While I agree that MSE is better than nothing (and possibly better than competing anti-virus software), I would much rather MS fix the problems that necessitate anti-virus in the first place. It's like having a screen door for a submarine, then offering optional window panes.
This appears to be affecting learning, not intellect. They learned better while the current was applied, and therefore had access to the learned knowledge in the future. Those with the current applied in the other direction didn't learn as much, so had no benefits later on. It doesn't say, but I'd be completely unsurprised if they did no differently, or perhaps slightly worse, than the control group, since it would be like they were doing it for the first time.
Having played with some larger 3D modelling files (my buddy pretty much built a tractor in 3D models), a few hundred MB gets you a lot. Compression is also effective on them. Think of it as downloading a movie, but getting a lot more value for the bytes.
We don't need to nationalize Bell. We just need to nationalize Bell's lines. We can even contract out servicing, and perhaps even upgrading those lines, but then lease usage to whoever needs it (i.e., the ISP you contract with). This gets rid of the natural monopoly being used against competitors, and puts everyone on a level playing field. To be properly done, the cable companies and cell towers should be nationalized, as well, with the same rules.
yes, but through which medium?? Light can be slowed down/delayed/absorbed & re-emitted or however you want to say it, which can have a significant effect on the linear distance it travels.
The same rules we use for c: The speed of light in a vacuum.
So what? Gain as much knowledge as you can with the tools you have, and when new tools come out, you can look for more knowledge in the areas that provoked interest when you were looking with the old tools.
Telescopes have been around for 600 years, and we still make better telescopes, and learn new things, up to finding planets around other stars. This doesn't demean Galileo for looking at Jupiter with his pitiful telescope and determining it wasn't a star.
This is the type of attitude that leads to these problems in the first place. "Well, the nut holding the brake line in place wasn't completely tightened. But it's only a small piece, so it's not a big deal." "I forgot to put the oil drain nut back on your car when I changed the oil, and sure, it seized your engine, but it's only a small piece, so no big deal." "He forgot to check if the gun was unloaded before cleaning it, but it was only a tiny bullet. No biggie." This is a small, easy feature. If you can't catch those most basic of errors, what monsters are lurking where we can't see them?
How can one judge security measures except by the lack of successful attacks?
How about, by the number of attacks attempted over a given time span before and after the security measures were implemented? Or maybe, the cost (financial and otherwise) of implementing new measures vs. the risk of not changing your procedures? Or, the cost (financial or otherwise) of implementing one procedure over another weighted by the expected effectiveness of the procedures in question?
Any way you slice it, the two cheapest and most effective security improvements are to secure the pilot's cabin as much as possible (and do awareness campaigns so they won't open it if a flight attendant is held hostage) and to not have the rest of the passengers sitting passively by while someone else threatens their well-being.
I stand impressed at how hard you avoid the point. Hearing is not the issue. Retaining for commercial purposes is. To complete your analogy. Hearing me chatting on my porch is fine. Listening in on the conversation is unethical, but not illegal. Recording may not even be illegal, given you aren't using it for commercial purposes. But using that personal information for commercial purposes, without going through the proper channels (of which listening through the fence is not one) is definitely illegal.
This would first require an inherently good candidate, and second that he wouldn't have his hands completely tied by the inertia of the opposing (or possibly his own) party in the two houses, and third, if you actually got past those two, that he wouldn't be assassinated before he did anything truly revolutionary. Simple, isn't it?
That shouldn't have resulted in a single change of policy.
I disagree. I think it should have been a requirement for the cockpit to have serious security (which they did), and for there to be a well-known procedure for what happens after someone tries to hijack an airplane (which I don't know if they did). Everything else has been just another obstacle that will barely inconvenience terrorists.
Next, you'll be complaining that movie theatres should do more to cater to blind people. If a parent pays more than once (and you can usually get a refund if you leave within 30 minutes of the movie starting) for their kids to not watch the show with the required glasses, they have only themselves to blame. Personally, I like 3D (with polarized glasses), and preferentially watch movies in that format. My kids do, too, and have no trouble wearing the glasses. If I have the option of seeing a drama in 3D, I'll skip it, because there's nothing to be gained there. Of course, there's nothing to be gained watching a drama on a 30-foot screen vs. watching it at home, either, and I will probably wait for the DVD. I'm sure there were people who complained about the "talkies" when they came out, and those who thought that color movies ruined the ambiance when they came out, and they had some reason to. A lot of the initial movies with new features over-emphasized those new features, rather than telling a story. I expect nothing less from 3D. I'd also be unsurprised if, in 20 years, people raised their eyebrows if someone said they were only releasing a movie in 2D, just like you would now if someone released a movie in black-and-white.
As long as you aren't wrapping your own OS (and apps, and web sites...), you've already accepted you have to trust some people. Adding one more in a third-party password manager is just another, albeit potentially dangerous, step forward. Set the criteria that are important for you, and go from there. It's better than having a number of weak passwords you memorize and don't change, or a number of moderate passwords you probably can't change. KeePass met my criteria.
A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
One foot is way to little. The typical user will have their phone about 3 feet (or let's say a meter) above the ground when removing it from a purse (or pocket). And it should be able to withstand that, IMO. Of course, I won't buy something that looks like it won't handle normal use for me, so it better do fine in my pocket, and the occasional fall from there.
he was planning a short business trip to Dubai in a few weeks... has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially....
Afifi's father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the U.S. alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he's on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.
Fits the profile of someone you want to keep an eye on pretty well, actually.
In which case, getting a warrant should be a piece of cake.
I can see the employment sign for that one. Wanted: Person with terrible handwriting. Doctors with revoked licenses will be given special consideration.
Clearly the solution is to take the original image, remove the spacesuit from it, and shrink a stock photo of the UMMU (or whatever it's called) and put it back in the exact same spot. To make it clear this has happened, have the spacesuit facing the other direction.
Too bad this poor guy had to lose his home because his grandson is a fucktard.
Who do you think should have been responsible for the behaviour of this kid? And who do you think taught him it was cool to burn shit? I have no problems with libertarianism in principle. But one of the keystones of libertarianism, which so many seem to forget, is personal responsibility. You better take care of your own shit, because no one else will. Just like this guy who chose to not pay his firefighting insurance (which is ultimately what it was) and then became surprised when someone he wasn't paying was unwilling to provide those services. All social models have problems, primarily because they involve people. They also have nice things about them. One of the nice things about libertarianism is that the person who caused the problem usually suffers the consequences.
I disagree entirely. An average person walks at about 4 miles per hour. Right now, you're saying that unless you're in good health, you can't do that for 5 hours a day. A top athlete just ran 26 miles in 2 hours in the Toronto marathon. People in lesser shape than him routinely do it in less than a day. That's >20% over your rough estimate. Fully equipped Roman soldiers were expected to march 25 miles a day in full kit (about 50 pounds). This included camping at night and all the other good things soldiers on the move have to do (like being in good enough condition to fight if attacked), as well as the drawback of having to maintain unit integrity, which slows a person down. Scouts moved faster. I would certainly agree that they count as being in top shape, but not necessarily top athletes. Yet they do far more than you expect someone in top shape to do, with equipment about 2000 years out of date. A good tracker can run down a person on horseback, and that is why. It may take a few days, but it can be done. Horses aren't meant for that kind of work, day in and day out - people are. The fact that the average person can't is an indicator of how much people, including myself, under-utilize their bodies.
It's stuff like this that causes me to torrent TV shows. I play plenty for TV, including a cable subscription, but I'm not going to spend 60 minutes watching 42 minutes of content with 18 minutes of advertising (30% advertising time!), as well as watching it when they want me to. Just isn't going to happen. I watch live TV for background noise nowadays, when I don't care in particular what I'm going to watch, or if I feel like something not on my download list. And for those movies that have some compelling value to see in the theatres, I watch them there. The rest I buy or borrow (and skip all the commercials I can).
And I would still have an immune reaction to them. Face it, all the great things about embryonic stem cells are greatly hampered by the fact that the patient is probably going to have to take anti-rejection drugs. Adult stem cells from the patient won't have this problem. Even if embryonic stem cells had been kept at state of the art, we would still have this problem, and this problem has been examined since transplants began.
If you're going to show me an ad, just cut to the chase and tell me about how much I can buy a decent couch for...
You're under the mistaken assumption that advertising is supposed to give you an opportunity to make an informed decision, not appeal to you (and/or other consumers) at an emotional level.
I wonder about anaphylactic shock. Would naturally produced adrenaline work at least as a palliative until proper medical treatment can be provided? I wonder what the judge would say if one was to water-board a person suffering anaphylactic shock though.
My kid carries an epi-pen, which led to this story from one of my friends. One day he was hanging out with a girl who was allergic to bee stings. Of course, she got stung, and he tried to help her out with the epi-pen. Unfortunately, he was holding the pen backwards, with his thumb over the end, and when he pushed it into her thigh, it stabbed his finger. The needle is spring-loaded, and reasonably forceful, so it went right in, hit the bone, and curled into a hook. Now he has to pull this thing out, and it's hard. When he finally drags it out, there's a string of tissue hanging from the little hook the pen made. The girl was so freaked out that she was okay until they got to the hospital.
The two things I took away from this were: natural adrenaline can work is you're sufficiently freaked out; and, never put your thumb over the end of an epi-pen.
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While I agree that MSE is better than nothing (and possibly better than competing anti-virus software), I would much rather MS fix the problems that necessitate anti-virus in the first place. It's like having a screen door for a submarine, then offering optional window panes.
This appears to be affecting learning, not intellect. They learned better while the current was applied, and therefore had access to the learned knowledge in the future. Those with the current applied in the other direction didn't learn as much, so had no benefits later on. It doesn't say, but I'd be completely unsurprised if they did no differently, or perhaps slightly worse, than the control group, since it would be like they were doing it for the first time.
Having played with some larger 3D modelling files (my buddy pretty much built a tractor in 3D models), a few hundred MB gets you a lot. Compression is also effective on them. Think of it as downloading a movie, but getting a lot more value for the bytes.
I have a great fucking idea. Nationalize bell.
We don't need to nationalize Bell. We just need to nationalize Bell's lines. We can even contract out servicing, and perhaps even upgrading those lines, but then lease usage to whoever needs it (i.e., the ISP you contract with). This gets rid of the natural monopoly being used against competitors, and puts everyone on a level playing field.
To be properly done, the cable companies and cell towers should be nationalized, as well, with the same rules.
yes, but through which medium?? Light can be slowed down/delayed/absorbed & re-emitted or however you want to say it, which can have a significant effect on the linear distance it travels.
The same rules we use for c: The speed of light in a vacuum.
So what? Gain as much knowledge as you can with the tools you have, and when new tools come out, you can look for more knowledge in the areas that provoked interest when you were looking with the old tools.
Telescopes have been around for 600 years, and we still make better telescopes, and learn new things, up to finding planets around other stars. This doesn't demean Galileo for looking at Jupiter with his pitiful telescope and determining it wasn't a star.
This is the type of attitude that leads to these problems in the first place.
"Well, the nut holding the brake line in place wasn't completely tightened. But it's only a small piece, so it's not a big deal."
"I forgot to put the oil drain nut back on your car when I changed the oil, and sure, it seized your engine, but it's only a small piece, so no big deal."
"He forgot to check if the gun was unloaded before cleaning it, but it was only a tiny bullet. No biggie."
This is a small, easy feature. If you can't catch those most basic of errors, what monsters are lurking where we can't see them?
How can one judge security measures except by the lack of successful attacks?
How about, by the number of attacks attempted over a given time span before and after the security measures were implemented? Or maybe, the cost (financial and otherwise) of implementing new measures vs. the risk of not changing your procedures? Or, the cost (financial or otherwise) of implementing one procedure over another weighted by the expected effectiveness of the procedures in question?
Any way you slice it, the two cheapest and most effective security improvements are to secure the pilot's cabin as much as possible (and do awareness campaigns so they won't open it if a flight attendant is held hostage) and to not have the rest of the passengers sitting passively by while someone else threatens their well-being.
I stand impressed at how hard you avoid the point. Hearing is not the issue. Retaining for commercial purposes is. To complete your analogy.
Hearing me chatting on my porch is fine. Listening in on the conversation is unethical, but not illegal. Recording may not even be illegal, given you aren't using it for commercial purposes. But using that personal information for commercial purposes, without going through the proper channels (of which listening through the fence is not one) is definitely illegal.
That's because 60% of the energy your car consumes is wasted as excess heat most of the time. Why are you happy that your car is so inefficient?
This would first require an inherently good candidate, and second that he wouldn't have his hands completely tied by the inertia of the opposing (or possibly his own) party in the two houses, and third, if you actually got past those two, that he wouldn't be assassinated before he did anything truly revolutionary.
Simple, isn't it?
That shouldn't have resulted in a single change of policy.
I disagree. I think it should have been a requirement for the cockpit to have serious security (which they did), and for there to be a well-known procedure for what happens after someone tries to hijack an airplane (which I don't know if they did). Everything else has been just another obstacle that will barely inconvenience terrorists.
Next, you'll be complaining that movie theatres should do more to cater to blind people. If a parent pays more than once (and you can usually get a refund if you leave within 30 minutes of the movie starting) for their kids to not watch the show with the required glasses, they have only themselves to blame.
Personally, I like 3D (with polarized glasses), and preferentially watch movies in that format. My kids do, too, and have no trouble wearing the glasses. If I have the option of seeing a drama in 3D, I'll skip it, because there's nothing to be gained there. Of course, there's nothing to be gained watching a drama on a 30-foot screen vs. watching it at home, either, and I will probably wait for the DVD.
I'm sure there were people who complained about the "talkies" when they came out, and those who thought that color movies ruined the ambiance when they came out, and they had some reason to. A lot of the initial movies with new features over-emphasized those new features, rather than telling a story. I expect nothing less from 3D. I'd also be unsurprised if, in 20 years, people raised their eyebrows if someone said they were only releasing a movie in 2D, just like you would now if someone released a movie in black-and-white.
With a little more hype it would have been vaporplanet.
That's a hell of a long trip just to be able to play Duke Nukem Forever.
As long as you aren't wrapping your own OS (and apps, and web sites...), you've already accepted you have to trust some people. Adding one more in a third-party password manager is just another, albeit potentially dangerous, step forward. Set the criteria that are important for you, and go from there. It's better than having a number of weak passwords you memorize and don't change, or a number of moderate passwords you probably can't change.
KeePass met my criteria.
A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
One foot is way to little. The typical user will have their phone about 3 feet (or let's say a meter) above the ground when removing it from a purse (or pocket). And it should be able to withstand that, IMO. Of course, I won't buy something that looks like it won't handle normal use for me, so it better do fine in my pocket, and the occasional fall from there.
Fits the profile of someone you want to keep an eye on pretty well, actually.
In which case, getting a warrant should be a piece of cake.
I can see the employment sign for that one.
Wanted: Person with terrible handwriting. Doctors with revoked licenses will be given special consideration.
Clearly the solution is to take the original image, remove the spacesuit from it, and shrink a stock photo of the UMMU (or whatever it's called) and put it back in the exact same spot. To make it clear this has happened, have the spacesuit facing the other direction.
Too bad this poor guy had to lose his home because his grandson is a fucktard.
Who do you think should have been responsible for the behaviour of this kid? And who do you think taught him it was cool to burn shit?
I have no problems with libertarianism in principle. But one of the keystones of libertarianism, which so many seem to forget, is personal responsibility. You better take care of your own shit, because no one else will. Just like this guy who chose to not pay his firefighting insurance (which is ultimately what it was) and then became surprised when someone he wasn't paying was unwilling to provide those services.
All social models have problems, primarily because they involve people. They also have nice things about them. One of the nice things about libertarianism is that the person who caused the problem usually suffers the consequences.
A man on foot maybe 20 if he's in top shape.
I disagree entirely. An average person walks at about 4 miles per hour. Right now, you're saying that unless you're in good health, you can't do that for 5 hours a day.
A top athlete just ran 26 miles in 2 hours in the Toronto marathon. People in lesser shape than him routinely do it in less than a day. That's >20% over your rough estimate.
Fully equipped Roman soldiers were expected to march 25 miles a day in full kit (about 50 pounds). This included camping at night and all the other good things soldiers on the move have to do (like being in good enough condition to fight if attacked), as well as the drawback of having to maintain unit integrity, which slows a person down. Scouts moved faster. I would certainly agree that they count as being in top shape, but not necessarily top athletes. Yet they do far more than you expect someone in top shape to do, with equipment about 2000 years out of date.
A good tracker can run down a person on horseback, and that is why. It may take a few days, but it can be done. Horses aren't meant for that kind of work, day in and day out - people are. The fact that the average person can't is an indicator of how much people, including myself, under-utilize their bodies.
It's stuff like this that causes me to torrent TV shows. I play plenty for TV, including a cable subscription, but I'm not going to spend 60 minutes watching 42 minutes of content with 18 minutes of advertising (30% advertising time!), as well as watching it when they want me to. Just isn't going to happen. I watch live TV for background noise nowadays, when I don't care in particular what I'm going to watch, or if I feel like something not on my download list. And for those movies that have some compelling value to see in the theatres, I watch them there. The rest I buy or borrow (and skip all the commercials I can).
And I would still have an immune reaction to them.
Face it, all the great things about embryonic stem cells are greatly hampered by the fact that the patient is probably going to have to take anti-rejection drugs. Adult stem cells from the patient won't have this problem.
Even if embryonic stem cells had been kept at state of the art, we would still have this problem, and this problem has been examined since transplants began.
If you're going to show me an ad, just cut to the chase and tell me about how much I can buy a decent couch for...
You're under the mistaken assumption that advertising is supposed to give you an opportunity to make an informed decision, not appeal to you (and/or other consumers) at an emotional level.
I wonder about anaphylactic shock. Would naturally produced adrenaline work at least as a palliative until proper medical treatment can be provided? I wonder what the judge would say if one was to water-board a person suffering anaphylactic shock though.
My kid carries an epi-pen, which led to this story from one of my friends. One day he was hanging out with a girl who was allergic to bee stings. Of course, she got stung, and he tried to help her out with the epi-pen. Unfortunately, he was holding the pen backwards, with his thumb over the end, and when he pushed it into her thigh, it stabbed his finger. The needle is spring-loaded, and reasonably forceful, so it went right in, hit the bone, and curled into a hook. Now he has to pull this thing out, and it's hard. When he finally drags it out, there's a string of tissue hanging from the little hook the pen made. The girl was so freaked out that she was okay until they got to the hospital.
The two things I took away from this were: natural adrenaline can work is you're sufficiently freaked out; and, never put your thumb over the end of an epi-pen.