It is much easier to regulate before the fact than investigate cases of false labeling.
There are some very potent and addictive drugs that rock your brain in such a way it was not meant to be rocked. I think there is a reasonable case to be made against allowing people to use meth, heroine, and crack. As for cocaine in general, I would put it in more of a gray area, it does not rock the brain or addict near as much as the previous.
ad hominem attacks do have some place, if a source is so skewed that it cannot be trusted.
I don't necessarily believe it to be the case here, but the organisation itself does warrant looking into if you actually care. A track record of bad studies throws this one into doubt, a track record of good ones, some with results contrary to their goal improves it.
I would say the sloppy use of questions pointed out is evidence not only of incompetence, but of intentionally skewing the results.
It would make far more sense to find questions aimed at children acting pathological rather than adults for the purpose of measuring children.
Especially considering we have been selected (genetically) to test the limits of our freedom and independence from our parents are a way to grow up.
Just as I would be instantly sceptical of NAMBLA if they were to conduct a study about how much children enjoy intimate time with their older companions, this study too is suspect. At the very least an agenda is evidence against scientific method being used.
I'm willing to bet this has nothing to do with a dsire to content block, and everything to do with the relatively high costs per MB of providing 3G access.
I have both 3G and Cable internet access. The cable bogs down a little bit, but I always get quicker DL than with a T1 line. On the 3G network shit goes way tits-up.
When we had a power outage it damn near halted, and I assume that was just people trying to check the status of the power. I would hate to have to pay for a network be built up to support downloading huge amounts of data.
Now if I had purchased it for my home access because I was somewhere without the availability of cable I would probably expect differently.
I am willing to bet the percentage of people with networking from their study/office to their TV room is smaller than you think.
The only people I know with ethernet near their TV are those with both a Den and a Living room, with the Den being a TV/Computer room.
I could run a wire semi-tastefully into the attic, come down the with the plumbing into the basement, and then drill hole in the floor, or if I were really motivated put a panel in the wall and pull the wire up.
But that is all a lot of work, suffice it to say, my consoles use wifi, and only the office in my house is wired.
I think repulsive may carry some strung connotations that people are over-reacting too.
I'm sure it is a similar feeling to what my wife has when some random guy she is completely uninterested in/unaware of hits on her. It is an uncomfortable feeling that causes some repelling.
Funny story, out at a bar Christmas I was hanging out with my wife and her friend. A guy was asking me and our friend for permission to make a move (ask for phone number, nothing more). Our friend that it was for mine, I thought it was for the friends, but it was actually for my wife's. I'm sure that the guys embarrassment at the situation of getting that response in the end caused him the most repulsion from the situation.
I am willing to bet a large enough non-violent and enduring protest would work in at least some of those examples. Mostly by increasing external pressures though.
For example, if Tiananmen Square was followed up by more of the same the impact would have been immense. It already had an impact as it was.
I'm sorry to say this, but comparing the open piracy movement to the civil rights movement makes you sound like Martha Stewart (she compared herself to Nelson Mandela when she was convicted).
As a former regular user of it (it was the only partly usable browser on my old phone), I think that is a perfect description.
It was across the bottom of the very small screen and stated essentially: the connection between Opera's proxy and your phone is un-encrypted [and can be snooped].
The part in square brackets may be my filling it in as I know what that would mean.
I test now in version 4.3 for Android and see nothing. This would imply to me that either: 1) it is fixed -or- 2) it is as earlier stated, and the proxy can read it (but perhaps encrypted phone to proxy, and proxy to site).
2 is not so bad for most traffic, but should be at the very least a pop-up the first time you use SSL, with a checkbox that defaults to unchecked to disable the warning. I would think the proxy can be trusted with financial/personal info (as much as any site I use anyway), but perhaps not with deeply damaging private communications directly to a personal computer.
$50,000 pulls it well out of the wealthy categorie and into the quite successful category. Asuuming it is otherwise a practical car to drive (I think not being able to do long road trips is not limiting.).
I can't spend $50,000 on a car, but I work with people who could, and your would not think they were wealthy (simply that they were foolish, and spent too much on their cars).
$50,000 puts the car into the reach of people with weird priorities and good jobs without other responsibilities, bit $1,000/month is a payment within the realm of imaginable.
Second owners especially will not need to be wealthy to buy them (just willing to sacrifice other parts of their life for a cool car).
Of course maybe what I think of as wealthy does not match what you do. I think of it as having an abundance of wealth, not an abundance of income.
I personally only buy brand name for those things, since it feels RAM like to me, and I found brand name RAM (and CDs/DVDs) to be well worth the price.
Having a broken SD card in my pocket, I will describe how it behaves (which I think is what the article is asking). It is a 1GB SVP.
In Windows (XP and Vista), it asks me to format the drive, chkdsk fails because the partition type is raw. Using recovermyphotos on it I get between 10 and 200 photos found before the card reader decides it is not in their anymore, and I can't recover the ones found (perhaps if I paid I could recover as it scanned).
On Linux cat/dev/sdb returns no media found (I assume this is card to card reader trouble again).
Interestingly, on a different reader that gives IO errors with every other card I use I get the raw partition do you want to format it issue.
The fact that I can't read the drive at all from Linux ended my exploration.
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Because the spillover costs of your being a homeless, withering, stinking addict do exist.
Even legalized the use of crack and meth would have massive costs to society (though probably not as much as the current war on drugs).
It is much easier to regulate before the fact than investigate cases of false labeling.
There are some very potent and addictive drugs that rock your brain in such a way it was not meant to be rocked. I think there is a reasonable case to be made against allowing people to use meth, heroine, and crack. As for cocaine in general, I would put it in more of a gray area, it does not rock the brain or addict near as much as the previous.
Pulse audio, plus the pulse audio gnome control is nice though.
Per-application volume control FTW.
ad hominem attacks do have some place, if a source is so skewed that it cannot be trusted.
I don't necessarily believe it to be the case here, but the organisation itself does warrant looking into if you actually care. A track record of bad studies throws this one into doubt, a track record of good ones, some with results contrary to their goal improves it.
I would say the sloppy use of questions pointed out is evidence not only of incompetence, but of intentionally skewing the results.
It would make far more sense to find questions aimed at children acting pathological rather than adults for the purpose of measuring children.
Especially considering we have been selected (genetically) to test the limits of our freedom and independence from our parents are a way to grow up.
Just as I would be instantly sceptical of NAMBLA if they were to conduct a study about how much children enjoy intimate time with their older companions, this study too is suspect. At the very least an agenda is evidence against scientific method being used.
Heaven forbid I live in a 2 bed-room house with someone whom I can share a room with.
I understand it is better than billions of people's situations, but so is the ability to buy an Xbox 360, or a PS3.
Even internet access is a stretch for billions.
I'm willing to bet this has nothing to do with a dsire to content block, and everything to do with the relatively high costs per MB of providing 3G access.
I have both 3G and Cable internet access. The cable bogs down a little bit, but I always get quicker DL than with a T1 line. On the 3G network shit goes way tits-up.
When we had a power outage it damn near halted, and I assume that was just people trying to check the status of the power. I would hate to have to pay for a network be built up to support downloading huge amounts of data.
Now if I had purchased it for my home access because I was somewhere without the availability of cable I would probably expect differently.
I am willing to bet the percentage of people with networking from their study/office to their TV room is smaller than you think.
The only people I know with ethernet near their TV are those with both a Den and a Living room, with the Den being a TV/Computer room.
I could run a wire semi-tastefully into the attic, come down the with the plumbing into the basement, and then drill hole in the floor, or if I were really motivated put a panel in the wall and pull the wire up.
But that is all a lot of work, suffice it to say, my consoles use wifi, and only the office in my house is wired.
Jimmy's got just the thing
I think repulsive may carry some strung connotations that people are over-reacting too.
I'm sure it is a similar feeling to what my wife has when some random guy she is completely uninterested in/unaware of hits on her. It is an uncomfortable feeling that causes some repelling.
Funny story, out at a bar Christmas I was hanging out with my wife and her friend. A guy was asking me and our friend for permission to make a move (ask for phone number, nothing more). Our friend that it was for mine, I thought it was for the friends, but it was actually for my wife's. I'm sure that the guys embarrassment at the situation of getting that response in the end caused him the most repulsion from the situation.
I am willing to bet a large enough non-violent and enduring protest would work in at least some of those examples. Mostly by increasing external pressures though.
For example, if Tiananmen Square was followed up by more of the same the impact would have been immense. It already had an impact as it was.
I'm sorry to say this, but comparing the open piracy movement to the civil rights movement makes you sound like Martha Stewart (she compared herself to Nelson Mandela when she was convicted).
I know their were some rat experiments done.
As a former regular user of it (it was the only partly usable browser on my old phone), I think that is a perfect description.
It was across the bottom of the very small screen and stated essentially:
the connection between Opera's proxy and your phone is un-encrypted [and can be snooped].
The part in square brackets may be my filling it in as I know what that would mean.
I test now in version 4.3 for Android and see nothing. This would imply to me that either:
1) it is fixed
-or-
2) it is as earlier stated, and the proxy can read it (but perhaps encrypted phone to proxy, and proxy to site).
2 is not so bad for most traffic, but should be at the very least a pop-up the first time you use SSL, with a checkbox that defaults to unchecked to disable the warning. I would think the proxy can be trusted with financial/personal info (as much as any site I use anyway), but perhaps not with deeply damaging private communications directly to a personal computer.
To be fair, they are very open about it.
It should come as no surprise.
This looks like a BS way to tack on sentencing, much like paraphernalia charges in drug cases.
All the sudden your little plastic bag is illegal to poses, and god forbid they catch you with a pipe that can hold stuff hotter than burning tobacco.
I'm glad to hear the MCSE program has gotten more restrictive.
At the peak of the diploma mills basic computer usage was not guaranteed in a certified individual.
Really?
http://xkcd.com/556/
Yes, I'm aware this makes me un-original and lame.
Well the person I was replying to used it to test their software.
I use it because I administer computers for designers, and that's what they use.
Other people use it because it looks nice and the windows move smoothly. It also makes them feel cool.
Adobe uses it because people buy their products for it, even though they don't work right.
$50,000 pulls it well out of the wealthy categorie and into the quite successful category. Asuuming it is otherwise a practical car to drive (I think not being able to do long road trips is not limiting.).
I can't spend $50,000 on a car, but I work with people who could, and your would not think they were wealthy (simply that they were foolish, and spent too much on their cars).
$50,000 puts the car into the reach of people with weird priorities and good jobs without other responsibilities, bit $1,000/month is a payment within the realm of imaginable.
Second owners especially will not need to be wealthy to buy them (just willing to sacrifice other parts of their life for a cool car).
Of course maybe what I think of as wealthy does not match what you do. I think of it as having an abundance of wealth, not an abundance of income.
Because if you don't test on the new version you'll look like your software is buggy crap (see inDesign CS3).
Not to rub it in, but I get 2.5 often enough (The quickest I ever get from P2P is about 500 KB/s though.
And Comcast has decided to cap us, but it is a fairly reasonable 250 GB/month.
What speeds to you normally get?
I ask because I pretty consistently get 1.4 MB/s from the mirrors (I ran the speed test and chose the quickest).
Obviously right around release things are different though.
Thanks for the tip.
It wasn't actually mine, it was a friends.
I personally only buy brand name for those things, since it feels RAM like to me, and I found brand name RAM (and CDs/DVDs) to be well worth the price.
Duke3d could also do impossible levels (large insides to sheds for example), which makes it super fun.
Having a broken SD card in my pocket, I will describe how it behaves (which I think is what the article is asking). It is a 1GB SVP.
In Windows (XP and Vista), it asks me to format the drive, chkdsk fails because the partition type is raw. Using recovermyphotos on it I get between 10 and 200 photos found before the card reader decides it is not in their anymore, and I can't recover the ones found (perhaps if I paid I could recover as it scanned).
On Linux cat /dev/sdb returns no media found (I assume this is card to card reader trouble again).
Interestingly, on a different reader that gives IO errors with every other card I use I get the raw partition do you want to format it issue.
The fact that I can't read the drive at all from Linux ended my exploration.