The thing is, the users aren't just SysAdmins or idiots. There are people who have used computers for ages, but have chosen not to learn to code or compile themselves. The computer-savvyness of youth means this group is growing fast. Ubuntu has turned its back on this group.
The success of OSX and Windows on the desktop and iOS and Android in mobile says otherwise. The younger generation have apps and programs in which they take an interest and show some skill. But system internals and customization? That I very much doubt.
give them a little pop-up saying "hey, there's a faster way to do that, do you want to try?" and give them a basic tutorial on how to do so, ending with an option to turn off the feature if they wish.
In other words, a context-sensitive help system like "Clippy."
The time and place don't really matter - stories like this make the news every day.
The restaurant served alcohol to "visibly intoxicated persons" on at least three occasions, the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said Friday in a statement. On two of those occasions, two female Tiffany's patrons were killed in separate drunk driving crashes and in the third, an intoxicated male motorcyclist was injured in a crash.
Bruno D'Uva Sr. and Bruno D'Uva Jr., both of whom own 30 percent of Tiffany's license, and Lisa Barna, who owns 40 percent, must sell their interests in the license by July 24, 2015 and pay a fine of $200,000.
Another way to lose your liquor license is by failing to card or to question the underage drinker.
The geek of course is obsessed with tech.
The bar owner is looking for a bartender who can gently push sales of the top-shelf liquor. He needs to be sociable --- he needs to be a touch theatrical.
The robot bartender as a running gag is at least as old as kinescopes of The Jackie Gleason Show of 1952. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if he made his first appearance in the silent films of 1915.
Patent law specifically allows people to "make their own" based on the patented design. You aren't allowed to produce the items for sale or distribution, but you are allowed to make one for yourself.
It hurts your head to read the geek's posts about the law.
The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
In the U.S., a patent is a right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, exporting components to be assembled into an infringing device outside the U.S., importing the product of a patented process practiced outside the U.S., inducing others to infringe, offering a product specially adapted for practice of the patent, and a few other very carefully defined categories. The distinctions between what patent rights include are complex. For example, merely thinking about an invention or drawing a diagram is not an infringement. Likewise, research for "purely philosophical" inquiry is not an infringement.
is that audiences are not interested in an academic reference recording of Bach but in the richly varied interpretations of artists each with their own gifts --- using arrangements of their own choice, instruments of their own choice, in a venue of their own choice.
It is like trying to capture Shakespeare in a bottle.
Uncork the thing and what you will get is a performance wholly typical of the acting style and staging of the year the play was recorded.
Ralph Williams wrote this tight little story for Astounding in 1958.
His alien engineered replicators cannot reproduce animate objects, which is their only limitation. "No assembly required." Energy is not a problem. Material resources are not a problem. Complexity is not a problem. Craftsmanship is not a problem.
Everything comes out of thin air --- except the prototype.
The department store manager navigating his way through this chaos sees this very quickly. He knows that IP rights in a world of seemingly infinite material abundance will be the one real measure of value.
He knows that the object which is trivially easy to replicate will lose its novelty quickly.
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.
The sensor in the iPhone 5s utilizes two methods to sense and identify your fingerprint:
Capacitive -- A capacitive sensor is activated by the slight electrical charge running through your skin.
Radio frequency -- RF waves do not respond to the dead layer of skin on the outside of your finger -- the part that might be chapped or too dry to be read with much accuracy -- and instead reads only the living tissue underneath. This produces an extremely precise image of your print, and ensures that a severed finger is completely useless.
This means that the Touch ID sensor should be remarkably accurate for living creatures, but it also means that only a finger attached to a beating heart will be able to unlock it.
Why not offer it to everyone, regardless of their current OS, if they want it?
Because --- when stripped to its essentials --- this is just another publicity stunt.
If you have been running XP for twelve years, you have twelve years of experience with your XP compatible programs. Programs which may have been heavily customized for your business.
Seriously. They have a procedure they have to go through and follow to the letter. There is no room for innovation or individual thinking...
Not in the field.
Talk to a fireman, a policeman, a soldier. Improvisation, new ideas, are for the training ground --- where the kinks can be worked out without anyone getting killed.
A push to linux on steam is going to drive abandonment of windows.
The biggest untold story in PC gaming on Slashdot this summer? The $10.5 million Humble Origin Bundle --- Electronic Arts and Windows only. The Humble Bundle is a fairly reliable measure of the pathetic state of Linux PC gaming: The Humble Weekly Sale Retro Shooters: Statistics
I believe mythbusters showed how trivial it was to bypass fingerprint protections by making your own "finger" from said prints?
It is not an image scanner, it is an RF scanner.
With the new sensors you don't have to move your finger, just press it against the reader. And like the sensor in the iPhone 5S, the sensors that will be in laptops and keyboards and other phones can detect the ridge and valley pattern of your fingerprint not from the layer of dead skin on the outside of your finger (which a fake finger can easily replicate), but from the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger, using an RF signal. That only works on a live finger; not one that's been severed from your body.
This will protect you from thieves trying to chop off your finger when they mug you for your phone (assuming they're tech-literate thieves, of course), as well as from people with fake fingers using the fingerprint they lifted from your phone screen.
Let a real intelegence that can't be biased by the current bullshit lobbying system write laws balanced for the common good of EVERYONE
You do understand that the system you propose will be defined and limited by the values of its programmers? That the geek carries his own load of bullshit into politics?
Think like this: If "three fingers Joe" of the mob posted the same video, I think it would be pretty clear to see that it is a threat.
It's rather a pity that George Orwell didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flower. Posting a video to YouTube that can plausibly be seen as a threat is not a "thought crime."
and let me add....he's 15. a minor. charges? wtf is this country coming to that even kids are now criminals?! WTF AMERICA??
Children of "tender years" might have escaped prosecution. But that is and always has been close kin to the little loved insanity defense. Too young to control his actions. Too young to understand the consequences of his actions.
The adolescent is a work-in-progress. He is not an infant.
The first execution of a juvenile offender was in 1642 with Thomas Graunger in Plymouth Colony, Massachesetts. In the 360 years since that time, a total of approximately 365 persons have been executed for juvenile crimes, constituting 1.8% of roughly 20,000 confirmed American executions since 1608. Twenty-two of these executions for juvenile crimes have been imposed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. These 22 recent executions of juvenile offenders make up about 2% of the total executions since 1976.
The death penalty is forbidden in all states for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crime following the Supreme Court's ruling in Roper v. Simmons (2005)
Often on TV, killing is actually easier than dealing with the bodies. The network censors really hate bloody corpses, but have less objection to the process of making them. A common solution is to introduce either mooks that conveniently diappear when dead...
Saves money, Saves time.
You don't have to show the blood and bodies on screen. You don't have to remove the blood and bodies on screen.
The same reasons why Star Trek and Dr. Who have teleportation. Why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside.
Slashdot Mirror
No one with a brain does.
That is just another lame excuse for the laziness and ignorance that is exposed in most of the geek's posts about the law.
The thing is, the users aren't just SysAdmins or idiots. There are people who have used computers for ages, but have chosen not to learn to code or compile themselves. The computer-savvyness of youth means this group is growing fast. Ubuntu has turned its back on this group.
The success of OSX and Windows on the desktop and iOS and Android in mobile says otherwise. The younger generation have apps and programs in which they take an interest and show some skill. But system internals and customization? That I very much doubt.
Such optimizing things for new users --- while pessimizing the experience for others --- is a trap.
It does however give your OS a chance to win more than a 1% share of the desktop, which has its benefits.
give them a little pop-up saying "hey, there's a faster way to do that, do you want to try?" and give them a basic tutorial on how to do so, ending with an option to turn off the feature if they wish.
In other words, a context-sensitive help system like "Clippy."
Right, try to kill a multibillion dollar annual industry and see how quickly this research just vanishes. /cynic
Did the polio vaccine kill big pharma? The vaccines for measles, shingles, cervical cancer? The answer, of course, is no. Timeline of vaccines
The pharmaceutical industry --- like the life insurance industry ---- benefits from a population that is active, healthy, prosperous, and long-lived
The restaurant served alcohol to "visibly intoxicated persons" on at least three occasions, the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said Friday in a statement. On two of those occasions, two female Tiffany's patrons were killed in separate drunk driving crashes and in the third, an intoxicated male motorcyclist was injured in a crash.
Bruno D'Uva Sr. and Bruno D'Uva Jr., both of whom own 30 percent of Tiffany's license, and Lisa Barna, who owns 40 percent, must sell their interests in the license by July 24, 2015 and pay a fine of $200,000.
After Over-Serving Patrons, Tiffany's Owners to Give Up Liquor License
Another way to lose your liquor license is by failing to card or to question the underage drinker.
The geek of course is obsessed with tech.
The bar owner is looking for a bartender who can gently push sales of the top-shelf liquor. He needs to be sociable --- he needs to be a touch theatrical.
The robot bartender as a running gag is at least as old as kinescopes of The Jackie Gleason Show of 1952. I wouldn't be in the least surprised if he made his first appearance in the silent films of 1915.
Also, knowing Valve, they'll probably release some UNIQUE title along with steambox, as a steambox exclusive or something!
After looking at the numbers posted for sales of GTA 5? Think again.
Doesn't really matter - how many companies cater to 'horse-and-buggy' enthusiasts, after all?
Quite a few, actually. Horse Drawn Hearse
Patent law specifically allows people to "make their own" based on the patented design. You aren't allowed to produce the items for sale or distribution, but you are allowed to make one for yourself.
It hurts your head to read the geek's posts about the law.
The Congress shall have power ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
In the U.S., a patent is a right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, exporting components to be assembled into an infringing device outside the U.S., importing the product of a patented process practiced outside the U.S., inducing others to infringe, offering a product specially adapted for practice of the patent, and a few other very carefully defined categories. The distinctions between what patent rights include are complex. For example, merely thinking about an invention or drawing a diagram is not an infringement. Likewise, research for "purely philosophical" inquiry is not an infringement.
United States patent law
If AMD wants to build a billion dollar chip fab "of its own" based on Intel's designs and patents, AMD has to license Intel's designs and patents.
This is not rocket science, people.
is that audiences are not interested in an academic reference recording of Bach but in the richly varied interpretations of artists each with their own gifts --- using arrangements of their own choice, instruments of their own choice, in a venue of their own choice.
It is like trying to capture Shakespeare in a bottle.
Uncork the thing and what you will get is a performance wholly typical of the acting style and staging of the year the play was recorded.
Ralph Williams wrote this tight little story for Astounding in 1958.
His alien engineered replicators cannot reproduce animate objects, which is their only limitation. "No assembly required." Energy is not a problem. Material resources are not a problem. Complexity is not a problem. Craftsmanship is not a problem.
Everything comes out of thin air --- except the prototype.
The department store manager navigating his way through this chaos sees this very quickly. He knows that IP rights in a world of seemingly infinite material abundance will be the one real measure of value.
He knows that the object which is trivially easy to replicate will lose its novelty quickly.
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Little Boxes
The sensor in the iPhone 5s utilizes two methods to sense and identify your fingerprint:
Capacitive -- A capacitive sensor is activated by the slight electrical charge running through your skin.
Radio frequency -- RF waves do not respond to the dead layer of skin on the outside of your finger -- the part that might be chapped or too dry to be read with much accuracy -- and instead reads only the living tissue underneath. This produces an extremely precise image of your print, and ensures that a severed finger is completely useless.
This means that the Touch ID sensor should be remarkably accurate for living creatures, but it also means that only a finger attached to a beating heart will be able to unlock it.
Why a disembodied finger can't be used to unlock the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5s
Why not offer it to everyone, regardless of their current OS, if they want it?
Because --- when stripped to its essentials --- this is just another publicity stunt.
If you have been running XP for twelve years, you have twelve years of experience with your XP compatible programs. Programs which may have been heavily customized for your business.
Seriously. They have a procedure they have to go through and follow to the letter. There is no room for innovation or individual thinking...
Not in the field.
Talk to a fireman, a policeman, a soldier. Improvisation, new ideas, are for the training ground --- where the kinks can be worked out without anyone getting killed.
A push to linux on steam is going to drive abandonment of windows.
The biggest untold story in PC gaming on Slashdot this summer? The $10.5 million Humble Origin Bundle --- Electronic Arts and Windows only. The Humble Bundle is a fairly reliable measure of the pathetic state of Linux PC gaming: The Humble Weekly Sale Retro Shooters: Statistics
And fire places, people have been successfully using them for hundreds of years without killing themselves.
It happened quite often.
Try thinking a little more carefully about the clothes women wore.
I believe mythbusters showed how trivial it was to bypass fingerprint protections by making your own "finger" from said prints?
It is not an image scanner, it is an RF scanner.
With the new sensors you don't have to move your finger, just press it against the reader. And like the sensor in the iPhone 5S, the sensors that will be in laptops and keyboards and other phones can detect the ridge and valley pattern of your fingerprint not from the layer of dead skin on the outside of your finger (which a fake finger can easily replicate), but from the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger, using an RF signal. That only works on a live finger; not one that's been severed from your body.
This will protect you from thieves trying to chop off your finger when they mug you for your phone (assuming they're tech-literate thieves, of course), as well as from people with fake fingers using the fingerprint they lifted from your phone screen.
Why the iPhone's fingerprint sensor is better than the ones on older laptops
Let a real intelegence that can't be biased by the current bullshit lobbying system write laws balanced for the common good of EVERYONE
You do understand that the system you propose will be defined and limited by the values of its programmers? That the geek carries his own load of bullshit into politics?
Think like this: If "three fingers Joe" of the mob posted the same video, I think it would be pretty clear to see that it is a threat.
It's rather a pity that George Orwell didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flower. Posting a video to YouTube that can plausibly be seen as a threat is not a "thought crime."
and let me add....he's 15. a minor. charges? wtf is this country coming to that even kids are now criminals?! WTF AMERICA??
Children of "tender years" might have escaped prosecution. But that is and always has been close kin to the little loved insanity defense. Too young to control his actions. Too young to understand the consequences of his actions.
The adolescent is a work-in-progress. He is not an infant.
The first execution of a juvenile offender was in 1642 with Thomas Graunger in Plymouth Colony, Massachesetts. In the 360 years since that time, a total of approximately 365 persons have been executed for juvenile crimes, constituting 1.8% of roughly 20,000 confirmed American executions since 1608. Twenty-two of these executions for juvenile crimes have been imposed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. These 22 recent executions of juvenile offenders make up about 2% of the total executions since 1976.
The death penalty is forbidden in all states for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crime following the Supreme Court's ruling in Roper v. Simmons (2005)
Execution of Juveniles in the U.S. and other Countries
Supreme Court rules mandatory juvenile life without parole cruel and unusual (2012)
Often on TV, killing is actually easier than dealing with the bodies. The network censors really hate bloody corpses, but have less objection to the process of making them. A common solution is to introduce either mooks that conveniently diappear when dead...
Saves money, Saves time.
You don't have to show the blood and bodies on screen. You don't have to remove the blood and bodies on screen.
The same reasons why Star Trek and Dr. Who have teleportation. Why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside.
... in which one faction points out that ads are funding much of the (commercial) Web, and if you suppress them, you won't have all that Free Content.
What is lost is the free content the add blocker wants to see.
You can create an ISP cooperative and bring fiber to your neighborhood.
Where do I find my upstream provider?
How do I compete with the mass market pricing of the Telco or cable service?
The Telco has been here since 1896 - and suburban development has never strayed far from the old land lines.
So he'd rather be owned by typewriters than by computers.
The master mechanic is in control of his machines
Witnesses can be compelled to testify so that they cannot be intimidated into silence.
---- and the defendant has the right to remain silent so he can't be intimidated or tortured into making a confession.
But to say these things on Slashdot risks being modded down as a Troll.