People need to stop worrying about what the fuck their neighbors do. It's their land, they are free to do whatever they want with it. So the hell what if your resale value goes down?
That doesn't even make sense. Why should I care if I lose 20-30 thousand dollars because my neighbor won't mow his lawn? If I didn't live in the south, that number would be more like 25-50 thousand. How can you not care about losing 6 months to a year's income?
So, yes, I think people have a good reason to care about what their neighbor does.
"Microsoft is concerned that this new report of a vulnerability was not responsibly disclosed, potentially putting computer users at risk. We continue to encourage responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. We believe the commonly accepted practice of reporting vulnerabilities directly to a vendor serves everyone's best interests. This practice helps to ensure that customers receive comprehensive, high-quality updates for security vulnerabilities without exposure to malicious attackers while the update is being developed."
Call me a cynic, but I've got to be honest: The net effect may be positive, but I don't believe that Microsoft's idea of 'responsible disclosure' results in high priority investigation and timely patching of MS products.
I've often described the action of quickly clicking on ok on whatever window pops up as the wack-a-mole behavior. With Windows, I can't say I blame users for this behavior because the popups that come up are so frequent and so useless that they've kinda been trained to do this. Linux errors are usually more useful, descriptive and since the order of the buttons change from window to window, you have to be more careful.;-)
Windows error messages tend to be along the lines of
OMG! COOKIES AND FORMS! SOMEBODY'S GOING TO STEAL YOUR MONEY AND EAT YOUR CHILDREN!!!11!!111!!!1 Click here if you do not wish to see this message again.
Linux error messages run the gamut, but many of them seem to be exceptions that really mean nothing until you google the exact message and find some page that can tell you that the "null address" error means you do not have the right version of whichever module the application was trying to reference.
they memorize a series of buttons to press to get whatever result they want and if anything unexpected happens, they're completely lost.
Sounds like their jobs are easily automated. Tell them if they don't pay closer attention to error messages you'll inform their boss how to replace them with another computer program.;)
But he'll hire them back when the program gives him a weird error.
Uh - if the dealership "bricks" your car by applying the update they will fix it for free. This question is just plain stupid - get the damn update. If something ever happens and you crash your car the first thing they will say is that you declined to apply their update and so they are not liable.
Yeah. It's not like you're install DD-WRT (although that does give me some ideas).
Unless, of course, you count the vast array of herbs used through the ages that pharmaceuticals are now based on.
Take a smart pill.
See, that's the funny part. If the herb does anything, it can be proven. Look at aspirin for example. Nobody owns the patent on aspirin, but we are constantly finding new uses for it (and in some cases, learning when not to use it). With herbal remedies, you never know what you're getting, and you never know if you're getting a safe and effective dose, either.
IANA doctor, but, as I understand it, the placebo effect is not as effective there as you might think. It is a catch-all for a wide variety of affects that can come from a change in routine.
For example: let's say you are testing a new diet pill. You are required to take a magic pill every day and go to your doctor's office for weekly weigh-ins. You may get excited because you are finally getting medical treatment for your problem, and work out every day. You may be more careful what you eat because of the weekly weigh-ins. You may be less likely to be discouraged when you do cheat, because of the pills or the weigh-ins. And driving to the clinic on the other side of town may break up your daily routine of going home and watching TV every night.
Placebo effects are often caused by either an individual taking better care of himself, or paying closer attention to what is happening. My point is that they may make someone take better care of him or herself, but don't expect much more than that.
-No scantily clad women? They objectify women. But pay no heed to the Sports Illustrated app or the entirety of the internet at your very literal fingertips.
-No Google voice? Also duplicates existing functionality. But be sure to ignore the allowance of Skype.
Yep, Apple's got a good reason for everything that it does, and its reason is placing consumers and developers first!
I don't think there is a good analogy for what this is. The problem is not what they choose to carry in their store front. The problem is the measures they take to lock you into an exclusive deal with their storefront. The customer can always go somewhere else, but it does make for a crappy product.
I would add that, here in the US, we like to claim that we cannot say what China or India does. Sure we can. We can make treaties demanding things we consider important (human rights and the environment, just like we did with ACTA, unfortunately), and we can bring most of the world with us (if we wished to do so). As for China, all we have to do is create a tax on products created by countries that do not agree to these treaties.
Is it such a terrible thing to say "if you want to sell in our country, you have to follow our laws"?
You do not "debunk", you ostracize. The main modus of debate of AGW proponents from day one has been moralistic, not empirical.
AGW deniers are ostracized in the same way that creationists and holocaust deniers have been ostracized. But there is a difference. If AGW deniers produced good science, every oil company on Earth would be throwing money at them to prove to the public that they can have their cake and eat it too. Don't you think that would dry up every last bit of support GW scientists have?
Hence the conversion of "skeptic" from badge of honor to a mark of shame, and the introduction of the "denier" label to further amp up the hysteric persecution of those who dont go with the program.
I still consider myself a skeptic. The problem is that "denier" is more accurate for GW deniers. If the evidence supports the other side, and you still stick to your guns, you are not a skeptic.
This also explains the skepticism of the general public. Joe Blow doesnt know his tree rings from his ice cores, but he sure knows what fanaticism looks like.
Is this the same Joe Blow that spent the last 8 years wetting his pants and throwing his money and freedom out the window every time a politician said the word "terrorist"? You, yourself, admitted that this hypothetical "Joe Blow" doesn't know anything about the evidence. So, why would your trust him over the vast majority of the world's scientists? That doesn't sound very skeptical to me.
After all, how can one trust a science where "skepticism" is career death? The answer is simple: One cant.
That's right. If only the people who use the word "skeptic" really were skeptics...
Sorry for being pedantic, but could you please not refer to it as a theory? To be a theory, a notion has to be supported by evidence. (Something more than "if you read this sentence fragment, squint just right, and assume the author is evil, you'll see what I mean" )
Jones's conspiratorial powers were so great that the papers were cited by the report
Ah ha! That's part of his plan. The mark of a great conspiracy is that everything that helps the conspirator is evidence of their plan, and everything that hurts them is evidence of their cover-up.
If you look up the statistics on how many people are killed every year by cigarettes, reckless driving, firearms, lack of health insurance, or obesity, and then compare that to how many people have been killed in the past decade by terrorism, you would find that terrorism is a more dramatic threat, but not a more dangerous one.
But I felt bad for the guy, having spent several months' salary on a phone that barely worked (and possibly thinking that Apple makes such poor products)
I'd hate to be "that guy", but if $120 is several months salary, then thinking Apple makes poor products is probably the least of his worries.
I'm sorry if I offended you. I would assume that you are either a virgin or a terrorist, but seeing as how you are here on Slashdot, I think I could guess as to which one.
wii fit. One of the things I like about wii fit is that you can use calories burned to track your score. Actual weight loss makes a good long term goal, but, in a single day, being able to say "I earned a piece of chicken" actually adds something to the routine.
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People need to stop worrying about what the fuck their neighbors do. It's their land, they are free to do whatever they want with it. So the hell what if your resale value goes down?
That doesn't even make sense. Why should I care if I lose 20-30 thousand dollars because my neighbor won't mow his lawn? If I didn't live in the south, that number would be more like 25-50 thousand. How can you not care about losing 6 months to a year's income?
So, yes, I think people have a good reason to care about what their neighbor does.
"Microsoft is concerned that this new report of a vulnerability was not responsibly disclosed, potentially putting computer users at risk. We continue to encourage responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. We believe the commonly accepted practice of reporting vulnerabilities directly to a vendor serves everyone's best interests. This practice helps to ensure that customers receive comprehensive, high-quality updates for security vulnerabilities without exposure to malicious attackers while the update is being developed."
Call me a cynic, but I've got to be honest: The net effect may be positive, but I don't believe that Microsoft's idea of 'responsible disclosure' results in high priority investigation and timely patching of MS products.
Only on Tuesdays.
Nah. It's like Perl; In high demand because nobody knows how to use it. <ducks>
I've often described the action of quickly clicking on ok on whatever window pops up as the wack-a-mole behavior. With Windows, I can't say I blame users for this behavior because the popups that come up are so frequent and so useless that they've kinda been trained to do this. Linux errors are usually more useful, descriptive and since the order of the buttons change from window to window, you have to be more careful. ;-)
Windows error messages tend to be along the lines of
OMG! COOKIES AND FORMS! SOMEBODY'S GOING TO STEAL YOUR MONEY AND EAT YOUR CHILDREN!!!11!!111!!!1
Click here if you do not wish to see this message again.
Linux error messages run the gamut, but many of them seem to be exceptions that really mean nothing until you google the exact message and find some page that can tell you that the "null address" error means you do not have the right version of whichever module the application was trying to reference.
they memorize a series of buttons to press to get whatever result they want and if anything unexpected happens, they're completely lost.
Sounds like their jobs are easily automated. Tell them if they don't pay closer attention to error messages you'll inform their boss how to replace them with another computer program. ;)
But he'll hire them back when the program gives him a weird error.
Uh - if the dealership "bricks" your car by applying the update they will fix it for free. This question is just plain stupid - get the damn update. If something ever happens and you crash your car the first thing they will say is that you declined to apply their update and so they are not liable.
Yeah. It's not like you're install DD-WRT (although that does give me some ideas).
Push-button ignition can be turned off by holding down the button (kind of like with a computer)...
... and waiting for the software interrupt to get picked up by the CPU, which may be in a hung state.
Not to mention that it's hard to hold a button down for three seconds while you're weaving in and out of traffic and urinating on yourself.
Unless, of course, you count the vast array of herbs used through the ages that pharmaceuticals are now based on.
Take a smart pill.
See, that's the funny part. If the herb does anything, it can be proven. Look at aspirin for example. Nobody owns the patent on aspirin, but we are constantly finding new uses for it (and in some cases, learning when not to use it). With herbal remedies, you never know what you're getting, and you never know if you're getting a safe and effective dose, either.
IANA doctor, but, as I understand it, the placebo effect is not as effective there as you might think. It is a catch-all for a wide variety of affects that can come from a change in routine.
For example: let's say you are testing a new diet pill. You are required to take a magic pill every day and go to your doctor's office for weekly weigh-ins. You may get excited because you are finally getting medical treatment for your problem, and work out every day. You may be more careful what you eat because of the weekly weigh-ins. You may be less likely to be discouraged when you do cheat, because of the pills or the weigh-ins. And driving to the clinic on the other side of town may break up your daily routine of going home and watching TV every night.
Placebo effects are often caused by either an individual taking better care of himself, or paying closer attention to what is happening. My point is that they may make someone take better care of him or herself, but don't expect much more than that.
I'm pretty sure Apple could drum up an altruistic-sounding or business-smart reason to ban just about any app from their store.
-No competing browsers? They duplicate existing functionality. Certainly wouldn't want that.
-No scantily clad women? They objectify women. But pay no heed to the Sports Illustrated app or the entirety of the internet at your very literal fingertips.
-No Google voice? Also duplicates existing functionality. But be sure to ignore the allowance of Skype.
Yep, Apple's got a good reason for everything that it does, and its reason is placing consumers and developers first!
Apple: There's an excuse for that!
So any app that sells condoms should also be banned, right? What non-pornographic uses are there for those?
I don't think there is a good analogy for what this is. The problem is not what they choose to carry in their store front. The problem is the measures they take to lock you into an exclusive deal with their storefront. The customer can always go somewhere else, but it does make for a crappy product.
I would add that, here in the US, we like to claim that we cannot say what China or India does. Sure we can. We can make treaties demanding things we consider important (human rights and the environment, just like we did with ACTA, unfortunately), and we can bring most of the world with us (if we wished to do so). As for China, all we have to do is create a tax on products created by countries that do not agree to these treaties.
Is it such a terrible thing to say "if you want to sell in our country, you have to follow our laws"?
You do not "debunk", you ostracize. The main modus of debate of AGW proponents from day one has been moralistic, not empirical.
AGW deniers are ostracized in the same way that creationists and holocaust deniers have been ostracized. But there is a difference. If AGW deniers produced good science, every oil company on Earth would be throwing money at them to prove to the public that they can have their cake and eat it too. Don't you think that would dry up every last bit of support GW scientists have?
Hence the conversion of "skeptic" from badge of honor to a mark of shame, and the introduction of the "denier" label to further amp up the hysteric persecution of those who dont go with the program.
I still consider myself a skeptic. The problem is that "denier" is more accurate for GW deniers. If the evidence supports the other side, and you still stick to your guns, you are not a skeptic.
This also explains the skepticism of the general public. Joe Blow doesnt know his tree rings from his ice cores, but he sure knows what fanaticism looks like.
Is this the same Joe Blow that spent the last 8 years wetting his pants and throwing his money and freedom out the window every time a politician said the word "terrorist"? You, yourself, admitted that this hypothetical "Joe Blow" doesn't know anything about the evidence. So, why would your trust him over the vast majority of the world's scientists? That doesn't sound very skeptical to me.
After all, how can one trust a science where "skepticism" is career death? The answer is simple: One cant.
That's right. If only the people who use the word "skeptic" really were skeptics...
Sorry for being pedantic, but could you please not refer to it as a theory? To be a theory, a notion has to be supported by evidence. (Something more than "if you read this sentence fragment, squint just right, and assume the author is evil, you'll see what I mean" )
Jones's conspiratorial powers were so great that the papers were cited by the report
Ah ha! That's part of his plan. The mark of a great conspiracy is that everything that helps the conspirator is evidence of their plan, and everything that hurts them is evidence of their cover-up.
A Man much wiser than me once said "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. "
And when the people are ignorant of the government, there is stupidity.
people are more worried about drama.
If you look up the statistics on how many people are killed every year by cigarettes, reckless driving, firearms, lack of health insurance, or obesity, and then compare that to how many people have been killed in the past decade by terrorism, you would find that terrorism is a more dramatic threat, but not a more dangerous one.
But I felt bad for the guy, having spent several months' salary on a phone that barely worked (and possibly thinking that Apple makes such poor products)
I'd hate to be "that guy", but if $120 is several months salary, then thinking Apple makes poor products is probably the least of his worries.
I'm sorry if I offended you. I would assume that you are either a virgin or a terrorist, but seeing as how you are here on Slashdot, I think I could guess as to which one.
Why on earth would I *want* to imagine my life as a rocket-propelled grenade?
In exchange for 72 virgins?
wii fit. One of the things I like about wii fit is that you can use calories burned to track your score. Actual weight loss makes a good long term goal, but, in a single day, being able to say "I earned a piece of chicken" actually adds something to the routine.
Kind of ironic the report is a PDF file, when another report stated that PDF accounts for 9/10 (or something like that) exploits last year.
It would only be the Alanis ironic if the report were in PDF when you really wanted HTML.
is it me or is americans in love with absolutes?
Except when it comes to grammar.
They're like a proctologist who says "people must love this. They keep showing up, don't they?"