There's no way a business can afford a longer warranty period...
Certainly not when they deliberatly build in obsolescence so your forced to throw away/consume more - increase profits vs deplete more natural resources.
That's BS. My iPhone battery has lasted 6 years so far. The battery charge lasts 3 days to a week, depending on my call volume.
Are you maybe loading crApps on it that consume a lot of battery for no reason? Even with a lot of cycles, the iFixit article is pretty crappy in its estimates of charge cycles, in my experience (760+ charges so far). Apples not going to guarantee this level of performance, but my experience is that others get similar numbers.
Rosa Parks didn't flee from the bus when the police came for her; She sat right there and waited.
She didn't have to worry about extraordinary rendition to an extraterritorial prison like Gitmo, where case law has indicated that constitutional guarantees don't apply. He would potentially have to also worry about being killed by the U.S. government outright, as other U.S. citizens have been, for example, in Afghanistan without due process of law: http://rt.com/usa/us-government-drone-killing-660/
When Alabama told Martin Luther King they would arrest him if he marched, he marched anyway, and then got arrested.
And then was assassinated as soon as it was convenient, afterwards.
They probably didn't have intolerant idiots telling them who they could mate with, either.
Taboos against inbreeding are hardly the result of intolerance since inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed. Since recessive genes are rarely expressed they're not exposed to the same selection pressure and tend to be less fit as a result.
So your claim is that by engaging in inbreeding, we are putting evolutionary pressure on the recessive genes, thus removing them from the gene pool, and that this is beneficial?
You are aware that, if you have a single gene for sickle cell anemia, rather than coming down with the disease, you're effectively immune to Malaria, since the blood cells will sickle in the presence of Malaria, but not otherwise, right?
Surely firmware can not be updated/modified without user knowledge, am I wrong?
The article used a virtual machine which required privilege to install, and then called it "firmware modified from user space", but actually it was "firmware modified from user space by first escalating privilege".
If you are willing to escalate privilege, you can pretty much do what you want to any USB devices firmware, assuming it's not in ROM and not hardware fused to make it non-updateable.
The linked article is confused... but Emerson Hall houses the philosophy department, so it was a philosophy final.
Which is incredibly ironic, since those are generally a matter of opinion or history, which means he could likely have passed it in any case, given that he was a psychology major with a minor in Japanese, so it was kind of a pass/fail class for him anyway. I wonder if any of the news organizations have talked to Professor Gary King (Kim was his research assistant).
Always had cats, dogs, horses. Plenty of exposure to everything when i was a little kid. Used to spend my days in the woods and fields with a head full of snot.
Still ended up being severely allergic to a ton of stuff.
I'm pretty sure that in my case, it's the massive variety of pollen in the San Francisco Bay Area; there are tons of imported species, particularly a huge variety of trees with the accompanying tree pollen. There are things I used to be exposed to on a daily basis in Tucson, AZ which did not result in allergic reactions, but about 2 and a half years in the Bay Area, and it's allergy city for me.
According to Wikipedia, Pernicious anemia, which results in a B-12 deficiency, affects 0.1% of the population, which means we have approximately 3.139 million people with it in the U.S.. Ironically, it's brought on by a lack of IF (Intrinsic Factor), which is something you need to not have a B-12 deficiency to produce. It's very easy to fall into this trap by simply having an illness of 2-3 weeks duration.
Rickets, on the other hand, is a 1:200,000 disease in the U.S., so that's only about 1,300 cases annually.
Nice of you to assume everybody in UK have dual US citizenship... get a fuc**ng clue and learn to understand what you read.
Hey, if you are willing to extradite Assange, an Australian citizen, for us enough that he has to hide in a foreign embassy to avoid it, you might as well be Connecticut in terms of whether or not you are a polity subservient to the U.S..
"We are done defining what you ARE, madam; now we are merely haggling over price".
In the United States, Antisemitism overwhelmingly comes from the political left, both the Occupy Wall Street crowd and the victimhood identity politics left that regard Islamists and Palestinians as protected species.
You realize that the "left"/"right" tag on the "Occupy Wall Street" and "Tea Party" people has a lot more to do with keeping them from getting together and forming a single "Throw the Assholes Out" party with some real teeth than it does with them having left/right leaning ideologies on their own, right?
well we can't legalize gay marriage because then we have to legalize marriage to dead people and marriage to dogs
The problem with gay marriage being legal or not is that the state is still involved in any way whatsoever with the institution of marriage. Anything you add on top of that is frosting the turd that is state involvement in ratification of marriage in the first place.
There are historical reasons for state involvement, most having to do with incentivizing population growth to fill empty spaces which are no longer empty, and for providing soldiers for wars which should no longer be fought, and a tiny fraction of which have to do with not understanding Rh blood factors -- this last only applies to child bearing, and has nothing to do with gay marriage as a necessity, but even so, we are not about breeding additional population for soldiers or settlers at this point anyway, so it's irrelevant, even if there weren't easy medical interventions these days.
Your freedom stops, where someone else's nose begins.
Last I checked, looking at tweets was voluntary; perhaps their nose should not have been placed in a known offensive environment in the first place, which would have avoided the problem as well. If I intentionally go looking for red tank tops, I should probably not be surprised when I find red tank tops.
My second choice would be to send all 8,000 workers at the Chennai plant a letter explaining which court was at fault for them losing their paychecks this month by forcing them to be furloughed, and which might be responsible for them losing their jobs permanently.
As if a single Indian civil servant would care.
India is well known for rioters storming courthouses and then lynching people:
That's assuming that, because of local scarcity, the influx of cash doesn't just inflate the cost of everything, leaving everyone in exactly the same place they are today, only unable to afford food next year.
About the best aid we could possibly send to Africa would be to hire a bunch of Academi assassins to take down the corrupt politicians who are causing food aid to rot on the docks while the people the politicians want to oppress starve so that they can't rally sufficient effort to stage a violent overthrow of their corrupt governments.
The solution was that rather than merging the two companies (triggering the giant tax bill), the Indian Development Center was kept as the last remnant of the old multinational and was now considered a "wholly owned subsidiary" of the buying multinational. Apparently the lack of a formal merger of just the portion of the company based out of India negated the tax bill somehow.
Yeah, this is exactly the solution I would have suggested.
My second choice would be to send all 8,000 workers at the Chennai plant a letter explaining which court was at fault for them losing their paychecks this month by forcing them to be furloughed, and which might be responsible for them losing their jobs permanently.
My third choice would be to just close the plant and let them seize the thing, assuming it's tooling is at least 3 years out of date, it's easier to open a new one the same size in another country; I hear Brazil is pretty favorable to people bringing in jobs these days, they just try to screw you on currency conversion if you happen to use a bank.
Two reasons not to publish raw logs like this... (1) Security vulnerabilities in previous versions, unless you guarantee all your customers have updated, and your release notes follow days after a release to give them a chance to avoid being zero-dayed, and (2) Telegraphing new product direction by either the comments themselves, or in such a way that the changes in aggregate allow it to be inferred.
Either of these things will give customers the opportunity to bitch loudly, and even if you have 10,000 customers, 2 of them bitching loudly can lead to weeks of unnecessary meetings.
You have not misrepresented me. Thank you for the succinct comments.
Your organic chemistry example is a good one; I'd class it in there with trigonometric identities and rules of English grammar as things where the patterns must be discerned by the individual (otherwise, the practice of all three would be regular enough to not need exceptions).
The idea that we need to suppress people's critical thinking skills early on because people might question authority figures is something I find positively absurd. People are going to question things either way, and again, if you're teaching by rote, chances are, you screwed up.
I don't understand how refraining from explicitly teaching critical thinking skills as a formal doctrine at an early age, and allowing a child to come up with their own tools for dealing with the world first, equates to suppression. You act as if I were suggesting some Orwellian indoctrination process into a belief in the state.
You don't give children access to power tools when they turn 5.
While we are on the subject - a girl kills your sister and steals her shoes, and a wizard sends the same girl to kill you. Her comrades kill or stop everything you send to stop them. Who is the real evil here?
Probably me, because I would immediately go scorched earth before your first "and" (I happen to believe in the concept of "Total War", and probably get along well with William Tecumseh Sherman). Realize, however, that your argument started with what I'd call an intolerable provocation to war.
I'm not sure this is "stealing" them from their culture. It's equipping them with the ability to make a more rational choice, and I don't think you can really argue against this, regardless of any consideration for the overall effect integrated over population statistics.
I can: it equips them to make a rational choice based on *the information available to them at the time of the choice*. Such a choice based on a lack of critical pieces of information necessary to their understanding of the consequences of the decision is only *situationally rational*, and perhaps not long term rational or correct.
Agreed; experiment is the objective means to determine this.
However, the theory of mind experiment has been conducted many times, and presents a good landmark to use for a reasonable lower bound for such an experiment.
Prior to this, children are unable to reach such an abstraction, and thus will be confused by subject matter that is DESIGNED to cause confusion, and will lack any means of dealing with it.
For an upper bound, I would point to the medical data concerning when a person is statistically likely to have completed the mylenation process, and the body of data concerning the strong correllation between dendrite formation and migration and the curve that corresponds to mylenation. (Note, they are inversely proportional for the most part.)
This suggests that the ideal conditions are in very early childhood, counter to GGP's assertions.
There is an ideal time to teach children that has a real biological basis, yes.
There are also kids *graduating* high school in the U.S. who are lacking in basic skills such as the ability to communicate effectively, or even read above a 3rd grade level.
If we don't take advantage of the window between when they apply critical thinking skills to arrive at such conclusions as "Why learn this crap? I'm never going to use it!" and the earlier point at which they still almost unquestionably integrate information which they conveyed by a teacher because the teacher is an authority figure, we will *continue* to graduate effectively broken human beings unable to effectively function in a society where ditch-digging is largely done by machinery.
We will be continuing to create an perpetual underclass whose only means of survival are either criminal activity, or "the dole", assuming it's available in their area.
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Windows is malare.
no it's not. stop being dramatic. it only makes you look like an idiot.
How exactly is Windows making him look like an idiot?
There's no way a business can afford a longer warranty period...
Certainly not when they deliberatly build in obsolescence so your forced to throw away/consume more - increase profits vs deplete more natural resources.
That's BS. My iPhone battery has lasted 6 years so far. The battery charge lasts 3 days to a week, depending on my call volume.
Are you maybe loading crApps on it that consume a lot of battery for no reason? Even with a lot of cycles, the iFixit article is pretty crappy in its estimates of charge cycles, in my experience (760+ charges so far). Apples not going to guarantee this level of performance, but my experience is that others get similar numbers.
This president will give him 3 hots and a cot.
Rosa Parks didn't flee from the bus when the police came for her; She sat right there and waited.
She didn't have to worry about extraordinary rendition to an extraterritorial prison like Gitmo, where case law has indicated that constitutional guarantees don't apply. He would potentially have to also worry about being killed by the U.S. government outright, as other U.S. citizens have been, for example, in Afghanistan without due process of law: http://rt.com/usa/us-government-drone-killing-660/
When Alabama told Martin Luther King they would arrest him if he marched, he marched anyway, and then got arrested.
And then was assassinated as soon as it was convenient, afterwards.
They probably didn't have intolerant idiots telling them who they could mate with, either.
Taboos against inbreeding are hardly the result of intolerance since inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed. Since recessive genes are rarely expressed they're not exposed to the same selection pressure and tend to be less fit as a result.
So your claim is that by engaging in inbreeding, we are putting evolutionary pressure on the recessive genes, thus removing them from the gene pool, and that this is beneficial?
You are aware that, if you have a single gene for sickle cell anemia, rather than coming down with the disease, you're effectively immune to Malaria, since the blood cells will sickle in the presence of Malaria, but not otherwise, right?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110428123931.htm
Surely firmware can not be updated/modified without user knowledge, am I wrong?
The article used a virtual machine which required privilege to install, and then called it "firmware modified from user space", but actually it was "firmware modified from user space by first escalating privilege".
If you are willing to escalate privilege, you can pretty much do what you want to any USB devices firmware, assuming it's not in ROM and not hardware fused to make it non-updateable.
Another business that can't survive without tax payer money to help keep the costs down on a vehicle that only wealthy folks can afford. Brilliant.
At least this time, we got off for 1/30th of what Solyndra cost us, and we get jobs out of it.
The linked article is confused... but Emerson Hall houses the philosophy department, so it was a philosophy final.
Which is incredibly ironic, since those are generally a matter of opinion or history, which means he could likely have passed it in any case, given that he was a psychology major with a minor in Japanese, so it was kind of a pass/fail class for him anyway. I wonder if any of the news organizations have talked to Professor Gary King (Kim was his research assistant).
Always had cats, dogs, horses. Plenty of exposure to everything when i was a little kid. Used to spend my days in the woods and fields with a head full of snot.
Still ended up being severely allergic to a ton of stuff.
I'm pretty sure that in my case, it's the massive variety of pollen in the San Francisco Bay Area; there are tons of imported species, particularly a huge variety of trees with the accompanying tree pollen. There are things I used to be exposed to on a daily basis in Tucson, AZ which did not result in allergic reactions, but about 2 and a half years in the Bay Area, and it's allergy city for me.
According to Wikipedia, Pernicious anemia, which results in a B-12 deficiency, affects 0.1% of the population, which means we have approximately 3.139 million people with it in the U.S.. Ironically, it's brought on by a lack of IF (Intrinsic Factor), which is something you need to not have a B-12 deficiency to produce. It's very easy to fall into this trap by simply having an illness of 2-3 weeks duration.
Rickets, on the other hand, is a 1:200,000 disease in the U.S., so that's only about 1,300 cases annually.
On the plus side, things are looking up for a resurgence in scurvy, due to fast food diets: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3801222/
Not entirely mutually beneficial... Toxoplasma gondii parasites, anyone?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science/
And once infected, you are twice as likely to get in a car accident, among other negative effects.
Nice of you to assume everybody in UK have dual US citizenship... get a fuc**ng clue and learn to understand what you read.
Hey, if you are willing to extradite Assange, an Australian citizen, for us enough that he has to hide in a foreign embassy to avoid it, you might as well be Connecticut in terms of whether or not you are a polity subservient to the U.S..
"We are done defining what you ARE, madam; now we are merely haggling over price".
In the United States, Antisemitism overwhelmingly comes from the political left, both the Occupy Wall Street crowd and the victimhood identity politics left that regard Islamists and Palestinians as protected species.
You realize that the "left"/"right" tag on the "Occupy Wall Street" and "Tea Party" people has a lot more to do with keeping them from getting together and forming a single "Throw the Assholes Out" party with some real teeth than it does with them having left/right leaning ideologies on their own, right?
well we can't legalize gay marriage because then we have to legalize marriage to dead people and marriage to dogs
The problem with gay marriage being legal or not is that the state is still involved in any way whatsoever with the institution of marriage. Anything you add on top of that is frosting the turd that is state involvement in ratification of marriage in the first place.
There are historical reasons for state involvement, most having to do with incentivizing population growth to fill empty spaces which are no longer empty, and for providing soldiers for wars which should no longer be fought, and a tiny fraction of which have to do with not understanding Rh blood factors -- this last only applies to child bearing, and has nothing to do with gay marriage as a necessity, but even so, we are not about breeding additional population for soldiers or settlers at this point anyway, so it's irrelevant, even if there weren't easy medical interventions these days.
Your freedom stops, where someone else's nose begins.
Last I checked, looking at tweets was voluntary; perhaps their nose should not have been placed in a known offensive environment in the first place, which would have avoided the problem as well. If I intentionally go looking for red tank tops, I should probably not be surprised when I find red tank tops.
My second choice would be to send all 8,000 workers at the Chennai plant a letter explaining which court was at fault for them losing their paychecks this month by forcing them to be furloughed, and which might be responsible for them losing their jobs permanently.
As if a single Indian civil servant would care.
India is well known for rioters storming courthouses and then lynching people:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-18/kolkata/30296226_1_iron-ore-rampaging-mob-gas-shells
http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=11..230813.aug13
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2002-04-16/news/0204160102_1_india-mob-gujarat
So yeah, I think at least the first civil servant dead would probably care.
The FCC is "hearing" fewer complaints... I see what you did there!
"...hire a bunch of Academi assassins to take down the corrupt politicians..."
Maybe we should do a kickstarter?
Giving everyone $2/day:
1.033 billion people * $2/day * 365 days/year = $754 billion
That's assuming that, because of local scarcity, the influx of cash doesn't just inflate the cost of everything, leaving everyone in exactly the same place they are today, only unable to afford food next year.
About the best aid we could possibly send to Africa would be to hire a bunch of Academi assassins to take down the corrupt politicians who are causing food aid to rot on the docks while the people the politicians want to oppress starve so that they can't rally sufficient effort to stage a violent overthrow of their corrupt governments.
The solution was that rather than merging the two companies (triggering the giant tax bill), the Indian Development Center was kept as the last remnant of the old multinational and was now considered a "wholly owned subsidiary" of the buying multinational. Apparently the lack of a formal merger of just the portion of the company based out of India negated the tax bill somehow.
Yeah, this is exactly the solution I would have suggested.
My second choice would be to send all 8,000 workers at the Chennai plant a letter explaining which court was at fault for them losing their paychecks this month by forcing them to be furloughed, and which might be responsible for them losing their jobs permanently.
My third choice would be to just close the plant and let them seize the thing, assuming it's tooling is at least 3 years out of date, it's easier to open a new one the same size in another country; I hear Brazil is pretty favorable to people bringing in jobs these days, they just try to screw you on currency conversion if you happen to use a bank.
Two reasons not to publish raw logs like this... (1) Security vulnerabilities in previous versions, unless you guarantee all your customers have updated, and your release notes follow days after a release to give them a chance to avoid being zero-dayed, and (2) Telegraphing new product direction by either the comments themselves, or in such a way that the changes in aggregate allow it to be inferred.
Either of these things will give customers the opportunity to bitch loudly, and even if you have 10,000 customers, 2 of them bitching loudly can lead to weeks of unnecessary meetings.
You have not misrepresented me. Thank you for the succinct comments.
Your organic chemistry example is a good one; I'd class it in there with trigonometric identities and rules of English grammar as things where the patterns must be discerned by the individual (otherwise, the practice of all three would be regular enough to not need exceptions).
The idea that we need to suppress people's critical thinking skills early on because people might question authority figures is something I find positively absurd. People are going to question things either way, and again, if you're teaching by rote, chances are, you screwed up.
I don't understand how refraining from explicitly teaching critical thinking skills as a formal doctrine at an early age, and allowing a child to come up with their own tools for dealing with the world first, equates to suppression. You act as if I were suggesting some Orwellian indoctrination process into a belief in the state.
You don't give children access to power tools when they turn 5.
While we are on the subject - a girl kills your sister and steals her shoes, and a wizard sends the same girl to kill you. Her comrades kill or stop everything you send to stop them. Who is the real evil here?
Probably me, because I would immediately go scorched earth before your first "and" (I happen to believe in the concept of "Total War", and probably get along well with William Tecumseh Sherman). Realize, however, that your argument started with what I'd call an intolerable provocation to war.
I'm not sure this is "stealing" them from their culture. It's equipping them with the ability to make a more rational choice, and I don't think you can really argue against this, regardless of any consideration for the overall effect integrated over population statistics.
I can: it equips them to make a rational choice based on *the information available to them at the time of the choice*. Such a choice based on a lack of critical pieces of information necessary to their understanding of the consequences of the decision is only *situationally rational*, and perhaps not long term rational or correct.
Agreed; experiment is the objective means to determine this.
However, the theory of mind experiment has been conducted many times, and presents a good landmark to use for a reasonable lower bound for such an experiment.
Prior to this, children are unable to reach such an abstraction, and thus will be confused by subject matter that is DESIGNED to cause confusion, and will lack any means of dealing with it.
For an upper bound, I would point to the medical data concerning when a person is statistically likely to have completed the mylenation process, and the body of data concerning the strong correllation between dendrite formation and migration and the curve that corresponds to mylenation. (Note, they are inversely proportional for the most part.)
This suggests that the ideal conditions are in very early childhood, counter to GGP's assertions.
There is an ideal time to teach children that has a real biological basis, yes.
There are also kids *graduating* high school in the U.S. who are lacking in basic skills such as the ability to communicate effectively, or even read above a 3rd grade level.
If we don't take advantage of the window between when they apply critical thinking skills to arrive at such conclusions as "Why learn this crap? I'm never going to use it!" and the earlier point at which they still almost unquestionably integrate information which they conveyed by a teacher because the teacher is an authority figure, we will *continue* to graduate effectively broken human beings unable to effectively function in a society where ditch-digging is largely done by machinery.
We will be continuing to create an perpetual underclass whose only means of survival are either criminal activity, or "the dole", assuming it's available in their area.