I agree with the above. I read the article a few weeks ago and it was enlightening, if for nothing else then to see how social interactions have changed SO dramatically in just 10 or 20 years!
These two kids lived in the same dorm room for weeks. They had more interactions online, than face to face, despite both of them living in the same room! wow... They also went to great extents not to hide their privacy in any way. Especially tyler who had the same email address/handle for every single site he visited.
"You know, I think the same way of Windows Me. I personally never had an issue. It installed and ran perfectly for me. To be honest, in many ways it was one of the best OSes I've ever used."
When windows 95 came out, before osr2, the registry had a habit of getting randomly corrupted. They fixed that, completely, by the last release of windows 95. In contrast, windows me was the worst operating system ever released. They had no intention of making it a functioning product, made no attempt to and didnt care because it was abandonded to the MUCH superior 2k. It was like night and day. I don't know what level in your professional career you were at in the year 2000, but if you had any positive experience with windows ME, I cant imagine you even turned your computer on.
I don't get it.
clearly.
To each their own.
No, windows me was a steaming pile of dog shit. Easily the worst OS ever made. Your one anecdote does not change reality. Just answer one question really. Were you a computer technician at the time? In any capacity. no? then STFU
And I make the case because much like the bible, one day all these comments will be saved for history and people will use your idiot comment as evidence that "some people" thought windows me was good. I am here to say that no, no you wont change this period of history mr ac. Windows me sucked ass.
As for the zune, vista was bombing and it was en vogue to bash microsoft at the time. It did not help to be the colour brown, that might be the worst marketing failure to date in electronics. I believe it also had some kind of crazy format related restriction. There was nothing really wrong with it and im sure people could see someone liking the product. The problems people have with it are mostly superficial. So even the point of your sad anecdote is wasted.
"True, but most aren't given public IP addresses (any many aren't even given access out the firewall to try and figure out the public address)"
You work for a printer company and dont realize that a nat does not nessecarily stop outbound communication from a device on your network, so called "phoning home". Wow.
Who the fuck cares what some random twit thinks? Why is this in an article summary. Are you going to start posting random *internet* peoples opinions as validation points for your crappy summaries now?
Or maybe make the summaries just opinion. May i be the first to welcome jon katzish journalism back once agian... Time flows like a river, and history repeats!
"It is all about whether your providing a "service" to aid in copyright infridgement. "
Is an ISP a service? Of course it is. You are terribly naieve to think this will only target mass market "street vendor" pirates.
The conservatives will use any law on the books to punish anyone. Thats what being "pro law and order" means in this day and age. It means fill the prisons, make more laws till everyone can be charged with something.
"nothing in Vista or 7 have really struck me as necessary."
+ in build imaging software + wonderful backup + you can click on the URL bar in explorer as a button (I cannot stress that this is one of the SMALL reasons that pushed me over in upgrading. I dont know why its the small things that you use every day which motivate you the most. After having gotten used to them at least. In much the same inbuilt wireless was so convenient to have it was worth abandoning 2k. digressing) + rock solid + NATIVE SSD support. (this is a BIG reason too) + less patches to update after default install:P (it matters more than you would think psychologically) + working hibernate and sleep + search is nicer and actually does a job instead of is a fucking dog + x64 and 4gb+ memory. this is also a big one if you want to get what you probably paid for with a new machine + plug and play multi monitor pnp on the fly. invaluable on company laptops with multiple projectors possible for a given unit. again XP did it OK, but 7 does it far better + 2tb+ filesystems (we are talking about VS xp, i am aware linux has no problem and none of these points should be compared to linux)
So research remaking the quick launch, turn your theme back to win2k clasic mode and jump on the bandwagon!
What the hell are you talking about? Account terms, or pricing changes make it as articles on here all the time. Its a TECHNOLOGY site. I also felt frusterated that they changed their terms of service. They were a free site for like 13 years.
""I'm partly to blame" my ass. You are entirely to blame. Grow up."
But sounds like you just didnt have your coffee today, gramps!
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And this domain is updated daily by my pfsense. No big deal, its just a backup incase my regular dns goes down. But i have had the domain since something stupid like 1999 so i am somewaht attached. Not 20$/yr+++ attached mind you.
It may be possible that my client wasnt working(we'll see if i get another one next month), but do you want to take that risk with only a 5 day grace period in which to realize your error?
Their entire home page seems more inclined to make money now. There is one tiny link for support. No account page or anything. Pfsense is good because i can switch to about 9 different dynamic dns providers, but still annoying. Wikipedia also says that dyndns was originally released as an "open system" with many home router companies signing on. In that case, it wasnt as if these home router companies were freeloading, as some have sugested in earlier posts.
"the accent in North America has changed far less, and thus remains closer to how Elizabethan English would have been spoken"
[Citation needed]
As a canadian, I hate how americans speak english. I strongly doubt that americans followed the british more naturally. If anything, it would be canadians becuase we were closer to the brits historically. Americans would have wanted to differentiate their speech, what with the wars and all that.
But of course I don't have anything to back this up any more than you do. Since there are no recordings from back then, I would judge it very difficult to know how someones accent would have sounded.
DO not pretend to know exactly how the earths ecosystem works. It is unbelievable arrogance to kill off another species. Even one so hated as the mosquito. Perhaps, especially because its hated, we need to keep it. genetic "engineering".
If i have a nest of mice in the house, i want to kill them. I don't want to kill ALL mice, everywhere.
Kevin bacon game evovled from a 1967 study and the subsequent movie which was made in the 90s.
oh wait you cant because new york times gives a pay cookie. but when i removed the cookie then i could at least rtfa.
The âoesix degreesâ concept dates to a 1929 short story, âoeChains,â in which Frigyes Karinthy, the Hungarian author, suggested that no one is more than a string of six friends away from any other person.
After Milgram published his famous paper âoeThe Small World Problem,â in 1967, the playwright John Guare made âoeSix Degrees of Separation,â the title of a 1990 play that explored Milgramâ(TM)s premise. And that gave rise to the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which disparate Hollywood personalities are linked to one another.
"The guy's cousin is on the run for drug charges, possibly involving drug smuggling. Before taking off, he sells his car to this guy, who waits a month or two, then drives to Mexico, stays a few days, and then drives back. I'm not saying any of that is damning, but it would certainly raise questions in my mind"
You people watch WAY too much CSI. So going to your neighbourign country and having a relative somewhat involved in the drug trade (probably more than 50% of people) is worth tracking someone?
This guy was an american. I am sure that americans can just drive to mexico whenever they want. Besides, even if he did go meet his cousin in mexico, there is absolutely zero proof that the guy who is being tracked committed any crime!
fear of drugs is a hell of a way to give up your civil liberties. I blame CSI and shit.
"an individual is getting high and receives a call that their friend or family member was in an accident or some other tragedy. They are in a need to get to that friend/family member. If they could do something to suppress the high affect, they would have less "problems" getting to their friend."
Have you ever been high? If you are in a high adreneline situation, you sober right the fuck up pretty quick. Weed isn't that hardcore of a drug that you can just get lost in like heroin or ketamine. Even when drunk, i have "scared" myself sober in emergency situations.
So I think your hypothetical situation is a very silly justification for massaging this incredebile find to your own ends.
Also FYI, every animal on this planet, down to the lowliest sea slug has canabanoid receptors.
Anyone who is unfamiliar with arizona, needs to read an article in the new yorker called "Sherrif Joe" By William Finnegan. Its behind a paywall but there are some other places to get it
The biggest part of the sheriffs job is running the jails, and Arpaio saw that there was political gold to be spun there. The voters had declined to finance new jail construction, and so, in 1993, Arpaio, vowing that no troublemakers would be released on his watch because of overcrowding, procured a consignment of Army surplus tents and had them set up, surrounded by barbed wire, in an industrial area in southwest Phoenix. "I put them up next to the dump, the dog pound the waste disposal plant" he told me. Phoenix is an open-air blast furnace for much of the year. Temperatures inside the tents hit a hundred and thirty-five degrees. Still, the tents were a hit with the public, or at least with the conservative majority that voted. Arpaio put up more tents, until Tent City jail held twenty-five hundred inmates, and he stuck a neon "vacancy " sign on a tall guard tower. It was visible for miles. His popularity grew. What could he do next? Arpaio ordered small, heavily publicized deprivations. He banned cigarettes from his jails. Skin magazines. Movies. Coffee. Hot lunches. Salt and pepper Arpaio estimated that he saved taxpayers thirty thousand dollars a year by removing salt and pepper. Meals were cut to two a day, and Arpaio got the cost down, he says, to thirty cents per meal. "It costs more to feed the dogs than it does the inmates," he told me. Jail, Arpaio likes to say, is not a spa its punishment. He wants inmates whose keenest wish is never to get locked up again. He limits their television, he told me, to the Weather Channel, C Span , and, just to aggravate their hunger, the Food Network. For a while, he showed them Newt Gingrich speeches. "They hated him," he said cheerfully. Why the Weather Channel, a British reporter once asked. "So these morons will know how hot it s going to be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He got a tank from the Army, had the howitzer muzzle painted with flames, and "Sheriff Arpaio s War on Drugs" emblazoned on the sides, and rode in it, with Ava, in the Fiesta Bowl Parade. He decreed that all of his inmates there are now roughly ten thousand of them, double the number when he took office must wear pink underwear. And pink socks and pink flip flops. Even pink handcuffs. Pink, he explains, mock-sincerely, is a soothing color. "I know just how far I can go," Arpaio told me. "That s the thing."
Arpaio wasn't kidding about chain gangs. Foreign television reporters couldn't get enough footage of his inmates shuf- fling through the desert. New ideas for the humiliation of people in custodyâ"whom the Sheriff calls, with persuasive disgust, "criminals," although most are actually awaiting trial, not convicted of any crimeâ"kept occurring to him. He put his inmates in black-and-white striped uniforms. The shock value of these retro prisoner outfits was powerful and complex. There was comedy, nostalgia, dehumanization, even a whiff of something annihilationist.
"Everything I learned/got used to suddenly was hidden inside menus, buttons, drop-downs and sometimes super simple tasks needed excessive clicking. MS does this kind of stuff regularly: with their OS and with their other products. I just simply hate it."
No offense, but this is not an excuse anymore. You have had almost 5 years to learn the 2007 interface redesign. If you worked in a moderately progressive office, you would have at least office 2007 for at least 1 to 2 years probably more.
I am wondering how your transition from windows win 98 -> 2k/xp went for you. Sure eveything seems bad at the beginning of any change, but to go back is now harder for most users. I mean its been 4+ years. Were you still running windows 98 in 2002? Perhaps you are slow to change.
But of course I agree that unnessecary changes or change for change's sake is a BAD idea. I hate firefox interface redesigns, etc... In my mind, microsoft is actually quite slow to change, compared to most software companies. Chrome went what, 7+ versions this year? adobe cs updates every single year. Perhaps the office thing is a bad example. Well certainly I am tired of hearing it at least.
Translation: I dont want to throw out my expensive toy, so i will agree to have some level of "possibly illegal" tracking device secretly installed on my phone. Oh and your wrecking my reality so please stop talking about it you CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!
How does the cloud site, based most likely in america, get around this? Seems like it would be much more legally opertune to go for a centralized offsite cloud site, than hundreds of small businesses.
Especially one which being a cloud, most likely crosses interstate lines? I could not think of a worse use for a "cloud" system than something federally illegal
Why keep a customer list in the first place? No one writes down your info if you buy cigarettes I am pretty sure. This article is just stupid.
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I agree with the above. I read the article a few weeks ago and it was enlightening, if for nothing else then to see how social interactions have changed SO dramatically in just 10 or 20 years!
These two kids lived in the same dorm room for weeks. They had more interactions online, than face to face, despite both of them living in the same room! wow... They also went to great extents not to hide their privacy in any way. Especially tyler who had the same email address/handle for every single site he visited.
Kids today!
When windows 95 came out, before osr2, the registry had a habit of getting randomly corrupted. They fixed that, completely, by the last release of windows 95. In contrast, windows me was the worst operating system ever released. They had no intention of making it a functioning product, made no attempt to and didnt care because it was abandonded to the MUCH superior 2k. It was like night and day. I don't know what level in your professional career you were at in the year 2000, but if you had any positive experience with windows ME, I cant imagine you even turned your computer on.
clearly.
No, windows me was a steaming pile of dog shit. Easily the worst OS ever made. Your one anecdote does not change reality. Just answer one question really. Were you a computer technician at the time? In any capacity. no? then STFU
And I make the case because much like the bible, one day all these comments will be saved for history and people will use your idiot comment as evidence that "some people" thought windows me was good. I am here to say that no, no you wont change this period of history mr ac. Windows me sucked ass.
As for the zune, vista was bombing and it was en vogue to bash microsoft at the time. It did not help to be the colour brown, that might be the worst marketing failure to date in electronics. I believe it also had some kind of crazy format related restriction. There was nothing really wrong with it and im sure people could see someone liking the product. The problems people have with it are mostly superficial. So even the point of your sad anecdote is wasted.
You work for a printer company and dont realize that a nat does not nessecarily stop outbound communication from a device on your network, so called "phoning home". Wow.
Who the fuck cares what some random twit thinks? Why is this in an article summary. Are you going to start posting random *internet* peoples opinions as validation points for your crappy summaries now?
Or maybe make the summaries just opinion.
May i be the first to welcome jon katzish journalism back once agian... Time flows like a river, and history repeats!
what happened and how is there a media element on the left hand side! this is extremely jarring to me and must be stopped!!!
I havent decided if i am being sarcasticly upset or not, even!
theres a meme if i ever heard one!
Is an ISP a service? Of course it is. You are terribly naieve to think this will only target mass market "street vendor" pirates.
The conservatives will use any law on the books to punish anyone. Thats what being "pro law and order" means in this day and age. It means fill the prisons, make more laws till everyone can be charged with something.
+ in build imaging software :P (it matters more than you would think psychologically)
+ wonderful backup
+ you can click on the URL bar in explorer as a button (I cannot stress that this is one of the SMALL reasons that pushed me over in upgrading. I dont know why its the small things that you use every day which motivate you the most. After having gotten used to them at least. In much the same inbuilt wireless was so convenient to have it was worth abandoning 2k. digressing)
+ rock solid
+ NATIVE SSD support. (this is a BIG reason too)
+ less patches to update after default install
+ working hibernate and sleep
+ search is nicer and actually does a job instead of is a fucking dog
+ x64 and 4gb+ memory. this is also a big one if you want to get what you probably paid for with a new machine
+ plug and play multi monitor pnp on the fly. invaluable on company laptops with multiple projectors possible for a given unit. again XP did it OK, but 7 does it far better
+ 2tb+ filesystems (we are talking about VS xp, i am aware linux has no problem and none of these points should be compared to linux)
So research remaking the quick launch, turn your theme back to win2k clasic mode and jump on the bandwagon!
What the hell are you talking about? Account terms, or pricing changes make it as articles on here all the time. Its a TECHNOLOGY site. I also felt frusterated that they changed their terms of service. They were a free site for like 13 years.
But sounds like you just didnt have your coffee today, gramps!
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And this domain is updated daily by my pfsense. No big deal, its just a backup incase my regular dns goes down. But i have had the domain since something stupid like 1999 so i am somewaht attached. Not 20$/yr+++ attached mind you.
It may be possible that my client wasnt working(we'll see if i get another one next month), but do you want to take that risk with only a 5 day grace period in which to realize your error?
Their entire home page seems more inclined to make money now. There is one tiny link for support. No account page or anything. Pfsense is good because i can switch to about 9 different dynamic dns providers, but still annoying. Wikipedia also says that dyndns was originally released as an "open system" with many home router companies signing on. In that case, it wasnt as if these home router companies were freeloading, as some have sugested in earlier posts.
[Citation needed]
As a canadian, I hate how americans speak english. I strongly doubt that americans followed the british more naturally. If anything, it would be canadians becuase we were closer to the brits historically. Americans would have wanted to differentiate their speech, what with the wars and all that.
But of course I don't have anything to back this up any more than you do. Since there are no recordings from back then, I would judge it very difficult to know how someones accent would have sounded.
DO not pretend to know exactly how the earths ecosystem works. It is unbelievable arrogance to kill off another species. Even one so hated as the mosquito. Perhaps, especially because its hated, we need to keep it. genetic "engineering".
If i have a nest of mice in the house, i want to kill them. I don't want to kill ALL mice, everywhere.
Kevin bacon game evovled from a 1967 study and the subsequent movie which was made in the 90s.
oh wait you cant because new york times gives a pay cookie. but when i removed the cookie then i could at least rtfa.
You people watch WAY too much CSI. So going to your neighbourign country and having a relative somewhat involved in the drug trade (probably more than 50% of people) is worth tracking someone?
This guy was an american. I am sure that americans can just drive to mexico whenever they want. Besides, even if he did go meet his cousin in mexico, there is absolutely zero proof that the guy who is being tracked committed any crime!
fear of drugs is a hell of a way to give up your civil liberties. I blame CSI and shit.
nokia seems to have really gone out on a limb for this guy!
booya!
there goes the neighbourhood!
that is all.
Have you ever been high? If you are in a high adreneline situation, you sober right the fuck up pretty quick. Weed isn't that hardcore of a drug that you can just get lost in like heroin or ketamine. Even when drunk, i have "scared" myself sober in emergency situations.
So I think your hypothetical situation is a very silly justification for massaging this incredebile find to your own ends.
Also FYI, every animal on this planet, down to the lowliest sea slug has canabanoid receptors.
Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111905007067
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=sea+slug+endocannabinoid+system&btnG=Search
For more information, I highly recomend the Horizon documentary Cannibis the Evil Weed which has the above as well as more information.
Oh yeah? How do you know that they aren't really some chinese special ops who convinced all you gwailo anons to do their work for them?
Fear makes the wolf look bigger
Anyone who is unfamiliar with arizona, needs to read an article in the new yorker called "Sherrif Joe" By William Finnegan. Its behind a paywall but there are some other places to get it
No offense, but this is not an excuse anymore. You have had almost 5 years to learn the 2007 interface redesign. If you worked in a moderately progressive office, you would have at least office 2007 for at least 1 to 2 years probably more.
I am wondering how your transition from windows win 98 -> 2k/xp went for you. Sure eveything seems bad at the beginning of any change, but to go back is now harder for most users.
I mean its been 4+ years. Were you still running windows 98 in 2002? Perhaps you are slow to change.
But of course I agree that unnessecary changes or change for change's sake is a BAD idea. I hate firefox interface redesigns, etc... In my mind, microsoft is actually quite slow to change, compared to most software companies. Chrome went what, 7+ versions this year? adobe cs updates every single year. Perhaps the office thing is a bad example. Well certainly I am tired of hearing it at least.
Translation: I dont want to throw out my expensive toy, so i will agree to have some level of "possibly illegal" tracking device secretly installed on my phone. Oh and your wrecking my reality so please stop talking about it you CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!
My my how the low uid's have fallen.
How does the cloud site, based most likely in america, get around this? Seems like it would be much more legally opertune to go for a centralized offsite cloud site, than hundreds of small businesses.
Especially one which being a cloud, most likely crosses interstate lines? I could not think of a worse use for a "cloud" system than something federally illegal
Why keep a customer list in the first place? No one writes down your info if you buy cigarettes I am pretty sure. This article is just stupid.
ight, ake and ate are all very similar and can be happily rhymed,
But i am sure you will disagree and respond in due time
the weight of the shake got me baked - dehydrate!
you know how to rhyme right? You just didnt want the limelight? i agree, best stay outta sight!