nope, 4000 years before that.
If your bullshit detector is offline (or has a IRQ conflict) you may be lead to believe there were some things before Jesus. Like Sodom and Gomorrah.
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots
By insisting that computers be secure, rather than relying on your corporate firewall. In particular, if you ever allow an employee to take their corporate laptop to a Starucks, and if this was at all a problem, you have already lost.
It isn't a corporate laptop. Its a personal laptop that is being used for corporate purposes. You can't forbid people to take their own laptops to Starbucks.
I would not run McAfee on one of my own systems. Unless they pay me enough to maintain a laptop with it and a system I can actually use I would not accept it.
I keep wondering why someone with, for example, Vodafone UK has to pay roaming charges when calling on the Vodafone NL network. They're the same fucking company! The call itself is routed through voip for cost reasons anyway, so the cost difference can be minimised.
Without subpoena's Democracy is even under siege. If a cop can search anything without having to give a valid reason the trouble is unimaginable. I would bet there is a European law against unwarranted search.
They can offer their underage sex slaves in another country. No one there is allowed to view it though. The child porn problem is quite indicative against your argument. In some countries it isn't a problem. Presumably there are servers there with child porn. The decent countries can't help it: their citizens are able to view it and without a "great firewall" they can't do a damn about that ability. They can and do arrest the people who watch it though. That's where the Australian and British firewalls come from: if they know what IP addresses to block they could also serve a subpoena to take em out of business. The owners of these sites don't have to comply if their government says it's okay what they do.
IMHO this is a great solution, albeit not perfect. The problem is that it's hard to tell whether a sex offender is now capable of controlling his urges. I have no problems with a non-practicing pedophile. That's a mental disease, but not a danger. A pedophile who was in jail for it may have been shocked into controlling it. While probably uncomfortable for him, he poses no danger. To allow him to go near "seductive" places is a bad idea, for we cannot be sure he falls back to his urges (remember the high recidivism rate). A pedophile who ignores this simple but important rule has shown himself to be close or in the "dangerous" group. It would require personal details of each convicted pedophile to be publicly shown to get this kind of security. I would be against that because of the privacy implications. The solution isn't perfect because the wrist bands are presumably visible. The problems this would cause for the social life of the person are great. So great that it may be impossible for him to build up a social life. This may actually cause him to fall back to his old urges.
The chance of infection is greatly lowered by the fact that we vaccinate against it. There is even a threshold effect: The chance of even getting in contact with the disease is lowered greatly by the fact that most people are vaccinated. This helps to bring it down to that 0.3% To get the numbers correctly you should take the disease-caused infant mortality rate of a country that doesn't vaccinate on a large scale. These numbers are hard to get, due to offset because not all children are registered in these countries and thus the reasons for their deaths aren't registered. This wouldn't skew the results if the chance of infection wouldn't be larger in these demographics. The correct numbers may even be unavailable to researchers and I am quite sure they are unavailable to me. In hindsight: laziness (albeit true) was not the largest hurdle here.
There is one issue I have had since the beginning. Assume it were true. Assume all the autism is caused by vaccination (it can't be worse than that). The autism percentage in the US in 2007 was 0.7%. The chance a kid dies from diseases he could have been vaccinated against is higher, dunno the exact number and am to lazy to look'em up. So these people think it's worse to have a kid with autism than to lose your child to a disease? Are these people insane?
No. Any one pointer device can cause RSI (except probably a brain interface). Ergonomic ones delay the process, but the problem will re-emerge. Use two or more different ones. MS and Linux have no problem with a mouse, a trackball and a tablet connected. In the near future screens may come with an embedded touch interface. Use them all, switch often. The switching between them provides with an alternation of the muscles tortured, and thus with another delay. If this combined delay supersedes the time required to heal you are golden. IANAD
claiming to have said something smart, predictive and true while being AC doesn't sound reliable. Of course it's checkable whether someone said it, but I could just as easily say I control the biggest spam botnet now. Someone does, but you can't know whether I do (unless you are the controller. In that case: DIE). If you want to use "told ya so" you should login.
If they have brains, which I suspect they have, they will start with the gesture interfaces (irritating with a mouse, perfect for this), a swipe like keyboard and hotkey support (also gesture based). That will be usable. However Asus will want to make money on the hardware and thus they will probably allow other programs to read the data. That will allow other programs to use it like a mouse and soon the thing will be integrated into screens.
It would also open up possibilities for a toilet computer (Pleestation, for the dutch). No way I would want to have a computer there that you'd have to touch, but a touchless interface would be possible (althoug undesirable). btw: I am not responsible for all the twitterers who would describe every detail of the process: Starting to poop Halfway there Ah, done grabbing first piece of toilet paper Need another one This paper is almost clean Grabbing another one Yaay, completely clean Pulling up pants Shit broke my nail while buttoning pants (omitted the step of adding spelling and grammar errors for sanity reasons, although there may be some)
Go get a wireless keyboard, sit on your sofa, and load up your email client on your TV at max supported resolution. Tell me how long it takes for you to learn forward, or simply stand up and walk over to read stuff.
I do. Gmail. I just use ctrl+ (zoom in, in a lot of applications) a lot. Also I changed the DPI settings, to make everything more readable. I read cheeseburger network sites and mail while lying on my couch. The main problem I have is with building a playlist in Winamp, can't zoom that in really good so I have to stand up and build it. Then again: that and viewing dvd's is about the only thing I do on the system, so this may or may not be valid for you.
...This is bordering on false advertising, made legal only by a line of small print that allows them to change the contract any time they wish.
Dunno about the US, but her in NL you cannot change a contract without giving the other party a chance to break the contract. No small print can invalidate that. And that is how it should be IMHO.
nope. The problem can be in the server on the ISP side. The problem appears where a big pipe (1 Gbit for example) is poured into a small pipe (1 Mbit for example) see TheThiefMaster
As an extreme example, say you request a 1GB file from a download site. That site has a monster internet connection, and manages to transmit the entire file in 1 second. The file makes it to the ISP at that speed, who then buffers the packets for slow transmission over your ADSL link, which will take 1 hour. During that time you try to browse the web, and your PC tries to do a dns lookup. The request goes out ok, but the response gets added to the buffer on the ISP side of your internet connection, so you won't get it until your original transfer completes. How's 1 hour for latency?
The situation is only not that bad because:
A: Most download sites serve so many people at once and/or rate limit so they won't saturate most peoples' connections
B: Most buffers in network hardware are still quite small
IANAITS, but consider the following situation:
Router A understands ECN. Router B doesn't and drops the packages that have it. Can't router A see the dropping of ALL the packages to B and thus conclude B doesn't support it, and set the two ECN bits in the header to 00? If B is "repaired" and starts sending ECN 01 and 10 packages to A then A can conclude B should be able to accept ECN enabled packages and stop setting the bits to 00.
Well that depends on the earth-speed velocity of the magnetic pole of course. Theoretically an African magnetic pole could do it, but not a European one. But then again an African magnetic pole is non migratory, so it wouldn't do it.
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nope, 4000 years before that.
If your bullshit detector is offline (or has a IRQ conflict) you may be lead to believe there were some things before Jesus. Like Sodom and Gomorrah.
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots
By insisting that computers be secure, rather than relying on your corporate firewall. In particular, if you ever allow an employee to take their corporate laptop to a Starucks, and if this was at all a problem, you have already lost.
It isn't a corporate laptop. Its a personal laptop that is being used for corporate purposes. You can't forbid people to take their own laptops to Starbucks.
I would not run McAfee on one of my own systems.
Unless they pay me enough to maintain a laptop with it and a system I can actually use I would not accept it.
I keep wondering why someone with, for example, Vodafone UK has to pay roaming charges when calling on the Vodafone NL network. They're the same fucking company! The call itself is routed through voip for cost reasons anyway, so the cost difference can be minimised.
Damn, got stuck in your signature for an hour there. Damn you!
Only if that keyboard is fireproofed so you can brute force the key in 6 minutes.
Without subpoena's Democracy is even under siege. If a cop can search anything without having to give a valid reason the trouble is unimaginable.
I would bet there is a European law against unwarranted search.
They can offer their underage sex slaves in another country. No one there is allowed to view it though.
The child porn problem is quite indicative against your argument. In some countries it isn't a problem. Presumably there are servers there with child porn. The decent countries can't help it: their citizens are able to view it and without a "great firewall" they can't do a damn about that ability. They can and do arrest the people who watch it though.
That's where the Australian and British firewalls come from: if they know what IP addresses to block they could also serve a subpoena to take em out of business. The owners of these sites don't have to comply if their government says it's okay what they do.
IMHO this is a great solution, albeit not perfect.
The problem is that it's hard to tell whether a sex offender is now capable of controlling his urges. I have no problems with a non-practicing pedophile. That's a mental disease, but not a danger. A pedophile who was in jail for it may have been shocked into controlling it. While probably uncomfortable for him, he poses no danger. To allow him to go near "seductive" places is a bad idea, for we cannot be sure he falls back to his urges (remember the high recidivism rate). A pedophile who ignores this simple but important rule has shown himself to be close or in the "dangerous" group. It would require personal details of each convicted pedophile to be publicly shown to get this kind of security. I would be against that because of the privacy implications.
The solution isn't perfect because the wrist bands are presumably visible. The problems this would cause for the social life of the person are great. So great that it may be impossible for him to build up a social life. This may actually cause him to fall back to his old urges.
The chance of infection is greatly lowered by the fact that we vaccinate against it. There is even a threshold effect: The chance of even getting in contact with the disease is lowered greatly by the fact that most people are vaccinated. This helps to bring it down to that 0.3%
To get the numbers correctly you should take the disease-caused infant mortality rate of a country that doesn't vaccinate on a large scale. These numbers are hard to get, due to offset because not all children are registered in these countries and thus the reasons for their deaths aren't registered. This wouldn't skew the results if the chance of infection wouldn't be larger in these demographics.
The correct numbers may even be unavailable to researchers and I am quite sure they are unavailable to me.
In hindsight: laziness (albeit true) was not the largest hurdle here.
There is one issue I have had since the beginning.
Assume it were true.
Assume all the autism is caused by vaccination (it can't be worse than that).
The autism percentage in the US in 2007 was 0.7%.
The chance a kid dies from diseases he could have been vaccinated against is higher, dunno the exact number and am to lazy to look'em up.
So these people think it's worse to have a kid with autism than to lose your child to a disease? Are these people insane?
No. Any one pointer device can cause RSI (except probably a brain interface). Ergonomic ones delay the process, but the problem will re-emerge. Use two or more different ones. MS and Linux have no problem with a mouse, a trackball and a tablet connected. In the near future screens may come with an embedded touch interface. Use them all, switch often. The switching between them provides with an alternation of the muscles tortured, and thus with another delay. If this combined delay supersedes the time required to heal you are golden.
IANAD
What? Are you comparing ripping people off with fake viagra to free speech?
if (yes) {you=moron};
else {Please elaborate};
claiming to have said something smart, predictive and true while being AC doesn't sound reliable. Of course it's checkable whether someone said it, but I could just as easily say I control the biggest spam botnet now. Someone does, but you can't know whether I do (unless you are the controller. In that case: DIE).
If you want to use "told ya so" you should login.
This is T-Mobile UK.
I am sorry. Dunno how I got that wrong.
If they have brains, which I suspect they have, they will start with the gesture interfaces (irritating with a mouse, perfect for this), a swipe like keyboard and hotkey support (also gesture based). That will be usable.
However Asus will want to make money on the hardware and thus they will probably allow other programs to read the data. That will allow other programs to use it like a mouse and soon the thing will be integrated into screens.
Things included are not free. You just don't have the option of not paying for them.
It would also open up possibilities for a toilet computer (Pleestation, for the dutch). No way I would want to have a computer there that you'd have to touch, but a touchless interface would be possible (althoug undesirable).
btw: I am not responsible for all the twitterers who would describe every detail of the process:
Starting to poop
Halfway there
Ah, done
grabbing first piece of toilet paper
Need another one
This paper is almost clean
Grabbing another one
Yaay, completely clean
Pulling up pants
Shit broke my nail while buttoning pants
(omitted the step of adding spelling and grammar errors for sanity reasons, although there may be some)
Go get a wireless keyboard, sit on your sofa, and load up your email client on your TV at max supported resolution. Tell me how long it takes for you to learn forward, or simply stand up and walk over to read stuff.
I do. Gmail. I just use ctrl+ (zoom in, in a lot of applications) a lot. Also I changed the DPI settings, to make everything more readable. I read cheeseburger network sites and mail while lying on my couch.
The main problem I have is with building a playlist in Winamp, can't zoom that in really good so I have to stand up and build it.
Then again: that and viewing dvd's is about the only thing I do on the system, so this may or may not be valid for you.
...This is bordering on false advertising, made legal only by a line of small print that allows them to change the contract any time they wish.
Dunno about the US, but her in NL you cannot change a contract without giving the other party a chance to break the contract. No small print can invalidate that. And that is how it should be IMHO.
All hail AdBlock and NoScript!
As an extreme example, say you request a 1GB file from a download site. That site has a monster internet connection, and manages to transmit the entire file in 1 second. The file makes it to the ISP at that speed, who then buffers the packets for slow transmission over your ADSL link, which will take 1 hour. During that time you try to browse the web, and your PC tries to do a dns lookup. The request goes out ok, but the response gets added to the buffer on the ISP side of your internet connection, so you won't get it until your original transfer completes. How's 1 hour for latency?
The situation is only not that bad because:
A: Most download sites serve so many people at once and/or rate limit so they won't saturate most peoples' connections
B: Most buffers in network hardware are still quite small
IANAITS, but consider the following situation: Router A understands ECN. Router B doesn't and drops the packages that have it. Can't router A see the dropping of ALL the packages to B and thus conclude B doesn't support it, and set the two ECN bits in the header to 00?
If B is "repaired" and starts sending ECN 01 and 10 packages to A then A can conclude B should be able to accept ECN enabled packages and stop setting the bits to 00.
Well that depends on the earth-speed velocity of the magnetic pole of course. Theoretically an African magnetic pole could do it, but not a European one. But then again an African magnetic pole is non migratory, so it wouldn't do it.
IFF requires a radio signal to be transmitted. IMHO this clashes with the whole stealth idea.