That was a problem, it did not adequately represent the proportion of relevant pornography on the internet for any given search term. Porn should have easily been in the top 3, if not #1.
447 crimes divided by 960,000,000 classified ads per year is 0.000047%. If only one out of every thousand classified ads results got a response, that's still only 0.047% annually, which is lower than the crime rate pretty much everywhere in the world - and the success rate for classified ads is way better than 1 in 1,000.
The only thing you can really conclude from this 'study' is that Craigslist transaction are safer than walking to the store.
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist by disposition, but doesn't "these last 4 digits were not entered into our records and will be safely discarded," sound like a contradiction? (How can they delete something that is not in their records?)
It's not a contradiction to anyone who can understand the word "discarded" in relation to paper forms does not mean deletion of a file on a computer.
Also, this article was written 4 days AFTER Google had already changed the form to not have the SSN. This is even mentioned in the article body.
Yeah, I know it's on Huffington, but that crap doesn't qualify as a news article. Calling it a blog is doing it a favor, calling it a lunatic rant about a problem that's already taken care of would be more accurate.
Read the article - the site was up for a while before being blocked. If your firewall has a whitelist that allows anything to be there for days before blocking it and asking if it should be allowed, you need a new firewall.
Nothing I wrote involves trusting the girl. I trust the guys actions based on the order events unfolded as listed in the article.
If he didn't rape her, why did he post the assassination offer, even if it wasn't serious, BEFORE the girl went to the police? If he didn't rape her, why would he accept a plea bargain for nearly the full prison term for rape in Pennsylvania? (Life sentence for rape in PA is only for specific cases like those involving kids under 12.)
And why the hell would you want to put people like me in jail for pointing this out?
at least I am _certain_ not to make an error
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Except that is not the order of events. The correct order is: Girl gets drunk. Guy rapes girl. Guy offers money to have her knocked off of Facebook. Girl goes to police for rape after finding out about the post from the rapist wanting her killed. Police visit guy. Guy reiterates assasination offer. Police arrest guy.
The guy posted the $500 to kill before the girl went to the police about the rape. He knew he had raped her and was probably going to be arrested, tried and convicted - that's why he posted the offer BEFORE the police knew about the rape.
How the hell did the OP get modded insightful? It's not even valid.
You know, I didn't really look at what I wrote again, but how did this get a +5 insightful mod when it's main complaint is wrong.
Two of my examples could get by with suspend/resume, and the third wouldn't be as useful if it did. Taking a picture while on a call cannot use suspend/resume, and installing apps while browsing the internet needs two concurrent programs. Also, suspend/resume wouldn't keep the GPS up to date when I went to a website from Google maps. It also wouldn't let me start the web page loading/downloading (.pdf menu, for example,) and go back to the map while it does. It could get by with suspend/resume, but it would suck.
Circumstances are common for those that can do real multitasking on their phone. 3 of the 4 examples I gave need 2 programs to run at the same time the way I use them, a far cry from the none you claim.
Sorry if my quickly assembled list had something that wasn't actual multitasking. But the quickly assembled reply is just plain wrong.
"If a hottie with pipes like this going unsigned for 10 years doesn't convince you that piracy is killing the industry, nothing will. "
WTF? That is a HUGE irrational logical jump there.
There are hundreds of possible reasons she hasn't been signed, none of which are 'piracy is killing the industry." She could be a complete bitch and pissed off the wrong people. She could be completely unrealistic about a deal. Hot and talented singers are not that rare, I know quite a few - that's not all it takes. There are some that still can't draw a crowd. Maybe her songwriting sucks. There's way too many probable and possible reasons that she isn't signed to jump to the near impossible conclusion that piracy is to blame for her not being signed. If piracy caused record labels to cut the number of people signed in half, that only would have dropped her chance of being signed by a major label from 0.00002% to 0.00001%.
No offense to your friend, but if Gene Simmons and "industry-leading agents and label reps" said all that and she still didn't get signed, they were just being nice. If they really thought that, there would have been no need to post this, she would have had a deal already.
The drop in production costs means there is more music available from more bands than ever before, and nearly all of I can get right now without leaving my couch. The music industry is better than it has ever been in history. It's just the huge record labels that are fucked.
The last example I gave does require two programs to run at the same time.
Web pages loading while I do something else is also convenient. I do that nearly everyday.
My whole point in the list was not to enumerate every reason, but that multitasking is useful on a phone, and should have been in all smartphones for years now, but was ignored. There's probably another 20 or so ways I use multitasking on the phone, I just went with the first few I thought of.
Multi-tasking is something I use nearly daily, and wouldn't go back to a single task phone.
Off the top of my head, here's a few things I use multitasking for. This is far from an exhaustive list, just the first bunch of things I could think of.
Looking for a business on Google maps and checking their website. Taking a quick picture while doing anything else. Games pause and minimize when I get a phone call, text or have to/want to do anything else. Browsing the web or playing a game while waiting for apps to download and install.
Am I the only one that's really surprised that multitasking wasn't already a feature? I thought it was weird when they announced it for the iPhone 4 like it was some huge breakthrough. Symbian might be a piece of crap as a smartphone OS, but, damn, they've had multitasking for 10 years now. It's not a hardware issue. How did this get ignored for so long in iOS and Windows phone?
"App" has a long way to go to beat "screen saver" for most abused tech word. Screen saver also wins in that it now commonly means the thing it was originally created to counteract - Static images which would burn in on CRT monitors. This is like the term "AIDS Vaccine" commonly being used to describe the HIV virus.
After using the latest apple computers for two weeks, I have to say they have the worst mouse and trackpad on the market. It desperately nees a second button. All of their shortcuts and methods for simulating it are horrible. Everybody I have ever seen use a mac for more than 20 minutes has fumbled over a right click - even the 'expert' users who've had nothing but Macs for years (although they will argue stridently that they didn't do what you just watched them do). To my knowledge, I have never seen anyone miss an actual right mouse button. There are currently no acceptable substitutes to an actual button, magic mouse included. Why they've perpetuated this particular bit of idiocy for at least 15 years since everyone has known it's needed is beyond me. Their trackpad has the absolute worst feeling texture. It makes the skin on my back crawl to drag my finger across that surface. I don't know what it is, but I really would be happier if I never encountered that substance again. I'm probably in the minority here, but it's revolting to me. Also, the click wiggle on the trackpad is infuriating. No matter how carefully I try to click, the mouse pointer moves slightly just before the actual click, since you press the entire pad down. I,fortunately, wasn't doing anything that needed precision with the pointer, but if I were I couldn't do it with a iBook/Macbook. Until they get actual buttons, I will be much happier never using a Mac again. And I really, really wanted to get one until I used them.
Your choices are: 1. Vote - This has a extremely small chance of changing the major problems, and a slightly larger, but still minute, chance of changing a minor problem or two. 2. Don't Vote - This has no possible chance of ever changing anything.
It's not a protest if you don't vote. It does absolutely nothing and doesn't even have a theoretical chance of making any positive difference. It will only accelerate the transition to outright plutocracy. The politicians would love it if there was an extremely low turnout, less campaign funds spent means more in their pocket and, hell, maybe even a reason to give corporations a vote. It won't cause a revolution.
Ask Al Gore or Al Franken if people not voting matters. They certainly did in Florida in 2000 and Minnesota in 2006.
New York Times requires you to register to read some of their articles, the second link is to a logged in account version of the article. If they didn't change the URL, those without accounts would see login screens on some articles. This article is NOT one of the ones you need to be logged in to view, however, it's probably a script that changes every link to a NY Times article when it's submitted.
Check the new URL, it starts "http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?..."
When picking out a location for your secret base for world domination, use a regular volcano, NOT a skull shaped one. It's much easier to get away with it.
In a related story: James Bond shot dead on first day of new assignment.
It depends on your definition of smarter - Smarter in what? The backhoe operator probably makes more money than the university professor and probably doesn't have a 6 digit student loan to pay off, so who's smarter with money? If you needed to build a house or fix a car, which one is more likely to be able to help you? How would a degree in astrophysics help you govern anything other than NASA's, DARPA's and the NSF's budgets?
You don't know that the backhoe operator isn't smarter than the professor, and calculated that spending 6 years accruing debt for an average salary job wasn't worth it. The backhoe operator could even have a PHD and simply wanted a better lifestyle for his kids and took the higher paying job. He could be a moron, or he could be a genius. Ditto the university professor, I've met some that no one would want governing anything and whose opinion on politics were bordering on insane.
When I was a programmer, I took non-language-specific programming tests twice, and was in the top 5% both times, without a degree. I'm a welder now by choice. I'd like to think my opinion matters at least as much as someone who barely scraped by at a third rate school and got a PHD in art history.
What you are suggesting would actually be a nightmare. Who gets to pick the "smart people"?
That is just a completely wrong statement, NOx and CO emissions are much larger problems than CO2. The CO and NOx can kill you directly. You take care of the actual poisons first, which is what they've done. Causing acid rain and direct respiratory damage are way worse than contributing to global warming.
If I believe it on sight, then read it, I need to disbelieve half of it, and both believe and not believe the other half.
I can handle the quantum state of belief, I just need to know which half to ignore so I don't accidentally observe it and ruin the advice. I'm leaning towards "ou hear or read, and only half of what you see."
Now if someone would just read it aloud to me so I could hear it, I'd only need to believe half of it half as much as I don't believe it.
Good advice, but there's too much math and physics for the average person.
Now we'll have to actually read the posts to find out it's written by an idiot instead of just skipping them as soon as you see it's in all caps.
The windows keys need to be the first to go, I've pulled them off of every keyboard I've had since they came out. If I had to work at someone else's desktop keyboard for more than 10 minutes, I'd pull it off because I would have already hit it 2-3 times.
Putting a key on the keyboard that literally stops it from working (oh, were you typing? Because now you're opening whatever program the next few keystrokes brings up) is just idiotic, putting it right next to a shift key instead of in the furthest corner of the board is, well, I don't think there's a word for that stupid. I don't personally know anyone who has ever hit the windows key intentionally.
At least my laptop has it in the top right corner next to the even more useless Pause/Break key, which didn't even work that often in DOS. Might as well ship every system with a 5 1/4" floppy drive, they're about as useful.
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That was a problem, it did not adequately represent the proportion of relevant pornography on the internet for any given search term. Porn should have easily been in the top 3, if not #1.
447 crimes divided by 960,000,000 classified ads per year is 0.000047%. If only one out of every thousand classified ads results got a response, that's still only 0.047% annually, which is lower than the crime rate pretty much everywhere in the world - and the success rate for classified ads is way better than 1 in 1,000.
The only thing you can really conclude from this 'study' is that Craigslist transaction are safer than walking to the store.
It's not a contradiction to anyone who can understand the word "discarded" in relation to paper forms does not mean deletion of a file on a computer.
Also, this article was written 4 days AFTER Google had already changed the form to not have the SSN. This is even mentioned in the article body.
Yeah, I know it's on Huffington, but that crap doesn't qualify as a news article. Calling it a blog is doing it a favor, calling it a lunatic rant about a problem that's already taken care of would be more accurate.
Read the article - the site was up for a while before being blocked. If your firewall has a whitelist that allows anything to be there for days before blocking it and asking if it should be allowed, you need a new firewall.
Yes, it covers both major branches of science: war and religion.
Nothing I wrote involves trusting the girl.
I trust the guys actions based on the order events unfolded as listed in the article.
If he didn't rape her, why did he post the assassination offer, even if it wasn't serious, BEFORE the girl went to the police?
If he didn't rape her, why would he accept a plea bargain for nearly the full prison term for rape in Pennsylvania? (Life sentence for rape in PA is only for specific cases like those involving kids under 12.)
And why the hell would you want to put people like me in jail for pointing this out?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Except that is not the order of events. The correct order is:
Girl gets drunk.
Guy rapes girl.
Guy offers money to have her knocked off of Facebook.
Girl goes to police for rape after finding out about the post from the rapist wanting her killed.
Police visit guy.
Guy reiterates assasination offer.
Police arrest guy.
The guy posted the $500 to kill before the girl went to the police about the rape. He knew he had raped her and was probably going to be arrested, tried and convicted - that's why he posted the offer BEFORE the police knew about the rape.
How the hell did the OP get modded insightful? It's not even valid.
You know, I didn't really look at what I wrote again, but how did this get a +5 insightful mod when it's main complaint is wrong.
Two of my examples could get by with suspend/resume, and the third wouldn't be as useful if it did. Taking a picture while on a call cannot use suspend/resume, and installing apps while browsing the internet needs two concurrent programs. Also, suspend/resume wouldn't keep the GPS up to date when I went to a website from Google maps. It also wouldn't let me start the web page loading/downloading (.pdf menu, for example,) and go back to the map while it does. It could get by with suspend/resume, but it would suck.
Circumstances are common for those that can do real multitasking on their phone. 3 of the 4 examples I gave need 2 programs to run at the same time the way I use them, a far cry from the none you claim.
Sorry if my quickly assembled list had something that wasn't actual multitasking. But the quickly assembled reply is just plain wrong.
WTF? That is a HUGE irrational logical jump there.
There are hundreds of possible reasons she hasn't been signed, none of which are 'piracy is killing the industry." She could be a complete bitch and pissed off the wrong people. She could be completely unrealistic about a deal. Hot and talented singers are not that rare, I know quite a few - that's not all it takes. There are some that still can't draw a crowd. Maybe her songwriting sucks. There's way too many probable and possible reasons that she isn't signed to jump to the near impossible conclusion that piracy is to blame for her not being signed. If piracy caused record labels to cut the number of people signed in half, that only would have dropped her chance of being signed by a major label from 0.00002% to 0.00001%.
No offense to your friend, but if Gene Simmons and "industry-leading agents and label reps" said all that and she still didn't get signed, they were just being nice. If they really thought that, there would have been no need to post this, she would have had a deal already.
The drop in production costs means there is more music available from more bands than ever before, and nearly all of I can get right now without leaving my couch. The music industry is better than it has ever been in history. It's just the huge record labels that are fucked.
The last example I gave does require two programs to run at the same time.
Web pages loading while I do something else is also convenient. I do that nearly everyday.
My whole point in the list was not to enumerate every reason, but that multitasking is useful on a phone, and should have been in all smartphones for years now, but was ignored. There's probably another 20 or so ways I use multitasking on the phone, I just went with the first few I thought of.
Multi-tasking is something I use nearly daily, and wouldn't go back to a single task phone.
Off the top of my head, here's a few things I use multitasking for. This is far from an exhaustive list, just the first bunch of things I could think of.
Looking for a business on Google maps and checking their website.
Taking a quick picture while doing anything else.
Games pause and minimize when I get a phone call, text or have to/want to do anything else.
Browsing the web or playing a game while waiting for apps to download and install.
Am I the only one that's really surprised that multitasking wasn't already a feature? I thought it was weird when they announced it for the iPhone 4 like it was some huge breakthrough. Symbian might be a piece of crap as a smartphone OS, but, damn, they've had multitasking for 10 years now. It's not a hardware issue. How did this get ignored for so long in iOS and Windows phone?
Yeah, Apple doesn't need the NFL for anything. They explained this clearly in last year's iPad commercial during the Super Bowl.
"App" has a long way to go to beat "screen saver" for most abused tech word. Screen saver also wins in that it now commonly means the thing it was originally created to counteract - Static images which would burn in on CRT monitors.
This is like the term "AIDS Vaccine" commonly being used to describe the HIV virus.
After using the latest apple computers for two weeks, I have to say they have the worst mouse and trackpad on the market.
It desperately nees a second button. All of their shortcuts and methods for simulating it are horrible. Everybody I have ever seen use a mac for more than 20 minutes has fumbled over a right click - even the 'expert' users who've had nothing but Macs for years (although they will argue stridently that they didn't do what you just watched them do). To my knowledge, I have never seen anyone miss an actual right mouse button. There are currently no acceptable substitutes to an actual button, magic mouse included. Why they've perpetuated this particular bit of idiocy for at least 15 years since everyone has known it's needed is beyond me.
Their trackpad has the absolute worst feeling texture. It makes the skin on my back crawl to drag my finger across that surface. I don't know what it is, but I really would be happier if I never encountered that substance again. I'm probably in the minority here, but it's revolting to me.
Also, the click wiggle on the trackpad is infuriating. No matter how carefully I try to click, the mouse pointer moves slightly just before the actual click, since you press the entire pad down. I,fortunately, wasn't doing anything that needed precision with the pointer, but if I were I couldn't do it with a iBook/Macbook.
Until they get actual buttons, I will be much happier never using a Mac again. And I really, really wanted to get one until I used them.
Your choices are:
1. Vote - This has a extremely small chance of changing the major problems, and a slightly larger, but still minute, chance of changing a minor problem or two.
2. Don't Vote - This has no possible chance of ever changing anything.
It's not a protest if you don't vote. It does absolutely nothing and doesn't even have a theoretical chance of making any positive difference. It will only accelerate the transition to outright plutocracy. The politicians would love it if there was an extremely low turnout, less campaign funds spent means more in their pocket and, hell, maybe even a reason to give corporations a vote. It won't cause a revolution.
Ask Al Gore or Al Franken if people not voting matters. They certainly did in Florida in 2000 and Minnesota in 2006.
New York Times requires you to register to read some of their articles, the second link is to a logged in account version of the article. If they didn't change the URL, those without accounts would see login screens on some articles. This article is NOT one of the ones you need to be logged in to view, however, it's probably a script that changes every link to a NY Times article when it's submitted.
Check the new URL, it starts "http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?..."
Great advice for all the other supervillains:
When picking out a location for your secret base for world domination, use a regular volcano, NOT a skull shaped one. It's much easier to get away with it.
In a related story:
James Bond shot dead on first day of new assignment.
It depends on your definition of smarter - Smarter in what? The backhoe operator probably makes more money than the university professor and probably doesn't have a 6 digit student loan to pay off, so who's smarter with money? If you needed to build a house or fix a car, which one is more likely to be able to help you? How would a degree in astrophysics help you govern anything other than NASA's, DARPA's and the NSF's budgets?
You don't know that the backhoe operator isn't smarter than the professor, and calculated that spending 6 years accruing debt for an average salary job wasn't worth it. The backhoe operator could even have a PHD and simply wanted a better lifestyle for his kids and took the higher paying job. He could be a moron, or he could be a genius. Ditto the university professor, I've met some that no one would want governing anything and whose opinion on politics were bordering on insane.
When I was a programmer, I took non-language-specific programming tests twice, and was in the top 5% both times, without a degree. I'm a welder now by choice. I'd like to think my opinion matters at least as much as someone who barely scraped by at a third rate school and got a PHD in art history.
What you are suggesting would actually be a nightmare. Who gets to pick the "smart people"?
Bing, more popular than Google for 200 years:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=google%2Cbing&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
That is just a completely wrong statement, NOx and CO emissions are much larger problems than CO2. The CO and NOx can kill you directly. You take care of the actual poisons first, which is what they've done. Causing acid rain and direct respiratory damage are way worse than contributing to global warming.
If I believe it on sight, then read it, I need to disbelieve half of it, and both believe and not believe the other half.
I can handle the quantum state of belief, I just need to know which half to ignore so I don't accidentally observe it and ruin the advice. I'm leaning towards "ou hear or read, and only half of what you see."
Now if someone would just read it aloud to me so I could hear it, I'd only need to believe half of it half as much as I don't believe it.
Good advice, but there's too much math and physics for the average person.
"Scantily clad" was definitely the wrong term. "Nude" would have been correct, although they do hide their pubic regions.
Now we'll have to actually read the posts to find out it's written by an idiot instead of just skipping them as soon as you see it's in all caps.
The windows keys need to be the first to go, I've pulled them off of every keyboard I've had since they came out. If I had to work at someone else's desktop keyboard for more than 10 minutes, I'd pull it off because I would have already hit it 2-3 times.
Putting a key on the keyboard that literally stops it from working (oh, were you typing? Because now you're opening whatever program the next few keystrokes brings up) is just idiotic, putting it right next to a shift key instead of in the furthest corner of the board is, well, I don't think there's a word for that stupid. I don't personally know anyone who has ever hit the windows key intentionally.
At least my laptop has it in the top right corner next to the even more useless Pause/Break key, which didn't even work that often in DOS. Might as well ship every system with a 5 1/4" floppy drive, they're about as useful.
Except if you actually read the Playboy app description, it says this at the bottom:
"*This app does NOT contain any nude content."