Cryogenic freezing / hibernation is one you forgot to mention, and that’s been a plot device ever since Rip Van Winkle. (For a more recent example, Idiocracy or Avatar.)
CompuTrace’s entire business model depends on the cops doing their job, and if the cops just blew it off, CompuTrace could go to the news media and start asking questions like “how much money do these guys get in taxes, exactly? look, we’re even giving them GPS coordinates and they still won’t go arrest the guy”.
That doesn’t prove much. Fact is, if the cops weren’t going to publicly look completely incompetent, they wouldn’t have done anything.
And then there was the Serenity movie, which explained a whole list of other stuff to which your list was strangely mutually exclusive. Did you do that on purpose?
No where did I say that backing up isn't a good idea. I only say that removable media is a volatile approach to backing up
Perhaps volatile, but still a perfectly good backup unless you’re expecting it to have a shelf life of years.
Also, did I mention this kid is a kid? You don't berate someone inexperienced for not knowing best practices. You encourage them to learn from those mistakes. Backing data up doesn't occur to most people, let alone a teenager on facebook, as being important.
And luckily all he lost in this learning experience was just a silly list of movies anyway, not really anything that’s truly valuable.
This is of course of no credit to the writers of this "translation" app. It seems to be looping over the words, looking them up in the dictionary and spitting out the top translation it gets for them, with no attempt to actually take care of word order or to use the context in which a word appears to choose the best translation.
Call it what it is: it’s just a Spanish-English dictionary. The hard part was getting the OCR to work right, and the visual effects are basically frosting. But Spanish-English dictionaries are still useful, if you use them like a Spanish-English dictionary and not like a full-fledged translation tool.
Keeping two up-to-date copies is always more safe than having just one, regardless of what sort of media it’s stored on. If there’s even a chance of reading it back off, it’s better than not having it at all.
Also (replying to myself, sorry), for what it’s worth, if you think that’s “insanely cold” you’re looking at it from exactly the wrong perspective. Cold is just the absence of heat. It just has very, very little heat. Almost none, in fact... 0 degrees C, by contrast, could be called “insanely hot”.
Heat causes noise and interference. Plenty of examples exist. You know the ripples you see coming off pavement? Heat. Electronics generally become less reliable the hotter they get. Etc.
Adding heat on the molecular level is like drinking a pot of coffee and then trying to do something that requires fine motor control with your hands.
Building a really big electromagnet requires superconducting materials because of the immense amount of current required to generate the electric field. If the material wasn’t a superconductor, the resistance would generate so much heat that it would burn up.
There’s absolutely no reason to try to remove or rename the executable. Replacing the shortcuts on the desktop and start menu and setting Firefox as the default browser should be adequate.
It’s an issue of your rights online, which was the subject that TaoPhoenix was commenting on, and as you are the one who initially mentioned gambling it was certainly fair play for me to single out.
It hilarious because for the most part western nations are trying to restrict things that most people agree should be restricted.
Just from your list I could single out gambling (US) and not-child-porn-but-we’re-banning-it-anyway (Australia already, US appears to be headed in that direction); Britain has basically made it illegal to have data on your hard drive that looks like it could be encrypted data but which you don’t have (or won’t give the authorities) a password for...
China and NK both have succeeded in their repression.
He never said they were all equally repressive. The fact that some of the countries he mentioned are already much more repressive is beside the point... the western nations are also steadily moving in a more repressive direction, as indicated by what keeps surfacing in the news.
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It really is hysterical that you lump them all together.
What’s hilarious about it? He didn’t say they all had exactly the same oppressive initiatives, he just said they all seemed to be hitting the news often. Which they are, and you already ran through the list of what each country is respectively trying to restrict.
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Ahh, of course... then they’ll know to immediately scout the area with their detectors to find the cloaked ghost.
if you don't have an internet you only need yourself and someone of the opposite sex and you can find out all you need to know
You mean like my mom? Hang on, I’ll ask her.
Did anybody ever find out whose cheerios Joss peed in to get the show first schedule-raped, then canned?
If anybody finds out, let me know. I want to pee in his cheerios, too.
Cryogenic freezing / hibernation is one you forgot to mention, and that’s been a plot device ever since Rip Van Winkle. (For a more recent example, Idiocracy or Avatar.)
CompuTrace’s entire business model depends on the cops doing their job, and if the cops just blew it off, CompuTrace could go to the news media and start asking questions like “how much money do these guys get in taxes, exactly? look, we’re even giving them GPS coordinates and they still won’t go arrest the guy”.
That doesn’t prove much. Fact is, if the cops weren’t going to publicly look completely incompetent, they wouldn’t have done anything.
someone please point a major work, besides HG Wells' original, that featured nothing but forward time travel
Most of them do, but I think you’re intentionally forgetting that time usually travels forward at its normal rate.
And then there was the Serenity movie, which explained a whole list of other stuff to which your list was strangely mutually exclusive. Did you do that on purpose?
No where did I say that backing up isn't a good idea. I only say that removable media is a volatile approach to backing up
Perhaps volatile, but still a perfectly good backup unless you’re expecting it to have a shelf life of years.
Also, did I mention this kid is a kid? You don't berate someone inexperienced for not knowing best practices. You encourage them to learn from those mistakes. Backing data up doesn't occur to most people, let alone a teenager on facebook, as being important.
And luckily all he lost in this learning experience was just a silly list of movies anyway, not really anything that’s truly valuable.
The welfare state only enables them 9 instead of 7 children vs. your 2 or 3.
You missed the part about “And make you pay for it”.
This is of course of no credit to the writers of this "translation" app. It seems to be looping over the words, looking them up in the dictionary and spitting out the top translation it gets for them, with no attempt to actually take care of word order or to use the context in which a word appears to choose the best translation.
Call it what it is: it’s just a Spanish-English dictionary. The hard part was getting the OCR to work right, and the visual effects are basically frosting. But Spanish-English dictionaries are still useful, if you use them like a Spanish-English dictionary and not like a full-fledged translation tool.
But don’t worry... posting twitter updates doesn’t cost the producers a thing. They have an unlimited data plan.
(Am I the only one who’s thinking of those commercials?)
Removable media is no more safe a backup.
Keeping two up-to-date copies is always more safe than having just one, regardless of what sort of media it’s stored on. If there’s even a chance of reading it back off, it’s better than not having it at all.
Just think of the possibilities for ad placement, though...
"seventeen" has for some time now features eighteens and up.
Oh? I heard that’s just the version they sell to prudish countries like the US now.
Also (replying to myself, sorry), for what it’s worth, if you think that’s “insanely cold” you’re looking at it from exactly the wrong perspective. Cold is just the absence of heat. It just has very, very little heat. Almost none, in fact... 0 degrees C, by contrast, could be called “insanely hot”.
Heat causes noise and interference. Plenty of examples exist. You know the ripples you see coming off pavement? Heat. Electronics generally become less reliable the hotter they get. Etc.
Adding heat on the molecular level is like drinking a pot of coffee and then trying to do something that requires fine motor control with your hands.
Pff, if they put it in cell phones I’m sure it would be safe.
No... and what browser are you using that inserted a soft line feed there?
I did that with my technophobic grandmother, actually...I even set the Firefox shortcut to use the Internet Explorer icon.
Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures. :)
Building a really big electromagnet requires superconducting materials because of the immense amount of current required to generate the electric field. If the material wasn’t a superconductor, the resistance would generate so much heat that it would burn up.
There’s absolutely no reason to try to remove or rename the executable. Replacing the shortcuts on the desktop and start menu and setting Firefox as the default browser should be adequate.
It’s an issue of your rights online, which was the subject that TaoPhoenix was commenting on, and as you are the one who initially mentioned gambling it was certainly fair play for me to single out.
They’re for the ethernet plug, silly. What did you think he meant?
It hilarious because for the most part western nations are trying to restrict things that most people agree should be restricted.
Just from your list I could single out gambling (US) and not-child-porn-but-we’re-banning-it-anyway (Australia already, US appears to be headed in that direction); Britain has basically made it illegal to have data on your hard drive that looks like it could be encrypted data but which you don’t have (or won’t give the authorities) a password for...
China and NK both have succeeded in their repression.
He never said they were all equally repressive. The fact that some of the countries he mentioned are already much more repressive is beside the point... the western nations are also steadily moving in a more repressive direction, as indicated by what keeps surfacing in the news.
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It really is hysterical that you lump them all together.
What’s hilarious about it? He didn’t say they all had exactly the same oppressive initiatives, he just said they all seemed to be hitting the news often. Which they are, and you already ran through the list of what each country is respectively trying to restrict.