I love it when idiots defend not washing their hands after pissing. So you're ok with me grabbing my cock before shaking your hand? Might have gotten a little sweaty down there by the end of the day...
I would have assumed that dragging a contact into my journal would embed the contact in my journal. Maybe dragging the journal to the contact could share it with the contact.
Hopefully Apple takes the opportunity to address the software flaws that made this possible, and to consider enhancements that would make this more difficult in the future.
First off, they should block the API that allowed the camera to be in use, but not show up in other programs as being in use.
Secondly, I think they should adjust the hardware camera light, to be lit for a minimum period of time, of at least 1 second. So if the camera is turned on, the light won't just be lit for the brief fraction of a second that the camera is taking its picture, but will remain on after-wards for the remainder of that second. That way, programs will be unable to surreptitiously and quickly snap a single frame, causing only a flicker from the light.
Finally, and probably less likely to be done, Apple could add some logic to determine if the camera use follows a pattern typical of surveillance, and then alert the user. Perhaps once they block the previously mentioned API, they could detect attempts to invoke it. Or they could detect sporadic or periodic camera activation, when no user input has occurred in the past while. Using whichever criteria they have, they could alert the user, and then if the user clicks that they are not intentionally running that kind of camera software themselves, the system could disable whichever trojan code has been activating the camera.
If I was Apple, I would also sue the school. Apparently the school created the impression that the camera light flickering on was some wide-spread glitch with the iSight cameras on the notebook computers.
Or you just trickle charge a capacitor at home, with which you can then rapidly charge your car when you arrive. Extra bonus that you can do the trickle charging solely during off-peak hours, yet be able to recharge your car at any point in time.
It's actually pretty easy to go 136 km/h (85 mph) in a Toyota Echo. I'd say anything up to 160 km/h is trivial. Over that and buffeting winds or curved roads will probably make you uncomfortable. But still, it'll go all the way to the 180 km/h limit where the governor kicks in. And that's probably just because the stock tires are only rated to 180 km/h (like stock tires for almost every car).
I don't think there is really right and wrong. There are just positive and negative results in the immediate and long term.
This didn't occur to me logically, but emotionally, from watching a movie, where a woman's life was split into two different courses. One appeared better at first, but ultimately the initially worse situation ended up becoming better. As well, some bad things have happened in my life, which actually opened doors, that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
But, back to the logical viewpoint. Think of local and global maximas and minimas. A local maxima might appear to be the best, but once you've traversed beyond it, through a local minima, you can reach a greater local maxima, which may well be the global maxima. In the immediate term, traversing through a local minima might sound like a bad idea, but it might be necessary.
As someone who writes software to view PDFs, I can tell you this is completely pointless, since anything that saves scanned documents into PDF is really storing it as a TIFF image inside of the PDF anyway. The PDF container adds useful features for metadata, and is well documented, so shouldn't add any future-proof issues. And the overhead is probably a few kilobytes.
The general lack of a solid brain-function model of addiction that doesn't also apply to many things that aren't considered addiction is what I'm criticizing. Oh, and here I was going to go on about addiction as receptors not being filled, instead of some vague B.S. And I guess that's what you were getting at...
If your system is sufficiently generalised that a distinction between "addiction" is meaningless, then that might mean that your system is overgeneralised to the pint of meaninglessness, not necessary that the distinctions are meaningless.
Most of the time, when people's capabilities are compromised, either from alcohol or fatigue, it tends to be night time, when there's already significantly less traffic. So, I'm not sure that holding up traffic is much of a concern.
I agree that there's an incremental degeneration of capability. In fact, I hope that most people believe this. What was ludicrous, was the great-grand-parent's assertion that a drunk driver is not in control at all. If that were the case then there would be pile-ups just two blocks from the bars...
I'm not sure how drunk you mean, but that's blatantly false. Ignore the driving aspect for a moment, and consider when one is drinking in a bar. As I drink more, I know to compensate for my inebriated state. If I'm going down stairs, I'll probably go slower and use the hand rail. Looking at a girl, I'll double-assess how pretty she may look. When telling raucous jokes, I'll give it a second thought, in case I'm saying something I shouldn't. These are all conscious steps that I tend to do less when sober. To say that "The drunk is not in control of anything." is just ludicrous. Perhaps it holds true for you.
I wonder if there are lessons to be learned from asynchronous CPU design, which can be brought over to software design.
Think of each circuit that has to handshake that it is done processing, to the next one, as being like objects rippling their invocations on each other.
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Thanks for backing that up with proof. No wait, that's what I'm doing.
http://www.patenthawk.com/enforce.htm
http://www.generalpatent.com/faqs/when-enforce-patent-rights
If you don't enforce your patents, you lose them. So yes, you do have to enforce them.
I love it when idiots defend not washing their hands after pissing. So you're ok with me grabbing my cock before shaking your hand? Might have gotten a little sweaty down there by the end of the day...
I would have assumed that dragging a contact into my journal would embed the contact in my journal. Maybe dragging the journal to the contact could share it with the contact.
Hopefully Apple takes the opportunity to address the software flaws that made this possible, and to consider enhancements that would make this more difficult in the future.
First off, they should block the API that allowed the camera to be in use, but not show up in other programs as being in use.
Secondly, I think they should adjust the hardware camera light, to be lit for a minimum period of time, of at least 1 second. So if the camera is turned on, the light won't just be lit for the brief fraction of a second that the camera is taking its picture, but will remain on after-wards for the remainder of that second. That way, programs will be unable to surreptitiously and quickly snap a single frame, causing only a flicker from the light.
Finally, and probably less likely to be done, Apple could add some logic to determine if the camera use follows a pattern typical of surveillance, and then alert the user. Perhaps once they block the previously mentioned API, they could detect attempts to invoke it. Or they could detect sporadic or periodic camera activation, when no user input has occurred in the past while. Using whichever criteria they have, they could alert the user, and then if the user clicks that they are not intentionally running that kind of camera software themselves, the system could disable whichever trojan code has been activating the camera.
But then you would be in possession ;)
If I was Apple, I would also sue the school. Apparently the school created the impression that the camera light flickering on was some wide-spread glitch with the iSight cameras on the notebook computers.
Or you just trickle charge a capacitor at home, with which you can then rapidly charge your car when you arrive. Extra bonus that you can do the trickle charging solely during off-peak hours, yet be able to recharge your car at any point in time.
I find it so strange when thin/scrawny guys talk about their underweight condition as being insufficiently fat. You need more musculature, not fat.
You're assuming that wives of attractive men aren't secretly being impregnated by ugly men ;)
Baby Jesus stem cells have twice the healing power!
I discovered this accidentally, and was pleasantly surprised. Now I can wire my Mac mini to my TV, and watch shows from my couch in comfort.
It's actually pretty easy to go 136 km/h (85 mph) in a Toyota Echo. I'd say anything up to 160 km/h is trivial. Over that and buffeting winds or curved roads will probably make you uncomfortable. But still, it'll go all the way to the 180 km/h limit where the governor kicks in. And that's probably just because the stock tires are only rated to 180 km/h (like stock tires for almost every car).
Building character while strengthening your arm. That's like hitting two stones with one bird.
I don't think there is really right and wrong. There are just positive and negative results in the immediate and long term.
This didn't occur to me logically, but emotionally, from watching a movie, where a woman's life was split into two different courses. One appeared better at first, but ultimately the initially worse situation ended up becoming better. As well, some bad things have happened in my life, which actually opened doors, that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
But, back to the logical viewpoint. Think of local and global maximas and minimas. A local maxima might appear to be the best, but once you've traversed beyond it, through a local minima, you can reach a greater local maxima, which may well be the global maxima. In the immediate term, traversing through a local minima might sound like a bad idea, but it might be necessary.
As someone who writes software to view PDFs, I can tell you this is completely pointless, since anything that saves scanned documents into PDF is really storing it as a TIFF image inside of the PDF anyway. The PDF container adds useful features for metadata, and is well documented, so shouldn't add any future-proof issues. And the overhead is probably a few kilobytes.
You should leave it just one or two moves from being solved, before gluing it, to make it all the more of a frustration.
If your system is sufficiently generalised that a distinction between "addiction" is meaningless, then that might mean that your system is overgeneralised to the pint of meaninglessness, not necessary that the distinctions are meaningless.
So, 60% of people are sociopaths? Sounds about right ;)
Most of the time, when people's capabilities are compromised, either from alcohol or fatigue, it tends to be night time, when there's already significantly less traffic. So, I'm not sure that holding up traffic is much of a concern.
I agree that there's an incremental degeneration of capability. In fact, I hope that most people believe this. What was ludicrous, was the great-grand-parent's assertion that a drunk driver is not in control at all. If that were the case then there would be pile-ups just two blocks from the bars...
I'm not sure how drunk you mean, but that's blatantly false. Ignore the driving aspect for a moment, and consider when one is drinking in a bar. As I drink more, I know to compensate for my inebriated state. If I'm going down stairs, I'll probably go slower and use the hand rail. Looking at a girl, I'll double-assess how pretty she may look. When telling raucous jokes, I'll give it a second thought, in case I'm saying something I shouldn't. These are all conscious steps that I tend to do less when sober. To say that "The drunk is not in control of anything." is just ludicrous. Perhaps it holds true for you.
Could be a regenerative breaking system for a non-electric car.
I wonder if there are lessons to be learned from asynchronous CPU design, which can be brought over to software design.
Think of each circuit that has to handshake that it is done processing, to the next one, as being like objects rippling their invocations on each other.
My view is, tough luck, you just don't get to know how old it is, if that requires killing it.