it's different because you can't download a new keypad for your security system or car, but you can easily download and apply a patch for a program. it's a matter of distribution.
additionally, in your analogy, for each poster up on the telephone pole, they would have included a box full of replacement keypads (or whatever) to fix the problem; w00w00 did list a place to download a proxy that will serve as a temporary fix. it's allowing people to be able to make the decision to protect themselves, instead of being subject to the whims of Big Bad Corporation X's product life cycle.
just the old regulated security VS. freedom debate.
does the equipment exist so you could mount a satellite on the roof of the van and keep it turning as necessary to face it towards ?
satellite, although it has ugly ping times, is definitely up in the triple digits in throughput, and runs around 70 bucks a month (although the equipment will cost you several hundred dollars).
i would imagine that gimli (and legolas) will be more developed in the next movie, since part of the two towers (iirc) is those two traveling together and becoming bosom buddies.
I closed my paypal account after reading the paypalwarning.com and paypalsucks.com sites a while back, after only doing 30$ worth of transactions. I would be MORE than happy to deal with the inconvenience of them being a real bank, doing background investigations/credit checks, etc., if it made it a more reliable and trustable method of doing transactions (read especially this, found from paypalwarning.com. "Paypal new terms allows them to access bank accounts without express permission" ). I think this would be a great deal in their best interests considering their popularity... if they could boast to be the biggest online transactor of money AND be FDIC insured and all that (and still keep their cheaper-than-most-banks transaction fees) they'd clean up in small business.
nick (the guy who made that site) says that putting your resume on sites like monster is as good as flushing them down the toilet. like someone said (approx.) in another post, you find jobs through people. go out and get to know some.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and "Lila"
mostly will be remembered by most as a JAPP (Just Another Pop Philosopher), but will always keep a following of people trying to cope with the dangling ends of eastern and western thought.
The Internet JUNKBUSTER Proxy (http://internet.junkbuster.com) intercepted the request for www.msn.com/ because the URL matches the following pattern in the blockfile: www.msn.com
i got REALLY tired of being redirected there after checking my (once upon a time NON-MS) hotmail account.
So what else are they going to do? Walk around the class to make sure nobody's got comics or porn behind those book covers? Read their notes to make sure they aren't doodling in class? Hire a mind reader and make sure they aren't daydreaming about the girl/boy sitting next to them?
How about just trusting that the students that are there to learn will be doing so.
And maybe try including material in the class that isn't read straight from the book so that these idiots wasting $10k+ a year for a phat pipe and a kegger every weekend will have to actually pay attention to pass the class.
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they had about 5 police cruisers carrying these camera/radar guns, and one stationary one at a street corner.
just like red light cameras that have been in use for a couple years or so.
We are already dependent on old technology.
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Children are immunized near birth. Our entire lives we are dependent on vaccines to help defend ourselves from the onslaught of bacerium and viruses in the world.
We are dependent on fire: it cooks our food and burns our coal to generate electricity to run our machines.
Dependency on new technology will be no different than dependency on old technology: we will eventually assimilate and/or dispose of it.
There's a great story called "The Days of Solomon Gursky" in 16th (I think) "The Year's Best Science Fiction" that Gardner Dozois edits which depicts a great view on how nanotechnology is used and abused, and eventually made an integral part of existence.
Even more so than art, you need to have some education relative to the field, and medium, to appreciate an author's work. Even among programmers this is necessary: imagine trying to get a BASIC programmer to appreciate a slick Perl snippet at a single glance.
seriously, you can either get answers to ANY question fairly quickly, or else find the answer by searching the forums or checking the nhf's (newbie-ized help files).
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it's different because you can't download a new keypad for your security system or car, but you can easily download and apply a patch for a program. it's a matter of distribution.
additionally, in your analogy, for each poster up on the telephone pole, they would have included a box full of replacement keypads (or whatever) to fix the problem; w00w00 did list a place to download a proxy that will serve as a temporary fix. it's allowing people to be able to make the decision to protect themselves, instead of being subject to the whims of Big Bad Corporation X's product life cycle.
just the old regulated security VS. freedom debate.
does the equipment exist so you could mount a satellite on the roof of the van and keep it turning as necessary to face it towards ?
satellite, although it has ugly ping times, is definitely up in the triple digits in throughput, and runs around 70 bucks a month (although the equipment will cost you several hundred dollars).
i would imagine that gimli (and legolas) will be more developed in the next movie, since part of the two towers (iirc) is those two traveling together and becoming bosom buddies.
I closed my paypal account after reading the paypalwarning.com and paypalsucks.com sites a while back, after only doing 30$ worth of transactions. I would be MORE than happy to deal with the inconvenience of them being a real bank, doing background investigations/credit checks, etc., if it made it a more reliable and trustable method of doing transactions (read especially this, found from paypalwarning.com. "Paypal new terms allows them to access bank accounts without express permission" ). I think this would be a great deal in their best interests considering their popularity... if they could boast to be the biggest online transactor of money AND be FDIC insured and all that (and still keep their cheaper-than-most-banks transaction fees) they'd clean up in small business.
...or something like that: www.asktheheadhunter.com
nick (the guy who made that site) says that putting your resume on sites like monster is as good as flushing them down the toilet. like someone said (approx.) in another post, you find jobs through people. go out and get to know some.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and "Lila"
mostly will be remembered by most as a JAPP (Just Another Pop Philosopher), but will always keep a following of people trying to cope with the dangling ends of eastern and western thought.
...because I beat them to it!
The Internet JUNKBUSTER Proxy (http://internet.junkbuster.com) intercepted the request for www.msn.com/ because the URL matches the following pattern in the blockfile: www.msn.com
i got REALLY tired of being redirected there after checking my (once upon a time NON-MS) hotmail account.
>> If the system were 99.99% accurate and it indicated a match, wouldn't you want to pull the person out for closer inspection?
you KNOW someone who's bags are searched because they look like a terrorist is going to go running straight to their lawyer.
avoiding lawsuits would be a huge hinderance to implementing a system like that.
So what else are they going to do? Walk around the class to make sure nobody's got comics or porn behind those book covers? Read their notes to make sure they aren't doodling in class? Hire a mind reader and make sure they aren't daydreaming about the girl/boy sitting next to them?
How about just trusting that the students that are there to learn will be doing so.
And maybe try including material in the class that isn't read straight from the book so that these idiots wasting $10k+ a year for a phat pipe and a kegger every weekend will have to actually pay attention to pass the class.
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they had about 5 police cruisers carrying these camera/radar guns, and one stationary one at a street corner.
just like red light cameras that have been in use for a couple years or so.
Children are immunized near birth. Our entire lives we are dependent on vaccines to help defend ourselves from the onslaught of bacerium and viruses in the world.
We are dependent on fire: it cooks our food and burns our coal to generate electricity to run our machines.
Dependency on new technology will be no different than dependency on old technology: we will eventually assimilate and/or dispose of it.
There's a great story called "The Days of Solomon Gursky" in 16th (I think) "The Year's Best Science Fiction" that Gardner Dozois edits which depicts a great view on how nanotechnology is used and abused, and eventually made an integral part of existence.
not that anyone will read this 10 days later, but i shoulda said 'some art'.
Even more so than art, you need to have some education relative to the field, and medium, to appreciate an author's work. Even among programmers this is necessary: imagine trying to get a BASIC programmer to appreciate a slick Perl snippet at a single glance.
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http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
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seriously, you can either get answers to ANY question fairly quickly, or else find the answer by searching the forums or checking the nhf's (newbie-ized help files).