Like how all those high-tech receivers are still using quaint old RCA cables? Or how all those high-tech speakers are still using quaint old copper wire?
Because as I said so called "real" buttons with tactile sense can still be worse to use than on-screen buttons.
Uh, how does that work exactly? You can still use your eyes, but... oh wait! you can also use this whole other sensory input in case... say... you couldn't use your eyes.
NoScript is completely ineffectual against even passably mediocre tracking technologies. I mean, I can think of at least a couple of ways to bypass NoScript without breaking a mental sweat.
Let's see...
Request comes to web server. Web server gets IP address, referrer (or referer if you're the W3C). That immediately goes into a database, along with a unique GUID that then gets appended as a variable to every link on my page. This can either be done GET-style as a URL parameter...
There's really nothing that can be done to stop it, but this shouldn't make you any more paranoid than saying there's nothing you can do to stop store owners from memorizing faces and purchases.
People don't *want* to be tracked across websites. (Just like they don't *want* to see ads at all... but I digress.) The equivalent is the local store [...]
And what if the local store was doing something like that? How would you respond? I imagine, by very simply not going to that store again. Well, same thing with websites.
a barefoot homeless person does to a skilled professional in a successful industry
Huh? What does having no shoes or job have to do with having skills?
And, for that matter, what the heck is a successful industry? As opposed to all the unsuccessful industries out there? I mean, there are certainly successful individuals in a given industry, but I didn't know the actual industries themselves were successful.
The making sense industry is clearly less successful than the bad analogy industry.
how can I make my playlists so I only see my Dance music albums and I'd like my Jazz playlists to only show those by Monk and Coltrane and ignore the rest
Yep. And here's the really incredible part: it doesn't take up half my system resources to run, either. I know... it's like... the future... but TODAY!
The GP could also be referring to Air Transat Flight 236, which ran out of fuel in-flight above the Atlantic Ocean while heading from Toronto to Lisbon. Due to a lucky minor course correction prior to running out of fuel and some excellent piloting, the plane landed safely on the island of Terceira with no injuries (the plane is apparently still in service). There was a pretty good dramatization done for TV (link).
Gas is about $2 a gallon. What in God's name are you driving that has a 50 gallon tank? Even the old Hummers maxed-out at 32 gallons. Heck, full-sized Ford F-350 diesels only have 34 gallon tanks.
But like I said, totally harmless to people... not poisonous[...]
Slight clarification: No spiders are poisonous. All spiders are venomous (well, technically there are a couple of species without venom glands, but the other 99.9% do have them). Of course, the number of species that are actually dangerous is something like 0.05% of the entire population (one-twentieth of one percent).
I remember one episode of 7 Days involved a cure for cancer having been found, but what they didn't know was that there was a long term side effect to the cure that reared an ugly head 15 years later when it wiped out 80% of the population or something.
This is also the premise behind I Am Legend, except instead of wiping out the human population, it turned them into crazed monsters.
You're quoting a Wikipedia article about the nutcase Kevin Phillips?
I used Keven Phillips because he is about as Republican as you can get without the white robes and burning crosses. I could have used a litany other sources, but then I'd be accused of lib'rul bias.
To put it another way, your numbers are wrong just like Phillips is.
Did you want to contribute any actual evidence to counter the original point, or just try re-frame the topic with a smear? You wingnuts are so pathetically predictable. (See? Smear! Let's not talk about the actual problem!)
So enlighten us. What exactly has Windows 7, or for that matter Windows Vista, done to prevent you from composing and using your own music or anyone else's music?
Alternately, what has it done to actually improve your ability to compose and use your own music or anyone else's music? What can I do with Windows 7 that I couldn't do with Windows XP? Why should I spend more money on hardware upgrades and buy into the shiny & new when my current computer does all I need it to do?
If your answer is anything like "Seven is better because XP is old and won't be supported forever," I have either a chicken or an egg that I'd like to sell you.
From Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
WHAT functionality? That's what kills me about Vista. What is it exactly that I can do in Vista that I'm missing out on with XP? Where is the advantage? Firefox works. Photoshop works. Outlook and Word still work. All the latest games work. So where's the ROI?
It's just that Amazon decided to cordon off adult material into a different section
Except that it's not adult material they decided to censor. It's any book that's pro-gay rights. That's why books like The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students and Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History were removed while "real" adult stuff like Playboy titles went unscathed.
Unless you're one of those nuts that's paranoid about the "Homosexual Agenda".
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Like how all those high-tech receivers are still using quaint old RCA cables? Or how all those high-tech speakers are still using quaint old copper wire?
Because as I said so called "real" buttons with tactile sense can still be worse to use than on-screen buttons.
Uh, how does that work exactly? You can still use your eyes, but... oh wait! you can also use this whole other sensory input in case... say... you couldn't use your eyes.
How is that worse?
NoScript is completely ineffectual against even passably mediocre tracking technologies. I mean, I can think of at least a couple of ways to bypass NoScript without breaking a mental sweat.
Let's see...
Request comes to web server. Web server gets IP address, referrer (or referer if you're the W3C). That immediately goes into a database, along with a unique GUID that then gets appended as a variable to every link on my page. This can either be done GET-style as a URL parameter...
http://slashdot.org/~Civil_Disobedient/?12345 ...or, I can just put it as part of the actual link, like this:
http://slashdot.org/12345/~Civil_Disobedient/ ...and then mod_rewrite it to the first form. Or I could do this just as easily:
http://slashdot.org/12345~Civil_Disobedient/
There's really nothing that can be done to stop it, but this shouldn't make you any more paranoid than saying there's nothing you can do to stop store owners from memorizing faces and purchases.
See, the problem is that my privacy is none of your business.
Ah, but you make it their business when you come into their store/visit their website. If you don't like it, don't patronize those places.
People don't *want* to be tracked across websites. (Just like they don't *want* to see ads at all... but I digress.) The equivalent is the local store [...]
And what if the local store was doing something like that? How would you respond? I imagine, by very simply not going to that store again. Well, same thing with websites.
a barefoot homeless person does to a skilled professional in a successful industry
Huh? What does having no shoes or job have to do with having skills?
And, for that matter, what the heck is a successful industry? As opposed to all the unsuccessful industries out there? I mean, there are certainly successful individuals in a given industry, but I didn't know the actual industries themselves were successful.
The making sense industry is clearly less successful than the bad analogy industry.
how can I make my playlists so I only see my Dance music albums and I'd like my Jazz playlists to only show those by Monk and Coltrane and ignore the rest
Oh, that's easy. First thing you do is learn how to make playlists, genius.
Oh..where do I press to sync my music player with all these files?
COPY. PASTE. Let me know if I'm going too fast for you.
I also can;t see how to subscribe to my podcasts, where do I do that on this filesysyetm you talk of?
It's right next to the button where it wipes your ass for you.
Yep. And here's the really incredible part: it doesn't take up half my system resources to run, either. I know... it's like... the future... but TODAY!
The real answer of course, is it has infinite buttons since on-screen buttons are perfectly usable.
You must have missed the part of the grandparent's post where they specifically asked for tactile buttons. As in, buttons you can bloody feel .
Say, how about that! A whole new sense you can use to interface with the device besides your eyes.
The GP could also be referring to Air Transat Flight 236, which ran out of fuel in-flight above the Atlantic Ocean while heading from Toronto to Lisbon. Due to a lucky minor course correction prior to running out of fuel and some excellent piloting, the plane landed safely on the island of Terceira with no injuries (the plane is apparently still in service). There was a pretty good dramatization done for TV (link).
At around $100/tank of fuel
Gas is about $2 a gallon. What in God's name are you driving that has a 50 gallon tank? Even the old Hummers maxed-out at 32 gallons. Heck, full-sized Ford F-350 diesels only have 34 gallon tanks.
Are you driving a bus to work or something?
But like I said, totally harmless to people... not poisonous[...]
Slight clarification: No spiders are poisonous. All spiders are venomous (well, technically there are a couple of species without venom glands, but the other 99.9% do have them). Of course, the number of species that are actually dangerous is something like 0.05% of the entire population (one-twentieth of one percent).
Apologies for pedantry.
The reason it can't be done is found in Maxwell's equations.
That's not the reason it can't be done.
The reason it can't be done is because even if it were possible, it would be impossible to meter.
Link: Right off Tesla St., in fact.
I remember one episode of 7 Days involved a cure for cancer having been found, but what they didn't know was that there was a long term side effect to the cure that reared an ugly head 15 years later when it wiped out 80% of the population or something.
This is also the premise behind I Am Legend, except instead of wiping out the human population, it turned them into crazed monsters.
Or, like with Vista, they'll simply release the OS before it's actually ready for public consumption.
You're quoting a Wikipedia article about the nutcase Kevin Phillips?
I used Keven Phillips because he is about as Republican as you can get without the white robes and burning crosses. I could have used a litany other sources, but then I'd be accused of lib'rul bias.
To put it another way, your numbers are wrong just like Phillips is.
Did you want to contribute any actual evidence to counter the original point, or just try re-frame the topic with a smear? You wingnuts are so pathetically predictable. (See? Smear! Let's not talk about the actual problem!)
As was proved during the Reagan era, the rich AND poor BOTH get richer when Government gets out of the way
Wrong. 80% of the population experienced a decrease in income from 1977 to 1988 (Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor, p. 17).
That's why Linux will always by a system "by programmers, for programmers."
Uh... from the grandparent post:
you mean like how Windows XP and Vista has almost no support for touchscreens as well?
Reading is fundamental, yo.
So enlighten us. What exactly has Windows 7, or for that matter Windows Vista, done to prevent you from composing and using your own music or anyone else's music?
Alternately, what has it done to actually improve your ability to compose and use your own music or anyone else's music? What can I do with Windows 7 that I couldn't do with Windows XP? Why should I spend more money on hardware upgrades and buy into the shiny & new when my current computer does all I need it to do?
If your answer is anything like "Seven is better because XP is old and won't be supported forever," I have either a chicken or an egg that I'd like to sell you.
This is a job for Jobs.
From Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
"One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Stay strong, guys.
More functionality means less performance.
WHAT functionality? That's what kills me about Vista. What is it exactly that I can do in Vista that I'm missing out on with XP? Where is the advantage? Firefox works. Photoshop works. Outlook and Word still work. All the latest games work. So where's the ROI?
What's with the GLBT bullshit? Can't you just say "FUCKING QUEER"????
Gay
Lesbian
Bisexual
Transgender
"Fucking queer" only covers 25% of that equation.
LEARN YOUR ACRONYMS, DIPSHIT.
It's just that Amazon decided to cordon off adult material into a different section
Except that it's not adult material they decided to censor. It's any book that's pro-gay rights. That's why books like The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students and Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History were removed while "real" adult stuff like Playboy titles went unscathed.
Unless you're one of those nuts that's paranoid about the "Homosexual Agenda".