I know he's responsible. My problem is that I'm just as dead/inconvenienced no matter who's at fault. I'd rather avoid the situation altogether while technically breaking the law, rather than get in an accident and point fingers/dig holes.
No, I'm not the 'karmic equalizer'. I'm saying that if the rest of traffic is going 70 (speed limit 65), and you pull onto the highway doing 55, you're going to be causing a problem for everyone else, whether it's legal or not.
I was mostly trying to point out that speed is not the only factor in accidents, and shouldn't be looked at blindly through a dumb device like this. Not to mention it has no idea where you are, so if I drive residential streets most of the time, and all of a sudden I take a trip on the highway. More accidents happen on residential streets than on highways. But I just increased my speed while lowering the risk, statistically. Will it take into account varied habits? I mean, statistically signifigant variations? I drive half the time on city streets, and half the time on the highway? You can't statistically analyze those raw numbers in any kind of meaningful way without knowledge of the location.
No, there's no legal speeding. But I'm trying to get myself and everyone else on the road to where they want to get. Sometimes that means bending the rules in the interest of safety/expedience/etc. It's always illegal to go through a red light, but I've done so to let an ambulance through.
I did. My dad lets me drive his vette because he trusts me implicitly.
But then again, some parents are morons whose sweet little angel could NEVER do ANYTHING wrong...
Because that truck is trying to merge and the assholes next to you and behind you are crowding too close to make slowing down or changing lanes an option that doesn't result in an accident?
Or how about the dumbass who goes slow as hell on the highway, causing more of a danger to others than the guy who goes slightly over the speed limit?
Hell, what about the number of morons I've had to avoid becuase they can't figure out which fucking lane to turn into in a double left turn?
My point is speed isn't the only deciding factor in accidents, and if you have a device that measures only speed, well, it's like asking a blind man to describe the mountain vista to you. He can only say so much about it, in a non-contextual way, in a situation where context is of the utmost importance. It's the reason we don't have automatic pilot on cars yet... context is too important.
They have been for a while... the USPTO is a profit center for the Government. They take in a lot more money than they use in operational costs, the rest goes back into the pot.
Do you have any proof for this? Then why does my room stay cooler when I close my window blinds?
Get a clue... windows are usually sealed very well any more, and convection is a very poor means of transfering a large amount of heat. Air is actually a very good insulator.
IR is one of the main ways that homes heat up through windows, by the light/IR coming in, and then being unable to escape because it's shifted to a lower wavelength upon reflections from inside surfaces.
Ok, sorry, I'm gonna rant here... WTF is with people not being able to understand homonyms?
sync(h) - abbreviation for synchronize
sink - In your kitchen, an area that collects and disposes of waste heat/water/whatever.
Same with to, too, etc.
Please people, read more... it helps you spell correctly, as well as choose the correct word, and keeps you from looking like Cletus! (I done learned summa dem lettar things, yep! I kin now reed and rite!)
In reference to your 6th point contention, wouldn't it be equally, if not MORE difficult to roll patches out in a mixed Windows environment, say with some Win98SE, WinXPand Win2k machines? You're comparing apples to oranges. Besides, in a corporate environment, you're going to want to standardize, one type of Linux or one type of Windows. It's cheaper for small companies to roll out the same Linux across all their machines, anyway. No point for you.
Secondly (seventhly?),/proc isn't easy, but it's better than the alternative. It tells you everything about everything. Windows admin tools usually tell you something about a few things. With/proc, you only have to learn where to look to find what you want.
Now for the real secondly, as for.so dependency hell, that's usually because you use a library/app from another distro. If the application was compiled for your distro, it'll just work. Not to mention that you can version your.so's much easier than versioning dll's.
Just re-correcting a few counter-biases there...
I'd say that this example is a very clear-cut case of 'violating' the lock... it's failing in a manner it was meant to protect against. It's not like they're stealing the chair and the laptop, which I would say clears Kensington of liability. IANAL, but I know a few, and I watch Perry Mason;)
You think there's a reason they're called BOLT cutters? They are long, unweildy and really hard to hide if you're carrying one, but they're effective and they have their uses.
An angle grinder will get through the boots they put on cars in no time flat, too... doesn't mean the boots are immediately ineffective.
...are you stupid? Did you not READ the article?
Wait... I suppose that's probably rhetorical. Either way, they're using an inductive load. To keep it from stomping on nearby transmissions, it will be necessarily VERY SMALL. This whole system will put out much less radiation than your microwave will, assuming you're anywhere further than an inch or two away from it.
Learn the science, THEN become paranoid.
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People are actually allowed to use numbers other than 555-XXXX. They just don't out of habit/tradition and respect for people who have phones. There is no law (feel free to disprove me) that says you MUST use a 555-XXXX number if you are publishing something fictitious.
The main problem is that people aren't seeing domain names as a parallel to phone numbers, or anything else identifying.
...I certainly hope this is a troll, because otherwise you haven't been payingattention
X isn't slow. Client/Server relationships are really freaking handy, like when I want to run an application remotely (say, administering a server farm)
And the NT graphic hack? A dangerous kludge, period. Bad gfx driver = dead system.
And FYI, using X.Org, I get better framerates in many 3D applications than I do in Windows.
Counterpoint: I am a software engineer with... 2 years experience and I have gotten slackware 9.1 and 10.0 working with full hardware support on at least 5 computers. I must be a super-genius then, because you and your wife are obviously anything but stupid.
I have never had video not work on install. You must have some very flaky hardware for it to not work in at least a rudimentary manner.
In short, there is a counter-example for every example. What I find is usually the problem is that people go into a situation and say "This doesn't work right!" when they really mean "This doesn't work like Windows!" or "This isn't what I'm used to!"
Ummm... hate to be nit-picking, but isn't $54.99 - $49.99 = $5.00, not $15?
Five dollars isn't much of a tax over the console price, and you just don't play an FPS on a console. Hate to say it, but... well, no I don't hate to say it. Sad truth is that a gamepad sucks donkey balls for playing an FPS.
Ok, I'm going to go off on a rant here...
Why the fuck does everything always have to have a real world counterpart? The Internet and computers in general have changed all the economics behind crimes committed with them. Period.
What is a "barrier" on the Internet? A firewall with a port forwarded? Just having an IP address? The fact that everyone is a "peer" on the system changes all interaction. If you want to keep everyone else out, then the onus should be on the software, on the security of the local system, because that's the only kind that exists. The medium is too ethereal for any other kind of enforcement in any but small, high profile cases.
And yes, there ARE idiot users and idiot managers. There are also idiot administrators who push things without knowing the full ramifications, which is why they are shut down many times. The lacking element is communication and understanding, in BOTH directions.
Oh yes, in the software industry, we call them idiots because they refuse to adapt to a new way of thinking. I have met very few children who cannot fathom how a computer works, programs and all. I have met many adults who cannot fathom how they work because they are too scared, proud or too... something. The end result is that they still don't want to adapt, and cause problems because they "use" a computer in the loosest sense of the word.
Maybe you're just a moron and didn't notice that he capitalized the AC in pacifist, in reference to the poster's AC status.
But that can't be right... we're all geniuses here. And everyone else must be wrong because it's impossible for me to be wrong...
The problem is that "phishing" is describing this action specifically, rather than going out to the lake with a pole and a bunch of worms. It's been accepted into the lexicon, same as "phreaking".
Phishing also has the connotation of hoodwinking users, getting passwords, whatever, not just credit card info.
Sounds like average Joe should just be using the computer then... I've seen people break Windows in many interesting ways because they try to do the admin stuff. Why not just put together a nice, stable linux distro that doesn't have anything like apache, etc. on it, and let him use that? Most users that are of his caliber don't even want to update... they'd rather just change the color of their icons and wallpapers mostly.
Give people the options, and they'll play with them. Even if it breaks something.
Troll.
What's really amusing is the retard can't even spell "loser" correctly. But school, reading and communication aren't cool. I guess that explains it.
Sure, you could screw with one message. But then the transmitter/transmittee are on to you, and will move on to another place/tranmission setup that you're going to have to find and block yet again, and you still don't have their info.
Entanglement may or may not come into play. Depends on what you're doing, because you can just use the quantum computer to do calculations and then send the info over more traditional means. This removes having to entangle many electrons, then put them in separate devices, etc.
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I know he's responsible. My problem is that I'm just as dead/inconvenienced no matter who's at fault. I'd rather avoid the situation altogether while technically breaking the law, rather than get in an accident and point fingers/dig holes.
No, I'm not the 'karmic equalizer'. I'm saying that if the rest of traffic is going 70 (speed limit 65), and you pull onto the highway doing 55, you're going to be causing a problem for everyone else, whether it's legal or not.
I was mostly trying to point out that speed is not the only factor in accidents, and shouldn't be looked at blindly through a dumb device like this. Not to mention it has no idea where you are, so if I drive residential streets most of the time, and all of a sudden I take a trip on the highway. More accidents happen on residential streets than on highways. But I just increased my speed while lowering the risk, statistically. Will it take into account varied habits? I mean, statistically signifigant variations? I drive half the time on city streets, and half the time on the highway? You can't statistically analyze those raw numbers in any kind of meaningful way without knowledge of the location.
No, there's no legal speeding. But I'm trying to get myself and everyone else on the road to where they want to get. Sometimes that means bending the rules in the interest of safety/expedience/etc. It's always illegal to go through a red light, but I've done so to let an ambulance through.
I did. My dad lets me drive his vette because he trusts me implicitly.
But then again, some parents are morons whose sweet little angel could NEVER do ANYTHING wrong...
Because that truck is trying to merge and the assholes next to you and behind you are crowding too close to make slowing down or changing lanes an option that doesn't result in an accident?
Or how about the dumbass who goes slow as hell on the highway, causing more of a danger to others than the guy who goes slightly over the speed limit?
Hell, what about the number of morons I've had to avoid becuase they can't figure out which fucking lane to turn into in a double left turn?
My point is speed isn't the only deciding factor in accidents, and if you have a device that measures only speed, well, it's like asking a blind man to describe the mountain vista to you. He can only say so much about it, in a non-contextual way, in a situation where context is of the utmost importance. It's the reason we don't have automatic pilot on cars yet... context is too important.
They have been for a while... the USPTO is a profit center for the Government. They take in a lot more money than they use in operational costs, the rest goes back into the pot.
Do you have any proof for this? Then why does my room stay cooler when I close my window blinds?
Get a clue... windows are usually sealed very well any more, and convection is a very poor means of transfering a large amount of heat. Air is actually a very good insulator.
IR is one of the main ways that homes heat up through windows, by the light/IR coming in, and then being unable to escape because it's shifted to a lower wavelength upon reflections from inside surfaces.
Ok, sorry, I'm gonna rant here... WTF is with people not being able to understand homonyms?
sync(h) - abbreviation for synchronize
sink - In your kitchen, an area that collects and disposes of waste heat/water/whatever.
Same with to, too, etc.
Please people, read more... it helps you spell correctly, as well as choose the correct word, and keeps you from looking like Cletus! (I done learned summa dem lettar things, yep! I kin now reed and rite!)
So, for most slashdotters, this would be the same as the frosted glass they already have in their bathrooms?
In reference to your 6th point contention, wouldn't it be equally, if not MORE difficult to roll patches out in a mixed Windows environment, say with some Win98SE, WinXPand Win2k machines? You're comparing apples to oranges. Besides, in a corporate environment, you're going to want to standardize, one type of Linux or one type of Windows. It's cheaper for small companies to roll out the same Linux across all their machines, anyway. No point for you. /proc isn't easy, but it's better than the alternative. It tells you everything about everything. Windows admin tools usually tell you something about a few things. With /proc, you only have to learn where to look to find what you want. .so dependency hell, that's usually because you use a library/app from another distro. If the application was compiled for your distro, it'll just work. Not to mention that you can version your .so's much easier than versioning dll's.
Secondly (seventhly?),
Now for the real secondly, as for
Just re-correcting a few counter-biases there...
I'd say that this example is a very clear-cut case of 'violating' the lock... it's failing in a manner it was meant to protect against. It's not like they're stealing the chair and the laptop, which I would say clears Kensington of liability. IANAL, but I know a few, and I watch Perry Mason ;)
You think there's a reason they're called BOLT cutters? They are long, unweildy and really hard to hide if you're carrying one, but they're effective and they have their uses.
An angle grinder will get through the boots they put on cars in no time flat, too... doesn't mean the boots are immediately ineffective.
...are you stupid? Did you not READ the article?
Wait... I suppose that's probably rhetorical. Either way, they're using an inductive load. To keep it from stomping on nearby transmissions, it will be necessarily VERY SMALL. This whole system will put out much less radiation than your microwave will, assuming you're anywhere further than an inch or two away from it.
Learn the science, THEN become paranoid.
People are actually allowed to use numbers other than 555-XXXX. They just don't out of habit/tradition and respect for people who have phones. There is no law (feel free to disprove me) that says you MUST use a 555-XXXX number if you are publishing something fictitious.
The main problem is that people aren't seeing domain names as a parallel to phone numbers, or anything else identifying.
...I certainly hope this is a troll, because otherwise you haven't been paying attention
X isn't slow. Client/Server relationships are really freaking handy, like when I want to run an application remotely (say, administering a server farm)
And the NT graphic hack? A dangerous kludge, period. Bad gfx driver = dead system.
And FYI, using X.Org, I get better framerates in many 3D applications than I do in Windows.
Counterpoint: I am a software engineer with... 2 years experience and I have gotten slackware 9.1 and 10.0 working with full hardware support on at least 5 computers. I must be a super-genius then, because you and your wife are obviously anything but stupid.
I have never had video not work on install. You must have some very flaky hardware for it to not work in at least a rudimentary manner.
In short, there is a counter-example for every example. What I find is usually the problem is that people go into a situation and say "This doesn't work right!" when they really mean "This doesn't work like Windows!" or "This isn't what I'm used to!"
Ummm... hate to be nit-picking, but isn't $54.99 - $49.99 = $5.00, not $15?
Five dollars isn't much of a tax over the console price, and you just don't play an FPS on a console. Hate to say it, but... well, no I don't hate to say it. Sad truth is that a gamepad sucks donkey balls for playing an FPS.
Ok, I'm going to go off on a rant here...
Why the fuck does everything always have to have a real world counterpart? The Internet and computers in general have changed all the economics behind crimes committed with them. Period.
What is a "barrier" on the Internet? A firewall with a port forwarded? Just having an IP address? The fact that everyone is a "peer" on the system changes all interaction. If you want to keep everyone else out, then the onus should be on the software, on the security of the local system, because that's the only kind that exists. The medium is too ethereal for any other kind of enforcement in any but small, high profile cases.
And yes, there ARE idiot users and idiot managers. There are also idiot administrators who push things without knowing the full ramifications, which is why they are shut down many times. The lacking element is communication and understanding, in BOTH directions.
Oh yes, in the software industry, we call them idiots because they refuse to adapt to a new way of thinking. I have met very few children who cannot fathom how a computer works, programs and all. I have met many adults who cannot fathom how they work because they are too scared, proud or too... something. The end result is that they still don't want to adapt, and cause problems because they "use" a computer in the loosest sense of the word.
Saying Java's biggest threat is Mono is like saying that Microsoft's biggest threat is SCO.
Someone needs to learn how to spell "lose"
Maybe you're just a moron and didn't notice that he capitalized the AC in pacifist, in reference to the poster's AC status.
But that can't be right... we're all geniuses here. And everyone else must be wrong because it's impossible for me to be wrong...
The problem is that "phishing" is describing this action specifically, rather than going out to the lake with a pole and a bunch of worms. It's been accepted into the lexicon, same as "phreaking".
Phishing also has the connotation of hoodwinking users, getting passwords, whatever, not just credit card info.
Sounds like average Joe should just be using the computer then... I've seen people break Windows in many interesting ways because they try to do the admin stuff. Why not just put together a nice, stable linux distro that doesn't have anything like apache, etc. on it, and let him use that? Most users that are of his caliber don't even want to update... they'd rather just change the color of their icons and wallpapers mostly.
Give people the options, and they'll play with them. Even if it breaks something.
Troll.
What's really amusing is the retard can't even spell "loser" correctly. But school, reading and communication aren't cool. I guess that explains it.
Sure, you could screw with one message. But then the transmitter/transmittee are on to you, and will move on to another place/tranmission setup that you're going to have to find and block yet again, and you still don't have their info.
Entanglement may or may not come into play. Depends on what you're doing, because you can just use the quantum computer to do calculations and then send the info over more traditional means. This removes having to entangle many electrons, then put them in separate devices, etc.