Beyond that, you can use Facebook to present an image of yourself that has nothing to do with your real-life self. I "like" my local baseball team, but have little to no interest in baseball.
This is just like actual society, and in fact is actual society. If you have "social skills," you can use "social networking" safely. If you don't, watch out. Be a shut-in. It doesn't matter. It's going to reflect your own common sense and "social IQ."
I'm guessing Apple's lawyers have already done discovery on this when they applied for the patent, and have a strategy to retain it in the event of legal action.
In other words: "They have a fight, triangle wins." Beware, oh particle man!
Um, Firefox's address bar searches your local bookmarks and history. The "suggestions" are from your own locally stored browsing habits, which you can burn to the ground with every exit if you like.
Someone's worried about a cure for "the gay," I think (or something similar, apologies to Rachel Maddow). That would be an ethical quandary for the listeners of NPR. You might even see avowed atheists come out and say such actions are against un-God's random mutative Will, until the Holy Retrovirus of Antioch turned them all into Mormons.;^)
Let's ditch the politics. The problem isn't the morality or ethical question of "curing" colorblindness, if that is a person's choice, any more than hair coloring is an ethics issue. It's that we would have to be very sure that the virus was constrained by the wishes of the curable. In other words: non-communicable. Otherwise, this sounds like the sort of health care mandate that would not be appreciated, or ethical. The preservation of that choice is paramount.
The link appears to be dead, Jim, but I'm guessing that's the gist of it.
You can't spell China without "Ha!" This is the Fort Sumter of cyberwar. It's the beginning of the Cyberwar Between The Agencies (or the Civil Cyberwar for you Yanks).:^P
Sure there's a ton of traffic. People keep handing me free beers!
I'd hazard that at least 80% of that Google traffic is useful and productive. Facebook traffic, OTOH, tends to be viral marketing crap designed to drive up the traffic stats.
Wasn't this the same basic concept behind "shareware?" I vaguely remember Wolfenstein 3d doing this to me a few times, many years ago. So long as the game is complete, and the DLC treadmill is plainly advertised on the box, does it really matter where the data comes from?
Actually, Facebook directly asks you for your email password so it can "Automatically connect you to others" through your ISP information (phonebook, etc.). They get quite clever with it, even using the ISP's logo, making it seem like it is an official service of the ISP.
This goes a bit beyond, "stupid." This is a confidence scam.
In Soviet Russia, this is exactly the sort of thing that happened.
I suppose there's a joke about him "not getting off for his lawn," but we're all better off to souse our hopes for the Republic in some imported vodka.
As more applications move to the Web and as application developers improve their support for Linux (a trend I've noticed happening), it will matter even less.
So Ubuntu's future is as a Linux kernel with a window manager in X to run a web browser? Canonical's plans do not include broad applications support? Not even so far as to work with the Wine team in producing a migration path by getting more critical Windows apps (Quicken, Adobe CS) to the gold status?
"99.9999%" of an operating system's relevance is in messaging and AJAX supported applications? That doesn't sound like much of a game plan for anything other than Ubuntu becoming the Cadillac of embedded systems. It's as if Mr. Asay thinks the future of the operating system is irrelevance.
While this may be true, it isn't much of a business plan.
Logic and reason isn't enough. You have to be a dick to everyone who doesn't think like you. Prepare all the troops! We will level the United Atheist Alliance to the ground!
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Beyond that, you can use Facebook to present an image of yourself that has nothing to do with your real-life self. I "like" my local baseball team, but have little to no interest in baseball.
This is just like actual society, and in fact is actual society. If you have "social skills," you can use "social networking" safely. If you don't, watch out. Be a shut-in. It doesn't matter. It's going to reflect your own common sense and "social IQ."
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Boy, they sure took the Bush agenda seriously.
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Stands for one of two things:
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Microsoft Removal Tool
Wonder which works better?
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(There's a reason Microsoft named the file MRT.exe)
Both of the guys who ran it were hard core.
Yeah, them and NCR, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and WaMu. OS/2 was for real [1] [2] (see page 2).
I think WaMu was the last to ditch OS/2. I worked B of A. Any WaMu vets know?
This is seriously black humor, disentangling oneself from Big Blue. Let's not forget it.
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I mean, how much can that manual be worth with the cover torn off of it? ;^)
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I'm guessing Apple's lawyers have already done discovery on this when they applied for the patent, and have a strategy to retain it in the event of legal action.
In other words: "They have a fight, triangle wins." Beware, oh particle man!
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My thoughts exactly. I understand this is a very popular distro in the state of Vermont.
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V pna'g syl n xvgr, V yvir va n oenva plyvaqre.
OMG! The roulette! ZOMG. Too damned funny.
Um, Firefox's address bar searches your local bookmarks and history. The "suggestions" are from your own locally stored browsing habits, which you can burn to the ground with every exit if you like.
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...and then the scientist lost his mind.
I'd like to put this guy in a steel cage with Ron Paul and see what shakes loose.
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It's the aether, of course. =^)
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Someone's worried about a cure for "the gay," I think (or something similar, apologies to Rachel Maddow). That would be an ethical quandary for the listeners of NPR. You might even see avowed atheists come out and say such actions are against un-God's random mutative Will, until the Holy Retrovirus of Antioch turned them all into Mormons. ;^)
Let's ditch the politics. The problem isn't the morality or ethical question of "curing" colorblindness, if that is a person's choice, any more than hair coloring is an ethics issue. It's that we would have to be very sure that the virus was constrained by the wishes of the curable. In other words: non-communicable. Otherwise, this sounds like the sort of health care mandate that would not be appreciated, or ethical. The preservation of that choice is paramount.
The link appears to be dead, Jim, but I'm guessing that's the gist of it.
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Soylent green is people! It's People! Ahhh you'll get my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead, bubbly hands.
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(Alternately, for the younger generation, "Wrong! No plankton, more money for Mr. Crabs!")
You can't spell China without "Ha!" This is the Fort Sumter of cyberwar. It's the beginning of the Cyberwar Between The Agencies (or the Civil Cyberwar for you Yanks). :^P
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Sure there's a ton of traffic. People keep handing me free beers!
I'd hazard that at least 80% of that Google traffic is useful and productive. Facebook traffic, OTOH, tends to be viral marketing crap designed to drive up the traffic stats.
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Wasn't this the same basic concept behind "shareware?" I vaguely remember Wolfenstein 3d doing this to me a few times, many years ago. So long as the game is complete, and the DLC treadmill is plainly advertised on the box, does it really matter where the data comes from?
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PLEASE DO FORGET #1
GIVE UP
Actually, Facebook directly asks you for your email password so it can "Automatically connect you to others" through your ISP information (phonebook, etc.). They get quite clever with it, even using the ISP's logo, making it seem like it is an official service of the ISP.
This goes a bit beyond, "stupid." This is a confidence scam.
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In Soviet Russia, this is exactly the sort of thing that happened.
I suppose there's a joke about him "not getting off for his lawn," but we're all better off to souse our hopes for the Republic in some imported vodka.
So sad.
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Wouldn't it have just been better to say, "Oh my, bad car analogy" and call it a day?
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You can fix stupid with hardware.
As more applications move to the Web and as application developers improve their support for Linux (a trend I've noticed happening), it will matter even less.
So Ubuntu's future is as a Linux kernel with a window manager in X to run a web browser? Canonical's plans do not include broad applications support? Not even so far as to work with the Wine team in producing a migration path by getting more critical Windows apps (Quicken, Adobe CS) to the gold status?
"99.9999%" of an operating system's relevance is in messaging and AJAX supported applications? That doesn't sound like much of a game plan for anything other than Ubuntu becoming the Cadillac of embedded systems. It's as if Mr. Asay thinks the future of the operating system is irrelevance.
While this may be true, it isn't much of a business plan.
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LOL. The only man who didn't "whoosh." Thank you for that.
Logic and reason isn't enough. You have to be a dick to everyone who doesn't think like you. Prepare all the troops! We will level the United Atheist Alliance to the ground!
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United Atheist League
"Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus"
ABSTRACT:
People tend not to listen to your message if they view it as threatening to their livelihood, their community, or their ego.
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