Can't speak for small towns, but in larger cities, no way.
They only time they might take their time or not show up at all for a personal reason is if it's a cop's house. I'll bet even that is getting exceedingly rare.
I still remember when you needed at least a few reference books on "Undocumented DOS".
On the plus side, unless it's really going out of it's way to hamper others, the effect should be less threatening than it was back when hardware and software was so meager.
That's retarded. It looks exactly like a device that the vast majority of all humans would assume is harmless (and 99.9999999999% of the time, be correct in doing so).
I would think you would figure out pretty quick that it's hot, but it's not that hard to imagine someone coming across it (say watching someone's home while they owner is away, etc) and thinking it's not a fire hazard.
I mean, I hate that we along with idiots need to be told "COFFEE IS HOT!" but a warning on something like this makes perfect sense.
Assuming everything was modeled. If you are pondering this scenario, I suppose one explanation could be that nothing outside of your own experience is simulated to any great degree.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's the test scenario, but from my own experience, I disagree.
My take has always been in certain situations, your brain works faster, causing everything else to seem slower in comparison. I can think of a few times this happened to me.
As a for instance, I am not a speedy or graceful creature, but one time, I was operating a fork lift, a girl I knew stopped to talk to me. When she started to walk to the left in front of me (and she was less than a foot to the right of the forks), I realized she forgot they were there, and that she was going to fall face first onto the concrete, before her first step was over. Quicker than I could speak, I grabbed the top of the cage, swung out and ALMOST caught her. LOL, luckily, outside of some horrid bruised on her shins (OW!), she was ok, but my feet hit the ground before she did. How long does it take to fall?
I know normally, there is no way, within a partial step, that I could see this, realize it and take action at normal reaction speed (I spent more time just then trying to remember how to figure out how to spell normal).
I use that example as it wasn't just perception, but I've also had experiences like that in other situations, car accidents, etc.
I'm with you. I don't see how it matters in a meaningful way if photons are bouncing off an observatory, my iris or my ass.
And if these things do matter, who cares. We'll never be able to understand the implications of looking at the galaxy. Maybe by not looking, we would cause every other sentience in the universe to look and from what I grok of quantum mechanics, you can never know.
Lot's of devices have had needed a few iterations to go from "kind of cool, but..." to indispensable. TVs, Radio, Walkie Talkies, Remote Controls, etc.
Well in principle, I don't have a problem with it in privately owned spaces as long as it's very well noted. I mean hitting you on the head with the fact. (Meaning making it legal in a small range of circumstances, then as a customer, if it bothers me, I can go elsewhere).
Some people need to be reachable due to profession responsibilities and other situations at all times.
For instance, my brother is a police detective, if certain things go down in the city, he gets paged or called. Someone waiting for a transplant, etc, I can think of a lot of situations where it could be very detrimental. So obviously, people NEED to be very aware.
Of course, if so many people weren't such rude bastards, it wouldn't be a problem. In particular, I hate Nextels. You'll be in line someplace and some idiot is yelling. Open the damn phone at least and speak at a respectable level.
Now as an underground thing, I can think of some other serious issues. What a handy tool to use during muggings, robberies and assaults. A lot of people (and I think it's a mistake) are taking to not having a land line at all.
I got my girlfriend a PS2 for Christmas (2004 IIRC) at Toys-R-Us. Come Xmas morning, we open it up and the first thing I notice is the Sony tamper tape, is covering an already broken piece of tape.
Pull out the PS2 and it's obviously used, it has burn marks on it, a black tar like substance and melted candle wax, and the serial label hanging off (label swapped with stolen one). Surprise, surprise it doesn't work. An employee must have brought there broken one from home and swapped them out, and added the tamper tape over the old one and put it back in the cage.
Long story short, I got f***ed out of $200+ and the frustrating delight of dealing with Toys R' Us and the CC company for a year.
So they screwed me out of a couple hundred, but come Xmas, my 16 nieces and nephews get presents from elsewhere.
I'm always apprehensive about bigger ticket items now.
The issue aside, no matter how smart you are, there is still no reason to be a dick about things. I don't recall reading any articles about what an ass Einstein was.
"This being Slashdot, Microsoft would be blamed for something even if they brokered a lasting peace between Isreal and the Palestinians, cured cancer, or brought global worming to a screeching halt."
I don't know if they'd be blamed, but I'm sure a lot of people would be suspicous;)
There is truth to a lot of it though, they have done a lot of shady things over the last couple decades and there is really no reason to believe they've changed. It's not exactly undeserved.
They're a business and their goal is to stay dominant and extract as much money out of people as possible. Not a problem in itself, they are just too big and have too much leverage. A smaller company wouldn't have that much money to sway (so many anyway) politicians, committees, etc, or dictate the market to such a degree.
An OS is pretty much a commodity. So to not be a commodity, they need to bundle things tight, squash or embrace and extend alternatives, then use their lock in as leverage to generate new revenue streams. I think it's obvious the end-game is to be a toll collector for everything. You always make more money renting then selling something once. But people aren't buying a OS to have it spy on what they're listening to for 10% of the time (or whatever it is) or to have it prevent them from making a screen cap, etc.
The whole net neutrality issues is pretty much the same. A Packet is a packet. A dumb pipe (as an OS should be). We want more money without adding any value. Hmm, let's start hitting up the end producers and consumers depending on what they want to do. You want to work well with our service? You pay us more or your services won't work well with out users.
They are just utilities whether they like it or not. Picture your electric company telling people what kind of appliances you could use or how you could use them, or that to use certain brands or types of appliances will cost more than others even though they use the same amount of power, then at the same time going back to Maytag and saying, "You need to pay us extra if you want your users to have the best washing experience". People would riot.
Then there are people who just hate them because they don't want to pay for anything at all and are pissed it's become so hard (comparatively) to pirate. But I think most people who are zealots about it fall into the former category.
You can't expect everyone to know what electronics are supposed to look like. Not everyone has "breadboards" laying around the house.
Though it's harder to believe she was just being naive though given the putty.
I worry about stuff like this myself. For instance, I have a cell phone that's modded to start with my car for my carpc, but I made it so I could take it out for emergencies. I took care to make it pretty though as I didnt' want to get pulled over and have a cop or whatever see what they thought was an IED.
Almost every time I'm walking out to the lot to work on my car with something dangling wires, I get all kinds of suspicious looks. It's lame to have to worry about it. Then again, I wouldn't try and take something like that on a plane, it's just common sense.
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It reminds me of some creation from an H.G. Wells story or something. A robot from the old days.
With the big circuit stuffed trunk, and the little cloth covered legs, combined with the natural motion, weird.
Can't speak for small towns, but in larger cities, no way.
They only time they might take their time or not show up at all for a personal reason is if it's a cop's house. I'll bet even that is getting exceedingly rare.
..sounds dumb to me. I like Cleveland well enough, but a whole show centered around him?
Hopefully it's less of a turd than American Dad.
Good,
I hope it does, I'm in South Boston and if I knew him, I'd drive over to Eastie and fucking smack him. I don't care if he's blind.
17 is old enough to know you could get someone killed doing shit like that.
I still remember when you needed at least a few reference books on "Undocumented DOS".
On the plus side, unless it's really going out of it's way to hamper others, the effect should be less threatening than it was back when hardware and software was so meager.
That's retarded. It looks exactly like a device that the vast majority of all humans would assume is harmless (and 99.9999999999% of the time, be correct in doing so).
I would think you would figure out pretty quick that it's hot, but it's not that hard to imagine someone coming across it (say watching someone's home while they owner is away, etc) and thinking it's not a fire hazard.
I mean, I hate that we along with idiots need to be told "COFFEE IS HOT!" but a warning on something like this makes perfect sense.
Actually, in pure Perl I'd agree but using PDL or via C->XS might make a lot of sense.
Assuming everything was modeled. If you are pondering this scenario, I suppose one explanation could be that nothing outside of your own experience is simulated to any great degree.
Wow. I can't believe this even made it to /.
In related news, their next paper will be on the effect of check writing on supermarket lines.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's the test scenario, but from my own experience, I disagree.
My take has always been in certain situations, your brain works faster, causing everything else to seem slower in comparison. I can think of a few times this happened to me.
As a for instance, I am not a speedy or graceful creature, but one time, I was operating a fork lift, a girl I knew stopped to talk to me. When she started to walk to the left in front of me (and she was less than a foot to the right of the forks), I realized she forgot they were there, and that she was going to fall face first onto the concrete, before her first step was over. Quicker than I could speak, I grabbed the top of the cage, swung out and ALMOST caught her. LOL, luckily, outside of some horrid bruised on her shins (OW!), she was ok, but my feet hit the ground before she did. How long does it take to fall?
I know normally, there is no way, within a partial step, that I could see this, realize it and take action at normal reaction speed (I spent more time just then trying to remember how to figure out how to spell normal).
I use that example as it wasn't just perception, but I've also had experiences like that in other situations, car accidents, etc.
Outside of
the ability to tell Google "NO" when it suggests alternative phrases. You would think that would be valuable feedback.
I'm with you. I don't see how it matters in a meaningful way if photons are bouncing off an observatory, my iris or my ass.
And if these things do matter, who cares. We'll never be able to understand the implications of looking at the galaxy. Maybe by not looking, we would cause every other sentience in the universe to look and from what I grok of quantum mechanics, you can never know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPB3H_a234s
Lot's of devices have had needed a few iterations to go from "kind of cool, but..." to indispensable. TVs, Radio, Walkie Talkies, Remote Controls, etc.
Why would mobile internet be any different?
Well in principle, I don't have a problem with it in privately owned spaces as long as it's very well noted. I mean hitting you on the head with the fact. (Meaning making it legal in a small range of circumstances, then as a customer, if it bothers me, I can go elsewhere).
Some people need to be reachable due to profession responsibilities and other situations at all times.
For instance, my brother is a police detective, if certain things go down in the city, he gets paged or called. Someone waiting for a transplant, etc, I can think of a lot of situations where it could be very detrimental. So obviously, people NEED to be very aware.
Of course, if so many people weren't such rude bastards, it wouldn't be a problem. In particular, I hate Nextels. You'll be in line someplace and some idiot is yelling. Open the damn phone at least and speak at a respectable level.
Now as an underground thing, I can think of some other serious issues. What a handy tool to use during muggings, robberies and assaults. A lot of people (and I think it's a mistake) are taking to not having a land line at all.
I agree 100%, nothing added to my car that isn't functional and ergonomic for that reason.
An inverter would work but would make stealthy installs harder. Plus inverters usually introduce a lot of noise with amps.
I have a feeling the PS will be on the main board which would make modding a bit tricker.
I don't get it, but a lot of people put PS2's in their cars, making the PS internal is going to make that a bit tricky.
Between modders and soccer moms, I wonder how many units they sell that end up in autos.
the ability to modify the appearance of labels on a per label basis. Would make it easier to sort at a glance.
I got my girlfriend a PS2 for Christmas (2004 IIRC) at Toys-R-Us. Come Xmas morning, we open it up and the first thing I notice is the Sony tamper tape, is covering an already broken piece of tape.
Pull out the PS2 and it's obviously used, it has burn marks on it, a black tar like substance and melted candle wax, and the serial label hanging off (label swapped with stolen one). Surprise, surprise it doesn't work. An employee must have brought there broken one from home and swapped them out, and added the tamper tape over the old one and put it back in the cage.
Long story short, I got f***ed out of $200+ and the frustrating delight of dealing with Toys R' Us and the CC company for a year.
So they screwed me out of a couple hundred, but come Xmas, my 16 nieces and nephews get presents from elsewhere.
I'm always apprehensive about bigger ticket items now.
The issue aside, no matter how smart you are, there is still no reason to be a dick about things. I don't recall reading any articles about what an ass Einstein was.
Actually, multiple accelerometers mounted in the wrong orientation, spring type so no ABS would have save it.
Excellent explanation
"This being Slashdot, Microsoft would be blamed for something even if they brokered a lasting peace between Isreal and the Palestinians, cured cancer, or brought global worming to a screeching halt."
;)
I don't know if they'd be blamed, but I'm sure a lot of people would be suspicous
There is truth to a lot of it though, they have done a lot of shady things over the last couple decades and there is really no reason to believe they've changed. It's not exactly undeserved.
They're a business and their goal is to stay dominant and extract as much money out of people as possible. Not a problem in itself, they are just too big and have too much leverage. A smaller company wouldn't have that much money to sway (so many anyway) politicians, committees, etc, or dictate the market to such a degree.
An OS is pretty much a commodity. So to not be a commodity, they need to bundle things tight, squash or embrace and extend alternatives, then use their lock in as leverage to generate new revenue streams. I think it's obvious the end-game is to be a toll collector for everything. You always make more money renting then selling something once. But people aren't buying a OS to have it spy on what they're listening to for 10% of the time (or whatever it is) or to have it prevent them from making a screen cap, etc.
The whole net neutrality issues is pretty much the same. A Packet is a packet. A dumb pipe (as an OS should be). We want more money without adding any value. Hmm, let's start hitting up the end producers and consumers depending on what they want to do. You want to work well with our service? You pay us more or your services won't work well with out users.
They are just utilities whether they like it or not. Picture your electric company telling people what kind of appliances you could use or how you could use them, or that to use certain brands or types of appliances will cost more than others even though they use the same amount of power, then at the same time going back to Maytag and saying, "You need to pay us extra if you want your users to have the best washing experience". People would riot.
Then there are people who just hate them because they don't want to pay for anything at all and are pissed it's become so hard (comparatively) to pirate. But I think most people who are zealots about it fall into the former category.
You can't expect everyone to know what electronics are supposed to look like. Not everyone has "breadboards" laying around the house.
Though it's harder to believe she was just being naive though given the putty.
I worry about stuff like this myself. For instance, I have a cell phone that's modded to start with my car for my carpc, but I made it so I could take it out for emergencies. I took care to make it pretty though as I didnt' want to get pulled over and have a cop or whatever see what they thought was an IED.
Almost every time I'm walking out to the lot to work on my car with something dangling wires, I get all kinds of suspicious looks. It's lame to have to worry about it. Then again, I wouldn't try and take something like that on a plane, it's just common sense.