At my workplace I have had to come across many passwords that were not meant to be shared by many and they get funky. My favorite was the discovery that supervisor used a certain female hygiene product to log in to the servers everyday. And the passwords that we share with everyone? Very appropriate and very guessable given their use.
Now that we know it was derived from Chuck Norris everyone seems to think it would be the first meme you would guess, but its not. You would have used a million other internet memes and celebrity names before you tried Chuck Norris.
Theres a "Remove Tag" button under your pictures in face book. Click it and the tag is removed.
Also you can comment on your friends photos, make a brief explanation at the bottom. It will make the ribbing worse, but her future employment with the AA won't be hampered.
I'm sorry is all that too easy? Lets ban cameras from places with alcohol or facebook that'll do it.
Have you ever tried typing/texting with a single hand? Its not as intuitive as two thumbs or a full fledged keyboard with 10 fingers.
The article says the devices will probably have touch, voice, and gesture recognition. I have used the iphone's on screen (touch) keyboard before, it's not fast but it is intuitive. I've also used speech to text before; many of the speech to text applications are quite good these days. They are faster than typing though you often end up with what looks to be a poorly spell checked document (turn write by the top sign). I've not seen reasonable gesture sensitive typing, but maybe in five years.
Also, my last phone used predictive text so I could send texts with one thumb, with pretty good speed.
I don't think the keyboard barrier will be an issue here.
The conclusion I meant to add there was that you don't get that out of other sciences like say quantum mechanics, because it is hard to find someone to translate those theories into something the layman can understand and even when he does, it doesn't have much effect on him, so there is little reason for them to take interest in premature discoveries.
I think medical science explores what it can like any other science. You have to publish papers with only moderate evidence to encourage others to explore the phenomenon.
It's just that papers like this, every average Joe reporter can get the gist of it and write a story on it. What better headline than: "An activity you are doing right now IS KILLING YOU! Stay tuned for more..."
Next every average Joe (read me) is affected by it so of course takes interest in it. Then he goes around talking like he knows something about it because he read about a paper on it one time without really worrying how much backing there was to it, because, as in this case, an extra walk probably doesn't hurt anyone.
Parent: I don't know your situation exactly, but I found the secret to long bike rides, which is: take it easy. It's almost no effort to go 10mph and you can do it all day, but you'll get impatient and try to maintain 20mph and tire out and need some breaks. Hope that helps.
GP: I know! I feel like I'm surrounded by fat, vocal people going on about high gas prices, how life is making them sedentary, CO2 emissions of our roadways. I recommend simple solutions like wide shoulders for bikers and no one will listen. So I'm driving to work everyday after too many scary experiences with the narrow shoulders around my office.
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your IP address is claiming responsibility for someone else's clandestine actions.
It looks to me that requests to Google are made only by volunteer proxy servers and your computer is never used to forward anyone's traffic to Google.
It unnerves me that that this is never explicitly stated on a sight for paranoids, so maybe I'm wrong about that.
... in 'public domain'. If CBS denys us access to our property, we should just file a thrft report with the local police department.
Uh...wtf? I don't keep up on the copyrights of everything I own, but I suspect you might not like it if the police charged into house and confiscated your non-copyrighted photos and videos. I sure wouldn't.
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Actually there is a need for a replacement, tor can take 10 seconds to run a Google search. I have not touched tor in forever, but I remember some setup was involved to get it going and I don't want to be flipping it on and off while I go to trusted vs trusted web sights to defeat the slowdown.
This guy's thing just installs a plugin and invisibly, Google doesn't see your IP address anymore.
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It's invasive when changes my repositories when I install Chrome and doesn't prompt for permission, for example.
No problem! With Google-sharing it will change someones repositories, maybe yours, maybe some guy in another country's! Chrome probably won't work, but at least that invasive google code you installed won't mess with your privacy.
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No, you won't create an account because the last one you did got modded down hard. Now you want your posts to at least start from zero.
The only problem with is the privacy part. Its like having someone look over you're shoulder at everything you do.
Its like having someone, who doesn't really know and your never going to talk to, look over your shoulder, while not actually knowing exactly who you are, only when you are on Google sights.
Who cares if some random guy at google knows that some other random guy located somewhere around my zip code is searching for hot goat sex videos. I don't. I actually have a girlfriend who demands to watch over my shoulder when I browse the net, and I feel the difference between her and some Google employee is huge.
I would pay for a Google subscription service with no ads and no user activity tracking.
A service that is nice to begin with but then later sucks miserably, because without feedback from users search results, Google's old algorithms are happy, but now they no longer know what users are searching for or what pages they follow after a search to make corrections in their algorithms.
If no one clicks their adwords adds, has to go 20 pages deep into search results to find a page they like, or have difficulty with a search, google would like to know, so they track what you click on and whether you return disappointed from your clicks, to better serve you.
What is it we think they are doing with this data? Being evil? I understand its hard to ask for exactly how people feel their privacy is violated but I'm not feeling it from Google just because they know what I do on their servers.
Theres also the fact that most people can consume 100+ songs and a few movies in the time it takes to consume one fiction book.
And when near a computer, one can usually collect more focused text snippets for any nonfiction one needs from web sights faster than one can search through e-books.
The main advantage of books has been their portability which until now with the onset of e-readers and such is finally being made available to liberated books.
If I lend a book to ten people, then copyright law considers that fine
The same is true with anything. I didn't buy a wrench the last time I needed one because I borrowed one from a friend. Thats the way life has always been and our markets have learned to cope.
However, instantly lending something out to as many people as want it and anytime they want it with absolutely no wear and tear, degradation or inconvenience of unavailability is something that our markets have not yet learned to cope with, the RIAA and the like just doesn't know what to do about it. They haven't figured out how to continue profits so continue their crazy law suits until they do.
P2P _is_ different from a library, you don't lend things out, you _copy_ them, infringing on a _copy_right. There is a clear disconnect there.
GP says: You'll waste all that money on your self instead of donating it. Parent replies: Yeah I will just in a different way than you expected.
Just wanted to point that out since I don't really see the +4insight there. Then again I don't see the -1 off topic you got moderated for earlier, maybe you just attract some funky moderation, Commodore.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did
Of course it was all your own work. You were driving on your private roads on the way to work, flying your privately air-controlled jetways if you have to, using your private security forces to keep order handle fires and other disasters. Of course you didn't see a lot of disasters because your building codes and city management prevented and minimized them. You must have bailed out your own bank, and used the internet which sprang from your privately created DARPA-net to post your slashdot comments.
All on your own. Must have been a pretty big task. Congrats they _should_ give you "your money" back.
I think you're going to find that it gets wasted in the same way most charitable donations get wasted. Well over 50% of the money gets consumed in administrative overhead.
The redcross is not most charities; they have a very good reputation for low overhead. Katrina lost only 9% of your donation to overhead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross. The red cross is one of the few charities I still donate to because of their low overhead costs.
And GP, the red cross has been around since before 1900 and whatever slip ups they might be accused of, people are still donating.
Certainly females put selection pressures on the Y chromosome, much like environmental influences, but not so much like the influence they have with the other chromosomes.
Then allow it in your site preferences for maps.google.com
Yes, but then you have to start a whole list of sites where you want right click detection allowed, among other rules to detect copy paste or whatever. Creating these exception lists always annoyed me and is only useful on the handful of sites you visit over and over again. Go to a new site and you are left wondering why certain features aren't working, until you remember to configure your allow lists accordingly.
He only finds the top 5% of women attractive maybe 20% of my female acquaintances (of the appropriate age group) are not attractive enough to date. And I would date them anyway if they happened to nail all the other criteria. Maybe he should have just considered that one factor to make it more likely.
Further he assumes that he is meeting people at random, which is NEVER the case. Where do I meet girls? At parties that are already pre-screened by friends or the hosts for girls within my age range and interests (most social gatherings) or education level and likely interests (most professional gatherings).
Finally, flipping my facebook status to single would activate 100+ agents (friends, family, coworkers in the area) to find the 20 or so girls that fit these criteria, not to mention that those 20 or so girls already have 2,000 agents (assuming we are not already all on the same networks as I showed in the last paragraph) hunting for me.
All that failing, I could always hit the personals to try and make contact with one of those 2,000 agents looking for me.
Anyone should be able to see from the above facts that it is extremely improbable not to have potential SOs around, which I would give some credence to from personal experience as well as the fact that he finds a girl that meets all his criteria.
The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife.
My answer would be: because prostitution is illegal here. I'd have to risk being put on a sex offender registry and all the crap that that entails. My goverment and the majority that keeps them in power is too afraid to even let me try the prostitution route. Plus my family who thinks it is my duty to have a woman nag me into continuing the family line instead of expressing my sexuality in such perverse ways.
Even porn, if it wasn't a threat to what really matters in relationships, why is my girlfriend always sniffing about for it? And my government regulating it so hard?
Maybe you won't, but I'll take a sex-bot. I'm sure the government and my family will do everything possible to take it away from me.
Yeah, a Faraday cage should be able to clear everything up. A simple tinfoil body wrap would solve this guys problem, or just line his house with chicken wire, it would take me $100 and a couple hours to stop wifi/radio/whatever from penetrating my house. I'd say he shouldn't be able to sue for more than that.
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What is an appropriate password?
At my workplace I have had to come across many passwords that were not meant to be shared by many and they get funky. My favorite was the discovery that supervisor used a certain female hygiene product to log in to the servers everyday. And the passwords that we share with everyone? Very appropriate and very guessable given their use.
Now that we know it was derived from Chuck Norris everyone seems to think it would be the first meme you would guess, but its not. You would have used a million other internet memes and celebrity names before you tried Chuck Norris.
Theres a "Remove Tag" button under your pictures in face book. Click it and the tag is removed.
Also you can comment on your friends photos, make a brief explanation at the bottom. It will make the ribbing worse, but her future employment with the AA won't be hampered.
I'm sorry is all that too easy? Lets ban cameras from places with alcohol or facebook that'll do it.
Have you ever tried typing/texting with a single hand? Its not as intuitive as two thumbs or a full fledged keyboard with 10 fingers.
The article says the devices will probably have touch, voice, and gesture recognition. I have used the iphone's on screen (touch) keyboard before, it's not fast but it is intuitive. I've also used speech to text before; many of the speech to text applications are quite good these days. They are faster than typing though you often end up with what looks to be a poorly spell checked document (turn write by the top sign). I've not seen reasonable gesture sensitive typing, but maybe in five years.
Also, my last phone used predictive text so I could send texts with one thumb, with pretty good speed.
I don't think the keyboard barrier will be an issue here.
Wait, I thought the trump card was "But think of the children!"
There's a whole suit of 'em:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
The conclusion I meant to add there was that you don't get that out of other sciences like say quantum mechanics, because it is hard to find someone to translate those theories into something the layman can understand and even when he does, it doesn't have much effect on him, so there is little reason for them to take interest in premature discoveries.
I think medical science explores what it can like any other science. You have to publish papers with only moderate evidence to encourage others to explore the phenomenon.
It's just that papers like this, every average Joe reporter can get the gist of it and write a story on it. What better headline than: "An activity you are doing right now IS KILLING YOU! Stay tuned for more..."
Next every average Joe (read me) is affected by it so of course takes interest in it. Then he goes around talking like he knows something about it because he read about a paper on it one time without really worrying how much backing there was to it, because, as in this case, an extra walk probably doesn't hurt anyone.
Parent: I don't know your situation exactly, but I found the secret to long bike rides, which is: take it easy. It's almost no effort to go 10mph and you can do it all day, but you'll get impatient and try to maintain 20mph and tire out and need some breaks. Hope that helps.
GP: I know! I feel like I'm surrounded by fat, vocal people going on about high gas prices, how life is making them sedentary, CO2 emissions of our roadways. I recommend simple solutions like wide shoulders for bikers and no one will listen. So I'm driving to work everyday after too many scary experiences with the narrow shoulders around my office.
your IP address is claiming responsibility for someone else's clandestine actions.
It looks to me that requests to Google are made only by volunteer proxy servers and your computer is never used to forward anyone's traffic to Google.
It unnerves me that that this is never explicitly stated on a sight for paranoids, so maybe I'm wrong about that.
... in 'public domain'. If CBS denys us access to our property, we should just file a thrft report with the local police department.
Uh...wtf? I don't keep up on the copyrights of everything I own, but I suspect you might not like it if the police charged into house and confiscated your non-copyrighted photos and videos. I sure wouldn't.
Actually there is a need for a replacement, tor can take 10 seconds to run a Google search. I have not touched tor in forever, but I remember some setup was involved to get it going and I don't want to be flipping it on and off while I go to trusted vs trusted web sights to defeat the slowdown.
This guy's thing just installs a plugin and invisibly, Google doesn't see your IP address anymore.
It's invasive when changes my repositories when I install Chrome and doesn't prompt for permission, for example.
No problem! With Google-sharing it will change someones repositories, maybe yours, maybe some guy in another country's! Chrome probably won't work, but at least that invasive google code you installed won't mess with your privacy.
No, you won't create an account because the last one you did got modded down hard. Now you want your posts to at least start from zero.
The only problem with is the privacy part. Its like having someone look over you're shoulder at everything you do.
Its like having someone, who doesn't really know and your never going to talk to, look over your shoulder, while not actually knowing exactly who you are, only when you are on Google sights.
Who cares if some random guy at google knows that some other random guy located somewhere around my zip code is searching for hot goat sex videos. I don't. I actually have a girlfriend who demands to watch over my shoulder when I browse the net, and I feel the difference between her and some Google employee is huge.
I would pay for a Google subscription service with no ads and no user activity tracking.
A service that is nice to begin with but then later sucks miserably, because without feedback from users search results, Google's old algorithms are happy, but now they no longer know what users are searching for or what pages they follow after a search to make corrections in their algorithms.
If no one clicks their adwords adds, has to go 20 pages deep into search results to find a page they like, or have difficulty with a search, google would like to know, so they track what you click on and whether you return disappointed from your clicks, to better serve you.
What is it we think they are doing with this data? Being evil? I understand its hard to ask for exactly how people feel their privacy is violated but I'm not feeling it from Google just because they know what I do on their servers.
Theres also the fact that most people can consume 100+ songs and a few movies in the time it takes to consume one fiction book.
And when near a computer, one can usually collect more focused text snippets for any nonfiction one needs from web sights faster than one can search through e-books.
The main advantage of books has been their portability which until now with the onset of e-readers and such is finally being made available to liberated books.
If I lend a book to ten people, then copyright law considers that fine
The same is true with anything. I didn't buy a wrench the last time I needed one because I borrowed one from a friend. Thats the way life has always been and our markets have learned to cope.
However, instantly lending something out to as many people as want it and anytime they want it with absolutely no wear and tear, degradation or inconvenience of unavailability is something that our markets have not yet learned to cope with, the RIAA and the like just doesn't know what to do about it. They haven't figured out how to continue profits so continue their crazy law suits until they do.
P2P _is_ different from a library, you don't lend things out, you _copy_ them, infringing on a _copy_right. There is a clear disconnect there.
GP says: You'll waste all that money on your self instead of donating it.
Parent replies: Yeah I will just in a different way than you expected.
Just wanted to point that out since I don't really see the +4insight there. Then again I don't see the -1 off topic you got moderated for earlier, maybe you just attract some funky moderation, Commodore.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did
Of course it was all your own work. You were driving on your private roads on the way to work, flying your privately air-controlled jetways if you have to, using your private security forces to keep order handle fires and other disasters. Of course you didn't see a lot of disasters because your building codes and city management prevented and minimized them. You must have bailed out your own bank, and used the internet which sprang from your privately created DARPA-net to post your slashdot comments.
All on your own. Must have been a pretty big task. Congrats they _should_ give you "your money" back.
I think you're going to find that it gets wasted in the same way most charitable donations get wasted. Well over 50% of the money gets consumed in administrative overhead.
The redcross is not most charities; they have a very good reputation for low overhead. Katrina lost only 9% of your donation to overhead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross. The red cross is one of the few charities I still donate to because of their low overhead costs.
And GP, the red cross has been around since before 1900 and whatever slip ups they might be accused of, people are still donating.
Certainly females put selection pressures on the Y chromosome, much like environmental influences, but not so much like the influence they have with the other chromosomes.
Then allow it in your site preferences for maps.google.com
Yes, but then you have to start a whole list of sites where you want right click detection allowed, among other rules to detect copy paste or whatever. Creating these exception lists always annoyed me and is only useful on the handful of sites you visit over and over again. Go to a new site and you are left wondering why certain features aren't working, until you remember to configure your allow lists accordingly.
Anyway, I never liked these lists as a solution.
He only finds the top 5% of women attractive maybe 20% of my female acquaintances (of the appropriate age group) are not attractive enough to date. And I would date them anyway if they happened to nail all the other criteria. Maybe he should have just considered that one factor to make it more likely.
Further he assumes that he is meeting people at random, which is NEVER the case. Where do I meet girls? At parties that are already pre-screened by friends or the hosts for girls within my age range and interests (most social gatherings) or education level and likely interests (most professional gatherings).
Finally, flipping my facebook status to single would activate 100+ agents (friends, family, coworkers in the area) to find the 20 or so girls that fit these criteria, not to mention that those 20 or so girls already have 2,000 agents (assuming we are not already all on the same networks as I showed in the last paragraph) hunting for me.
All that failing, I could always hit the personals to try and make contact with one of those 2,000 agents looking for me.
Anyone should be able to see from the above facts that it is extremely improbable not to have potential SOs around, which I would give some credence to from personal experience as well as the fact that he finds a girl that meets all his criteria.
The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife.
My answer would be: because prostitution is illegal here. I'd have to risk being put on a sex offender registry and all the crap that that entails. My goverment and the majority that keeps them in power is too afraid to even let me try the prostitution route. Plus my family who thinks it is my duty to have a woman nag me into continuing the family line instead of expressing my sexuality in such perverse ways.
Even porn, if it wasn't a threat to what really matters in relationships, why is my girlfriend always sniffing about for it? And my government regulating it so hard?
Maybe you won't, but I'll take a sex-bot. I'm sure the government and my family will do everything possible to take it away from me.
Yeah, a Faraday cage should be able to clear everything up. A simple tinfoil body wrap would solve this guys problem, or just line his house with chicken wire, it would take me $100 and a couple hours to stop wifi/radio/whatever from penetrating my house. I'd say he shouldn't be able to sue for more than that.