script kiddies capable of learning - fast. pretty much every resistance movement *started* with misteps and 'amateur' methods, then they develop into the level of skill and efficiency required for their particular mission.
my garmin has a very annoying misfeature. i run with it fairly zoomed out, i like to see a bigger picture. i'm driving a tractor trailer and many times i need to QUICKLY determine alternatives for a vehicle than cannot be quickly maneuvered.
so this misfeature of garmin's is to automatically zoom IN as you near a turn. WORST POSSIBLE TIME, it's at turns i need to know the bigger picture. whether the turn is physically unattractive for the truck, or simply posted with a "no trucks" sign. eg: turn right instead of left at the same intersection and "go around about way" or go forward a block or two and come in from the the other direction, etc. but in this age of non euclidean street planners, one does NOT assume you are going to be able to find a 'next turn'. suburban streets built in the last 20 years rarely (it seems) have rational shapes or interconnects. i need to see a map. definitely don't need to see things zoomed in to the lines in the pedestrian crossing.
and this misfeature will fight you if you try to zoom back out while moving.
no way to turn off that auto zoom-in misfeature. grrrrr.
it bothers me that a judge can issue orders of any kind based on a PRESUMED belief of privacy. if the stuff is truly not private, no orders are needed to get it. if orders are needed, then obviously it's private.
in ontario canada, the stop-everybody stops do NOT make everyone blow. they talk to you (real close to your face) and shine their flashlight at your eyes and ask you if you have been drinking. if they think you arentt bombed or clumsy with spilling drinks, they let you go without a breath test.
probably because the breath tests use disposable tubes, and those tubes probably cost real money and would soon swallow a police budget if used on every single driver on a busy roadway.
also, i believe here 'probable cause' is still required for asking a breath test. they can stop everybody at a roadside event, but the next step of actual testing requires the officer, keeping a straight face, to be able to say in court he had believed the driver had been consuming alcohol/appeared intoxicated. of course many idiots will admit they had "1 drink" when asked if they have been drinking -- this is probable cause.
i wish i could get business class line from Rogers. but the wont provide the service to any area not zoned commercial/retail/industrial by the local municipality.:(
doesn't opera mobile go through a proxy server allowing it to compress the datastream and speed things up? when using slower cell data services (EDGE) the compression speedup is very nice. when paying for bytes downloaded, the compression is also nice.
sorry, not everyone lives on 3Gs iphones and unlimited dataplans.
do the other browsers provide this advantage? not that i've heard...
many in canada (college students especially) are cellphone-only type people. however, cellphone-only people are fewer in canada than you may otherwise suspect. this is because our cell carriers still charge absurdly high prices (compared to most other countries) and try to pretend they don't by setting up byzantine call plans.
it could take off, but in specialized areas like embedded designs (low power - long battery life consideration) and in server farms (low power, low cooling and electric costs).
embedded and server applications do not have the bloated huge application suites that need porting. ie: big bloated popular desktop apps likes photoshops and excels are not an issue for this new
cpu design approach to be adopted.
server apps 'relatively' speaking are much less bloated, and often have been ported a zillion times already adding error robustness is doable and worth doing for the potential savings.
embedded apps don't mind doing what it takes to achieve battery life noticably longer than the competitor. and often do such specialized (read: not bloated) functions that error robustness should also be doable -- even if currently glossed over.
but, regardless how desireable this turns out to be, if a "big guy" (read Intel) couldn't be bothered to push it, it'll die:(
longer breakdown time would have a minor secondary benefit too i'd expect. the stuff will have travelled further along the GI tract. the last half of the GI tract is less efficient/able to absorb the sugars than the first half. perhaps we need to lick lab-rat stools to find out if sucrose eaters have sweeter ones:):)
>Any informed user who wants to know what "Error 14" is just needs to (gasp!) look it up on our website, and then they can fix it on their own if they so choose...
arggggggh, i hit this with cable-internet support.
"Whenever your service is down, we have this CONVENIENT website you can visit to see if there are "known" problems in your area."
uh.... if i cannot connect, how do i go to the website?
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script kiddies capable of learning - fast.
pretty much every resistance movement *started* with misteps and 'amateur' methods,
then they develop into the level of skill and efficiency required for their particular mission.
kinda like calling everything you dont like "terrorism" ??
my garmin has a very annoying misfeature. i run with it fairly zoomed out, i like to see a bigger picture.
i'm driving a tractor trailer and many times i need to QUICKLY determine alternatives for a vehicle than cannot
be quickly maneuvered.
so this misfeature of garmin's is to automatically zoom IN as you near a turn. WORST POSSIBLE TIME,
it's at turns i need to know the bigger picture. whether the turn is physically unattractive for the truck,
or simply posted with a "no trucks" sign. eg: turn right instead of left at the same intersection and "go around
about way" or go forward a block or two and come in from the the other direction, etc.
but in this age of non euclidean street planners, one does NOT assume you are going to be able to find
a 'next turn'. suburban streets built in the last 20 years rarely (it seems) have rational shapes or interconnects.
i need to see a map. definitely don't need to see things zoomed in to the lines in the pedestrian crossing.
and this misfeature will fight you if you try to zoom back out while moving.
no way to turn off that auto zoom-in misfeature. grrrrr.
it bothers me that a judge can issue orders of any kind based on a PRESUMED belief of privacy.
if the stuff is truly not private, no orders are needed to get it.
if orders are needed, then obviously it's private.
larger insects for "human consumption"... :)
ummmmm, which side of that is doing the consuming?
dust mite allergies are NOT to the mites, but the the mite's excrement.
in ontario canada, the stop-everybody stops do NOT make everyone blow.
they talk to you (real close to your face) and shine their flashlight at your eyes
and ask you if you have been drinking.
if they think you arentt bombed or clumsy with spilling drinks, they let you go
without a breath test.
probably because the breath tests use disposable tubes, and those tubes
probably cost real money and would soon swallow a police budget if used
on every single driver on a busy roadway.
also, i believe here 'probable cause' is still required for asking a breath test.
they can stop everybody at a roadside event, but the next step of actual testing
requires the officer, keeping a straight face, to be able to say in court he
had believed the driver had been consuming alcohol/appeared intoxicated.
of course many idiots will admit they had "1 drink" when asked if they
have been drinking -- this is probable cause.
serial number is probably on invoicing and shipping paperwork.
probably in an easily accessed "customer warranty" database too.
needs to be a unique identifier from the physical machine
NOT used for anything else whatsoever at minimum.
why wouldn't a 'debug account' show up in a user display?
>but I'm afraid that less-adaptable students will be unable to handle the switch from
>the calculator they know to an unfamiliar (but simpler) one.
isn't being a student all about being adaptable?
migawd! coddle them much or what?
i wish i could get business class line from Rogers. :(
but the wont provide the service to any area not zoned commercial/retail/industrial by the local municipality.
what newer creative works were never done because a previous
one never succeeded enough due to piracy?
(so, how would you even define "tanked" for a creative work anyway?)
the producer lives or dies from his choices, however they are his choices not yours or anyone elses.
trying to sugar coat the behavior as "helping the creator" of a work
is just that sugar coating. it is still shit you are doing.
doesn't opera mobile go through a proxy server allowing it to compress
the datastream and speed things up?
when using slower cell data services (EDGE) the compression speedup is
very nice. when paying for bytes downloaded, the compression is also nice.
sorry, not everyone lives on 3Gs iphones and unlimited dataplans.
do the other browsers provide this advantage? not that i've heard...
>breasteses
chesticles.
many in canada (college students especially) are cellphone-only
type people. however, cellphone-only people are fewer in canada than
you may otherwise suspect.
this is because our cell carriers still charge absurdly high prices
(compared to most other countries) and try to pretend they don't
by setting up byzantine call plans.
in fact, robocall all your friends and contacts about this problem! :)
it could take off, but in specialized areas like embedded designs (low power - long battery life consideration)
and in server farms (low power, low cooling and electric costs).
embedded and server applications do not have the bloated huge application suites that need porting.
ie: big bloated popular desktop apps likes photoshops and excels are not an issue for this new
cpu design approach to be adopted.
server apps 'relatively' speaking are much less bloated, and often have been ported a zillion times already
adding error robustness is doable and worth doing for the potential savings.
embedded apps don't mind doing what it takes to achieve battery life noticably longer than the competitor.
and often do such specialized (read: not bloated) functions that error robustness should also be doable -- even if currently
glossed over.
but, regardless how desireable this turns out to be, if a "big guy" (read Intel) couldn't be bothered to push :(
it, it'll die
and you seriously think most can afford the court costs to 'win' ?
tribe.net is still around.
been around a long time actually.
will i find my pair of dice?
longer breakdown time would have a minor secondary benefit too :) :)
i'd expect.
the stuff will have travelled further along the GI tract. the last half
of the GI tract is less efficient/able to absorb the sugars than the
first half.
perhaps we need to lick lab-rat stools to find out if sucrose eaters
have sweeter ones
Betamax lost because it was an inferior format.
no, not inferior on the tv screen, inferior usability outside of the tv.
the initial machines that supported Beta were top-loading only, while
VHS had front-loading.
back in the era of stacking a/v components on top of each other inside
cabinets, "top loading" anything is a huge cost of inconvenience.
Beta lost for good reason. by the time Beta got front loading, VHS
had a huge head start.
i think i also recall Beta had shorter recording-time cartridges
than VHS too.
it was all about 'usability'. Beta *was* an inferior format at
the critical point of introduction and acceptance by the market place.
>Any informed user who wants to know what "Error 14" is just needs to (gasp!) look it up on our website, and then they can fix it on their own if they so choose...
arggggggh, i hit this with cable-internet support.
"Whenever your service is down, we have this CONVENIENT website you can
visit to see if there are "known" problems in your area."
uh.... if i cannot connect, how do i go to the website?
hundres out of a population of how many? :) :)
thats, um, statistically insignificant!