I've never been impressed by the argument that 'I can't think why we need this (standard) security measure, so let's drop it.' It usually indicates a lack of imagination of the speaker. But in this case, does usability outweigh security?"
In counterpoint, I've never been impressed by the argument that "It's a standard security measure that everyone does." It usually indicates a lack of critical thinking of the speaker.
For a specific example, passwords that expire after a certain time period. Especially those that expire after, say, the windows standard period of 42 days, and start reminding you that it's going to expire fourteen days prior to the actual expiration. This means you only get 28 days of nag-free logins. After which, you have to dismiss an additional modal dialog before you can log in and begin working. Not to mention that for the first few days to a week after you've been forced to increment the number on the end of your password as you do every 42 days, you invariably enter it wrong the first few times, often locking yourself out, and necessitate additional work from the IT guys and lost time by the users.
Another example is those absurd legal disclaimers at the end of emails that apparently carry little legal weight, if any.
Considering those antivirus companies' entire business model depends largely on flaws in a single product line of another company does it really matter if they go out of business? They're parasites on a monopoly.
A handful of their descendants rose to positions of wealth & power and decided to use that wealth & power to get more wealth & power for their own selfish reasons, ignoring or enjoying how detrimental their actions would be for everyone else but their other wealthy and powerful friends.
Well said, however! (There is ever a however in intelligent discourse.) What if one of those people in line is someone else like you? Wouldn't that be nice for a change? I only say this to be the devil's advocate though. The likelihood of someone like you or I meeting someone we would consider worth talking to at a movie theater or bank teller line is rather slim. Especially considering I buy all my tickets online hours or days in advance, and haven't seen the inside of a bank since 2005 thanks to online banking. That said, this much is entirely true: "One man's patience is another man's wasted time."
As an aside, your mention of Proust - especially coming from someone worth listening to - intrigued me, so I looked him up. Judging by his birthday, his works are out of copyright. Any idea where I might find In Search of Lost Time in electronic form? Ideally,.epub, though html or plaintext would serve.
Of course, if they could prove that sexual preference is genetic I believe we will see some real outrage with "We can guarantee your baby will NOT be gay"
What's wrong with that? Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against homosexuality. But its the parents' right to choose, and what they decide to do with their baby is entirely up to them. I would not presume to dictate what people can and can not do with regard to their unborn children. Hell, I don't even like stepping in after birth unless there's a clear cut case of neglect.
Personally I don't know if I would bother screening out a homosexual child, but given that I know a homosexual human will have a more difficult life, I might be tempted to opt for a hetro baby. I realize that choosing means the homosexual baby doesn't get to be hetero, but rather is never allowed to form, but I'd have to protect a homosexual child from more. Not to mention I wouldn't be able to scope out chicks with him if born male. Or explain the finer points of how to please a woman when he's old enough.
Folding@Home, and torrents are more like a micropayment system that actually works.
Sure it costs you electricity and bandwidth, but in such small amounts (typically) and over time. Plus there are no additional transaction fees or middle men taking a cut. It's tax free, and there are no forms to fill out or any other bureaucracy.
Torrents are just a distributed micropayment system.
marketing Pronunciation: \mär-k-tij\ Function: noun Date: 1561 1 a: the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market b: the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service 2: an aggregate of functions involved in moving goods from producer to consumer 3: (modern definition) getting paid to say or do anything you can get away with to convince, cajole, or surreptitiously trick as many people as possible by any means possible into buying your product/service
No, they called it a pandemic because it fits the definition of "pandemic" in the context of the WHO. Which basically states that it's affecting two or more geographic regions at a time.
When you get right down to it, a pandemic really isn't that scary unless the disease itself is. Given their definition, the flu, the cold, HIV, measels, mumps, rubella, staph., cholera, and tuberculosis are all pandemics too. But you don't see them making headlines on sensationalist media outlets - though the reason is self evident.
Natural selection will take care of it eventually.
Just keep murdering birds with airplanes until all the ones that don't get out of the way of planes have been removed from the gene pool off.
Not a real quick fix, you understand, but probably incredibly effective!
And develop planes that are better suited to simply take a duck in the face at 150 knots. If as a result, the bird strike does no serious damage to the plane, then you can let my previous proposal work.
Nonsense. There is absolutely nothing wrong with improving the vocabulary of preliterate Slashdot readers, and the practice should be actively encouraged.
Malarkey.
True genius is making the complicated seem trivial. This means writing as clearly as possible rather than trying for the highest scrabble word score.
There's a time and a place for "waxing loquacious": Academic papers of predefined arbitrary lengths.
Arguing that monopoly practices are to blame is a joke; there are other OSes
How is it a joke?
Massive amounts of customers are requesting XP, but Microsoft simply denies them and forces Vista on them.
Most businesses simply can't decide to deny their customers what they want and instead force them to pay more for the company wants to sell instead. In a market where there isn't a monopoly, the customers simply ditch that company and go to a competitor. Any time a company gets away with this, you have a clear and evident monopoly.
In a free market with competition companies deliver what their customers want or they go out of business rather quickly.
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In counterpoint, I've never been impressed by the argument that "It's a standard security measure that everyone does." It usually indicates a lack of critical thinking of the speaker.
For a specific example, passwords that expire after a certain time period. Especially those that expire after, say, the windows standard period of 42 days, and start reminding you that it's going to expire fourteen days prior to the actual expiration. This means you only get 28 days of nag-free logins. After which, you have to dismiss an additional modal dialog before you can log in and begin working. Not to mention that for the first few days to a week after you've been forced to increment the number on the end of your password as you do every 42 days, you invariably enter it wrong the first few times, often locking yourself out, and necessitate additional work from the IT guys and lost time by the users.
Another example is those absurd legal disclaimers at the end of emails that apparently carry little legal weight, if any.
I got a free copy of Windows XP by attending the .NET launch at George Mason University.
I got another one through my college's MSDN license program as a Computer Science student.
So I own two legitimate licenses and paid for neither.
I currently have no plans to pay for a shiny new version with irritating usability features for the braindead like and DRM in the kernel.
Canon also doesn't try and install a direct pipeline to your bank account with printer ink cartridges either.
Contrast this with HP who gives you "starter" ink cartridges for their $50 printer then gouges you for 30-80% the cost of the printer for ink (30% for black, 82% for color). HP is also the company behind the infamous printer ink costing more than human blood fiasco.
So Canon is being the good guy in two separate markets. Go Canon!
I hate to rain on your +Funny parade, but it's ultraviolet radiation that causes a tan.
Microwaves will just heat you up to about a depth of 1cm.
Considering those antivirus companies' entire business model depends largely on flaws in a single product line of another company does it really matter if they go out of business? They're parasites on a monopoly.
Because printing a huge article costs significantly more to create in hard copy form.
And I got that from TFS, not even TFA.
But, given that you're talking about short attention spans I wonder if this wasn't perhaps a really well hidden joke...
I'm highly skeptical considering circumcision has been around longer than we've known that HIV existed.
Sounds to me like a justification, not a proof.
A handful of their descendants rose to positions of wealth & power and decided to use that wealth & power to get more wealth & power for their own selfish reasons, ignoring or enjoying how detrimental their actions would be for everyone else but their other wealthy and powerful friends.
Sweet, let's do wireless carriers next.
Their "heads I win, tails you lose" billing system is downright abusive.
Don't use all your minutes? it's still $39.99! What, did you think you would get to pay less since your phone as off all month?
Use more than your cap allows? $1.50 per minute! Enjoy your $359 bill!
Well said, however! (There is ever a however in intelligent discourse.) What if one of those people in line is someone else like you? Wouldn't that be nice for a change? I only say this to be the devil's advocate though. The likelihood of someone like you or I meeting someone we would consider worth talking to at a movie theater or bank teller line is rather slim. Especially considering I buy all my tickets online hours or days in advance, and haven't seen the inside of a bank since 2005 thanks to online banking. That said, this much is entirely true: "One man's patience is another man's wasted time."
As an aside, your mention of Proust - especially coming from someone worth listening to - intrigued me, so I looked him up. Judging by his birthday, his works are out of copyright. Any idea where I might find In Search of Lost Time in electronic form? Ideally, .epub, though html or plaintext would serve.
What's wrong with that? Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against homosexuality. But its the parents' right to choose, and what they decide to do with their baby is entirely up to them. I would not presume to dictate what people can and can not do with regard to their unborn children. Hell, I don't even like stepping in after birth unless there's a clear cut case of neglect.
Personally I don't know if I would bother screening out a homosexual child, but given that I know a homosexual human will have a more difficult life, I might be tempted to opt for a hetro baby. I realize that choosing means the homosexual baby doesn't get to be hetero, but rather is never allowed to form, but I'd have to protect a homosexual child from more. Not to mention I wouldn't be able to scope out chicks with him if born male. Or explain the finer points of how to please a woman when he's old enough.
Folding@Home, and torrents are more like a micropayment system that actually works.
Sure it costs you electricity and bandwidth, but in such small amounts (typically) and over time. Plus there are no additional transaction fees or middle men taking a cut. It's tax free, and there are no forms to fill out or any other bureaucracy.
Torrents are just a distributed micropayment system.
Except we already know the patent system ignores prior art.
Except the case here is that the professor doesn't want next year's students to be able to use the answers from the site.
They don't want to come up with new assignments next year. Laziness, pure and simple. That a professor isn't fired for this is reprehensible.
How is it even unauthorized? They used the correct passwords.
By using marketing:
marketing
Pronunciation: \mär-k-tij\
Function: noun
Date: 1561
1 a: the act or process of selling or purchasing in a market b: the process or technique of promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service
2: an aggregate of functions involved in moving goods from producer to consumer
3: (modern definition) getting paid to say or do anything you can get away with to convince, cajole, or surreptitiously trick as many people as possible by any means possible into buying your product/service
A critical update.
Added behind the scenes in Windows Update's default mode of download & install.
No, they called it a pandemic because it fits the definition of "pandemic" in the context of the WHO. Which basically states that it's affecting two or more geographic regions at a time.
When you get right down to it, a pandemic really isn't that scary unless the disease itself is. Given their definition, the flu, the cold, HIV, measels, mumps, rubella, staph., cholera, and tuberculosis are all pandemics too. But you don't see them making headlines on sensationalist media outlets - though the reason is self evident.
I miss the days of the AOL floppy. Those were at least useful as more than coasters.
Because the collision of two planets is beyond epic.
Natural selection will take care of it eventually.
Just keep murdering birds with airplanes until all the ones that don't get out of the way of planes have been removed from the gene pool off.
Not a real quick fix, you understand, but probably incredibly effective!
And develop planes that are better suited to simply take a duck in the face at 150 knots. If as a result, the bird strike does no serious damage to the plane, then you can let my previous proposal work.
And here I thought it was a communist version of youtube!
The job wasn't the only thing. From TFA:
I'm sure that had a significant impact as well. The security flaw fiasco may have been just the final straw.
Malarkey.
True genius is making the complicated seem trivial. This means writing as clearly as possible rather than trying for the highest scrabble word score.
There's a time and a place for "waxing loquacious": Academic papers of predefined arbitrary lengths.
Not normal conversation.
How is it a joke?
Massive amounts of customers are requesting XP, but Microsoft simply denies them and forces Vista on them.
Most businesses simply can't decide to deny their customers what they want and instead force them to pay more for the company wants to sell instead. In a market where there isn't a monopoly, the customers simply ditch that company and go to a competitor. Any time a company gets away with this, you have a clear and evident monopoly.
In a free market with competition companies deliver what their customers want or they go out of business rather quickly.
Bringing up DOS 1.0 is a straw man.