FTA: LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith urges resisting the impulse to do so. "It's just a phone," he said. "it's not worth losing your life over. Let police officers take care of it. We have backup, guns, radio, jackets — all that stuff civilians don't have.""
Yeah, but in my experience, LAPD, SMPD, and so on won't bother responding to your call.
Firefox stores data about which search engine to use in a set of XML files. If something else gains access to those files, it can edit them to keep the name and icon of, e.g. google, but send the actual search to goatse (or wherever). If you delete the files, then the "restore defaults" button on the "manage search engines" panel will enable, and restore the originals.
Wow, thanks!!!
I found only one XML file doing just that redirect, deleted and restored, but no luck. I'll have to search harder for the multiple instances you mentioned.
I "opted out" about 10 seconds after seeing that message on a Yahoo site.
The thing is, I strenuously avoid Yahoo. After the latest Firefox update, though, typing a search in the address field doesn't go to my preferred (in settings) search engine, but instead to Yahoo.
Yahoo search results are terrible, but most of the screen is filled with jumping icons a million other things I was not searching for.
After wiping away the flecks of foam sprayed by the article's writer, I had a few thoughts.
* The US Postal Service is a lifeline service provided by our government. Without a reliable source of communication, it would be hard to sustain such a large country.
* Yes, the junk-mailers have been the major profit center of the USPS for a few decades.
* Vast and long-established laws and rulings forbidding tampering with mail (e.g., opening it) protect this basic form of communication. Such legal protections do not (yet) exist for digital communications. Your email is like a postcard.
* Tons of other companies provide the same "digital mail" service. I use them when I travel. Emailed pics of all letters, they open and scan any that I request, or just send everything to me in a big envelope every week or so.
This might be good for splitting wood, but there are a lot more uses for an axe. This axe wouldn't work well for most other uses.
Well, you never do know.
Axe-murdering, for example, might benefit from this innovation. I am not sure about the mechanics of axe-murdering, but I do imagine that this could be applied beneficially to the purpose with some modification of technique.
Of course, axe-murderers are probably not likely to "refine" their technique before employing it, but you never know.
- My wrists hurt just watching this guy. I gotta imagine some of that rotational force is transferring into the wrist and elbow, which can't be good over the long term
Anyone with a modicum of hand-skill will loosen their grip at the strike-moment, alleviating rotational forces on the wrist, while still maintaining lateral control of the handle. Pretty simple.
I live in a beach community, which attracts the homeless for its nice weather and numerous tourists.
A few years ago, I watched a visiting friend's mother give a fiver to a "homeless" couple, living in a park with an ocean view.
I stepped in and berated the homeless woman for having a cell phone that she deigned to stop talking on while she accepted the pity-money, after which she went back to the phone. It was quite a scene, and I did my best to impress upon this visitor that she should not "feed the bears."
I also get tired of seeing their dirty laundry on the sidewalk. This occurs when they get a new, free, donated set of clothing from some charity. Not even an effort to put them in the trash can 10 feet away!!!
Homelessness, a symptom of the squeeze on the middle class, is indeed a problem. But why should the homeless get to live in a beach paradise for free, while I pay extra taxes for social services, recycling collection (which they thieve from), and so on? It's not right.
Well, I said 15 years ago — and I'll say it again — Anyone who is in the business of selling media containers is in for trouble.
Media containers = CDs, books, magazines, newspapers, and so on. Manufacturing and distribution are costs that have been trending toward zero since the early 90's.
And, just to reply: a rose is a rose, etc. Sure. Theft is stealing a physical object — book or a CD. Those are really media containers that come with a limited license to use. I don't think you'd want to see any of my food after I have "consumed" it.
If something is "consumed," it is no longer there after consumption.
Viewing content, whether over the air or internet, is not "consuming." Viewing, subscribing, or using — maybe — but consuming, it is not.
Similarly, "stealing" something (an MP3 or CD) means that IT IS NOT THERE AFTER THE ACTION. It may be copyright infringement, or fair use, but is is definitely NOT stealing.
Actually, quite a bit of the phenomenon of big-oil hoovering up renewable energy patents is a tactic to lock up the technologies (patents are good for 20 years).
The decisions of established institutions are indeed made based upon time-scales longer than the individual participants' life-spans.
A faculty community willing to back a position that will ultimately bear its fruit after they are dead is to be respected, or at least soberly considered.
Gavin Scott:Horgan has been going on about stuff like this for years. He wrote a book in 1997 called "The End of Science" which I read and thought was completely ridiculous....
I agree completely about the nay-sayer making a career of it, and yours is about the only post in-thread to make this specific point, versus the numerous historical anti-examples of "It's all been discovered" types of quotes of the type frequently noted to precede scientific revolutions..
All commenters should be aware that the "Nat. Geo. attribution of the OP is misleading. That is the typical abbreviation for Nature Geoscience, a scientific journal. The linked article was printed in National Geographic , a middle-low-brow rag, aimed at the masses. It is a magazine not known, ever, for anything more rigorous, or higher, than "general interest."
It is a picture-book magazine with simple articles. It has no business pretending to discuss big ideas.
geogob: This actually creates a lot of frustration and administrative problems, as after the end of the XP support, those computers are not allowed to remain on the institution network anymore. A clear solution has still to be found.
A workable solution is to buy a second machine, install Linux and two networking cards. Let the XP-based system only connect to the Linux box, and to only allow file transfer to and from the Linux box from the XP box.
I know many labs with multi-million dollar pieces of equipment that have no drivers or software above XP. One can give their IT department the option of buying a new milti-million dollar instrument due to their imposed restrictions, or they can turn their head on the above solution. Or, just don't tell them.
Technically, the XP box above is not "on the network."
A relevant fact that I've seen nowhere is whether this video, and its ideas, were ever made publicly available, or whether Apple knew of the work.
There have been instances of near-simultaneous patenting of the same, or nearly the same, inventions. That does not seem to be the case here, where the parties involved appear to have abandoned good work (whether or not it's anticipatory prior art).
As a fun side point, the video also demonstrates Microsoft's long history of dismissing good ideas or trending technologies, like that "internet" thing and "web browsers," only to have to buy their way into the market a couple of years after everyone else.
The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car.
You sometimes get V8 sound out of a V6 car:)
I want a BMW X6 M. 550 HP V-8 w/500 ft-lb of torque in a mid-size. Yet, despite this ridiculous amount of power, BMW felt the need to pipe in engine noise through the stereo system. Do they think we're all that dumb?
IANAL, but that's gotta be defamation of character.
They claim accidental error by a worker. OK, maybe that's true. But that person has a manager, and that manager has a boss, and so on. And someone surely "proofed" the segment before it aired — all media organizations, if they have any sense, do that.
Someone, please tell me the difference between a "food" and a "drug."
I'll wait.
Also, who begins a scientific journal article's abstract with an adverb? And then fails to describe the new work until the last sentence of the paragraph?
The UCLA Medical System, a gigantic organization, required all hospitals, providers, etc. to standardize on a single, integrated medical record-keeping system. Medical history, diagnoses, prescriptions, appointments — the works. This was within the last 12 months.
For example, endnotes/footnotes and cross-references inevitably screw up with "Bookmark not defined!" if you move them around. Same for Figure numbering, etc.
Example 2: PowerPoint (at least on Mac) will take minutes to open a PPT file if it contains any EPS images. This bug is just as old. And god forbid you copy-and-paste a graphic from Word to PowerPoint. It will fail to render, not for you, but for the customer you sent it to.
Completing the list of bugs >10 years old is left as an exercise to the reader.
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FTA: LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith urges resisting the impulse to do so. "It's just a phone," he said. "it's not worth losing your life over. Let police officers take care of it. We have backup, guns, radio, jackets — all that stuff civilians don't have.""
Yeah, but in my experience, LAPD, SMPD, and so on won't bother responding to your call.
Firefox stores data about which search engine to use in a set of XML files. If something else gains access to those files, it can edit them to keep the name and icon of, e.g. google, but send the actual search to goatse (or wherever). If you delete the files, then the "restore defaults" button on the "manage search engines" panel will enable, and restore the originals.
Wow, thanks!!!
I found only one XML file doing just that redirect, deleted and restored, but no luck. I'll have to search harder for the multiple instances you mentioned.
I "opted out" about 10 seconds after seeing that message on a Yahoo site.
The thing is, I strenuously avoid Yahoo. After the latest Firefox update, though, typing a search in the address field doesn't go to my preferred (in settings) search engine, but instead to Yahoo.
Yahoo search results are terrible, but most of the screen is filled with jumping icons a million other things I was not searching for.
After wiping away the flecks of foam sprayed by the article's writer, I had a few thoughts.
* The US Postal Service is a lifeline service provided by our government. Without a reliable source of communication, it would be hard to sustain such a large country.
* Yes, the junk-mailers have been the major profit center of the USPS for a few decades.
* Vast and long-established laws and rulings forbidding tampering with mail (e.g., opening it) protect this basic form of communication. Such legal protections do not (yet) exist for digital communications. Your email is like a postcard.
* Tons of other companies provide the same "digital mail" service. I use them when I travel. Emailed pics of all letters, they open and scan any that I request, or just send everything to me in a big envelope every week or so.
The article kind of smelled like an ad.
I'm looking to buy a router.
Is Linksys or Netgear a good choice?
The inventor used Newtonian physics (300+ years old) to improve on an iron-age (2000-3000 years old) device. And he did it well.
That takes some real balls. I hope he's patented the hell out of it.
This might be good for splitting wood, but there are a lot more uses for an axe. This axe wouldn't work well for most other uses.
Well, you never do know.
Axe-murdering, for example, might benefit from this innovation. I am not sure about the mechanics of axe-murdering, but I do imagine that this could be applied beneficially to the purpose with some modification of technique.
Of course, axe-murderers are probably not likely to "refine" their technique before employing it, but you never know.
This is really damn clever. Few thoughts though:
- My wrists hurt just watching this guy. I gotta imagine some of that rotational force is transferring into the wrist and elbow, which can't be good over the long term
Anyone with a modicum of hand-skill will loosen their grip at the strike-moment, alleviating rotational forces on the wrist, while still maintaining lateral control of the handle. Pretty simple.
I live in a beach community, which attracts the homeless for its nice weather and numerous tourists.
A few years ago, I watched a visiting friend's mother give a fiver to a "homeless" couple, living in a park with an ocean view.
I stepped in and berated the homeless woman for having a cell phone that she deigned to stop talking on while she accepted the pity-money, after which she went back to the phone. It was quite a scene, and I did my best to impress upon this visitor that she should not "feed the bears."
I also get tired of seeing their dirty laundry on the sidewalk. This occurs when they get a new, free, donated set of clothing from some charity. Not even an effort to put them in the trash can 10 feet away!!!
Homelessness, a symptom of the squeeze on the middle class, is indeed a problem. But why should the homeless get to live in a beach paradise for free, while I pay extra taxes for social services, recycling collection (which they thieve from), and so on? It's not right.
The Economist
Harper's Magazine
The Atlantic
Lapham's Quarterly
Foreign Affairs
Well, I said 15 years ago — and I'll say it again — Anyone who is in the business of selling media containers is in for trouble.
Media containers = CDs, books, magazines, newspapers, and so on. Manufacturing and distribution are costs that have been trending toward zero since the early 90's.
And, just to reply: a rose is a rose, etc. Sure. Theft is stealing a physical object — book or a CD. Those are really media containers that come with a limited license to use. I don't think you'd want to see any of my food after I have "consumed" it.
I don't consume content. No one does.
If something is "consumed," it is no longer there after consumption.
Viewing content, whether over the air or internet, is not "consuming." Viewing, subscribing, or using — maybe — but consuming, it is not.
Similarly, "stealing" something (an MP3 or CD) means that IT IS NOT THERE AFTER THE ACTION. It may be copyright infringement, or fair use, but is is definitely NOT stealing.
Actually, quite a bit of the phenomenon of big-oil hoovering up renewable energy patents is a tactic to lock up the technologies (patents are good for 20 years).
Mark commenter up!
The decisions of established institutions are indeed made based upon time-scales longer than the individual participants' life-spans.
A faculty community willing to back a position that will ultimately bear its fruit after they are dead is to be respected, or at least soberly considered.
Gavin Scott: Horgan has been going on about stuff like this for years. He wrote a book in 1997 called "The End of Science" which I read and thought was completely ridiculous. ...
I agree completely about the nay-sayer making a career of it, and yours is about the only post in-thread to make this specific point, versus the numerous historical anti-examples of "It's all been discovered" types of quotes of the type frequently noted to precede scientific revolutions..
All commenters should be aware that the "Nat. Geo. attribution of the OP is misleading. That is the typical abbreviation for Nature Geoscience, a scientific journal. The linked article was printed in National Geographic , a middle-low-brow rag, aimed at the masses. It is a magazine not known, ever, for anything more rigorous, or higher, than "general interest."
It is a picture-book magazine with simple articles. It has no business pretending to discuss big ideas.
geogob: This actually creates a lot of frustration and administrative problems, as after the end of the XP support, those computers are not allowed to remain on the institution network anymore. A clear solution has still to be found.
A workable solution is to buy a second machine, install Linux and two networking cards. Let the XP-based system only connect to the Linux box, and to only allow file transfer to and from the Linux box from the XP box.
I know many labs with multi-million dollar pieces of equipment that have no drivers or software above XP. One can give their IT department the option of buying a new milti-million dollar instrument due to their imposed restrictions, or they can turn their head on the above solution. Or, just don't tell them.
Technically, the XP box above is not "on the network."
A relevant fact that I've seen nowhere is whether this video, and its ideas, were ever made publicly available, or whether Apple knew of the work.
There have been instances of near-simultaneous patenting of the same, or nearly the same, inventions. That does not seem to be the case here, where the parties involved appear to have abandoned good work (whether or not it's anticipatory prior art).
As a fun side point, the video also demonstrates Microsoft's long history of dismissing good ideas or trending technologies, like that "internet" thing and "web browsers," only to have to buy their way into the market a couple of years after everyone else.
The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car. You sometimes get V8 sound out of a V6 car :)
I want a BMW X6 M. 550 HP V-8 w/500 ft-lb of torque in a mid-size. Yet, despite this ridiculous amount of power, BMW felt the need to pipe in engine noise through the stereo system. Do they think we're all that dumb?
IANAL, but that's gotta be defamation of character.
They claim accidental error by a worker. OK, maybe that's true. But that person has a manager, and that manager has a boss, and so on. And someone surely "proofed" the segment before it aired — all media organizations, if they have any sense, do that.
We should blame the victims. It's a whole lot cheaper.
Someone, please tell me the difference between a "food" and a "drug."
I'll wait.
Also, who begins a scientific journal article's abstract with an adverb? And then fails to describe the new work until the last sentence of the paragraph?
The UCLA Medical System, a gigantic organization, required all hospitals, providers, etc. to standardize on a single, integrated medical record-keeping system. Medical history, diagnoses, prescriptions, appointments — the works. This was within the last 12 months.
It runs on XP.
Happy privacy!
MS Word has bugs that are at least 18 years old.
For example, endnotes/footnotes and cross-references inevitably screw up with "Bookmark not defined!" if you move them around. Same for Figure numbering, etc.
Example 2: PowerPoint (at least on Mac) will take minutes to open a PPT file if it contains any EPS images. This bug is just as old. And god forbid you copy-and-paste a graphic from Word to PowerPoint. It will fail to render, not for you, but for the customer you sent it to.
Completing the list of bugs >10 years old is left as an exercise to the reader.
I got marked troll last time I said this, but it is true.
Several of my local pharmacies have "homeopathic cures" sections.
A pretty clear violation of ethics, I would think.
They missed the Boston bombers because they are spying ON EVERYONE instead of focusing the spying, based on probable cause, on the correct folks.
Well, yes. But, paradoxically, failure earns the spy agencies more funding.
"If we had been provided with enough resources, we could have caught the bad guys!"
The solution is to limit (yet again) exactly who they can spy on. These children need to be spanked, not rewarded with ice cream.