Re:what a nonsense...
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that's ridiculous. Chances are far bigger that he'd meet someone on AIM who will later in his life save his life or donate a million bucks or teach him how to basket or marry him or drive him to the station every wednesday or... whaveter...
The point is that for one chance in a million (yea yea, throw me a terry pratchet), you're giving up a thousand possible beneficies.
Go live with the monks in tibet, dude. And stab your eyes out, cut your ears off and eat your tongue for god forbid you might one day in tibet stand in a public loo pissing besides the next osama, for which the feds will spend a billion bucks to haunt you and chain your bollocks to guantanamo beach rocks.
Re:The Internet becomes more like the real world..
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I am totally baffled... More and more, I have the impression that a majority of slashdotters is really afraid of any form of bidirectional and/or replyable (you call it tracable) communication. For heavens sake : where's the principle of "innocent till proven otherwise" ?
I notice this attitude going on at my kids school too : don't talk to anyone, don't look at anyone, don't think about anyone. Curl up inside your safe self-shell and murmur away. I once had hope that the internet, and especially AIM were a way out of this downward spiral, but the FUDders and paranoiacs are well on their way to ruin that utopia.
what a nonsense...
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could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?
Could my 1 year old son being a friend with someone in day care come ack later and haunt him ?
Puhlease ! What a FUD. Are you trying to even further associalize those who are socioophobes but found AIM a useful tool to make friends ? Stop being so afraid of life !
what fun is the money if you never get a chance to spend it?
Outsource the spending part. That gives you more time to earn money. And purely concidental, I happen to be an excellent spender, so I'll be your outsourcing company for very reasonable fee.
I adore the short scene where some 10 misiles are launched against that huge war machine. The way their smoke trail bends is amazing and reminds me of an old arcade game I used to spend my entire allowance on... Don't remember the name though. It was a game where the player took seat in a moveable cockpit of an F-something fighter jet. Just the sight of the sidewinders hurling towards your target was worth the 50cents I put in it time after time.... Does anyone know of a good modern-day game that has misiles like this ? And don't talk about the Q3A rocket smoke trails. While nice, they are to linear and have no choreographic beauty...
It all depends on ho often they rotate their logs and how long they store their backups. I honestly don't believe they can keep logs longer than a few weeks. Any longer and they'd need 2nd serverfarm to store the archive. And no terrorists would go from a google query to a bomb in a few weeks. So I guess you're quite toptinfoiled indeed.
it will be next to impossible to write Windows software in the future without embracing.NET this is such horsecrap !
you mean that any old app written in C or C++ will break ? that gcc won't compile anymore ? FUDFUDFUD ! amazing this shit gets moderated insightfull !!!
this is so much alike 8 years ago when everyoner was yelling that soon MFC would be the only way out. guess what ? I still write non-mfc c++ code. you might want to look at this site. are you suggesting that none of these will run/compile anymore under longhorn ? dude : it's JUST AN OS on JUST A CPU. it runs machinecode. that's all
from their website, they seem to be a cable provider, but can one of you natives inform us, foreigners, how big comcast exactly is ?`br~
A Disney takeover by a cable company seems rather over-the-top
well, yes and no.. IBM is generaly aso considered a dinosaur, but they still seem to have momentum with a rider in control of the beast. I would compare them with a huge truck on the highway : they have a huge impact, momentum, influence and authority, but there's still some sense in it. Mircosoft, and especially disney seem more like a truck that's been catapulted off an aircraft carrier : huge, fast, insane momentum but a direction that's fixed towards where they've been going from the start. And a huge splash in sight.
When we start seeing more of these, AV companies will have a hard time keeping up.
the fact that we do not see them, tells something about the relation between virus-witers and anti-virus writers...
I don't know exactly which iPod models they usedm but I assume at least 10GB. The article mentions that they all have one, so that's at least 100GB. conclusion : they used their pods 5 times. Not all that spectacular,
google is your friend... basically, it means that, once you are instructed NOT to think AT ALL about white bears for the next 25 minutes, you compulsory start thinking about them. Fascinating stuff. In the same way, I think people who are specifically told not to click a link, have a very stong urge to do so.
The PHB in Dilbert is an uber example ("must..click..red..button...")
I did not say that. I would not click it any more than I would purchase one of the aforementioned fake turds in a toy store. But people's behavior in clicking it is understandable both from perspetive of a)curiosity and b)expecting it to be a fake. I was just trying to point out that from his little experiment one can not conclude that people click everything.
As a sidenote, such sociological experiments are very complex... They are bound by both time, target group, and context. I don't think you can, from one type of mail, conclude anything at all about clicking behavior. But IANABehaviorist
true, absolutely true. But older macs often have insufficient memory banks. Especially the old iMacs... And to make things worse : you can not install it yourself in a practical way (newer iMacs are a lot simpler). And on top of that, many dealers are incompetent when it comes to RAM knowledge. They install the wrong type of ram, or do not know the maximum capacity. My rev-A bondi blue imac for instance : the local dealer swore to me that 96MB was max for that type of machine. A quick google proved otherwise, with people who have an actual 256MB Machine running. Which he dismissed as nonsense. He refused to futher upgrade, and I won't do it myself as not to wreck the machine...
Still, I'm fairly happy with it, for what it needs to do. I don't think the speed difference would matter a lot to me, as most of these apps have low-update freq, or run as console apps which use very little ram. My tiBook handles the rest.
I don't think such an experiment qualifies as a representative of user behavior in terms of opening attachments... They know it's a fake since no virus would disguise itself as such. A bit like the fake turds you can buy in toy stores : packaged and labeled as 'real turds', still everyone recognises it, since turds are not purchaseable goods (yet, until someone pattents it offcourse:-)
This reminds me of the "white bears" effect, which is commonly used in psychology courses...
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that's ridiculous. Chances are far bigger that he'd meet someone on AIM who will later in his life save his life or donate a million bucks or teach him how to basket or marry him or drive him to the station every wednesday or ... whaveter...
The point is that for one chance in a million (yea yea, throw me a terry pratchet), you're giving up a thousand possible beneficies.
Go live with the monks in tibet, dude. And stab your eyes out, cut your ears off and eat your tongue for god forbid you might one day in tibet stand in a public loo pissing besides the next osama, for which the feds will spend a billion bucks to haunt you and chain your bollocks to guantanamo beach rocks.
I am totally baffled... More and more, I have the impression that a majority of slashdotters is really afraid of any form of bidirectional and/or replyable (you call it tracable) communication. For heavens sake : where's the principle of "innocent till proven otherwise" ?
I notice this attitude going on at my kids school too : don't talk to anyone, don't look at anyone, don't think about anyone. Curl up inside your safe self-shell and murmur away. I once had hope that the internet, and especially AIM were a way out of this downward spiral, but the FUDders and paranoiacs are well on their way to ruin that utopia.
could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?
Could my 1 year old son being a friend with someone in day care come ack later and haunt him ?
Puhlease ! What a FUD. Are you trying to even further associalize those who are socioophobes but found AIM a useful tool to make friends ? Stop being so afraid of life !
what fun is the money if you never get a chance to spend it?
Outsource the spending part. That gives you more time to earn money. And purely concidental, I happen to be an excellent spender, so I'll be your outsourcing company for very reasonable fee.
anyone know of a modern day flightsim that has the same feel to it, without having to master a gazillion controls ?
abso-fsking-lutely....
I adore the short scene where some 10 misiles are launched against that huge war machine. The way their smoke trail bends is amazing and reminds me of an old arcade game I used to spend my entire allowance on... Don't remember the name though. It was a game where the player took seat in a moveable cockpit of an F-something fighter jet. Just the sight of the sidewinders hurling towards your target was worth the 50cents I put in it time after time.... Does anyone know of a good modern-day game that has misiles like this ? And don't talk about the Q3A rocket smoke trails. While nice, they are to linear and have no choreographic beauty...
but an example given of the initial content is "nature programmes".
great ! More pr0n... Now who said the BBC is conservative ?
I wrote a project for our univ and submitted the url to google bout 3 moths ago. It still doesn't show up
It all depends on ho often they rotate their logs and how long they store their backups. I honestly don't believe they can keep logs longer than a few weeks. Any longer and they'd need 2nd serverfarm to store the archive. And no terrorists would go from a google query to a bomb in a few weeks. So I guess you're quite toptinfoiled indeed.
it will be next to impossible to write Windows software in the future without embracing .NET
this is such horsecrap !
you mean that any old app written in C or C++ will break ? that gcc won't compile anymore ? FUDFUDFUD ! amazing this shit gets moderated insightfull !!!
this is so much alike 8 years ago when everyoner was yelling that soon MFC would be the only way out. guess what ? I still write non-mfc c++ code. you might want to look at this site. are you suggesting that none of these will run/compile anymore under longhorn ? dude : it's JUST AN OS on JUST A CPU. it runs machinecode. that's all
Google is your friend, although Im' not so sure in this case :
googlism
a /. article where comments about a high-res nathalie portman DVD with hot grits are insightfull, interesting, informative & on-topic !
from their website, they seem to be a cable provider, but can one of you natives inform us, foreigners, how big comcast exactly is ?`br~ A Disney takeover by a cable company seems rather over-the-top
well, yes and no.. IBM is generaly aso considered a dinosaur, but they still seem to have momentum with a rider in control of the beast. I would compare them with a huge truck on the highway : they have a huge impact, momentum, influence and authority, but there's still some sense in it. Mircosoft, and especially disney seem more like a truck that's been catapulted off an aircraft carrier : huge, fast, insane momentum but a direction that's fixed towards where they've been going from the start. And a huge splash in sight.
... on the way downhill
i would rather bet my $$ on the Apple/pixar tandem : 2 stars on the rise
it has been tried. it's called communism. it failed. miserably.
When we start seeing more of these, AV companies will have a hard time keeping up. the fact that we do not see them, tells something about the relation between virus-witers and anti-virus writers...
if you like a clock that's quick to read, AND you're a MacOSX user, may i recommend fuzzyclock ?
could you point me to some screensshots ? you triggered my curiosity, but searching google for 'elite' gives a kazzilion results
I don't know exactly which iPod models they usedm but I assume at least 10GB. The article mentions that they all have one, so that's at least 100GB. conclusion : they used their pods 5 times. Not all that spectacular,
That proves nothing
:-) I just explained a classic psy-concept and provided you with free food for bar-talk.
I never talked about 'proof'
google is your friend... basically, it means that, once you are instructed NOT to think AT ALL about white bears for the next 25 minutes, you compulsory start thinking about them. Fascinating stuff. In the same way, I think people who are specifically told not to click a link, have a very stong urge to do so.
The PHB in Dilbert is an uber example ("must..click..red..button...")
I did not say that. I would not click it any more than I would purchase one of the aforementioned fake turds in a toy store. But people's behavior in clicking it is understandable both from perspetive of a)curiosity and b)expecting it to be a fake. I was just trying to point out that from his little experiment one can not conclude that people click everything.
As a sidenote, such sociological experiments are very complex... They are bound by both time, target group, and context. I don't think you can, from one type of mail, conclude anything at all about clicking behavior. But IANABehaviorist
true, absolutely true. But older macs often have insufficient memory banks. Especially the old iMacs... And to make things worse : you can not install it yourself in a practical way (newer iMacs are a lot simpler). And on top of that, many dealers are incompetent when it comes to RAM knowledge. They install the wrong type of ram, or do not know the maximum capacity. My rev-A bondi blue imac for instance : the local dealer swore to me that 96MB was max for that type of machine. A quick google proved otherwise, with people who have an actual 256MB Machine running. Which he dismissed as nonsense. He refused to futher upgrade, and I won't do it myself as not to wreck the machine...
Still, I'm fairly happy with it, for what it needs to do. I don't think the speed difference would matter a lot to me, as most of these apps have low-update freq, or run as console apps which use very little ram. My tiBook handles the rest.
I don't think such an experiment qualifies as a representative of user behavior in terms of opening attachments... They know it's a fake since no virus would disguise itself as such. A bit like the fake turds you can buy in toy stores : packaged and labeled as 'real turds', still everyone recognises it, since turds are not purchaseable goods (yet, until someone pattents it offcourse :-)
This reminds me of the "white bears" effect, which is commonly used in psychology courses...