Since the biggest Toyota runaway story has turned out to be a problem exists between seat and pedals situation... is this all hype with no science behind it?
It sounds like someone just pulled an excuse out of the "BOFH excuses file" (clickety clickety) :
Yeah like this one : "2012: Supernova" from the "Let's make a movie whose title sounds like another movie so people will rent it by mistake" school of filmmaking, starring the guy from Charmed. I think they mean worst as in worst movie made by Hollywood insiders and intended as a serious project.
Designer babies are only going to be a problem until the treatment becomes cheap enough for every one to have. Who cares if you are a blue eyed blond if I can have a $100 treatment and have all the blue eyed blond babies I want ? Nobody would care, and if nobody cares why do it ? The "advantage" would be eroded just by having the technology available.
It's not all puppies and kittens. When I asked my wife for my gray towel, she looked at me quite puzzled. It was shortly thereafter that the mystery of why her husband was using a purple towel was solved.
That's like the time I found out my brown pants are actually a shade of green. I knew I was a little colorblind but still. And who the fuck wears green pants (except for me apparently) ?
Who knows what kind of mutations would best preserve human life here on Earth . . . or in Space . . . or on another planet? We're infants playing with power tools!
Or maybe that genetic defect was the one that in time was going to mutate the human race into the super advanced but immoral homo superior that would have exterminated us all and they just unwittingly saved the species ! Or maybe our engaging in random speculation isn't helping the argument and you should stop reading sci-fi and chill out;-)
If take this red pill you will be able to distinguishing between red and green. If you take this blue pill you will see colors no one has ever seen before. Far out man.
People shouldn't be making servers out of their company desktops... it's the nightmare of the IT department to have other departments starting Access databases on their PCs, and then inviting other users to use the file. Eventually this becomes unworkable and the user installs a smaller version of MS-SQL, and then you've got a patching nightmare which leads to a worm and then...
Yeah, but the problem is precisely too much locking down: workers have always tinkered with their tools trying to improve them and the more locked down the environment the more frustrating their experience will likely be. People turn their workstations into servers because the alternatively of wrestling with the company bureaucracy to arrive at an unsatisfactory solution isn't very appealing. It would be better for all involved to provide an easy way for people to do these things in a safe environment where it can be monitored.
ok, if you're keeping to the literal meaning of communism, then probably no state has even implemented it. On the other hand if you read Marx, you may find that besides describing ideal 'utopia' society, he also gave hints on the how leaders may rule masses, which had nothing to do with "communism, as advertised":-)
Marx != communism, Marx = Marxism. There are other forms of communism, like the anarchist communism of Kropotkin and the failure of Marxist authoritarian states was predicted by other socialists like Bakunin. It bugs me when people reduce the whole universe of thought that is socialism to the small minded authoritarianism of Stalinist Marxism.
Have you read the G. Orwell's "Animal Farm" ? Shows nicely how this happened.
Have you read his "The Road To Wigan Pier" ? It shows quite nicely why socialism was needed in the first place (too bad it got co-opted by tyrants in so many places.)
I've never believed that. Think about it: the kind of person who is narcissistic enough to think himself deserving of such power, driven enough to pursue it and cunning enough to actually get it is probably already psychotic or psychopathic or at least well on the way after the experiences needed to become absolute ruler. Power may corrupt, but I see more evidence that power attracts the corrupted.
Article doesn't say anything about an assassination, just a coup. It also says the president was impeached a year later which might give a clue as to why they wouldn't have been sad to see him go. Anyway isn't regime change through military action acceptable in US doctrine these days ?
we web developers, contrary to some who are developing for more closed platforms like ipod, do NOT like being herded, goaded, or ordered about. this will have consequences.
That's deeply ironic if you develop applications for the walled garden that is the Facebook Platform.
If they just stick a clause in the EULA the prohibits people from doing just that, they could stop it. Although I am not sure if they could go after the author, just those who use it. How they would detect that, I'm not sure, but I know there are a few sites that can detect AdBlock.
Firefox extensions can be detected through Javascript, including Greasemonkey. I don't think they would be able to detect specific Greasemonkey script though and the extension detection can be defeated.
As to the morality of blocking a client with a specific feature set: how many people here block IE from their site ? There are a lot of precedents, you don't need to put it in the EULA. It has always been the webserver's business what code he serves to which clients.
As much as I would love to have the same discussion with you in every story, it's traditional to pretend to have a point which is at least tangentially related to the topic being discussed.
Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.
Yeah, they are blaming the tool these people are using to hook up. Might as well blame the telephone or sexting or the back-alleys these idiots are getting it on in. My guess would be that that part of the UK already hit hard by the industrial decline got hit harder by the recession and a lot of people are bored AND some idiot is running around infected and not giving a damn. Of course that doesn't sell papers.
I'd say check the Tiobe index for a more accurate record. You'd think that a major corporation like Microsoft could garner more popularity than PHP instead of less than half.
Wow look at Objective-C go ! Microsoft missed the boat again chasing Java with.Net when the Next Big Thing was developing a decent touch and mobile development platform.
ASCII art is one of these things that has been around since the dawn of telecommunications and just won't go away. There's always groups of people who think it's cool. Jason Scott (of textfiles fame) as a nice video (actually about porn in the computer age) that shows fine examples of early ASCII and typewriter art.
Spoken like a true Apple-fan. Still doesn't invalidate what I've said: nothing matters for you until Apple does it. Doesn't matter for you that Amazon and many others are already selling books directly for authors without publishers online, until Apple starts doing it.
Don't presume you know me based on a couple of posts on the internet and some stereotypes.
yes, let's all wait for Apple to come to the rescue and ignore everybody else who's already trying to do that... and of course, nothing is real unless Apple does it.
Stop your knee-jerking already (jeez, like a bull to a red cloth.) Apple doing so would be significant because they are a market leader in mobile devices and the biggest music retailer and they make a lot of software used by content producers. It's great others are already doing it, I'm waiting for Apple to do it too because I happen to be an Apple customer already.
but you do know that publishers don't just "publish", right? editing is a crucial step and good or bad marketing can make or break an author. Even authors like Doctorow who freely distributes their contents online have editors and publishers. A good combination of the two means that even trash like D*n Br*wn's D* V*nc* C*d* can become a bestseller.
Oh I agree good editors are crucial. You don't need publishers to do that however. The whole industry could decentralize from big megalithic companies to smaller companies and transitory partnerships. You still need all the talent: authors, editors, marketers, cover artists, etc. you just don't need the cartel power structure behind it.
A technician can always testify in court to what he saw on the hard drive as a witness, and that would not be hearsay. Hearsay would be a policeman testifying in court "the technician told me..." or the technician testifying "the customer told me..."
You are right of course. I stand corrected, hearsay is the wrong word.
Still there wasn't any hard evidence of child porn production if I read TFA correctly, just some circumstantial evidence witnessed by the technician from which he developed a suspicion that that was what was going on.
One control-freak company wants to sell cheaper books, while another control-freak company wants to sell more expensive books? I know which weevil/weasel I will go with.
I'm waiting for Apple to take things to their logical conclusion and allow authors direct access to the market. They've already done this for programmers with the app-store and there are a few (too few) self published artists on the iTunes store. Now they need to do the same for video and books. The tools have become so powerful and cheap that talent can self-finance or crowd-fund through sites like Kickstarter and the bottleneck left now is in the publisher/distributer cartels.
Surprisingly intelligent, yes, but it completely ignores the fact that a technician found evidence that he was producing child porn, only to find that he disassembled his setup and formatted his hard drive the next day. The ruling really is a mixed blessing. Ruling that cached data does not constitute possession is a good thing, but quashing the search warrant based solely on that point was a horrible thing to do due to the rest of the evidence.
If he formatted his drives then there was no evidence, a technicians testimony is hearsay not evidence. "No evidence = No prosecution" is a good thing even if it allows some criminals off the hook (as it inevitably will.)
Of, wait, it's not my legal system, it's Canada's. nevermind. Grats Canadians on having sane judges?
Let's hope that even though many of us don't live in Canada and the case doesn't directly set precedent in our legal systems the case is widely reported among legal professionals and they get a better understanding of the technical side of the argument. At the very least this should give lawyers in other countries ideas for a better defense for their clients.
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Since the biggest Toyota runaway story has turned out to be a problem exists between seat and pedals situation... is this all hype with no science behind it?
It sounds like someone just pulled an excuse out of the "BOFH excuses file" (clickety clickety) :
"BOFH excuse #254:
Interference from lunar radiation"
Yeah like this one : "2012: Supernova" from the "Let's make a movie whose title sounds like another movie so people will rent it by mistake" school of filmmaking, starring the guy from Charmed. I think they mean worst as in worst movie made by Hollywood insiders and intended as a serious project.
Science Fiction != Bullshit.
Just saying.
Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from complete bullshit.
"You can't do that, that's complete bullshit."
Designer babies are only going to be a problem until the treatment becomes cheap enough for every one to have. Who cares if you are a blue eyed blond if I can have a $100 treatment and have all the blue eyed blond babies I want ? Nobody would care, and if nobody cares why do it ? The "advantage" would be eroded just by having the technology available.
It's not all puppies and kittens. When I asked my wife for my gray towel, she looked at me quite puzzled. It was shortly thereafter that the mystery of why her husband was using a purple towel was solved.
That's like the time I found out my brown pants are actually a shade of green. I knew I was a little colorblind but still. And who the fuck wears green pants (except for me apparently) ?
Who knows what kind of mutations would best preserve human life here on Earth . . . or in Space . . . or on another planet? We're infants playing with power tools!
Or maybe that genetic defect was the one that in time was going to mutate the human race into the super advanced but immoral homo superior that would have exterminated us all and they just unwittingly saved the species ! Or maybe our engaging in random speculation isn't helping the argument and you should stop reading sci-fi and chill out ;-)
"Would you like to be cured?"
Problem solved.
If take this red pill you will be able to distinguishing between red and green. If you take this blue pill you will see colors no one has ever seen before. Far out man.
People shouldn't be making servers out of their company desktops... it's the nightmare of the IT department to have other departments starting Access databases on their PCs, and then inviting other users to use the file. Eventually this becomes unworkable and the user installs a smaller version of MS-SQL, and then you've got a patching nightmare which leads to a worm and then...
Yeah, but the problem is precisely too much locking down: workers have always tinkered with their tools trying to improve them and the more locked down the environment the more frustrating their experience will likely be. People turn their workstations into servers because the alternatively of wrestling with the company bureaucracy to arrive at an unsatisfactory solution isn't very appealing. It would be better for all involved to provide an easy way for people to do these things in a safe environment where it can be monitored.
ok, if you're keeping to the literal meaning of communism, then probably no state has even implemented it. :-)
On the other hand if you read Marx, you may find that besides describing ideal 'utopia' society, he also gave hints on the how leaders may rule masses, which had nothing to do with "communism, as advertised"
Marx != communism, Marx = Marxism. There are other forms of communism, like the anarchist communism of Kropotkin and the failure of Marxist authoritarian states was predicted by other socialists like Bakunin. It bugs me when people reduce the whole universe of thought that is socialism to the small minded authoritarianism of Stalinist Marxism.
Have you read the G. Orwell's "Animal Farm" ? Shows nicely how this happened.
Have you read his "The Road To Wigan Pier" ? It shows quite nicely why socialism was needed in the first place (too bad it got co-opted by tyrants in so many places.)
I've never believed that. Think about it: the kind of person who is narcissistic enough to think himself deserving of such power, driven enough to pursue it and cunning enough to actually get it is probably already psychotic or psychopathic or at least well on the way after the experiences needed to become absolute ruler. Power may corrupt, but I see more evidence that power attracts the corrupted.
Why didn't they kill him 18 yrs ago when he tried to assassinate the president? He even said he "failed (at assassination) for now". But instead of execution, he was released two years later and made president 4 years after that?? We might as well make John Hinckley the next US President
Article doesn't say anything about an assassination, just a coup. It also says the president was impeached a year later which might give a clue as to why they wouldn't have been sad to see him go. Anyway isn't regime change through military action acceptable in US doctrine these days ?
we web developers, contrary to some who are developing for more closed platforms like ipod, do NOT like being herded, goaded, or ordered about. this will have consequences.
That's deeply ironic if you develop applications for the walled garden that is the Facebook Platform.
If they just stick a clause in the EULA the prohibits people from doing just that, they could stop it. Although I am not sure if they could go after the author, just those who use it. How they would detect that, I'm not sure, but I know there are a few sites that can detect AdBlock.
Firefox extensions can be detected through Javascript, including Greasemonkey. I don't think they would be able to detect specific Greasemonkey script though and the extension detection can be defeated.
As to the morality of blocking a client with a specific feature set: how many people here block IE from their site ? There are a lot of precedents, you don't need to put it in the EULA. It has always been the webserver's business what code he serves to which clients.
really, are you sure you are not an Apple fan?
As much as I would love to have the same discussion with you in every story, it's traditional to pretend to have a point which is at least tangentially related to the topic being discussed.
Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.
Yeah, they are blaming the tool these people are using to hook up. Might as well blame the telephone or sexting or the back-alleys these idiots are getting it on in. My guess would be that that part of the UK already hit hard by the industrial decline got hit harder by the recession and a lot of people are bored AND some idiot is running around infected and not giving a damn. Of course that doesn't sell papers.
I'd say check the Tiobe index for a more accurate record. You'd think that a major corporation like Microsoft could garner more popularity than PHP instead of less than half.
Wow look at Objective-C go ! Microsoft missed the boat again chasing Java with .Net when the Next Big Thing was developing a decent touch and mobile development platform.
There were plenty of viruses for Amiga. First virus I ever encountered in the wild was the Saddam virus on my Amiga 500. Good times.
ASCII art is one of these things that has been around since the dawn of telecommunications and just won't go away. There's always groups of people who think it's cool. Jason Scott (of textfiles fame) as a nice video (actually about porn in the computer age) that shows fine examples of early ASCII and typewriter art.
Spoken like a true Apple-fan. Still doesn't invalidate what I've said: nothing matters for you until Apple does it. Doesn't matter for you that Amazon and many others are already selling books directly for authors without publishers online, until Apple starts doing it.
Don't presume you know me based on a couple of posts on the internet and some stereotypes.
yes, let's all wait for Apple to come to the rescue and ignore everybody else who's already trying to do that...
and of course, nothing is real unless Apple does it.
Stop your knee-jerking already (jeez, like a bull to a red cloth.) Apple doing so would be significant because they are a market leader in mobile devices and the biggest music retailer and they make a lot of software used by content producers. It's great others are already doing it, I'm waiting for Apple to do it too because I happen to be an Apple customer already.
but you do know that publishers don't just "publish", right? editing is a crucial step and good or bad marketing can make or break an author.
Even authors like Doctorow who freely distributes their contents online have editors and publishers. A good combination of the two means that even trash like D*n Br*wn's D* V*nc* C*d* can become a bestseller.
Oh I agree good editors are crucial. You don't need publishers to do that however. The whole industry could decentralize from big megalithic companies to smaller companies and transitory partnerships. You still need all the talent: authors, editors, marketers, cover artists, etc. you just don't need the cartel power structure behind it.
A technician can always testify in court to what he saw on the hard drive as a witness, and that would not be hearsay. Hearsay would be a policeman testifying in court "the technician told me..." or the technician testifying "the customer told me..."
You are right of course. I stand corrected, hearsay is the wrong word.
Still there wasn't any hard evidence of child porn production if I read TFA correctly, just some circumstantial evidence witnessed by the technician from which he developed a suspicion that that was what was going on.
One control-freak company wants to sell cheaper books, while another control-freak company wants to sell more expensive books?
I know which weevil/weasel I will go with.
and while this is just one side of the argument, but anyone who thinks Apple's deal with the publishers will work out better for the authors should read this:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/07/its-nsfw-because-the-word-fuck-is-in-the-url/
I'm waiting for Apple to take things to their logical conclusion and allow authors direct access to the market. They've already done this for programmers with the app-store and there are a few (too few) self published artists on the iTunes store. Now they need to do the same for video and books. The tools have become so powerful and cheap that talent can self-finance or crowd-fund through sites like Kickstarter and the bottleneck left now is in the publisher/distributer cartels.
Surprisingly intelligent, yes, but it completely ignores the fact that a technician found evidence that he was producing child porn, only to find that he disassembled his setup and formatted his hard drive the next day. The ruling really is a mixed blessing. Ruling that cached data does not constitute possession is a good thing, but quashing the search warrant based solely on that point was a horrible thing to do due to the rest of the evidence.
If he formatted his drives then there was no evidence, a technicians testimony is hearsay not evidence. "No evidence = No prosecution" is a good thing even if it allows some criminals off the hook (as it inevitably will.)
Of, wait, it's not my legal system, it's Canada's. nevermind. Grats Canadians on having sane judges?
Let's hope that even though many of us don't live in Canada and the case doesn't directly set precedent in our legal systems the case is widely reported among legal professionals and they get a better understanding of the technical side of the argument. At the very least this should give lawyers in other countries ideas for a better defense for their clients.