and don't believe an article that says Microsoft didn't know what was going down in the spyware world until Ballmer bought in an infected PC
I'm not too sure about that. IIRC this tale unfolded several years ago and was one of the reasons behind MS's big security push. The only thing "new" about it is that Allchin seems to like telling the story over and over, year after year. And it keeps getting publishes as if its a new story.
I'm not aware of anything that directly addresses the question that's been published. I'm not even sure the study I mentioned has actually been published yet, all it took was the press release to cause a firestorm.
I can't hold that against Sony. Calling it an IEEE1394 port isn't going to help anyone. Keep in mind, Sony was one of the first (the first?) to use 1394 on consumer video products (video recorders to TVs). Their brand name for their implementation of the standard was/is iLink. Apple had there own registered monicker for their implementations, called Firewire. It was only after Apple decided it would be a good idea to put the "Firewire" name in a kind of "Creative Commons" type of use to promote the standard by other industry players that it became the name for 1394.
From there, is Sony better off changing it and confusing customers, or not changing it and confusing customers?
Why doesn't someone just figure out that statistic and then we'll have an answer
They have! (that was the first link I found to the story/study).
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma recently found that two-thirds of school fights were instigated by regular video game players, but only 4% were started by children who had never played such games.
Two-thirds started by regular video game players! Only 4% by kids who never played such games! Fast, ban them! Ban them NOW!
But wait, aren't like 80% of kids regular video game players? And they're only responsible for 67% of incidents? Is it possible only 2% of kids have never played such a game??? That means non-gamers are significanlty more likely (per individual) to instigate fights! We need new school programs fast to make kids play more video games! Somebody call the press!
Note: I have yet to find a reference to the above study that actually mentions what % of kids in the study were "regular video game players". Nobody seems to realize the results are meaningless without that.
Even so, you don't send it to an astromomer. Send it to a biologist, a chemist, or, hey, even a biochemist to evaluate. Does this guy go to a lawyer for medical advice (or vice versa)?
We have yet to determine how he came to the conclusion there is not DNA (he's a solid state physicist). Its really hard to go to any "puddle" of water and not find DNA, even if there aren't any living organisms (just ask anyone who does DNA work how careful they have to be to avoid contaminating samples).
Precisely why the sample has not been distributed to a variety of scientists continues to amaze me.
Especially if they are truly multiplying, as hinted in the article.
OTOH, a meteor (possibly containing much Fe) soars across the sky, burning up as it goes (burning another term for a fast oxydation reaction), and suddenly the rain has a red tinge to it.
Obviously, there must be some form of life involved, it couldn't be just chemistry.
And they always told me the reddish water pumped from farm wells was just due to iron in the water...
So that lettuce that got left in the refrigerator too long, that's really alien bacteria/fungus/whatever turning it reddish and slimy.
it will pretty much always say something to the effect of "actual speed may vary"
And if I could get away with adding, "actual monthly payment will vary," that would be OK. Everyone knows that due to economic conditions, $49 a month only happens under ideal conditions. And it is generally controlled by the distance between payday and payout, among other factors not under my control (birthdays, holidays, video game release dates...).
I understand what you're saying, but IMO the hard drive also has a couple more advantages. First, as the owner of a couple PS2's, I can say anything that increases the life of the optical drive is a good thing (but then I'd probably be complaining about short hard drive lives).
Second, I don't remember where I read it, but the biggest complaint gamers have is the amount of time they spend watching the "Loading..." screen. A hard drive really helps there.
Plus, if you've got kids, the constant shuffling of the game disks into and out of the machine takes its toll on the machine and disks -even if they are careful.
But I wonder how many people who bought a PS2 to use as a DVD player too, will balk at doing this again given the short life of the DVD drives in those consoles. I'd rather save the "usable" hours for gaming (and would game coders please use the HD to take the stress off the optical drive -PLEASE!).
And there's no reason consoles couldn't use the same solution used for PC games -the hard drive. Seriously, kick the drive size up to 200 GB, go with a standard dual-layer DVD drive, and drop the price.
Of course I'm one of those heretics who think I should just be able to install PC or console games on a hard drive and put the disk in the cupboard where its safe -but piracy concerns trumped the convenience of the consumer long ago.
Don't know about their country's laws, but in the US the scope of the search has to be specified on the search warrant. You can't tell the judge who signed it you're searching for one thing, when you're really after something else. That gets evidence tossed out of court and using it for any other purpose can get you into trouble.
And all I keep thinking is didn't Senator Hatch try to push through some legislation a couple years ago that would make this perfectly legal for copyright holders? That's about the time he made the statement about if being OK if the RIAA/MPAA "blew up their computers" and wanted to also give them amnesty in case anything bad happened (like they trashed the wrong person's computer).
IIRC though, he pulled back when he suddenly realized anyone who composed a Haiku in elementary school was a copyright holder -not just giant companies.
Yes, to a certain degree it does seem obvious. The part that amazes me is that even with everyone consuming the same mass media (watching the same movies, TV) over many years, those variations are so vast.
I think part of it was the complexity, and part of it was they had a more difficult time placing themselves into the Earthsea "world". There's a lot more hand-holding in Harry Potter since you start in the "normal" world and are slowly indroduced to the magical world -learning about it as Harry Potter does. There's a little bit of that with Ged as he goes through his apprenticeship, but not nearly to the same degree.
Tolkein they haven't read yet, Narnia, they've read "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". They had a difficult time with the slow start and didn't really get into it until they were on the "other" side of the wardrobe. The Harry Potter books were by far the easiest for them to just sit and enjoy with a minimal amount of "work".
I'm just happy my kids are willing to give "big books" a chance, much lesssecond chance, which they often do. We're talking kids in 2nd -6th grade. So take that into account in how they reacted to the books. The oldest didn't like Earthsea, but really liked "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" (she even read it again after she saw the movie).
I think I've heard just about as many dialiects of English from people from the UK as from the US. I sometimes wonder if its apprpriate to consider some "Englishes" different languages. And that's without including those from the southern hemisphere.
That's because you, like many Europeans, have been indoctrinated into "The Queen's English", as opposed to what we speak in the US:-)
Seriously though, there are many dialects of English, as seen by a PBS documentary a while back titled, "Do You Speak English?" in which they toured the different regions of the US and covered the different origins and differences in the language. Amazingly, much of the difference is actually inherited from the country from which the bulk of the residents draw their lineage from -whether England, France, Spain, Germany....
One major difference though, is the difference between "formal" and "informal" English. The web is (IMO) dominated by informal English, which even I have trouble with at times. What you may see as writing improperly, they may see as writing informally.
And I think that's a big part of what makes it so approachable to many kids. Plus it's a fascinating story that hold their attention. What worries me is when I see teachers and parents pushing books they think kids should read, sometimes causing kids to not want to read anything. If a kid doesn't want to read "Moby Dick", let them read Harry Potter -it's better than not reading at all.
BTW, I did pull my Earthsea books out for the kids about a year ago. Although they are much, much shorter than the Harry Potter books, my youngest reader had a difficult time getting through the first one, and didn't want to read any more of them (we'll try again in a year or two). But we did have some interesting discussions about them, beyond the "how cool was that!" type of thing.
And sadly, the people who say things like what you quoted will insist the kid must read "Moby Dick" and other classics, while simultandously denigrating the reading of science fiction, fantasy and graphic novels.
I'd like to know when in the Professor's childhood, millions of kids stayed up until midnight to get their hands on a new book, or waited anxiously by the door for the delivery person to bring their finally un-embargoed book. Then maybe he should visit a local, mainstream bookstore when the final Harry Potter book is released.
Just because kids don't read what he did or thinks they should, doesn't mean they are any more lacking in literacy.
BTW, before that they blamed comic books, dime store novels and other cheap, approachable writings for decreasing and abasing the literary level of the youth.
Here's a clue for the professor: No kid has ever wanted to read Moby Dick. Great literature for adults is often lousy for kids. Anyone who tries to force it to be otherwise is an idiot IMNSHO.
That's what I was wondering. The way things are being interpreted here, it seems everyone is fine with someone publishing classified information as long as they're a journalist. All of a sudden spies become journalists so they can no longer be held accountable. Or they just leak the information they want revealed to a journalist.
IMO both sides need to take a reality check. There is no simple answer that will both protect information that does need to be classified and completely protect a whistle-blower. As much as they like to believe otherwise, the press does not exist in a world separate from the one they report on.
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and don't believe an article that says Microsoft didn't know what was going down in the spyware world until Ballmer bought in an infected PC
I'm not too sure about that. IIRC this tale unfolded several years ago and was one of the reasons behind MS's big security push. The only thing "new" about it is that Allchin seems to like telling the story over and over, year after year. And it keeps getting publishes as if its a new story.
I'm not aware of anything that directly addresses the question that's been published. I'm not even sure the study I mentioned has actually been published yet, all it took was the press release to cause a firestorm.
Also, is the term "iLink" only for the smaller, unpowered 4-pin ports, or do they use it for full sized 6-pin ports as well?
That I don't know. I've only seen the 4-pin ports on Sony equipment, but I've by no means seen their entire linup.
I can't hold that against Sony. Calling it an IEEE1394 port isn't going to help anyone. Keep in mind, Sony was one of the first (the first?) to use 1394 on consumer video products (video recorders to TVs). Their brand name for their implementation of the standard was/is iLink. Apple had there own registered monicker for their implementations, called Firewire. It was only after Apple decided it would be a good idea to put the "Firewire" name in a kind of "Creative Commons" type of use to promote the standard by other industry players that it became the name for 1394.
From there, is Sony better off changing it and confusing customers, or not changing it and confusing customers?
Why doesn't someone just figure out that statistic and then we'll have an answer
They have! (that was the first link I found to the story/study).
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma recently found that two-thirds of school fights were instigated by regular video game players, but only 4% were started by children who had never played such games.
Two-thirds started by regular video game players! Only 4% by kids who never played such games! Fast, ban them! Ban them NOW!
But wait, aren't like 80% of kids regular video game players? And they're only responsible for 67% of incidents? Is it possible only 2% of kids have never played such a game??? That means non-gamers are significanlty more likely (per individual) to instigate fights! We need new school programs fast to make kids play more video games! Somebody call the press!
Note: I have yet to find a reference to the above study that actually mentions what % of kids in the study were "regular video game players". Nobody seems to realize the results are meaningless without that.
Even so, you don't send it to an astromomer. Send it to a biologist, a chemist, or, hey, even a biochemist to evaluate. Does this guy go to a lawyer for medical advice (or vice versa)?
We have yet to determine how he came to the conclusion there is not DNA (he's a solid state physicist). Its really hard to go to any "puddle" of water and not find DNA, even if there aren't any living organisms (just ask anyone who does DNA work how careful they have to be to avoid contaminating samples).
Precisely why the sample has not been distributed to a variety of scientists continues to amaze me.
Especially if they are truly multiplying, as hinted in the article.
OTOH, a meteor (possibly containing much Fe) soars across the sky, burning up as it goes (burning another term for a fast oxydation reaction), and suddenly the rain has a red tinge to it.
Obviously, there must be some form of life involved, it couldn't be just chemistry.
And they always told me the reddish water pumped from farm wells was just due to iron in the water...
So that lettuce that got left in the refrigerator too long, that's really alien bacteria/fungus/whatever turning it reddish and slimy.
it will pretty much always say something to the effect of "actual speed may vary"
And if I could get away with adding, "actual monthly payment will vary," that would be OK. Everyone knows that due to economic conditions, $49 a month only happens under ideal conditions. And it is generally controlled by the distance between payday and payout, among other factors not under my control (birthdays, holidays, video game release dates...).
I understand what you're saying, but IMO the hard drive also has a couple more advantages. First, as the owner of a couple PS2's, I can say anything that increases the life of the optical drive is a good thing (but then I'd probably be complaining about short hard drive lives).
Second, I don't remember where I read it, but the biggest complaint gamers have is the amount of time they spend watching the "Loading..." screen. A hard drive really helps there.
Plus, if you've got kids, the constant shuffling of the game disks into and out of the machine takes its toll on the machine and disks -even if they are careful.
But I wonder how many people who bought a PS2 to use as a DVD player too, will balk at doing this again given the short life of the DVD drives in those consoles. I'd rather save the "usable" hours for gaming (and would game coders please use the HD to take the stress off the optical drive -PLEASE!).
We're already seeing two-disc DVD games,
And there's no reason consoles couldn't use the same solution used for PC games -the hard drive. Seriously, kick the drive size up to 200 GB, go with a standard dual-layer DVD drive, and drop the price.
Of course I'm one of those heretics who think I should just be able to install PC or console games on a hard drive and put the disk in the cupboard where its safe -but piracy concerns trumped the convenience of the consumer long ago.
Don't know about their country's laws, but in the US the scope of the search has to be specified on the search warrant. You can't tell the judge who signed it you're searching for one thing, when you're really after something else. That gets evidence tossed out of court and using it for any other purpose can get you into trouble.
And all I keep thinking is didn't Senator Hatch try to push through some legislation a couple years ago that would make this perfectly legal for copyright holders? That's about the time he made the statement about if being OK if the RIAA/MPAA "blew up their computers" and wanted to also give them amnesty in case anything bad happened (like they trashed the wrong person's computer).
IIRC though, he pulled back when he suddenly realized anyone who composed a Haiku in elementary school was a copyright holder -not just giant companies.
Yes, but in this case, I say we go with Buffy's impersonation of Gandhi.
As a counterpoint, I'll simply mention the Mars Rovers.
Good design always has a bit of "luck" involved. There are always assumptions and simplifications nobody thinks are significant, until they are.
Yes, to a certain degree it does seem obvious. The part that amazes me is that even with everyone consuming the same mass media (watching the same movies, TV) over many years, those variations are so vast.
I suggest trying them out on Pullman's excellent "The Golden Compass."
I haven't read that one. I'll take a look at it -Thanks.
I think part of it was the complexity, and part of it was they had a more difficult time placing themselves into the Earthsea "world". There's a lot more hand-holding in Harry Potter since you start in the "normal" world and are slowly indroduced to the magical world -learning about it as Harry Potter does. There's a little bit of that with Ged as he goes through his apprenticeship, but not nearly to the same degree.
Tolkein they haven't read yet, Narnia, they've read "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". They had a difficult time with the slow start and didn't really get into it until they were on the "other" side of the wardrobe. The Harry Potter books were by far the easiest for them to just sit and enjoy with a minimal amount of "work".
I'm just happy my kids are willing to give "big books" a chance, much lesssecond chance, which they often do. We're talking kids in 2nd -6th grade. So take that into account in how they reacted to the books. The oldest didn't like Earthsea, but really liked "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" (she even read it again after she saw the movie).
LOL -no way!
I think I've heard just about as many dialiects of English from people from the UK as from the US. I sometimes wonder if its apprpriate to consider some "Englishes" different languages. And that's without including those from the southern hemisphere.
That's because you, like many Europeans, have been indoctrinated into "The Queen's English", as opposed to what we speak in the US :-)
Seriously though, there are many dialects of English, as seen by a PBS documentary a while back titled, "Do You Speak English?" in which they toured the different regions of the US and covered the different origins and differences in the language. Amazingly, much of the difference is actually inherited from the country from which the bulk of the residents draw their lineage from -whether England, France, Spain, Germany....
One major difference though, is the difference between "formal" and "informal" English. The web is (IMO) dominated by informal English, which even I have trouble with at times. What you may see as writing improperly, they may see as writing informally.
As they say, "ignorance is bliss!"
It's also very simply written and plotted
And I think that's a big part of what makes it so approachable to many kids. Plus it's a fascinating story that hold their attention. What worries me is when I see teachers and parents pushing books they think kids should read, sometimes causing kids to not want to read anything. If a kid doesn't want to read "Moby Dick", let them read Harry Potter -it's better than not reading at all.
BTW, I did pull my Earthsea books out for the kids about a year ago. Although they are much, much shorter than the Harry Potter books, my youngest reader had a difficult time getting through the first one, and didn't want to read any more of them (we'll try again in a year or two). But we did have some interesting discussions about them, beyond the "how cool was that!" type of thing.
And sadly, the people who say things like what you quoted will insist the kid must read "Moby Dick" and other classics, while simultandously denigrating the reading of science fiction, fantasy and graphic novels.
I'd like to know when in the Professor's childhood, millions of kids stayed up until midnight to get their hands on a new book, or waited anxiously by the door for the delivery person to bring their finally un-embargoed book. Then maybe he should visit a local, mainstream bookstore when the final Harry Potter book is released.
Just because kids don't read what he did or thinks they should, doesn't mean they are any more lacking in literacy.
You echoed' my first thoughts on the subject.
BTW, before that they blamed comic books, dime store novels and other cheap, approachable writings for decreasing and abasing the literary level of the youth.
Here's a clue for the professor: No kid has ever wanted to read Moby Dick. Great literature for adults is often lousy for kids. Anyone who tries to force it to be otherwise is an idiot IMNSHO.
That's what I was wondering. The way things are being interpreted here, it seems everyone is fine with someone publishing classified information as long as they're a journalist. All of a sudden spies become journalists so they can no longer be held accountable. Or they just leak the information they want revealed to a journalist.
IMO both sides need to take a reality check. There is no simple answer that will both protect information that does need to be classified and completely protect a whistle-blower. As much as they like to believe otherwise, the press does not exist in a world separate from the one they report on.