I'm fairly sure enough exposure to X-rays can make you sterile so I can see where they would have their uses for sex.
I can see for some whales how this could be fun if you neglect the radiation damage. But we humans don't have a single bone in our boners, and as said before, there are better methods like vasectomy out there.
I'd rather have a vasectomy if I'd ever want a perfect and durable contraception. IIRC you even can let them lace up the cords instead of severing them, with a certain chance to be reversible. I would have too much fear that other things than sperm production get damaged with that X-rays.
But if they put Jessica Alba lookalikes there, I'd be much more inclined to search her cavities than having it the other way.
So, the only way to go for me is a strict "no-cavity-search" policy. Fingers and more than a normal level of X-rays enter my ass only for medical or sexual reasons (figure out for yourself which of the two can't be used for sex).
Yeah, I know, most common is willingly unprotected sex and sharing of drug tools.
Oh, and just like a computer virus may use OS routines to propagate itself, HIV uses our ejaculation routine. Propagating itself is not meant as doing that entirely on its own. One more example is airborne infection, which usually requires the host to be breathing.
First thought: I would have a special "you are fired" routine integrated into the system, that instantly revokes all access of the fired person. Except when that's me.
To get a little more real here: When computers really learn to talk, you could use one to talk i. e. in your bosses voice to another computer, so authentication via voice only wouldn't make any sense. Also because of the privacy/annoyance matter, I think it much more likely that when we will control computers to a greater part via voice, it will be some kind of sub-vocalization to a device like in the story right under this one. And when the computers were advanced like, HAL, you would not spit out CLI commands like SELECT.
I'd have nothing against a computer being able to parse my spoken language and answer in the same way. But, I'd prefer to have other input methods at hand (some kind of root terminal in case something goes wrong, and stuff like in Minority Report as a replacement for the display/mouse/keyboard to be used normally). At least until we have real AI like those in Iain Banks' or Neal Asher's novels.
One afterthought: when computers reach the cognitive levels needed to be able to talk to humans, how far is this from a real AI?
Same could be said about HIV. You only get the virus through your own actions.
Do you consider getting stabbed by a junkie with an infected needle, or receiving an infected blood conserve (like it happened to a friend of my father) really "your own" actions? Or getting born with it (400,000 kids just in Africa in 2009, source: Wikipedia article about BornHIVFree)?
What is the "Naked Snow Angel Grand Prix"? Google brought up only three results, all pointing to this/. article. duckduckgo didn't find any. Link pls?
Oh, TFA mentions 400 applications, but fails to tell why only 30 of them could go (limited # of starting places, aesthetical reasons, or whatever). It would be some 500 kilometers for me, but this sounds like fun (given a properly heated hut afterwards).
Yep, that's how it often goes when big money buys smaller firm with cooler products. Not that big money's products become cool because of the bought knowledge, more often the products lose their coolness. Just think of Symantec destroying everything the name Peter Norton ever stood for after buying the company. And it's a pity to say that the story's headline makes much more sense when you replace "Google" with Usenet.
btw, what's going on in the Usenet these days? Haven't been there for years now, once in a while I still have attacks of murderous rage against the asshole at M$ who decided to put newsgroups into Outlook Express.:)
I do not see any advertising on youtube, maybe because I put some glory in my browsers (often called AdblockPlus).:)
Every time I have to see the web without a proper ad- and flash-blocking solution (mostly FF with ABP, NoScript and RequestPolicy) , I wonder how people endure that annoying ads (often animated, with sound, and sometimes even more amount than the real content) everywhere all the time. I don't even watch "free" TV (just in case someone doesn't understand: meaning the ad-financed TV stations that do not require subscription, not pay-TV like Sky or gov't financed TV like BBC) because of the increasing annoyancy factor (not only because of that, the content is much too often too worse at the former). You can't even get around the commercials by recording and skipping the ads because they blend in fidgeting stuff all the time, and in the USA it seems to be even worse.
At least they don't cut out so much of the violent scences (which has nothing to do with ads, but is another TV annoyancy here in Germany), it can happen that after a cut two people just miss from the scene without anyone - except those having seen the full movie - knowing why (and that was IIRC Robocop at 20:15 or even later, not some sunday afternoon family movie). In opposite we are not so moronic to believe that the view of a naked breast can do any harm to anyone. Wasn't it Jack Nicholson who once said something about how stupid it is in the USA, that there's not a problem when he smashes an axe into a woman's head, but it is when he passionately kisses the woman (anyone a link for that?)?
OK, running a webserver costs money, (maybe) providing the content will cost, too. But since we left the times of the single, static and silent ad-banner on top of the site (and maybe some little ads on the right and left of the page, which is not restricted to a fixed column-size), the ad companies completely lost me.
Oh, and for you "blocking ads is killing websites"-idiots out there: Exactly how many printed magazines perished in history because people just flick to the next page when they see an ad (which is what most people do)? And how many TV stations got broke because people zapped or went away during commercials? Yes, it's exactly zero!
To say it in other words: "we've already paid for your damn ads, so watch them yourself or go and torment someone else with them!"
I can understand why an individual makes the choice of sacrificing their privacy to the big G. But I cannot understand how anyone with a functional brain can hand over the complete mail and contact information of his business to them. Just think about the way confidential stuff is mailed around in company networks? Would you really like Google or other not-to-be-trusted corps to read up on your latest business prospects or your to-be-filed-tomorrow patent application?
There are some good ways not to host your own mailserver at your location. Most of them don't involve Google or other parties knowing most of everything there is to know about your company.
>That would be great, if the government had not given Comcast/Verizon an exclusive monopoly (or duopoly). Seems you'd better get started with finding a new government. In which country do you reside? Comcast/Verizon smells like USA for my German nose, but the motherland of capitalism wouldn't have gov't issued monopolies.
Concerning your problem: cut their pay until they deliver (unblocking), make them give you static IPs not out of the dial-in pool (will probably cost more). Or better, look for a hosted email service, V-server or co-locate your existing mailservers.
OK, I admit, I have done no actual research. I just remembered reading a product review now and then, and it always was Win only. Must have changed since then.
It is common sense to hassle the victims of US criminals? That's a really distorted view! Common sense tells me that a gov't official should apologize to these poor guys and hand them correct visas, so they can go to a real university.
If I understand that correctly, these guys really wanted to study, but got duped by a fake university, run by americans. They should not be hassled in any way (like with GPS devices) just because they fell victim to american(!) criminals. Apologize to them for that, give them correct visas and send them to a real uni, what's the problem?
As long as you don't get them where it hurts (money) they will not change anything. You should amount some proof that they don't deliver what they get paid for, and reduce your monthly fee according to what bandwidth they really deliver. If they lose money, they suddenly have an interest in forcing BT to upgrade the line.
I don't know how it's in GB (I guess BT is British Telecom), but here in Germany there are some (bigger) ISPs who have more interconnect places than others. Maybe a little research which ISP has the best interconnect in your area can help (if you haven't already done that).
Why don't you switch to an ISP who delivers what he's getting paid for? Or at least reduce the monthly payment to 1/8th, if you can live with that little bandwidth.
I have to post this anonymously for the safety of my job.
Or you could have written "change-resistant people" instead of "assholes".:-)
It wouldn't matter if these idiots weren't way too often in a position where they are able to push their stupidities through, sometimes even when it's against company policy.
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Some asshole deletes an article in Wikipedia (which happens all the time), and instead of simply undeleting the article, TFA is written. WTF?
I'm fairly sure enough exposure to X-rays can make you sterile so I can see where they would have their uses for sex.
I can see for some whales how this could be fun if you neglect the radiation damage. But we humans don't have a single bone in our boners, and as said before, there are better methods like vasectomy out there.
I'd rather have a vasectomy if I'd ever want a perfect and durable contraception. IIRC you even can let them lace up the cords instead of severing them, with a certain chance to be reversible. I would have too much fear that other things than sperm production get damaged with that X-rays.
But if they put Jessica Alba lookalikes there, I'd be much more inclined to search her cavities than having it the other way.
So, the only way to go for me is a strict "no-cavity-search" policy. Fingers and more than a normal level of X-rays enter my ass only for medical or sexual reasons (figure out for yourself which of the two can't be used for sex).
Yeah, I know, most common is willingly unprotected sex and sharing of drug tools.
Oh, and just like a computer virus may use OS routines to propagate itself, HIV uses our ejaculation routine. Propagating itself is not meant as doing that entirely on its own. One more example is airborne infection, which usually requires the host to be breathing.
First thought: I would have a special "you are fired" routine integrated into the system, that instantly revokes all access of the fired person. Except when that's me.
To get a little more real here: When computers really learn to talk, you could use one to talk i. e. in your bosses voice to another computer, so authentication via voice only wouldn't make any sense. Also because of the privacy/annoyance matter, I think it much more likely that when we will control computers to a greater part via voice, it will be some kind of sub-vocalization to a device like in the story right under this one. And when the computers were advanced like, HAL, you would not spit out CLI commands like SELECT.
I'd have nothing against a computer being able to parse my spoken language and answer in the same way. But, I'd prefer to have other input methods at hand (some kind of root terminal in case something goes wrong, and stuff like in Minority Report as a replacement for the display/mouse/keyboard to be used normally). At least until we have real AI like those in Iain Banks' or Neal Asher's novels.
One afterthought: when computers reach the cognitive levels needed to be able to talk to humans, how far is this from a real AI?
Same could be said about HIV. You only get the virus through your own actions.
Do you consider getting stabbed by a junkie with an infected needle, or receiving an infected blood conserve (like it happened to a friend of my father) really "your own" actions? Or getting born with it (400,000 kids just in Africa in 2009, source: Wikipedia article about BornHIVFree)?
What is the "Naked Snow Angel Grand Prix"? Google brought up only three results, all pointing to this /. article. duckduckgo didn't find any. Link pls?
Oh, TFA mentions 400 applications, but fails to tell why only 30 of them could go (limited # of starting places, aesthetical reasons, or whatever). It would be some 500 kilometers for me, but this sounds like fun (given a properly heated hut afterwards).
Is that you, Chris? Or why else are you posting as an AC? :-)
Yep, that's how it often goes when big money buys smaller firm with cooler products. Not that big money's products become cool because of the bought knowledge, more often the products lose their coolness. Just think of Symantec destroying everything the name Peter Norton ever stood for after buying the company. And it's a pity to say that the story's headline makes much more sense when you replace "Google" with Usenet.
btw, what's going on in the Usenet these days? Haven't been there for years now, once in a while I still have attacks of murderous rage against the asshole at M$ who decided to put newsgroups into Outlook Express. :)
https://www.duckduckgo.com/
I do not see any advertising on youtube, maybe because I put some glory in my browsers (often called AdblockPlus). :)
Every time I have to see the web without a proper ad- and flash-blocking solution (mostly FF with ABP, NoScript and RequestPolicy) , I wonder how people endure that annoying ads (often animated, with sound, and sometimes even more amount than the real content) everywhere all the time. I don't even watch "free" TV (just in case someone doesn't understand: meaning the ad-financed TV stations that do not require subscription, not pay-TV like Sky or gov't financed TV like BBC) because of the increasing annoyancy factor (not only because of that, the content is much too often too worse at the former). You can't even get around the commercials by recording and skipping the ads because they blend in fidgeting stuff all the time, and in the USA it seems to be even worse.
At least they don't cut out so much of the violent scences (which has nothing to do with ads, but is another TV annoyancy here in Germany), it can happen that after a cut two people just miss from the scene without anyone - except those having seen the full movie - knowing why (and that was IIRC Robocop at 20:15 or even later, not some sunday afternoon family movie). In opposite we are not so moronic to believe that the view of a naked breast can do any harm to anyone. Wasn't it Jack Nicholson who once said something about how stupid it is in the USA, that there's not a problem when he smashes an axe into a woman's head, but it is when he passionately kisses the woman (anyone a link for that?)?
OK, running a webserver costs money, (maybe) providing the content will cost, too. But since we left the times of the single, static and silent ad-banner on top of the site (and maybe some little ads on the right and left of the page, which is not restricted to a fixed column-size), the ad companies completely lost me.
Oh, and for you "blocking ads is killing websites"-idiots out there: Exactly how many printed magazines perished in history because people just flick to the next page when they see an ad (which is what most people do)? And how many TV stations got broke because people zapped or went away during commercials? Yes, it's exactly zero!
To say it in other words: "we've already paid for your damn ads, so watch them yourself or go and torment someone else with them!"
For a business? No way in hell!
I can understand why an individual makes the choice of sacrificing their privacy to the big G. But I cannot understand how anyone with a functional brain can hand over the complete mail and contact information of his business to them. Just think about the way confidential stuff is mailed around in company networks? Would you really like Google or other not-to-be-trusted corps to read up on your latest business prospects or your to-be-filed-tomorrow patent application?
There are some good ways not to host your own mailserver at your location. Most of them don't involve Google or other parties knowing most of everything there is to know about your company.
>>you need to find a new ISP.
>That would be great, if the government had not given Comcast/Verizon an exclusive monopoly (or duopoly).
Seems you'd better get started with finding a new government. In which country do you reside? Comcast/Verizon smells like USA for my German nose, but the motherland of capitalism wouldn't have gov't issued monopolies.
Concerning your problem: cut their pay until they deliver (unblocking), make them give you static IPs not out of the dial-in pool (will probably cost more). Or better, look for a hosted email service, V-server or co-locate your existing mailservers.
"Official six license police on computer scientist" wouldn't make any sense.
Which would make perfect sense here.
I'm still laughing off my ass about this, it is so unbelievable!
OK, I admit, I have done no actual research. I just remembered reading a product review now and then, and it always was Win only. Must have changed since then.
Maybe the CIA and alike are using more modern torture mechanisms. But what about other parts of the world?
If it had a proper video output, this would make a fine thin client. The USB displays that I know only have drivers for Windows.
So I see the danger of bricking it just by screwing up the network config. :-) Or can you change the internal microSD?
Fine, that means if you screw up the network config, the thing is bricked. :-)
Somehow they forgot to mention which connector is used for video output. Can anyone help out?
It is common sense to hassle the victims of US criminals? That's a really distorted view! Common sense tells me that a gov't official should apologize to these poor guys and hand them correct visas, so they can go to a real university.
If I understand that correctly, these guys really wanted to study, but got duped by a fake university, run by americans. They should not be hassled in any way (like with GPS devices) just because they fell victim to american(!) criminals. Apologize to them for that, give them correct visas and send them to a real uni, what's the problem?
As long as you don't get them where it hurts (money) they will not change anything. You should amount some proof that they don't deliver what they get paid for, and reduce your monthly fee according to what bandwidth they really deliver. If they lose money, they suddenly have an interest in forcing BT to upgrade the line.
I don't know how it's in GB (I guess BT is British Telecom), but here in Germany there are some (bigger) ISPs who have more interconnect places than others. Maybe a little research which ISP has the best interconnect in your area can help (if you haven't already done that).
Why don't you switch to an ISP who delivers what he's getting paid for? Or at least reduce the monthly payment to 1/8th, if you can live with that little bandwidth.
I have to post this anonymously for the safety of my job.
Or you could have written "change-resistant people" instead of "assholes". :-)
It wouldn't matter if these idiots weren't way too often in a position where they are able to push their stupidities through, sometimes even when it's against company policy.