Yet still you have a Facebook account. Why exactly should they set the bar higher if all their screw-ups do is get them more free publicity?
Every time FB fucks up, the online world whines like it is the end of life as we know it. All you're doing is confirming to FB that you're addicted and can't live without them.
Why again should they change? You're their bitch and they like it that way.
Because one day Google might get their act together and properly market their social network, to the point where Facebook actually has real competition. I attended the first day of Google I/O and was pretty disappointed that they did nothing to address Google+ being an utter ghost town. All they did was focus on this "events" feature, and "party mode". It's a nice addition, but it still isn't going to get people I care about to use the network. I'm thinking all they have to do is start posting up billboards/posters and host contests.. even bribe people to use their social network. Then it'll take off, and Facebook will start getting serious. I have to believe there's SOMEONE at Google with the brains and the influence to act on this. Google tends to do dramatic things suddenly, so I give them about a year to show up on the radar.
You want to know how comfy Facebook is right now? They don't have a QA department. A manager at Facebook told me this outright about 3-4 months ago. I doubt it's changed since then. They just code something, and trust their developers to assure it's okay, and they go ahead and put the things into production. So when Facebook screws up, or something looks horribly wrong, it's because they know no one has anywhere else to go while they're fixing it. That massive concern about "100% uptime" that we saw in Social Network is no longer there, because Facebook is well beyond critical mass, and yes, over half the planet is a monopoly.
There are people who are happy to share their lives. There are people who are not happy to share their lives.
I propose we call these people extroverts and introverts.
It doesn't really fit though. Introversion is nothing about wanting privacy. It applies to being comfortable in solitude or with a small number of people. Extraverts like to be social butterflies at parties and go out in large groups. But an introvert may very well like to write a very detailed autobiography, in solitude, to share with the world his/her experiences in life, without interacting with them directly.
And the west is currently begging to use that 3rd world nations tech.
I think "begging" is a little unfair. We're paying a fair price for the launches we need, I believe as of now through 2016. People who beg are asking for favors. While I'm all for expressing disgust with the state of the US space program, I think this characterization is unnecessary.
Hey HTC, maybe you can upgrade the last glut of ICS-capable phones to ICS before you worry about selling your latest and greatest to us? I thought it was a no-brainer that my fully-capable myTouch 4G slide would be upgraded to ICS when I bought the phone 8 months ago. My next phone will not be an HTC one, let alone a One X.
From TFA, the specific configurations that allow this to happen:
"Anyone who used FileVault encryption on their Mac prior to Lion, upgraded to Lion, but kept the folders encrypted using the legacy version of FileVault is vulnerable. FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) is unaffected."
Jorge actually explained this at our screening's Q/A. They are all actual graduate students.
There's a big difference from acting like yourself when you're not trying to act like yourself, and trying to appear the way you think you would react given a particular simulated situation. Anyone can do the former. Only talented actors can pull off the latter. You have to learn to be "in the moment" and have real emotion in reaction to things you know are not actually happening. It's a lot more difficult than people give it credit for.
I'm going to watch it, but as an amateur filmmaker, I'm bracing myself after looking at its imdb listing here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2066040/... The actors are all not real actors. I expect it's going to be silly in a painful way. The idea behind it is great, but, for the major roles at least, you can easily find actors willing to work for free who are worlds more believable than some lab rats trying to make fun of themselves.
1) No shit a Mac isn't susceptible to PC viruses. PC's aren't susceptible to Mac-only malware either?
I'd say the claim does have some merit. Would you choose susceptibility to the mac viruses, or the much larger variety of PC viruses? However, if you flipped the marketshare (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10444561-245.html), OSX would likely be ill-prepared to deal with the incoming exploits.
I've worked with secure documents before too, and can verify this, especially the PITA part. However, I haven't had to send docs before.. are the fedex guys that handle the copy cleared as well? Also, I know transporting the docs yourself can be quite an ordeal, because you're not supposed to let them out of your sight, even through security.
I honestly can't see how a DDOS of the particular sort Anonymous uses can be considered illegal.
It would be like a group of a hundred people going into a supermarket one at a time and buying a stick of gum each. Then, once they've completed their purchase they turn around, go back in, and repeat it again. They're not doing anything technically illegal, but it certainly is disruptive.
Of course, I could be entirely wrong due to lack of understanding on the law, so please feel free to enlighten me on the subject...
Well, for starters, they're unlawfully hijacking other computers via their botnet to get the volume of gum purchasers they need. That'd equate to holding those 100 people at gunpoint. And also, they're not actually purchasing anything. It'd equate to the 100 people going in and out of the store without buying anything. Just clogging up the doorway. Lastly, a store owner can legally request the 100 people to leave, and they would not be lawfully allowed to go back in the store nor block it (otherwise police can deal with that). In a DDOS, there's no way to restrict unwanted traffic.
"SAIC agreed to pay $370.4 million in restitution to the city, as well as a penalty of $130 million, according to a deferred prosecution agreement made public on Wednesday. The city will get $96 million of the penalty, with the rest going to the federal government."
So that would be $466 million total, but..
"In addition, New York City will not have to pay about $40 million of the bills it was charged."
So all in all, the judgement nets NYC $506 million.
A full blown investigation takes a lot more resources than the 2 minute check on line at the airport. For those who travel often enough where it becomes a serious issue, I can see offering this rather expensive option, while also removing these frequent fliers from the everyday security traffic. If they're turning a profit on this, using this to generate revenue for the TSA, then we have the right to be angry.
I'm going to mention the Finns like the other guy who replied, but I'm also going to point out that they don't merely just "respect" and "compensate" teachers better. It might be the underlying cause, but being a teacher in Finland has higher REQUIREMENTS. I certainly feel I had an unrewarding experience in the US education system, and I think that goes with the mentality "Those who can't do... teach."... but putting knowledge of the subject matter they teach aside, I think there's something to be said for knowledge of how to teach. In the days we live in, with the technological means and needs to research alternative education models, I think teachers should be capable and trained to actively participate and help direct this research. I 100% believe that my teachers at least through high school could have easily been substituted by a book and an exam proctor. I'm sure it's different for others, but if you're not able to offer me personally some real value above that, I don't want you hired to be my babysitter.
If anyone is curious (I was), the successful bidders were Finmeccanica through SELEX Elsag and VEGA (based in the United Kingdom) together with its partner Northrup Grumman Corporation team. So it looks like that involves Italy, the UK, and the US:
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33224/?SID=45a71f6bf4374255010ce6a71de99974
The majority of travelers don't complain about the TSA because an airline ticket is usually tied with a very expensive, intricately planned vacation/trip of some sort, and the last thing they need is to be forced to miss their flight and be overly stressed, send everything into disarray, waste possibly thousands of dollars, and disappoint countless loved ones and friends. That's at least from my personal experience... but I am 50% of the time finding myself WANTING to complain for various reasons, usually because the TSA agents are acting fairly condescending.
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That's a downer. Maybe Programmer Day should be decided by two unsynchronized threads, and the date isn't final until they deadlock.
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FTFA: "Programmer Day has been celebrated on the 265th day of the year since".. that's a typo.. 256 is correct of course, as explained by other comments.
Welcome to the advancement of technology.. FTA "NeuroSky say its latest sensors can operate through fabric, such as the outer layer of a vehicle's headrest".. they also say they know they can distinguish between brainwaves of someone awake and at rest, but it doesn't specify if that's through fabric or not.
Upon installing, it says "Welcome to Firefox Beta". In "About Firefox", it doesn't mention anything about beta though. So I'm not exactly sure if this is beta. If it is beta, it's weird it's available by a URL that has no mention of "beta", no?
This would be a dream come true for amateur filmmakers who need a power source for filming outdoors at night. Portable generators are either too noisy or too expensive. You can get an inverter for your car to supply 120V AC, which is a decent solution because cars aren't very noisy, but energy from a battery makes no noise at all, and sufficient energy for powering a house for a day certainly can handle 2000 watts of light for a night shoot. Amateur filmmakers normally have a day job, so they can afford a car like the Nissan Leaf... this is just an added benefit.
If I learned anything from my teacher wife*, it's that there are dozens of ways that children (and adults) learn, and you have to tailor the learning experience for each of them.
Some children may do very well with things like the Khan Academy. Others will not.
Anyone who tries to shoehorn all children into the same learning solution is likely to leave a large percentage of them behind.
I don't understand. The whole idea about Khan Academy is to tailor the learning experience to each student's need, as opposed to shoehorning all students into one set format/pace/etc, and no one gets "left behind".. only moves at a slower pace, until they get over whatever obstacle they have and can speed along afterward. And no one is held back either, according to the same theory. I can see you saying what you did about some traditional lecture format, but... do you know what Khan Academy is all about?.. There's a wonderful TED talk on it here: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
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Yet still you have a Facebook account. Why exactly should they set the bar higher if all their screw-ups do is get them more free publicity?
Every time FB fucks up, the online world whines like it is the end of life as we know it. All you're doing is confirming to FB that you're addicted and can't live without them.
Why again should they change? You're their bitch and they like it that way.
Because one day Google might get their act together and properly market their social network, to the point where Facebook actually has real competition. I attended the first day of Google I/O and was pretty disappointed that they did nothing to address Google+ being an utter ghost town. All they did was focus on this "events" feature, and "party mode". It's a nice addition, but it still isn't going to get people I care about to use the network. I'm thinking all they have to do is start posting up billboards/posters and host contests.. even bribe people to use their social network. Then it'll take off, and Facebook will start getting serious. I have to believe there's SOMEONE at Google with the brains and the influence to act on this. Google tends to do dramatic things suddenly, so I give them about a year to show up on the radar. You want to know how comfy Facebook is right now? They don't have a QA department. A manager at Facebook told me this outright about 3-4 months ago. I doubt it's changed since then. They just code something, and trust their developers to assure it's okay, and they go ahead and put the things into production. So when Facebook screws up, or something looks horribly wrong, it's because they know no one has anywhere else to go while they're fixing it. That massive concern about "100% uptime" that we saw in Social Network is no longer there, because Facebook is well beyond critical mass, and yes, over half the planet is a monopoly.
But *if* they break... what then?
Let's put this to rest. Graphene is one of the strongest materials ever: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/jul/17/graphene-has-record-breaking-strength
There are people who are happy to share their lives. There are people who are not happy to share their lives. I propose we call these people extroverts and introverts.
It doesn't really fit though. Introversion is nothing about wanting privacy. It applies to being comfortable in solitude or with a small number of people. Extraverts like to be social butterflies at parties and go out in large groups. But an introvert may very well like to write a very detailed autobiography, in solitude, to share with the world his/her experiences in life, without interacting with them directly.
And the west is currently begging to use that 3rd world nations tech.
I think "begging" is a little unfair. We're paying a fair price for the launches we need, I believe as of now through 2016. People who beg are asking for favors. While I'm all for expressing disgust with the state of the US space program, I think this characterization is unnecessary.
37 posts about the Pentium division bug.
37! In a row?
Hey HTC, maybe you can upgrade the last glut of ICS-capable phones to ICS before you worry about selling your latest and greatest to us? I thought it was a no-brainer that my fully-capable myTouch 4G slide would be upgraded to ICS when I bought the phone 8 months ago. My next phone will not be an HTC one, let alone a One X.
From TFA, the specific configurations that allow this to happen: "Anyone who used FileVault encryption on their Mac prior to Lion, upgraded to Lion, but kept the folders encrypted using the legacy version of FileVault is vulnerable. FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) is unaffected."
The actors are all not real actors.
Jorge actually explained this at our screening's Q/A. They are all actual graduate students.
There's a big difference from acting like yourself when you're not trying to act like yourself, and trying to appear the way you think you would react given a particular simulated situation. Anyone can do the former. Only talented actors can pull off the latter. You have to learn to be "in the moment" and have real emotion in reaction to things you know are not actually happening. It's a lot more difficult than people give it credit for.
I'm going to watch it, but as an amateur filmmaker, I'm bracing myself after looking at its imdb listing here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2066040/ ... The actors are all not real actors. I expect it's going to be silly in a painful way. The idea behind it is great, but, for the major roles at least, you can easily find actors willing to work for free who are worlds more believable than some lab rats trying to make fun of themselves.
1) No shit a Mac isn't susceptible to PC viruses. PC's aren't susceptible to Mac-only malware either?
I'd say the claim does have some merit. Would you choose susceptibility to the mac viruses, or the much larger variety of PC viruses? However, if you flipped the marketshare (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10444561-245.html), OSX would likely be ill-prepared to deal with the incoming exploits.
I've worked with secure documents before too, and can verify this, especially the PITA part. However, I haven't had to send docs before.. are the fedex guys that handle the copy cleared as well? Also, I know transporting the docs yourself can be quite an ordeal, because you're not supposed to let them out of your sight, even through security.
Privacy concerns aside, I hope these researchers take into consideration the gamers' safety when sending them into bad neighborhoods.
I honestly can't see how a DDOS of the particular sort Anonymous uses can be considered illegal.
It would be like a group of a hundred people going into a supermarket one at a time and buying a stick of gum each. Then, once they've completed their purchase they turn around, go back in, and repeat it again. They're not doing anything technically illegal, but it certainly is disruptive.
Of course, I could be entirely wrong due to lack of understanding on the law, so please feel free to enlighten me on the subject...
Well, for starters, they're unlawfully hijacking other computers via their botnet to get the volume of gum purchasers they need. That'd equate to holding those 100 people at gunpoint. And also, they're not actually purchasing anything. It'd equate to the 100 people going in and out of the store without buying anything. Just clogging up the doorway. Lastly, a store owner can legally request the 100 people to leave, and they would not be lawfully allowed to go back in the store nor block it (otherwise police can deal with that). In a DDOS, there's no way to restrict unwanted traffic.
It's money they've already spent and it will be returned to the coffers of NYC.
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Securities/News/2012/03_-_March/SAIC_to_pay_NY_City_$500_mln_in_fraud_case/
"SAIC agreed to pay $370.4 million in restitution to the city, as well as a penalty of $130 million, according to a deferred prosecution agreement made public on Wednesday. The city will get $96 million of the penalty, with the rest going to the federal government."
So that would be $466 million total, but..
"In addition, New York City will not have to pay about $40 million of the bills it was charged."
So all in all, the judgement nets NYC $506 million.
A full blown investigation takes a lot more resources than the 2 minute check on line at the airport. For those who travel often enough where it becomes a serious issue, I can see offering this rather expensive option, while also removing these frequent fliers from the everyday security traffic. If they're turning a profit on this, using this to generate revenue for the TSA, then we have the right to be angry.
I'm going to mention the Finns like the other guy who replied, but I'm also going to point out that they don't merely just "respect" and "compensate" teachers better. It might be the underlying cause, but being a teacher in Finland has higher REQUIREMENTS. I certainly feel I had an unrewarding experience in the US education system, and I think that goes with the mentality "Those who can't do... teach."... but putting knowledge of the subject matter they teach aside, I think there's something to be said for knowledge of how to teach. In the days we live in, with the technological means and needs to research alternative education models, I think teachers should be capable and trained to actively participate and help direct this research. I 100% believe that my teachers at least through high school could have easily been substituted by a book and an exam proctor. I'm sure it's different for others, but if you're not able to offer me personally some real value above that, I don't want you hired to be my babysitter.
If anyone is curious (I was), the successful bidders were Finmeccanica through SELEX Elsag and VEGA (based in the United Kingdom) together with its partner Northrup Grumman Corporation team. So it looks like that involves Italy, the UK, and the US: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33224/?SID=45a71f6bf4374255010ce6a71de99974
The majority of travelers don't complain about the TSA because an airline ticket is usually tied with a very expensive, intricately planned vacation/trip of some sort, and the last thing they need is to be forced to miss their flight and be overly stressed, send everything into disarray, waste possibly thousands of dollars, and disappoint countless loved ones and friends. That's at least from my personal experience... but I am 50% of the time finding myself WANTING to complain for various reasons, usually because the TSA agents are acting fairly condescending.
If properly utilized, I could see Blackberry overpowering all other mobile phone manufacturers.
I have a feeling, based on this blog entry from an attempted Playbook developer that unfortunately it's not going to be "properly utilized".
That's a downer. Maybe Programmer Day should be decided by two unsynchronized threads, and the date isn't final until they deadlock.
FTFA: "Programmer Day has been celebrated on the 265th day of the year since" .. that's a typo.. 256 is correct of course, as explained by other comments.
Welcome to the advancement of technology.. FTA "NeuroSky say its latest sensors can operate through fabric, such as the outer layer of a vehicle's headrest" .. they also say they know they can distinguish between brainwaves of someone awake and at rest, but it doesn't specify if that's through fabric or not.
Upon installing, it says "Welcome to Firefox Beta". In "About Firefox", it doesn't mention anything about beta though. So I'm not exactly sure if this is beta. If it is beta, it's weird it's available by a URL that has no mention of "beta", no?
This would be a dream come true for amateur filmmakers who need a power source for filming outdoors at night. Portable generators are either too noisy or too expensive. You can get an inverter for your car to supply 120V AC, which is a decent solution because cars aren't very noisy, but energy from a battery makes no noise at all, and sufficient energy for powering a house for a day certainly can handle 2000 watts of light for a night shoot. Amateur filmmakers normally have a day job, so they can afford a car like the Nissan Leaf... this is just an added benefit.
If I learned anything from my teacher wife*, it's that there are dozens of ways that children (and adults) learn, and you have to tailor the learning experience for each of them.
Some children may do very well with things like the Khan Academy. Others will not.
Anyone who tries to shoehorn all children into the same learning solution is likely to leave a large percentage of them behind.
I don't understand. The whole idea about Khan Academy is to tailor the learning experience to each student's need, as opposed to shoehorning all students into one set format/pace/etc, and no one gets "left behind".. only moves at a slower pace, until they get over whatever obstacle they have and can speed along afterward. And no one is held back either, according to the same theory. I can see you saying what you did about some traditional lecture format, but... do you know what Khan Academy is all about?.. There's a wonderful TED talk on it here: http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html