how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...
Yeah tell the swedish cartoonist or the Dutch cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who get death threats for drawing political cartoons how they need to be better global citizens.... You cannot appease terrorists.
How about profiling some of those "brown people" coming from countries on the watch list instead of insisting parents remove leg braces from their 4 year-old?
We know which countries the vast majority of the people coming after us are either from or traveling to for training, but we are so damn politically correct we let the real terrorists board planes.
If you can deploy, gather, wring and redeploy in a several hour period (collecting 4,500 gallons each time), it seems like you could soak up a rather significant portion of the 100,000 gallons.
Oh and the worst was Independence Day when they upload a "virus" to what would be a totally unknown operating system. Does Bill Gates do interplanetary deliveries? But no...they HAD to do a twist on War of the Worlds.
What I find slightly alarming is the number of other sites who let you sign in using your FB/Twitter log in, essentially linking THAT site to your FB/Twitter account. Sure, let's just connect ALL the dots for them! And I'm sure a lot of tweens and teens (as well as adults) are doing just that, sending all that nice data for them to build a really BIG profile on you. And no longer anonymously, as most people are using their real name for FB, along with any locational data in the profile.
Part of privacy means we have to think, instead of being sheeple.
It's just not being done by computers (or at least this blatantly). Police use profilers (not the silly versions on the TV) but those who know human psychology on difficult cases. They have more or less luck (I remember when the DC sniper was first predicted to be a lone, white male.) Also some criminals do read up on police procedures and change their MO from the "norm". For example, the idea that most serial killers kill people of their same race. The unpredictability of human nature eventually fouls up the nice conscripts of a program. There's an interesting program that can be used to triangulate crime scenes of known criminal and predict the area he lives in because most criminals will start out close to home in familiar territory. Of course, if someone knew that, they would move to some other area. Fortunately, most criminals aren't very clever.
And what happens when a crime, such as a robbery, is committed: go question the usual suspects. Some of what this program can do may be pretty accurate, but unnecessary. For example, a kid that's been on drugs since twelve, single mother, absentee father, escalation to more violent or frequent crimes--it doesn't take a computer to tell you that kid is going to be in and out of jail his whole life unless he gets gunned down in a gang war or shot by police. Yes, some can be turned around, but it takes a person who realizes they need to change and the desire to make an extreme effort to do so. (I worked for four years in a non-profit, long-term alcohol/drug rehab.)
I don't know that this computer will be able to PREVENT crime as it says...and who can measure success in something that doesn't happen? Long ago, it used to be thought that you could just tell someone was a criminal just by facial features.
Vampires weren't undead monsters. They were innocent people who were victimized, and as a result of the trauma became cruel themselves. This happens a lot in real life, consider rapists who were sexually abused in their past.
Well, technically, they also lost their soul upon becoming a vampire, that might have had something to do with it.
But hey, during Buffy, Whedon made a frickin' MUSICAL episode and made it WORK!
I loved the Avengers...if anyone can take this and both make it fresh and keep it campy...Whedon can! I know of no other H-wood writer/director who's projects I specifically follow with the same intent on seeing whatever they produce.
I disagree with your sentiment. If you publicly embarrass somebody for acting stupidly. They often think twice before acting stupidly again.
Not if this person is suffering from some sort of mental illness, which is possible in this case. What needs to happen is if the person has mental issues, the judge should throw out the case immediately and he should get some help. If he's just an asshole he should pay a fine and any legal fees for a frivolous lawsuit.
What's so stupid about this is there are going to be cell and wifi waves anywhere he goes unless he moves to some 3rd world country. Makes me wonder if he just wants to make the neighbor move.
I'm trying another cloud based protection: Immunet http://www.immunet.com/. This probably one of the best uses I've heard for cloud computing. If a new virus is found, the signature is instantly loaded to the cloud so it can protect everyone else using Immunet immediately. You don't have to download signatures.
You can also run this WITH another checker like AVG.
If they're going to demand that I take pen and paper notes, then I demand the professor actually TEACH the class instead of subbing it to a graduate student while s/he works on his/her pet project.
If you're going to use a picture of my house to place advertisements, then I want to be compensated for the use of my house. Either that or take the photo down. And I'm sure businesses are not going to want a competitor's ad placed in or around a photo of their building!
Maybe that's the problem...they built it with your 5 year-old niece in mind.... OMG Ponies! Form has once again jumped ahead of function.
It wouldn't be so bad IF you could customize the ribbons as you wanted, not as they think they should be grouped. Instead they give you that stupid Quick Access bar and no menu option. We use it at work so I'm stuck with it. I wasted a lot of time the first two weeks trying to find where everything was moved to which tab.
No...it's about getting cheap labor who is stuck to working for your shitty company or else get deported back to the motherland. It's not like once they're here they can up and change jobs. Even with the out of work Americans, they are still clamoring for more visas. Because they know when times get good again, the Americans would give them the finger and go somewhere else. H-1Bs are more like indentured servants. But they do it because they can make more here than back home.
Hey, there is NOTHING lazy about hunting something the size of an African elephant with wooden spears! Especially if they likely traveled in herds. That is serious teamwork and commitment. And it's more likely that, having to eat 300 lbs of veggies a day during the ice age might have done them in!
I never had any problems listed with DirecTV. Of course I didn't cancel early and yes I knew there was a contract when you get these things. It didn't cost that much and the installation was free. I think if I remember correctly the whole thing was free except that you have a two year contract. I never bought their DVR because logic dictates that it's not going to work if you ever cancel the service. Instead I got a DVD-R. This deal is really no different that the deal you get with cell phone companies where they give a free or discounted phone. (Don't have one of those either--I use a pay-as-you-go and bought my phone outright.)
I didn't have a problem canceling. They offered a deal (I expected that), but that was that. I liked the service, but I'm having to cut back, so it had to go. Since I was well beyond the contract term (and I'm sure the equipment is out of date) I didn't have to return the boxes, much less the dish. I haven't received any calls either.
And one thing I can say for them over Comcrap: They keep your original lineup. When Comcast took over Roadrunner on my mom's service, first they moved several of her favorite channels so that she had to get a box at $5 extra a month. Then they took them off without any announcement. We found out that she would have to pay extra to receive those channels! She dropped them and went to DirecTV. When DirecTV discontinued my particular package, they didn't remove any of my channels or make me pay extra.
The only thing I got burned on this way was with an alarm service. We purchase several hundred dollars of alarm equipment, only to find when we eventually canceled the monitoring service, it was shut down and we had no way (short of signing up with another alarm company) of running this ourselves.
And you're forgetting that this story has nothing to do with IQ scores, but the PERCEPTION of one's own intelligence. Being that women started working outside of the home more during WWII, then only recently began to see gains in the workplace regarding promotions and leadership, it really shouldn't be surprising that most people judged their father smarter than their mother and grandfathers smarter than grandmothers. And stay at home moms have not been lauded or really appreciated for years, even by those who claim to support women.
I have noticed recently that younger women in their 20s and early 30s who have more confidence and expectations to get ahead. So lets see where we are 50 years later.
If proved legitimate, these bombshells could spell trouble for the AGW crowd.
If legitimate, it SHOULD cause trouble for the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) crowd! This could lead to the finding that human-caused global warming, climate change, et.al. is not a legitimate scientific study, but as some claim, a fraud perpetrated with the fervor of a religion for greed, power and global control. If you have a group of scientists selling their souls to go along, how will they ever be trusted again to ever view the scientific process with a jaded or dispassionate viewpoint?
First of all tell dad (and the 26 year old, if male) to stay the hell away from the porn sites. (That should make your mom more vigilant if she's in the picture.) Viruses generally come from 3 things: Porn sites, Warez sites and emails from idiot friends who also don't know any better. Make sure they have a firewall and a virus that scans and updates daily. Make sure the virus checker is set to automatically either heal or move the file to quarantine. Make sure the virus checker can't be shut down without a password (which only you know). Just in case family wants to turn it off because it's interrupting their browsing. I'm not sure what OS you have, but there are ways to prevent people from installing any software unless you the admin. They do this all the time in business. That might be the best way to prevent stuff getting on there, although it will annoy the hell out of everyone and they will want you to come over and install stuff every time they get an new program.
Get some type of parent block up for the nine year-old. I would create a separate login for everyone. That will also let you know who the real culprit(s) are!
Once you get the computer up and running make an image of the hard drive. Let them know that you will NOT be trying to non-destructive fix it next time. You'll just re-image it and bye-bye to their files. And stick to it. There's helping family, but I think the problem is more that they know you'll work your ass off to fix things and so any advice you give them will go in one ear and out the other. I can promise you that will happen anyway with the 9 year-old. Even if you do try to explain viruses and not to open attachments, etc., chances are they're not going to remember anything you said after you leave.
I have an 83 year-old mom who surfs the net. Even she doesn't get viruses or malware, not to mention the amount your family's getting. They're going places they don't need to be going. Even with mom, I have to watch. One day she told me she had a Google email account. I asked her why. She didn't know why she needed it--it turns out DirecTV "told her to" (I'm sure what they were actually saying was you could get a free email account if you didn't have one.)
It's tempting to say, "If DirecTV told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it...." But I didn't...she has a cane, after all.
Getting rid of downmods on Slashdot sounds great in theory but it would just result in GNAA posts lingering at 1 (or 2 if the guy doing it has good karma). Which means I'd have to set my threshhold even higher to avoid seeing them, which would bury comments that are actually useful.
First of all the Greater Nashville Apartment Association has a right to their opinion like everyone else.;)
But seriously, in case you haven't noticed there are a lot of legitimate posts buried by moderators who simply can't stand reading something they disagree with. Especially when the topic is political or similarly divisive topic. So that's already going on. Slashdot has never been particularly fair and balanced. Of course, neither is the news media these days.
There's a bit of tongue in cheek there in Steve Dahl's piece, but yes, he's riled because he's getting competition from "amateurs." (To be fair, I'm sure he doesn't consider them actual competition.) He has the opinion, similar to many of his fellow journalists, that they're an exclusive group who somehow has more rights than other people (i.e., "boneheads") to decide and report on what is news or give an opinion. The complaining started when people started building web pages and then, heaven forbid, started to BLOG. Now they tweet and Facebook--OMG!!! Tweeters have even scooped the MSM getting news to their followers from places of government oppression (Iran) or a news story (bombing in Pakistan). That is a good thing. Yes, some mistakes are made, but look at the number of times the media has either been punked or simply printed bad information.
The MSM does not have control of the news anymore and they don't like that. Newspapers are failing because people can go online and get free news from around the world and (heaven forbid) opinions other than what the NYT, Chicago Tribune or LA Times print.
Sorry, the genie isn't going back in the bottle. You'll have to adapt or die like the rest of us. No matter if Murdoch wants to get rid of the "fair use clause" and newspapers want to start charging for online content. That will only make a lot of them fail faster while others will flourish. The days of the good ol' boys (and business) controlling what news is fit to print is going away. And I welcome that.
First of all, I also saw the video. She wasn't joking. Why in the world do these people quote Mao as an example, if they don't believe in what he says. If someone in the Bush admin had said one of his/her favorite 'philosophers' was Hitler, the media would have been ALL over it. Mao killed even more innocent people than Hitler. Mao "fought his war" all right, by killing his political enemies, an well as millions of others if they weren't put in re-education camps. And yet, he is now a "philosopher".
And now I notice that Anita Dunn's been shown the door....
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how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...
Yeah tell the swedish cartoonist or the Dutch cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who get death threats for drawing political cartoons how they need to be better global citizens.... You cannot appease terrorists.
How about profiling some of those "brown people" coming from countries on the watch list instead of insisting parents remove leg braces from their 4 year-old?
We know which countries the vast majority of the people coming after us are either from or traveling to for training, but we are so damn politically correct we let the real terrorists board planes.
If you can deploy, gather, wring and redeploy in a several hour period (collecting 4,500 gallons each time), it seems like you could soak up a rather significant portion of the 100,000 gallons.
No...it's just wash, rinse, reuse! ;)
If it fails, will they take the Twinkie Defense?
Oh and the worst was Independence Day when they upload a "virus" to what would be a totally unknown operating system. Does Bill Gates do interplanetary deliveries? But no...they HAD to do a twist on War of the Worlds.
Matrix Reloaded: Trinity exploits an actual vulnerability to hack into the power station.
What I find slightly alarming is the number of other sites who let you sign in using your FB/Twitter log in, essentially linking THAT site to your FB/Twitter account. Sure, let's just connect ALL the dots for them! And I'm sure a lot of tweens and teens (as well as adults) are doing just that, sending all that nice data for them to build a really BIG profile on you. And no longer anonymously, as most people are using their real name for FB, along with any locational data in the profile.
Part of privacy means we have to think, instead of being sheeple.
It's just not being done by computers (or at least this blatantly). Police use profilers (not the silly versions on the TV) but those who know human psychology on difficult cases. They have more or less luck (I remember when the DC sniper was first predicted to be a lone, white male.) Also some criminals do read up on police procedures and change their MO from the "norm". For example, the idea that most serial killers kill people of their same race. The unpredictability of human nature eventually fouls up the nice conscripts of a program. There's an interesting program that can be used to triangulate crime scenes of known criminal and predict the area he lives in because most criminals will start out close to home in familiar territory. Of course, if someone knew that, they would move to some other area. Fortunately, most criminals aren't very clever.
And what happens when a crime, such as a robbery, is committed: go question the usual suspects. Some of what this program can do may be pretty accurate, but unnecessary. For example, a kid that's been on drugs since twelve, single mother, absentee father, escalation to more violent or frequent crimes--it doesn't take a computer to tell you that kid is going to be in and out of jail his whole life unless he gets gunned down in a gang war or shot by police. Yes, some can be turned around, but it takes a person who realizes they need to change and the desire to make an extreme effort to do so. (I worked for four years in a non-profit, long-term alcohol/drug rehab.)
I don't know that this computer will be able to PREVENT crime as it says...and who can measure success in something that doesn't happen? Long ago, it used to be thought that you could just tell someone was a criminal just by facial features.
Vampires weren't undead monsters. They were innocent people who were victimized, and as a result of the trauma became cruel themselves. This happens a lot in real life, consider rapists who were sexually abused in their past.
Well, technically, they also lost their soul upon becoming a vampire, that might have had something to do with it.
But hey, during Buffy, Whedon made a frickin' MUSICAL episode and made it WORK!
I loved the Avengers...if anyone can take this and both make it fresh and keep it campy...Whedon can! I know of no other H-wood writer/director who's projects I specifically follow with the same intent on seeing whatever they produce.
I disagree with your sentiment. If you publicly embarrass somebody for acting stupidly. They often think twice before acting stupidly again.
Not if this person is suffering from some sort of mental illness, which is possible in this case. What needs to happen is if the person has mental issues, the judge should throw out the case immediately and he should get some help. If he's just an asshole he should pay a fine and any legal fees for a frivolous lawsuit.
What's so stupid about this is there are going to be cell and wifi waves anywhere he goes unless he moves to some 3rd world country. Makes me wonder if he just wants to make the neighbor move.
I'm trying another cloud based protection: Immunet http://www.immunet.com/. This probably one of the best uses I've heard for cloud computing. If a new virus is found, the signature is instantly loaded to the cloud so it can protect everyone else using Immunet immediately. You don't have to download signatures.
You can also run this WITH another checker like AVG.
If they're going to demand that I take pen and paper notes, then I demand the professor actually TEACH the class instead of subbing it to a graduate student while s/he works on his/her pet project.
If you're going to use a picture of my house to place advertisements, then I want to be compensated for the use of my house. Either that or take the photo down. And I'm sure businesses are not going to want a competitor's ad placed in or around a photo of their building!
Maybe that's the problem...they built it with your 5 year-old niece in mind.... OMG Ponies! Form has once again jumped ahead of function.
It wouldn't be so bad IF you could customize the ribbons as you wanted, not as they think they should be grouped. Instead they give you that stupid Quick Access bar and no menu option. We use it at work so I'm stuck with it. I wasted a lot of time the first two weeks trying to find where everything was moved to which tab.
No...it's about getting cheap labor who is stuck to working for your shitty company or else get deported back to the motherland. It's not like once they're here they can up and change jobs. Even with the out of work Americans, they are still clamoring for more visas. Because they know when times get good again, the Americans would give them the finger and go somewhere else. H-1Bs are more like indentured servants. But they do it because they can make more here than back home.
Neither business nor government is altruistic.
Hey, there is NOTHING lazy about hunting something the size of an African elephant with wooden spears! Especially if they likely traveled in herds. That is serious teamwork and commitment. And it's more likely that, having to eat 300 lbs of veggies a day during the ice age might have done them in!
I never had any problems listed with DirecTV. Of course I didn't cancel early and yes I knew there was a contract when you get these things. It didn't cost that much and the installation was free. I think if I remember correctly the whole thing was free except that you have a two year contract. I never bought their DVR because logic dictates that it's not going to work if you ever cancel the service. Instead I got a DVD-R. This deal is really no different that the deal you get with cell phone companies where they give a free or discounted phone. (Don't have one of those either--I use a pay-as-you-go and bought my phone outright.)
I didn't have a problem canceling. They offered a deal (I expected that), but that was that. I liked the service, but I'm having to cut back, so it had to go. Since I was well beyond the contract term (and I'm sure the equipment is out of date) I didn't have to return the boxes, much less the dish. I haven't received any calls either.
And one thing I can say for them over Comcrap: They keep your original lineup. When Comcast took over Roadrunner on my mom's service, first they moved several of her favorite channels so that she had to get a box at $5 extra a month. Then they took them off without any announcement. We found out that she would have to pay extra to receive those channels! She dropped them and went to DirecTV. When DirecTV discontinued my particular package, they didn't remove any of my channels or make me pay extra.
The only thing I got burned on this way was with an alarm service. We purchase several hundred dollars of alarm equipment, only to find when we eventually canceled the monitoring service, it was shut down and we had no way (short of signing up with another alarm company) of running this ourselves.
And you're forgetting that this story has nothing to do with IQ scores, but the PERCEPTION of one's own intelligence. Being that women started working outside of the home more during WWII, then only recently began to see gains in the workplace regarding promotions and leadership, it really shouldn't be surprising that most people judged their father smarter than their mother and grandfathers smarter than grandmothers. And stay at home moms have not been lauded or really appreciated for years, even by those who claim to support women.
I have noticed recently that younger women in their 20s and early 30s who have more confidence and expectations to get ahead. So lets see where we are 50 years later.
You mean man up and post as an anonymous coward like you did?
And tell that punk to get off my lawn!
"I met my wife in a bar, and we discussed physics and religion and still managed to get to a first date"
The fact that is was modded insightful instead of funny proves men aren't so smart...
And furthermore...
If proved legitimate, these bombshells could spell trouble for the AGW crowd.
If legitimate, it SHOULD cause trouble for the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) crowd! This could lead to the finding that human-caused global warming, climate change, et.al. is not a legitimate scientific study, but as some claim, a fraud perpetrated with the fervor of a religion for greed, power and global control. If you have a group of scientists selling their souls to go along, how will they ever be trusted again to ever view the scientific process with a jaded or dispassionate viewpoint?
First of all tell dad (and the 26 year old, if male) to stay the hell away from the porn sites. (That should make your mom more vigilant if she's in the picture.) Viruses generally come from 3 things: Porn sites, Warez sites and emails from idiot friends who also don't know any better. Make sure they have a firewall and a virus that scans and updates daily. Make sure the virus checker is set to automatically either heal or move the file to quarantine. Make sure the virus checker can't be shut down without a password (which only you know). Just in case family wants to turn it off because it's interrupting their browsing. I'm not sure what OS you have, but there are ways to prevent people from installing any software unless you the admin. They do this all the time in business. That might be the best way to prevent stuff getting on there, although it will annoy the hell out of everyone and they will want you to come over and install stuff every time they get an new program.
Get some type of parent block up for the nine year-old. I would create a separate login for everyone. That will also let you know who the real culprit(s) are!
Once you get the computer up and running make an image of the hard drive. Let them know that you will NOT be trying to non-destructive fix it next time. You'll just re-image it and bye-bye to their files. And stick to it. There's helping family, but I think the problem is more that they know you'll work your ass off to fix things and so any advice you give them will go in one ear and out the other. I can promise you that will happen anyway with the 9 year-old. Even if you do try to explain viruses and not to open attachments, etc., chances are they're not going to remember anything you said after you leave.
I have an 83 year-old mom who surfs the net. Even she doesn't get viruses or malware, not to mention the amount your family's getting. They're going places they don't need to be going. Even with mom, I have to watch. One day she told me she had a Google email account. I asked her why. She didn't know why she needed it--it turns out DirecTV "told her to" (I'm sure what they were actually saying was you could get a free email account if you didn't have one.)
It's tempting to say, "If DirecTV told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it...." But I didn't...she has a cane, after all.
Getting rid of downmods on Slashdot sounds great in theory but it would just result in GNAA posts lingering at 1 (or 2 if the guy doing it has good karma). Which means I'd have to set my threshhold even higher to avoid seeing them, which would bury comments that are actually useful.
First of all the Greater Nashville Apartment Association has a right to their opinion like everyone else. ;)
But seriously, in case you haven't noticed there are a lot of legitimate posts buried by moderators who simply can't stand reading something they disagree with. Especially when the topic is political or similarly divisive topic. So that's already going on. Slashdot has never been particularly fair and balanced. Of course, neither is the news media these days.
There's a bit of tongue in cheek there in Steve Dahl's piece, but yes, he's riled because he's getting competition from "amateurs." (To be fair, I'm sure he doesn't consider them actual competition.) He has the opinion, similar to many of his fellow journalists, that they're an exclusive group who somehow has more rights than other people (i.e., "boneheads") to decide and report on what is news or give an opinion. The complaining started when people started building web pages and then, heaven forbid, started to BLOG. Now they tweet and Facebook--OMG!!! Tweeters have even scooped the MSM getting news to their followers from places of government oppression (Iran) or a news story (bombing in Pakistan). That is a good thing. Yes, some mistakes are made, but look at the number of times the media has either been punked or simply printed bad information.
The MSM does not have control of the news anymore and they don't like that. Newspapers are failing because people can go online and get free news from around the world and (heaven forbid) opinions other than what the NYT, Chicago Tribune or LA Times print.
Sorry, the genie isn't going back in the bottle. You'll have to adapt or die like the rest of us. No matter if Murdoch wants to get rid of the "fair use clause" and newspapers want to start charging for online content. That will only make a lot of them fail faster while others will flourish. The days of the good ol' boys (and business) controlling what news is fit to print is going away. And I welcome that.
You mean like "Nazi"?
First of all, I also saw the video. She wasn't joking. Why in the world do these people quote Mao as an example, if they don't believe in what he says. If someone in the Bush admin had said one of his/her favorite 'philosophers' was Hitler, the media would have been ALL over it. Mao killed even more innocent people than Hitler. Mao "fought his war" all right, by killing his political enemies, an well as millions of others if they weren't put in re-education camps. And yet, he is now a "philosopher".
And now I notice that Anita Dunn's been shown the door....