Have you even looked at the privacy settings (so that others cannot see from your profile what photos are tagged of you), or tried untagging yourself from thoses photos? Hint: you can't be retagged if you do.
I remember "Crossbows & Catapults". I figured out that if you pulled the catapult back a bit so the pin only contacted the little disc at the end of it's travel, the disc would fly a lot faster and break down walls more easily. I was always surprised the others I played with never figured out what I was doing.
I went to the top of Norway last year to see the Aurora, got a reasonable view but would like to go again when the solar cycle is at it's peak. Guess I should figure that to be about 5 years from now?
Only if you can't afford it. It's kinda dangerous if you can (and also if you have heart problems).
Basically it makes you feel really f**king great, for about 20-30mins, which is nice but given the cost not a very long-lasting effect. If you're going to try it just the once, save it for sex.
Behavioural profiling, including facial expressions, is actually one of the more effective predictors of ill intent that airport security has at it's disposal and it's been in use for years.
Bear in mind you don't get shot for looking suspicious - you just get singled out for further attention. And it's a hell of a lot more positive than profiling on race or blocking people from flying based on their name.
If the machines have paper seals in an accessible place, then you could very easily DOS the vote of a district that is known to be unfavourable to you simply by slicing the seal with your thumbnail, without ever having to hack the machine at all!
What I tell people is simply to be aware that writing a blog or Usenet post is not conversation, it is publication. They shouldn't live in fear of what a future employer might think, but they should be aware just what is going to happen when they hit "post".
When I say files sent to mobiles are relatively small, "relatively" is the key word. Sure, they'll increase in size over time, but bandwidth keeps getting cheaper and wireless protocols keep getting better, as does battery life. I maintain that they are and will remain relatively small compared to the sort of traffic a home PC gets, and more importantly the bandwidth available to fixed servers at any given price point.
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't see the point of this. Files sent to a mobile are relatively small, even in the case of video due to the size of the screen, and mobile bandwidth is expensive. Bittorrent, on the other hand, is designed to save bandwidth for the server, not the client.
It seems like a bad trade-off to save yourself cheap server bandwidth by spending expensive radio bandwidth.
That game was so atmospheric it was actually scary - that was the main point of the combat, in fact - leave the girl alone to long and shadows attack her, which added a sense of urgency to the puzzle-solving. When I first got a few friends and I sat down to play it, and we would manage about 30mins of ICO before switching over to GTA to de-stress with some car chases and random murder. Then it was back to ICO for another 30mins:)
That battery is pretty damn handy when the building power cuts out - especially if the network equipment is UPS'd so you still have full access to the int[ra|er]net.
there's no way I'm shelling out £300 for a meal at his restaurant.
I have (although I don't think it was quite that much) - myself and a bunch of friends went for the tasting menu at the Fat Duck, which is not so much a meal as a gastronomic rollercoaster. It was extraordinary, although obviously given the cost I wouldn't go there often.
The snail porridge was a lot nicer than it sounds, the bacon and egg ice cream not so much. It took a couple of hours all told to work through the numerous, small courses and accompanying wines. I'd recommend it as an experience.
"Don't post it" is a good default option, but these sites are too useful to just ignore like that. At one very basic level, Facebook is an address book: you put in your address and phone number and email in, restrict that information to friends and add people you are okay having it. The result, potentially, is an address book that updates itself automatically as people change their numbers and email/street addresses.
Imagine that tied in with your phone, and you have something interesting. And FB has many other interesting and potentially interesting uses - the photo tagging is very nifty and the event organising also useful. But you have to be careful about security if you don't want to get bitten on the ass, and being careful with security is not so easy (or perhaps just not so natural) for the non-tech crowd.
We: Facebook, their friends, news sources, schools, whomever. I think I meant it as "the technical community".
In this particular case, the best positioned to do the work would be Facebook - but I'm not sure they have the incentive, as they may be best served by people leaving things public and open and social.
While it's true that people are foolishly publishing information publicly that they could easily keep private, this is essentially a matter of poor user education. There are plenty of people on Facebook who simply don't understand the privacy implications of posting stuff on their profile, and the privacy setting defaults are wide open.
If we really want social networking to be acceptable to the world at large and to keep the scare stories under control, we need to do a better job of educating users and/or providing accounts with more suitable privacy settings.
TFA about the difference between places that premit swearing and those that don't. Obviously. It's hardly "letting workers swear at will" if you fire them for it.
What platform would a Senator Online candidate use?
How about this: "My organisation uses a more secure, verifiable and yet anonymous method of counting your votes than the other organisation. Also, we provide more concise, unbiased information (from a choice of sources) about the matters you can vote on, and we usually provide it further in advance of the vote than the other guys.
Oh, and also we provide more opportunities to make your thoughts known by providing more online polls and other chances to have us ask questions on your behalf."
Get someone to take a photo anyway, the rule is completely toothless. What are they going to do, throw out their own customer? Search them for cameras?
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Have you even looked at the privacy settings (so that others cannot see from your profile what photos are tagged of you), or tried untagging yourself from thoses photos? Hint: you can't be retagged if you do.
I remember "Crossbows & Catapults". I figured out that if you pulled the catapult back a bit so the pin only contacted the little disc at the end of it's travel, the disc would fly a lot faster and break down walls more easily. I was always surprised the others I played with never figured out what I was doing.
Can they demand you decrypt data or, worse, provide the key?
I went to the top of Norway last year to see the Aurora, got a reasonable view but would like to go again when the solar cycle is at it's peak. Guess I should figure that to be about 5 years from now?
Only if you can't afford it. It's kinda dangerous if you can (and also if you have heart problems).
Basically it makes you feel really f**king great, for about 20-30mins, which is nice but given the cost not a very long-lasting effect. If you're going to try it just the once, save it for sex.
Would you vaccinate your child ?
Or your employees? Or your signed artists?
Behavioural profiling, including facial expressions, is actually one of the more effective predictors of ill intent that airport security has at it's disposal and it's been in use for years.
Bear in mind you don't get shot for looking suspicious - you just get singled out for further attention. And it's a hell of a lot more positive than profiling on race or blocking people from flying based on their name.
I think we should do what we did with the CDA. Everyone with a website should turn their pages to black the day this law gets passed.
Did that work last time?
If the machines have paper seals in an accessible place, then you could very easily DOS the vote of a district that is known to be unfavourable to you simply by slicing the seal with your thumbnail, without ever having to hack the machine at all!
I can't help wondering if the people starting the OLPC project have read Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age"...
Dear God, if that wasn't written by someone in the Activision/Blizzard marketing department, then I have no idea how I would spot a comment that was.
What I tell people is simply to be aware that writing a blog or Usenet post is not conversation, it is publication. They shouldn't live in fear of what a future employer might think, but they should be aware just what is going to happen when they hit "post".
When I say files sent to mobiles are relatively small, "relatively" is the key word. Sure, they'll increase in size over time, but bandwidth keeps getting cheaper and wireless protocols keep getting better, as does battery life. I maintain that they are and will remain relatively small compared to the sort of traffic a home PC gets, and more importantly the bandwidth available to fixed servers at any given price point.
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I don't see the point of this. Files sent to a mobile are relatively small, even in the case of video due to the size of the screen, and mobile bandwidth is expensive. Bittorrent, on the other hand, is designed to save bandwidth for the server, not the client.
It seems like a bad trade-off to save yourself cheap server bandwidth by spending expensive radio bandwidth.
That game was so atmospheric it was actually scary - that was the main point of the combat, in fact - leave the girl alone to long and shadows attack her, which added a sense of urgency to the puzzle-solving. When I first got a few friends and I sat down to play it, and we would manage about 30mins of ICO before switching over to GTA to de-stress with some car chases and random murder. Then it was back to ICO for another 30mins :)
That battery is pretty damn handy when the building power cuts out - especially if the network equipment is UPS'd so you still have full access to the int[ra|er]net.
... as an excuse for breathing heavily down the phone.
there's no way I'm shelling out £300 for a meal at his restaurant.
I have (although I don't think it was quite that much) - myself and a bunch of friends went for the tasting menu at the Fat Duck, which is not so much a meal as a gastronomic rollercoaster. It was extraordinary, although obviously given the cost I wouldn't go there often.
The snail porridge was a lot nicer than it sounds, the bacon and egg ice cream not so much. It took a couple of hours all told to work through the numerous, small courses and accompanying wines. I'd recommend it as an experience.
"Don't post it" is a good default option, but these sites are too useful to just ignore like that. At one very basic level, Facebook is an address book: you put in your address and phone number and email in, restrict that information to friends and add people you are okay having it. The result, potentially, is an address book that updates itself automatically as people change their numbers and email/street addresses.
Imagine that tied in with your phone, and you have something interesting. And FB has many other interesting and potentially interesting uses - the photo tagging is very nifty and the event organising also useful. But you have to be careful about security if you don't want to get bitten on the ass, and being careful with security is not so easy (or perhaps just not so natural) for the non-tech crowd.
We: Facebook, their friends, news sources, schools, whomever. I think I meant it as "the technical community".
In this particular case, the best positioned to do the work would be Facebook - but I'm not sure they have the incentive, as they may be best served by people leaving things public and open and social.
While it's true that people are foolishly publishing information publicly that they could easily keep private, this is essentially a matter of poor user education. There are plenty of people on Facebook who simply don't understand the privacy implications of posting stuff on their profile, and the privacy setting defaults are wide open.
If we really want social networking to be acceptable to the world at large and to keep the scare stories under control, we need to do a better job of educating users and/or providing accounts with more suitable privacy settings.
TFA about the difference between places that premit swearing and those that don't. Obviously. It's hardly "letting workers swear at will" if you fire them for it.
What platform would a Senator Online candidate use?
How about this: "My organisation uses a more secure, verifiable and yet anonymous method of counting your votes than the other organisation. Also, we provide more concise, unbiased information (from a choice of sources) about the matters you can vote on, and we usually provide it further in advance of the vote than the other guys.
Oh, and also we provide more opportunities to make your thoughts known by providing more online polls and other chances to have us ask questions on your behalf."
So for every actual negative, I've had a criminal reading my private email?
Get someone to take a photo anyway, the rule is completely toothless. What are they going to do, throw out their own customer? Search them for cameras?