I wish the industry would go back to knobs, dials, and buttons
I generally work in industrial automation and I can assure you that physical controls are still used in a lot of places as primary controls where direct and rapid operator intervention/control is required (EG cranes, steel mills). Only secondary controls get shuffled off onto graphical displays.
This morning I was also lamenting the loss of the analogue volume control from laptops. It used to be that you could dial the volume down before you booted, where as nowadays the volume is stuck at where you left it, until the system is running enough processes that you can use the digital controls to quite it down.
The last video in TFA is about the Ford's HMI testbed, which is used to try out different cockpit configurations. During that video they show the driver selecting something on the touch screen panel in the center console. During this event you can clearly see the driver take his eyes off the road in order to watch what his fingers are doing.
Most of us practice head shots for hours at a time.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong?:)
As I replied to a similar comment below.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
I have my 9mm and AR-15 handy, they will be risking their lives if they try to break into my home whil I am there.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
Last week a guy in Oklahoma shot a sheriff 4 times in (3 in the chest) when his house was raided (because police thought a bomb threat had been called in from his house). Fortunately for the Sheriff he was wearing a bullet proof vest and survived. The shooter was not charged, but you have to wonder what would have happened if the Sheriff had died.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong?:)
Apparently quite a lot if the rest of your education is as weak as your grasp of geopolitics and aristocracy. Sir David Omand and the GCHQ happen to reside on the other side of the pond.
Gaining covert physical access to a targets home/phone/computer is going to cost a lot more than just typing some commands into a terminal window. That would mean that ubiquitous surveillance goes out the window, and thus less collateral surveillance.
In addition it would also mean that covert physical seals could be better used to detect if your privacy has been invaded (Has the dust bunny on the back of my computer moved?), which is actually a step forward compared with electronic invasions.
I can't see anything wrong with all that (unless of course you take Omand's point of view that you have to watch all of your populace all of the time)
Atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1% that of Earth. How're you going to get any lift?
Gee I dunno.. why not watch TFV and see what the experts say. You know.. the video where they talk about needed to spin the blades at 2400 rpm, and shows the drone mockups being tested in a chamber that they pump down to Mars conditions.
Why good things are always acquired by douchebag companies and ruined to the ground? First Java, now this.
Shouldn't you also direct your ire at the people from R who decide that selling the company was a good idea. Do you really think that MS went to them and said
That's a nice company you have there. It'd be a shame if you didn't sell it to us
I'm not sure that WhatsApp has a leg to stand on as reverse engineering is allowed, and could be opening themselves up to legal action. What I do find amusing is this classic FUD argument:
Why am I banned for using WhatsApp Plus and how do I get unbanned?
WhatsApp Plus is an application that was not developed by WhatsApp, nor is it authorized by WhatsApp. The developers of WhatsApp Plus have no relationship to WhatsApp, and we do not support WhatsApp Plus. Please be aware that WhatsApp Plus contains source code which WhatsApp cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
I drive about 150mi per week on highways, not freeways, and watch as dozens and dozens of people text. They're easy to spot.
2 weeks ago I followed a local cop for several miles and counted 7 times that he made lane changes and merged onto and off the freeway without using his indicators. He was also slowly weaving from side to side to just outside the left and right sides of his lane. All classic symptoms of distracted driving. This cop suffered no penalty, yet I bet if the cop was following me and I exhibited the same behavior then I would have been pulled over (assuming of course that the cop would actually have been paying attention)
simply were not aware of imminent danger like a big fuckoff lump of iron in front of them... BAM! 70+mph right up some poor bastard's arse.
Last week there was an accident in Virginia where a minivan ran off the freeway. Several firetrucks attended the scene, and camped out in the lane next to where the car ran off the road. Some idiot managed to run himself into the back of one of the firetrucks at speed and kill himself. I still can't understand how you can't see the lights of a firetruck in the middle of the lane you are driving in, and not think to slow down or change lanes. And with this accident occurring on a freeway, its not as if the previous accident scene was hidden around a bend.
For bonus points, all 6 people in the minivan were wearing seat belts, and all survived with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the car that ran into the firetruck was not wearing a seatbelt - and died. (of course a seatbelt won't help you if you run into a fixed object at high speed)
If the safety feature enables the brakes when a crash is 'imminent', it takes away the driver's discretion during the times braking is not advisable.
And if you look at the stats, about 1/3 of crashes are rear end accidents, and within that group a significant number of drivers didn't even attempt to apply the brakes. That last part was even in TFS!
Then he should have left the "women" part out of it.
Given that the case in question revolves around a guy supposedly manipulating women, I don't think it's unreasonable for the OP to frame the statement in terms of female victims. But I agree that abuse in general needs to be prevented.
And they could have stopped it immediately by blocking him on FB and/or just stopped the course they paid a whole $0 for.
In the whole history of people being psychologically manipulated and abused, they *all* could have stopped it simply by saying no, and walking away. Yet they don't. Kinda suggests that doing so is very difficult to do, and that there are things in play that you are not crediting.
But how exactly did he force them to do what they did *Over the internet*
If you read the full article, towards the end it talks about this particular woman having various emotion issues including abandonment. It would seem that the prof in question exploited theses weaknesses in order to groom the woman into sending the naked pics etc.
In addition the article talks about various victims being from cultures where speaking out is not the done thing.
So while no-one was physically compelled to send anything, it sure sounds as if they were psychologically compelled.
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Thus the importance of the second amendment.
I see your AR-15 and raise you an M-1 Tank
I would have been more worried if they had ditched the first 8 plans.
Anyway .. there is probably a modern day equivalent kicking around somewhere now.
I wish the industry would go back to knobs, dials, and buttons
I generally work in industrial automation and I can assure you that physical controls are still used in a lot of places as primary controls where direct and rapid operator intervention/control is required (EG cranes, steel mills). Only secondary controls get shuffled off onto graphical displays.
This morning I was also lamenting the loss of the analogue volume control from laptops. It used to be that you could dial the volume down before you booted, where as nowadays the volume is stuck at where you left it, until the system is running enough processes that you can use the digital controls to quite it down.
The last video in TFA is about the Ford's HMI testbed, which is used to try out different cockpit configurations. During that video they show the driver selecting something on the touch screen panel in the center console. During this event you can clearly see the driver take his eyes off the road in order to watch what his fingers are doing.
It is not relevant what we believe in. Relevant is the fact, that error might be fatal. FUD for everyone.
You are correct, what you think is not relevant at all. Especially with Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes
Most of us practice head shots for hours at a time.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong? :)
As I replied to a similar comment below.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
I have my 9mm and AR-15 handy, they will be risking their lives if they try to break into my home whil I am there.
Do you idiots seriously believe that if the government was going to target you for surveillance, and go to the length of breaking into your home in order to bug it, that they would do so while you were there????
Maybe Texas?
Last week a guy in Oklahoma shot a sheriff 4 times in (3 in the chest) when his house was raided (because police thought a bomb threat had been called in from his house). Fortunately for the Sheriff he was wearing a bullet proof vest and survived. The shooter was not charged, but you have to wonder what would have happened if the Sheriff had died.
People in the South tend to have guns within reach at all times; what could possibly go wrong? :)
Apparently quite a lot if the rest of your education is as weak as your grasp of geopolitics and aristocracy. Sir David Omand and the GCHQ happen to reside on the other side of the pond.
Gaining covert physical access to a targets home/phone/computer is going to cost a lot more than just typing some commands into a terminal window. That would mean that ubiquitous surveillance goes out the window, and thus less collateral surveillance.
In addition it would also mean that covert physical seals could be better used to detect if your privacy has been invaded (Has the dust bunny on the back of my computer moved?), which is actually a step forward compared with electronic invasions.
I can't see anything wrong with all that (unless of course you take Omand's point of view that you have to watch all of your populace all of the time)
Atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1% that of Earth. How're you going to get any lift?
Gee I dunno .. why not watch TFV and see what the experts say. You know .. the video where they talk about needed to spin the blades at 2400 rpm, and shows the drone mockups being tested in a chamber that they pump down to Mars conditions.
Why good things are always acquired by douchebag companies and ruined to the ground? First Java, now this.
Shouldn't you also direct your ire at the people from R who decide that selling the company was a good idea. Do you really think that MS went to them and said
That's a nice company you have there. It'd be a shame if you didn't sell it to us
WhatsApp issues 24 hour ban for WhatsApp Plus users
I'm not sure that WhatsApp has a leg to stand on as reverse engineering is allowed, and could be opening themselves up to legal action. What I do find amusing is this classic FUD argument:
Why am I banned for using WhatsApp Plus and how do I get unbanned?
WhatsApp Plus is an application that was not developed by WhatsApp, nor is it authorized by WhatsApp. The developers of WhatsApp Plus have no relationship to WhatsApp, and we do not support WhatsApp Plus. Please be aware that WhatsApp Plus contains source code which WhatsApp cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
On any version of windows.... but Linux always needs some voodoo and shit?
Because you never hear about the application specific voodoo that is in windows?
I drive about 150mi per week on highways, not freeways, and watch as dozens and dozens of people text. They're easy to spot.
2 weeks ago I followed a local cop for several miles and counted 7 times that he made lane changes and merged onto and off the freeway without using his indicators. He was also slowly weaving from side to side to just outside the left and right sides of his lane. All classic symptoms of distracted driving. This cop suffered no penalty, yet I bet if the cop was following me and I exhibited the same behavior then I would have been pulled over (assuming of course that the cop would actually have been paying attention)
simply were not aware of imminent danger like a big fuckoff lump of iron in front of them... BAM! 70+mph right up some poor bastard's arse.
Last week there was an accident in Virginia where a minivan ran off the freeway. Several firetrucks attended the scene, and camped out in the lane next to where the car ran off the road. Some idiot managed to run himself into the back of one of the firetrucks at speed and kill himself. I still can't understand how you can't see the lights of a firetruck in the middle of the lane you are driving in, and not think to slow down or change lanes. And with this accident occurring on a freeway, its not as if the previous accident scene was hidden around a bend.
For bonus points, all 6 people in the minivan were wearing seat belts, and all survived with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the car that ran into the firetruck was not wearing a seatbelt - and died. (of course a seatbelt won't help you if you run into a fixed object at high speed)
Police ID driver killed after crashing into Henrico fire truck
If the safety feature enables the brakes when a crash is 'imminent', it takes away the driver's discretion during the times braking is not advisable.
And if you look at the stats, about 1/3 of crashes are rear end accidents, and within that group a significant number of drivers didn't even attempt to apply the brakes. That last part was even in TFS!
You can't take away something that doesn't exist.
>groomed
stop using terms you don't understand. If you do understand it, stop using it where it is not applicable.
Please explain why you think I am wrong.
Yes, maybe in the real world, face to face interaction where you can't click block and they're gone.
And that comes across as a "True Scotsman" logical fallacy, by suggesting that psychological manipulation is erased by distance.
Then he should have left the "women" part out of it.
Given that the case in question revolves around a guy supposedly manipulating women, I don't think it's unreasonable for the OP to frame the statement in terms of female victims. But I agree that abuse in general needs to be prevented.
Or do you have to asssume each time you engage a conversation with someone he/she is not responsible for what he/she says?
There is a big difference between having a conversation with someone that touches on things vs actively seeking out and exploiting those things.
Lewin was an idiot and was framed.
Lewin was an idiot, but if he actively groomed these victims, then he was not framed.
And they could have stopped it immediately by blocking him on FB and/or just stopped the course they paid a whole $0 for.
In the whole history of people being psychologically manipulated and abused, they *all* could have stopped it simply by saying no, and walking away. Yet they don't. Kinda suggests that doing so is very difficult to do, and that there are things in play that you are not crediting.
So what you're saying is women are weaker and more manipulable than men?
What he is saying is that people with psychological issues are more vulnerable to manipulation that those without them.
But how exactly did he force them to do what they did *Over the internet*
If you read the full article, towards the end it talks about this particular woman having various emotion issues including abandonment. It would seem that the prof in question exploited theses weaknesses in order to groom the woman into sending the naked pics etc.
In addition the article talks about various victims being from cultures where speaking out is not the done thing.
So while no-one was physically compelled to send anything, it sure sounds as if they were psychologically compelled.
[*] Sorry if you got Macgyver theme song running in your head.
After SNL, I always think about McGruber now.