How well would a good set of earplugs or even construction style earmuffs protect against the sound of this. Would be interesting to walk right up.to the cop holding this and see his reaction.
Sounds like you may have real medical condition, that is rare but difficult to live with. What the article (as far as I can tell from the summary, who reads the articles?) is saying is that people who have differing sleep schedules between weekends and weekdays suffer a type of jet lag because it is as if they are trying to switch timezones twice a week, ever week. This plays havoc with your natural rhythm, regardless of what your rhythm is. Rather it's go to sleep at 4 am and wake up at noon, or go to sleep at 10 and wake up at 6.
Actually, there is something you can do about it. Keep the same schedule on the weekends that you do during the week. And ensure you get enough sleep every night. The problem as described in the summary is that people will stay up late and sleep in on the weekends, but will go to be early and get up early on the weekdays. The problem isn't some "biological schedule" it's that your schedule changes between the weekends and the weekdays. Your body can't adjust fast enough.
These people who replaced desktop/laptops/netbooks with the iPad never really wanted a PC in the first place. The only reason they had one originally was because it was pretty much the only way to go on the internet. Most people don't want a general-purpose computer as it is just too complex to understand. They have no desire to program it, futz with the settings, or even change hardware components. I'm convinced that Apple doesn't include an SD card in their iPads because A, the slot looks ugly, and B, having removable media is too complicated for a sizable portion of the target demographic. If you think I'm joking, consider this, my mother was confused when she couldn't load the pictures from her camera to her computer, not understanding that once you take the SD card out, the pictures are no longer in the camera. By getting rid of the mouse, and keyboard, and going touch input, they get rid of a couple of loose cables that could also cause problems. The iPad is exactly what the general population needs. General purpose computers are way too much for them to handle.
But why only for women. There's also a problem with men in most magazines. Most of them look like they spend 16 hours a day in a gym and are probably on steroids. Should we start to legislate how much muscle men pictured in magazines can have. Because if we don't we might have too many young men experimenting with steroids.
You're assuming the shovelware was installed using the standard package manager, and not installed by just copying the files into some arcane directory, plus a bunch of stuff inserted into random start-up scripts to ensure it always runs.Windows is actually nice in this respect because mostly all you have to do is wipe out "c:/program files/shovelware" clean out the registry, and remove any start items my using msconfig. With Linux, it's not uncommon for programs to have files located in many different directories, such as binaries, libraries, configuration files, and various other things.. And even if they did install using the standard package manager, what happens when they made X Server dependant on said shovelware, and the only way the package manager wants to uninstall the shovel ware is to also uninstall the GUI.
I agree with this. Also, most of the other important developer friendly things would be in the hardware, not the software. Many developers are likely to wipe the thing and start over from scratch anyway. Important things for developers are good screen resolution. Standard keyboard layout. this includes ensuring that function keys (F1-F12) always act as function keys, and also that pgup ins and the like are located in an easy to reach place Depending on the developer, you might be better off dropping the numeric pad so that you can fit the pgup/arrow keys in the correct arrangement. Also of importance is plenty of USB ports to hook up additional hardware without a hub, as well as outputs for a couple different kinds of monitors HDMI/DVI and possibly VGA. Developers don't care about what packages are included by default, because they can install whatever they want after the fact. The things they can't change later, like hardware, are the things to focus on.
Perhaps you should be. Not that I really think people should be so worried about this kind of stuff. If the terrorists wanted to cause problems, there's so many other things they could blow up than air planes. Taking a bomb on a passenger train would probably cause just as much, if not more damage than taking one on an airplane.
Longer depends on the number of prints. I can walk into Walmart and get 200 pictures printed in 1 hour. That's 18 seconds per picture. Most home printers cannot print anywhere close to that speed.
Replaced the stock tires with conti gator skins once they wore out. Ran over a crushed beer bottle without getting a flat. Those things rock. Personally, I think it's simpler just to get a new set of wheels. Wheel building, while I've heard is simple, is also quite time consuming, and I'd rather spend that time riding than making wheels.
Yeah, but consider that many people don't have $600 to buy a phone outright, the alternative would be for them to buy the phone on credit, which means they would probably end up paying more, since their credit card charges very high interest. The other option is to buy a $50 dumb phone, and save up for 2 years to get the $600 phone. For many people it's actually quite nice to be able to get a nice smart phone now, and pay only a few hundred dollars more over the course of the 2 year contract. Also, let's not forget, that in Canada where I live, and some other countries, you don't get a discount even if you bring your own phone, and don't sign a contract, so you'd be a sucker for not taking the phone, since the monthly payments will be the same price anyway.
Maybe he got a $100 bike because he never intended to use it every day. Walmart bikes are just fine if you only plan on riding them a few times a year. The mistake that some people make is that they buy one hoping they can ride it daily. Although most people only make that mistake once. I bought a $400 bike, and it lasted me 15000 KM. Never needed a single repair, apart from brake pads/cables and occasional inner tube. Also had to buy new tires once, because the old ones wore right through. This year I bought a $1000 bike, because I know that I'll use it enough that i'll get my money's worth out of it, and also know that this one is worth repairing/upgrading when things start to wear out.
Very much agree. It's pretty much the reason I stopped using Bell in Canada. They did (still do?) use CDMA technology. Which meant that when it came time to buy a new phone, even though I bought the phone outright from them, they charged me a $35 activation fee. If it was GSM, I could have just bought a phone anywhere, swapped out the SIM card and they couldn't say anything about it. Although I personally find that CDMA has better call quality, the fact that the network provider can charge you to switch phones is so ridiculous that I can deal with the difference in call quality.
Very much agree with this. This is why I don't understand why people use the Email Address their ISP gives them. You might want to use a different ISP someday, and then you pretty much have to switch email addresses, which can be very time consuming. Or you can keep paying your old ISP to keep forwarding your mail to some other address, which is equally bad. My first email address was with email.com, then I moved to yahoo. After that I got my own domain name. It's nice knowing that I don't have to worry about changing my address ever again. People seem to like the idea of phone number portability on their cellphones and landlines, but don't seem to think the same is necessary for their email address. Even though most people would have an easier time changing phone numbers than email addresses.
I think it's amazing the amount of time put into social networks by people. You could probably duplicate the entire thing with nice client application that passes messages/pictures/whatever back and forth between other clients using SMTP and POP3. The client would read the messages, and based on their content and decide how they are to be displayed. You wouldn't have the problem of a single central server that holds all the content, and the privacy concerns that raises. You could switch providers easily, especially if you owned the email address connected to the account the messages were being sent to. Everything would already exist, nothing would have to be built except the client programs, and if designed right, it could also send a plain text email with attachments, and those who wanted to read the information over email could do so.
Makes me wonder why Cree hasn't released a light bulb yet. According to wikipedia, they can do 208 lumens per watt. I've seen some flashlights that use them, and they are blindingly bright. Even a couple AA batteries are enough to give more light than a car headlamp. Quite amazing if you've ever seen them.
How did you test? I've used audacity to generate tones on my computer, and I've heard the sound out of my speakers when I play the resulting 20khz wave form. But how do I know my speakers are actually outputting a 20khz waveform? I have no way of verifying that it's actually outputting that tone, and not some lower frequency tone because the speakers can't handle it. I'm pretty sure it's actually a lower tone, because my hearing is generally considered to be bad by me and others who know me.
I could also see how this could get hijacked by 4chan or something else to see how many likes they could get on either ugly or just impractical clothing items. See if they could control what people bought by controlling the like count on a particular item. People are definitely sheep when it comes to what clothing they wear. If they think it's popular and others like it, then they will buy it.
A skilled user could do anything they needed to do without even touching the mouse. If the person leaves their computer unlocked, and the attacker starts using the keyboard to do all the commands, then there'd be no way for the system to lock them out. You could lock out people who don't use the mouse often enough, but that is problematic as well.
Of course, with shared hosting at reputable providers available for $10 a month there's no reason for anybody to be running out of date apache/iis installations. There's no reason to go with the terrible hosting provider at $4 vs. paying $10 for a good one.
Also, although "The Church" makes money from donations, often a lot doesn't go to the individual parishes. A lot of money gets funneled up to the top, and a not insignificant amount (in the better churches) goes to help people in need either in the community, or in missions abroad. Church websites, especially just the ones for you local parish are often just run by people in the parish who have just enough knowledge to get it up and running, but don't have the time or expertise to maintain it, and ensure it is secure. The porn sites have a vested interest in ensuring that their website is malware free, so that people will return (people with viruses on their computer tend to use them less, especially if they are infected to the point of not working). I would also even go so far as to posit that the porn sites they did find with malware had it there intentionally, and were only using porn as a method to lure people to the site. Although I would think that setting up a religious site to do the same would be almost as effective.
The problem with this is that people will forget the password, or it will be really weak so they dont't have trouble remembering it the 3 times a year they need it. I've noticed this a lot where I work. If you don't use a password at least every week, then it's often forgotten, especially when one is in a rush, and needs to log into a system straight away.This is also a problem with passwords that change too often. if you have to change your password every 30 days, then users will often change their password, and then forget it by the next time they have to type it in. I like how windows warns me up to 2 weeks in advance that My password requires changing. When I see this, I start thinking about what my next password will be, and I always change it on a Monday. Much less chance of forgetting it over night than over a weekend.
On the other hand I can see how getting rid of DRM could really create better competition. I bought the first two books from The Hunger Games from Chapters/Indigo for my Kobo. When it came time to get the third book, the price had jumped from about $6 to somewhere around $12. I noticed that Amazon still had the book listed for $6. So I bought the Kindle version, cracked the DRM and moved it to my Kobo (This is legal in Canada as far as I know). I have no problem paying for books, and supporting authors, but there's not reason one retailer should be charging twice as much as another retailer for the exact same book. Most people have no idea how to do this, so when they see an unfair price from one retailer, they can either pay the extra money, or just download a pirated copy (which is more simple than breaking the DRM on a rightfully obtained copy). DRM (in it's current form) is unfair because it locks the user into a specific hardware vendor and a specific book store. If you don't like the price the book store is offering, you don't have the option of shopping around for a better price. This is bad for the consumer, and bad for the retailer. People will be hesitant to jump on the e-book bandwagon because they are unsure if they want to be locked into a particular store. And retailers can't really compete on the price of books, because after you've bought the reader, you don't have much of a choice of where to buy books from.
Yes, but if the state government creates laws that annoy the federal government, then the federal government can also stop feeding income tax money back to the state government. I seem to remember something along the lines of the feds requiring 50 mph speed limits in exchange for federally funded highways. If California legalized drug use, you could bet there would be increased problems for California, which would probably include guarded border crossings into other states.
Really? The constitution requires that they ask for a warrant before asking anybody anything? Because that's really what the problem is here. The telcos don't want have a warrant required to give out your "location information" which as the law as written could be anything as vague as your billing address. The 4th amendment is about search and seizure of your personal effects. I'm not sure if you billing address with your phone company falls under the category of personal papers, but it's also the property of the telcos. Here's the problem. If the cops go to ask your friends (or foes) where to find you, and they willingly give up the information, there's nothing you can do about it. They don't have to have a warrant to ask other people for information about you. You can ask for a warrant before they search your premises, and so can your friends, but if they are invited in, they don't need a warrant.
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How well would a good set of earplugs or even construction style earmuffs protect against the sound of this. Would be interesting to walk right up.to the cop holding this and see his reaction.
Sounds like you may have real medical condition, that is rare but difficult to live with. What the article (as far as I can tell from the summary, who reads the articles?) is saying is that people who have differing sleep schedules between weekends and weekdays suffer a type of jet lag because it is as if they are trying to switch timezones twice a week, ever week. This plays havoc with your natural rhythm, regardless of what your rhythm is. Rather it's go to sleep at 4 am and wake up at noon, or go to sleep at 10 and wake up at 6.
Actually, there is something you can do about it. Keep the same schedule on the weekends that you do during the week. And ensure you get enough sleep every night. The problem as described in the summary is that people will stay up late and sleep in on the weekends, but will go to be early and get up early on the weekdays. The problem isn't some "biological schedule" it's that your schedule changes between the weekends and the weekdays. Your body can't adjust fast enough.
These people who replaced desktop/laptops/netbooks with the iPad never really wanted a PC in the first place. The only reason they had one originally was because it was pretty much the only way to go on the internet. Most people don't want a general-purpose computer as it is just too complex to understand. They have no desire to program it, futz with the settings, or even change hardware components. I'm convinced that Apple doesn't include an SD card in their iPads because A, the slot looks ugly, and B, having removable media is too complicated for a sizable portion of the target demographic. If you think I'm joking, consider this, my mother was confused when she couldn't load the pictures from her camera to her computer, not understanding that once you take the SD card out, the pictures are no longer in the camera. By getting rid of the mouse, and keyboard, and going touch input, they get rid of a couple of loose cables that could also cause problems. The iPad is exactly what the general population needs. General purpose computers are way too much for them to handle.
But why only for women. There's also a problem with men in most magazines. Most of them look like they spend 16 hours a day in a gym and are probably on steroids. Should we start to legislate how much muscle men pictured in magazines can have. Because if we don't we might have too many young men experimenting with steroids.
You're assuming the shovelware was installed using the standard package manager, and not installed by just copying the files into some arcane directory, plus a bunch of stuff inserted into random start-up scripts to ensure it always runs.Windows is actually nice in this respect because mostly all you have to do is wipe out "c:/program files/shovelware" clean out the registry, and remove any start items my using msconfig. With Linux, it's not uncommon for programs to have files located in many different directories, such as binaries, libraries, configuration files, and various other things.. And even if they did install using the standard package manager, what happens when they made X Server dependant on said shovelware, and the only way the package manager wants to uninstall the shovel ware is to also uninstall the GUI.
I agree with this. Also, most of the other important developer friendly things would be in the hardware, not the software. Many developers are likely to wipe the thing and start over from scratch anyway. Important things for developers are good screen resolution. Standard keyboard layout. this includes ensuring that function keys (F1-F12) always act as function keys, and also that pgup ins and the like are located in an easy to reach place Depending on the developer, you might be better off dropping the numeric pad so that you can fit the pgup/arrow keys in the correct arrangement. Also of importance is plenty of USB ports to hook up additional hardware without a hub, as well as outputs for a couple different kinds of monitors HDMI/DVI and possibly VGA. Developers don't care about what packages are included by default, because they can install whatever they want after the fact. The things they can't change later, like hardware, are the things to focus on.
Perhaps you should be. Not that I really think people should be so worried about this kind of stuff. If the terrorists wanted to cause problems, there's so many other things they could blow up than air planes. Taking a bomb on a passenger train would probably cause just as much, if not more damage than taking one on an airplane.
Longer depends on the number of prints. I can walk into Walmart and get 200 pictures printed in 1 hour. That's 18 seconds per picture. Most home printers cannot print anywhere close to that speed.
Replaced the stock tires with conti gator skins once they wore out. Ran over a crushed beer bottle without getting a flat. Those things rock. Personally, I think it's simpler just to get a new set of wheels. Wheel building, while I've heard is simple, is also quite time consuming, and I'd rather spend that time riding than making wheels.
Yeah, but consider that many people don't have $600 to buy a phone outright, the alternative would be for them to buy the phone on credit, which means they would probably end up paying more, since their credit card charges very high interest. The other option is to buy a $50 dumb phone, and save up for 2 years to get the $600 phone. For many people it's actually quite nice to be able to get a nice smart phone now, and pay only a few hundred dollars more over the course of the 2 year contract. Also, let's not forget, that in Canada where I live, and some other countries, you don't get a discount even if you bring your own phone, and don't sign a contract, so you'd be a sucker for not taking the phone, since the monthly payments will be the same price anyway.
Maybe he got a $100 bike because he never intended to use it every day. Walmart bikes are just fine if you only plan on riding them a few times a year. The mistake that some people make is that they buy one hoping they can ride it daily. Although most people only make that mistake once. I bought a $400 bike, and it lasted me 15000 KM. Never needed a single repair, apart from brake pads/cables and occasional inner tube. Also had to buy new tires once, because the old ones wore right through. This year I bought a $1000 bike, because I know that I'll use it enough that i'll get my money's worth out of it, and also know that this one is worth repairing/upgrading when things start to wear out.
Very much agree. It's pretty much the reason I stopped using Bell in Canada. They did (still do?) use CDMA technology. Which meant that when it came time to buy a new phone, even though I bought the phone outright from them, they charged me a $35 activation fee. If it was GSM, I could have just bought a phone anywhere, swapped out the SIM card and they couldn't say anything about it. Although I personally find that CDMA has better call quality, the fact that the network provider can charge you to switch phones is so ridiculous that I can deal with the difference in call quality.
Very much agree with this. This is why I don't understand why people use the Email Address their ISP gives them. You might want to use a different ISP someday, and then you pretty much have to switch email addresses, which can be very time consuming. Or you can keep paying your old ISP to keep forwarding your mail to some other address, which is equally bad. My first email address was with email.com, then I moved to yahoo. After that I got my own domain name. It's nice knowing that I don't have to worry about changing my address ever again. People seem to like the idea of phone number portability on their cellphones and landlines, but don't seem to think the same is necessary for their email address. Even though most people would have an easier time changing phone numbers than email addresses.
I think it's amazing the amount of time put into social networks by people. You could probably duplicate the entire thing with nice client application that passes messages/pictures/whatever back and forth between other clients using SMTP and POP3. The client would read the messages, and based on their content and decide how they are to be displayed. You wouldn't have the problem of a single central server that holds all the content, and the privacy concerns that raises. You could switch providers easily, especially if you owned the email address connected to the account the messages were being sent to. Everything would already exist, nothing would have to be built except the client programs, and if designed right, it could also send a plain text email with attachments, and those who wanted to read the information over email could do so.
Makes me wonder why Cree hasn't released a light bulb yet. According to wikipedia, they can do 208 lumens per watt. I've seen some flashlights that use them, and they are blindingly bright. Even a couple AA batteries are enough to give more light than a car headlamp. Quite amazing if you've ever seen them.
How did you test? I've used audacity to generate tones on my computer, and I've heard the sound out of my speakers when I play the resulting 20khz wave form. But how do I know my speakers are actually outputting a 20khz waveform? I have no way of verifying that it's actually outputting that tone, and not some lower frequency tone because the speakers can't handle it. I'm pretty sure it's actually a lower tone, because my hearing is generally considered to be bad by me and others who know me.
I could also see how this could get hijacked by 4chan or something else to see how many likes they could get on either ugly or just impractical clothing items. See if they could control what people bought by controlling the like count on a particular item. People are definitely sheep when it comes to what clothing they wear. If they think it's popular and others like it, then they will buy it.
I feel like there's a joke in here. Something like...
In Soviet Russia, CCCP plays you.
A skilled user could do anything they needed to do without even touching the mouse. If the person leaves their computer unlocked, and the attacker starts using the keyboard to do all the commands, then there'd be no way for the system to lock them out. You could lock out people who don't use the mouse often enough, but that is problematic as well.
Of course, with shared hosting at reputable providers available for $10 a month there's no reason for anybody to be running out of date apache/iis installations. There's no reason to go with the terrible hosting provider at $4 vs. paying $10 for a good one.
Also, although "The Church" makes money from donations, often a lot doesn't go to the individual parishes. A lot of money gets funneled up to the top, and a not insignificant amount (in the better churches) goes to help people in need either in the community, or in missions abroad. Church websites, especially just the ones for you local parish are often just run by people in the parish who have just enough knowledge to get it up and running, but don't have the time or expertise to maintain it, and ensure it is secure. The porn sites have a vested interest in ensuring that their website is malware free, so that people will return (people with viruses on their computer tend to use them less, especially if they are infected to the point of not working). I would also even go so far as to posit that the porn sites they did find with malware had it there intentionally, and were only using porn as a method to lure people to the site. Although I would think that setting up a religious site to do the same would be almost as effective.
The problem with this is that people will forget the password, or it will be really weak so they dont't have trouble remembering it the 3 times a year they need it. I've noticed this a lot where I work. If you don't use a password at least every week, then it's often forgotten, especially when one is in a rush, and needs to log into a system straight away.This is also a problem with passwords that change too often. if you have to change your password every 30 days, then users will often change their password, and then forget it by the next time they have to type it in. I like how windows warns me up to 2 weeks in advance that My password requires changing. When I see this, I start thinking about what my next password will be, and I always change it on a Monday. Much less chance of forgetting it over night than over a weekend.
On the other hand I can see how getting rid of DRM could really create better competition. I bought the first two books from The Hunger Games from Chapters/Indigo for my Kobo. When it came time to get the third book, the price had jumped from about $6 to somewhere around $12. I noticed that Amazon still had the book listed for $6. So I bought the Kindle version, cracked the DRM and moved it to my Kobo (This is legal in Canada as far as I know). I have no problem paying for books, and supporting authors, but there's not reason one retailer should be charging twice as much as another retailer for the exact same book. Most people have no idea how to do this, so when they see an unfair price from one retailer, they can either pay the extra money, or just download a pirated copy (which is more simple than breaking the DRM on a rightfully obtained copy). DRM (in it's current form) is unfair because it locks the user into a specific hardware vendor and a specific book store. If you don't like the price the book store is offering, you don't have the option of shopping around for a better price. This is bad for the consumer, and bad for the retailer. People will be hesitant to jump on the e-book bandwagon because they are unsure if they want to be locked into a particular store. And retailers can't really compete on the price of books, because after you've bought the reader, you don't have much of a choice of where to buy books from.
Yes, but if the state government creates laws that annoy the federal government, then the federal government can also stop feeding income tax money back to the state government. I seem to remember something along the lines of the feds requiring 50 mph speed limits in exchange for federally funded highways. If California legalized drug use, you could bet there would be increased problems for California, which would probably include guarded border crossings into other states.
Really? The constitution requires that they ask for a warrant before asking anybody anything? Because that's really what the problem is here. The telcos don't want have a warrant required to give out your "location information" which as the law as written could be anything as vague as your billing address. The 4th amendment is about search and seizure of your personal effects. I'm not sure if you billing address with your phone company falls under the category of personal papers, but it's also the property of the telcos. Here's the problem. If the cops go to ask your friends (or foes) where to find you, and they willingly give up the information, there's nothing you can do about it. They don't have to have a warrant to ask other people for information about you. You can ask for a warrant before they search your premises, and so can your friends, but if they are invited in, they don't need a warrant.