fails to take them to a satisfying conclusion...
He's the biggest SF-tease evar.
Maybe Abrams could start it up and get the story rolling for VII and VIII but then they could let someone with a history of doing it right (Joss where for art thou?) bring it on home in IX
For the love of all that is good and right in the world, please just shut your mouth... do NOT give him ideas! :p
The Hingston-Streisand Effect:
When you sue Google about auto-correct, thus ensuring that your name and the associated undesired terms end up ranking so high that they are always linked in all search results for either term for eternity.
Oh, I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
So, he followed along in the tradition of TMRC / the original MIT computer hackers?
I like this Swartz guy more and more!
Darn, Kuwait is pretty progressive - most countries in that region would have sentenced them to death!
Seriously though, as much as I might complain about what's wrong with America, it's comforting that we are free to criticize our government without fear of prison or worse.
If I want to say that the House of Representatives is the most wretched hive of scum and vil... *pounding at door* ... oh, scuse me one sec... +++CARRIER LOST+++
My personal strategy is to first comment it out and put up a nice big comment saying why I removed it and when... then, at a later date, I'll actually remove it.(and comment appropriately about it in check-in)
I own documentary called "The Control Room" ... never noticed if it was BBC made, but fly on the wall describes it - I too came away impressed with their sense of journalistic integrity.
I was probably one of the dozen folks in the US who watched Current TV from time to time - they've had some good journalism as well - I'm sad to see it go, but I will certainly give this new Al Jazeera channel a chance.