Send an email to StopMozilla@aboutads.info to tell Mozilla you don’t want them hijacking cookies on the Internet.
Provided they actually read any text in emails to that address, I don't see why you couldn't send email in support of Mozilla instead.
Don't do that.
They'll probably just count emails and use that number further on, after having gotten the address included in every spammer list in existence. They don't request that you write something interesting in that mail.
Who in their right mind pays the same amount of money for an e-book that they do for a paperback? The rich, and the stupid. Most others know they are being ripped-off.
I'm not rich, so I must be stupid. I buy books for the content, and the ebook has the same content in a more convenient format. As always, vendors charge what the market will bear. If a purchase would leave me with a feeling of being ripped off I just don't make it. Be on the lookout for offers, use price-watching services, and you'll get a *lot* of good deals on ebooks. The vast majority of my ebooks where purchased at $7 or less (often far less). At that level the ebooks are absolutely worth the price for me.
The difference is, I already have a 7" tablet and phone in my pockets. Pretty much all the time for the phone, and about half the time for the tablet, except when I'm camping, hiking, or at home or the office (where they are usually nearby). Yes, I'm a cargo pants guy. Even so, the last thing I need is a third device that I have to carry with me. If my phone and tablet aren't up to it, I really can't be bothered with it.
That's just your priorities:)
I bring my phone and a Sony PRS-650 instead, the phone handles all internet stuff just fine. Neither a tablet nor the phone hold a candle to the reader when it comes to reading comfort. I do choose the clothes I buy based on whether they have room for my reader.
Several of my preferred authors write VERY large books. Reading them on my Kindle is much less painful than holding one of those monster books.
Yes, behold the paper edition of the series I bought a few days ago, and in my preferred format (pretty girl excluded, but I have my own). That is only one of the many advantages of ebooks.
Add to that list the fact that a lot of e-reader versions just aren't edited properly (page layout, tables, figures, images, etc. get mangled) and that you are locked into an ecosystem of apps or proprietary devices instead of anything resembling an open format. I think one of the other commenters is also dead on; more people have just gotten good at pirating PDFs, rather than suffer through all this when paying good money.
Yes, formatting can be bad and annoying, but usually it's pretty simple to rectify that. As for the format, the most common flowing ones are trivially de-DRM'ed and converted to epub without loss of fidelity, and you pretty much can't get a more open format than that. It will probably be readable indefinitely if the file is perpetuated, as the core content is plain xhtml/css.
What annoys me the most is the region pricing/availability; Amazon has third-world prices in the US, but charges up to triple that in Europe. Some books are not "available in your country", those are the only cases where I turn to pirating a book. Seriously, fuck that shit.
The common term is signing, I should have mentioned that. If you encrypt with your private key it does nothing to hide the message since anyone can decrypt with your public key, but it does let everyone verify that the message did in fact come from you and hasn't been tampered with - the signature is exactly as secure as the encrypted communication channel because it is the exact same mechanism.
I would say that signing is different from encryption, a signature is just some gibberish tacked on to your cleartext, while encryption turns your cleartext into a block of gibberish. Denomitating signing as "encrypt with your private key" is imprecise since it does not encrypt or hide anything. I know you claim that signing and encrypting is the same thing, but you do confuse the matter a bit by your strange refusal to use the accepted terminology. Otherwise I agree with your post.
Then I assume what you're describing is purely a result of altitude, no?
I should think anywhere which is equatorial and at sea level is going to be hella hot year round... then again, I've never been south of about 23 degrees North, so I have no idea.
Yes, very likely. I lived in Ecuador for about a year, at 3800m altitude, where the temperature averaged something like 10C all year. A 45 minute (very entertaining) ride by motorcycle, however, took you down to about 1800m and ~28C. Another hour and you were at the coast, which was hellish at 35-40C.
And there's certainly no legitimate uses for aerial devices besides spying on people
In Norway the police is currently considering use of drones in "certain operations". Luckily the governmental watch dog organization concerned with privacy is on the case. Right now it seems like the most likely result is a system where the police will have to justify the usage in each case, and usage will only be allowed in certain emergencies (where, for instance, they need to trail an armed and dangerous person which is fleeing, or you want to do recon to decide on a course of action in a hostage situation). Interestingly, from the debate one gets the impression that obvious uses like search/rescue, monitoring a fire in progress, and similar civilian emergencies don't really play a part in the police reasoning of why they need this.
They claim that they would only use drones in emergency situations where they currently use a helicopter, but there have been some interesting slip-ups from police officials where they for instance let on that "of course, it might also be handy for long-term surveillance of parts of town riddled with drug trades, and for observing other incidental crimes in the area", where currently they employ plain-clothes and uniformed officers on foot. Such slip-ups are of course countered and hand-waved away in short order, but it does not take a lot of imagination to realise that the police will push for employing those cheap drones in a lot of scenarios not originally sanctioned.
So, they send up their army of quadcopters to maintain near constant surveillance of a certain city quadrant. Of course these drones will also get footage of roof areas, private yards, and windowed apartments where people normally have an expectation of privacy. There are plenty of things that are perfectly legal to do in the privacy of your home, but that you might prefer that no-one observe, including police monitors. From the police's point of view such pervasive use is nonetheless a no-brainer, and without proper oversight it *will* happen.
Here's to hoping that they will also be used for search and rescue, monitoring areas for potential wildfires, and so on, but that is clearly *not* why the police want them in the first place.
If a new "dark age" comes it may be truly dark. The last dark age was lit by paper, parchment, or papyrus of the ancient civilizations, whether to read by fire, or to start or burn on the fire. The shift to e-books will leave nothing once the last battery has died and the last screen cracked.
Reading devices will last a long time if properly cared for, and 5V DC is easily generated by crude technology. Also, you can make a copy of an entire library in hours, and squirrel away that copy in a matchbox full of Micro-SD cards. I believe that redundancy will compensate for the lesser persistence of digital data. You might be able to contrive a scenario in which all copies of data and the means to read it is irretrievably lost, but nowadays that would likely require an extinction event of the dino-killer variety, at least.
Really most people prefer paper. It's just that there's such a large benefit to eBooks that technical people are inclined to tolerate eBooks over paper because of the convenience.
(My emphasis) I infer that you're claiming that e-ink visual quality is inferior to paper. The thing is, most people who actually see a decent e-ink screen (newer Kindles, Sony readers barring the PRS-600 and 700 models) are astounded by the quality, and the latest HD readers even improve slightly on older displays. I've shown mine to people who are sceptical, and they are invariably very surprised and impressed by the clarity and stability of the display. Personally I honestly don't see *any* benefits to a pbook. A modern e-reader has a visual quality that is superior to cheaply printed paperbacks (it has a tad less contrast, but texture, color and sharpness is better). It also comes close to HQ print. Add in the fact that you're able to adjust the font and layout to your preferences, and pbooks suddenly become the poor substitute.
Everyone is of course welcome to their preferences, but when people brush aside e-ink out of hand it indicates that they want to come across as a hipster or a luddite (nothing wrong with that, I guess). Many of those people have never read a single page on an e-ink device, which makes for a somewhat poor basis for derision and dismission of ebooks. However, at that point they no longer *want* to make a rational comparison of the two formats, and their opinions are irrelevant to a sensible listener.
The argument really shouldn't be "is that legal?", it should be "that's not what we as a society want, so make it illegal and amend the constitution to do it if we have to."
This is -why- the constitution is a "living document"; we're supposed to be able to fix it when a hole like this shows up. We shouldn't have to make difficult reaching arguments about how a surveillance state is a 1st or 4th amendment violation.
What is really confounding to me is that you need this hole to be covered up, because otherwise the government will act against the people's wishes whenever given the loophole to do so. So, the government is an adversary of the people, and this is how it's supposed to work? When the people in charge do something which is clearly against what people want, they should naturally lose power due to a lack of votes. How did you get into this fix?
What the EFF (and others) are arguing -- I think correctly -- is that even though it's not wiretapping, it's still a violation of our rights. Given the recent history of court rulings on 4th Amendment grounds, they probably feel they have a better shot at making this 1st Amendment argument than hoping for the court to agree that capturing phone call and internet message "envelopes" constitutes a search.
The main problem is, I think, that the American population is perfectly fine with this. You have political parties that are staunchly against this kind of abuse, and which would probably abolish them if given the power, but you don't vote for them. The mere fact that you have the term "third party" which covers *all parties but two* and for which a vote is largely considered wasted, should be a red flag that something is very wrong with your democracy.
no so, we all have cell phones (and other mobile devices) and the infrastructure to send messages by SMTP or SMS. there are billions of mobile devices, in fact in 2014 the number of total mobile devices will exceed the number of humans.
It's really too bad that smartphones and apps generally don't recognise "-?([0-8]\d|90|\d)\.\d{1,}, ?-?([0-8]\d|90|\d)\.\d{1,}" as a gps location. Why it isn't a universal copy/paste option in all map and location applications is beyond me. The closest street address is completely useless when you're in the middle of a forest, or even in a park.
I agree that being able to write (or even understand it) is not important, as you'll need a map application on a device which probably has the capability of receiving text. It's easier for everyone involved to do it in a couple of clicks, rather than for the sender to read some words and for the receiver to type those words in. The three-words thing is neat, but it's a solution in search of a problem.
On a side note: what I'm missing in my country, and it really irks me, is an unambiguous way to specify a street address. There is a "Church Street 4" every few tens of kilometers. The UK solved that problem brilliantly with short codes consisting of letters and numbers, kind of a zip code for every single address. It's a problem which most people encounter *every single day*, carrying a very real cost in time and money, and no-one seems to care.
This is why nautical types use Port and Starboard instead of Left and Right for bits of the ship.
No, it's not, that's just tradition. "Right" and "left" works equally well for designating location on a car, a train, or a ship. "Nautical types" use a lot of curious terminology which is not strictly necessary. It is useful for dressing down noobs using it wrongly, though:)
Theoretically, even Kings are not above the law in the anglo-saxon tradition.
Generally, they are. A contemporary case in point is Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is very fond of speeding ridiculously in racing cars on public roads, but does not risk prosecution.
I don't really understand your use of that term, do you mean that a shared grandparent == two generations? In that case, ten+ generations would likely include most potential spouses you are likely to meet in a very large area around your community:) But, no matter.
Generally, if your genes regularly get mixed up with a fairly diverse input from the general population, it will not be a problem even though you might have a few common ancestors. After all, that's what have happended through the ages with human and animal populations alike. It's when you regularly interbreed too many people with common ancestors that recessive faults might show up. For examples see the Amish, and European royalty.
For the latter group, the only politically accepted manifestation of inbreeding is hemophilia, but throughout history there are plenty of examples of mental retardation and other debilitating effects likely caused by inbreeding as well. This is easily found if you dig a little. These matters are touchy for contemporary researchers, however, as they necessarily also pertain to most of living royalty in Europe.
Indeed. Phosphor persistence wasn't that persistent. I could see the flicker on CRT displays. I don't notice any flicker on modern backlit displays, though...
My semi-pro IPS panel actually has a very soft visible flicker, but it doesn't annoy me and isn't tiresome to my eyes (I spend *a lot* of my spare time in front of this display...). You can do a very simple test by wagging your arm back and forth with a finger extended at 2-4Hz in front of your display, preferably with a white background. With most CRTs you will see distinct sharp impressions of your finger at the points where the display refreshes. My IPS panel shows very vague impressions, but still noticeable. Note that the flicker mentioned is not based on this test, it is independently noticeable to my eyes without any finger-wagging at all:)
Some people I know who are not heavy computer users complain about flicker even with modern displays, and I have no reason to doubt them. People who spend a lot of time in front of a display, however, usually have no problems. I wonder if flicker is something that your brain gets used to and compensates for, instead of eye fatigue being an objective issue for some people due to differences in physiology. I haven't actually looked up any research, but links are welcome.
He shouldn't really be in prison at all. At first when I saw the story I was sad. But now that I see he'll be only there for a short time I hope he uses the time to take a break from all things internet and chills out.
I heard on Norwegian national radio that, apart from the Logica breach, he hacked into bank servers and actually managed to transfer the equivalent of USD 3300 from a Danish union to himself. I don't believe it warrants two years imprisonment, but it certainly should be a punishable crime.
How about we have 3 boxes on the forms. Male, Female, Other. So simple, problem solved.
The third option for boolean values should, of course, be FileNotFound :)
Joking aside, I'm not convinced that people who've had so severe issues with their gender idendity that they actually changed it would be happy to be "Other".
I'd like a smart rifle, like the one in Vernor Vinge's Bobble series, that lets you designate several targets in the scope, and then, when given the command to fire via trigger pull, actually fires when the barrel is properly aligned to hit the designated target or targets - you mark the targets, then pull the trigger and wave the weapon in their general direction.
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One thing I would like is some granularity regarding DNT. There are definitely certain sites where I'm more than happy to submit to that kind of data.
When at first I read about DNT I seriously thought it was a joke, along the lines of the Evil bit. They will *never* respect it.
The IAB advertisement includes the text:
Send an email to StopMozilla@aboutads.info to tell Mozilla you don’t want them hijacking cookies on the Internet.
Provided they actually read any text in emails to that address, I don't see why you couldn't send email in support of Mozilla instead.
Don't do that.
They'll probably just count emails and use that number further on, after having gotten the address included in every spammer list in existence. They don't request that you write something interesting in that mail.
Who in their right mind pays the same amount of money for an e-book that they do for a paperback? The rich, and the stupid. Most others know they are being ripped-off.
I'm not rich, so I must be stupid. I buy books for the content, and the ebook has the same content in a more convenient format. As always, vendors charge what the market will bear. If a purchase would leave me with a feeling of being ripped off I just don't make it. Be on the lookout for offers, use price-watching services, and you'll get a *lot* of good deals on ebooks. The vast majority of my ebooks where purchased at $7 or less (often far less). At that level the ebooks are absolutely worth the price for me.
The difference is, I already have a 7" tablet and phone in my pockets. Pretty much all the time for the phone, and about half the time for the tablet, except when I'm camping, hiking, or at home or the office (where they are usually nearby). Yes, I'm a cargo pants guy. Even so, the last thing I need is a third device that I have to carry with me. If my phone and tablet aren't up to it, I really can't be bothered with it.
That's just your priorities :)
I bring my phone and a Sony PRS-650 instead, the phone handles all internet stuff just fine. Neither a tablet nor the phone hold a candle to the reader when it comes to reading comfort. I do choose the clothes I buy based on whether they have room for my reader.
Several of my preferred authors write VERY large books. Reading them on my Kindle is much less painful than holding one of those monster books.
Yes, behold the paper edition of the series I bought a few days ago, and in my preferred format (pretty girl excluded, but I have my own). That is only one of the many advantages of ebooks.
Add to that list the fact that a lot of e-reader versions just aren't edited properly (page layout, tables, figures, images, etc. get mangled) and that you are locked into an ecosystem of apps or proprietary devices instead of anything resembling an open format. I think one of the other commenters is also dead on; more people have just gotten good at pirating PDFs, rather than suffer through all this when paying good money.
Yes, formatting can be bad and annoying, but usually it's pretty simple to rectify that. As for the format, the most common flowing ones are trivially de-DRM'ed and converted to epub without loss of fidelity, and you pretty much can't get a more open format than that. It will probably be readable indefinitely if the file is perpetuated, as the core content is plain xhtml/css.
What annoys me the most is the region pricing/availability; Amazon has third-world prices in the US, but charges up to triple that in Europe. Some books are not "available in your country", those are the only cases where I turn to pirating a book. Seriously, fuck that shit.
The common term is signing, I should have mentioned that. If you encrypt with your private key it does nothing to hide the message since anyone can decrypt with your public key, but it does let everyone verify that the message did in fact come from you and hasn't been tampered with - the signature is exactly as secure as the encrypted communication channel because it is the exact same mechanism.
I would say that signing is different from encryption, a signature is just some gibberish tacked on to your cleartext, while encryption turns your cleartext into a block of gibberish. Denomitating signing as "encrypt with your private key" is imprecise since it does not encrypt or hide anything. I know you claim that signing and encrypting is the same thing, but you do confuse the matter a bit by your strange refusal to use the accepted terminology. Otherwise I agree with your post.
Then I assume what you're describing is purely a result of altitude, no?
I should think anywhere which is equatorial and at sea level is going to be hella hot year round ... then again, I've never been south of about 23 degrees North, so I have no idea.
Yes, very likely. I lived in Ecuador for about a year, at 3800m altitude, where the temperature averaged something like 10C all year. A 45 minute (very entertaining) ride by motorcycle, however, took you down to about 1800m and ~28C. Another hour and you were at the coast, which was hellish at 35-40C.
And there's certainly no legitimate uses for aerial devices besides spying on people
In Norway the police is currently considering use of drones in "certain operations". Luckily the governmental watch dog organization concerned with privacy is on the case. Right now it seems like the most likely result is a system where the police will have to justify the usage in each case, and usage will only be allowed in certain emergencies (where, for instance, they need to trail an armed and dangerous person which is fleeing, or you want to do recon to decide on a course of action in a hostage situation). Interestingly, from the debate one gets the impression that obvious uses like search/rescue, monitoring a fire in progress, and similar civilian emergencies don't really play a part in the police reasoning of why they need this.
They claim that they would only use drones in emergency situations where they currently use a helicopter, but there have been some interesting slip-ups from police officials where they for instance let on that "of course, it might also be handy for long-term surveillance of parts of town riddled with drug trades, and for observing other incidental crimes in the area", where currently they employ plain-clothes and uniformed officers on foot. Such slip-ups are of course countered and hand-waved away in short order, but it does not take a lot of imagination to realise that the police will push for employing those cheap drones in a lot of scenarios not originally sanctioned.
So, they send up their army of quadcopters to maintain near constant surveillance of a certain city quadrant. Of course these drones will also get footage of roof areas, private yards, and windowed apartments where people normally have an expectation of privacy. There are plenty of things that are perfectly legal to do in the privacy of your home, but that you might prefer that no-one observe, including police monitors. From the police's point of view such pervasive use is nonetheless a no-brainer, and without proper oversight it *will* happen.
Here's to hoping that they will also be used for search and rescue, monitoring areas for potential wildfires, and so on, but that is clearly *not* why the police want them in the first place.
If a new "dark age" comes it may be truly dark. The last dark age was lit by paper, parchment, or papyrus of the ancient civilizations, whether to read by fire, or to start or burn on the fire. The shift to e-books will leave nothing once the last battery has died and the last screen cracked.
Reading devices will last a long time if properly cared for, and 5V DC is easily generated by crude technology. Also, you can make a copy of an entire library in hours, and squirrel away that copy in a matchbox full of Micro-SD cards. I believe that redundancy will compensate for the lesser persistence of digital data. You might be able to contrive a scenario in which all copies of data and the means to read it is irretrievably lost, but nowadays that would likely require an extinction event of the dino-killer variety, at least.
Really most people prefer paper. It's just that there's such a large benefit to eBooks that technical people are inclined to tolerate eBooks over paper because of the convenience.
(My emphasis) I infer that you're claiming that e-ink visual quality is inferior to paper. The thing is, most people who actually see a decent e-ink screen (newer Kindles, Sony readers barring the PRS-600 and 700 models) are astounded by the quality, and the latest HD readers even improve slightly on older displays. I've shown mine to people who are sceptical, and they are invariably very surprised and impressed by the clarity and stability of the display. Personally I honestly don't see *any* benefits to a pbook. A modern e-reader has a visual quality that is superior to cheaply printed paperbacks (it has a tad less contrast, but texture, color and sharpness is better). It also comes close to HQ print. Add in the fact that you're able to adjust the font and layout to your preferences, and pbooks suddenly become the poor substitute.
Everyone is of course welcome to their preferences, but when people brush aside e-ink out of hand it indicates that they want to come across as a hipster or a luddite (nothing wrong with that, I guess). Many of those people have never read a single page on an e-ink device, which makes for a somewhat poor basis for derision and dismission of ebooks. However, at that point they no longer *want* to make a rational comparison of the two formats, and their opinions are irrelevant to a sensible listener.
The argument really shouldn't be "is that legal?", it should be "that's not what we as a society want, so make it illegal and amend the constitution to do it if we have to."
This is -why- the constitution is a "living document"; we're supposed to be able to fix it when a hole like this shows up. We shouldn't have to make difficult reaching arguments about how a surveillance state is a 1st or 4th amendment violation.
What is really confounding to me is that you need this hole to be covered up, because otherwise the government will act against the people's wishes whenever given the loophole to do so. So, the government is an adversary of the people, and this is how it's supposed to work? When the people in charge do something which is clearly against what people want, they should naturally lose power due to a lack of votes. How did you get into this fix?
What the EFF (and others) are arguing -- I think correctly -- is that even though it's not wiretapping, it's still a violation of our rights. Given the recent history of court rulings on 4th Amendment grounds, they probably feel they have a better shot at making this 1st Amendment argument than hoping for the court to agree that capturing phone call and internet message "envelopes" constitutes a search.
The main problem is, I think, that the American population is perfectly fine with this. You have political parties that are staunchly against this kind of abuse, and which would probably abolish them if given the power, but you don't vote for them. The mere fact that you have the term "third party" which covers *all parties but two* and for which a vote is largely considered wasted, should be a red flag that something is very wrong with your democracy.
no so, we all have cell phones (and other mobile devices) and the infrastructure to send messages by SMTP or SMS. there are billions of mobile devices, in fact in 2014 the number of total mobile devices will exceed the number of humans.
It's really too bad that smartphones and apps generally don't recognise "-?([0-8]\d|90|\d)\.\d{1,}, ?-?([0-8]\d|90|\d)\.\d{1,}" as a gps location. Why it isn't a universal copy/paste option in all map and location applications is beyond me. The closest street address is completely useless when you're in the middle of a forest, or even in a park.
I agree that being able to write (or even understand it) is not important, as you'll need a map application on a device which probably has the capability of receiving text. It's easier for everyone involved to do it in a couple of clicks, rather than for the sender to read some words and for the receiver to type those words in. The three-words thing is neat, but it's a solution in search of a problem.
On a side note: what I'm missing in my country, and it really irks me, is an unambiguous way to specify a street address. There is a "Church Street 4" every few tens of kilometers. The UK solved that problem brilliantly with short codes consisting of letters and numbers, kind of a zip code for every single address. It's a problem which most people encounter *every single day*, carrying a very real cost in time and money, and no-one seems to care.
This is why nautical types use Port and Starboard instead of Left and Right for bits of the ship.
No, it's not, that's just tradition. "Right" and "left" works equally well for designating location on a car, a train, or a ship. "Nautical types" use a lot of curious terminology which is not strictly necessary. It is useful for dressing down noobs using it wrongly, though :)
That certainly sounds... different. I'm intrigued :)
They get good ratings on Goodreads. I'll see if I can get hold of them, thanks for the reply!
24 Hours of Lemons? What's that? Is it related to 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Something like that.
Theoretically, even Kings are not above the law in the anglo-saxon tradition.
Generally, they are. A contemporary case in point is Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, who is very fond of speeding ridiculously in racing cars on public roads, but does not risk prosecution.
Klootz? (Obscure SF reference - worth tracking down the book if you've never read it.)
A bit too obscure for both me and my google-fu, I'm afraid. Could you share the author and title, and possibly why it's worth checking out?
[...]generations[...]
I don't really understand your use of that term, do you mean that a shared grandparent == two generations? In that case, ten+ generations would likely include most potential spouses you are likely to meet in a very large area around your community :) But, no matter.
Generally, if your genes regularly get mixed up with a fairly diverse input from the general population, it will not be a problem even though you might have a few common ancestors. After all, that's what have happended through the ages with human and animal populations alike. It's when you regularly interbreed too many people with common ancestors that recessive faults might show up. For examples see the Amish, and European royalty.
For the latter group, the only politically accepted manifestation of inbreeding is hemophilia, but throughout history there are plenty of examples of mental retardation and other debilitating effects likely caused by inbreeding as well. This is easily found if you dig a little. These matters are touchy for contemporary researchers, however, as they necessarily also pertain to most of living royalty in Europe.
[...] not perceptible to humans no matter how strong their imagination.
That is a brilliant turn of phrase, thank you!
Indeed. Phosphor persistence wasn't that persistent. I could see the flicker on CRT displays. I don't notice any flicker on modern backlit displays, though...
My semi-pro IPS panel actually has a very soft visible flicker, but it doesn't annoy me and isn't tiresome to my eyes (I spend *a lot* of my spare time in front of this display...). You can do a very simple test by wagging your arm back and forth with a finger extended at 2-4Hz in front of your display, preferably with a white background. With most CRTs you will see distinct sharp impressions of your finger at the points where the display refreshes. My IPS panel shows very vague impressions, but still noticeable. Note that the flicker mentioned is not based on this test, it is independently noticeable to my eyes without any finger-wagging at all :)
Some people I know who are not heavy computer users complain about flicker even with modern displays, and I have no reason to doubt them. People who spend a lot of time in front of a display, however, usually have no problems. I wonder if flicker is something that your brain gets used to and compensates for, instead of eye fatigue being an objective issue for some people due to differences in physiology. I haven't actually looked up any research, but links are welcome.
Hope so.
He shouldn't really be in prison at all. At first when I saw the story I was sad. But now that I see he'll be only there for a short time I hope he uses the time to take a break from all things internet and chills out.
I heard on Norwegian national radio that, apart from the Logica breach, he hacked into bank servers and actually managed to transfer the equivalent of USD 3300 from a Danish union to himself. I don't believe it warrants two years imprisonment, but it certainly should be a punishable crime.
How about we have 3 boxes on the forms. Male, Female, Other. So simple, problem solved.
The third option for boolean values should, of course, be FileNotFound :)
Joking aside, I'm not convinced that people who've had so severe issues with their gender idendity that they actually changed it would be happy to be "Other".
I'd like a smart rifle, like the one in Vernor Vinge's Bobble series, that lets you designate several targets in the scope, and then, when given the command to fire via trigger pull, actually fires when the barrel is properly aligned to hit the designated target or targets - you mark the targets, then pull the trigger and wave the weapon in their general direction.
Here you go :)