Go blind? You masturbate while you're playing laser tag? More like laser fag! =)
Actually, I was thinking that I can finally get laser eye surgery now, and ditch these glasses. I just need a really fast switch to pulse the laser and a mirror to see what I'm doing and I'm good to go. Plus, I'll be saving like $2000+ dollars.
Let's put aside copyright and the legal aspects. Do you believe that people have a reasonable expectation of being rewarded for work? Do you believe that they should be rewarded for work? For instance, say a farmer plants a field of carrots. All other things being equal (i.e., he's not renting the land, etc.), don't you think he is entitled to all the carrots that he has grown? Doesn't he deserve the fruits of his labor?
If you don't believe this, if you believe that you have the fundamental right to deprive someone of the fruits of their labor, then it really is not going to be much use discussing ethics with you.
more to the point, what is to stop me from "selling" my free versions when the band gets popular? What if I give them away? Er, maybe a sense of morals or ethics?
Besides, instead of saying, "Yeah, I was into that band before the got uncool," you will be able to say, "Yeah, I was into that band before they got expensive." This is going to be a boon for frugal hipsters and poseurs.
I'm not a gun control nut (nor am I a regular gun nut). But the vast majority of deaths by gun are suicides, as you state. The usually pro-gun response is that if someone is going to commit suicide, they'll find a way to do it. However, this overlooks the fact that a gun makes it easy, quick, and irreversible, while other methods might take more effort and more planning, and can be reversed with timely intervention.
I'm not going to quote statistics because there are so many statistics, and they're regularly abused by either the pro or anti control people. The only statistic that really seems to be holding for the moment is that gun deaths have been going down since the late 90s, and that better enforcement is usually given as the reason (but who knows?).
However, a good portion of gun homicides is due to crimes of passion, including domestic violence. So, my half kidding idea of requiring therapy does have some basis in reality.
After suicide, it seems that gang related homicide is the second highest type of death by gun. However, I'd dispute that it's mostly gang members killing each other. In some cases, it's innocent bystanders at a gang-on-gang crime scene, but in just as many instances it is a gang member wrongly identifying and targeting an innocent victim. I'm a regular reader of my city's main newspaper's Murder Blog, so while I don't have solid stats, I'm not just pulling a number out of my ass, but I'd say that at least half of the gang related homicides by firearm are innocent bystander or wrongly targeted innocent victim.
As I said, I don't consider myself to be in either the gun control or the gun freedom camp, so my ideas for dealing with the problem might seem inconsistent at first glance.
1) Most states ban convicted felons from owning a gun. I think this should be expanded to include any crime that shows a propensity for violence. Beat your wife, you gave up your right to own a gun. Perhaps have a ten year wait period before allowing someone with a misdemeanor to own a gun. Perhaps counseling and anger management training could fit in here.
2) Allow more people to carry concealed weapons, but also have a stringent screening process to insure that calm, cool headed, and rational people are allowed to have CCWs. (Anecdote: I've thwarted crime twice by pretending to have a concealed weapon. It's all in the body language and attitude.)
Yeah, I know this sounds very nanny-state, but I think it's actually a good middle ground. There will be some unfairness, but it strikes a good balance between the rights of the individual to own a gun and the rights of the individual to be safe from guns.
Now, your other idea I support wholeheartedly. All drugs should be legalized. Even the very worst of them. It's not like doing this would really make drugs easier to get. I don't see how it could get any easier. What this would do, as you suggest in your comparison to Prohibition, is remove the criminal element. Hell, let the state have the monopoly, for all I care. They can tax the hell out of it, and use part of the money to offer rehab to those that don't kill themselves and education/prevention. The other part can go towards relieving the rest of us of part of our tax burden.
Well, there is a delicious irony when a practitioner of Security Theater starts complaining about Security Theater. Maybe we need a new term, "Security thru Marketing". Buy our product and feel safer than you really are. (cough*cough, Apple (note: I'm a long time Apple Koolaid drinker, and I bask in the warm glow of the RDF.))
Anyway, the most interesting and insightful guy writing about security these days is BruceSchneier. And not only is he insightful, but he once killed a man using only linear cryptanalysis (fact). Remember - if you ever lose your password, you can still ask Bruce Schneier.
Not a big difference to whom? Seems like if you're dead, you're dead and at that point you're beyond caring whether it was due to an act of man or god. Unless you become a ghost. A ghost might care, because a ghost needs some motivation to work off of, if he or she is going to do a proper haunting. You do believe in ghosts, right?
You got it exactly right. History repeats itself again and again. Ethnic group immigrates to U.S. Nativists and bigots get frightened and claim that our culture is threatened. Ethnic group settles in and assimilates by the third generation. Repeat process. One hundred years ago it was East Asians that were the threat. Today it's Muslims (in Europe) and Latinos (in the US).
Reread it and focus more on those. I read it too fast the first time as well, and went "huh?"
But when you think about it, even many of the non-accidents are preventable by common sense and following gun safety rules, i.e., don't shoot someone just because you're mad at them. Perhaps therapy should be part of the NRA gun safety course.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, and if you read the FA, that's sort of what this softgrid seems to be doing, except the mecahanism is it's monitoring every change and operation for later removal instead of just comparing before and after. So, I'm not sure if this is really a stripped down OS as layer so much as it might be like spyware. The spyware angle sort of makes sense, coming from MS (OK, that's sort of biased). I wonder if they developed this when doing research on AV software.
You're much more of an expert on this than I am. I sort of get some of this stuff conceptually, but you actually get your hands into it and get paid for it. So, I'll defer to your judgement.
They don't take special Apple Proprietary RAM. So, you're always better off with the minimum config and buying third party. Also, the 2 GB option Apple offers is a matched set of 512s. What you'd really want anyway is a matched pair of 1 GBs, which you can buy 3rd party for around $200. So know you'd have 3 GB (2 x 512, 2 x 1 GB). (A matched set of 512s should set you back around $130).
However, this is all piker bullshit. You really want RAM, you want to load it up with a matched set of 4 GB sticks for 32 GB of RAM. That'll only set you back $5500, but it's worth it. Firefox screams with 32 GB of RAM.
This isn't going to help much when Apple enters the Sex biz, but there's this $5 utility, Keyclick, that makes typing sounds when you type. I've never used it, but it's interesting.
There's also the Slow Keys setting in the Universal Access pref pane. I just turned it on now for the first time, and it's friggin' annoying. If you try this, be sure to set acceptance delay to short. Yeah, this is really annoying.
Yeah, typing that last paragraph pretty much sucked.
a terrarium of crud with no easy way (short of getting an industrial air compressor up the stairs) of removing the back to clean it out. That really cracked me up. I've been suffering from this problem after moving from a 15" Ti to a 12" Al. I'm a messy eater, I roll my own cigarettes from loose tobacco, I've got pets, and I've got a long bushy beard. On those rare occasions when I have opened up the computer (installed a larger HD about a month ago), it's completely sickening looking at all the crap that gets in there. Or it would be if I was easily sickened. Let's just say embarrassing.
Anyway, sometimes something gets stuck behind one of the keys, and just blowing it out doesn't work. I hate having to shit down my computer, but I don't want to risk it when I need to really give it some whacks on the side to loosen the crumbs.
Yeah, I know. I should get one of those keyboard condoms and wrap it up. It would save me a lot of grief when I eat cous cous.
It could be a tray of cookies for all the guests afterwards. How else do you think they get people to come to these things? Seriously, have you ever seen a shot of the audience at WWDC? You can see it on the faces of all the programmers. They're all waiting for Steve to finish to there will be cake and punch.
I guess since the iMac does not have any typical (VGA/DVI/HDMI) video in it is not really intended to be used that way. Not sure what you mean exactly, but the iMac supports a second monitor for viewing, either mirroring or extending. The monitor can be DVI, VGA, or S-video. HDMI, probably not yet.
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You're not the boss of me. I hate you! I hate you! God, my family sucks.
Oh, sorry. I was channeling a 14 year old emo girl for a minute.
I haven't looked at exchange rates lately. Has the dollar gotten that weak? Ten bucks to the pound?
Go blind? You masturbate while you're playing laser tag? More like laser fag! =)
Actually, I was thinking that I can finally get laser eye surgery now, and ditch these glasses. I just need a really fast switch to pulse the laser and a mirror to see what I'm doing and I'm good to go. Plus, I'll be saving like $2000+ dollars.
Let's put aside copyright and the legal aspects. Do you believe that people have a reasonable expectation of being rewarded for work? Do you believe that they should be rewarded for work? For instance, say a farmer plants a field of carrots. All other things being equal (i.e., he's not renting the land, etc.), don't you think he is entitled to all the carrots that he has grown? Doesn't he deserve the fruits of his labor?
If you don't believe this, if you believe that you have the fundamental right to deprive someone of the fruits of their labor, then it really is not going to be much use discussing ethics with you.
That's just if you want a text editor, or so I am told.
Besides, instead of saying, "Yeah, I was into that band before the got uncool," you will be able to say, "Yeah, I was into that band before they got expensive." This is going to be a boon for frugal hipsters and poseurs.
I'm not a gun control nut (nor am I a regular gun nut). But the vast majority of deaths by gun are suicides, as you state. The usually pro-gun response is that if someone is going to commit suicide, they'll find a way to do it. However, this overlooks the fact that a gun makes it easy, quick, and irreversible, while other methods might take more effort and more planning, and can be reversed with timely intervention.
I'm not going to quote statistics because there are so many statistics, and they're regularly abused by either the pro or anti control people. The only statistic that really seems to be holding for the moment is that gun deaths have been going down since the late 90s, and that better enforcement is usually given as the reason (but who knows?).
However, a good portion of gun homicides is due to crimes of passion, including domestic violence. So, my half kidding idea of requiring therapy does have some basis in reality.
After suicide, it seems that gang related homicide is the second highest type of death by gun. However, I'd dispute that it's mostly gang members killing each other. In some cases, it's innocent bystanders at a gang-on-gang crime scene, but in just as many instances it is a gang member wrongly identifying and targeting an innocent victim. I'm a regular reader of my city's main newspaper's Murder Blog, so while I don't have solid stats, I'm not just pulling a number out of my ass, but I'd say that at least half of the gang related homicides by firearm are innocent bystander or wrongly targeted innocent victim.
As I said, I don't consider myself to be in either the gun control or the gun freedom camp, so my ideas for dealing with the problem might seem inconsistent at first glance.
1) Most states ban convicted felons from owning a gun. I think this should be expanded to include any crime that shows a propensity for violence. Beat your wife, you gave up your right to own a gun. Perhaps have a ten year wait period before allowing someone with a misdemeanor to own a gun. Perhaps counseling and anger management training could fit in here.
2) Allow more people to carry concealed weapons, but also have a stringent screening process to insure that calm, cool headed, and rational people are allowed to have CCWs. (Anecdote: I've thwarted crime twice by pretending to have a concealed weapon. It's all in the body language and attitude.)
Yeah, I know this sounds very nanny-state, but I think it's actually a good middle ground. There will be some unfairness, but it strikes a good balance between the rights of the individual to own a gun and the rights of the individual to be safe from guns.
Now, your other idea I support wholeheartedly. All drugs should be legalized. Even the very worst of them. It's not like doing this would really make drugs easier to get. I don't see how it could get any easier. What this would do, as you suggest in your comparison to Prohibition, is remove the criminal element. Hell, let the state have the monopoly, for all I care. They can tax the hell out of it, and use part of the money to offer rehab to those that don't kill themselves and education/prevention. The other part can go towards relieving the rest of us of part of our tax burden.
Only in Fundamentalist Soviet Russia. What a country!
Well, there is a delicious irony when a practitioner of Security Theater starts complaining about Security Theater. Maybe we need a new term, "Security thru Marketing". Buy our product and feel safer than you really are. (cough*cough, Apple (note: I'm a long time Apple Koolaid drinker, and I bask in the warm glow of the RDF.))
Anyway, the most interesting and insightful guy writing about security these days is Bruce Schneier. And not only is he insightful, but he once killed a man using only linear cryptanalysis (fact). Remember - if you ever lose your password, you can still ask Bruce Schneier.
Not a big difference to whom? Seems like if you're dead, you're dead and at that point you're beyond caring whether it was due to an act of man or god. Unless you become a ghost. A ghost might care, because a ghost needs some motivation to work off of, if he or she is going to do a proper haunting. You do believe in ghosts, right?
You got it exactly right. History repeats itself again and again. Ethnic group immigrates to U.S. Nativists and bigots get frightened and claim that our culture is threatened. Ethnic group settles in and assimilates by the third generation. Repeat process. One hundred years ago it was East Asians that were the threat. Today it's Muslims (in Europe) and Latinos (in the US).
Reread it and focus more on those. I read it too fast the first time as well, and went "huh?"
But when you think about it, even many of the non-accidents are preventable by common sense and following gun safety rules, i.e., don't shoot someone just because you're mad at them. Perhaps therapy should be part of the NRA gun safety course.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, and if you read the FA, that's sort of what this softgrid seems to be doing, except the mecahanism is it's monitoring every change and operation for later removal instead of just comparing before and after. So, I'm not sure if this is really a stripped down OS as layer so much as it might be like spyware. The spyware angle sort of makes sense, coming from MS (OK, that's sort of biased). I wonder if they developed this when doing research on AV software.
You're much more of an expert on this than I am. I sort of get some of this stuff conceptually, but you actually get your hands into it and get paid for it. So, I'll defer to your judgement.
They don't take special Apple Proprietary RAM. So, you're always better off with the minimum config and buying third party. Also, the 2 GB option Apple offers is a matched set of 512s. What you'd really want anyway is a matched pair of 1 GBs, which you can buy 3rd party for around $200. So know you'd have 3 GB (2 x 512, 2 x 1 GB). (A matched set of 512s should set you back around $130).
However, this is all piker bullshit. You really want RAM, you want to load it up with a matched set of 4 GB sticks for 32 GB of RAM. That'll only set you back $5500, but it's worth it. Firefox screams with 32 GB of RAM.
Apparently, John Madden's and Emeril Lagasse's lawyers were breathing down his neck for his unauthorized use of their trademarked interjections.
I've heard that too. In fact, I've heard it called emacs for smart people.
Freudian Slip? You can probably guess why I consider wireless to be such a great thing.
This isn't going to help much when Apple enters the Sex biz, but there's this $5 utility, Keyclick, that makes typing sounds when you type. I've never used it, but it's interesting.
There's also the Slow Keys setting in the Universal Access pref pane. I just turned it on now for the first time, and it's friggin' annoying. If you try this, be sure to set acceptance delay to short. Yeah, this is really annoying.
Yeah, typing that last paragraph pretty much sucked.
There was also a drop in keyboard replacement for the Ti books that was just like a touch sensitive pad. There was a keyboard printed on it I think. Oh, here it is. The TouchStream MacNTouch. Never used one, but it seems interesting because of some of the other input possibilities (chording, gestures, etc.).
Ah, well. You were making a joke and I got all esoteric on you. Sorry. =)
Also, let's hope that tast is a misspelling of taste, and not some obscure medical name for a sexual organ.
Anyway, sometimes something gets stuck behind one of the keys, and just blowing it out doesn't work. I hate having to shit down my computer, but I don't want to risk it when I need to really give it some whacks on the side to loosen the crumbs.
Yeah, I know. I should get one of those keyboard condoms and wrap it up. It would save me a lot of grief when I eat cous cous.
I dunno. Lick the button?
Screw that! I'm still using Lynx, so it better be backward compatible with Web 0.2!
It could be a tray of cookies for all the guests afterwards. How else do you think they get people to come to these things? Seriously, have you ever seen a shot of the audience at WWDC? You can see it on the faces of all the programmers. They're all waiting for Steve to finish to there will be cake and punch.
Oh, great. I can see it now.
Thou shall covet they neighbors iPhone.