At first I thought this was an article about how to stop the LHC from destroying the earth. Oh well, I guess I'll resume writing my will and last testament...
If a company wants to reduce its costs for protecting private information, stop collecting the damn stuff in the first place. As a recent example, why do I need to register at a website just to listen to a few bird call recordings? Or give my (fictitious) name and address just to read an article?
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information.
That's probably because Bing Is Not Google; give the useless link farms a little while and they'll ensure Bing looks like Google.
Of course they don't ask why people have unique finger prints. Maybe it evolved to make murderers easier to catch.
Because there's no disadvantage to having unique prints. Multiple genes probably affect fingerprint patterns, and without any selective pressure, the patterns would drift around randomly.
I covered that in the next paragraph, which you omitted in your quote. Did you miss the part about people in rich countries using more resources per person?
Argh, my reading comprehension was abysmal there. Indeed, you go on to say exactly what I rebutted with.
The real question is whether this is just large enough to be a supervolcano, or merely a really large volcano (and the age of the scientist determining this).
Somewhat related to this "not directly costing money" when a machine is infected, I recently got high-speed Internet service in the US via a cable modem. Using two different brands (Ambit and Motorola), there is constant flashing on the modem's LAN light and my router's WAN light the moment it connects. I've searched for explanations and the two are that the modem/router are constantly talking to each other for no reason, and that it's the random traffic that all the malware-infested machines in the world are directing at my particular IP address. The latter possibility is very intriguing, as I thought that the main load ISPs faced was just spam e-mail and having to filter it. The idea that they are essentially dealing with constant traffic to every node is astounding. Any idea which is the real cause?
A person moving from place A to place B does not increase the net population of AB, but does make their negative impact on the environment B's problem. So the attitude of "if we curb immigration, we reduce pollution" omits the reality that pollution does not obey national borders.
Except that if B's way of living is much more polluting per person than A's, then moving from A to B does increase pollution. Perhaps people dimly recognize that other countries manage to produce less pollution per person than the USA?
A car that will never sell anywhere in the US due to total inability to pass crash safety test. I'm actually surprised that it can be sold anywhere in the first world, to be honest.
At first I thought the headline was misleading, as they only pay for fuel during the 20-year lease, but then I remembered this saying:
Build a man a fire and he's warm for the day;
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
So maybe you really do get free fuel for the rest of your life when you lease one of these.
Yes, this has nothing to do with network neutrality; this is just about a content provider being stupid. The network neutrality version would be if an ISP were charging the content provider to carry his traffic; it's the opposite occurring here. Let the content provider shoot himself in the foot; he's not keeping ISP users from freely visiting other websites.
Yet again a useful term is being misapplied in order to raise a negative response. File this along with "bricked", "censorship", "theft", etc.
if by snoop you mean connect to a program that the user willfully loaded and interact with that program in it's normal manner of operation then yes people can do that.
So if the user willfully installed Microsoft Windows, then it's OK to infect the meachine (interact in its normal manner) and do whatever you want? Isn't ALL remote snooping of a computer by definition originally via software that the user installed?
That is one compelling reason to not upgrade to Blu-Ray, if you ask me.
I think you mean "downgrade". But don't worry, if you get the pirated version, it won't have this restriction (and you will be able to start the feature immediately, without all the unskippable warnings, advertisements, and menu animations).
OK, I got the details wrong, but it still involved lots of unnecessary actions, which was my main point. Breaking a CFL doesn't require calling in hazardous materials investigators.
No, that is the whole point of non-linear dynamics. One can never know the initial conditions precisely enough to make predictions over arbitrarily long time scales.
Which is just repeating what I said; beacuse one doesn't know all the details, one talks of chances out there, even though it's just one's own lack of knowledge. That this lack of knowledge cannot be overcome doesn't refute the point.
Guess I got modded down because I used the word "ignorance", as the word is usually used in a derogatory way. Ugh, it simply means "things one is unaware of".
Remember, when they say there's a small chance of planetary collision, they're really just relating the lack of precision they have in their knowledge of the positions, velocities, and mass distribution of said planets. If they knew them precisely, they could precisely predict their future positions.
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An extra inverter, and the engineers having to read the documentation instead of assuming active low?
At first I thought this was an article about how to stop the LHC from destroying the earth. Oh well, I guess I'll resume writing my will and last testament...
If a company wants to reduce its costs for protecting private information, stop collecting the damn stuff in the first place. As a recent example, why do I need to register at a website just to listen to a few bird call recordings? Or give my (fictitious) name and address just to read an article?
That's probably because Bing Is Not Google; give the useless link farms a little while and they'll ensure Bing looks like Google.
Because there's no disadvantage to having unique prints. Multiple genes probably affect fingerprint patterns, and without any selective pressure, the patterns would drift around randomly.
then it means you've come from Slashdot.
The real question is whether this is just large enough to be a supervolcano, or merely a really large volcano (and the age of the scientist determining this).
Yeah, cue a lot of future 911 calls where caller sounds oddly robotic and either reports that he cannot speak or is having an asthma attack.
Somewhat related to this "not directly costing money" when a machine is infected, I recently got high-speed Internet service in the US via a cable modem. Using two different brands (Ambit and Motorola), there is constant flashing on the modem's LAN light and my router's WAN light the moment it connects. I've searched for explanations and the two are that the modem/router are constantly talking to each other for no reason, and that it's the random traffic that all the malware-infested machines in the world are directing at my particular IP address. The latter possibility is very intriguing, as I thought that the main load ISPs faced was just spam e-mail and having to filter it. The idea that they are essentially dealing with constant traffic to every node is astounding. Any idea which is the real cause?
Hmmm, they're all in x86 code? I dunno, I'm stumped.
Except that if B's way of living is much more polluting per person than A's, then moving from A to B does increase pollution. Perhaps people dimly recognize that other countries manage to produce less pollution per person than the USA?
At first I thought the headline was misleading, as they only pay for fuel during the 20-year lease, but then I remembered this saying:
So maybe you really do get free fuel for the rest of your life when you lease one of these.
Except that copyright actually conflicts with regular property laws by preventing an owner from crafting his own property into certain objects.
Yes, this has nothing to do with network neutrality; this is just about a content provider being stupid. The network neutrality version would be if an ISP were charging the content provider to carry his traffic; it's the opposite occurring here. Let the content provider shoot himself in the foot; he's not keeping ISP users from freely visiting other websites.
Yet again a useful term is being misapplied in order to raise a negative response. File this along with "bricked", "censorship", "theft", etc.
So if the user willfully installed Microsoft Windows, then it's OK to infect the meachine (interact in its normal manner) and do whatever you want? Isn't ALL remote snooping of a computer by definition originally via software that the user installed?
I think you mean "downgrade". But don't worry, if you get the pirated version, it won't have this restriction (and you will be able to start the feature immediately, without all the unskippable warnings, advertisements, and menu animations).
Let's see, at $150K per song, that comes out to 5 songs.
How exactly can you prove that something is random, as opposed to simply having a pattern and/or causes that you haven't yet discerned?
Oh my god, you mean there's been an oxygen pandemic for centuries now, and I only now just found out about it?!?
OK, I got the details wrong, but it still involved lots of unnecessary actions, which was my main point. Breaking a CFL doesn't require calling in hazardous materials investigators.
Which is just repeating what I said; beacuse one doesn't know all the details, one talks of chances out there, even though it's just one's own lack of knowledge. That this lack of knowledge cannot be overcome doesn't refute the point.
Guess I got modded down because I used the word "ignorance", as the word is usually used in a derogatory way. Ugh, it simply means "things one is unaware of".
That Wal-Mart case reminds me of the person who broke a compact fluorescent bulb and made the mistake of contacting the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, who sent a specialist out and charged $2000 to clean up the dangerous levels of mercury in the room. Once the authorities have been contacted, they feel they must respond, even if it's benign. So with this Wal-Mart case, it was probably just a cautious employee who got this crazy process started.
Remember, when they say there's a small chance of planetary collision, they're really just relating the lack of precision they have in their knowledge of the positions, velocities, and mass distribution of said planets. If they knew them precisely, they could precisely predict their future positions.