I didn't critique religion. I said some people's ability to take in and analyze data is circumvented by exploiting a vulnerability in the brain where information introduced at an early age is often assumed to be true regardless of later data.
Now, some religions may regularly exploit this vulnerability, but it's a comment on that particular practice, not religion as a whole.
Your brain has been hacked since birth. It's called "Marketing". Tons and tons of exploits in the wild, including appeals to Emotion, Manipulation of Statistics, Lying to the Gullible, Threats Against Afterlife, Us or Them, etc, etc. Unfortunately, although a security suite is supposed to be installed during adolescence, too many are ineffective copies of Public Education or have installation prevented by previous installations of Sunday School and Parental Brainwashing.
Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.
Spoken like someone who has either never had sex with not-so-attractive women (you're missing out!) or not had sex with extremely attractive women (you're missing out!) or someone who has not had sex with women (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
I'd noticed I seem to not be nearly as good at Call of Duty recently, but just assumed I'd had one too many beers. Didn't realize my 10-50ms processing lag Dell 3008WFP was the cause of my suckiness. That would have been handy info before buying that monstrosity!
(Yes, in retrospect, I started sucking when I got the new monitor and started playing Call of Duty 5 at the same time - just chalked it up to not doing as well with the new game.)
I bought it because it is simply the best $25,000 car you can get (at least according to my needs). Integrated bluetooth, love not having to take my keys out of my pocket to get in and out, drives well, flexible interior, seats 4 comfortably, interior well laid out, etc, etc. I did almost buy an SUV for more carrying space, but to get the tech I wanted I would have had to spend another $12,000, and that just didn't make financial sense.
Even if Prius's had half the gas mileage, they would still be competitive cars. The gas mileage just makes them even better.
I submit if you have to cheat to write a bubble sort you need to find a different major.
I submit that if you have 'write bubble sort' as an assignment, you need to find a different university.
Bubble sort code it the kind of thing you can look up. A real assignment would be "Write a program that pulls data from this text file, allows for the selection of various sort methods, and writes the sorted data out to another text file, using a bubble sort."
The big casino folks pay a lot of money to make sure an online alternative to gambling in casinos is not created. They don't care about Poker so much, but they care very much that if poker is legal, it's only a short hop to online blackjack being legal.
You're exactly right, your privacy is none of my business. So don't expect me to take care of your privacy!
If a surfer visits your site, they have a certain expectation of viewing your content.
Indeed. And they will get the content.
Now you've decided to share that two-way communication with a hidden third party,
I did no such thing. I placed a link in my page to the third party. Your web browser, running on your computer, executed the link to the 3rd party and provided the data.
who offers you a service (so far so good) in exchange for access to the visitors (that's the problem). Your visitors have not entered into any relationship with the third party, and are not getting any service from them. So why are you letting them get milked?
I'm asking them to provide their information to the 3rd party so that I can acquire valuable information (i.e., some idea who is using my website, and in what manner they are using it.) Whether they actually provide their information is entirely up to them and their web client.
Hrm, strange. You would think your server would both be able to read and log the Referer request header.
It would, if the client is kind enough to send it, which it may not be. But if a web bug exists on the referring and target pages, that data is obtained regardless of whether the client sends it.
Regardless, you can only count on your server logs to present you accurate data if it's server-generated data. Number of hits in a given time-frame from a particular IP, yes. Website referrals? No.
I have Google Analytics on my websites. It gives me lots of useful information about my users in a format that is easy to understand. But, about the only thing it tells me that I couldn't discern from the server logs is where people link in from.
Now, this does mean that Google gets a record of when an IP address visited my server and what page they looked at. Is this an invasion of privacy? I don't think so. What's the worst that is going to happen? Google sells my browsing habits so that companies I already have a business relationship with send me targeted advertising? OH NO!
What we need is legal limits on what can be done with collected information. We already have some - companies can't email me out of the blue unless we have an established relationship. We could perhaps use some additional protection in terms of public release of possibly not-entirely-flattering personal information.
But beyond that, who cares? Privacy isn't, by itself, important. What we care about is negative consequences of our privacy being invaded. I don't want my friends to know about my Enzyte purchases, for example, but if I cancel my Enztye order and place a Capatrex order, what's the big deal if Enzyte sends me an email with a special offer to double my order for the same price?**
(Note: I would never actually use either Enzyte or Capatrex... when I could use both!)
Anyway, if it really bothers you, it's not like anoyne is actually sharing your information with 3rd parties anyway. Those web bugs don't get their information from the websites you visit, they get that information from you - it's YOUR browser on YOUR computer that sends the request to Google Analytics et al. If you don't want your browser to do that, block the sites.
I really wish people would stop falling for marketing hype. EVE runs on shards like every other MMORPG; the difference is that you can move from shard to shard. That's what happens every time you jump gates - you're just getting moved to the server running the system/shard you're jumping to.
Get too many players on one shard (system) though, and BAM! lag.
Unless you're looking pretty much straight-on towards the camera, this software doesn't appear to work. It does appear to be able to track a face over multiple frames if it can recognize it in one frame, but if you have 30 seconds where no suitable frame occurs, the software doesn't know who it is, even if it's pretty blatantly obvious to a human who it is.
So you got your undergrad degree when you were 28?
That means that at 28, you're making the average salary of a 23 year old. And when you're 40, you'll be at the average salary of a 35 year old. On top of that, when you're 65, you'll be running on 37 years of savings instead of 42. And if you get married and have children in your 30's, you'll have missed out out on the first 5 years - the most important ones - both because your savings have the longest time to grow AND you can save a lot more of your income when you're single than when supporting a family.
A college degree makes you more productive. Delaying that degree makes you more productive later. This makes no sense.
Plus, it's not like you knew how to live like an adult when you graduated high school either. You just didn't learn how to be an adult AND take classes at the same time - so while everyone else pounded that out in 4-5 years, it took you a decade.
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I didn't critique religion. I said some people's ability to take in and analyze data is circumvented by exploiting a vulnerability in the brain where information introduced at an early age is often assumed to be true regardless of later data.
Now, some religions may regularly exploit this vulnerability, but it's a comment on that particular practice, not religion as a whole.
Your brain has been hacked since birth. It's called "Marketing". Tons and tons of exploits in the wild, including appeals to Emotion, Manipulation of Statistics, Lying to the Gullible, Threats Against Afterlife, Us or Them, etc, etc. Unfortunately, although a security suite is supposed to be installed during adolescence, too many are ineffective copies of Public Education or have installation prevented by previous installations of Sunday School and Parental Brainwashing.
Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.
Spoken like someone who has either never had sex with not-so-attractive women (you're missing out!) or not had sex with extremely attractive women (you're missing out!) or someone who has not had sex with women (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
I'd noticed I seem to not be nearly as good at Call of Duty recently, but just assumed I'd had one too many beers. Didn't realize my 10-50ms processing lag Dell 3008WFP was the cause of my suckiness. That would have been handy info before buying that monstrosity!
(Yes, in retrospect, I started sucking when I got the new monitor and started playing Call of Duty 5 at the same time - just chalked it up to not doing as well with the new game.)
I own a Prius.
I don't really care about the gas mileage.
I bought it because it is simply the best $25,000 car you can get (at least according to my needs). Integrated bluetooth, love not having to take my keys out of my pocket to get in and out, drives well, flexible interior, seats 4 comfortably, interior well laid out, etc, etc. I did almost buy an SUV for more carrying space, but to get the tech I wanted I would have had to spend another $12,000, and that just didn't make financial sense.
Even if Prius's had half the gas mileage, they would still be competitive cars. The gas mileage just makes them even better.
What I'm always struck by is that if you're capable of finagling all these things in the game, what's stopping you from doing it in real life?
Body odor.
40% of white people didn't vote for Barack Obama because of the color of his skin.
If Barack Obama were white he would have gotten 95% of the white vote. The other 5% are just the ones with a slutty flight attendant fetish.
I submit if you have to cheat to write a bubble sort you need to find a different major.
I submit that if you have 'write bubble sort' as an assignment, you need to find a different university.
Bubble sort code it the kind of thing you can look up. A real assignment would be "Write a program that pulls data from this text file, allows for the selection of various sort methods, and writes the sorted data out to another text file, using a bubble sort."
Only visit really obscure por... dating sites.
The big casino folks pay a lot of money to make sure an online alternative to gambling in casinos is not created. They don't care about Poker so much, but they care very much that if poker is legal, it's only a short hop to online blackjack being legal.
You're exactly right, your privacy is none of my business. So don't expect me to take care of your privacy!
If a surfer visits your site, they have a certain expectation of viewing your content.
Indeed. And they will get the content.
Now you've decided to share that two-way communication with a hidden third party,
I did no such thing. I placed a link in my page to the third party. Your web browser, running on your computer, executed the link to the 3rd party and provided the data.
who offers you a service (so far so good) in exchange for access to the visitors (that's the problem). Your visitors have not entered into any relationship with the third party, and are not getting any service from them. So why are you letting them get milked?
I'm asking them to provide their information to the 3rd party so that I can acquire valuable information (i.e., some idea who is using my website, and in what manner they are using it.) Whether they actually provide their information is entirely up to them and their web client.
And personally,
24 hours of continuous relief
But hold on a second... exactly how continuous is the relief?
Is there an intermittent-relief version? Maybe every 60 minutes or so?
Hrm, strange. You would think your server would both be able to read and log the Referer request header.
It would, if the client is kind enough to send it, which it may not be. But if a web bug exists on the referring and target pages, that data is obtained regardless of whether the client sends it.
Regardless, you can only count on your server logs to present you accurate data if it's server-generated data. Number of hits in a given time-frame from a particular IP, yes. Website referrals? No.
I have Google Analytics on my websites. It gives me lots of useful information about my users in a format that is easy to understand. But, about the only thing it tells me that I couldn't discern from the server logs is where people link in from.
Now, this does mean that Google gets a record of when an IP address visited my server and what page they looked at. Is this an invasion of privacy? I don't think so. What's the worst that is going to happen? Google sells my browsing habits so that companies I already have a business relationship with send me targeted advertising? OH NO!
What we need is legal limits on what can be done with collected information. We already have some - companies can't email me out of the blue unless we have an established relationship. We could perhaps use some additional protection in terms of public release of possibly not-entirely-flattering personal information.
But beyond that, who cares? Privacy isn't, by itself, important. What we care about is negative consequences of our privacy being invaded. I don't want my friends to know about my Enzyte purchases, for example, but if I cancel my Enztye order and place a Capatrex order, what's the big deal if Enzyte sends me an email with a special offer to double my order for the same price?**
(Note: I would never actually use either Enzyte or Capatrex... when I could use both!)
Anyway, if it really bothers you, it's not like anoyne is actually sharing your information with 3rd parties anyway. Those web bugs don't get their information from the websites you visit, they get that information from you - it's YOUR browser on YOUR computer that sends the request to Google Analytics et al. If you don't want your browser to do that, block the sites.
Meh, they're just gold farming anyway.
I really wish people would stop falling for marketing hype. EVE runs on shards like every other MMORPG; the difference is that you can move from shard to shard. That's what happens every time you jump gates - you're just getting moved to the server running the system/shard you're jumping to.
Get too many players on one shard (system) though, and BAM! lag.
A moving average is useful if you don't have a large enough data type to store the sum of all the values.
No, it's not. It's 2009, and bits are cheap.
Transporter.
Or maybe he put his bike on the bus on the way to work, but a transporter would be faster.
...wouldn't incompetent jurors favor a criminal career path?
If jurors are competent, innocent people would remain free and guilty people would go to prison.
If jurors are not competent, sometimes innocent people will go to prison and sometimes guilty people will go free.
so, the more incompetent jurors are, the lower the penalty for criminal behavior.
Unless you're looking pretty much straight-on towards the camera, this software doesn't appear to work. It does appear to be able to track a face over multiple frames if it can recognize it in one frame, but if you have 30 seconds where no suitable frame occurs, the software doesn't know who it is, even if it's pretty blatantly obvious to a human who it is.
I like that my bedside light comes on slowly in the morning, it's less of a shock to my eyes.
Try getting up later!
That's only a little more than a few orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude.
So you got your undergrad degree when you were 28?
That means that at 28, you're making the average salary of a 23 year old. And when you're 40, you'll be at the average salary of a 35 year old. On top of that, when you're 65, you'll be running on 37 years of savings instead of 42. And if you get married and have children in your 30's, you'll have missed out out on the first 5 years - the most important ones - both because your savings have the longest time to grow AND you can save a lot more of your income when you're single than when supporting a family.
A college degree makes you more productive. Delaying that degree makes you more productive later. This makes no sense.
Plus, it's not like you knew how to live like an adult when you graduated high school either. You just didn't learn how to be an adult AND take classes at the same time - so while everyone else pounded that out in 4-5 years, it took you a decade.
Anyway you cut it, your way is just slow.
Guns are the first tool only of those too weak and too stupid to apply any other means to solving their problem.
I'm just saying this thing reeks to hell of something a lot worse than just poor judgement.
Something like ... exceptionally bad judgment?