...accidentally opening the neighbour's unlocked door = Windows automatically connecting to a WiFI network
No, more in the lines of:...looking for the house of a friend you gave you an inexakt location specification and then ending up inside his neighbors house.
That should warrant an arrest for breaking and entering, don't you think?
Now if they ported OSX so it could run on every PC, that means supporting a billion devices, or letting a billion drivers do who-knows-what and it would be a mess, just like Linux and Windows are (yes, I'm a Linux fan, don't give me shit I'm just being realistic here...)
EXACTLY. And that would probably lead to an OS just as unstable as Windows, and that would seriously damage Apple when it comes to OS comparisions. Windows has problems of it's own, sure. But my experience is that most hangups and performance problems on my Windows computer comes from buggy drivers.
Add to the list of concers, that Ferenhite 451 is comming. No more books. No more written records. Students will start using only computers, and trust the content as accurate. I can see in one years curriculum "we are going to war because of weapons of mass destruction". Next year the laptop says "we went to war to liberate a people from a ruthless dictator". If the first sentance was in the book, it could not be erased, and students would ask "what? why? how did it change?".
That's not a problem with not using books, what you are talking about is an actual problem with your government. Use your vote to fix it.
Updating content can be a GOOD thing as well. Using up to date content while learning (perhaps by not using eBooks, but by using the internet instead) will teach the kids how to quickly acquire information AND (by trial and error) how to judge the validity of this information.
This is a bad idea for so many reasons. It will raise costs per student for the school to operate. Either students will have to pay, or the property tax will increase. Laptops are more vulnerable to 14-17 year olds for thieft and malicious viruses
It doesn't have to. Remember that most schools have computers for student use, and when everyone has a laptop, this service can be discontinued which saves money. Also, these computers has had exactly the same problems you mentioned as well (which can be solved).
And how good is it for the eyes? Most of my friends who spend 6+ hours in front of a computer have bad eyes by the time they hit 25ish.
Reading books also strains the eyes you know:)
Give up on this negativity. Start seeing solutions instead of problems.
My company, my rules. You don't want to play along, find somewhere else to work
Yes, and also your loss when you fail to see potential in someone just because they have a tatoo or a piercing.
If you're unwilling to follow something as simple as the dress codes, what does that tell me about what to expect when I ask you to do something important that you don't want to do? Still, why not focus on your business and the quality of your products instead of spending time making up silly rules? People are comfortably in wearing what they usually wear, and comfortably poeple is something you want in your office. Trust me.
Yes, piercings, tatoos, beachwear as office wear, etc, has become more prevelent. But it's still not mainstream, and it's definately not corporate. Some people are still offended or uncomfortable with it. If you don't care about other people's sensitivities, even if you think they're stupid, why should they care about you? What other people are you talking about? Yeah, some people might be sensitive to afro-americans. Or gays. Or muslims. Or poeple with bad breath. I guess the only kind of people working for you are white males, age 25, normal weight. Normal everything. That environment doesn't sound very inspirational to me.
And c'mon, "modifications" like piercings and tatoos are prevelent enough that they're no longer individualistic; people are just following the crowd. I hire leaders, not sheep. Then perhaps you should fire yourself for being a sheep in your society instead of being a daring leader, wouldn't you say?
Well, if you've had your entire domain blocked by AOL without warning, you might disagree. You might disagree strongly if after contacting AOL, they admitted you were wrongly blocked but they were having trouble figuring out how to unblock you (took a week).
Oh, so for you they actually removed you from the list? A company I worked for sent out activation mails from our website, as well as monthly newsletters (opt-in, mind you) and we were blocked (according to AOL, if 1 in a 1000 users marks your mail as "spam" you will be blacklisted). Contacted AOL, and they wanted a payment to remove us from the blacklist.
Now take that one step further and consider a malicious virus being accidentally executed by the same user that thought Bonzi Buddy was cute. Spyware is bad, but that virus might, oh... kill all your.jpg.doc and.mp3 files.
Those files would have been deleted for this user even if he/she does not run them as root. Of course, the files of other users would not have been affected, but there's still a lot of damage right there.
No, until the majority of the public gets motivated to dedicate massive funding to Nasa the manned US space program will creep along. During the 50s and 60s the US was motivated by the Cold War. We reached the moon, and defeated the "bad guys". After that everything was just anti-climactic. Now that we've been to the moon and the Cold War is over, what's motivating the public?
Now we have to get there before the terrorists does!!
Isn't this just a way of promoting Google by increasing referers from the Google search engine to these sites? "Hey, this Google thingie attracts a lot of visitors, let's get some AdWords while we're at it!"
Of course, it CAN be distinguished by by the header, but how many of you check the X-mos: prefetch in your stats?
I think some of the comments here are missing the big point.
Let's say for a moment that this is NOT a case of the spiderbot going crazy over calendar-links.
What if Google is planning on indexing all items in all the calendars that are online, doing something like http://news.google.com/? For each day, display the most frequent entries to that days calendar.
Will probably display "get girlfriend" every day if they keep indexing our calendars, but what the heck.
Perhaps you are right, but then again I pity anyone living in the United States (or with your system of law to be precise).
In Sweden (where I live), this would probably not be possible. For example, it would be impossible for me to sue the seller of a microwave oven for not explicitly stating that it cannot be used to dry my cat. Heck, even if he tells me it can, I still would not be able to sue him.
Even when the ISP doesn't care about you, their lawyers care because your heirs will have an easy suit if they can prove the network was down for even 30 seconds at about the time you died
Well, no.
You know that combinations of words you have to agree to (by voice or signature) when you sign up for a net connection? It often states that there is no guarantee that the connection will be available at all times.
There goes the suit. And it should. If you want 100% uptime (hefty compensation when offline) you should get another type of agreement - and pay for it.
Seems their "beta" stuff works better than the first, or even second revision of released code from some other company...
Well, "beta" is also another way of saying "we can do what we want, and you have no rights".
As with gmail, you cannot be certain that the service still will be available next year, next month or even next week. Your mail, contacts and whatever might not exist after midnight for all we are promised.
Because of the quality of it's search engine Google has, over time, became a part of speach. How many times have i heard people say "i just googled for it" or "i found this and that after some googling". Internet search is now associated with google, its the mindset of the vast majority and that is going to be very hard to compete with.
Yes. But this is also a problem for Google, since they will have problems trademarking a generic word.
First, when it comes to trading entire characters, it's simply a matter decreasing revenue for Blizzard. Since you can't trade characters between accounts, the only way is to sell you're entire account. This will means less money for Blizzard in two ways:
1) You don't have to buy the game (you're buying it from someone else, or you can simply download a version which otherwise would be useless without an account)
2) You're paying Blizzard per month played. It takes several months to develop a high class character, but if you already have one, you won't play as long (as you'll get bored faster as well).
Also, if everyone kept buying high level charactes, if would disturb the flow of the game, since the mixed levels keeps the spirit of the game. Besides that, people buying entire charactes are often not as good players as people developing it. It's not just leveling that's important here, you also understand how the game works, and how to interact with other players. Much like growing up:)
Secondly, if you want to trade in game items, keep in mind that most items actually DO bind when equipped, and if you have to sell them, why not use the in game economy for that?
I can certainly understard Blizzards stand here, I can see no reason why would want you pay your way to everyting. Earn it, damnit.
If you were to apply that same reasoning to, oh, say, nicotine, which also causes random DNA breaks and errors in replication, then your argument would say that tobacco isn't in fact linked to lung cancer.
I wouldn't have to, because nicotine alone has not been proved to cause cancer either.
Benzene (one of many damaging components in the smoke) on the other hand, has.
Still: Because of the lab set-up, the researchers said the study did not prove any health risks. But they added that "the genotoxic and phenotypic effects clearly require further studies... on animals and human volunteers."
So the point remains, it has still not been proven dangerous.
DNA breaks all the time in cells (think thousands per day for each cell in the body) but since we are in fact using the double-stranded DNA (think RAID 0), it can be repaired rather easily. And even if it can't that still does not mean that you will get cancer and die a slow death.
Something I'd like to know (and this isn't stated in the article) is: which of his accounts has been published somewhere on the net (or available to the public in any harvesting kind of way).
Doesn't matter if your account is simply garbage, as long as someone can spider it on the web. All honor to the dictionary attack, but as we all know, it doesn't take very long before someone finds your account on the web. Also, there are ways to prevent this.
I never have my mailto clickable, and I use combinations of images to display it.
Listen, you have to assume that people can think and take responsibilty for themselves.
Drug companies makes very good ads. Often, they help governments create good informative campaigns about general health issues (like signs for depression, VDs, etc) as long as they get to stick their cute little logo at the bottom.
On the other hand, they are also very good at creating needs for something (often enough) not needed at all.
Still, informing the public about these signs are good. As you say, if they have a real medical issue, they'll go see a doctor (which they perhaps wouldn't if they didn't even know they had a problem!) But that doctor still has to give his/her ok before the patient can get his drug (this is the prescription part). Now, if this doctor doesn't think that this patient needs this particular drug (health benifits vs complications) then they simply shouldn't write the prescription!
Now, if he or she does, after informing the patient about complications, the responsibiliy lies on the patient. And if they patient still takes the drug and has severe complications, it's the patient and NOT the drug company / doctors fault.
We are only making people dumber by making the choices for them all the time. And even worse, by creating legislations for this purpose, we are also removing the responsibility part from them, which allows them to sue everyone simply because they couldn't think for themselves.
If you don't want the government to be Big Brother, then for god's sake, don't make them your mother!
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No, more in the lines of:
That should warrant an arrest for breaking and entering, don't you think?
It really doesn't matter if no one has asked for the information.
Fact is, if someone has two of your printed papers they can compare the serial numbers to realize both of them we're printed by you.
Anyone can do this. And I don't like it.
Now if they ported OSX so it could run on every PC, that means supporting a billion devices, or letting a billion drivers do who-knows-what and it would be a mess, just like Linux and Windows are (yes, I'm a Linux fan, don't give me shit I'm just being realistic here...)
EXACTLY. And that would probably lead to an OS just as unstable as Windows, and that would seriously damage Apple when it comes to OS comparisions. Windows has problems of it's own, sure. But my experience is that most hangups and performance problems on my Windows computer comes from buggy drivers.
Add to the list of concers, that Ferenhite 451 is comming. No more books. No more written records. Students will start using only computers, and trust the content as accurate. I can see in one years curriculum "we are going to war because of weapons of mass destruction". Next year the laptop says "we went to war to liberate a people from a ruthless dictator". If the first sentance was in the book, it could not be erased, and students would ask "what? why? how did it change?".
:)
That's not a problem with not using books, what you are talking about is an actual problem with your government. Use your vote to fix it.
Updating content can be a GOOD thing as well. Using up to date content while learning (perhaps by not using eBooks, but by using the internet instead) will teach the kids how to quickly acquire information AND (by trial and error) how to judge the validity of this information.
This is a bad idea for so many reasons. It will raise costs per student for the school to operate. Either students will have to pay, or the property tax will increase. Laptops are more vulnerable to 14-17 year olds for thieft and malicious viruses
It doesn't have to. Remember that most schools have computers for student use, and when everyone has a laptop, this service can be discontinued which saves money. Also, these computers has had exactly the same problems you mentioned as well (which can be solved).
And how good is it for the eyes? Most of my friends who spend 6+ hours in front of a computer have bad eyes by the time they hit 25ish.
Reading books also strains the eyes you know
Give up on this negativity. Start seeing solutions instead of problems.
My company, my rules. You don't want to play along, find somewhere else to work
Yes, and also your loss when you fail to see potential in someone just because they have a tatoo or a piercing.
If you're unwilling to follow something as simple as the dress codes, what does that tell me about what to expect when I ask you to do something important that you don't want to do?
Still, why not focus on your business and the quality of your products instead of spending time making up silly rules? People are comfortably in wearing what they usually wear, and comfortably poeple is something you want in your office. Trust me.
Yes, piercings, tatoos, beachwear as office wear, etc, has become more prevelent. But it's still not mainstream, and it's definately not corporate. Some people are still offended or uncomfortable with it. If you don't care about other people's sensitivities, even if you think they're stupid, why should they care about you?
What other people are you talking about? Yeah, some people might be sensitive to afro-americans. Or gays. Or muslims. Or poeple with bad breath. I guess the only kind of people working for you are white males, age 25, normal weight. Normal everything. That environment doesn't sound very inspirational to me.
And c'mon, "modifications" like piercings and tatoos are prevelent enough that they're no longer individualistic; people are just following the crowd. I hire leaders, not sheep.
Then perhaps you should fire yourself for being a sheep in your society instead of being a daring leader, wouldn't you say?
Well, if you've had your entire domain blocked by AOL without warning, you might disagree. You might disagree strongly if after contacting AOL, they admitted you were wrongly blocked but they were having trouble figuring out how to unblock you (took a week).
Oh, so for you they actually removed you from the list? A company I worked for sent out activation mails from our website, as well as monthly newsletters (opt-in, mind you) and we were blocked (according to AOL, if 1 in a 1000 users marks your mail as "spam" you will be blacklisted). Contacted AOL, and they wanted a payment to remove us from the blacklist.
Marketing strategy?
Now take that one step further and consider a malicious virus being accidentally executed by the same user that thought Bonzi Buddy was cute. Spyware is bad, but that virus might, oh... kill all your .jpg .doc and .mp3 files.
Those files would have been deleted for this user even if he/she does not run them as root. Of course, the files of other users would not have been affected, but there's still a lot of damage right there.
No, until the majority of the public gets motivated to dedicate massive funding to Nasa the manned US space program will creep along. During the 50s and 60s the US was motivated by the Cold War. We reached the moon, and defeated the "bad guys". After that everything was just anti-climactic. Now that we've been to the moon and the Cold War is over, what's motivating the public?
Now we have to get there before the terrorists does!!
Isn't this just a way of promoting Google by increasing referers from the Google search engine to these sites? "Hey, this Google thingie attracts a lot of visitors, let's get some AdWords while we're at it!"
Of course, it CAN be distinguished by by the header, but how many of you check the X-mos: prefetch in your stats?
Yes, you can mandate that users can only choose strong passwords.
Windows 2000 and up, go into the Local Security Policy (in mmc). Look for "Require Strong Password" (or similar, its been a while).
Why nobody uses it, I don't know.
Maybe because whenever a user is required to remember something other than their mothers name, they write it down on a friggin' post-it!
No, this is worse. This is (as Bahnhof's VP said) "like giving matches and gasoline to a known pyromaniac and then calling the police".
Dude, unless you move from side to side, isn't physically impossible for you to get a 3D image?
I think some of the comments here are missing the big point.
Let's say for a moment that this is NOT a case of the spiderbot going crazy over calendar-links.
What if Google is planning on indexing all items in all the calendars that are online, doing something like http://news.google.com/? For each day, display the most frequent entries to that days calendar.
Will probably display "get girlfriend" every day if they keep indexing our calendars, but what the heck.
Perhaps you are right, but then again I pity anyone living in the United States (or with your system of law to be precise).
In Sweden (where I live), this would probably not be possible. For example, it would be impossible for me to sue the seller of a microwave oven for not explicitly stating that it cannot be used to dry my cat. Heck, even if he tells me it can, I still would not be able to sue him.
People have to think for themselves sometimes.
Even when the ISP doesn't care about you, their lawyers care because your heirs will have an easy suit if they can prove the network was down for even 30 seconds at about the time you died
Well, no.
You know that combinations of words you have to agree to (by voice or signature) when you sign up for a net connection? It often states that there is no guarantee that the connection will be available at all times.
There goes the suit. And it should. If you want 100% uptime (hefty compensation when offline) you should get another type of agreement - and pay for it.
Come on, harassing him is just childish.
Go through the correct channels, post complaints, and help the MAME legal process if it goes that far.
You will gain nothing by simply spaming him. He doesn't care what you think, the only color that matters to him is green.
What the hell, they use PLANTS to get rid of these things now?
I for one wouldn't trust a green thingie stuck in the ground with my 30 kilos of plutonium...
...g a cleaner layout, drop shadows, clickable...
Well, there's the feature, right there! Imagine what we could do now that we have drop shadows...
Seems their "beta" stuff works better than the first, or even second revision of released code from some other company...
Well, "beta" is also another way of saying "we can do what we want, and you have no rights".
As with gmail, you cannot be certain that the service still will be available next year, next month or even next week. Your mail, contacts and whatever might not exist after midnight for all we are promised.
Because of the quality of it's search engine Google has, over time, became a part of speach. How many times have i heard people say "i just googled for it" or "i found this and that after some googling". Internet search is now associated with google, its the mindset of the vast majority and that is going to be very hard to compete with.
Yes. But this is also a problem for Google, since they will have problems trademarking a generic word.
And once Google equals "internet search", they will have a hard time defending the name in court.
Why?
:)
It's very simple.
First, when it comes to trading entire characters, it's simply a matter decreasing revenue for Blizzard. Since you can't trade characters between accounts, the only way is to sell you're entire account. This will means less money for Blizzard in two ways:
1) You don't have to buy the game (you're buying it from someone else, or you can simply download a version which otherwise would be useless without an account)
2) You're paying Blizzard per month played. It takes several months to develop a high class character, but if you already have one, you won't play as long (as you'll get bored faster as well).
Also, if everyone kept buying high level charactes, if would disturb the flow of the game, since the mixed levels keeps the spirit of the game. Besides that, people buying entire charactes are often not as good players as people developing it. It's not just leveling that's important here, you also understand how the game works, and how to interact with other players. Much like growing up
Secondly, if you want to trade in game items, keep in mind that most items actually DO bind when equipped, and if you have to sell them, why not use the in game economy for that?
I can certainly understard Blizzards stand here, I can see no reason why would want you pay your way to everyting. Earn it, damnit.
If you were to apply that same reasoning to, oh, say, nicotine, which also causes random DNA breaks and errors in replication, then your argument would say that tobacco isn't in fact linked to lung cancer.
I wouldn't have to, because nicotine alone has not been proved to cause cancer either.
Benzene (one of many damaging components in the smoke) on the other hand, has.
Still: ... on animals and human volunteers."
Because of the lab set-up, the researchers said the study did not prove any health risks. But they added that "the genotoxic and phenotypic effects clearly require further studies
So the point remains, it has still not been proven dangerous.
DNA breaks all the time in cells (think thousands per day for each cell in the body) but since we are in fact using the double-stranded DNA (think RAID 0), it can be repaired rather easily. And even if it can't that still does not mean that you will get cancer and die a slow death.
Nothing to see here people, move along...
Something I'd like to know (and this isn't stated in the article) is: which of his accounts has been published somewhere on the net (or available to the public in any harvesting kind of way).
Doesn't matter if your account is simply garbage, as long as someone can spider it on the web. All honor to the dictionary attack, but as we all know, it doesn't take very long before someone finds your account on the web. Also, there are ways to prevent this.
I never have my mailto clickable, and I use combinations of images to display it.
Listen, you have to assume that people can think and take responsibilty for themselves.
Drug companies makes very good ads. Often, they help governments create good informative campaigns about general health issues (like signs for depression, VDs, etc) as long as they get to stick their cute little logo at the bottom.
On the other hand, they are also very good at creating needs for something (often enough) not needed at all.
Still, informing the public about these signs are good. As you say, if they have a real medical issue, they'll go see a doctor (which they perhaps wouldn't if they didn't even know they had a problem!) But that doctor still has to give his/her ok before the patient can get his drug (this is the prescription part). Now, if this doctor doesn't think that this patient needs this particular drug (health benifits vs complications) then they simply shouldn't write the prescription!
Now, if he or she does, after informing the patient about complications, the responsibiliy lies on the patient. And if they patient still takes the drug and has severe complications, it's the patient and NOT the drug company / doctors fault.
We are only making people dumber by making the choices for them all the time. And even worse, by creating legislations for this purpose, we are also removing the responsibility part from them, which allows them to sue everyone simply because they couldn't think for themselves.
If you don't want the government to be Big Brother, then for god's sake, don't make them your mother!