You can do something sexy and suggestive fully clothed and you can do something ordinary and non-suggestive fully naked. Put them on film in this culture and one will net you a PG rating and the other will net you an R rating. Go figure.
When the fundamental basis for the ratings system is based on utterly illogical foolishness, expecting logical thought behind how these ratings are applied is perhaps a bit much...
... (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)
There are some cultures that aren't as "sex-saturated" as the US. OTOH, there are also many cultures that are nowhere near as sexually repressed (and sexually repressive) as the US. We're fairly middle of the road in the grand scheme of things, but tend towards the Puritanical side more...
When are languages other than English going to die? There's many more advantages to a common world language than a common world measurement system (which is just a common language for measurement).
People in many countries speak English anyway, I know, but then people in the US use metric, too. The question you're asking is, when will the US make it the official, government-backed system, and when will people stop using the old one? Well, let me ask, when will it stop being simply the case that many French people speak English, but rather, when with France adopt English as the official language, and the French will simply stop speaking French?
Note, I don't advocate this. I merely point out the double-standard. I don't advocate that France adopt English as its official language. Nor do I advocate that the United States adopt the metric system as its official system. Let people speak and measure as they see fit. I just find it odd that supposedly logical people think one of these suggestions is more reasonable than the other, and oddly, the one that would provide the smaller benefit (a common world language for measurement) is more reasonable than the one that provide the larger benefit (a common world language, period).
Being nerds, you shouldn't defend an inferior system just because you're used to it. If a single generation could just put up with the pain of switching to the metric system, then that generation and every generation after that would receive the benefits. It's definitely a lot easier that saving the planet for them.
Ah, but you see, there's actually benefit to saving the planet. Switching from one arbitrary temperature measure to another arbitrary one doesn't seem to provide much benefit. Particularly when it would be switching from the superior one to the inferior one for day to day purposes. The metric system as a whole is better than the old system, but that doesn't make it better in every way at everything. Now, there's the kind of mindset that says you need to standardize on one solution all the time, regardless of particular merits in particular situations, but there's another that says you use the best tool for the job at hand. K has advantages over F in scientific contexts. C doesn't, really. K > F > C. You could conceivably convince me to climb up the scale to K, but I'm not going to downgrade to C just because that's what everyone else is using.
40-80 is the range of habitable temperatures for humans? Where do YOU live. I live in a pretty temperate area and mine fluctuate from low 30s (occasionally) to high 100s (occasionally), with occasional extremes... (Fahrenheit, obviously).
Yes, and if you didn't have heated buildings to go into on the cold days, or at least the ability to build a fire, you'd be dead now.
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Well, yeah, except for that 98.6 thing.
You're referring to the common misconception that that's the normal body temperature, or even that body temperatures are so regular that you'd need a decimal point to express it? (The figure 98.6F is an example of false precision, being a translation of 37C, which wasn't meant to be more accurate than a degree celsius to begin with, and was a rough figure at that.)
I'm the same way. Particularly in the winter, it's really, really damn easy to tell when someone has taken them thermostat from 72 to 71. At GP: I probably can't tell the different between 18F and 19F, but yes, absolutely yes, I and many other people can easily tell the difference between 73F and 74F.
I've never had a first post. And probably never will, the reflexes just aren't what they used to be... *sigh* Getting first posts is a game for the young. OTOH, there may be more opportunities like this one, where everyone is just too stunned by the stupidity of the news that us older, more jaded types are the first to regain enough coherence to make a post. Still, "Syfy"?! I'm still mildly stunned.
IIRC correctly, the Blade Runner scene also involved looking at different angles, seeing behind things, around corners, and other fun stuff. That requires a bit more than higher megapixels...
Or possibly, not. A sufficiently dense picture combined with a sufficiently powerful computer might be able to reconstruct the scene in this manner, based on reflections and such that are in the original image.
Way to miss the point. Try rereading, including the "Computer security by law is worse than security by obscurity, or security by Symantec product." part.
Yes you're absolutely right that if you leave your bike unlocked and unattended, the person who will inevitably steal it can be prosecuted if caught and "it wasn't locked up" isn't a valid defense.
The point, however, is you still need to lock up your bike if you don't want it stolen. "Security by law" is not secure.
Yes. Freedom to express your opinion is innate human quality, and if Norton does not recognize that right within their organization or website, then they are no better than the North Korean government.
Can I protest in your living room? No? You're no better than the North Korean government.:p
As the old song goes, "You can speak your mind, but not on my time..."
Norton recognizes your right to express your opinion. They've done nothing to shut down your blog. They may not let you post to theirs, but that doesn't infringe in your rights in any way at all whatsoever -- you need their permission to store data on their hard drives, you have no inherent right to do so at all. If they don't want to host your speech, they don't have to. We all have the right to determine what bits are stored on our own property.
What you're arguing is that we should be allowed to infringe on their rights...
No, he didn't necessarily stop reading there, but... people compose their first reply in their heads as soon as they read the title, and displaying the usual level of/. impulse control, they hit read more, hit reply, and post it. Then they read the summary, make another reply. Then, maybe, they read the actual article. If they haven't already gotten distracted by all the other clueless posts and arguments over first reactions and speculating that's so much more fun than actually learning the facts.:p
I think there might have been a few years from the late 1700s into the early 1800s when we weren't... but I wouldn't be confident enough in that to bet money on it. It's amazing, now that I think about it, that we went from nonexistence to sailing black ships into Asian ports to open them by threat of force in less than a hundred years. Doesn't take long to go from struggling for independence through just minding our own business to projecting force around the world...
In my experience, the only [t]csh users out there are those who used it back in the day before there were other options...
Yes. This phenomenon is also responsible for the continued usage of vi and other primitive behaviors.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that, speaking as someone who uses joe and alters all my syntax highlighting to replicate the same color scheme I used in Turbo C under DOS.)
The BBC is interesting because it's arguably less government-controlled than the US media, in spite of being tax funded.
s/in spite of/because of/
The BBC has to worry less about pleasing its corporate masters and more about serving the public, since it's the public that's footing the bill. It's essentially the same principle that keeps Consumer Reports and public radio a cut above the rest.
Developing video games is not a service in my opinion. You may disagree, but I attribute that to a lack of understanding of the definition of 'service'.
You're not very creative if you think the definition of service excludes education, or you find it inconceivable that a video game can be educational. If your argument is that a video game is not a very efficient educational tool and this is a waste of money, I would agree with you, but I would at least understand that those who disagree with us understand what "service" means, they just disagree with the value of the service provided here.
...and I completely understand the need to pay taxes. Where did that come from?
From your previous comment:
[Neither] You nor I should be telling others how to spend *their* money.
If this comment is taken at face value, you're either rejecting taxes or rejecting the democratic process. Was you objection to the spending of the money (taxes) or the democratic process (you and I)?
No no, if developers do something stupid under Linux and an update from the package manager breaks it, it's the developers' fault. But if developers do something stupid under OS X and it breaks, that's Apple's fault.
Bad example. I had pretty much the same experience trying to install and run gnucash on Debian. For a very long time, it was impossible to do without downloading and reinstalling custom compiled versions of some of Debian's standard library (on which hundreds of other Debian packages depended on).
2) Fuel: Unlike Saturn or Proton rockets, this is a spaceplane. So the fuel tank cannot be meters long and meters wide. it must be compact like a gasoline tank, yet be able to contain ALL fuel for launch from high-altitudes and return.
Excuse me? Why can't the fuel tank be meters long and meters wide? Looking at the design, it appears the fuel tanks are 6m wide and tens of meters long. Indeed they don't appear significantly different from rocket fuel tanks.
Hmm. I usually reach them from a bookmark. Rather than a special TLD, why not simply a meta tag that ensures anyone bookmarking the page gets the 'S' in the bookmark, even if they came to the non-SSL homepage. I notice, for example, that my bookmark for PayPal says "https://www.paypal.com", even though I'm sure they're reachable via the usual http. My bank's bookmark did not have the 'S', but I just changed it and works fine with it -- it really should have just had it all along.
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You can do something sexy and suggestive fully clothed and you can do something ordinary and non-suggestive fully naked. Put them on film in this culture and one will net you a PG rating and the other will net you an R rating. Go figure.
When the fundamental basis for the ratings system is based on utterly illogical foolishness, expecting logical thought behind how these ratings are applied is perhaps a bit much...
... (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)
There are some cultures that aren't as "sex-saturated" as the US. OTOH, there are also many cultures that are nowhere near as sexually repressed (and sexually repressive) as the US. We're fairly middle of the road in the grand scheme of things, but tend towards the Puritanical side more...
When are languages other than English going to die? There's many more advantages to a common world language than a common world measurement system (which is just a common language for measurement).
People in many countries speak English anyway, I know, but then people in the US use metric, too. The question you're asking is, when will the US make it the official, government-backed system, and when will people stop using the old one? Well, let me ask, when will it stop being simply the case that many French people speak English, but rather, when with France adopt English as the official language, and the French will simply stop speaking French?
Note, I don't advocate this. I merely point out the double-standard. I don't advocate that France adopt English as its official language. Nor do I advocate that the United States adopt the metric system as its official system. Let people speak and measure as they see fit. I just find it odd that supposedly logical people think one of these suggestions is more reasonable than the other, and oddly, the one that would provide the smaller benefit (a common world language for measurement) is more reasonable than the one that provide the larger benefit (a common world language, period).
Being nerds, you shouldn't defend an inferior system just because you're used to it. If a single generation could just put up with the pain of switching to the metric system, then that generation and every generation after that would receive the benefits. It's definitely a lot easier that saving the planet for them.
Ah, but you see, there's actually benefit to saving the planet. Switching from one arbitrary temperature measure to another arbitrary one doesn't seem to provide much benefit. Particularly when it would be switching from the superior one to the inferior one for day to day purposes. The metric system as a whole is better than the old system, but that doesn't make it better in every way at everything. Now, there's the kind of mindset that says you need to standardize on one solution all the time, regardless of particular merits in particular situations, but there's another that says you use the best tool for the job at hand. K has advantages over F in scientific contexts. C doesn't, really. K > F > C. You could conceivably convince me to climb up the scale to K, but I'm not going to downgrade to C just because that's what everyone else is using.
40-80 is the range of habitable temperatures for humans? Where do YOU live. I live in a pretty temperate area and mine fluctuate from low 30s (occasionally) to high 100s (occasionally), with occasional extremes... (Fahrenheit, obviously).
Yes, and if you didn't have heated buildings to go into on the cold days, or at least the ability to build a fire, you'd be dead now.
Well, yeah, except for that 98.6 thing.
You're referring to the common misconception that that's the normal body temperature, or even that body temperatures are so regular that you'd need a decimal point to express it? (The figure 98.6F is an example of false precision, being a translation of 37C, which wasn't meant to be more accurate than a degree celsius to begin with, and was a rough figure at that.)
I'm the same way. Particularly in the winter, it's really, really damn easy to tell when someone has taken them thermostat from 72 to 71. At GP: I probably can't tell the different between 18F and 19F, but yes, absolutely yes, I and many other people can easily tell the difference between 73F and 74F.
I've never had a first post. And probably never will, the reflexes just aren't what they used to be... *sigh* Getting first posts is a game for the young. OTOH, there may be more opportunities like this one, where everyone is just too stunned by the stupidity of the news that us older, more jaded types are the first to regain enough coherence to make a post. Still, "Syfy"?! I'm still mildly stunned.
IIRC correctly, the Blade Runner scene also involved looking at different angles, seeing behind things, around corners, and other fun stuff. That requires a bit more than higher megapixels...
Or possibly, not. A sufficiently dense picture combined with a sufficiently powerful computer might be able to reconstruct the scene in this manner, based on reflections and such that are in the original image.
Way to miss the point. Try rereading, including the "Computer security by law is worse than security by obscurity, or security by Symantec product." part.
Yes you're absolutely right that if you leave your bike unlocked and unattended, the person who will inevitably steal it can be prosecuted if caught and "it wasn't locked up" isn't a valid defense.
The point, however, is you still need to lock up your bike if you don't want it stolen. "Security by law" is not secure.
Yes. Freedom to express your opinion is innate human quality, and if Norton does not recognize that right within their organization or website, then they are no better than the North Korean government.
Can I protest in your living room? No? You're no better than the North Korean government. :p
As the old song goes, "You can speak your mind, but not on my time..."
Norton recognizes your right to express your opinion. They've done nothing to shut down your blog. They may not let you post to theirs, but that doesn't infringe in your rights in any way at all whatsoever -- you need their permission to store data on their hard drives, you have no inherent right to do so at all. If they don't want to host your speech, they don't have to. We all have the right to determine what bits are stored on our own property.
What you're arguing is that we should be allowed to infringe on their rights...
History is a lie. The planet wasn't here sixty years ago.
Ha! Stick that in your tinfoil hat and... smoke... it... [metaphor mixture fail: abort, retry, ignore?] [[ignore]]
No, he didn't necessarily stop reading there, but... people compose their first reply in their heads as soon as they read the title, and displaying the usual level of /. impulse control, they hit read more, hit reply, and post it. Then they read the summary, make another reply. Then, maybe, they read the actual article. If they haven't already gotten distracted by all the other clueless posts and arguments over first reactions and speculating that's so much more fun than actually learning the facts. :p
Plus, you know, THE SUN. (I know the summary was more specific, but the title was not.)
Since when did the title of a /. article reflect its content in any away other than the contradictory? :p
* we've always been at war with Eastasia, right?
I think there might have been a few years from the late 1700s into the early 1800s when we weren't... but I wouldn't be confident enough in that to bet money on it. It's amazing, now that I think about it, that we went from nonexistence to sailing black ships into Asian ports to open them by threat of force in less than a hundred years. Doesn't take long to go from struggling for independence through just minding our own business to projecting force around the world...
His argument isn't the kind you present reasons for. You're just supports to recognize its truth from its inherent truthiness.
In my experience, the only [t]csh users out there are those who used it back in the day before there were other options...
Yes. This phenomenon is also responsible for the continued usage of vi and other primitive behaviors.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that, speaking as someone who uses joe and alters all my syntax highlighting to replicate the same color scheme I used in Turbo C under DOS.)
The BBC is interesting because it's arguably less government-controlled than the US media, in spite of being tax funded.
s/in spite of/because of/
The BBC has to worry less about pleasing its corporate masters and more about serving the public, since it's the public that's footing the bill. It's essentially the same principle that keeps Consumer Reports and public radio a cut above the rest.
Developing video games is not a service in my opinion. You may disagree, but I attribute that to a lack of understanding of the definition of 'service'.
You're not very creative if you think the definition of service excludes education, or you find it inconceivable that a video game can be educational. If your argument is that a video game is not a very efficient educational tool and this is a waste of money, I would agree with you, but I would at least understand that those who disagree with us understand what "service" means, they just disagree with the value of the service provided here.
...and I completely understand the need to pay taxes. Where did that come from?
From your previous comment:
[Neither] You nor I should be telling others how to spend *their* money.
If this comment is taken at face value, you're either rejecting taxes or rejecting the democratic process. Was you objection to the spending of the money (taxes) or the democratic process (you and I)?
No no, if developers do something stupid under Linux and an update from the package manager breaks it, it's the developers' fault. But if developers do something stupid under OS X and it breaks, that's Apple's fault.
Bad example. I had pretty much the same experience trying to install and run gnucash on Debian. For a very long time, it was impossible to do without downloading and reinstalling custom compiled versions of some of Debian's standard library (on which hundreds of other Debian packages depended on).
"fairly recent!?" Dude, that was a decade ago.
That's fairly recent...
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I just realized I've been a professional programmer for over a quarter of a century now...
damn kids...
2) Fuel: Unlike Saturn or Proton rockets, this is a spaceplane. So the fuel tank cannot be meters long and meters wide. it must be compact like a gasoline tank, yet be able to contain ALL fuel for launch from high-altitudes and return.
Excuse me? Why can't the fuel tank be meters long and meters wide? Looking at the design, it appears the fuel tanks are 6m wide and tens of meters long. Indeed they don't appear significantly different from rocket fuel tanks.
One of the claims from the presentation (linked in TFA: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Marlinspike/BlackHat-DC-09-Marlinspike-Defeating-SSL.pdf, PDF file) is "people don't type https:///" -- they reach SSL-enabled urls either by submitting a form (from non-SSL page!) or the result of HTTP redirect. And "that has made all the differences" according to the hacker.
Hmm. I usually reach them from a bookmark. Rather than a special TLD, why not simply a meta tag that ensures anyone bookmarking the page gets the 'S' in the bookmark, even if they came to the non-SSL homepage. I notice, for example, that my bookmark for PayPal says "https://www.paypal.com", even though I'm sure they're reachable via the usual http. My bank's bookmark did not have the 'S', but I just changed it and works fine with it -- it really should have just had it all along.