These people don't know what they don't know. Since they are unaware of the knowledge required to properly operate/repair a computer, it follows that they do not seek it and do not understand the terms when presented. As a result of this ignorance the computer user is more at risk to be taken advantage of.
This is not a problem unique to computers, it it true of every technological device people use. Does the average person driving a car actually know how a turbocharger works or the terminology used in talking about repairing one: waste gate, compressor, turbine, fluid bearing, intercooler? When they go to a repair shop to get the engine repaired, will they have any clue about what these things are? If I said "Your waste gate trim tabs are locked open and that's causing the grinding noise", would an average person know if I could even be correct? I think not (that statement is bogus by the way. there are no trim tabs on a turbocharger waste gate and a waste gate would not cause an audible noise.)
The problem I see is the growing tendency in the U.S. to simply choose to NOT become informed/educated about how things in our lives work. In "the old days" people generally had a fairly good idea of how everyday things worked. Granted things were simpler, but there's no reason for today's population to at least know the basics. I think the knowledge of the average automobile driver is; the fuel goes there, turn the key to start and stop the engine, vertical pedal=go faster, horizontal pedal=slow down, and what buttons to press to open the windows and change the radio.
It's not very much different for the average computer owner: plug that in to the power outlet, that other thing in to the phone line, click the pretty picture to get on the internet. I'm not suggesting that every new user needs to be a CCIE, but we'd all be a lot better off if the ignorance pendulum started swinging back the other way for a while.
Actually it could. They are searching for planets by searching for their effect on the local star. The wobble they detect in the host star can now not be assumed to be a planet without futher investigation.
The only planets we observe via reflected light are those within our own system. To my knowledge no-one has imaged a remote system's plantary bodies yet..
Every new windows computer comes with an insecure browser installed and set up as the default. "installing" spyware can be as simple as viewing a web page that has an image on it. You seem to be deluded in to thinking that you have to proactively install these malware programs.
The reason spyware is so prolific is that the knowledgeable people already have always-on broadband connections, we're getting to the point where the uninformed are getting set up and they don't know the dangers, precautions and warning signs. Most "newbies" blame their ISP for the viruses "I didn't have this problem until I switched from dialup to DSL" is a common phrase heard in my day job.
Sure the patches and firewall will protect you from the actively scanning worm attacks. That leaves you only susceptible to the 12,000 spyware attacks you invite to your computer simply by looking at a web page.
Opt-in/out-out? As long as I've known about copyright, some 20+ years, anything you express in a tangible media is copyrighted automatically. If you were to draw a doodle on a piece of paper, it is copyrighted. It is not a REGISTERED copyright though. While you can fight over an unregistered copyright, you must have documentation of when and how you created the work and the other person just needs to show they made theirs first. This makes a standard copyright nearly unenforceable. The registered copyright is a mechanism for the creator to document the time of the work's creation such that the copyright can be protected or nullified more reliably.
Personally I have a beef with the internet archive. They are copyright thieves in my opinion. They take someone else's works, store them and republish them in a new format without the creator's express permission.
The archive argues they do nothing more than libraries do, but libraries have special authority under law, and frequently operate with the copyright holder's permission. Further, a library will usually no display a work unless it is complete and unaltered, and the library makes no attempt to change the format of, or republish a work. The IA takes works (web pages) without the creator's knowledge, frequently strips content from them, displays them out of context, and does this in spite of any copyright notices on the pages, terms of use, and without any special powers granted by the government; ie: they are not exempt from copyright law.
I think what the IA does is questionable at best, most likely illegal, and quite possibly criminal. I hope they loose this case and are shut down.
If you think the IA is a good idea, then perhaps you also will like the idea of recording everything everyone says outside their own home, in public, and allowing the world free, in both senses, access to the catalog.
Who's doesn't like IA? Try searching for the major companies on the site, you'll see most have "opted out" of the archive. If push comes to shove, they'll probably back closing the archive down. Even whitehouse.gov seems to have opted out.
And what libraries should it be built against, or would you statically bind all the code to the app this increasing it's size 10 fold? what version of X11? Etc, etc. WHICH x86 chip are you referring to? Binaries optimized for 686 won't run on older systems. Binaries optimized for 386 will run poorly on newer hardware.
"Linux" runs on something like a few dozen platforms, each with varying levels of compatibility with the others.
You toss around this idea of "a binary for Linux". Which CPU, which platform, which distro? There is a myth that you can compile and distribute binaries for Linux, but Linux isn't an OS, just a kernel. There are far too many variables to distribute a single binary and make the entire world happy.
Of course, it would have been evne easier to fix years ago when this issue was first brought to light. I think it was during Regan's terms.
The fact is that the birth and death rates are going down. The system was predicated upon both increasing.
I agree with you though... if things continue this way, the federal income tax will get to 80% or more and there will be a revolution. We're doing a piss poor job of being a capatilst society and we're doing a piss poor job of being a socialist society.
The problem with your $2 Master padlock is that is is easily opened with a $.02 piece of metal stuck in to the lock through the shackle hole. There's no need to know or guess the combination, or to even touch the dial. Opening the lock this way leaves no trace. If you want, simple: blowtorch. Melt the dial and internal mechanisms. It takes about 20 seconds and works every time.
There was a joke told by a presenter at a lock picking convention seminar I watched from the 'net: You see, in the movies, a hero walk up to a door, stick something in the lock and open the door a few seconds later? That's called a key.
I don't have the addresses handy, but in much of Europe lockpicking is a "sport" of sorts with a significant interest base. They study locks, ways of opening or bypassing them, etc.
Because ulike a frequency/modulation locked radio you can use a device like this to tune to restricted frequencies/channels/communications. Ex: you can't purchase a scanner that will tune to cell phone frequencies, but a software radio would have no such limitations.
As for the "knee jerk" comment, this is the same government that now coniders model rocket engines to be a terrorist tool and have been highly restricted. If you know anything about these engines you'd know that they are almost entirely useless to terrorists. there's probably more propulsive power in a can of hairspray than in these engines. Yet I now need to submit to a background check and fingerprinting to purchase engines, but I can purchase all the hairspray I want.
Same result for me, at least with "block pop-up windows" enabled. If I disable the pop-up blocking, the hijack works.
Of course the hi-jack only works if you connect to the "secure" site through an untrusted site. If you manually go to the Citibank site and click the link you don't get the hijack. The prevention is the simple idea we've been telling people for years: don't click on links from 3rd party sites to get to places you are supposed to trust like banks and other financial service sites. enter the site name manually, or use a bookmark on your system.
It was never a "strong rumor" that Apple would use AMD chips. It was a quack analyst, Enderel I think, that speculated that in a column. Anyone who's read any of his musings on Apple knows he's a quack and his comments are, to date, always wrong.
If of all the foods available, people start replicating McDonald's burgers, then there are larger problems in the world.
As for the whole world hunger thing... the problem isn't one of the volume or mass of food, it's a matter of money to purchase it or to ship it in a timely manner to where it's needed. If the people can't afford food, they sure can't afford a molecular manufacturing machine to "build" the food. Not to mention the energy to run the things.
The thing with dictionaries is they tend to cave to the popular use of words and allow that as a new definition. Another example of this is the word "bimonthly" which should (and technically does) mean "every two months" also carries the definition of "twice a month". These are two contradictory definition because people kept using the word incorrectly. The term for "twice a month" is "semi-monthly". Bi means two. Semi means one half. Monthly means once every month.
Along the same lines, the word recycle must have a cycle which is restarted. Simply changing a warehouse in to a condo does not begin the building cycle again. The building is repurposed or reused, but not recycled.
The definition you quote is both correct and incorrect. Correct in that it accurately defines a common usage for the word (and not as the primary definition). Incorrect in that the definition does not align with the structure of the word it defines.
Yes. But the term "recycle" has been so misused by television hosts that the word is coming to mean "any use for an item other than originally intended." I want to scream when I hear a home improvement host say "and we recycled this old bookcase by painting it and putting doors on it to make an armoire". That is NOT recycling, it's re-using.
Recycle does mean to send the item back to a plant where it is broken down to raw material again, then formed in to a new item.
Re-use means simply finding a new use for an existing item.
Recycling is for the most part a waste of resources and causes more pollution than simply creating an item from virgin raw materials (with the exception of metal recycling such as aluminum and steel).
The study seems flawed in manny respects. The glaring one is that is did not study a single population over time. They are assuming, or implying, causation here and I don't see any reasonable evidence of that with their two, unrelated groups method. It might be that people who are visially impaired tend to gravitate toward jobs where their eyesight is not critical to success. It might not be that computer work causes eye problems, but people with eye problems tend to do computer work.
I've not read the article but, from the summary, I agree with the problems of digital media storage. The author however, and many others, seem to ignore the issues with analog storage.
Sure fire, water, shredding/mutilation, and just plain aging affect both paper and electronic storage. The big difference is that with digital, you can have multiple originals since each copy is an exact duplicate. Yes, you can duplicate photos and documents, but each duplication is different from the original and from each other at least slightly; even two different prints from the same negative have differences due to the grain structure of the print paper. The core effect is that a photo print has a finite lifetime and can not be renewed indefinitely.
Digital information on the other hand can be stored in a manner where some destruction is a recoverable situation. You can also copy digital information to a new medium without any loss of information. As technologies become obsolete, you can transcode old information to new formats with little or no data loss.
If I were an archeologist, I think I'd rather be digging up hard disks and DVDs full of data than worn down stone tablets and decomposed parchments scrolls.
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These people don't know what they don't know. Since they are unaware of the knowledge required to properly operate/repair a computer, it follows that they do not seek it and do not understand the terms when presented. As a result of this ignorance the computer user is more at risk to be taken advantage of.
This is not a problem unique to computers, it it true of every technological device people use. Does the average person driving a car actually know how a turbocharger works or the terminology used in talking about repairing one: waste gate, compressor, turbine, fluid bearing, intercooler? When they go to a repair shop to get the engine repaired, will they have any clue about what these things are? If I said "Your waste gate trim tabs are locked open and that's causing the grinding noise", would an average person know if I could even be correct? I think not (that statement is bogus by the way. there are no trim tabs on a turbocharger waste gate and a waste gate would not cause an audible noise.)
The problem I see is the growing tendency in the U.S. to simply choose to NOT become informed/educated about how things in our lives work. In "the old days" people generally had a fairly good idea of how everyday things worked. Granted things were simpler, but there's no reason for today's population to at least know the basics. I think the knowledge of the average automobile driver is; the fuel goes there, turn the key to start and stop the engine, vertical pedal=go faster, horizontal pedal=slow down, and what buttons to press to open the windows and change the radio.
It's not very much different for the average computer owner: plug that in to the power outlet, that other thing in to the phone line, click the pretty picture to get on the internet. I'm not suggesting that every new user needs to be a CCIE, but we'd all be a lot better off if the ignorance pendulum started swinging back the other way for a while.
Actually it could. They are searching for planets by searching for their effect on the local star. The wobble they detect in the host star can now not be assumed to be a planet without futher investigation.
The only planets we observe via reflected light are those within our own system. To my knowledge no-one has imaged a remote system's plantary bodies yet..
Every new windows computer comes with an insecure browser installed and set up as the default.
"installing" spyware can be as simple as viewing a web page that has an image on it. You seem to be deluded in to thinking that you have to proactively install these malware programs.
The reason spyware is so prolific is that the knowledgeable people already have always-on broadband connections, we're getting to the point where the uninformed are getting set up and they don't know the dangers, precautions and warning signs. Most "newbies" blame their ISP for the viruses "I didn't have this problem until I switched from dialup to DSL" is a common phrase heard in my day job.
Sure the patches and firewall will protect you from the actively scanning worm attacks. That leaves you only susceptible to the 12,000 spyware attacks you invite to your computer simply by looking at a web page.
The one on Amazon has live-action clips from the movie, the one at Apple is just the animated "coming soon" clip.
Nope. Different clips. The Apple site has the "teaser", the Amazon site as a "trailer".
You drive your car in public, does that mean I can use it any time I want without your permission?
Opt-in/out-out? As long as I've known about copyright, some 20+ years, anything you express in a tangible media is copyrighted automatically. If you were to draw a doodle on a piece of paper, it is copyrighted. It is not a REGISTERED copyright though. While you can fight over an unregistered copyright, you must have documentation of when and how you created the work and the other person just needs to show they made theirs first. This makes a standard copyright nearly unenforceable. The registered copyright is a mechanism for the creator to document the time of the work's creation such that the copyright can be protected or nullified more reliably.
Personally I have a beef with the internet archive. They are copyright thieves in my opinion. They take someone else's works, store them and republish them in a new format without the creator's express permission.
The archive argues they do nothing more than libraries do, but libraries have special authority under law, and frequently operate with the copyright holder's permission. Further, a library will usually no display a work unless it is complete and unaltered, and the library makes no attempt to change the format of, or republish a work. The IA takes works (web pages) without the creator's knowledge, frequently strips content from them, displays them out of context, and does this in spite of any copyright notices on the pages, terms of use, and without any special powers granted by the government; ie: they are not exempt from copyright law.
I think what the IA does is questionable at best, most likely illegal, and quite possibly criminal. I hope they loose this case and are shut down.
If you think the IA is a good idea, then perhaps you also will like the idea of recording everything everyone says outside their own home, in public, and allowing the world free, in both senses, access to the catalog.
Who's doesn't like IA? Try searching for the major companies on the site, you'll see most have "opted out" of the archive. If push comes to shove, they'll probably back closing the archive down. Even whitehouse.gov seems to have opted out.
And what libraries should it be built against, or would you statically bind all the code to the app this increasing it's size 10 fold? what version of X11? Etc, etc. WHICH x86 chip are you referring to? Binaries optimized for 686 won't run on older systems. Binaries optimized for 386 will run poorly on newer hardware.
"Linux" runs on something like a few dozen platforms, each with varying levels of compatibility with the others.
You toss around this idea of "a binary for Linux". Which CPU, which platform, which distro? There is a myth that you can compile and distribute binaries for Linux, but Linux isn't an OS, just a kernel. There are far too many variables to distribute a single binary and make the entire world happy.
Of course, it would have been evne easier to fix years ago when this issue was first brought to light. I think it was during Regan's terms.
The fact is that the birth and death rates are going down. The system was predicated upon both increasing.
I agree with you though... if things continue this way, the federal income tax will get to 80% or more and there will be a revolution. We're doing a piss poor job of being a capatilst society and we're doing a piss poor job of being a socialist society.
The problem with your $2 Master padlock is that is is easily opened with a $.02 piece of metal stuck in to the lock through the shackle hole. There's no need to know or guess the combination, or to even touch the dial. Opening the lock this way leaves no trace.
If you want, simple: blowtorch. Melt the dial and internal mechanisms. It takes about 20 seconds and works every time.
There was a joke told by a presenter at a lock picking convention seminar I watched from the 'net:
You see, in the movies, a hero walk up to a door, stick something in the lock and open the door a few seconds later? That's called a key.
I don't have the addresses handy, but in much of Europe lockpicking is a "sport" of sorts with a significant interest base. They study locks, ways of opening or bypassing them, etc.
Because ulike a frequency/modulation locked radio you can use a device like this to tune to restricted frequencies/channels/communications. Ex: you can't purchase a scanner that will tune to cell phone frequencies, but a software radio would have no such limitations.
As for the "knee jerk" comment, this is the same government that now coniders model rocket engines to be a terrorist tool and have been highly restricted. If you know anything about these engines you'd know that they are almost entirely useless to terrorists. there's probably more propulsive power in a can of hairspray than in these engines. Yet I now need to submit to a background check and fingerprinting to purchase engines, but I can purchase all the hairspray I want.
Because the provider says it is. When the provider says you can't then it's illegal to share the bandwidth.
When I tell you to take money from my wallet, it's not stealing; without permission you go to jail.
Quicktime is not a codec.
Same result for me, at least with "block pop-up windows" enabled. If I disable the pop-up blocking, the hijack works.
Of course the hi-jack only works if you connect to the "secure" site through an untrusted site. If you manually go to the Citibank site and click the link you don't get the hijack. The prevention is the simple idea we've been telling people for years: don't click on links from 3rd party sites to get to places you are supposed to trust like banks and other financial service sites. enter the site name manually, or use a bookmark on your system.
It was never a "strong rumor" that Apple would use AMD chips. It was a quack analyst, Enderel I think, that speculated that in a column. Anyone who's read any of his musings on Apple knows he's a quack and his comments are, to date, always wrong.
If of all the foods available, people start replicating McDonald's burgers, then there are larger problems in the world.
As for the whole world hunger thing... the problem isn't one of the volume or mass of food, it's a matter of money to purchase it or to ship it in a timely manner to where it's needed. If the people can't afford food, they sure can't afford a molecular manufacturing machine to "build" the food. Not to mention the energy to run the things.
The thing with dictionaries is they tend to cave to the popular use of words and allow that as a new definition. Another example of this is the word "bimonthly" which should (and technically does) mean "every two months" also carries the definition of "twice a month".
These are two contradictory definition because people kept using the word incorrectly. The term for "twice a month" is "semi-monthly".
Bi means two. Semi means one half. Monthly means once every month.
Along the same lines, the word recycle must have a cycle which is restarted. Simply changing a warehouse in to a condo does not begin the building cycle again. The building is repurposed or reused, but not recycled.
The definition you quote is both correct and incorrect. Correct in that it accurately defines a common usage for the word (and not as the primary definition). Incorrect in that the definition does not align with the structure of the word it defines.
Describe "huge" gaps.
iTunes I think defaults to 3 seconds between tracks. You can set it as low as no gap or turn it up to 5s.
Yes. But the term "recycle" has been so misused by television hosts that the word is coming to mean "any use for an item other than originally intended." I want to scream when I hear a home improvement host say "and we recycled this old bookcase by painting it and putting doors on it to make an armoire". That is NOT recycling, it's re-using.
Recycle does mean to send the item back to a plant where it is broken down to raw material again, then formed in to a new item.
Re-use means simply finding a new use for an existing item.
Recycling is for the most part a waste of resources and causes more pollution than simply creating an item from virgin raw materials (with the exception of metal recycling such as aluminum and steel).
There are CF bulbs you can use with a dimmer. GE makes one. It's a 100w equivalent, it uses 29 watts and puts out 1750 lumens. 10,000 hours lifespan.
The study seems flawed in manny respects.
The glaring one is that is did not study a single population over time. They are assuming, or implying, causation here and I don't see any reasonable evidence of that with their two, unrelated groups method. It might be that people who are visially impaired tend to gravitate toward jobs where their eyesight is not critical to success. It might not be that computer work causes eye problems, but people with eye problems tend to do computer work.
I've not read the article but, from the summary, I agree with the problems of digital media storage. The author however, and many others, seem to ignore the issues with analog storage.
Sure fire, water, shredding/mutilation, and just plain aging affect both paper and electronic storage. The big difference is that with digital, you can have multiple originals since each copy is an exact duplicate. Yes, you can duplicate photos and documents, but each duplication is different from the original and from each other at least slightly; even two different prints from the same negative have differences due to the grain structure of the print paper. The core effect is that a photo print has a finite lifetime and can not be renewed indefinitely.
Digital information on the other hand can be stored in a manner where some destruction is a recoverable situation. You can also copy digital information to a new medium without any loss of information. As technologies become obsolete, you can transcode old information to new formats with little or no data loss.
If I were an archeologist, I think I'd rather be digging up hard disks and DVDs full of data than worn down stone tablets and decomposed parchments scrolls.