Seriously, I still have 10+ card that fall in this group. Guess I really should give them up to be recycled seeing as how they don't support wide screen and I'd be hard pressed to find enough MoBos for them to use that DON'T have better integrated GPUs.
Wind power has come a long way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vgWP5U5Ew
This video isn't the best, but the concept is to put the balloons at high altitudes where wind is constant and since these have verly little impact on the ground, they can be placed anywhere.
But nuclear power is simply the best option for the backbone of the power grid. Yes there is a potential for accidents, but what do you think would happen if an earthquake hit a fossil fuel power plant, rainbows would come out? This wave against nuclear power is entirely biased and backed by the fossil fuel industry to protect their profits. When asked, hardly any of the bandwagon protestors have any understanding of how much energy we use, how many tons of pollutants are generated by fossil fuel power generation, nor that safer nuclear plants are possible but weren't made mandatory yet. Try not to feed all the trolls in this field and stick to actually exchanging knowledge instead of hate.
I once had a girlfriend who had a fairly common name as well. She got a rejection letter from grad school and so took a horrible job thinking that would be it for her life. Luckily, one of her professors inquired why she hadn't applied for her class yet. Turns out there was a student with the same name who got my girlfriend's acceptance letter! The idiots in admissions swapped the names when that is precisely why they are never suppose to use names but student ID # ONLY. It took the whole next semester to rid the mistake from the system as she constantly had all her classes purged -due to being rejected on file and then the admissions people kept failing to file the manual override before the computer automatically purged her again and again.
Personally I would ignore all this as you may stumble upon private info and that's unethical, but you could try a simple approach. Make an email explaining the situation and address it to as many variations on your address as you can think of. If they don't take heed of your advice to double check their user info for their services, that's their fault.
I take the same approach with regular mail for old roommates. I only remind them once or twice in the first month. I don't collect their mail and resend it to them or even tell them to come pick it up, I simply shred it -with the one exception of a diploma! It's up to them to contact the companies of interest and make sure they change their address on file.
...At least they had something to show other than stories.
Where? All I saw were un-backed numbers and STORIES in that report. Furthermore slashmydots cited the unquestionable truth that there are more teenagers in existence than 37-41 year olds. This does not necessarily mean that there are more teenage gamers (like slashmydots suggests) but it means that the percentage of older people gaming compared to those not gaming would have to far exceed that of the younger cohorts in order to overcome the difference in the group sizes and still produce a strong majority of gamers in total. Do I have hard numbers to back this up? -Sure, http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/population.html
Slashmydots and I may not have much to back up our claims either so you can call us hypocrites, but first consider that no one paid us for our research and we didn't publish findings under the CLAIM of scientific due process.
1: In "Idiocracy" the machine with the probes actually DIAGNOSED the patient without the attendant running it having a clue how it worked.
2: You're reading far too much into this. Just read the post, get the reference, and chuckle. Debating this to expose every little flaw in the analogy simply destroys the humor while accomplishing nothing of value.
There doesn't seem to be any content supporting the claims of the 'average ages'. I'm use to not getting all the info on studies, but at least tell me what the sample size was, how the info was gathered, something!
I'd have to agree. This wouldn't be the first time public faith in statistics was abused to promote a product. I'm not saying the long awaited Duke Nukem chapter has anything to do with this, but its original audience would fall directly into the 37-41 year old category.
"My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only."
And you KNOW it only activates on 911 calls... because... THEY tell you that. Ok, and of course, since it isn't an Apple phone, THEY would NEVER lie about that, right? I mean, we know Apple lies all the time, but THEY won't lie. Whoever THEY are. Yeah, ok.
OK maybe you should have read the next sentence and not taken things out of context simply to make a comment.
"My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only. Can their phones still be tracked by someone with exceptional skills, yes, but they won't be the low hanging fruit."
I agree that this is a crime against innovation, but the easiest solution to me is educating the actual scientist. Enlighten then to their ability to publish in the established journals, but also to free internet archives. If enough do this, there's no way for the journals and publishing companies to discourage it and you'll see open communities like Wikipedia expand to include entire educations for free. I'm not just talking about those instructional videos on YouTube -those are a good first step.
Some of your examples don't really help your case, but I agree. The image that Apple software is superior is a fabrication with no foundation. It is LESS SECURE than any of it's competitors and that shows a true disregard for customer safety. Even if they wanted to leave the location tracking on by default, it needs to be encrypted and the user must be able to turn it off easily. This should be a question the first time you start the device!
Think about your kids with their Apple products. Continuously having all their locations plotted, timestamped, cataloged, and openly accessible over an always on wifi transmitter to anyone who felt like tracking them and knows how to read a simple how-to guide on accessing the archive over network connections. My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only. Can their phones still be tracked by someone with exceptional skills, yes, but they won't be the low hanging fruit.
ALL communications need to be encrypted. Spending a fraction of a second to apply even simple 128-bit encryption adds minutes needed to crack it.
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Seriously, I still have 10+ card that fall in this group. Guess I really should give them up to be recycled seeing as how they don't support wide screen and I'd be hard pressed to find enough MoBos for them to use that DON'T have better integrated GPUs.
Wind power has come a long way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vgWP5U5Ew This video isn't the best, but the concept is to put the balloons at high altitudes where wind is constant and since these have verly little impact on the ground, they can be placed anywhere. But nuclear power is simply the best option for the backbone of the power grid. Yes there is a potential for accidents, but what do you think would happen if an earthquake hit a fossil fuel power plant, rainbows would come out? This wave against nuclear power is entirely biased and backed by the fossil fuel industry to protect their profits. When asked, hardly any of the bandwagon protestors have any understanding of how much energy we use, how many tons of pollutants are generated by fossil fuel power generation, nor that safer nuclear plants are possible but weren't made mandatory yet. Try not to feed all the trolls in this field and stick to actually exchanging knowledge instead of hate.
I once had a girlfriend who had a fairly common name as well. She got a rejection letter from grad school and so took a horrible job thinking that would be it for her life. Luckily, one of her professors inquired why she hadn't applied for her class yet. Turns out there was a student with the same name who got my girlfriend's acceptance letter! The idiots in admissions swapped the names when that is precisely why they are never suppose to use names but student ID # ONLY. It took the whole next semester to rid the mistake from the system as she constantly had all her classes purged -due to being rejected on file and then the admissions people kept failing to file the manual override before the computer automatically purged her again and again.
Personally I would ignore all this as you may stumble upon private info and that's unethical, but you could try a simple approach. Make an email explaining the situation and address it to as many variations on your address as you can think of. If they don't take heed of your advice to double check their user info for their services, that's their fault. I take the same approach with regular mail for old roommates. I only remind them once or twice in the first month. I don't collect their mail and resend it to them or even tell them to come pick it up, I simply shred it -with the one exception of a diploma! It's up to them to contact the companies of interest and make sure they change their address on file.
...At least they had something to show other than stories.
Where? All I saw were un-backed numbers and STORIES in that report. Furthermore slashmydots cited the unquestionable truth that there are more teenagers in existence than 37-41 year olds. This does not necessarily mean that there are more teenage gamers (like slashmydots suggests) but it means that the percentage of older people gaming compared to those not gaming would have to far exceed that of the younger cohorts in order to overcome the difference in the group sizes and still produce a strong majority of gamers in total. Do I have hard numbers to back this up? -Sure, http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/population.html Slashmydots and I may not have much to back up our claims either so you can call us hypocrites, but first consider that no one paid us for our research and we didn't publish findings under the CLAIM of scientific due process.
1: In "Idiocracy" the machine with the probes actually DIAGNOSED the patient without the attendant running it having a clue how it worked. 2: You're reading far too much into this. Just read the post, get the reference, and chuckle. Debating this to expose every little flaw in the analogy simply destroys the humor while accomplishing nothing of value.
There doesn't seem to be any content supporting the claims of the 'average ages'. I'm use to not getting all the info on studies, but at least tell me what the sample size was, how the info was gathered, something!
I'd have to agree. This wouldn't be the first time public faith in statistics was abused to promote a product. I'm not saying the long awaited Duke Nukem chapter has anything to do with this, but its original audience would fall directly into the 37-41 year old category.
Sounds like it's time.
Who said it can't be both? First one, then the other :P
This is just another step towards the realization of the movie "Idiocracy".
"My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only."
And you KNOW it only activates on 911 calls ... because ... THEY tell you that. Ok, and of course, since it isn't an Apple phone, THEY would NEVER lie about that, right? I mean, we know Apple lies all the time, but THEY won't lie. Whoever THEY are. Yeah, ok.
OK maybe you should have read the next sentence and not taken things out of context simply to make a comment. "My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only. Can their phones still be tracked by someone with exceptional skills, yes, but they won't be the low hanging fruit."
I agree that this is a crime against innovation, but the easiest solution to me is educating the actual scientist. Enlighten then to their ability to publish in the established journals, but also to free internet archives. If enough do this, there's no way for the journals and publishing companies to discourage it and you'll see open communities like Wikipedia expand to include entire educations for free. I'm not just talking about those instructional videos on YouTube -those are a good first step.
Some of your examples don't really help your case, but I agree. The image that Apple software is superior is a fabrication with no foundation. It is LESS SECURE than any of it's competitors and that shows a true disregard for customer safety. Even if they wanted to leave the location tracking on by default, it needs to be encrypted and the user must be able to turn it off easily. This should be a question the first time you start the device! Think about your kids with their Apple products. Continuously having all their locations plotted, timestamped, cataloged, and openly accessible over an always on wifi transmitter to anyone who felt like tracking them and knows how to read a simple how-to guide on accessing the archive over network connections. My kids are getting SanDisk media players, and a phone who's GPS tracker can be switched to activation on 911 calls only. Can their phones still be tracked by someone with exceptional skills, yes, but they won't be the low hanging fruit. ALL communications need to be encrypted. Spending a fraction of a second to apply even simple 128-bit encryption adds minutes needed to crack it.