Yes we can, we already have. Though we can't protect against every contingency the odds of dying on a flight because of a terrorist attack are astronomical : "the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning."
You could die in the old Sierra adventure games too. One of the reasons I've always preferred LucasArts. Most games aren't about realism, we have a word for those that are: simulations.
The machines that are infected are still vulnerable. All the original botnet owner is going to do is modify a new botnet to use different domains or IP's and back to life it comes.
I've long thought that one way to deal a deadly blow to spammers would be for Microsoft to announce a "Windows amnesty" where people could carry in their computers to volunteer geeks and get a legit fully patched version of whatever (pirated and probably infected) Windows is on their system. It would generated a lot of positive press too but it's probably too costly.
Looking at those mockups reminded me just how good the iphone looked at the time. Instant classic design. It sounds like the punchline to a bad Apple joke but it really did take Apple to design a phone with as few buttons on it as the iPhone.
Cell phones are microwave ovens cooking your head. Hold next to any body part, especially your head, at your own risk. Always use the earbuds/microphone or at least a bluetooth device.
Yes keep them in your pocket so you can keep your brain safe while saving money by no longer needing expensive sterilization surgery ! Now if only they invented a phone that emitted gamma radiation.
You obviously do not have children and possibly have not suffered the loss of a parent. It's not something you want children to go through if it can possibly be avoided.
That too. It doesn't matter though, putting the date on the winter solstice is purely symbolic (coming of the light and all that) so it can't be "wrong."
It's better to be a market leader in a small growth industry than top dog in a dying market. Like when typing machine manufacturer IBM went into that silly computer business or when BASIC compiler writers MS cornered the x86 OS market.
I'm wondering whether the exclusivity contract between AT&T and Apple has a "get out clause" in case AT&T is unable to provide sufficient service. Apple must be getting tired of this anchor around their neck by now.
I wear the headphones and click the remote when I get a call to pick up. I can do that with gloves, of course then you can't see who's calling but it's easier than trying to get a phone out of my pocket wearing gloves. What I really want is the option for the phone to tell you who's calling through the headphones (eg. "Incoming call: mom") while the device plays a ringtone so people around me know I'm about to pick up a call.
Tethering is a network operator issue. My operator allows tethering, works great. If you needed Voice Dial, why buy a phone that doesn't have it ? I'm sure some of those razr's have FM radio's too, the iPhone doesn't. You evaluate the spec and then choose the phone that's right for you.
Except the iPhone get blamed for the wrong things. Does it have problems, sure, but don't blame the phone for problems on the network. I'm on an iphone in Europe and 99% of the criticism out there doesn't apply to me because I'm on a decent network. Most of the "problems" are pretty minor though so why do people feel the need to talk thrash about the iPhone instead of just accepting they don't like some aspects of it and getting another damn phone ?
From the Fake Steve website : "On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees." Also every other site has managed to correctlyreport the date. You might want to check little facts like that before assigning blame.
Complete destruction of all records is obvious (tampering with backup tapes leaves traces and signals intent) and could lead to serious repercussions (if the next guy in has balls, which he didn't.) Better to "mislabel" them and have plausible deniability. Besides, stuff only has to go missing until it's no longer relevant. Which it has, isn't that convenient ? By now you can have all the evidence you could dream up and the right wing media would just paint it as unfairly using the power of government to persecute a former president.
Actually no, the astronomers first got the calendar wrong and the historians got the dates wrong when in the 8th century CE they retroactively calculated everything from the supposed birth of christ. Religions had nothing to do with it.
Also the much quoted Biblical age of the Earth was calculated in 1650.
Untrue. The belief the earth is 6000 years old goes back at least to 200 CE : "The majority of classical Rabbis hold that the Earth was created around 6,000 years ago.[10] This view is based on a chronology developed in a midrash, Seder Olam, which was based on a literal reading of the book of Genesis. It is considered to have been written by the Tanna Yose ben Halafta and covers history from the creation of the universe to the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem."
I know because saint Augustine (400 CE) referred to this timetable too : "They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed."
The good thing about actual science is that if there is someone falsifying results there's always someone else out there who can and eventually will make his career by proving that. Everybody likes an iconoclast who pulls the rug out from under the establishment.
These names seem to be disparaging. Would you work for a contract agency named Shortbusstaffers or a software company named Weonlyhirethementallydifferent?
Spicialisterne just means Specialists, nothing derogatory there. Aspiritech doesn't sound to bad either, like a combination of Aspire and tech.
Ever since that report came out a few years ago, it has been "trendy" to walk around proclaiming "I'm a geek and have some weird OCD traits, so I totally have aspergers!"
Combining 2 popular "geek" traits: being anti-social and hypochondria.
It's woefully underused, probably at least partly due to the cost of printing in color for dailies. Maybe going digital will actually inspire them to do better, like the Boston Globe's wonderful Big Picture blog.
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The answer: No.
Yes we can, we already have. Though we can't protect against every contingency the odds of dying on a flight because of a terrorist attack are astronomical : "the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning."
You could die in the old Sierra adventure games too. One of the reasons I've always preferred LucasArts. Most games aren't about realism, we have a word for those that are: simulations.
is that some kind of MMO where you spend most of your time grinding for cash and rep rewards?
Only if you're a single mom working to pay your way through college.
The machines that are infected are still vulnerable. All the original botnet owner is going to do is modify a new botnet to use different domains or IP's and back to life it comes.
I've long thought that one way to deal a deadly blow to spammers would be for Microsoft to announce a "Windows amnesty" where people could carry in their computers to volunteer geeks and get a legit fully patched version of whatever (pirated and probably infected) Windows is on their system. It would generated a lot of positive press too but it's probably too costly.
Looking at those mockups reminded me just how good the iphone looked at the time. Instant classic design. It sounds like the punchline to a bad Apple joke but it really did take Apple to design a phone with as few buttons on it as the iPhone.
Cell phones are microwave ovens cooking your head. Hold next to any body part, especially your head, at your own risk. Always use the earbuds/microphone or at least a bluetooth device.
Yes keep them in your pocket so you can keep your brain safe while saving money by no longer needing expensive sterilization surgery ! Now if only they invented a phone that emitted gamma radiation.
You obviously do not have children and possibly have not suffered the loss of a parent. It's not something you want children to go through if it can possibly be avoided.
Perhaps they could allow people to pee into a special bag during the one hour when they must remain in their seats.
Just make sure you stay under the allowed limit for liquids carried on to the flight.
That too. It doesn't matter though, putting the date on the winter solstice is purely symbolic (coming of the light and all that) so it can't be "wrong."
It's better to be a market leader in a small growth industry than top dog in a dying market. Like when typing machine manufacturer IBM went into that silly computer business or when BASIC compiler writers MS cornered the x86 OS market.
Yeah, even for the Internet, that was bad.
How delightfully naive.
I'm wondering whether the exclusivity contract between AT&T and Apple has a "get out clause" in case AT&T is unable to provide sufficient service. Apple must be getting tired of this anchor around their neck by now.
I wear the headphones and click the remote when I get a call to pick up. I can do that with gloves, of course then you can't see who's calling but it's easier than trying to get a phone out of my pocket wearing gloves.
What I really want is the option for the phone to tell you who's calling through the headphones (eg. "Incoming call: mom") while the device plays a ringtone so people around me know I'm about to pick up a call.
Tethering is a network operator issue. My operator allows tethering, works great. If you needed Voice Dial, why buy a phone that doesn't have it ? I'm sure some of those razr's have FM radio's too, the iPhone doesn't. You evaluate the spec and then choose the phone that's right for you.
Except the iPhone get blamed for the wrong things. Does it have problems, sure, but don't blame the phone for problems on the network. I'm on an iphone in Europe and 99% of the criticism out there doesn't apply to me because I'm on a decent network. Most of the "problems" are pretty minor though so why do people feel the need to talk thrash about the iPhone instead of just accepting they don't like some aspects of it and getting another damn phone ?
From the Fake Steve website : "On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees." Also every other site has managed to correctly report the date. You might want to check little facts like that before assigning blame.
Complete destruction of all records is obvious (tampering with backup tapes leaves traces and signals intent) and could lead to serious repercussions (if the next guy in has balls, which he didn't.) Better to "mislabel" them and have plausible deniability. Besides, stuff only has to go missing until it's no longer relevant. Which it has, isn't that convenient ? By now you can have all the evidence you could dream up and the right wing media would just paint it as unfairly using the power of government to persecute a former president.
You're like the people who tore down medieval buildings on the acropolis because it sullied the image of an idealized classical Greece.
Actually no, the astronomers first got the calendar wrong and the historians got the dates wrong when in the 8th century CE they retroactively calculated everything from the supposed birth of christ. Religions had nothing to do with it.
Also the much quoted Biblical age of the Earth was calculated in 1650.
Untrue. The belief the earth is 6000 years old goes back at least to 200 CE : "The majority of classical Rabbis hold that the Earth was created around 6,000 years ago.[10] This view is based on a chronology developed in a midrash, Seder Olam, which was based on a literal reading of the book of Genesis. It is considered to have been written by the Tanna Yose ben Halafta and covers history from the creation of the universe to the construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem."
I know because saint Augustine (400 CE) referred to this timetable too : "They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed."
The good thing about actual science is that if there is someone falsifying results there's always someone else out there who can and eventually will make his career by proving that. Everybody likes an iconoclast who pulls the rug out from under the establishment.
These names seem to be disparaging. Would you work for a contract agency named Shortbusstaffers or a software company named Weonlyhirethementallydifferent?
Spicialisterne just means Specialists, nothing derogatory there. Aspiritech doesn't sound to bad either, like a combination of Aspire and tech.
Ever since that report came out a few years ago, it has been "trendy" to walk around proclaiming "I'm a geek and have some weird OCD traits, so I totally have aspergers!"
Combining 2 popular "geek" traits: being anti-social and hypochondria.
It's woefully underused, probably at least partly due to the cost of printing in color for dailies. Maybe going digital will actually inspire them to do better, like the Boston Globe's wonderful Big Picture blog.
Looks more like the "time machine" effect. Anyone notice something back that wasn't there before ? Dinosaurs, Atlantis, .. ?