All they need to do is to firewall them with Linux boxes containing two Ethernet cards. Just like everybody else does.
Some of us ARE stuck on XP. For example, a piece of multi-$M scientific equipment might only have drivers that were issued for XP, back when it was purchased. We don't fix what isn't broken; we firewall or ghostwall it.
I use Element Hiding Helper (for AdBlock plus). With a few clicks, and some examination for a pattern, I can block any set of junk by html class, css, domain, and so on.
Also, I don't waste my time on FB, but block TONS of junk on sites I do frequent.
Proving negatives is done all the time, the simplest way to do it is to enumerate all possibilities and check them all. That only works for positives and not for negatives. Hence: you can not prove a negative.
Or: please prove that God does not exist. Or assuming, he does not exist: prove he does. Or: prove unicorns don't exist, in case you are religious and God is a hot topic for you.
Your parent is right, you failed at basic math and logic.
For those that don't know, Megol's claim that "it is a popular meme by some people" is nothing more than trollery. The concept underpins the discipline of Scientific Research. Well, err, science itself.
Oh, also: My first "-1" Comment! Why did it take over a decade to achieve such an honor? Darn.
So you're saying that there's no truth to this story? Where's you're evidence? You have none? Then why should I believe your negative spin?
Always a clever tactic to demand an explanation and then triumphantly declare that the other person has none before any time has passed for replies to be made. Here, let me help you with that "missing" evidence. Have you missed the news for the past eight years? The F-35 program has been dogged at every step by cost overruns, test failures, design-by-committee creeping features, etc.
Always a clever tactic - to erect a strawman and subsequent to demolishing it pronounce the other person a fraud.
It's either that, or you have serious reading comprehension problems - because the grandparent's question wasn't "prove the program is a failure". It was "prove there's no truth to this story". Something that, despite claiming "victory", you have signally failed to so.
It is not possible to prove a negative. You fail at logic.
"aging is actually a species survival strategy from the earliest days of life"
Does that make it a law of physics? Do atoms individually get older too?
No, but it does make it a Law of Nature.
And yes, atoms do age. They have a half-life, meaning that each will eventually die. That is, it is a Law of Physics.
Even protons have a half-life, decaying into quarks, energy, and so forth. But it's so long that the universe will suffer its heat-death before too many decay.
Something tells me the people trying this are not going to be as successful as they hope for.
Well, you never do know... This is a totally new and unexplored idea – the extension of human life. Give me one, just one, example of any humans in the history of the human race who have tried to extend life or to become immortal. Just one!
That was sarcasm.
On a positive note, 7% of homo sapiens sapiens that have ever existed are alive today. If my understanding of statistics is accurate, then this means that every living person has a 7% chance of being immortal. Prove me wrong.
Silicone Valley is in the Los Angeles area, not the San Francisco area.
Here in Silicone Valley, we have already solved the 'forever young' problem through the use of silicone (and lots of other chemicals no sane person would put in their body just for appearance's sake).
I know this isn't the first phone that's 5.7 in with 2560x1440 pixels, but isn't that wildly overkill? That's about 515ppi for a screen that you're not going to hold closer than about eight inches from your face. Can even the most attune pair of eyes in all of humanity resolve the display with any pixelation at that point?
Oversampling. It actually does make sense, especially for people with superior vision, +2 glasses, or when moving your eye across the display. Some examples:
Image editing? Best to at least double the size first. Edit in 16-bit mode instead of 8-bit if you can. Down-sample at the end.
Recording music? Don't edit at 44.1 kHz and 16-bit – that is the bit rate and depth for the final product, a song on a CD*. I haven't checked lately, but last I looked, audio tracks were being recorded at 196 kHz and 48-bit.
In both examples, errors will not pile up during destructive edits to the image or track.
* A CD was a physical object that was formerly used for the distribution of musical albums.
* The Red Book choice of 44.1 kHz was stupid: a 22 kHz sine wave will turn into a triangular wave in the data on the disk. Some CD players "over-sample", which is pointless marketer-speak. It means only that the player smooths the data stream by some simple interpolation algorithm (5-sample spline, semi-sinusoidal interpolation instead of just linear. These are just guesses, but CD over-sampling is and can only be interpolation. Data cannot be 're-invented'.
Please use a dictionary yourself, and look up the word "tantamount". Oh, wait. Wait, wait, wait. The internet and logic are probably difficult for you. I can help. CLICK THIS LINK FOR HELP.
Perhaps I should have used the word "sedition" instead?
If these aren't enough, and you would like to argue the finer points, take it up with Lawrence Tribe, the distinguished Harvard Law Professor. He knows a lot more than I do.
According to a Washington Post article from yesterday, he is also the most physically and sexually attractive of all of the "10 richest people" of the last 50 years.
Any *nix will do. Even Mac OS X, which under-the-hood is a BSD fork, but the company has taken care of the "hard to do" stuff already. Just open the box and do your work.
Trump's statement, recorded on video with audio, is tantamount to treason.
Try it yourself. Invite an adversarial nation or state to hack servers containing potentially Top Secret information (if the nuts are to be believed), and promise them "rewards" if they do so. You will go to PMITA Federal Prison.
They are indeed still protected by Copyright under the creator's name.
Her making them freely available is a gift to humanity, but does not make them public domain. As far as the typical copyright infringement argument of "potential lost income". . . Well, actually, she can make that one. They damaged her reputation as a professional photographer.
Their main argument will be much simpler: Dear Getty, how much income did you derive from charging people for these copyrighted pieces of mine? Please include the legal costs of anyone who fought you on the fallacious copyright-infringement notices that you sent out. Now triple it (treble damages).
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Lazy engineers make for the best engineers. We only want to fix a problem once, not over-and-over again.
Just one example.
All they need to do is to firewall them with Linux boxes containing two Ethernet cards. Just like everybody else does.
Some of us ARE stuck on XP. For example, a piece of multi-$M scientific equipment might only have drivers that were issued for XP, back when it was purchased. We don't fix what isn't broken; we firewall or ghostwall it.
It won't work.
I use Element Hiding Helper (for AdBlock plus). With a few clicks, and some examination for a pattern, I can block any set of junk by html class, css, domain, and so on.
Also, I don't waste my time on FB, but block TONS of junk on sites I do frequent.
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But since the original tweet got deleted quickly, we cannot be sure.
And to think that I've been using my CAPS-lock key to type in hexadecimal software-activation keys and public keys for so many years...
Thanks for the time-saver!
Russia which is harbouring Snowden has made it illegal to use encryption unless you give them a copy of the keys used.
So, how exactly is Snowden supposed to be conversing with others without friendly old Vlad listening in?
Snowden probably has diplomatic immunity, or something equivalent. He is not a 'citizen' of Russia.
Proving negatives is done all the time, the simplest way to do it is to enumerate all possibilities and check them all.
That only works for positives and not for negatives.
Hence: you can not prove a negative.
Or: please prove that God does not exist. Or assuming, he does not exist: prove he does.
Or: prove unicorns don't exist, in case you are religious and God is a hot topic for you.
Your parent is right, you failed at basic math and logic.
Thank you, angel'o'sphere (note the 5-digit UID) , for correcting the troll.
For those that don't know, Megol's claim that "it is a popular meme by some people" is nothing more than trollery. The concept underpins the discipline of Scientific Research. Well, err, science itself.
Oh, also: My first "-1" Comment! Why did it take over a decade to achieve such an honor? Darn.
Always a clever tactic - to erect a strawman and subsequent to demolishing it pronounce the other person a fraud.
It's either that, or you have serious reading comprehension problems - because the grandparent's question wasn't "prove the program is a failure". It was "prove there's no truth to this story". Something that, despite claiming "victory", you have signally failed to so.
It is not possible to prove a negative. You fail at logic.
"aging is actually a species survival strategy from the earliest days of life"
Does that make it a law of physics? Do atoms individually get older too?
No, but it does make it a Law of Nature.
And yes, atoms do age. They have a half-life, meaning that each will eventually die. That is, it is a Law of Physics.
Even protons have a half-life, decaying into quarks, energy, and so forth. But it's so long that the universe will suffer its heat-death before too many decay.
Already some horror stories coming out of China...
And India. People sell their kidneys to afford to eat. Vice did a good piece on it.
I keep my brain-dead maternal twin on life support just so I have a set of 'spare parts' handy.*
* (not really)
Perhaps this is why God created death..... he saw people like this and said "This can not be, let their be death so we can have renewal."
Read your bible son, God created death...
God created death to enable evolution. If the weak ones don't die, then the species can never improve through passing on advantageous traits.
Something tells me the people trying this are not going to be as successful as they hope for.
Well, you never do know... This is a totally new and unexplored idea – the extension of human life. Give me one, just one, example of any humans in the history of the human race who have tried to extend life or to become immortal. Just one!
That was sarcasm.
On a positive note, 7% of homo sapiens sapiens that have ever existed are alive today. If my understanding of statistics is accurate, then this means that every living person has a 7% chance of being immortal. Prove me wrong.
Silicone Valley is in the Los Angeles area, not the San Francisco area.
Here in Silicone Valley, we have already solved the 'forever young' problem through the use of silicone (and lots of other chemicals no sane person would put in their body just for appearance's sake).
With the display curving around the sides, you won't be able to put a bumper on the thing.
No bumper = More screen breakage = More repairs.
Of some people, be advised before jumping on this new biometrics.
Please explain. Use actual facts and logic.
I know this isn't the first phone that's 5.7 in with 2560x1440 pixels, but isn't that wildly overkill? That's about 515ppi for a screen that you're not going to hold closer than about eight inches from your face. Can even the most attune pair of eyes in all of humanity resolve the display with any pixelation at that point?
Oversampling. It actually does make sense, especially for people with superior vision, +2 glasses, or when moving your eye across the display. Some examples:
Image editing? Best to at least double the size first. Edit in 16-bit mode instead of 8-bit if you can. Down-sample at the end.
Recording music? Don't edit at 44.1 kHz and 16-bit – that is the bit rate and depth for the final product, a song on a CD*. I haven't checked lately, but last I looked, audio tracks were being recorded at 196 kHz and 48-bit.
In both examples, errors will not pile up during destructive edits to the image or track.
* A CD was a physical object that was formerly used for the distribution of musical albums.
* The Red Book choice of 44.1 kHz was stupid: a 22 kHz sine wave will turn into a triangular wave in the data on the disk. Some CD players "over-sample", which is pointless marketer-speak. It means only that the player smooths the data stream by some simple interpolation algorithm (5-sample spline, semi-sinusoidal interpolation instead of just linear. These are just guesses, but CD over-sampling is and can only be interpolation. Data cannot be 're-invented'.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and not see any decline in my popularity." –– Donald Trump
Yes, that is a REAL quote.
Please use a dictionary yourself, and look up the word "tantamount". Oh, wait. Wait, wait, wait. The internet and logic are probably difficult for you. I can help. CLICK THIS LINK FOR HELP.
Perhaps I should have used the word "sedition" instead?
If these aren't enough, and you would like to argue the finer points, take it up with Lawrence Tribe, the distinguished Harvard Law Professor. He knows a lot more than I do.
According to a Washington Post article from yesterday, he is also the most physically and sexually attractive of all of the "10 richest people" of the last 50 years.
Any *nix will do. Even Mac OS X, which under-the-hood is a BSD fork, but the company has taken care of the "hard to do" stuff already. Just open the box and do your work.
MS lied to you? For shame.
Please provide details – I have not heard of this happening to anyone else, ever.
Don't. Unless you are a masochist. There will be pain.
Careful. Windows(TM) is a viciously defended trademark. Be careful how you use the word...
I moved to osx
Have you ever run something like Little Snitch and seen the ton of places that OS X wants to connect to? It's a real eye-opener
Details please? ...
Trump's statement, recorded on video with audio, is tantamount to treason.
Try it yourself. Invite an adversarial nation or state to hack servers containing potentially Top Secret information (if the nuts are to be believed), and promise them "rewards" if they do so. You will go to PMITA Federal Prison.
Well, at least one person agrees with me.
They are indeed still protected by Copyright under the creator's name.
Her making them freely available is a gift to humanity, but does not make them public domain. As far as the typical copyright infringement argument of "potential lost income". . . Well, actually, she can make that one. They damaged her reputation as a professional photographer.
Their main argument will be much simpler: Dear Getty, how much income did you derive from charging people for these copyrighted pieces of mine? Please include the legal costs of anyone who fought you on the fallacious copyright-infringement notices that you sent out. Now triple it (treble damages).