That it's a registry entry blows my mind. That's so lazy on their part that I have zero sympathy for them
You know, some of us have felt this way about the registry as long as it's been around.
It has always seemed like a cheap hack done by lazy people.
It's not secure or safe, it has always been subject to corruption and hacks, and looks like something which was grafted on by someone under time constraints that once it was in the wild they couldn't get away from.
what is so illegal about changing a registry key or value, or creating a registry key?
In the loosest possible interpretation I can think of (and not one I agree with), you are committing fraud by misrepresenting something in order to get a good or a service.
But, if it's something as trivial as a registry key, which is available for users to update (and which sometimes MS themselves suggest)... then I've got nothing.
I'm having a hard time believing it's perfectly legal to update one set of registry keys, while being illegal to update another. If they're so special and secret, they shouldn't be something you can update.
Keep in mind that salaries in academia are typically for a 9-month period.
Hmmm... really?
When I was in school, in the summer most of the profs were still around. Either because they had summer classes, or because that's where they went to keep doing their normal research.
Other than being on sabbatical, I always got the impression that most of the profs were pretty much there year round, albeit with a slightly lower course load in the summer.
I spent 4 summers doing research with one of my profs, and all of the support staff and the professors were still there.
I certainly never got the impression the full professors were only there for 9 months of the year.
Anything that sounds like science fiction MUST be terrible and is to be avoided at all costs.
Well, if you're doing real research and want to be taken seriously, I can see why you'd prefer to differentiate yourself a little.
If you said "and we'll put the patient into suspended animation", and the ethics review board rolls their eyes at you, you might have a huge problem.
Some stuff, sure, it can sound like science fiction. But for medical research, you'd think you want to make sure people know you're not just talking out of your ass.
Isn't MPG based on an out-dated formula which everyone knows is wrong?
I also thought all the people who bought hybrids were annoyed to discover their actual mileage was nowhere near accurate, all because you're required by law to use the EPA formula which is essentially useless. I even seem to remember some people wanted to sue the car makers for using misleading numbers, but since they can only report the numbers one way, it's not something that can honestly report.
Sounds like it's time for someone to come up with a valid set of tests and numbers, because the ones we're using are clearly not based in reality.
The big question, is why have we been using an outdated formula which gives incorrect values when we know it? Who benefits from that? Is it lazy governments, or are is someone benefiting from this?
But she could devastate the local economy and thousands of families to increase the already profitable company's margin even more for the rich shareholders.
Apparently, that is how capitalism is supposed to work.
Shareholders get wealthy at the expense of the rest of the economy.
They teach this stuff in school these days. So it must be true.
You should never wear someone else's tinfoil hat. It is unique the to wearer, and has adapted itself to your own personal brainwaves.
If you use someone else's tinfoil hat, the government mind control beams will be able to triangulate you, and will be used to inform the aliens. They'll then just have to do a little recalibration, and your thoughts will be in the clear.
In other words, roping in government information gathering abilities is an exercise in futility. If Google/Microsoft/Apple/IBM/etc. won't directly surrender confidential or sensitive personal information, they can get it another way. In effect, citizens have no right or expectation of privacy from the government.
Well, you know, what the net effect was that they went back and got a good old fashioned warrant from a judge.
They didn't go directly to Microsoft and successfully get the information without any oversight. They had to get a judge to sign off on it.
This is the way they're supposed to be getting it. Judges may or may not rubber stamp it, but at least it's gone through a process -- lately they've just been getting information without a warrant or oversight on the basis that they want it.
If anything, this is (hopefully) the beginning of things swinging back to these agencies being required to show cause and follow the proper procedures, instead of just side-stepping those and getting it on demand.
The only way to stop boring people is to stop being boring.
I think it's a lot more complex than that.
We're starting to see news stories that children can operate tablets, but can't use building blocks. They've never done the basic mechanical tasks, they've just played with things on tablets.
A friends daughter can use a tablet, but she also reads (or something close to it), and plays with lots of actual toys and the like. But they know some children in her age group which seem to have some lesser skills when it comes to actual physical tasks instead of digital ones.
You start a 2 year old playing games on your smartphone or tablet, and they're going to always view it as a game. And if it is affecting their attention span (because they're bored and have moved onto something else), then they're going to have an awfully hard time doing some tasks.
I can't tell you how often I see mothers with their very young children playing on the phone as a keep them quiet measure. And I'm not at all surprised to see that by the time they reach school they've not got the attention span (or in some cases motor skills) they should. And, if every time they've gotten bored or fussy someone gives them a phone, then when they hit school and that's not really an option, they're going to have NO idea of what to do, because they've always been given these things to keep them quiet. They've never learned that sometimes they have to suck it up and deal with it.
Me, I'm not surprised at all that people are seeing this. By the time kids are 7 or 8 they seem to have their own phones, and spend lots of time using them.
Hell, I see a lot of kids where they're all looking at their phones -- and I wonder if they're texting one another from 3 feet away instead of interacting with one another. And, if they're not texting one another, are they just moving around in herds texting someone else and ignoring one another?
Speaking for all of us old fogies who got left behind by modern gaming
I didn't include you in this if you didn't get left behind by modern gaming. I did, and there came a point where entire classes of games were just something I couldn't really play any more... way too many buttons for someone used to a stick and two buttons.
You may still be able to kick ass at video games, and this may not be a problem for you. Awesome, and good job.
But, really, you don't get to disagree with what I said, because I didn't make a blanket statement that included you if you didn't want it to.
Good for you, you can still do it. Me, something like a 3D descent with VR goggles, and I'ma puke all over the place. This I can say as a straight up fact. Think Adam Savage on a boat.
Because, quite frankly, Descent made me want to hurl when I tried playing it years ago.:-P
Not saying it wouldn't out-perform some humans, but the random stupid stuff I see on the road every day tells me they better have a LOT of coverage for corner cases.
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
Lemme see your driverless car handle that, then we'll see.
Never underestimate what people with lots of money will spend it on.
I'd love to have about 1% of all of the money wasted in expensive champagne which is sprayed in hipster VIP lounges every year -- I'm betting I could pay off my house pretty quickly.
And the more money people have, the stupider the things they spend it on.
Oh, to have that problem. I'd love to have enough money that I could spend stuff on stupid shit and not care.
how much for a private room where you can attempt to bone your partner? (apparently there are some difficulties maintaining position in zero g)
Well, more than that, if this is using the same techniques as the vomit comet NASA uses, you only get 'weightless' for about 30 seconds or so at a time before the plane has to do it all over again.
You're not going to get several consecutive minutes of this.
So, coitus interruptus is going to be a pretty constant problem, and the flight crew is going to have to be constantly tending to you to ensure you don't crash into the fuselage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure someone would pay good money for that. I just don't think it would be nearly as cool as it sounds.
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You know, some of us have felt this way about the registry as long as it's been around.
It has always seemed like a cheap hack done by lazy people.
It's not secure or safe, it has always been subject to corruption and hacks, and looks like something which was grafted on by someone under time constraints that once it was in the wild they couldn't get away from.
In the loosest possible interpretation I can think of (and not one I agree with), you are committing fraud by misrepresenting something in order to get a good or a service.
But, if it's something as trivial as a registry key, which is available for users to update (and which sometimes MS themselves suggest) ... then I've got nothing.
I'm having a hard time believing it's perfectly legal to update one set of registry keys, while being illegal to update another. If they're so special and secret, they shouldn't be something you can update.
As far as I can tell, if it's legal, available, and a little profitable, Amazon will sell you any damned thing they can get their hands on.
They're not overly concerned about what you buy from them, just as long as you do.
So, both malignant monopoly and just plain evil then?
Hmmm ... really?
When I was in school, in the summer most of the profs were still around. Either because they had summer classes, or because that's where they went to keep doing their normal research.
Other than being on sabbatical, I always got the impression that most of the profs were pretty much there year round, albeit with a slightly lower course load in the summer.
I spent 4 summers doing research with one of my profs, and all of the support staff and the professors were still there.
I certainly never got the impression the full professors were only there for 9 months of the year.
Well, if you're doing real research and want to be taken seriously, I can see why you'd prefer to differentiate yourself a little.
If you said "and we'll put the patient into suspended animation", and the ethics review board rolls their eyes at you, you might have a huge problem.
Some stuff, sure, it can sound like science fiction. But for medical research, you'd think you want to make sure people know you're not just talking out of your ass.
Why would you ... oh, forget it, I really don't want to know.
I'm sure it will exist sooner or later. :-P
I guess at those prices, they don't need to worry as much.
Especially since the media likely knows exactly who you are.
You keep using that word. I am not sure it means what you think it means.
There's some rule 34 fan fiction in there somewhere.
I believe the word you are looking for is generally accepted as 'empathy'.
No, fickle are the principles of the wallet that pockets the cash.
Would??? Look around the world, I'd say we largely have or are in the middle of it.
I've maintained for years 'civilization' is a thin veneer over mankind essentially being barbarians, and that it's getting thinner every year.
You need only look at the comments on Slashdot to prove this. ;-)
Aren't they all bolted down?
Otherwise I'd assume someone would have been beaten to death with one by now.
Isn't MPG based on an out-dated formula which everyone knows is wrong?
I also thought all the people who bought hybrids were annoyed to discover their actual mileage was nowhere near accurate, all because you're required by law to use the EPA formula which is essentially useless. I even seem to remember some people wanted to sue the car makers for using misleading numbers, but since they can only report the numbers one way, it's not something that can honestly report.
Sounds like it's time for someone to come up with a valid set of tests and numbers, because the ones we're using are clearly not based in reality.
The big question, is why have we been using an outdated formula which gives incorrect values when we know it? Who benefits from that? Is it lazy governments, or are is someone benefiting from this?
Apparently, that is how capitalism is supposed to work.
Shareholders get wealthy at the expense of the rest of the economy.
They teach this stuff in school these days. So it must be true.
You should never wear someone else's tinfoil hat. It is unique the to wearer, and has adapted itself to your own personal brainwaves.
If you use someone else's tinfoil hat, the government mind control beams will be able to triangulate you, and will be used to inform the aliens. They'll then just have to do a little recalibration, and your thoughts will be in the clear.
You have to make your own tinfoil hat.
At least, that's what I hear. ;-)
Well, you know, what the net effect was that they went back and got a good old fashioned warrant from a judge.
They didn't go directly to Microsoft and successfully get the information without any oversight. They had to get a judge to sign off on it.
This is the way they're supposed to be getting it. Judges may or may not rubber stamp it, but at least it's gone through a process -- lately they've just been getting information without a warrant or oversight on the basis that they want it.
If anything, this is (hopefully) the beginning of things swinging back to these agencies being required to show cause and follow the proper procedures, instead of just side-stepping those and getting it on demand.
I think it's a lot more complex than that.
We're starting to see news stories that children can operate tablets, but can't use building blocks. They've never done the basic mechanical tasks, they've just played with things on tablets.
A friends daughter can use a tablet, but she also reads (or something close to it), and plays with lots of actual toys and the like. But they know some children in her age group which seem to have some lesser skills when it comes to actual physical tasks instead of digital ones.
You start a 2 year old playing games on your smartphone or tablet, and they're going to always view it as a game. And if it is affecting their attention span (because they're bored and have moved onto something else), then they're going to have an awfully hard time doing some tasks.
I can't tell you how often I see mothers with their very young children playing on the phone as a keep them quiet measure. And I'm not at all surprised to see that by the time they reach school they've not got the attention span (or in some cases motor skills) they should. And, if every time they've gotten bored or fussy someone gives them a phone, then when they hit school and that's not really an option, they're going to have NO idea of what to do, because they've always been given these things to keep them quiet. They've never learned that sometimes they have to suck it up and deal with it.
Me, I'm not surprised at all that people are seeing this. By the time kids are 7 or 8 they seem to have their own phones, and spend lots of time using them.
Hell, I see a lot of kids where they're all looking at their phones -- and I wonder if they're texting one another from 3 feet away instead of interacting with one another. And, if they're not texting one another, are they just moving around in herds texting someone else and ignoring one another?
My guess ... the chances of a random impact they've identified being anywhere near the rovers across an entire planet are probably pretty small.
Even "close" on these scales would likely be further than the rovers have traveled in the entire time they've been there.
Sorry, you disagree that I would get sick?
Now, read this part again, slowly if you have to:
I didn't include you in this if you didn't get left behind by modern gaming. I did, and there came a point where entire classes of games were just something I couldn't really play any more ... way too many buttons for someone used to a stick and two buttons.
You may still be able to kick ass at video games, and this may not be a problem for you. Awesome, and good job.
But, really, you don't get to disagree with what I said, because I didn't make a blanket statement that included you if you didn't want it to.
Good for you, you can still do it. Me, something like a 3D descent with VR goggles, and I'ma puke all over the place. This I can say as a straight up fact. Think Adam Savage on a boat.
Because, quite frankly, Descent made me want to hurl when I tried playing it years ago. :-P
No, but humans tend to adapt to things faster.
Computers ... well, I have less faith in that.
Not saying it wouldn't out-perform some humans, but the random stupid stuff I see on the road every day tells me they better have a LOT of coverage for corner cases.
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
Lemme see your driverless car handle that, then we'll see.
Never underestimate what people with lots of money will spend it on.
I'd love to have about 1% of all of the money wasted in expensive champagne which is sprayed in hipster VIP lounges every year -- I'm betting I could pay off my house pretty quickly.
And the more money people have, the stupider the things they spend it on.
Oh, to have that problem. I'd love to have enough money that I could spend stuff on stupid shit and not care.
Well, more than that, if this is using the same techniques as the vomit comet NASA uses, you only get 'weightless' for about 30 seconds or so at a time before the plane has to do it all over again.
You're not going to get several consecutive minutes of this.
So, coitus interruptus is going to be a pretty constant problem, and the flight crew is going to have to be constantly tending to you to ensure you don't crash into the fuselage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure someone would pay good money for that. I just don't think it would be nearly as cool as it sounds.