Have some fun with it then. A friend used to get phone calls from a hairdressers with a phone number which was a transposition of 2 digits of his phone number. He phoned and pointed out that perhaps there'd been a mistake in a recent advertisement, but the guy who answered it was dismissive, and the phone calls continued. He starting booking appointments for anyone who phoned him; the phone calls soon stopped after that.
That's mouse based science. What if it kills mice but not humans? You'd have to extrapolate one thing from another, which is what we're doing now anyway.
There's no way of approaching this - or any other - test which would be free from future evidence/experiments contradicting the results. You just do the best you can with whatever you want to call it; models, evidence, proof etc.
> You pretty well nailed my exact thoughts. After over 30 years of eagerly watching > anything and everything Doctor who I am finding the new stuff more and more cringe > worthy,
Possibly because 30 years ago you were a child, and now you are grown up?
It's just like Mr Noodle from Elmo's World. I used to find it funny, but now I just think he attempts to feed plants with a spoon rather than, say, a glass of water are simply laughable.
Probably easier to just become a contractor for the US military; seems there are millions of them, and it's not as if it's hard to get data out of the US.
As always, this sort of thing would be thwarted if you paid for "premium" numbers 3 months after the call, not at the end of the current month. This would give the consumer/community ample time to discover what's going on and report it before any money was taken. With no financial incentive to perform this crime it would happen far less often.
Of course, this means the phone networks would get less of a cut.
Pc pro is a shit mag; what would you expect? I grew up on mags like pcw - they had assembly columns and maths sections etc. Now it's all recycled press releases and mp3 player reviews. No wonder they're dying.
"Not quite as popular"? LOL! Ubuntu is way, way ahead of any other distro on the desktop. And Gnome is on Ubuntu, which makes it the the which Windows users switch to, not KDE.
Task killers kill services. How do you stop a service, such as the BBC news one (unless it's changed in the last 6 months)? Some apps don't have options to stop them running. I don't want that. Yes, the OS comes with an ability to stop stuff, but that's just an authorised app killer as far as I can see! I appreciate that the way Android works means that yes, you don't need an app killer; you don't even need to quit apps. That's great. But you need a way of killing faulty/poorly written/malicious ones.
All Google can do is let you set your desired permission, and then not let you install/run apps which required the blocked permissions. This mod may have its uses but it absolutely will cause problems for certain combinations of user/phone/app.
Which is why I don't give a shit about other people's opinions and instead think for myself. At the very least, read a review and see if the person has a point to make which, even if you don't agree with, you can get a feel for what the album/product is like. You get precisely zero information from an integer between 1 and 5; it's completely meaningless.
Also, I'm not sure how you'd be able to determine whether the `poor picture` problem was caused by 3d filters as opposed to whatever's been respsonsible for poor pictures for the last 35 odd years I've been dragged to see a movie. The quality always sucks! Why doesn't text stay still; why does it have to jump around? Why is the film always scratched? Why does it go out of sync with the audio? Aren't these all problems which were solved in the 1930s?
You might not be able to have privacy on Facebook, but that doesn't mean it's not possible. I'm waiting for a reputable company like Google to do something similar, but with all default settings to be `go away; don't share; whitelist only' so that you're completely invisible other than to people you actually want to correspond/share updates with. If Google did it there'd be no reason it couldn't have free Skype like voice (and video, if anyone actually gives a shit about that) chat. Etc.
Facebook got there first. Great - good for them. But it's shit, with a confusing, unintuitive UI and I've no interest in it. Sites don't last forever. Friends reunited...myspace... here today, gone tomorrow when something less crap comes along. It's not hard to imagine something more secure, private and less of a mess than Facebook usurping it.
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Moves are afoot in the US to outlaw this, yes.
Have some fun with it then. A friend used to get phone calls from a hairdressers with a phone number which was a transposition of 2 digits of his phone number. He phoned and pointed out that perhaps there'd been a mistake in a recent advertisement, but the guy who answered it was dismissive, and the phone calls continued. He starting booking appointments for anyone who phoned him; the phone calls soon stopped after that.
If I were the FBI I'd have plenty of servers, probably install people at ISPs tracing absolutely all traffic, run TOR exit nodes, run proxies etc.
Why not just stick 20 'F's in front of all of your passwords?
Easy to remember, hard to brute force.
That's mouse based science. What if it kills mice but not humans? You'd have to extrapolate one thing from another, which is what we're doing now anyway.
There's no way of approaching this - or any other - test which would be free from future evidence/experiments contradicting the results. You just do the best you can with whatever you want to call it; models, evidence, proof etc.
I mean, I'm not from the USA, but surely even that is illegal there?
> Mechanic: Someone set us cup the cake.
Sigh...even the parodies are wrong. That would be:
Mechanic: Someone set cup us the cake.
Even if you did, after 18 months you're left with another Apple product which'll look pretty lame compared to the iPad 4/5/6....
"as well as notified the relevant government authorities.""
"Yeah, we know.... Uh.. I mean really? Collecting passwords, you say?"
> You pretty well nailed my exact thoughts. After over 30 years of eagerly watching
> anything and everything Doctor who I am finding the new stuff more and more cringe
> worthy,
Possibly because 30 years ago you were a child, and now you are grown up?
It's just like Mr Noodle from Elmo's World. I used to find it funny, but now I just think he attempts to feed plants with a spoon rather than, say, a glass of water are simply laughable.
Probably easier to just become a contractor for the US military; seems there are millions of them, and it's not as if it's hard to get data out of the US.
As always, this sort of thing would be thwarted if you paid for "premium" numbers 3 months after the call, not at the end of the current month. This would give the consumer/community ample time to discover what's going on and report it before any money was taken. With no financial incentive to perform this crime it would happen far less often.
Of course, this means the phone networks would get less of a cut.
Pc pro is a shit mag; what would you expect? I grew up on mags like pcw - they had assembly columns and maths sections etc. Now it's all recycled press releases and mp3 player reviews. No wonder they're dying.
"Not quite as popular"? LOL! Ubuntu is way, way ahead of any other distro on the desktop. And Gnome is on Ubuntu, which makes it the the which Windows users switch to, not KDE.
Care to state it?
Task killers kill services. How do you stop a service, such as the BBC news one (unless it's changed in the last 6 months)? Some apps don't have options to stop them running. I don't want that. Yes, the OS comes with an ability to stop stuff, but that's just an authorised app killer as far as I can see! I appreciate that the way Android works means that yes, you don't need an app killer; you don't even need to quit apps. That's great. But you need a way of killing faulty/poorly written/malicious ones.
All Google can do is let you set your desired permission, and then not let you install/run apps which required the blocked permissions. This mod may have its uses but it absolutely will cause problems for certain combinations of user/phone/app.
> It's odd because with LED and CFL grow lights it seems to me your power consumption should be 1/6th to 1/3rd
> what it used to be.
I thought you couldn't get LED etc lights of the correct colour for growing plants indoors?
> iTunes has its faults
> it's really quite good
> Apple needs to completely rework it from the ground up
> it's certainly not "crap."
Are you by any chance familiar with `multiple personality disorder`?
Which is why I don't give a shit about other people's opinions and instead think for myself. At the very least, read a review and see if the person has a point to make which, even if you don't agree with, you can get a feel for what the album/product is like. You get precisely zero information from an integer between 1 and 5; it's completely meaningless.
Well, if you don't pay property taxes on it it can't be property, can it?
That's the trouble with analogies; they're usually misleading and/or wrong.
Also, I'm not sure how you'd be able to determine whether the `poor picture` problem was caused by 3d filters as opposed to whatever's been respsonsible for poor pictures for the last 35 odd years I've been dragged to see a movie. The quality always sucks! Why doesn't text stay still; why does it have to jump around? Why is the film always scratched? Why does it go out of sync with the audio? Aren't these all problems which were solved in the 1930s?
I'm not sure that I do not find it hard to not disbelieve what you're saying here.
You might not be able to have privacy on Facebook, but that doesn't mean it's not possible. I'm waiting for a reputable company like Google to do something similar, but with all default settings to be `go away; don't share; whitelist only' so that you're completely invisible other than to people you actually want to correspond/share updates with. If Google did it there'd be no reason it couldn't have free Skype like voice (and video, if anyone actually gives a shit about that) chat. Etc.
Facebook got there first. Great - good for them. But it's shit, with a confusing, unintuitive UI and I've no interest in it. Sites don't last forever. Friends reunited...myspace... here today, gone tomorrow when something less crap comes along. It's not hard to imagine something more secure, private and less of a mess than Facebook usurping it.
Just heard former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas has got a secret singing career.
Apparently she's been doing gigs in Manchester for ages.