'If you want to be taken seriously, it might be time to set aside all that aristocracy and "House of Lords" stuff. I'd say it's "so last-century" but really it was "so last century" last century."
Woah, woah. The house of lords don't have to worry about elections and consists of a lot of knowledgeable people. True, they have no democratic standing, but because they aren't going for election they don't need campaign funds or populism. They do what is right more often than the elected weasels.
In that process of training & service for PCs don't forget the possibility that it might not be the computer that is infected:
I thought your next line was going to be about how humans can get viruses and start sending out infected packets too:)
I can only imagine how pissed off a customer is going to be if their ISP insisted that they pay a professional to clean their computer and are still being denied internet access because their router is infected.
True. However a professional should spot this, that the machine itself is not the problem. I do know that in reality the kid behind the "techie" counter at your local big-box store won't have a clue how to do anything but virus scan the machine.
Perhaps there are some less drastic measures that the ISP could go to. For the majority of consumers the remote management of the router would be something they'd welcome anyway. If the ISP could remote-reset the router (preferably whilst on the phone to the customer, walking them through setting their wireless acess back to the default SSID and password, logging into the router and re-applying customisations), then that would stop the problem.
Of course, remote management opens up whole new security vulnerabilities!
In other words, things that cable and phone companies don't really want customers on the residential plan doing in the first place, as explained in the terms of service.
Which ISP are you with?
I'm not even with a 'geek' ISP over here in australia and their ToS has nothing about not running servers. Nothing at all. I don't recall having seen that in the ToS for any of the ISPs I had in the UK since about 2002 either. A US thing?
"I'd like to see a movie where the director treated the technology with a little more respect and not like a kid with a new toy."
I hope to do so as well. For now I think people who actually like the 3D stuff (amongst whom I'm clearly one) will get the best experience out of 3D console games. Assuming they don't start going in for the "It's coming right for us!" trick.
Yeah, it's a pretty weird idea, to have a limited number of viewers or viewing positions available for a screen. If they could make it display in 2D mode (rather than headache mode) for anyone off the sweet spot that would go some way to mitigate it. But not that far.
I wasn't disagreeing with your point - 3D stereoscopy cannot just happen by magic. Somehow your left and right eyes need to pick up different images, and short of having polaroid lens implants, your going to need some sort of external technological solution.
You could use a screen that can change it's target zones by some form of facial recognition/eye targeting and some sort of dynamic direction grid thingy...It would have to scan constantly and readjust itself any time someone entered the room.
Yeah I know, a bit light on details. Possible though, IMHO. May even be easier to use some sort of lasers + mirrors thing and target people's eyes directly.
Sure, yes, you can perceive the third dimension in a 2D representation. If you couldn't then it would likely be painful or pointless to watch tv, look at photographs, anything like this. Stereoscopy is just one more trick (and not in any way a new one) that can suspend disbelief and make the images seem just a little bit more real and present.
If it doesn't work for you or if you just don't like it then fine, but the effect is real.
"Of course, I had to watch it in 2D since my home TV is not 3D enabled.
Yo, you can't actually get 3D avatard for home use yet. For some reason the movie that was supposed to drive the 3D revolution hasn't had a 3D bluray outing. I think they probably figure they can re-release as 3D later on and cash in again.
'Some of them even think that breaking the law is always 'bad', I'm willing to bet."
SOME?
I went on a tour of Alcatraz a few years back, and the guide stopped to explain how the island had been taken over by students/protestors after it had closed as a prison, as a protest about the disenfranchisement of the Native American populations.
It was when she said "And sometimes when we look back from many years afterwards, we can see that (very rarely) breaking the law might be justified or at least we can try to understand their motivations".
That shocked me. That it needed to be spelled out that clearly to some people, that sometimes people break the law for the right reasons, not because they're just hippie scum. It was then that I realised how straight-and-narrow a lot of folks see life. I don't know if they just don't think for themselves or if the buy all the bullshit or what. A lot of people won't even disagree with the government.
Hell, in the UK I heard people say "well if the government tell us we need to go to war in Iraq, then we must need to, it's not like they'd do it for no reason". Now I don't care which side of the should we/shouldn't we debate on iraq you come down on, the government's duty is to prove to the population that invasion of a foreign country is necessary. And the people's duty is to look at and question that proof.
bah. "Sheeple" is an overused cliche, but I truly believe it fits for a lot of people.
And why should they teach anything other than "the Word"?
Because clearly that's all the teacher had to learn and look at her, she's an IT teacher in a school!
Unfortunately this was all too common, I had hoped that in the 15 or so years since I last had a computer class of that style that things might have changed.
I don't think the ability in the example is lost, it just wasn't part of everyday life or part of education.
Unlike the car bit, electricity is not a hard concept to get if it's not treated as something alien and new. Or maybe that's just the way it seems to someone like me that could understand basic physics...
"On the one hand, doing things like this makes 'Anonymous' look bad, and by association, then makes what they are supporting look bad"
You assume they either care about looking good or actually want to make a difference. Or that they're capable of evaluating consequences. They're a loose collection of bored kids doing it for the lulz or because they're angry about something or just... bored. Not some sort of social movement with identifiable goals and an image to maintain.
BUT it puts a dent in the unquestionable goodness, power, strength and general white-knight-ness that people often proclaim for their country. This sin is not peculiar to Americans, but it is widespread in the US. And China I think, which is much more of a case of cognitive dissonance.
It's important to remember these things, learn from them, and try not to take such actions in future.
"The security issues only exist if the network people shouldn't be doing security anyway. "
Right, like my mom. The internet is not just for geeks these days, and the idea of having publicly routable (and thus more easily root-able) systems in the hands of my less-than-computer-savvy family members is scary.
Nah, I ran out of steam there. It was a serious thing though - any discussion on here involving 3D tv seems to attract the "oh no, never, it sucks so hard it blows" crowd, I was wondering if they had an opinion on the 3DS. Clearly not!
Well, I'm not much of a mobile gaming fan, except when on the plane, so I won't be queuing up for a 3ds at launch either.
The only 3D games I've played so far are Super Stardust HD, which looks pretty, and Wipeout Fusion Advance Super Mega Ultra 3D Remix Awesome Edition. Or whatever it's called. That looks really pretty. It's a shame I'm just so damned bad at it!
All those who said that sterescopic 3d is inherently a bad thing, that it's not "real", that it's offensive to you somehow, are you going to say the same about this? Or is it great because it's nintendo?
Slashdot Mirror
Any company doing illegal human experimentation resulting in deaths should be punished far more than that. People should be in jail for murder.
The spammer, OTOH, made a few million people's lives just that little bit worse, and deserves to be financially ruined.
'If you want to be taken seriously, it might be time to set aside all that aristocracy and "House of Lords" stuff. I'd say it's "so last-century" but really it was "so last century" last century."
Woah, woah. The house of lords don't have to worry about elections and consists of a lot of knowledgeable people. True, they have no democratic standing, but because they aren't going for election they don't need campaign funds or populism. They do what is right more often than the elected weasels.
In that process of training & service for PCs don't forget the possibility that it might not be the computer that is infected:
I thought your next line was going to be about how humans can get viruses and start sending out infected packets too :)
I can only imagine how pissed off a customer is going to be if their ISP insisted that they pay a professional to clean their computer and are still being denied internet access because their router is infected.
True. However a professional should spot this, that the machine itself is not the problem. I do know that in reality the kid behind the "techie" counter at your local big-box store won't have a clue how to do anything but virus scan the machine.
Perhaps there are some less drastic measures that the ISP could go to. For the majority of consumers the remote management of the router would be something they'd welcome anyway. If the ISP could remote-reset the router (preferably whilst on the phone to the customer, walking them through setting their wireless acess back to the default SSID and password, logging into the router and re-applying customisations), then that would stop the problem.
Of course, remote management opens up whole new security vulnerabilities!
In other words, things that cable and phone companies don't really want customers on the residential plan doing in the first place, as explained in the terms of service.
Which ISP are you with?
I'm not even with a 'geek' ISP over here in australia and their ToS has nothing about not running servers. Nothing at all. I don't recall having seen that in the ToS for any of the ISPs I had in the UK since about 2002 either. A US thing?
A matter of months? Are you crazy?
That would go against EU law, and I'm not saying you couldn't buy them off just as easily, but it could take decades for them to do anything about it!
"I'd like to see a movie where the director treated the technology with a little more respect and not like a kid with a new toy."
I hope to do so as well. For now I think people who actually like the 3D stuff (amongst whom I'm clearly one) will get the best experience out of 3D console games. Assuming they don't start going in for the "It's coming right for us!" trick.
As it is, I don't really need a 3D TV to watch Big Bang Theory.
Sure about that?
3D Penny right in your basement?
Yeah, it's a pretty weird idea, to have a limited number of viewers or viewing positions available for a screen. If they could make it display in 2D mode (rather than headache mode) for anyone off the sweet spot that would go some way to mitigate it. But not that far.
I wasn't disagreeing with your point - 3D stereoscopy cannot just happen by magic. Somehow your left and right eyes need to pick up different images, and short of having polaroid lens implants, your going to need some sort of external technological solution.
... wearing glasses or paying 2500 dollars for a 20 inch screen???
Hypothetically -
You could use a screen that can change it's target zones by some form of facial recognition/eye targeting and some sort of dynamic direction grid thingy...It would have to scan constantly and readjust itself any time someone entered the room.
Yeah I know, a bit light on details. Possible though, IMHO. May even be easier to use some sort of lasers + mirrors thing and target people's eyes directly.
It doesn't give the same feel of depth.
Sure, yes, you can perceive the third dimension in a 2D representation. If you couldn't then it would likely be painful or pointless to watch tv, look at photographs, anything like this. Stereoscopy is just one more trick (and not in any way a new one) that can suspend disbelief and make the images seem just a little bit more real and present.
If it doesn't work for you or if you just don't like it then fine, but the effect is real.
"Of course, I had to watch it in 2D since my home TV is not 3D enabled.
Yo, you can't actually get 3D avatard for home use yet. For some reason the movie that was supposed to drive the 3D revolution hasn't had a 3D bluray outing. I think they probably figure they can re-release as 3D later on and cash in again.
'Some of them even think that breaking the law is always 'bad', I'm willing to bet."
SOME?
I went on a tour of Alcatraz a few years back, and the guide stopped to explain how the island had been taken over by students/protestors after it had closed as a prison, as a protest about the disenfranchisement of the Native American populations.
It was when she said "And sometimes when we look back from many years afterwards, we can see that (very rarely) breaking the law might be justified or at least we can try to understand their motivations".
That shocked me. That it needed to be spelled out that clearly to some people, that sometimes people break the law for the right reasons, not because they're just hippie scum. It was then that I realised how straight-and-narrow a lot of folks see life. I don't know if they just don't think for themselves or if the buy all the bullshit or what. A lot of people won't even disagree with the government.
Hell, in the UK I heard people say "well if the government tell us we need to go to war in Iraq, then we must need to, it's not like they'd do it for no reason". Now I don't care which side of the should we/shouldn't we debate on iraq you come down on, the government's duty is to prove to the population that invasion of a foreign country is necessary. And the people's duty is to look at and question that proof.
bah. "Sheeple" is an overused cliche, but I truly believe it fits for a lot of people.
And why should they teach anything other than "the Word"?
Because clearly that's all the teacher had to learn and look at her, she's an IT teacher in a school!
Unfortunately this was all too common, I had hoped that in the 15 or so years since I last had a computer class of that style that things might have changed.
It's a goddamned miracle or magic or some shit, clearly, as was explained to me in Physics class.
I don't think the ability in the example is lost, it just wasn't part of everyday life or part of education.
Unlike the car bit, electricity is not a hard concept to get if it's not treated as something alien and new. Or maybe that's just the way it seems to someone like me that could understand basic physics...
Yeah, but it's not theft, it's copyright infringement! There's no honour there...
"On the one hand, doing things like this makes 'Anonymous' look bad, and by association, then makes what they are supporting look bad"
You assume they either care about looking good or actually want to make a difference. Or that they're capable of evaluating consequences. They're a loose collection of bored kids doing it for the lulz or because they're angry about something or just ... bored. Not some sort of social movement with identifiable goals and an image to maintain.
Absolutely!
BUT it puts a dent in the unquestionable goodness, power, strength and general white-knight-ness that people often proclaim for their country. This sin is not peculiar to Americans, but it is widespread in the US. And China I think, which is much more of a case of cognitive dissonance.
It's important to remember these things, learn from them, and try not to take such actions in future.
This is a really common thought pattern and I really hate it.
"We're not as bad as the worst thing I can think of, so we must be the best! Go number 1!"
Well, that much is true, if a good default config can be sent with routers then that will mitigate a lot of problems.
That said I still like the idea of private machines not even being route-able from the outside world.
"The security issues only exist if the network people shouldn't be doing security anyway. "
Right, like my mom. The internet is not just for geeks these days, and the idea of having publicly routable (and thus more easily root-able) systems in the hands of my less-than-computer-savvy family members is scary.
Nah, I ran out of steam there. It was a serious thing though - any discussion on here involving 3D tv seems to attract the "oh no, never, it sucks so hard it blows" crowd, I was wondering if they had an opinion on the 3DS. Clearly not!
Well, I'm not much of a mobile gaming fan, except when on the plane, so I won't be queuing up for a 3ds at launch either.
The only 3D games I've played so far are Super Stardust HD, which looks pretty, and Wipeout Fusion Advance Super Mega Ultra 3D Remix Awesome Edition. Or whatever it's called. That looks really pretty. It's a shame I'm just so damned bad at it!
Where are you?
All those who said that sterescopic 3d is inherently a bad thing, that it's not "real", that it's offensive to you somehow, are you going to say the same about this? Or is it great because it's nintendo?