Count yourself lucky. I've lost my bookmarks file several times -- and when FF goes down, it blanks the handy file on disk, too. I've scheduled a little script to copy my bookmarks elsewhere each night because of this. It has also happened to my wife twice, and a couple of friends several times. It hasn't happened to me lately, so maybe they fixed it, but it is (or was?) a real issue.
So, the entire census is conducted at exactly the same second?
Playing the Devil's Advocate here -- You don't have to conduct it in the present. Today is May 25th. So you decide we'll use data from May 23rd (at some particular time specified down to the second, if you care), and you work out the numbers for that point in time. Granted it isn't practical, but it also isn't impossible.
I've talked to people who've done quite well on sales through iTunes -- the $0.15 per track estimate is about right, in the instances I've confirmed. It's actually much higher than that for many indie artists (whose labels tend to pay them more), and unsigned artists who use CDBaby make much more.
Who? I mean if they're selling tracks on iTunes or CDBaby, their identity is hardly a giant secret, right?
There were a number of reasons for going in to Iraq, and they were complex. However, "fighting them over there" is not one of those reasons.
Were you just spamming for some +1 mods from people who either agree with you or disagree with me, or are we supposed to just take your word for it that you have a Secret Line to the Truth, or what?
He's not surrendering anything. Nobody has asked for or cares about a complete record of his life. I'm a very strong privacy advocate, and his wrongful accusation pisses me off, but this latest stunt is nothing more than throwing a public temper tantrum using the resources of an adult.
But the internet and electronic money, and other technology (black boxes in cars, debit cards, cell phones, RFID, etc) benefits are going to outweigh any concern of privacy, we're moving towards a completely scientific society and as such at some point privacy will have to go the way of the dodo.
I assume by "scientific society" you mean "technological society."
Based on what I'm seeing, quite the opposite is true. The further back into the past you go, the less people had to worry about in terms of privacy. Your typical Dark Ages peasant had virtually nothing to hide, but today I wouldn't tell a complete stranger where I bank until I knew why they asked, even though that simple piece of information isn't likely to be useful to them on it's own. I have all sorts of personal details which I believe need to be kept private.
Furthermore it would seem the public is actually somewhat aware of this. Twenty years ago, you would be pretty surprised to pick up a newspaper and see a discussion of privacy concerns, but now you can hardly watch 30 minutes of Headline News without hearing it mentioned. Even the relatively non-technologically-literate among us are at least aware of concepts like identity theft which for all practical purposes didn't even exist as a major problem 15 or 20 years ago.
Privacy is MORE important and will receive greater focus in an increasingly technological society.
Son of a bitch. Slashdot is the most primitive piece of shit discussion forum on the 'net.
For the record, that sentence in the middle should have read as follows:
Would you feel comfortable if the [insert name of local religious fanatics] were able to cast a critical eye on your every activity?...except that I made the egregious error of using less-than and greater-than as brackets. (And yes, I DO have "plain old text" selected.) Technology site my ass.
It's only important when people have a legitimate fear of their government.
Spoken like someone who has never been stalked by a girlfriend's psycho ex-husband. Do they have junk mail, spam, or telemarketing in your country? Would you feel comfortable if the were able to cast a critical eye on your every activity? Is it fine if the prude at your local bank notices a lot of credit card charges to hotdonkeyporn.com and decides your wife needs to know?
Sure none of these are exciting government-changing revolutionary scenarios, but they're all very real privacy issues. The only thing worse than denying that privacy is real is accepting that it's real but denying that it has any importance.
There isn't anything complex about the war in Iraq and it certainly isn't empire-building. Quite simply the strategy is to ensure we fight militant Islamics somewhere other than in our own country. Or rather, that has become the strategy. I'm one of those people you very likely hate in that I do believe the original impetus was to deny WMDs to militant Islamic terrorists.
If Bush was as hell-bent on empire building as you imagine, there are far more effective ways to go about it. Israel is pretty much the 51st state, and they have no qualms about going ape-shit on everybody around them using all our latest weaponry. It wouldn't have taken much at all to arrange things so that they'd do our empire-building for us in the region, had that been the goal. That is one simple, obvious example among many options.
Feeding the audio through the screen (even when you want to send it to a separate amplifier) has the advantage that the audio can be delayed by the same amount, so it is kept lip-sync.
Even relatively cheap amps have user-configurable delay capability these days.
It would have been nice to see HDMI evolve along with component as the high-end, easier hook-up alternative
Except that HDMI isn't even that. Component can produce an equally good picture. The digital interface isn't buying you anything except significant limitations on cable length and the world's least-graceful signal degradation. Like most people I usually assume digital is better, but this is one case where that isn't true.
In larger companies, HR does the interviewing, and they don't have the slightest idea about what constitutes a useful interview. On top of that, we typically get Random Indian #73 rammed down our throats by management via some vague, mostly unconstrained contractual agreement with Tata or some other lowest-bidder rent-a-coder offshore operation.
They currently make the big bucks by withholding content, not making it always available. They want people to be deprived of something for so long that, when they finally do release it, they can whip everyone up into a frenzy about it.
I thought this was called "The Star Wars Business Model"...
It seems likely your "education" comes from the comments of one Congressman Tancredo, or worse yet, the quotes cherry-picked in articles like those run in USA Today. In point of fact, it is neither a criminal nor a civil matter. Immigration violations hold a special separate status. Civil matters are brought by individuals against one another for monetary or injunctive relief. Immigration violations are prosecuted by the Federal Government via the DOJ's special Immigration Court system. Illegal aliens face neither monetary nor injunctive penalties, only deportation.
Please educate yourself on matters that you wish to discuss.
First you install a trojan. Then the trojan uses a background FTP process (which is also used by Windows Update) to download additional malware -- but your machine is already compromised at that point.
Excellent point. I feel certain the person to whom I replied didn't have any such distinctions in mind. The term "illegal alien" is being slowly but surely eradicated as part of the discussion of problems related to the phenomenon. Also, the scenario you describe undoubtedly plays a very minor role in the overall problem of undocumented workers and illegal aliens. However, I absolutely must concede that you are correct.
Now that you mention it, you're not alone. Our government at all levels spends a great deal of our money providing various kinds of welfare (healthcare, child support, etc) to illegal aliens and their children. It's out of control.
There'd be fewer illegal aliens if the US would just let the people work here legally.
It isn't HARD to come here legally. But you do have to pay taxes and do other things that make working here less compelling -- and for the rest of us, it sucks to face a job market where you're competing with somebody that can accept lower wages simply because they're not paying taxes, social security, insurance, and all those other things the rest of us have no choice but to pay.
so you can demand far harsher conditions of work from them than any American (outside of undocumented workers) would take
There is no such thing as an "undocumented worker." We already have a phrase for that, and it's "illegal alien." These people are, by definition, not Americans. They are breaking the law, and as such, deserve capture, deportation, and probably they deserve some form of punishment to discourage future criminal activity. I have many friends and colleagues who are foreign-born or foreign-nationals who are here legally, and they endure a certain degree of expense and trouble to maintain their legal status because the benefits are worthwhile. Illegal aliens do not deserve your respect, protection or support. The mechanisms to permit a legal presence are easy to understand and readily available. There is no excuse.
To one degree or another, I agree with almost everything else you have posted. H1B has essentially destroyed an entire job market.
Usability may not be equivalent to aesthetics, but there is a relationship. Slashdot is hardly the best looking site on the Web, but it's very usable without being dog-ass ugly.
Had you said "useit.com != aesthetics" then you'd be on to something...
The lbs/kg comments aside, you do make a good point. Why is the 30 minute rule so important? Clearly some time constraint is reasonable, but with the very low power requirement, it seems reasonable that they could ease up the time restriction a little and greatly increase their chances of success.
Could it be related to the amount of soil they expect to need over a given timeframe to generate adequate oxygen or other resources for consumption or usage by humans?
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The tech name is flexible OLED.
Great. Folded FOLED. We'll *never* typo that one.
Count yourself lucky. I've lost my bookmarks file several times -- and when FF goes down, it blanks the handy file on disk, too. I've scheduled a little script to copy my bookmarks elsewhere each night because of this. It has also happened to my wife twice, and a couple of friends several times. It hasn't happened to me lately, so maybe they fixed it, but it is (or was?) a real issue.
So, the entire census is conducted at exactly the same second?
Playing the Devil's Advocate here -- You don't have to conduct it in the present. Today is May 25th. So you decide we'll use data from May 23rd (at some particular time specified down to the second, if you care), and you work out the numbers for that point in time. Granted it isn't practical, but it also isn't impossible.
I've talked to people who've done quite well on sales through iTunes -- the $0.15 per track estimate is about right, in the instances I've confirmed. It's actually much higher than that for many indie artists (whose labels tend to pay them more), and unsigned artists who use CDBaby make much more.
Who? I mean if they're selling tracks on iTunes or CDBaby, their identity is hardly a giant secret, right?
There were a number of reasons for going in to Iraq, and they were complex. However, "fighting them over there" is not one of those reasons.
Were you just spamming for some +1 mods from people who either agree with you or disagree with me, or are we supposed to just take your word for it that you have a Secret Line to the Truth, or what?
He's not surrendering anything. Nobody has asked for or cares about a complete record of his life. I'm a very strong privacy advocate, and his wrongful accusation pisses me off, but this latest stunt is nothing more than throwing a public temper tantrum using the resources of an adult.
But the internet and electronic money, and other technology (black boxes in cars, debit cards, cell phones, RFID, etc) benefits are going to outweigh any concern of privacy, we're moving towards a completely scientific society and as such at some point privacy will have to go the way of the dodo.
I assume by "scientific society" you mean "technological society."
Based on what I'm seeing, quite the opposite is true. The further back into the past you go, the less people had to worry about in terms of privacy. Your typical Dark Ages peasant had virtually nothing to hide, but today I wouldn't tell a complete stranger where I bank until I knew why they asked, even though that simple piece of information isn't likely to be useful to them on it's own. I have all sorts of personal details which I believe need to be kept private.
Furthermore it would seem the public is actually somewhat aware of this. Twenty years ago, you would be pretty surprised to pick up a newspaper and see a discussion of privacy concerns, but now you can hardly watch 30 minutes of Headline News without hearing it mentioned. Even the relatively non-technologically-literate among us are at least aware of concepts like identity theft which for all practical purposes didn't even exist as a major problem 15 or 20 years ago.
Privacy is MORE important and will receive greater focus in an increasingly technological society.
Son of a bitch. Slashdot is the most primitive piece of shit discussion forum on the 'net.
...except that I made the egregious error of using less-than and greater-than as brackets. (And yes, I DO have "plain old text" selected.) Technology site my ass.
For the record, that sentence in the middle should have read as follows:
Would you feel comfortable if the [insert name of local religious fanatics] were able to cast a critical eye on your every activity?
It's only important when people have a legitimate fear of their government.
Spoken like someone who has never been stalked by a girlfriend's psycho ex-husband. Do they have junk mail, spam, or telemarketing in your country? Would you feel comfortable if the were able to cast a critical eye on your every activity? Is it fine if the prude at your local bank notices a lot of credit card charges to hotdonkeyporn.com and decides your wife needs to know?
Sure none of these are exciting government-changing revolutionary scenarios, but they're all very real privacy issues. The only thing worse than denying that privacy is real is accepting that it's real but denying that it has any importance.
There isn't anything complex about the war in Iraq and it certainly isn't empire-building. Quite simply the strategy is to ensure we fight militant Islamics somewhere other than in our own country. Or rather, that has become the strategy. I'm one of those people you very likely hate in that I do believe the original impetus was to deny WMDs to militant Islamic terrorists.
If Bush was as hell-bent on empire building as you imagine, there are far more effective ways to go about it. Israel is pretty much the 51st state, and they have no qualms about going ape-shit on everybody around them using all our latest weaponry. It wouldn't have taken much at all to arrange things so that they'd do our empire-building for us in the region, had that been the goal. That is one simple, obvious example among many options.
Feeding the audio through the screen (even when you want to send it to a separate amplifier) has the advantage that the audio can be delayed by the same amount, so it is kept lip-sync.
Even relatively cheap amps have user-configurable delay capability these days.
It would have been nice to see HDMI evolve along with component as the high-end, easier hook-up alternative
Except that HDMI isn't even that. Component can produce an equally good picture. The digital interface isn't buying you anything except significant limitations on cable length and the world's least-graceful signal degradation. Like most people I usually assume digital is better, but this is one case where that isn't true.
In larger companies, HR does the interviewing, and they don't have the slightest idea about what constitutes a useful interview. On top of that, we typically get Random Indian #73 rammed down our throats by management via some vague, mostly unconstrained contractual agreement with Tata or some other lowest-bidder rent-a-coder offshore operation.
And yet the entire western world is pissing away local talent in a rush to hire people in and from that environment. Lovely.
They currently make the big bucks by withholding content, not making it always available. They want people to be deprived of something for so long that, when they finally do release it, they can whip everyone up into a frenzy about it.
I thought this was called "The Star Wars Business Model"...
It seems likely your "education" comes from the comments of one Congressman Tancredo, or worse yet, the quotes cherry-picked in articles like those run in USA Today. In point of fact, it is neither a criminal nor a civil matter. Immigration violations hold a special separate status. Civil matters are brought by individuals against one another for monetary or injunctive relief. Immigration violations are prosecuted by the Federal Government via the DOJ's special Immigration Court system. Illegal aliens face neither monetary nor injunctive penalties, only deportation.
Please educate yourself on matters that you wish to discuss.
RTFA, the summary is incorrect. It doesn't exploit Windows Update.
RTFA. It doesn't exploit Windows Update.
First you install a trojan. Then the trojan uses a background FTP process (which is also used by Windows Update) to download additional malware -- but your machine is already compromised at that point.
Excellent point. I feel certain the person to whom I replied didn't have any such distinctions in mind. The term "illegal alien" is being slowly but surely eradicated as part of the discussion of problems related to the phenomenon. Also, the scenario you describe undoubtedly plays a very minor role in the overall problem of undocumented workers and illegal aliens. However, I absolutely must concede that you are correct.
I have only stated facts.
It seems likely you don't know the meaning of the word "sanctimonious."
Now that you mention it, you're not alone. Our government at all levels spends a great deal of our money providing various kinds of welfare (healthcare, child support, etc) to illegal aliens and their children. It's out of control.
There'd be fewer illegal aliens if the US would just let the people work here legally.
It isn't HARD to come here legally. But you do have to pay taxes and do other things that make working here less compelling -- and for the rest of us, it sucks to face a job market where you're competing with somebody that can accept lower wages simply because they're not paying taxes, social security, insurance, and all those other things the rest of us have no choice but to pay.
It's far more complex than you make it out to be.
so you can demand far harsher conditions of work from them than any American (outside of undocumented workers) would take
There is no such thing as an "undocumented worker." We already have a phrase for that, and it's "illegal alien." These people are, by definition, not Americans. They are breaking the law, and as such, deserve capture, deportation, and probably they deserve some form of punishment to discourage future criminal activity. I have many friends and colleagues who are foreign-born or foreign-nationals who are here legally, and they endure a certain degree of expense and trouble to maintain their legal status because the benefits are worthwhile. Illegal aliens do not deserve your respect, protection or support. The mechanisms to permit a legal presence are easy to understand and readily available. There is no excuse.
To one degree or another, I agree with almost everything else you have posted. H1B has essentially destroyed an entire job market.
Usability may not be equivalent to aesthetics, but there is a relationship. Slashdot is hardly the best looking site on the Web, but it's very usable without being dog-ass ugly.
Had you said "useit.com != aesthetics" then you'd be on to something...
The lbs/kg comments aside, you do make a good point. Why is the 30 minute rule so important? Clearly some time constraint is reasonable, but with the very low power requirement, it seems reasonable that they could ease up the time restriction a little and greatly increase their chances of success.
Could it be related to the amount of soil they expect to need over a given timeframe to generate adequate oxygen or other resources for consumption or usage by humans?