Going outside, getting exercise, feeling the wind, sunshine and rain, meeting people and generally challenging yourself physically, socially and mentally are all good for you.
How exactly does technology stop you from doing any of that? If I jog, I can listen to music that I actually like and in good quality, as opposed to listening to the scratches on the cassette tape of my walkman or mediocre radio broadcasts dispersed with some equally mediocre jokes made by local radio hosts. More importantly, I can do that in the two hours I don't have to waste on going to the local bank with the sole purpose of putting a check in some box.
If you're wasting too much time on Facebook, the issue is you and not the fibre optic cable. Quite frankly, considering that the woman in that video was a big fan of Big Brother out of all things, I would be hardly surprised to find out that the books she's reading isn't exactly Dostoevsky either.
There was going to be a post like this and it's hardly surprising that someone would vote for it. It's not a problem though. It's just intentionally making your life more inconvenient for no good reason. If you want to go to a park and read a good novel or have a picnic with your girlfriend, nothing is stopping you from doing that.
Right now I'm doing an internship abroad. I don't have internet at home, no mobile internet and there's no one really here to call me. It's been like this for two months now. How does it feel? Inconvenient. If I want to listen to some song, I have to dedicate several perfectly good hours to buying a CD with a whole bunch of songs I don't want to listen to. If I want to watch a film, I have to wait until eight o'clock and hope that there will be something that vaguely interests me while showing me the same yoghurt advert every twenty minutes. If I want to find out what the weather is going to be like before doing laundry, I need to catch the exact time of the weather broadcast or waste money on buying a paper half of which is going to be completely useless to me. While I do all that, the experience will always be fairly mediocre. Most things will be aimed at general audience. The music won't be the music I like listening to, the films are only marginally interesting and any news are so lacking in both both scientific and political detail that they're hardly worth reading. Not to mention that if you're interested in something very specific, e.g. I recently wanted to know more about Leos Janacek, your hands are basically tied. Most libraries won't have the information you're looking for--again, libraries you have to waste time going to--leaving you with two options: go to an internet café or just lean back and watch another episode of "British Cops Kicking Drunk People".
Quite frankly, if you want to compare this to anything, it's less akin to alcoholism than to riding a horse to work instead of using any modern means of transportation, including something as simple as a bicycle. Expensive, inconvenient and completely counterproductive for anything other than novelty value.
The fact that Oracle didn't find any glaring issues is hardly a surprise. A better question is whether they would fix them even if they did find them, like that rather glaring security vulnerability that they've just decided to brush off until their next major release last year.
1.) Only -some- stretches of our motorways have no speed limits. Even the ones that do not have a recommended driving speed of 130 km/h, which means that you shouldn't exceed it under normal driving conditions. If you do exceed it, you will not be arrested or fined, but should it come to an accident it will very much be used against it.
2.) Not only does the vastest majority of people drive responsibly at reasonable speeds (at 130 km/h I usually have to stay on the fastest lane), but the issue of motorways without speed limits is controversial to say the least.There's a number of groups campaigning to make the said 130 km/h the limit, similarly to France, and, from personal experience, I don't know many people who would oppose this legislation. The only individuals I regularly see driving above the recommended speeds are young professionals in their twenties, who unlike other young drivers can afford fast cars and unlike more experienced drivers don't know their limits and want to prove how awesome they are to those around them.
If anyone, Germany would be the country to campaign for enforcing speed limits. As a matter of fact, our moped riders are already limited to vehicles with 50ccm that shouldn't go faster than 25 km/h. Tuning your moped past this stage is a violation of the road traffic act and will rather promptly get you in trouble with the authorities.
Considering that the vastest majority of users have very basic needs--to quote someone I knew "I need to be able to use Facebook and the Internet"--modern Linux distributions and probably OSX are actually a better solution for them than Windows due to the simple fact that they are currently significantly less likely to get malware and thus break them.
Perhaps they would not accept a.tex file, but surely they wouldn't mind if you sent them a.pdf. Word is a nice program, especially Word 2003 which doesn't have that new highly-improved interface, but I think you might be exaggerating a little there.
All the network connectivity and lack of encryption aside, Dropbox is just about the worst company you could trust to handle this sort of thing. Not only have they repeatedly built in exploits that any security-aware company would see a mile away, but they have also been terrible at communicating these to the point where they were blaming users for their mistakes.
Thanks, but no thanks, Dropbox.
I'm afraid the world isn't limited to the US. It's rather difficult to get hold of firearm in some countries. For instance, I remember hearing a criminology report several years ago stating that more Yakuza die to liver failure, because of excessive tattoos, than to gunfire. Even more died to knife wounds. The ability to easily print firearms would be somewhat problematic in this case.
Of course, there's always the possibility to outlaw ammunition sales, thus fixing the issue entirely for quite some time.
I think if you applied that saying consistently your apartment/house would be filled with all sorts of useless junk by now, to say nothing of the fact that it works just as well for this whole fingerprint scanner thing.
Do you have armed thugs breaking down your doors that often? Let's face it, most people own firearms for the same reason most sword owners, like myself, own swords: collecting, recreational purposes, a false sense of security or because they were given to them as a gift. The whole "only I can defend my own health" argument is really just tacked on as a justification. Sure, I could cut down any attacker when I come back home from practice, given a chance to draw it (which statistically speaking I'm guaranteed not to have), but that's hardly the reason why I have it with me to begin with. I know some other guys who say that it gives them a sense of security, but, again, that's not why they own them. I wouldn't have any problems owning a weapon that had this system, provided that it works to some degree, although I do imagine it would be a little hard to implement on a traditional sword.
In terms of counterintelligence, a smart move on China's part. Although Canonical is UK based, it's significantly easier to migrate from Ubuntu to any other distro than from Windows or OSX, should the need arise. I'm actually quite surprised that Iran isn't doing the same thing. You don't even need to have backdoors in computers of the individuals you're interested in; those of their families are already a big step ahead.
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They could learn to fix Ubuntu the same way we learnt how to fix Windows. Necessity is the cause of invention.
Going outside, getting exercise, feeling the wind, sunshine and rain, meeting people and generally challenging yourself physically, socially and mentally are all good for you.
How exactly does technology stop you from doing any of that? If I jog, I can listen to music that I actually like and in good quality, as opposed to listening to the scratches on the cassette tape of my walkman or mediocre radio broadcasts dispersed with some equally mediocre jokes made by local radio hosts. More importantly, I can do that in the two hours I don't have to waste on going to the local bank with the sole purpose of putting a check in some box.
If you're wasting too much time on Facebook, the issue is you and not the fibre optic cable. Quite frankly, considering that the woman in that video was a big fan of Big Brother out of all things, I would be hardly surprised to find out that the books she's reading isn't exactly Dostoevsky either.
There was going to be a post like this and it's hardly surprising that someone would vote for it. It's not a problem though. It's just intentionally making your life more inconvenient for no good reason. If you want to go to a park and read a good novel or have a picnic with your girlfriend, nothing is stopping you from doing that.
Right now I'm doing an internship abroad. I don't have internet at home, no mobile internet and there's no one really here to call me. It's been like this for two months now. How does it feel? Inconvenient. If I want to listen to some song, I have to dedicate several perfectly good hours to buying a CD with a whole bunch of songs I don't want to listen to. If I want to watch a film, I have to wait until eight o'clock and hope that there will be something that vaguely interests me while showing me the same yoghurt advert every twenty minutes. If I want to find out what the weather is going to be like before doing laundry, I need to catch the exact time of the weather broadcast or waste money on buying a paper half of which is going to be completely useless to me. While I do all that, the experience will always be fairly mediocre. Most things will be aimed at general audience. The music won't be the music I like listening to, the films are only marginally interesting and any news are so lacking in both both scientific and political detail that they're hardly worth reading. Not to mention that if you're interested in something very specific, e.g. I recently wanted to know more about Leos Janacek, your hands are basically tied. Most libraries won't have the information you're looking for--again, libraries you have to waste time going to--leaving you with two options: go to an internet café or just lean back and watch another episode of "British Cops Kicking Drunk People".
Quite frankly, if you want to compare this to anything, it's less akin to alcoholism than to riding a horse to work instead of using any modern means of transportation, including something as simple as a bicycle. Expensive, inconvenient and completely counterproductive for anything other than novelty value.
The fact that Oracle didn't find any glaring issues is hardly a surprise. A better question is whether they would fix them even if they did find them, like that rather glaring security vulnerability that they've just decided to brush off until their next major release last year.
Right, but is it his fault for being stupid? It's not like he selected the "dumbass" trait at character creation nineteen years ago.
I'm sorry, but the comparison is completely off.
1.) Only -some- stretches of our motorways have no speed limits. Even the ones that do not have a recommended driving speed of 130 km/h, which means that you shouldn't exceed it under normal driving conditions. If you do exceed it, you will not be arrested or fined, but should it come to an accident it will very much be used against it.
2.) Not only does the vastest majority of people drive responsibly at reasonable speeds (at 130 km/h I usually have to stay on the fastest lane), but the issue of motorways without speed limits is controversial to say the least.There's a number of groups campaigning to make the said 130 km/h the limit, similarly to France, and, from personal experience, I don't know many people who would oppose this legislation. The only individuals I regularly see driving above the recommended speeds are young professionals in their twenties, who unlike other young drivers can afford fast cars and unlike more experienced drivers don't know their limits and want to prove how awesome they are to those around them.
If anyone, Germany would be the country to campaign for enforcing speed limits. As a matter of fact, our moped riders are already limited to vehicles with 50ccm that shouldn't go faster than 25 km/h. Tuning your moped past this stage is a violation of the road traffic act and will rather promptly get you in trouble with the authorities.
More importantly, would he be put into a female prison because of this? If so, the man is a genius.
Considering that the vastest majority of users have very basic needs--to quote someone I knew "I need to be able to use Facebook and the Internet"--modern Linux distributions and probably OSX are actually a better solution for them than Windows due to the simple fact that they are currently significantly less likely to get malware and thus break them.
If it's intended for print, couldn't they make due with a .tex?
Perhaps they would not accept a .tex file, but surely they wouldn't mind if you sent them a .pdf. Word is a nice program, especially Word 2003 which doesn't have that new highly-improved interface, but I think you might be exaggerating a little there.
All the network connectivity and lack of encryption aside, Dropbox is just about the worst company you could trust to handle this sort of thing. Not only have they repeatedly built in exploits that any security-aware company would see a mile away, but they have also been terrible at communicating these to the point where they were blaming users for their mistakes. Thanks, but no thanks, Dropbox.
I'm afraid the world isn't limited to the US. It's rather difficult to get hold of firearm in some countries. For instance, I remember hearing a criminology report several years ago stating that more Yakuza die to liver failure, because of excessive tattoos, than to gunfire. Even more died to knife wounds. The ability to easily print firearms would be somewhat problematic in this case. Of course, there's always the possibility to outlaw ammunition sales, thus fixing the issue entirely for quite some time.
I think if you applied that saying consistently your apartment/house would be filled with all sorts of useless junk by now, to say nothing of the fact that it works just as well for this whole fingerprint scanner thing.
Do you have armed thugs breaking down your doors that often? Let's face it, most people own firearms for the same reason most sword owners, like myself, own swords: collecting, recreational purposes, a false sense of security or because they were given to them as a gift. The whole "only I can defend my own health" argument is really just tacked on as a justification. Sure, I could cut down any attacker when I come back home from practice, given a chance to draw it (which statistically speaking I'm guaranteed not to have), but that's hardly the reason why I have it with me to begin with. I know some other guys who say that it gives them a sense of security, but, again, that's not why they own them. I wouldn't have any problems owning a weapon that had this system, provided that it works to some degree, although I do imagine it would be a little hard to implement on a traditional sword.
In terms of counterintelligence, a smart move on China's part. Although Canonical is UK based, it's significantly easier to migrate from Ubuntu to any other distro than from Windows or OSX, should the need arise. I'm actually quite surprised that Iran isn't doing the same thing. You don't even need to have backdoors in computers of the individuals you're interested in; those of their families are already a big step ahead.