Using WiFi is totally legal and within the other home owners rights.
Completely irrelevant. Laws do not make things right. They only make things wrong.
If wifi would actually harm others, and the user would know it, it’s no different than frying someone’s head with a couple of microwaves on the other side of the wall where his bad stands. (I remember someone going to jail for doing exactly that.) (Some even argue that it’s wrong, even when the user does not know it. But I consider that extremely unfair.)
I agree on on the fact, that the solution is ridicolously easy: Cover your hous in a faraday cage that has smaller holes than the waves you want to protect yourself from. It’s so simple: If you have no reception in the house, you know you are safe. He can prove he gets no reception, and therefore no em fields in his house.
Yes, for EM fields below a certain strength and wavelength, that is pointless since it can not even heaten up the body, much less cause molecule bonds to rupture. But if that gives him peace of mind, and therefor us too, let’s do it.;)
Man, I wish someone would, in a friendly way, actually explain to him, how this all works, how he can prove it, and how he can do proper tests. Then he might himself have a chance of coming up with the truth. Can’t deny what you state yourself. (At least to yourself.)
As some old/. article that i’m to lazy to find right now, stated.
Also, cue the countless counter-arguments to his “allergy” that are just as if not even more retarded. Like “Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.” As if that was relevant.
But I wish he and his friends come here, and you all bash your heads in, until the few reasonable people remain. ^^ Protip: If you do not wonder what the point of (taking) sides in such discussions is, you will not remain.;)
Actually it was based on the comics of 300 (Sin City, 300 [not Sim City 3000! ^^]), who wrote a couple of stories for the Batman franchise, and those were the best it had ever seen.
Because I said how crappy windows is? Want proof: Bloat: Windows 7 uses a minimum of 9 GB of hard disk space, has every component of the system tainted with DRM encryption, and even MS itself recommends the seriously understated 2GB of ram. Nuff said.:) Weak window manager: Try KDE4 and/or CompizFusion. Not the colorful effects. The shortcuts. The comfort functionality. The configurability. The ease of use. Idiot-proofness: How about needing “god mode”, just to get normal access to your settings. How about it telling you you’re too dumb to look into the windows/system* folders? How about all this clippy-like shit? How about the start menu denying you having your own organization? How about the root of the file system being a fake “my computer” with tons of non-existing folders and weird tricks below it? Like the Desktop folder below your home directory being somethow “my computer”? Sorry but you have to be retarded to like that, as it only hinders you from understanding what you need to understand, to use that computer.
Maybe you can be entertained be empty, pointless, useless, shit. I can’t. I prefer art.
Nowadays that means small independent (mostly PC) games, music and videos e.g. from youtube (Kutiman and Scroobius Pip come to mind), and the rare find of a movie at the cinema or a good book.
I’m pretty much separate from the hollywood plastic-fantastic trash and “charts” “music”. Not because I avoid them. Bet because they avoid my lower barrier.
Uuum, since when does action equal good? Action alone is way too primitive and mind-numbing to hold any film alive. Ok, maybe if the mind already is more numb than the action...
Hey, the 60s called! They want their ignorance of mental diseases back!
You are right that we should just let them be kids. But what you forget, is that our food and our environment is seriously extremely fucked up compared to e.g. a 100 years ago. How many kids still eat actual food? Pizza, fries, sodas and fried mars bars are NOT food! How many unhealthy chemicals does a kid come in contact with nowadays?
Add to that actual social problems around them. You know, the stuff that the retards in the 60s repressed, because they thought it would be cool and manly, to first act all cool, and later get all kinds of fucked up behaviors because they never learned to face their problems.
That is the reason for the mental problems. And you add to the problem, by acting like those things weren’t real, when they can easily be measured.
But I completely agree, that meds are the worst possible thing one can do in that situation. Because all meds for mental problems you can get nowadays, are just an automation and assistance in repressing it. They remove the symptoms, so you don’t notice it anymore. Which is like cutting your nerves so you don’t notice that you have your hand on the cooing plate anymore. Totally and utterly retarded. And on top of that they usually are highly addictive, sometimes worse than cocaine. (I’m talking from second hand experience with friends here.) Instead of fixing the real causes, by stop eating crap, and facing your social problems. Hell, most men still think that crying would be weak. Yeah, in front of others it shows weakness. But if you are alone or with someone you trust, it gives you strength! The exact strength that allows you to stay cool and all manly in bad situations in the first place! And most people (especially in the USA) think you are a “treehugging fag“ if you eat what is actually the exact species-appropriate food that your body was built to eat! As if it were cool to intoxicate yourself...
Sorry, but to those who can’t learn that I can only say, to then fully go their way. Because this will only mean that their mindset will die faster.
My other computer is my brain! My other car is my body! And understanding, optimizing and hacking them is a thousand times cooler than doing it with those ridiculously simple machines. Plus: It gets you laid!! ^^ (Women can smell a healthy body. And they can see it. AND they feel attracted to a well-managed mind. And rightfully so!)
As is noted for at least one or two years, you can disable that behavior.
Also 174 MB (I don’t think you meant megabits;) is not that much, if you calculate the size of the actual data, in its *uncompressed* form with a full parse tree. Do some calculations. You’ll be surprised at how big that actually becomes.
I’d like to see some memory map for Firefox anyway. Since when Opera can do it, so should Firefox.;) My guess is, that Opera has something like a offscreen buffer that is in memory for all inactive tabs. So they don’t have to draw anything.
And my main guess is, that the reason for Firefox’s bloat, apart from Flash having more memory leaks than IE has holes, is simple: XUL. Or in other words: Tons of XML files (a format known for excessive bloat), which means tons of parse trees, with parse trees for the attached JavaScript events/triggers, and all that attached to the unnecessarily complex XPCOM interface. Which from a software design standpoint certainly is a very nice thing, becase it’s so platform-independent, and because it’s so flexible. But I fear they went too far, and now it’s caught in the horrible anti-pattern of the inner-platform effect.
So what it needs, is less layers (/ inner platforms), or at least a layer-combining compiler. (XUL+JS to efficient machine code.)
Or to talk more general: We need something generic like HTML, but for application interfaces, that is compilable to machine code. Doesn’t QT/KDE do that already?
I don’t know, but on Gentoo, since you update your software trough the package manager, auto-update of the software itself is disabled. so I get an update, whenever I choose to update whatever I choose to update. And if I want it, I can simply add e.g. “<www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.6” to my/etc/portage/package.mask, and I will never get any further updates, even when I update the whole system.
That’s the one big thing that Windows lacks, that is more important than all of the bloat, the weak window manager, and the annoying idiot-proofness: The lack of a package manager and a repository.
That logic is wrong. An example is pants: The cheap ones last less than half the time of the ones that are twice as expensive. So if you buy the more expensive one, you actually save money. On top of that you save the hassle of driving back and forth, using time and gas.
It’s just like those people who drive 30 miles to save $2 on a product. It’s what happens when you don’t think it trough to the end or don’t think further than til the next morning.
Not saying I’m free from doing that error. But at least I admit that it’s not wise, and try not to do it.:) Which in the long run is an advantage.
Stupid non-argument. Just because every desktop environment for Linux epically failed in transporting the Unix philosophy to the graphical desktop, that does not mean that it is bad. Quite the opposite, since those “monolithic applications, task bar and windows” environments are really crappy to what proper a Unix GUI would have meant.
First imagine a couple of applications. E.g. a word processing app, a drawing app and a address database. Now imagine every function it has, split into its own tiny module. Now put them into two groups: First the property changers, and second the tools/wizards/transformations. The first ones are not real functions. Now imagine a generic properties frame, with all the properties of the current node of the current document in it. And another generic tools frame, with all the real functions in it. Now if you select a tool, the properties dialog will show its properties too, because it is just as much a file. You could also pipe those tools together, to make new tools. And there are cascading property classes, just as the cascading style sheets in CSS. Which can also be baked into these new tools. In fact every command line application can become a tool with its own properties and accepted in and out interfaces, by just writing a small description file for it. Which often could even be partially automated by parsing the man page. (Maybe the future man page format would automatically integrate this information.)
Finally, everything you do in this interface would show in a riseable console on the bottom (or top) of the screen. And you could just mark a couple of lines, and drag it into the tools frame, to create a new tool, to create a (shell) script. Then of course, you could modify that thing, add flow control constructs and parameters, etc. (Like you can in Maya.)
One could even go so far as to have different UIs (views and controllers) to show files (in frames). And different codecs (parsers and writers).
Now tell me that is not much more powerful and nice than what we have now? It would be incredibly easy to extend a application. Even for non-programmers. To grow his own individual environment, fitting his needs. Because that application would be nothing more than a set of tools and property-to-parse-tree mappings. And for those who really just want to use the system, and not become experts, one can create nice downloadable presets and collections of tools. Which means they are not left out on the individualization and can also work efficiently.
P.S.: If this got you motivated to implement such a system, contact me first, since I don’t want us doing double work, and this is only the tip of the iceberg, which means I don’t want you building some half-assed solution.:)
Yeah, and as soon as you stop with the Ritalin (e.g. because your wallet is drained empty), your brain will look like this, because of what is known as “brain-zaps”.
Rules are not global. Laws are not global. And they will never be. Even if I will be the last person on earth, and it’s about life and death. Privacy is a norm in what I define as my social circle. You lose the norm? Then go fuck yourself. And right now we are faaar away from that.
I have a solution: Backend: P2P Darknet Frontend: Facebook-like
Everyone owns his own data. Because it’s either on his computer, or the computer of someone he trusts. (Much like Opera’s Unite) On can use and set-up dedicated search and caching servers. The backend is as secure and privacy-protecting as a darknet. To the user, it’s just a tiny program that you install, or that could even run on a trusted server (with a web-interface). The point is that everyone can set-up such a server in five minutes (OS image for root servers provided, small software provided, and an offer to buy and OWN servers provided.) With import-interfaces for Facebook, MySpace, etc, etc, etc. (But no export interfaces.)
That’s just a rough idea. But the general concept of owning and ultimately controlling your own data in a secure environment, is good, imo.
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Using WiFi is totally legal and within the other home owners rights.
Completely irrelevant. Laws do not make things right. They only make things wrong.
If wifi would actually harm others, and the user would know it, it’s no different than frying someone’s head with a couple of microwaves on the other side of the wall where his bad stands. (I remember someone going to jail for doing exactly that.)
(Some even argue that it’s wrong, even when the user does not know it. But I consider that extremely unfair.)
I agree on on the fact, that the solution is ridicolously easy: Cover your hous in a faraday cage that has smaller holes than the waves you want to protect yourself from.
It’s so simple: If you have no reception in the house, you know you are safe. He can prove he gets no reception, and therefore no em fields in his house.
Yes, for EM fields below a certain strength and wavelength, that is pointless since it can not even heaten up the body, much less cause molecule bonds to rupture. ;)
But if that gives him peace of mind, and therefor us too, let’s do it.
Man, I wish someone would, in a friendly way, actually explain to him, how this all works, how he can prove it, and how he can do proper tests. Then he might himself have a chance of coming up with the truth. Can’t deny what you state yourself. (At least to yourself.)
You have heard of earth’s magnetic shield have you? You intention is good, but your argument is lame.
If you are the lucky one who is right without having to argue, at least don’t fuck it up.
Or the Americans coming in last, when all the real work is already done, but fucking shit up anyway.
As some old /. article that i’m to lazy to find right now, stated.
Also, cue the countless counter-arguments to his “allergy” that are just as if not even more retarded. Like “Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.” As if that was relevant.
But I wish he and his friends come here, and you all bash your heads in, until the few reasonable people remain. ^^ ;)
Protip: If you do not wonder what the point of (taking) sides in such discussions is, you will not remain.
No. Actually it is EPIC TOTAL FAIL! ^^
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.)
And that concludes the end of all my interest in this phone.
Seriously? More ETF? What were they smoking? That goes completely against what the reason was, that anybody hoped for this phone in the first place.
Question: Did you read the terms when you started using it?
Actually it was based on the comics of 300 (Sin City, 300 [not Sim City 3000! ^^]), who wrote a couple of stories for the Batman franchise, and those were the best it had ever seen.
Well, you can clearly see that he is a total Apple fanboi. Else he would have said “MP3 players“, and not iPods.
Huh, how is that a troll?
Because I said how crappy windows is? Want proof: :)
Bloat: Windows 7 uses a minimum of 9 GB of hard disk space, has every component of the system tainted with DRM encryption, and even MS itself recommends the seriously understated 2GB of ram. Nuff said.
Weak window manager: Try KDE4 and/or CompizFusion. Not the colorful effects. The shortcuts. The comfort functionality. The configurability. The ease of use.
Idiot-proofness: How about needing “god mode”, just to get normal access to your settings. How about it telling you you’re too dumb to look into the windows/system* folders? How about all this clippy-like shit? How about the start menu denying you having your own organization? How about the root of the file system being a fake “my computer” with tons of non-existing folders and weird tricks below it? Like the Desktop folder below your home directory being somethow “my computer”? Sorry but you have to be retarded to like that, as it only hinders you from understanding what you need to understand, to use that computer.
Maybe you can be entertained be empty, pointless, useless, shit. I can’t. I prefer art.
Nowadays that means small independent (mostly PC) games, music and videos e.g. from youtube (Kutiman and Scroobius Pip come to mind), and the rare find of a movie at the cinema or a good book.
I’m pretty much separate from the hollywood plastic-fantastic trash and “charts” “music”. Not because I avoid them. Bet because they avoid my lower barrier.
Uuum, since when does action equal good?
Action alone is way too primitive and mind-numbing to hold any film alive.
Ok, maybe if the mind already is more numb than the action...
Hey, the 60s called! They want their ignorance of mental diseases back!
You are right that we should just let them be kids. But what you forget, is that our food and our environment is seriously extremely fucked up compared to e.g. a 100 years ago.
How many kids still eat actual food? Pizza, fries, sodas and fried mars bars are NOT food!
How many unhealthy chemicals does a kid come in contact with nowadays?
Add to that actual social problems around them. You know, the stuff that the retards in the 60s repressed, because they thought it would be cool and manly, to first act all cool, and later get all kinds of fucked up behaviors because they never learned to face their problems.
That is the reason for the mental problems. And you add to the problem, by acting like those things weren’t real, when they can easily be measured.
But I completely agree, that meds are the worst possible thing one can do in that situation. Because all meds for mental problems you can get nowadays, are just an automation and assistance in repressing it. They remove the symptoms, so you don’t notice it anymore. Which is like cutting your nerves so you don’t notice that you have your hand on the cooing plate anymore. Totally and utterly retarded. And on top of that they usually are highly addictive, sometimes worse than cocaine. (I’m talking from second hand experience with friends here.)
Instead of fixing the real causes, by stop eating crap, and facing your social problems. Hell, most men still think that crying would be weak. Yeah, in front of others it shows weakness. But if you are alone or with someone you trust, it gives you strength! The exact strength that allows you to stay cool and all manly in bad situations in the first place!
And most people (especially in the USA) think you are a “treehugging fag“ if you eat what is actually the exact species-appropriate food that your body was built to eat! As if it were cool to intoxicate yourself...
Sorry, but to those who can’t learn that I can only say, to then fully go their way. Because this will only mean that their mindset will die faster.
My other computer is my brain! My other car is my body! And understanding, optimizing and hacking them is a thousand times cooler than doing it with those ridiculously simple machines.
Plus: It gets you laid!! ^^ (Women can smell a healthy body. And they can see it. AND they feel attracted to a well-managed mind. And rightfully so!)
As is noted for at least one or two years, you can disable that behavior.
Also 174 MB (I don’t think you meant megabits ;) is not that much, if you calculate the size of the actual data, in its *uncompressed* form with a full parse tree. Do some calculations. You’ll be surprised at how big that actually becomes.
I’d like to see some memory map for Firefox anyway. Since when Opera can do it, so should Firefox. ;)
My guess is, that Opera has something like a offscreen buffer that is in memory for all inactive tabs. So they don’t have to draw anything.
And my main guess is, that the reason for Firefox’s bloat, apart from Flash having more memory leaks than IE has holes, is simple: XUL. Or in other words: Tons of XML files (a format known for excessive bloat), which means tons of parse trees, with parse trees for the attached JavaScript events/triggers, and all that attached to the unnecessarily complex XPCOM interface.
Which from a software design standpoint certainly is a very nice thing, becase it’s so platform-independent, and because it’s so flexible.
But I fear they went too far, and now it’s caught in the horrible anti-pattern of the inner-platform effect.
So what it needs, is less layers (/ inner platforms), or at least a layer-combining compiler. (XUL+JS to efficient machine code.)
Or to talk more general: We need something generic like HTML, but for application interfaces, that is compilable to machine code. Doesn’t QT/KDE do that already?
I don’t know, but on Gentoo, since you update your software trough the package manager, auto-update of the software itself is disabled. so I get an update, whenever I choose to update whatever I choose to update. And if I want it, I can simply add e.g. “<www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.6” to my /etc/portage/package.mask, and I will never get any further updates, even when I update the whole system.
That’s the one big thing that Windows lacks, that is more important than all of the bloat, the weak window manager, and the annoying idiot-proofness: The lack of a package manager and a repository.
That logic is wrong. An example is pants:
The cheap ones last less than half the time of the ones that are twice as expensive.
So if you buy the more expensive one, you actually save money. On top of that you save the hassle of driving back and forth, using time and gas.
It’s just like those people who drive 30 miles to save $2 on a product. It’s what happens when you don’t think it trough to the end or don’t think further than til the next morning.
Not saying I’m free from doing that error. But at least I admit that it’s not wise, and try not to do it. :)
Which in the long run is an advantage.
Stupid non-argument. Just because every desktop environment for Linux epically failed in transporting the Unix philosophy to the graphical desktop, that does not mean that it is bad. Quite the opposite, since those “monolithic applications, task bar and windows” environments are really crappy to what proper a Unix GUI would have meant.
First imagine a couple of applications. E.g. a word processing app, a drawing app and a address database. Now imagine every function it has, split into its own tiny module. Now put them into two groups: First the property changers, and second the tools/wizards/transformations. The first ones are not real functions.
Now imagine a generic properties frame, with all the properties of the current node of the current document in it.
And another generic tools frame, with all the real functions in it.
Now if you select a tool, the properties dialog will show its properties too, because it is just as much a file.
You could also pipe those tools together, to make new tools.
And there are cascading property classes, just as the cascading style sheets in CSS. Which can also be baked into these new tools.
In fact every command line application can become a tool with its own properties and accepted in and out interfaces, by just writing a small description file for it. Which often could even be partially automated by parsing the man page. (Maybe the future man page format would automatically integrate this information.)
Finally, everything you do in this interface would show in a riseable console on the bottom (or top) of the screen. And you could just mark a couple of lines, and drag it into the tools frame, to create a new tool, to create a (shell) script. Then of course, you could modify that thing, add flow control constructs and parameters, etc. (Like you can in Maya.)
One could even go so far as to have different UIs (views and controllers) to show files (in frames). And different codecs (parsers and writers).
Now tell me that is not much more powerful and nice than what we have now?
It would be incredibly easy to extend a application. Even for non-programmers. To grow his own individual environment, fitting his needs.
Because that application would be nothing more than a set of tools and property-to-parse-tree mappings.
And for those who really just want to use the system, and not become experts, one can create nice downloadable presets and collections of tools. Which means they are not left out on the individualization and can also work efficiently.
P.S.: If this got you motivated to implement such a system, contact me first, since I don’t want us doing double work, and this is only the tip of the iceberg, which means I don’t want you building some half-assed solution. :)
Yeah, and as soon as you stop with the Ritalin (e.g. because your wallet is drained empty), your brain will look like this, because of what is known as “brain-zaps”.
And as a bonus objective, try to prove that anything, except for yourself, exists at all. ^^
So when you put this in water, it creates distilled water?
Good luck keeping the fish and plants alive with that stuff...
Do you buy it anyway?
Because I don’t see it not being sold everywhere, anytime soon.
You don’t have to buy it from China, you know? ;)
But it’s so cheap, right?
When did cheap become equal too good?
I guess by the time that simple became equal to efficient...
But that one is not done to everybody... YET.
I bet showering in it will give you the incredible superpower of ultra-accelerated... MUTATION! ^^
Rules are not global. Laws are not global. And they will never be.
Even if I will be the last person on earth, and it’s about life and death. Privacy is a norm in what I define as my social circle. You lose the norm? Then go fuck yourself.
And right now we are faaar away from that.
Seriously.
I have a solution:
Backend: P2P Darknet
Frontend: Facebook-like
Everyone owns his own data. Because it’s either on his computer, or the computer of someone he trusts. (Much like Opera’s Unite)
On can use and set-up dedicated search and caching servers.
The backend is as secure and privacy-protecting as a darknet.
To the user, it’s just a tiny program that you install, or that could even run on a trusted server (with a web-interface).
The point is that everyone can set-up such a server in five minutes (OS image for root servers provided, small software provided, and an offer to buy and OWN servers provided.)
With import-interfaces for Facebook, MySpace, etc, etc, etc. (But no export interfaces.)
That’s just a rough idea. But the general concept of owning and ultimately controlling your own data in a secure environment, is good, imo.