That's OK, because I bet some people will actually find contrived glitches like that to be entertaining. Which will make the documentary all the more enjoyable.
As if... I have always had auto-updates active, and I can guarantee you (happened a few days ago when someone else used my computer) that if I fire up IE, I'll be flooded with spyware within five minutes. My computer is up to date. IE just sucks balls.
Let's land on it with vaguely space shuttle looking craft (with coolness enhancements) that somehow manage to make noises and maneuver like an air craft in a near-perfect vacuum! They could even send two, and they could film each others maneuvers, and then we'd get a documentary about it! Let's man the craft with completely inexperience, untrained non-astronauts who will drill into the asteroid and plant nukular bombs to blow the asteroid in two!
There's no reason whatsoever for a workstation to have ports open to the outside. That leaves such things as email viruses and spy-ware, neither of which can get in if your mail reader and web browser aren't flaming pieces of dog shit, which Outlook and IE are. Last time I checked, those two (or three if you count outlook-express) don't run on anything but WINDOWS.
Now, add to that the hacked on afterthought abortion of a security model in Windows, and you regularly get normal users running full time with admin rights (that's what I do) because that's the only way the damn computer will function properly. Most of the Windows boxes out there, when they get an email virus, AUTOMATICALLY are fully compromised, just like that. IF an email virus even existed for Linux, the most it could do is wipe out your own personal files. The system will still boot and run just fine, and the virus could *easily* be wiped away without a trace.
I'm ignoring social attacks. Obviously, there isn't much your computer can do about those. In fact, they really have little to do with computers at all, so they really don't even belong in these discussions.
Cars are made with a thin aluminum skin that provides virtually no protection from flying projectiles, which just so happen to be everywhere all the time and everybody knows it. Cars HAVE to have thin aluminum skins or they'd be prohibitivly heavy and expensive.
Except, imagine living in a world where 6-inch-thick titanium costs and weighs the same as paper thin aluminum. The weight and cost urguments wouldn't do too well, and cars with paper thin skins wouldn't sell.
There's evil out there. Don't drive around in a crappy car.
Yes, my post was indeed a joke. A pun, I believe you'd call it. Some people might think it's funny, and some might not. Then there are the elite few who will notice something pun like about it but, assuming that it was only by accident, will proceed to explain the pun like feature so that others may find humor in it. Congratulations on being THAT guy.
>> "DUI should be illegal, which it obviously should"
Why is the reckless driving law not enough for this as well?
Why does a person who drives with barely enough alcohol in his system to get a rat drunk have to spend the night in jail and *automatically* lose his license, while a person who talks on a cell phone get's only a fine, even though the latter may well be twice as dangerous as the former?
I'm not married, but my domestic situation contains one step child and a serious girlfriend. Close enough:-)
Since this situation came about, I find myself being safer in general. In potentially dangerous situations, I almost always think of the child and how it would effect her if I was seriously injured or killed. I take less risks than I used to, I drive slower in many situations, MUCH slower in some situations. I would guess that I am now much less likely to have a serious injury than I was when I was single. Therefore, my insurance company is less likely to have to pay on my behalf.
They have statistics, and you can't much argue with those. But my behavior seems to support the statistics at least to some degree.
Experience makes that sort of stupidity go away. If you cannot make a reasonable judgement about your driving ability, you shouldn't be driving. Just because you've been drinking doesn't mean you can't make that judgement.
Drinking tends to give you a bullet proof attitude. If you just realize that your attitude is flat out wrong, you'll make much better judgements. It's easy, it just takes a little effort.
After a couple drinks, you CAN pay close attention to the road if you make your mind up to do it. If you're on the phone, you CAN'T pay close attention without letting the conversation go to hell.
I'm suffering from a bit of a flu bug right now. Last night after work, driving home, I noticed that my level of alertness was 'impaired' because of my illness. I would say that I was as much a danger to other drivers as if I had been chowing on a burrito, or if I'd just had a couple beers. Kinda scary, actually.
Should we outlaw driving while under the influence of a virus, and throw offenders in jail? Or maybe if I'd killed someone, the family of the victim would be consoled by my affliction...
>> "I realize this is not the exact thought process"
Pretty damn close. A cell phone user CANNOT pay full attention to the road because then the conversation goes down the tubes. But like you say, since they're not drunk, they're OK, right? Wrong!
That's no more or less true than the same statement about cell phone usage, or about a million other things.
EVERYBODY is impaired in some way almost all the time. Whether it be the result of cell phone use, a headache, a bad day at work, a divorce in progress, a few drinks, tired, whatever.
The key, like with everything else, is to operate within your ability and within the abilities of your vehicle. Impaired? Pulling a trailer? Driving in a rain storm? The solution is the same. Move into the slow lane, pull over, whatever. Solve the problem if possible (as in, hang up the damn phone). Increase your following distance. Turn on your lights. Signal sooner. PAY A-FUCKING-TTENTION to what you're doing and what's going on around you. If you're unable to properly pay attention, SLOW DOWN SOME MORE, or pull over, or just stay off the freeway.
Everybody automatically thinks it's fair to throw a person in the slammer for driving with a.08 BAC, but I wonder who would think it fair to punish a cell phone user as severely, even if statistics showed that it was just as dangerous?
BillG strikes me as unstable, and as not a natural leader. He's also an insufferable asshole, which I find more interesting. What happened during his childhood that made him so utterly unable to be a peer or a friend to the people around him? He seems to have an uncontrollable urge to kick everybody in the balls and steal their lunch, just because he can. What makes a person behave like that?
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You think XP is written in Python or something?
That's OK, because I bet some people will actually find contrived glitches like that to be entertaining. Which will make the documentary all the more enjoyable.
A handfull??? Even one would be against collossal odds... A handful would be down right impossible I think.
As if... I have always had auto-updates active, and I can guarantee you (happened a few days ago when someone else used my computer) that if I fire up IE, I'll be flooded with spyware within five minutes. My computer is up to date. IE just sucks balls.
Oh yeah, I bet you get a wicked head on your latte in space!
Let's land on it with vaguely space shuttle looking craft (with coolness enhancements) that somehow manage to make noises and maneuver like an air craft in a near-perfect vacuum! They could even send two, and they could film each others maneuvers, and then we'd get a documentary about it! Let's man the craft with completely inexperience, untrained non-astronauts who will drill into the asteroid and plant nukular bombs to blow the asteroid in two!
:-)
Cool, totally original idea huh
The "some piece of software" is designed to work only with full admin rights because of the way MICROSOFT designed Windows in the first place!
Absolute bullshit.
There's no reason whatsoever for a workstation to have ports open to the outside. That leaves such things as email viruses and spy-ware, neither of which can get in if your mail reader and web browser aren't flaming pieces of dog shit, which Outlook and IE are. Last time I checked, those two (or three if you count outlook-express) don't run on anything but WINDOWS.
Now, add to that the hacked on afterthought abortion of a security model in Windows, and you regularly get normal users running full time with admin rights (that's what I do) because that's the only way the damn computer will function properly. Most of the Windows boxes out there, when they get an email virus, AUTOMATICALLY are fully compromised, just like that. IF an email virus even existed for Linux, the most it could do is wipe out your own personal files. The system will still boot and run just fine, and the virus could *easily* be wiped away without a trace.
I'm ignoring social attacks. Obviously, there isn't much your computer can do about those. In fact, they really have little to do with computers at all, so they really don't even belong in these discussions.
Hmm maybe the analogy should be more like this:
Cars are made with a thin aluminum skin that provides virtually no protection from flying projectiles, which just so happen to be everywhere all the time and everybody knows it. Cars HAVE to have thin aluminum skins or they'd be prohibitivly heavy and expensive.
Except, imagine living in a world where 6-inch-thick titanium costs and weighs the same as paper thin aluminum. The weight and cost urguments wouldn't do too well, and cars with paper thin skins wouldn't sell.
There's evil out there. Don't drive around in a crappy car.
Yeah, but if you've got the right tools, it's gravy.
Well, since we've started down this path...
Yes, my post was indeed a joke. A pun, I believe you'd call it. Some people might think it's funny, and some might not. Then there are the elite few who will notice something pun like about it but, assuming that it was only by accident, will proceed to explain the pun like feature so that others may find humor in it. Congratulations on being THAT guy.
Close. I thought maybe she was dead swapping tunes...
You can't have order in the court when you've got such an odor in the court. The defense rests.
She actually said "slender"? That should have been a dead givaway...
>> "DUI should be illegal, which it obviously should"
Why is the reckless driving law not enough for this as well?
Why does a person who drives with barely enough alcohol in his system to get a rat drunk have to spend the night in jail and *automatically* lose his license, while a person who talks on a cell phone get's only a fine, even though the latter may well be twice as dangerous as the former?
I'm not married, but my domestic situation contains one step child and a serious girlfriend. Close enough :-)
Since this situation came about, I find myself being safer in general. In potentially dangerous situations, I almost always think of the child and how it would effect her if I was seriously injured or killed. I take less risks than I used to, I drive slower in many situations, MUCH slower in some situations. I would guess that I am now much less likely to have a serious injury than I was when I was single. Therefore, my insurance company is less likely to have to pay on my behalf.
They have statistics, and you can't much argue with those. But my behavior seems to support the statistics at least to some degree.
I agree, but people DON'T let the conversation go to hell or hang up. That's the whole problem.
Experience makes that sort of stupidity go away. If you cannot make a reasonable judgement about your driving ability, you shouldn't be driving. Just because you've been drinking doesn't mean you can't make that judgement.
Drinking tends to give you a bullet proof attitude. If you just realize that your attitude is flat out wrong, you'll make much better judgements. It's easy, it just takes a little effort.
After a couple drinks, you CAN pay close attention to the road if you make your mind up to do it. If you're on the phone, you CAN'T pay close attention without letting the conversation go to hell.
Releasing all these patents might be a good thing, if only in that it serves to illustrate the absurdity of the current software patent system.
That's just patently absurd...
I'm suffering from a bit of a flu bug right now. Last night after work, driving home, I noticed that my level of alertness was 'impaired' because of my illness. I would say that I was as much a danger to other drivers as if I had been chowing on a burrito, or if I'd just had a couple beers. Kinda scary, actually.
Should we outlaw driving while under the influence of a virus, and throw offenders in jail? Or maybe if I'd killed someone, the family of the victim would be consoled by my affliction...
>> "I realize this is not the exact thought process"
Pretty damn close. A cell phone user CANNOT pay full attention to the road because then the conversation goes down the tubes. But like you say, since they're not drunk, they're OK, right? Wrong!
"ANYONE with a .08 BAC is going to drive poorly"
.08 BAC, but I wonder who would think it fair to punish a cell phone user as severely, even if statistics showed that it was just as dangerous?
That's no more or less true than the same statement about cell phone usage, or about a million other things.
EVERYBODY is impaired in some way almost all the time. Whether it be the result of cell phone use, a headache, a bad day at work, a divorce in progress, a few drinks, tired, whatever.
The key, like with everything else, is to operate within your ability and within the abilities of your vehicle. Impaired? Pulling a trailer? Driving in a rain storm? The solution is the same. Move into the slow lane, pull over, whatever. Solve the problem if possible (as in, hang up the damn phone). Increase your following distance. Turn on your lights. Signal sooner. PAY A-FUCKING-TTENTION to what you're doing and what's going on around you. If you're unable to properly pay attention, SLOW DOWN SOME MORE, or pull over, or just stay off the freeway.
Everybody automatically thinks it's fair to throw a person in the slammer for driving with a
BillG strikes me as unstable, and as not a natural leader. He's also an insufferable asshole, which I find more interesting. What happened during his childhood that made him so utterly unable to be a peer or a friend to the people around him? He seems to have an uncontrollable urge to kick everybody in the balls and steal their lunch, just because he can. What makes a person behave like that?