What can be really useful is a short, flexible, pole, about 2 feet long, with a red flag tied to the end, and a glass cutter. Given how in many places, there is a minimum of 3 feet, 1 meter or in some places even 1.5 meters, anyone hit by it would be breaking the law. Ireland, unfortunately, has no such law yet (the law says "Give sufficient distance" and not a specific value for sufficient distance).
Volkswagen is the hardware (the computer), the ISP is the road (the internet).
The TOR operator is basically a Person parked outside the bank who will drive anyone, anywhere, no questions asked as they come out of the bank. So if someone come out wielding guns and carrying duffel bags of cash, the driver just smiles and nods and asks, "where to?".
There are 2 questions. 1) Is it irresponsible for someone to run a TOR node which can be used for criminal pursuit? 2) Is it possible to know what someone uses your exit node for?
I suspect the answer to number 2 is "No", which makes question 1 important. You have the Car, Someone provides the Road, they are just things (you might argue one war or another on the ISP, is it a thing or a service they provide) but you chose to run a TOR node that you are aware aides someone to perform illegal acts. It would be like selling guns to people and not asking them for any ID, or submitting the required paperwork for background checks. Is it reasonable to say "I'm just selling guns, I'm not responsible for how they are used. I didn't kill anyone"
I think we chose to quietly ignore the fact that in our quest to protect privacy online and maintain the anonymity of the TOR network, we are conveniently overlooking our responsibility for the outcome of such actions.
You are forgetting the most simple reason, sample group and history.
Why are there fewer black olympic swimmers?
Someone might prattle off "bone density" or "melanin affecting skin density", but the real reason has been know for quite some time. Due to racial discrimination in the late 1800s and early 1900 (and not to mention slavery before that), black people were not allowed into public swimming pools, and eventually, when legally allowed, it was shunned heavily. As a result there isn't a history of swimming in black culture, so fewer of them do it. Also olympic swimming does require a certain wealthier class of person to get regular access to the pool for training, and there is still a economic divide at the highest levels between white and black athletes.
The same is with shooting, it has been male dominated for so long that there is very little impetuous for girls to get into it growing up. It's a very stereotypical father son bonding thing in the US and other countries, and speaking from my own experience, as a member of the rifle (and archery) clubs in university, it appeals more to men than to women.
So in the end you just have a smaller pool of women in shooting, and thus less chance you'll have olympic level athletes.
But really all this would mean is that if competing together, fewer women will win, but (guessing now) it is quite likely that the proportion of medals won would be somewhat close to the proportion of women active in the sport.
I'd love if they provided a service for individuals for personal use. Simple things like online gaming servers where you have a Dynamic IP address. It's annoying to try hosting a Terraria server or System Shock 2 when your have to share your IP address at the beginning of every session. DYNDNS.org used to offer free addresses for personal use.
Aww man, I started to read that in "Epic Movie Trailer Guy" voice.
"At a time when news organizations are shuttering their comment sections, one news agency took a chance to engage with it's readers. This summer watch how The Washington Post turns the tables on big media. Clint Eastwood reprises his role as the pilot of the Firefox (*cut to scene of him clicking on a hyperlink*). From the Director of Mozilla vs Mothrasoft. Commenting will never be the same."
My 4G internet on my phone is already faster than my home broadband connection, due to the fact that they haven't connected my street to the rest of the Fiber network in Dublin. Thanks to unlimited download, I regularly use it to downloads my Steam games and TV episodes. I'm tempted to get rid of the landline altogether.
I agree, he may be many things, but credit where credit is due. I'm looking for a different term to "single-handedly" because I know it took many people to get Rift working, including the people at valve to sort out latency issues. He is possibly a person who brought it all together, similar to how Jobs took all these technologies at the right time and combined them into the iPhone. Right or wrong, Jobs is credited often with the dawn of the smartphone era. Someone else might have done it a year or 2 later, but that's history now.
There is a video with Palmer, John and some other guy (it was at a Quake event or somesuch), where they were talking about the Rift, and one comment really stood out to me. Palmer said (and I paraphrase) "I don't want to make the ultimate headset, many companies tried to focus on delivering one key component, either resolution, latency or FoV etc. What I'm interested in is creating a single package that's 'good enough' in all areas to get the market going. Once people see that VR is finally possible, and is a viable technology, everyone will start doing it, and my goal will be achieved."
Palmer is obsessed with VR, not with being a millionaire or running a massive business. He's allegedly got the largest private collection of VR gear in the world, because he wants immersion in games and so on. If everyone and their mothers jump into the market and come up with competing technologies in the same way as Nokia, Sony Erickson and Motorola lead ultimately to Samsung, HTC and Apple phones, then he's happy if he was just someone who helped stimulate the market for VR.
I saw the steam update, but didn't realise what it did. This sounds great! Often my wife wants to use my computer for TV and stuff, because her laptop isn't that great. Unfortunately, I can't split the sound so that she can watch netflix on the TV, while I am playing too, but this might work out well, if she can watch TV while I stream the game to the lappy.
For some reason the lappy doesn't do a great job of connecting up to the TV screen, but I'm happy playing games on it.
I was scrolling all the way through that and thinking, "none of this involves the Jedi" and I was fine with that. I suspect the second last frame was just for fun, but in thinking more on it, I realise one thing that really causes problems for a 'serious' Star Wars movie, is OP force-wielding characters. All of my favourite star wars books, now that i think of them, also don't involve force users, and are more about space battles and guerrilla squads doing guerrilla things, or the plots tend to be highly political in nature.
Further musings: The Jedi we really remember are those who seemed to have used the force the least... flamboyantly. Obiwan never used it overtly in star wars (never moved anything, only did mind-bending that once), and Yoda only ever used it to pull the X-Wing out of the swamp, as an object lession to Luke. The prequels I feel had an overly large amount of gymnastics and blaster deflecting which to me took away from how subtle their ability was. I've seen the same in Lord of the Rings. Gandalf always seemed to be less about overt use of power, and more about planning and orchestrating things. Zeddicus in the Sword of Truth was a bit too overtly magical (Pug in Raymond E. Feist's books too to an extent). But then those series are based in different settings.
I feel that Star Wars would do better in keeping the use of force powers much more subtle and manipulative, instead of open and flashy.
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What can be really useful is a short, flexible, pole, about 2 feet long, with a red flag tied to the end, and a glass cutter. Given how in many places, there is a minimum of 3 feet, 1 meter or in some places even 1.5 meters, anyone hit by it would be breaking the law. Ireland, unfortunately, has no such law yet (the law says "Give sufficient distance" and not a specific value for sufficient distance).
Both analogies are false.
Volkswagen is the hardware (the computer), the ISP is the road (the internet).
The TOR operator is basically a Person parked outside the bank who will drive anyone, anywhere, no questions asked as they come out of the bank. So if someone come out wielding guns and carrying duffel bags of cash, the driver just smiles and nods and asks, "where to?".
There are 2 questions.
1) Is it irresponsible for someone to run a TOR node which can be used for criminal pursuit?
2) Is it possible to know what someone uses your exit node for?
I suspect the answer to number 2 is "No", which makes question 1 important. You have the Car, Someone provides the Road, they are just things (you might argue one war or another on the ISP, is it a thing or a service they provide) but you chose to run a TOR node that you are aware aides someone to perform illegal acts. It would be like selling guns to people and not asking them for any ID, or submitting the required paperwork for background checks. Is it reasonable to say "I'm just selling guns, I'm not responsible for how they are used. I didn't kill anyone"
I think we chose to quietly ignore the fact that in our quest to protect privacy online and maintain the anonymity of the TOR network, we are conveniently overlooking our responsibility for the outcome of such actions.
You are forgetting the most simple reason, sample group and history.
Why are there fewer black olympic swimmers?
Someone might prattle off "bone density" or "melanin affecting skin density", but the real reason has been know for quite some time. Due to racial discrimination in the late 1800s and early 1900 (and not to mention slavery before that), black people were not allowed into public swimming pools, and eventually, when legally allowed, it was shunned heavily. As a result there isn't a history of swimming in black culture, so fewer of them do it. Also olympic swimming does require a certain wealthier class of person to get regular access to the pool for training, and there is still a economic divide at the highest levels between white and black athletes.
The same is with shooting, it has been male dominated for so long that there is very little impetuous for girls to get into it growing up. It's a very stereotypical father son bonding thing in the US and other countries, and speaking from my own experience, as a member of the rifle (and archery) clubs in university, it appeals more to men than to women.
So in the end you just have a smaller pool of women in shooting, and thus less chance you'll have olympic level athletes.
But really all this would mean is that if competing together, fewer women will win, but (guessing now) it is quite likely that the proportion of medals won would be somewhat close to the proportion of women active in the sport.
TIL I'm smart.
Yes, sad-sacks are plus un-good.
Yeah? What about this?
So you're saying that light is female, and had to stop to ask directions?
I'd love if they provided a service for individuals for personal use. Simple things like online gaming servers where you have a Dynamic IP address. It's annoying to try hosting a Terraria server or System Shock 2 when your have to share your IP address at the beginning of every session. DYNDNS.org used to offer free addresses for personal use.
Aww man, I started to read that in "Epic Movie Trailer Guy" voice.
"At a time when news organizations are shuttering their comment sections, one news agency took a chance to engage with it's readers. This summer watch how The Washington Post turns the tables on big media. Clint Eastwood reprises his role as the pilot of the Firefox (*cut to scene of him clicking on a hyperlink*). From the Director of Mozilla vs Mothrasoft. Commenting will never be the same."
I suspect it's a case of Divine Indigestion.
True, but the supervillian only loses in the movies. In the real world, you are better off being on his side than against him.
This article is about EU and South Korea, where we already have unlimited 4G available on multiple networks.
My 4G internet on my phone is already faster than my home broadband connection, due to the fact that they haven't connected my street to the rest of the Fiber network in Dublin. Thanks to unlimited download, I regularly use it to downloads my Steam games and TV episodes. I'm tempted to get rid of the landline altogether.
Yeah, they did away with the old tons.
Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese!
Or build it into a trailer that you can tow behind you on a long trip with all your gear.
GP was talking about a musical piece that required a lot of talent, not Metallica.
Do you want "The Fly?" Because that's how you get "The Fly."
OMG, what if my wife sits in my car and presses the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button....
"Yes dear, Morph suits are HOT"
I agree, he may be many things, but credit where credit is due. I'm looking for a different term to "single-handedly" because I know it took many people to get Rift working, including the people at valve to sort out latency issues. He is possibly a person who brought it all together, similar to how Jobs took all these technologies at the right time and combined them into the iPhone. Right or wrong, Jobs is credited often with the dawn of the smartphone era. Someone else might have done it a year or 2 later, but that's history now.
There is a video with Palmer, John and some other guy (it was at a Quake event or somesuch), where they were talking about the Rift, and one comment really stood out to me. Palmer said (and I paraphrase) "I don't want to make the ultimate headset, many companies tried to focus on delivering one key component, either resolution, latency or FoV etc. What I'm interested in is creating a single package that's 'good enough' in all areas to get the market going. Once people see that VR is finally possible, and is a viable technology, everyone will start doing it, and my goal will be achieved."
Palmer is obsessed with VR, not with being a millionaire or running a massive business. He's allegedly got the largest private collection of VR gear in the world, because he wants immersion in games and so on. If everyone and their mothers jump into the market and come up with competing technologies in the same way as Nokia, Sony Erickson and Motorola lead ultimately to Samsung, HTC and Apple phones, then he's happy if he was just someone who helped stimulate the market for VR.
I saw the steam update, but didn't realise what it did. This sounds great! Often my wife wants to use my computer for TV and stuff, because her laptop isn't that great. Unfortunately, I can't split the sound so that she can watch netflix on the TV, while I am playing too, but this might work out well, if she can watch TV while I stream the game to the lappy.
For some reason the lappy doesn't do a great job of connecting up to the TV screen, but I'm happy playing games on it.
I guess that's for the court to decide.
I was scrolling all the way through that and thinking, "none of this involves the Jedi" and I was fine with that. I suspect the second last frame was just for fun, but in thinking more on it, I realise one thing that really causes problems for a 'serious' Star Wars movie, is OP force-wielding characters. All of my favourite star wars books, now that i think of them, also don't involve force users, and are more about space battles and guerrilla squads doing guerrilla things, or the plots tend to be highly political in nature.
Further musings: The Jedi we really remember are those who seemed to have used the force the least ... flamboyantly. Obiwan never used it overtly in star wars (never moved anything, only did mind-bending that once), and Yoda only ever used it to pull the X-Wing out of the swamp, as an object lession to Luke. The prequels I feel had an overly large amount of gymnastics and blaster deflecting which to me took away from how subtle their ability was. I've seen the same in Lord of the Rings. Gandalf always seemed to be less about overt use of power, and more about planning and orchestrating things. Zeddicus in the Sword of Truth was a bit too overtly magical (Pug in Raymond E. Feist's books too to an extent). But then those series are based in different settings.
I feel that Star Wars would do better in keeping the use of force powers much more subtle and manipulative, instead of open and flashy.