This is (one of) the reason for the failure of touchscreens as data input methods. People get tired of having their arms up in the air.
Slashdotters don't get exercise, so this would be great in solving the health problems of today's nerds. Exercise while working on your computer! With all of that arm action, we can burn calories. After enough computing, we'll have forearms like Popeye! Oh, wait... nevermind. Already got those. Nothing to see here, move along...
I wonder if watching this will be anything like Dark City... buildings suddenly growing from little townhouses to huge skyscrapers, morphing into different shapes, etc.
This looks like a great tool for us web admins. If this trend continues, I'll be able to play games all day and my boss will think I'm hard at work! "Ahh, monitoring the web site again, eh? You're such a dedicated employee, always working so hard. I'm putting you in for a promotion."
One problem: The people who drive 10 under the limit in the far left lane are the same people who don't use their rear view mirrors. So they'd never see your sign.
True story: Several employers ago, we hired a lady with a PhD in English. She was very well spoken and seemed quite intelligent. Except for the fact that she was making $6.00 an hour doing text development work alongside high school dropouts.
I have two, a 7 year old and a 9 month old. Further proof that you can't judge a person by his/. posts.
Plus: a car? No one should have to watch for that on a sidewalk.
The street is - what - half a foot from the sidewalk? Depends on which side of the sidewalk you're on, but in most areas you get 5 feet at most. Chances are, most pedestrians on sidewalks are between 1 and 3 feet from traffic at any given time. It would take a 3 year old child half a second to cover that distance and end up flattened by a car.
A parent can easily keep a 3 year old off the street without holding hands or carrying. But somehow I doubt you would know that.
This parent couldn't keep his 3 year old from jumping half a foot into the path of a Segway rider, but you're telling me he could keep her from jumping half a foot into the street and thus a car?
I'd also be interested in your method of sidewalk safety with a 3 year old. You don't hold her hands, you don't carry her, how can you be sure she won't dart into traffic? Do you use a leash? My daughter was very well behaved when she was 3, but I still didn't let her walk mere feet from traffic without firmly holding on to her in some manner. It's just common sense.
Segways and bicycles operated at medium+ speeds or by unskilled riders belong on the street, where they shoulder more of their own risk.
Segways don't belong in the street (due to cars) but neither do they belong on crowded sidewalks (due to pedestrians) unless moving very slowly. That said, I think the answer is easy: Let people use their Segways on the sidewalk. If others are around them, they shouldn't move faster than 3-5 miles per hour. If they do, and they hurt somebody, they should be held accountable.
I'm not sure about In-N-Out because I haven't read the book and I've never even heard of In-N-Out. But, Chik-fil-a has a good reputation about how they treat their employees. Managers do make good wages. They offer tuition reimbursement. All Chik-fil-a restaurants are closed on sundays so the employees can attend church if they want to.
Isn't that interesting? Most of the people here at/. love to bash Christians. Christians who just so happen to "do the right thing" when it comes to their businesses and treatment of their employees. I find that ironic.
It brings to mind organics food. It's so expensive that only the well off single upper middle class can really afford it.
Oh for crying out loud... My local grocery store sells organic veggies and such right next to the "normal" stuff. It's not that expensive. You might spend a whopping $10 extra on veggies in a given month if you only buy organic. $20 if you really go crazy.
You're telling me only "well off single upper middle class" can afford the extra $10-20 a month? Yeah, whatever, pal. I know a guy who is unemployed with a wife and kids, living off the system, and even he can come up with an extra $20 a month for stuff.
However, it is so cheap, that in some cases it's a better economic choice then anything else. I am not tlaking about if we eat cheap I can get an iPod, I'm tlaking, if we eat cheap my kids get to eat 3 times instead of once.
Sorry, but that's the silliest thing I've ever heard. People who are having trouble feeding their children don't eat at McDonalds. They eat rice, noodles and top ramen, all of which are better for you than anything McDonalds sells. Some single mom with a couple of kids would spend $10-$15 on a meal at McDonalds; that same $10-$15 would buy a month's supply of rice.
There is a grocery store between 1 and 2 miles from my house. I often go there for one or two little things. A box of doughnut holes, lettuce and tomato to add to dinner, some milk, etc. I won't take my bike because I'd have to leave it on the sidewalk in front of the store, and considering how much I paid for it (over $2k), I doubt it would be there when I was done shopping.
So I drive. But if I had a Segway, maybe with a little basket on the front, I'd take that instead. I could ride that right into the store, up and down the isles, etc. Get my food, pay and go home. Would be faster than driving and a lot more fun.
What's stopping me? The $4,000 and the looking like a dork bit. Now, if they were $1,000, and if other people routinely rode them around my local grocery store, I'd buy one for sure. I can live with looking like a dork if I'm not the only one doing it.
The fact that you've jumped to a ridiculous conclusion and used it to attack the guy's parenting skills, however, implies you're a jackass.
No, but your response certainly implies that about you.
A 3 year old child has no business wandering around on a sidewalk unsupervised. Period. Said child should have been holding her father's hand, or her father should have been carrying her. Both father and child are damn lucky this was a Segway. Next time it could be a car.
This guy's parenting skills are lacking when it comes to his daughter's safety. That doesn't excuse the Segway rider from illegally operating his toy on a crowded sidewalk; it's simply a valid observation that can stand on it's own.
Say that an unscrupulous website owner does a manual analysis of your password. Maybe he owns more than one site so he can compare and contrast. Let's say he already knows your passwords to Hotmail and Google. Guessing your variant for any other site shouldn't be that difficult.
You're right, and this thought has crossed my mind. However, I don't worry about it for a few reasons:
1. It's highly unlikely that a website owner will simultaneously be unscrupulous, own multiple sites that I have access to, target me specifically out of the tens of thousands of other users, and also be able to figure out my password scheme.
2. I don't create accounts on shady looking web sites.
3. I use a different password scheme for financial institutions vs. everything else.
Perhaps this will bite me in the rear end some day, but I doubt it.
That's all fine, until you need to remember the password for your IRS account 12 months since you last used it, or the dozen or so other passwords for secure services such as insurance companies, credit card accounts, on-line banking, mortgage, et cetera.
To be honest, I've actually never had that problem since I moved to a similar password scheme. In fact just the other day I purchased something online and I couldn't remember whether I'd purchased there in the past. I tried the most logical combination of my password scheme for that particular site and sure enough, I was in.
I like the idea of using a smart-card, but I fear that each service would only accept its own card, and I'd have to put up with a dozen different cards (sort of like discount shopper cards now).
Exactly. These RSA keys aren't small, either. Even one of them is really too big to carry around in a wallet, unless you're George Castanza. Now if I could use a single RSA key for every institution that required one, that wouldn't bother me too much.
One time passwords are fine for the average Joe. But this article is silly:
But it's difficult to remember dozens of strong passwords -- so many sites now require them.
Whatever. You simply need a pattern combined with "phrases" that only you know. For instance, your phrase could be "Jack and Jill went up the hill", so your password would be, "JJW!TH". Then you add a number to it that you can remember, for instance, the last four of your phone number reversed. So JJW!TH9834. Now throw in something unique from each site you visit. Take Google, perhaps Jack and Jill don't go up the hill, they go to Google: JJW!TGGL9834. Or on Hotmail, perhaps Hotmail went up the hill: HMW!TH9834. Mix and match for various web sites.
Easy to remember, extremely difficult to break. Secure enough for most anything us common folk would do - including online banking - and not such a hassle as carrying around scratch-off cards or RSA keys everywhere you go.
And who the heak thought a coffee can made a good exahust sound?
LOL. Some guy in a stock civic hatchback with a big fart can on the back tried to race me yesterday. I whooped his ass. IN MY STOCK V6 POWERED SUV. He slowed way down and fell in behind me.
Man, that must have been a bad day to be him. His girlfriend in the passenger seat looked entirely unimpresed. I can only imagine the conversation. I hope it began with, "Didn't you just tell me this thing could whoop a corvette, fool?"
But I have to agree, I bet most of us would barely notice a copy restriction that explicitly allowed the making of first generation copies (presumably as many first generation copies as wanted-- one to CD for the car, cabin, whatever, one to the mp3 server, one to the iPod or other portable, one for a friend here and there, etc). This is how it works for MiniDisc, I believe, and it's what I would expect here.
I would notice, and I bet you would, too. When you rip a CD to MP3, do you rip it again for your iPod, another time for a friend, a third time for you computer at work? Of course not. You rip the CD once and copy the MP3 wherever you need it. So now you're pulling from second generation copies which would presumably be disallowed.
As for the 25 copy limitation, you don't think people will reach that? I know I would. I make routine backups of my MP3 collection; it takes huge amounts of time to rip and convert them all, scan in the album covers, sort them, tag them, etc. So what, after a couple months worth of backups I won't be able to make more?
Not to mention the DRM they'll have to install on my computer to enforce their little scheme, which I'll have none of. I'll download it before I'll let some RIAA-goon software reside on my box. And if they're not enforcing DRM on the MP3 copies, then what's the point? Rip it once and make a million copies. They've done nothing to help their situation.
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A proper cut and paste is really just a copy and delete:
1. Copy the file.
2. Verify checksums.
3. Delete the source if OK.
Thus, no worries. Unless the fool who wrote the cut & paste routine screwed something up.
Which brings up an interesting question: if one can patent swinging
You really should be more clear next time. I actually thought someone had patented wife-swapping. Was a little hesitant to click the link.
This is (one of) the reason for the failure of touchscreens as data input methods. People get tired of having their arms up in the air.
Slashdotters don't get exercise, so this would be great in solving the health problems of today's nerds. Exercise while working on your computer! With all of that arm action, we can burn calories. After enough computing, we'll have forearms like Popeye! Oh, wait... nevermind. Already got those. Nothing to see here, move along...
Voice control is only suitable for lonely people.
Right, we know. Did you forget which web site you were on?
Ya know, there are more than two letters in the alphabet to choose from.
I think I'd be instantly blinded if I ever saw that man's Perl code...
think about voyager
I'd rather not. $90 for a season? It's enough to make a person sick.
I wonder if watching this will be anything like Dark City... buildings suddenly growing from little townhouses to huge skyscrapers, morphing into different shapes, etc.
This looks like a great tool for us web admins. If this trend continues, I'll be able to play games all day and my boss will think I'm hard at work! "Ahh, monitoring the web site again, eh? You're such a dedicated employee, always working so hard. I'm putting you in for a promotion."
One problem: The people who drive 10 under the limit in the far left lane are the same people who don't use their rear view mirrors. So they'd never see your sign.
I don't particularly like the idea of staring at a small b/w device for long periods of time
;)
Good, since Blackberrys have color screens, you shouldn't have a problem.
True story: Several employers ago, we hired a lady with a PhD in English. She was very well spoken and seemed quite intelligent. Except for the fact that she was making $6.00 an hour doing text development work alongside high school dropouts.
You still have to solve the problem of not finding your Segway where you left it.
The point is that you don't leave a Segway. You ride it right into the store and shop with it under your feet. Can't do that with a bike.
Spoken like a true childless objectivist.
/. posts.
I have two, a 7 year old and a 9 month old. Further proof that you can't judge a person by his
Plus: a car? No one should have to watch for that on a sidewalk.
The street is - what - half a foot from the sidewalk? Depends on which side of the sidewalk you're on, but in most areas you get 5 feet at most. Chances are, most pedestrians on sidewalks are between 1 and 3 feet from traffic at any given time. It would take a 3 year old child half a second to cover that distance and end up flattened by a car.
A parent can easily keep a 3 year old off the street without holding hands or carrying. But somehow I doubt you would know that.
This parent couldn't keep his 3 year old from jumping half a foot into the path of a Segway rider, but you're telling me he could keep her from jumping half a foot into the street and thus a car?
I'd also be interested in your method of sidewalk safety with a 3 year old. You don't hold her hands, you don't carry her, how can you be sure she won't dart into traffic? Do you use a leash? My daughter was very well behaved when she was 3, but I still didn't let her walk mere feet from traffic without firmly holding on to her in some manner. It's just common sense.
Segways and bicycles operated at medium+ speeds or by unskilled riders belong on the street, where they shoulder more of their own risk.
Segways don't belong in the street (due to cars) but neither do they belong on crowded sidewalks (due to pedestrians) unless moving very slowly. That said, I think the answer is easy: Let people use their Segways on the sidewalk. If others are around them, they shouldn't move faster than 3-5 miles per hour. If they do, and they hurt somebody, they should be held accountable.
I'm not sure about In-N-Out because I haven't read the book and I've never even heard of In-N-Out. But, Chik-fil-a has a good reputation about how they treat their employees. Managers do make good wages. They offer tuition reimbursement. All Chik-fil-a restaurants are closed on sundays so the employees can attend church if they want to.
/. love to bash Christians. Christians who just so happen to "do the right thing" when it comes to their businesses and treatment of their employees. I find that ironic.
Isn't that interesting? Most of the people here at
It brings to mind organics food. It's so expensive that only the well off single upper middle class can really afford it.
Oh for crying out loud... My local grocery store sells organic veggies and such right next to the "normal" stuff. It's not that expensive. You might spend a whopping $10 extra on veggies in a given month if you only buy organic. $20 if you really go crazy.
You're telling me only "well off single upper middle class" can afford the extra $10-20 a month? Yeah, whatever, pal. I know a guy who is unemployed with a wife and kids, living off the system, and even he can come up with an extra $20 a month for stuff.
However, it is so cheap, that in some cases it's a better economic choice then anything else. I am not tlaking about if we eat cheap I can get an iPod, I'm tlaking, if we eat cheap my kids get to eat 3 times instead of once.
Sorry, but that's the silliest thing I've ever heard. People who are having trouble feeding their children don't eat at McDonalds. They eat rice, noodles and top ramen, all of which are better for you than anything McDonalds sells. Some single mom with a couple of kids would spend $10-$15 on a meal at McDonalds; that same $10-$15 would buy a month's supply of rice.
Grocery customers buy numerous large bags
We do?
There is a grocery store between 1 and 2 miles from my house. I often go there for one or two little things. A box of doughnut holes, lettuce and tomato to add to dinner, some milk, etc. I won't take my bike because I'd have to leave it on the sidewalk in front of the store, and considering how much I paid for it (over $2k), I doubt it would be there when I was done shopping.
So I drive. But if I had a Segway, maybe with a little basket on the front, I'd take that instead. I could ride that right into the store, up and down the isles, etc. Get my food, pay and go home. Would be faster than driving and a lot more fun.
What's stopping me? The $4,000 and the looking like a dork bit. Now, if they were $1,000, and if other people routinely rode them around my local grocery store, I'd buy one for sure. I can live with looking like a dork if I'm not the only one doing it.
The fact that you've jumped to a ridiculous conclusion and used it to attack the guy's parenting skills, however, implies you're a jackass.
No, but your response certainly implies that about you.
A 3 year old child has no business wandering around on a sidewalk unsupervised. Period. Said child should have been holding her father's hand, or her father should have been carrying her. Both father and child are damn lucky this was a Segway. Next time it could be a car.
This guy's parenting skills are lacking when it comes to his daughter's safety. That doesn't excuse the Segway rider from illegally operating his toy on a crowded sidewalk; it's simply a valid observation that can stand on it's own.
Say that an unscrupulous website owner does a manual analysis of your password. Maybe he owns more than one site so he can compare and contrast. Let's say he already knows your passwords to Hotmail and Google. Guessing your variant for any other site shouldn't be that difficult.
You're right, and this thought has crossed my mind. However, I don't worry about it for a few reasons:
1. It's highly unlikely that a website owner will simultaneously be unscrupulous, own multiple sites that I have access to, target me specifically out of the tens of thousands of other users, and also be able to figure out my password scheme.
2. I don't create accounts on shady looking web sites.
3. I use a different password scheme for financial institutions vs. everything else.
Perhaps this will bite me in the rear end some day, but I doubt it.
That's all fine, until you need to remember the password for your IRS account 12 months since you last used it, or the dozen or so other passwords for secure services such as insurance companies, credit card accounts, on-line banking, mortgage, et cetera.
To be honest, I've actually never had that problem since I moved to a similar password scheme. In fact just the other day I purchased something online and I couldn't remember whether I'd purchased there in the past. I tried the most logical combination of my password scheme for that particular site and sure enough, I was in.
I like the idea of using a smart-card, but I fear that each service would only accept its own card, and I'd have to put up with a dozen different cards (sort of like discount shopper cards now).
Exactly. These RSA keys aren't small, either. Even one of them is really too big to carry around in a wallet, unless you're George Castanza. Now if I could use a single RSA key for every institution that required one, that wouldn't bother me too much.
But add in site-specific randomness and you'll quickly hit "post-it note passwords" - random, secure passwords pasted right on the monitor.
Works for me. Although I'm the first to admit that I'm a little different from most. The fact that I'm posting here gives that away, though.
One time passwords are fine for the average Joe. But this article is silly:
But it's difficult to remember dozens of strong passwords -- so many sites now require them.
Whatever. You simply need a pattern combined with "phrases" that only you know. For instance, your phrase could be "Jack and Jill went up the hill", so your password would be, "JJW!TH". Then you add a number to it that you can remember, for instance, the last four of your phone number reversed. So JJW!TH9834. Now throw in something unique from each site you visit. Take Google, perhaps Jack and Jill don't go up the hill, they go to Google: JJW!TGGL9834. Or on Hotmail, perhaps Hotmail went up the hill: HMW!TH9834. Mix and match for various web sites.
Easy to remember, extremely difficult to break. Secure enough for most anything us common folk would do - including online banking - and not such a hassle as carrying around scratch-off cards or RSA keys everywhere you go.
And who the heak thought a coffee can made a good exahust sound?
LOL. Some guy in a stock civic hatchback with a big fart can on the back tried to race me yesterday. I whooped his ass. IN MY STOCK V6 POWERED SUV. He slowed way down and fell in behind me.
Man, that must have been a bad day to be him. His girlfriend in the passenger seat looked entirely unimpresed. I can only imagine the conversation. I hope it began with, "Didn't you just tell me this thing could whoop a corvette, fool?"
But I have to agree, I bet most of us would barely notice a copy restriction that explicitly allowed the making of first generation copies (presumably as many first generation copies as wanted-- one to CD for the car, cabin, whatever, one to the mp3 server, one to the iPod or other portable, one for a friend here and there, etc). This is how it works for MiniDisc, I believe, and it's what I would expect here.
I would notice, and I bet you would, too. When you rip a CD to MP3, do you rip it again for your iPod, another time for a friend, a third time for you computer at work? Of course not. You rip the CD once and copy the MP3 wherever you need it. So now you're pulling from second generation copies which would presumably be disallowed.
As for the 25 copy limitation, you don't think people will reach that? I know I would. I make routine backups of my MP3 collection; it takes huge amounts of time to rip and convert them all, scan in the album covers, sort them, tag them, etc. So what, after a couple months worth of backups I won't be able to make more?
Not to mention the DRM they'll have to install on my computer to enforce their little scheme, which I'll have none of. I'll download it before I'll let some RIAA-goon software reside on my box. And if they're not enforcing DRM on the MP3 copies, then what's the point? Rip it once and make a million copies. They've done nothing to help their situation.
Do you realize that for all the moaning and complaining the labels do, they are still making profits that would make any small business jealous?
Small business? They're making profits that would make most large corporations jealous. Billions a year, my friend.
Completely off-topic, but I love your sig. Way cool. :)