Same here. I don't care if my computer is a Mac; the computer is never fit to decide whether a file is safe to open (and possibly execute). This is a good example of why: the user now knows of this bug, but the computer doesn't, so it'll continue to open and run these executables, all the while claiming it was safe.
"Ignoring the whole political issue of it, if they are going to filter a string, they should at least allow common legit strings that it is a substring of."
baSEMENt. ASSumption. marCUM. Nope, doesn't work. And they just can't disallow MiXeD CaSe, like OMG!
"2. "The technology claims to be able to increase magnet motor efficiency substantially, even over the 100% barrier." That's right folks! It's perpetual motion machine!"
Why would people bother with heat pumps when an electric heater is nearly 100% efficient already? Technically I think the proper term is coefficient of performance, which is near 1.0 for an electric heater, and greater than 1.0 for a heat pump (more heat is transferred into the building than the energy put into the heat pump).
Still, someone could easily mis-use the term "efficiency" to refer to the coefficient of performance. What bothers me more are the people like you waiting to yell "perpetual motion" at the slightest hint of bogus science, all the while trampling things that aren't bogus at all, but that you didn't look close enough to tell. As for perpetual motion, how about the way spinning objects keep spinning as long as there is no friction to slow them down?
"He's talking about all the times that cops get called out to domesic violence 5 times per week to the same house. Put a closed circuit camera in the house with a padlocked VHS recorder. That way its no longer he-said-she-said..."
That's what I was thinking. If someone calls the police to their home often, the homeowner might actually want an around-the-clock video record to use as evidence.
Tell me about it! I've got this awesome OS that I'm still working out in my mind. The best thing is... NO VIRUSES/ADWAVE/SPYWARE. N-O-N-E. The thing's never even crashed.
"I've got wireless speakers at home, have had them for about a year, and I love them."
Me too! I used headphones all my life until around a year ago when I finally got enough to buy these things called "loudspeakers". No more wires, not me! I can sit back on my couch and hear the music from about ten feet away. I can even get up and walk around the room and still hear the music, no wires! I love modern technology.
"30 percent of respondents said they went online "for no particular reason" on the previous day"
This survey found what people claimed they went online for. How many were actually going online to look for something (discussion with people, interesting articles, etc.) but weren't aware of this? Don't make the mistake of taking survey results as anything beyond "this is what people responded with when asked these questions".
Why not have your personal e-mail address for all non-official things, without whitelisting, and a business e-mail address that only accepts e-mail from your whitelist? That way if you get something claiming you need to update account information or whatever and it's to your personal e-mail address, you know it's fake. Businesses have no business (ha) contacting you unless you have prior contact with them, so you will add them to your whitelist before you give them your e-mail address.
In geek terms, personal e-mail = non-executable; business e-mail = executable (metaphorically speaking, not actual executable binary content).
"to me, it seems that the gist of your argument is that since you haven't gotten your hands on a physical thing, you haven't stolen anything. you aren't depriving a retailer of a product or the money they could have gotten in exchange for it.
i submit that a physical object is not necessarily required for theft. if you're a gamer, does it incur your ire when someone steals from you in game? if you developed a neat idea and had it on your hard drive, would it bother you when someone copied it onto their USB drive, and distributed it or claimed it as their own? how about your digitized poetry? your art? i'm not using these as exactly analogous to downloading a movie, but the concept of a noncorporeal object of value is important."
The essential aspect of theft is that the rightful owner of the object can no longer use it. If the original owner can still use the object, it hasn't been stolen.
Your second question is unrelated; in it you're asking basically "doesn't it piss you off when someone does X?" Perhaps, but what relevance does that have with theft? This is the trap people usually fall into. Theft = bad, X = bad, therefore, X = theft!!!!11
That I doubt. How does the beam get scanned across the image rectangle?
Remember that most portable mp3 players do have moving parts that wear out: the buttons.
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"But somehow Apple can get away with this, why is this? Because they less of a monopoly?"
Re-read the "mono" part of "monopoly" again. Either one company has a monopoly, or none do. Last time I checked, Apple sales made up less than 10% of the PC market.
About the same, I started with a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the wobbly RAM expansion, one of my mother's weekly garage sale purchases. At first I just entered BASIC programs from books, but that was too tiring so I tried to write Super Mario Bros. Somehow I didn't mind the awful membrane keyboard. Just being able to program was a new thing for me.
"According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they've correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time. "That's how flame wars get started," says psychologist Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago, who conducted the research with Justin Kruger of New York University. "People in our study were convinced they've accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their odds are no better than chance," says Epley. The researchers took 30 pairs of undergraduate students and gave each one a list of 20 statements about topics like campus food or the weather. Assuming either a serious or sarcastic tone, one member of each pair e-mailed the statements to his or her partner. The partners then guessed the intended tone and indicated how confident they were in their answers. Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time."
In addition to being in the science category, this should also be listed under the Department of Redundancy Department.
"So, if you don't know that RFID chips can be cloned"
What about RFID chips that use a coded response based on a key that the interrogator sends? Then the RFID is not merely a value that can be read, but a device with complex behavior. Presumably using a brute-force method of giving it all possible inputs would take hundreds of years, or the device would detect this and permanently deactivate itself (it has no real-time clock so it can't merely timeout).
"I think it's because when you know only one language, it's hard to actually figure out what grammar is. [...] When you learn a second language, you are able to more easily identify the structural components of language (ie: grammar) when comparing the two side-by-side."
It's like having binocular vision; you get rich depth information from what would otherwise be a flat image (ignoring the effect of a cyclops moving its head).
"Improved anti-depressant treatments are nice and all, but how about a treatment for the source of the problem: the bully. [...] Give the drugs to the jerks who feel the need to dominate and humliate. "
Take a guess as to which group did the study and recommends more drugs for being picked on. Those are the bullies, and they have a lot more than fists to beat you up with.
More like "Boss caught you doing personal e-mail at work? Covert E-mail can help." or "Super Deluxe Solitaire for Windows. Great for passing the time at work!" Google ads come up for employees.
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Same here. I don't care if my computer is a Mac; the computer is never fit to decide whether a file is safe to open (and possibly execute). This is a good example of why: the user now knows of this bug, but the computer doesn't, so it'll continue to open and run these executables, all the while claiming it was safe.
"Ignoring the whole political issue of it, if they are going to filter a string, they should at least allow common legit strings that it is a substring of."
baSEMENt. ASSumption. marCUM. Nope, doesn't work. And they just can't disallow MiXeD CaSe, like OMG!
Don't be fooled by imitations. The only real original Zelda is the game cartridge in a NES console.
"2. "The technology claims to be able to increase magnet motor efficiency substantially, even over the 100% barrier."
That's right folks! It's perpetual motion machine!"
Why would people bother with heat pumps when an electric heater is nearly 100% efficient already? Technically I think the proper term is coefficient of performance, which is near 1.0 for an electric heater, and greater than 1.0 for a heat pump (more heat is transferred into the building than the energy put into the heat pump).
Still, someone could easily mis-use the term "efficiency" to refer to the coefficient of performance. What bothers me more are the people like you waiting to yell "perpetual motion" at the slightest hint of bogus science, all the while trampling things that aren't bogus at all, but that you didn't look close enough to tell. As for perpetual motion, how about the way spinning objects keep spinning as long as there is no friction to slow them down?
"potentially stealing 100 megabytes in a few minutes."
Wouldn't it be more stealthy if this tool copied the data rather than deleting the original? Or was "steal" the wrong word to use here?
We need to put a stop to this quantum cloning. It is immoral and wrong. Who knows where it might lead!
"He's talking about all the times that cops get called out to domesic violence 5 times per week to the same house. Put a closed circuit camera in the house with a padlocked VHS recorder. That way its no longer he-said-she-said..."
That's what I was thinking. If someone calls the police to their home often, the homeowner might actually want an around-the-clock video record to use as evidence.
"The problem: The rights to the audio recordings of the Beatles first album will expire in 2013."
The even bigger problem: The rights to those recordings probably won't expire in 2013, due to yet another extension of copyright duration.
"having a lack of USERS tends to do that. "
Tell me about it! I've got this awesome OS that I'm still working out in my mind. The best thing is... NO VIRUSES/ADWAVE/SPYWARE. N-O-N-E. The thing's never even crashed.
"The primary use of broadband is to deliver ads. At the consumer's expense. No wonder 30% of users don't want it."
Yeah right; Verizon is the only paying for all that bandwidth and it's about time we chipped in to help them out.
</sarcasm>
"I've got wireless speakers at home, have had them for about a year, and I love them."
Me too! I used headphones all my life until around a year ago when I finally got enough to buy these things called "loudspeakers". No more wires, not me! I can sit back on my couch and hear the music from about ten feet away. I can even get up and walk around the room and still hear the music, no wires! I love modern technology.
"30 percent of respondents said they went online "for no particular reason" on the previous day"
This survey found what people claimed they went online for. How many were actually going online to look for something (discussion with people, interesting articles, etc.) but weren't aware of this? Don't make the mistake of taking survey results as anything beyond "this is what people responded with when asked these questions".
Why not have your personal e-mail address for all non-official things, without whitelisting, and a business e-mail address that only accepts e-mail from your whitelist? That way if you get something claiming you need to update account information or whatever and it's to your personal e-mail address, you know it's fake. Businesses have no business (ha) contacting you unless you have prior contact with them, so you will add them to your whitelist before you give them your e-mail address.
In geek terms, personal e-mail = non-executable; business e-mail = executable (metaphorically speaking, not actual executable binary content).
"to me, it seems that the gist of your argument is that since you haven't gotten your hands on a physical thing, you haven't stolen anything. you aren't depriving a retailer of a product or the money they could have gotten in exchange for it.
i submit that a physical object is not necessarily required for theft. if you're a gamer, does it incur your ire when someone steals from you in game? if you developed a neat idea and had it on your hard drive, would it bother you when someone copied it onto their USB drive, and distributed it or claimed it as their own? how about your digitized poetry? your art? i'm not using these as exactly analogous to downloading a movie, but the concept of a noncorporeal object of value is important."
The essential aspect of theft is that the rightful owner of the object can no longer use it. If the original owner can still use the object, it hasn't been stolen.
Your second question is unrelated; in it you're asking basically "doesn't it piss you off when someone does X?" Perhaps, but what relevance does that have with theft? This is the trap people usually fall into. Theft = bad, X = bad, therefore, X = theft!!!!11
"Some specs: [...] No moving parts [...] "
That I doubt. How does the beam get scanned across the image rectangle?
Remember that most portable mp3 players do have moving parts that wear out: the buttons.
"But somehow Apple can get away with this, why is this? Because they less of a monopoly?"
Re-read the "mono" part of "monopoly" again. Either one company has a monopoly, or none do. Last time I checked, Apple sales made up less than 10% of the PC market.
I thought this had already been done using Farnsworth's Fusor in the 1960s.
About the same, I started with a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the wobbly RAM expansion, one of my mother's weekly garage sale purchases. At first I just entered BASIC programs from books, but that was too tiring so I tried to write Super Mario Bros. Somehow I didn't mind the awful membrane keyboard. Just being able to program was a new thing for me.
Just don't offer up both your hands and/or arms!
One with a dead battery.
"According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they've correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time. "That's how flame wars get started," says psychologist Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago, who conducted the research with Justin Kruger of New York University. "People in our study were convinced they've accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their odds are no better than chance," says Epley. The researchers took 30 pairs of undergraduate students and gave each one a list of 20 statements about topics like campus food or the weather. Assuming either a serious or sarcastic tone, one member of each pair e-mailed the statements to his or her partner. The partners then guessed the intended tone and indicated how confident they were in their answers. Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time."
In addition to being in the science category, this should also be listed under the Department of Redundancy Department.
You idiot!
</sarcasm>
"So, if you don't know that RFID chips can be cloned"
What about RFID chips that use a coded response based on a key that the interrogator sends? Then the RFID is not merely a value that can be read, but a device with complex behavior. Presumably using a brute-force method of giving it all possible inputs would take hundreds of years, or the device would detect this and permanently deactivate itself (it has no real-time clock so it can't merely timeout).
"I think it's because when you know only one language, it's hard to actually figure out what grammar is. [...] When you learn a second language, you are able to more easily identify the structural components of language (ie: grammar) when comparing the two side-by-side."
It's like having binocular vision; you get rich depth information from what would otherwise be a flat image (ignoring the effect of a cyclops moving its head).
"Improved anti-depressant treatments are nice and all, but how about a treatment for the source of the problem: the bully. [...] Give the drugs to the jerks who feel the need to dominate and humliate. "
Take a guess as to which group did the study and recommends more drugs for being picked on. Those are the bullies, and they have a lot more than fists to beat you up with.
More like "Boss caught you doing personal e-mail at work? Covert E-mail can help." or "Super Deluxe Solitaire for Windows. Great for passing the time at work!" Google ads come up for employees.