Installed on purpose or not, software should not have privileged continuing access to your system. That's why Windows UAC puts up those scary permission dialogs every time you run a program that needs that need to do something special. If you can bypass UAC just by having the user install a browser plugin, that's definitely a security flaw. Even MS would admit that.
I'm tempted to talk about the holocene optimum, etc., etc. But then I'd just be cherry picking my data, like you. I'll stick with a simple empirical fact: we're losing species, not gaining them.
The diversity of life has historically increased with warming.
Huh? That contradicts everything I know about climate change, or any other kind of environmental change. When habitats change rapidly, many species find that their adaptations no longer apply, and go extinct. Google "warming diversity" and you'll see a lot of scientific studies with results along the lines of what I've just said.
I guess the logic of your argument is: evolution is life's way of adapting to change, therefore more change means more species. In the long run, that's actually true, but the process takes millions of years. In the short term, like the next few thousand years. we're looking at a planet with drastically reduced biodiversity. And guess what: that makes it a lot harder for humans to get by.
Which suggests that ultimately that nature will solve global warming for us, though not in a way that we'll be around to appreciate.
You're making a funny, but you still have the right idea. I wouldn't ditch any computer that contains my sensitive personal data without securely-deleting the hard disk. There are many software packages for doing this, but I can testify that Darik's Boot and Nuke is easy to use and does the job. And you don't need access to nuclear weapons!
Yeah, your former employers will have to re-install the OS. They will probably want to do that anyway. Actually, they're pretty stupid if they don't.
But in the future, I'd suggest avoid using a work computer for personal stuff.
They will put most normal retailers out of business.
What's your definition of "normal"? If you only shop at big-box stores that compete solely on price and provide little or no customer service then yeah, shopping as you know it is dead. And good riddance.
But there are lots of retail businesses for which customer service counts a lot more than price or convenience. Here's an independent bookstore that's doing well despite being in a declining business in an economically depressed area. Why buy books here when you can order anything online, usually for less? Because sometimes it's fun to go into a space staffed by people who love books and just browse their well-curated collection.
(I often wonder if Borders might not have survived if they'd stuck with their original browser-oriented business model instead of only stocking books that were easy to move. Once price and popularity became their total business model, they had no hope of competing with Amazon.)
Another example: I recently bought a vacuum cleaner. Having wasted a lot of time shopping for vacuums both online and in department stores, only to end up with expensive, overmarketed ("doesn't lose suction!) crap that conked out after a year or so, I decided to give a small specialty chain a try. Some woman in a shop apron asked me about my needs and my budget and showed me a simple machine that was just the ticket. She took it apart and showed me how it worked (always a good sales technique when selling to a technogeek) and walked me through procedures for replacing the bag and the fan belt. An easy sale for both of us.
Of course, the first thing I did when I got home was look for the same model online. I would have been OK with having paid a little extra for the local expertise — but as it turned out the model I bought similar competitors were all hard to find online and actually a little more expensive.
The role of brick and mortar stores is shrinking, but there will always be things they know how to do better.
I'm not an iPerson, but I notice that most Android apps are simply ports of web applications. In that use case, simply making the original web site mobile-friendly is a better use of resources. I would predict that the fascination with mobile apps will go away when people realize this, and then Objective C will be a much less popular skill.
I resisted the move to Chrome for years, but a few weeks ago I finally game up on Firefox. I just got tired of dealing with all the system lockups caused by immense resource leaks. There are features I'll miss, and UI changes I hate having to deal with, but not nearly enough to make it worth sticking around. Especially after Firefox's upgrades started getting driven by Chrome envy.
Of course it's sarcasm. Unless the guy really thinks that Karen the Bus Monitor really does deserve a half-million dollar vacation.
If I were running one of these crowd-funding sites, I'd be very cautious about allowing all these 6- and 7-figure projects. Forget stupidity, the potential for fraud is intense.
Oh, if only I were better at creating viral memes. I could retire...
As I understand it, a typical Bonobo makes the horniest human look like a monk. They fuck practically their entire waking lives. They have almost no sexual taboos -- a female won't have sex with her offspring, but that's about it. A human who wanders into their camps will be propositioned immediately and often..
I often wonder if the lack of knowledge about them (it's not so long since researchers stopped calling them "pygmy chimps" and started regarding them as a separate species) comes from sheer embarassment.
If he actually did commit suicide (I have my doubts) it was related to his homosexuality and the legal persecution thereof. Which doesn't really have a lot to do with challenges to thinking. Perhaps another kind of challenge.
So, Mister County Lawyer, explain to us why statutory minimum damages are unconstitutional, and why every judge in the country seems painfully unaware of the fact?
Thinking that a whole profession is BS (not sure I disagree about the economists!) is not quite the same thing. I'm not talking about people who think the law is BS (plenty of those) I'm talking about people who believe in the law, but suffer from the illusion that their casual reading puts them on a par with somebody who's spent years studying the subject.
However, after concluding that the actual damages in this case were ~ $1 per infringed work, she entered a judgment for 2,250 times that amount. Go figure.
If you can't figure out the judge's logic, maybe you should ask for your law school tuition back. What, you never went to law school? Funny how law is the one profession everybody thinks they know, even without training. Remind me not to ask your for medical advice either. And no, you can't design my house.
The decision seems to say that $2,250 is 3 times the "statutory minimum" of $750. And no, I don't know what statute she refers to — IANAL either.
This is not a "trick". That word describes something that plays upon you gullibility or lack of attention, like a shortchange con. This is a complicated money management technique that you need a forensic accountant to sort out.
Yeah, you can demand a percentage of the gross instead of the net. Not everybody's in a position to do that.
Every time Slashdot has a story about a confidence trick, there's a lot of smug bullshit decrying the people who fell for it. The implication being that the poster is too smart to be conned. Hey, guess what? People who are full of their own brilliance are the softest marks of all.
Another believer in the Magic Contract Fairy. Even if the franchise agreement is written in plain English (unlikely) nobody's gong to wave a magic wand and make Comcast live up to it. That takes the time and skill of a legal pro. Probably cheaper to just pay for the converters.
Yeah, planning helps. A lot harder to plan when there's no urban transit. Which, might I remind you, is how we started this thread, with you saying there's no reason people can't walk everywhere.
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I've given you my sources twice, but instead of reading them you just keep contradicting me. Why should I bother arguing with you?
Loss of habitat means less biodiversity. Sudden shifts in climate means loss of habitat. Google "climate diversity".
Installed on purpose or not, software should not have privileged continuing access to your system. That's why Windows UAC puts up those scary permission dialogs every time you run a program that needs that need to do something special. If you can bypass UAC just by having the user install a browser plugin, that's definitely a security flaw. Even MS would admit that.
I'm tempted to talk about the holocene optimum, etc., etc. But then I'd just be cherry picking my data, like you. I'll stick with a simple empirical fact: we're losing species, not gaining them.
Biomass != Biodiversity
The diversity of life has historically increased with warming.
Huh? That contradicts everything I know about climate change, or any other kind of environmental change. When habitats change rapidly, many species find that their adaptations no longer apply, and go extinct. Google "warming diversity" and you'll see a lot of scientific studies with results along the lines of what I've just said.
I guess the logic of your argument is: evolution is life's way of adapting to change, therefore more change means more species. In the long run, that's actually true, but the process takes millions of years. In the short term, like the next few thousand years. we're looking at a planet with drastically reduced biodiversity. And guess what: that makes it a lot harder for humans to get by.
Which suggests that ultimately that nature will solve global warming for us, though not in a way that we'll be around to appreciate.
Doesn't the second amendment apply to 3-year-olds?
The article doesn't say what OS the computer is running, but it has to be Linux -- presumably a distro that uses Yum.
You're making a funny, but you still have the right idea. I wouldn't ditch any computer that contains my sensitive personal data without securely-deleting the hard disk. There are many software packages for doing this, but I can testify that Darik's Boot and Nuke is easy to use and does the job. And you don't need access to nuclear weapons!
Yeah, your former employers will have to re-install the OS. They will probably want to do that anyway. Actually, they're pretty stupid if they don't.
But in the future, I'd suggest avoid using a work computer for personal stuff.
Not all that long, alas.
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They will put most normal retailers out of business.
What's your definition of "normal"? If you only shop at big-box stores that compete solely on price and provide little or no customer service then yeah, shopping as you know it is dead. And good riddance.
But there are lots of retail businesses for which customer service counts a lot more than price or convenience. Here's an independent bookstore that's doing well despite being in a declining business in an economically depressed area. Why buy books here when you can order anything online, usually for less? Because sometimes it's fun to go into a space staffed by people who love books and just browse their well-curated collection.
(I often wonder if Borders might not have survived if they'd stuck with their original browser-oriented business model instead of only stocking books that were easy to move. Once price and popularity became their total business model, they had no hope of competing with Amazon.)
Another example: I recently bought a vacuum cleaner. Having wasted a lot of time shopping for vacuums both online and in department stores, only to end up with expensive, overmarketed ("doesn't lose suction!) crap that conked out after a year or so, I decided to give a small specialty chain a try. Some woman in a shop apron asked me about my needs and my budget and showed me a simple machine that was just the ticket. She took it apart and showed me how it worked (always a good sales technique when selling to a technogeek) and walked me through procedures for replacing the bag and the fan belt. An easy sale for both of us.
Of course, the first thing I did when I got home was look for the same model online. I would have been OK with having paid a little extra for the local expertise — but as it turned out the model I bought similar competitors were all hard to find online and actually a little more expensive.
The role of brick and mortar stores is shrinking, but there will always be things they know how to do better.
I'm not an iPerson, but I notice that most Android apps are simply ports of web applications. In that use case, simply making the original web site mobile-friendly is a better use of resources. I would predict that the fascination with mobile apps will go away when people realize this, and then Objective C will be a much less popular skill.
I resisted the move to Chrome for years, but a few weeks ago I finally game up on Firefox. I just got tired of dealing with all the system lockups caused by immense resource leaks. There are features I'll miss, and UI changes I hate having to deal with, but not nearly enough to make it worth sticking around. Especially after Firefox's upgrades started getting driven by Chrome envy.
Of course it's sarcasm. Unless the guy really thinks that Karen the Bus Monitor really does deserve a half-million dollar vacation.
If I were running one of these crowd-funding sites, I'd be very cautious about allowing all these 6- and 7-figure projects. Forget stupidity, the potential for fraud is intense.
Oh, if only I were better at creating viral memes. I could retire...
As I understand it, a typical Bonobo makes the horniest human look like a monk. They fuck practically their entire waking lives. They have almost no sexual taboos -- a female won't have sex with her offspring, but that's about it. A human who wanders into their camps will be propositioned immediately and often..
I often wonder if the lack of knowledge about them (it's not so long since researchers stopped calling them "pygmy chimps" and started regarding them as a separate species) comes from sheer embarassment.
If he actually did commit suicide (I have my doubts) it was related to his homosexuality and the legal persecution thereof. Which doesn't really have a lot to do with challenges to thinking. Perhaps another kind of challenge.
So, Mister County Lawyer, explain to us why statutory minimum damages are unconstitutional, and why every judge in the country seems painfully unaware of the fact?
the statute is clearly unconstitutional
You missed the whole point of the post you're replying to, didn't you?
Thinking that a whole profession is BS (not sure I disagree about the economists!) is not quite the same thing. I'm not talking about people who think the law is BS (plenty of those) I'm talking about people who believe in the law, but suffer from the illusion that their casual reading puts them on a par with somebody who's spent years studying the subject.
However, after concluding that the actual damages in this case were ~ $1 per infringed work, she entered a judgment for 2,250 times that amount. Go figure.
If you can't figure out the judge's logic, maybe you should ask for your law school tuition back. What, you never went to law school? Funny how law is the one profession everybody thinks they know, even without training. Remind me not to ask your for medical advice either. And no, you can't design my house.
The decision seems to say that $2,250 is 3 times the "statutory minimum" of $750. And no, I don't know what statute she refers to — IANAL either.
This is not a "trick". That word describes something that plays upon you gullibility or lack of attention, like a shortchange con. This is a complicated money management technique that you need a forensic accountant to sort out.
Yeah, you can demand a percentage of the gross instead of the net. Not everybody's in a position to do that.
Every time Slashdot has a story about a confidence trick, there's a lot of smug bullshit decrying the people who fell for it. The implication being that the poster is too smart to be conned. Hey, guess what? People who are full of their own brilliance are the softest marks of all.
I thought of that joke first! You'll hear from lawyer.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Such as lame jokes like this one? Thank God for that!
Another believer in the Magic Contract Fairy. Even if the franchise agreement is written in plain English (unlikely) nobody's gong to wave a magic wand and make Comcast live up to it. That takes the time and skill of a legal pro. Probably cheaper to just pay for the converters.
Yeah, planning helps. A lot harder to plan when there's no urban transit. Which, might I remind you, is how we started this thread, with you saying there's no reason people can't walk everywhere.