Actually, there is a safe level of water. There is a certain level of water that is unsafe for you, but that doesn't mean that less is unsafe. Drinking no water, ever, if very unsafe. There is a certain level of water you can drink that can actually increase your health. Same goes for things like salt, and sunlight. 0 radiation is the best amount. Any amount more than that while it may be not be significantly harmful, definitely isn't beneficial to you.
But if a law was passed stating all VOIP services operating in the USA had to have this technology, you might be forced to license the technology, of not offer your services in the United States. You might think they can't do that, but I can't see why not. You would either have to license the patent from MS, develop your own technology for doing the same that didn't infringe on the patent (entirely possible, depending on patent), or just bow out, and not offer your services. I'm sure that there's been other technologies that have been mandated for use by the government but that have had patents against them. Something off the top of my head that might fall under this would be something like airbags, which probably was patented, and is now mandate in all new vehicles, although I'm not sure if the two ever overlapped. Same goes for things like safety helmets. You can't argue that you don't want to pay for proper DOT or SNELL certification so therefore you're allowed to sell your helmets without proper certification. You either get the certification or you don't sell them. (or you label them as not approved, and nobody buys them because they aren't safe).
On the other hand, this is just technology. Technology isn't evil or good. This technlogy has the ability to be used by evil people, but it also has some good uses. The same technology exists for phone lines, but we don't scream "WHERE'S MY PRIVACY?" because there's a proper legal framework of warrants and whatnot to determine who can spy on your phone calls. If you want the same legal protections for VOIP calls, then don't talk to MS. Talk to your congressman (or member of parliament, or the equivalent in your country) to ensure that this technology will not be misused.
Also, what I want to know is how a patent dating back to 2009, before they even thought of buying Skype all of a sudden means they are going to eavesdrop on our Skype calls. Sounds a little alarmist to me. Just because they have the technology to do something, doesn't mean they are going to integrate it into a product.
Python is not a good solution. Especailly if you are worried about syntax sensitivity as your parent poster was. Sure white space is a good thing to organize your code, but the actual execution of your program shouldn't be changed by the lack of whitespace. Python is a pretty good language overall, but forcing beginners to understand that whitespace makes a difference in how something executes is asking for trouble.
They can reach that price point because MS created something called "Windows 7 Starter" which has severe limitations on what you can do with it. To start with, it only runs in 32 bit mode, and only supports 2GB of RAM. It doesn't have Aero, built in DVD decoder license (saves on patent royalties), BitLocker, or Fast User Switching. Check out the comparison chart to see all the stuff it doens't support. Basically it's just the OS, without any of the features that make Windows 7 worth having.
I don't know about that. At my local electronics store (futureshop, bestbuy, i'm in Canada), sure the iPad has the prime spot at the end of the isle, but since all models are basically identical save for storage space, they only need one display model and hence almost no floor space. However there's an entire aisle or two exclusively for netbooks. Probably at least 10 models to choose from, ranging all the way from $230 all the way to $500. If you count the 13 inch and under laptops, there's even a bigger selection.
The person doing the programming is not, and can probably never be doing the equivalent of "digging a ditch". Programming is probably the equivalent of drawing up the plans for a bridge. Sure someone else may tell the programmer the basic requirements, but that still leaves a lot of implementation details for the coder to figure out. You can come up with the best design in the world, but if you task a "ditch digger" level coder at the project, it will still end up a mess.
The problem is that there is no proper definition of "professionals" as far as computer security is concerned. Professional usually means somebody that is licensed by a state overseen organization to work in a specific field. This includes medical doctors, lawyers, engineers (some countries), and accountants among others. I don't believe that there exists any similar oversight for licensing of computer network security personnel. There are a lot of certifications put out by the likes of Cisco, Oracle, MS, and others, but often these certifications don't actually mean that the holder of the certificate really knows all that much. Not only that, it's not like you would lose your certification if it was found that you were actually incompetent, as would happen with other professions. Also worth noting is that some of the most knowledgeable computer security experts hold no kind of certification at all, save for a university degree, and even many don't have that (not saying it's needed). Setting up an accreditation board and getting laws requiring that companies use professionals when designing their systems will probably take decades, if it ever happens, even at the rate that these systems are currently being cracked. Not only that, but there's a big question of who has to employ professionals in the first place. Am I required to hire one if I run a web server in my house. What about if I run a game server for one of those facebook games? What about if I run a simple store, but only use paypal, thereby not getting any credit card information directly. At what level do we require that a network required accredited professionals? Basically the point is, we all know we need this at some level, but defining that level is quite difficult. And for any service that eventually requires accredited professionals, be prepared for the costs to skyrocket, just as has happened in every other industry that requires professionals.
To be fair, Metriod might as well feature a robot. I bet at least 30% of people who, upon buying their first Metroid game, have no idea the lead character is a female.
I think this is the major problem. You are talking about movies that are adaptations of books. They will always be less than the book, because things are cut out, and it's just one person's interpretation. Think about some movies that were never books, and that were written to be movies in the first place, and you'll find some great works.
If you go watch a movie, what you see is what it is, literally. Not a bit more, not a bit less.
I'm not sure that's exactly true. A lot of better movies have quite a bit of stuff going on in them. Sometimes you have to watch them quite a few times to get all the nuances of the film. A good director will leave quite a bit to the imagination of the person watching the film. Sure you don't have to imagine what the people look like, or what the people sound like, or what places look like. That doesn't mean that everything is exactly is as presented in the film. How is reading Romeo and Juliet any different from watching the play, any different from watching a filming of the play any different from watching a complete movie adaptation.
The only fishy thing is that both Rogers and Bell, the two major ISPs are also providers of video on demand services that compete with Netflix. So, while it would seem to be somewhat fair to lower the caps to keep bandwidth usage down, many suspect what they are actually doing is lowing caps to make Netflix's offerings that much less enticing. Notice that Roger's video on demand comes over cable, and such does not count on your internet traffic, and same goes for Bell's Satellite service TV service, where they would rather you pay them for pay-per-view movies.
The thing is, is even with water and electricity, the cost of providing the service doesn't change much from 10% to 50% usage. In my city, they had a huge push to get people to use less water. Well, that made everybody pay so much less for water that they had to double the rates, because they didn't pull in enough money. The cost of operations was basically the same regardless of how much water people actually used. But you are right on one thing. 200 GB or 400 GB is a lot of data in a month. Unless you spend 10 hours a day watching Netflix, or download every new game on Steam, you won't use up that much anyway.
I've been using WebDav on my shared hosting for years. It's much more integrated than anything like dropbox. Sure it doesn't save old versions, but if you really want version control, then use real version control, which your shared host should support as well.
Yes, except they should be taught programming as it applies to them, not game programming. Start off with teaching them how to use Excel and basic functions (sum, avg) and move on to some VB Script. Then move on to Access, and some database design with SQL and VB Script. You could then take the same skills and expand on them as needing, moving outside the office suite, making your own GUI. Just think about how much more productive the office would be if everybody understood a little basic computer programming. People could use these skills at home too.
This strikes me as a catch-22. You can kill yourself if you aren't crazy, but the desire to kill yourself immediately proves you are crazy, thereby denying you the ability to kill yourself.
You gotta love this legal disclaimer they throw in.
Be Safe! Never give personal info. If someone asks for it, email KidsTube Staff right away! The FBI and police can trace who did it because every computer has a unique IP address
Wow, so many things wrong with that. Not only is it technically wrong, it's misleading, and causing people to have more trust in a website like this than they probably should.
I have no problem with software patents so long as they want to divulge full source code as part of the patent, so that we don't have to redo their discovery when the patent expires. It's seems a little odd that they can get a patent, and then not release the source code in order to make the patent useful. There is no reason that the same piece of source code should get patent, copyright, and trade secret protections.
Trust me, the amount of money Blizzard makes from WoW is peanuts compared to the money the banks are making. I feel like there's a Douglas Adams quote that belongs here.
They shoiuld and they can. They can monitor whatever you do at work on their time. If you don't like it, don't check your webmail on your work computer. If you simply must check it during the day, use your cell phone during one of your specified breaks, or using a notebook with a 3G connection, again during your specified breaks. Sure it's inconvenient, but I don't see why you should expect privacy when you are using your work computer.
Is the risk really that big that we need to protect planes so much more than trains, buses, or shopping centers? As long as you secure the cockpit enough that they can't hijack the plane and ram it into a building, there's no reason to worry about somebody blowing up the plane. At least not any more than you worry about them blowing up a bus, or shopping center. Assuming that somebody wanted to cause a lot of damage, and they had acquired either a gun, or an explosive device, why would they bother trying to sneak it on an airplane instead of walking onto a city bus, subway car, or other busy place, and causing mayhem.
And people will be much happier. If all the apps out there are vetted by a single reliable source, than it's much easier to block viruses getting to the machine. That isn't to say a malicious app couldn't slip through, but the amount of damage it could do would be limited, because upon finding the problem, it would promptly be removed from the store, and thereby stopping anyone else from getting it. That gets rid of a huge attack vector. I don't have any hard numbers, but from my experience a large number of viruses come from people downloading stuff from bad sources, and actively running it on their computer. There's a reason that most people love the iPad and iPhone. Bringing that model to a full PC will make a lot of people happy. And, coincidentally, make Steve Jobs very rich.
No, it only requires that you are good enough at securing your server that you aren't worth it for them to hack. Google has to be very good, because there is a lot to gain by hacking their servers. If their servers are hacked millions of account credentials would be lost. If you were hosting your own OpenID server, the only thing lost in a compromise would be your single account. Unless you have some really important information behind that OpenID, most hackers won't spend countless hours trying to break into your server for a single account. Unless your server is vulnerable to some scriptable automatic attack where the attacker doesn't actually have to do anything, then you are probably somewhat safe.
Eventually, the bit coins are going to be worth about the same, only slightly more than the lowest possible energy price for producing them. If you could get 2 cents for every 1 cent in electricity, there would be too many people doing this, eventually the currency gets devalued. It will keep on going down until it's only slightly profitable to produce bit coins. And then, you'll only be able to make money if you do it on a large enough scale. Eventually someone is going to put the entire process into specialized hardware, and even the people left using GPUs for generating bitcoins won't make anything.
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Actually, there is a safe level of water. There is a certain level of water that is unsafe for you, but that doesn't mean that less is unsafe. Drinking no water, ever, if very unsafe. There is a certain level of water you can drink that can actually increase your health. Same goes for things like salt, and sunlight. 0 radiation is the best amount. Any amount more than that while it may be not be significantly harmful, definitely isn't beneficial to you.
I said, "You have a gingerbread man in your ear!".
But if a law was passed stating all VOIP services operating in the USA had to have this technology, you might be forced to license the technology, of not offer your services in the United States. You might think they can't do that, but I can't see why not. You would either have to license the patent from MS, develop your own technology for doing the same that didn't infringe on the patent (entirely possible, depending on patent), or just bow out, and not offer your services. I'm sure that there's been other technologies that have been mandated for use by the government but that have had patents against them. Something off the top of my head that might fall under this would be something like airbags, which probably was patented, and is now mandate in all new vehicles, although I'm not sure if the two ever overlapped. Same goes for things like safety helmets. You can't argue that you don't want to pay for proper DOT or SNELL certification so therefore you're allowed to sell your helmets without proper certification. You either get the certification or you don't sell them. (or you label them as not approved, and nobody buys them because they aren't safe).
On the other hand, this is just technology. Technology isn't evil or good. This technlogy has the ability to be used by evil people, but it also has some good uses. The same technology exists for phone lines, but we don't scream "WHERE'S MY PRIVACY?" because there's a proper legal framework of warrants and whatnot to determine who can spy on your phone calls. If you want the same legal protections for VOIP calls, then don't talk to MS. Talk to your congressman (or member of parliament, or the equivalent in your country) to ensure that this technology will not be misused.
Also, what I want to know is how a patent dating back to 2009, before they even thought of buying Skype all of a sudden means they are going to eavesdrop on our Skype calls. Sounds a little alarmist to me. Just because they have the technology to do something, doesn't mean they are going to integrate it into a product.
Python is not a good solution. Especailly if you are worried about syntax sensitivity as your parent poster was. Sure white space is a good thing to organize your code, but the actual execution of your program shouldn't be changed by the lack of whitespace. Python is a pretty good language overall, but forcing beginners to understand that whitespace makes a difference in how something executes is asking for trouble.
They can reach that price point because MS created something called "Windows 7 Starter" which has severe limitations on what you can do with it. To start with, it only runs in 32 bit mode, and only supports 2GB of RAM. It doesn't have Aero, built in DVD decoder license (saves on patent royalties), BitLocker, or Fast User Switching. Check out the comparison chart to see all the stuff it doens't support. Basically it's just the OS, without any of the features that make Windows 7 worth having.
I don't know about that. At my local electronics store (futureshop, bestbuy, i'm in Canada), sure the iPad has the prime spot at the end of the isle, but since all models are basically identical save for storage space, they only need one display model and hence almost no floor space. However there's an entire aisle or two exclusively for netbooks. Probably at least 10 models to choose from, ranging all the way from $230 all the way to $500. If you count the 13 inch and under laptops, there's even a bigger selection.
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The person doing the programming is not, and can probably never be doing the equivalent of "digging a ditch". Programming is probably the equivalent of drawing up the plans for a bridge. Sure someone else may tell the programmer the basic requirements, but that still leaves a lot of implementation details for the coder to figure out. You can come up with the best design in the world, but if you task a "ditch digger" level coder at the project, it will still end up a mess.
The problem is that there is no proper definition of "professionals" as far as computer security is concerned. Professional usually means somebody that is licensed by a state overseen organization to work in a specific field. This includes medical doctors, lawyers, engineers (some countries), and accountants among others. I don't believe that there exists any similar oversight for licensing of computer network security personnel. There are a lot of certifications put out by the likes of Cisco, Oracle, MS, and others, but often these certifications don't actually mean that the holder of the certificate really knows all that much. Not only that, it's not like you would lose your certification if it was found that you were actually incompetent, as would happen with other professions. Also worth noting is that some of the most knowledgeable computer security experts hold no kind of certification at all, save for a university degree, and even many don't have that (not saying it's needed). Setting up an accreditation board and getting laws requiring that companies use professionals when designing their systems will probably take decades, if it ever happens, even at the rate that these systems are currently being cracked. Not only that, but there's a big question of who has to employ professionals in the first place. Am I required to hire one if I run a web server in my house. What about if I run a game server for one of those facebook games? What about if I run a simple store, but only use paypal, thereby not getting any credit card information directly. At what level do we require that a network required accredited professionals? Basically the point is, we all know we need this at some level, but defining that level is quite difficult. And for any service that eventually requires accredited professionals, be prepared for the costs to skyrocket, just as has happened in every other industry that requires professionals.
To be fair, Metriod might as well feature a robot. I bet at least 30% of people who, upon buying their first Metroid game, have no idea the lead character is a female.
I think this is the major problem. You are talking about movies that are adaptations of books. They will always be less than the book, because things are cut out, and it's just one person's interpretation. Think about some movies that were never books, and that were written to be movies in the first place, and you'll find some great works.
I'm not sure that's exactly true. A lot of better movies have quite a bit of stuff going on in them. Sometimes you have to watch them quite a few times to get all the nuances of the film. A good director will leave quite a bit to the imagination of the person watching the film. Sure you don't have to imagine what the people look like, or what the people sound like, or what places look like. That doesn't mean that everything is exactly is as presented in the film. How is reading Romeo and Juliet any different from watching the play, any different from watching a filming of the play any different from watching a complete movie adaptation.
The only fishy thing is that both Rogers and Bell, the two major ISPs are also providers of video on demand services that compete with Netflix. So, while it would seem to be somewhat fair to lower the caps to keep bandwidth usage down, many suspect what they are actually doing is lowing caps to make Netflix's offerings that much less enticing. Notice that Roger's video on demand comes over cable, and such does not count on your internet traffic, and same goes for Bell's Satellite service TV service, where they would rather you pay them for pay-per-view movies.
The thing is, is even with water and electricity, the cost of providing the service doesn't change much from 10% to 50% usage. In my city, they had a huge push to get people to use less water. Well, that made everybody pay so much less for water that they had to double the rates, because they didn't pull in enough money. The cost of operations was basically the same regardless of how much water people actually used. But you are right on one thing. 200 GB or 400 GB is a lot of data in a month. Unless you spend 10 hours a day watching Netflix, or download every new game on Steam, you won't use up that much anyway.
I've been using WebDav on my shared hosting for years. It's much more integrated than anything like dropbox. Sure it doesn't save old versions, but if you really want version control, then use real version control, which your shared host should support as well.
Yes, except they should be taught programming as it applies to them, not game programming. Start off with teaching them how to use Excel and basic functions (sum, avg) and move on to some VB Script. Then move on to Access, and some database design with SQL and VB Script. You could then take the same skills and expand on them as needing, moving outside the office suite, making your own GUI. Just think about how much more productive the office would be if everybody understood a little basic computer programming. People could use these skills at home too.
This strikes me as a catch-22. You can kill yourself if you aren't crazy, but the desire to kill yourself immediately proves you are crazy, thereby denying you the ability to kill yourself.
Wow, so many things wrong with that. Not only is it technically wrong, it's misleading, and causing people to have more trust in a website like this than they probably should.
I have no problem with software patents so long as they want to divulge full source code as part of the patent, so that we don't have to redo their discovery when the patent expires. It's seems a little odd that they can get a patent, and then not release the source code in order to make the patent useful. There is no reason that the same piece of source code should get patent, copyright, and trade secret protections.
Trust me, the amount of money Blizzard makes from WoW is peanuts compared to the money the banks are making. I feel like there's a Douglas Adams quote that belongs here.
They shoiuld and they can. They can monitor whatever you do at work on their time. If you don't like it, don't check your webmail on your work computer. If you simply must check it during the day, use your cell phone during one of your specified breaks, or using a notebook with a 3G connection, again during your specified breaks. Sure it's inconvenient, but I don't see why you should expect privacy when you are using your work computer.
Is the risk really that big that we need to protect planes so much more than trains, buses, or shopping centers? As long as you secure the cockpit enough that they can't hijack the plane and ram it into a building, there's no reason to worry about somebody blowing up the plane. At least not any more than you worry about them blowing up a bus, or shopping center. Assuming that somebody wanted to cause a lot of damage, and they had acquired either a gun, or an explosive device, why would they bother trying to sneak it on an airplane instead of walking onto a city bus, subway car, or other busy place, and causing mayhem.
And people will be much happier. If all the apps out there are vetted by a single reliable source, than it's much easier to block viruses getting to the machine. That isn't to say a malicious app couldn't slip through, but the amount of damage it could do would be limited, because upon finding the problem, it would promptly be removed from the store, and thereby stopping anyone else from getting it. That gets rid of a huge attack vector. I don't have any hard numbers, but from my experience a large number of viruses come from people downloading stuff from bad sources, and actively running it on their computer. There's a reason that most people love the iPad and iPhone. Bringing that model to a full PC will make a lot of people happy. And, coincidentally, make Steve Jobs very rich.
No, it only requires that you are good enough at securing your server that you aren't worth it for them to hack. Google has to be very good, because there is a lot to gain by hacking their servers. If their servers are hacked millions of account credentials would be lost. If you were hosting your own OpenID server, the only thing lost in a compromise would be your single account. Unless you have some really important information behind that OpenID, most hackers won't spend countless hours trying to break into your server for a single account. Unless your server is vulnerable to some scriptable automatic attack where the attacker doesn't actually have to do anything, then you are probably somewhat safe.
Eventually, the bit coins are going to be worth about the same, only slightly more than the lowest possible energy price for producing them. If you could get 2 cents for every 1 cent in electricity, there would be too many people doing this, eventually the currency gets devalued. It will keep on going down until it's only slightly profitable to produce bit coins. And then, you'll only be able to make money if you do it on a large enough scale. Eventually someone is going to put the entire process into specialized hardware, and even the people left using GPUs for generating bitcoins won't make anything.