Have you considered the washington post as your next victim? I think we'd all appreciate someone sending them a clear message about flagrantly unnecessary pagination.
sure it's neat, but I still think it's sad that we're building such darn fragile cars in the first place. Impacts at less than 5mph should be tolerable - the fender-bender, key scratch, dent repair industry must consume billions each year, not to mention insurance headaches, time lost from work etc. I'd rather see a car with some big honkin' soft, non-marking rubber pads surrounding it than a car with a really expensive imaging system that essentially serves the purpose of protecting itself.
Also, this system doesn't stop the jellopies on either side of you from using the traditional vestibulocochlear method of parallel parking, leaving your insurance company laughing at you. Now if the cameras could be set to be triggered in a record mode whenever motion sensors were triggered so that you could go back and see the license plate numbers of the folks that rammed you, and video evidence of it - that would be useful.
yes. ISPs would be much more secure if they didn't make internet access available to customers. And banks would be much more secure if they weren't always dealing with people's money.
Sharing anything causes an increased security risk. The more hops data makes, the more vulnerable it is. The most vulnerable place typically being where it first enters a network.
The question then becomes can BT manage these new security risks well enough to keep customer satisfaction at profitable levels? I'm sure they have some pretty smart people behind figuring that out, and I hope that they are right.
If, on the other hand, it is worth something to you, you might want to send them something to encourage them to continue making music.
this logic might work on the local garage band I saw last week at the pub-- if me and a few dozen other people voluntarily paid for their album they might not need to go back to their jobs at Denny's. But it's hard for me to picture my mustering up a bit of change from my hurting budget affecting the release of the next radiohead album. I think I prefer the idea of having them be encouraged by my tick on their download counter rather than by my quarter anyway.
seiouswee, the "V8" on the side of that thing represents a new metric for the internal combustion engine type it would take to generate the power needed to boot-up.
(Just think- a channel with nothing but one show 24/7.)
huh, I already get that, it's called "Bravo" at least I think it's the same show, everytime I turn it on it's just a bunch of not-so-bright kids in a hot tub making a weird beeping noise instead of talking.
hmm, this is interesting - I am not familiar with this arguement. Any lawyers out there that can verify this? Everyone knows that ISPs have been filtering the dickens out of traffic since the napster era, why haven't they been called out on this already? Also, the post office won't let me ship a can of gasoline to a friend who lives in small town with high gas prices - they consider this "hazardous." Could isps argue that certain traffic is hazardous to their infrastructure (i.e. clogs up the pipes) and refuse it on those grounds (assuming this whole common carrier thing really applies in the first place)?
"Doing things that make your products harder to use is bad business sense. It really shows how badly out of touch MS is with the industry."
Nah, it shows what a powerful monopoly they have developed. They can make using their products downright miserable (they practically have already) and people will continue to curse that evil ol' bill gates as they IM each-other on MS messenger in MS vista on their laptops with the "built for windows!" sticker still attached. Plenty of other companies would like to implement the kind of security lockdowns MS has, and are capable of doing so. However, market pressures force them to realize that excessive measures create a barrier to use and sway customers towards friendlier products. Microsoft is not out of touch with the industry. Microsoft is the industry.
Remember the good old "loudness" button? I have a pre-loudness era spectrum analyzer that is almost totally useless these days because so much of what comes off my CD player maxes out all of the bars on the display. I've actually been thinking about installing my own "quietness" button - probably just a couple of potentiometers in series with my line in. Anyone run into an issue like this with an older hardware? Any clever solutions?
If you're walking from out of state the traffic issue is probably the least of your worries - bring weapons. good luck.. welcome to NY. Hail Hillary. stay the fuck off my lawn.
That's simply not true. Plenty of real doctors used BMI for the "application of health-care" including considerations of candidacy for surgeries, drug dosing, drug selection, and prognosis generation. Sure there are indications for further tests like impedance and dexa, but BMI is a standard that is widely used for decision making. Of course BMI, like any objective data, must be considered within the clinical picture at hand rather than used as a standalone datum for decision making in a vacuum. Despite it's shortcomings, I'd still argue that BMI is probably the best choice as a screening tool - you're not going to run every patient through a dexa, but a number of hospitals include a BMI in every patient's initial vitals report. The cost of doing so is minimal and the data generated can be quite useful.
yes there are more accurate ways, but that doesn't mean that BMI is not the best one. BMI is quick, cheap and standardized. More health care professionals use BMI vs. other methods for medical decision making for their patients.
I for one would feel much safer as a citizen if this creep were behind bars. The only thing that would be more comforting would be knowing that this whole ordeal sucked up a sizable chunk of tax-dollars.
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you're in luck - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/04/58442
man, I totally remember the last year when that video came out - that kid was seriously blamed!
it might work. Even the Iraqi army would be pretty reticent about shooting down an army of grandmas wielding hammers.
Have you considered the washington post as your next victim? I think we'd all appreciate someone sending them a clear message about flagrantly unnecessary pagination.
this whole summary sounds like a fancy euphemism for a prank 911 phone-call. The ends are probably pretty similar.
sure it's neat, but I still think it's sad that we're building such darn fragile cars in the first place. Impacts at less than 5mph should be tolerable - the fender-bender, key scratch, dent repair industry must consume billions each year, not to mention insurance headaches, time lost from work etc. I'd rather see a car with some big honkin' soft, non-marking rubber pads surrounding it than a car with a really expensive imaging system that essentially serves the purpose of protecting itself.
Also, this system doesn't stop the jellopies on either side of you from using the traditional vestibulocochlear method of parallel parking, leaving your insurance company laughing at you. Now if the cameras could be set to be triggered in a record mode whenever motion sensors were triggered so that you could go back and see the license plate numbers of the folks that rammed you, and video evidence of it - that would be useful.
yes. ISPs would be much more secure if they didn't make internet access available to customers. And banks would be much more secure if they weren't always dealing with people's money.
Sharing anything causes an increased security risk. The more hops data makes, the more vulnerable it is. The most vulnerable place typically being where it first enters a network.
The question then becomes can BT manage these new security risks well enough to keep customer satisfaction at profitable levels? I'm sure they have some pretty smart people behind figuring that out, and I hope that they are right.
I like using premium CAT5 cables for my internet data, I find they make porn a bit more 'fappable'.
yeah, if you're a superman.
If, on the other hand, it is worth something to you, you might want to send them something to encourage them to continue making music.
this logic might work on the local garage band I saw last week at the pub-- if me and a few dozen other people voluntarily paid for their album they might not need to go back to their jobs at Denny's. But it's hard for me to picture my mustering up a bit of change from my hurting budget affecting the release of the next radiohead album. I think I prefer the idea of having them be encouraged by my tick on their download counter rather than by my quarter anyway.
seiouswee, the "V8" on the side of that thing represents a new metric for the internal combustion engine type it would take to generate the power needed to boot-up.
Flash ads killed my dog.
c'mon now, I'm sure this kind of technology could be strapped on just about anywhere. Come to think of it, I'd like a jock-strap version.
no one is ruling out a possible resolution yet.
Ah-hem, I am. Please let the record reflect that I was the first to do so.
done. wake me up when there are more scientific milestones up for grabs.
(Just think- a channel with nothing but one show 24/7.)
huh, I already get that, it's called "Bravo" at least I think it's the same show, everytime I turn it on it's just a bunch of not-so-bright kids in a hot tub making a weird beeping noise instead of talking.
it means he should have recycled them.
hmm, this is interesting - I am not familiar with this arguement. Any lawyers out there that can verify this? Everyone knows that ISPs have been filtering the dickens out of traffic since the napster era, why haven't they been called out on this already? Also, the post office won't let me ship a can of gasoline to a friend who lives in small town with high gas prices - they consider this "hazardous." Could isps argue that certain traffic is hazardous to their infrastructure (i.e. clogs up the pipes) and refuse it on those grounds (assuming this whole common carrier thing really applies in the first place)?
"It is a waste of time and money."
that is exactly why the USPS will mail an unopened envelope to yourself. You do know that the post office is a government organization right?
"Doing things that make your products harder to use is bad business sense. It really shows how badly out of touch MS is with the industry."
Nah, it shows what a powerful monopoly they have developed. They can make using their products downright miserable (they practically have already) and people will continue to curse that evil ol' bill gates as they IM each-other on MS messenger in MS vista on their laptops with the "built for windows!" sticker still attached. Plenty of other companies would like to implement the kind of security lockdowns MS has, and are capable of doing so. However, market pressures force them to realize that excessive measures create a barrier to use and sway customers towards friendlier products. Microsoft is not out of touch with the industry. Microsoft is the industry.
Remember the good old "loudness" button? I have a pre-loudness era spectrum analyzer that is almost totally useless these days because so much of what comes off my CD player maxes out all of the bars on the display. I've actually been thinking about installing my own "quietness" button - probably just a couple of potentiometers in series with my line in. Anyone run into an issue like this with an older hardware? Any clever solutions?
If you're walking from out of state the traffic issue is probably the least of your worries - bring weapons. good luck.. welcome to NY. Hail Hillary. stay the fuck off my lawn.
That's simply not true. Plenty of real doctors used BMI for the "application of health-care" including considerations of candidacy for surgeries, drug dosing, drug selection, and prognosis generation. Sure there are indications for further tests like impedance and dexa, but BMI is a standard that is widely used for decision making. Of course BMI, like any objective data, must be considered within the clinical picture at hand rather than used as a standalone datum for decision making in a vacuum.
Despite it's shortcomings, I'd still argue that BMI is probably the best choice as a screening tool - you're not going to run every patient through a dexa, but a number of hospitals include a BMI in every patient's initial vitals report. The cost of doing so is minimal and the data generated can be quite useful.
yes there are more accurate ways, but that doesn't mean that BMI is not the best one. BMI is quick, cheap and standardized. More health care professionals use BMI vs. other methods for medical decision making for their patients.
what if you wanted a sword or a hat with a feather in it?
I for one would feel much safer as a citizen if this creep were behind bars. The only thing that would be more comforting would be knowing that this whole ordeal sucked up a sizable chunk of tax-dollars.