Um, try actually uploading a video and re-downloading the highest quality available of the same video. If you uploaded one terabyte of video, you are lucky to get 100-GB back. Facebook applies a very lossy (I assume) compression to whatever you upload (video and photo), and the upload/download process is throttled to boot.
I am all for wasting Facebook's resources, but just as telemarketers' phones are filtered for whistles and sudden loud noises, Facebook has taken basic steps to protect itself.
There's a distinction between being forced to provide money for military (to draw a hasty analogy) and being forced to quarter troops at your home. The former might be distasteful and objectionable, but ultimately not protected against in our system of laws. The latter is distasteful, objectionable, andprohibited by our supreme law of the land.
If they try to prohibit secure end-to-end encryption here (because that's what this amounts to), you can bet somebody will make a (successful) First-Amendment-based argument.
Put it this way—if my wife must know my computer password, effectively letting her masquerade as me, she has trust issues, not me. Even between spouses, pretending to be other person (signing documents in their name, etc.) can constitute criminal fraud.
Yap. See a nice avant garde novel that could be made into a great movie? Why, just wait 10 years, after the novelist couldn't afford to get the copyright renewed for the first extension, you don't have to bother with negotiating for optioning it.
I would be happy with the original terms of copyright—28 years, registration required, and renewable for one term for additional 28 years. (And no more worrying about the author's estate—do what rest of us do and bequeath your heirs money, not IP.)
You have to understand he's talking two decades ago. MIME was cutting edge!
Groovy, man.
P.S. Not only your wife shouldn't know your password, even if she knew it, your computer's default keyboard layout should be set to something she doesn't know how to type in.
As a former physics grad student, I completely agree. If you want a good programmer, don't hire a physicist—if you need a general manager who understands enough of programming principles to know when your software engineer is BS'ing (and not referring to their degree), hire a physicist.
I would be surprised to meet another physicist who even knows what big O notation means without having to look it up (I was an oddball who liked programming more than tweaking instrument controls).
You are right. It is utterly impossible to ignore a phone-call ring the way you can ignore text or email notifications. Clearly, the iPhone user's superior reasoning and intellect has won the argument.
And unless you are into calligraphy, this does not matter.
My writing in my native language is horrible, because over the last 20 years, I have almost exclusively been using English (both in speech and writing). And absolutely nothing of value was lost by me not being able to write beautifully in my old mother tongue.
I don't know, have typewriters killed the art of penmanship?
People who lose the sight of the "end" (that is, maintaining a relationship with people you love) for the "means" (particular mechanisms by which you do it) annoy me. There are harms done by smartphones, but "killing the art of conversation" isn't one of them.
You are right, of course, but I wouldn't get worked up about it until somebody replicates the "study". Psychology as a field is currently undergoing a replication crisis, which, IMO, puts all "findings" in doubt (unless they are so obvious that we didn't need a study to know they are true).
And why should we listen to somebody too stupid to tell the difference between impeachable and impeccable? Never mind science; they ought to go back to their grammar school!
If you ever traveled through U.S., you would know that the land area might as well be practically infinite. Earth has enough land area to support at least three times the number of people living on it right now; not every place on Earth looks like the European cities or Indian slums.
And who knows, maybe by the time we have three times the number of people we have now (so, safe bet to assume three times the number of geniuses alive today), maybe we can actually colonize something other than Earth.
If I had any mod points, I would mod this up. But since my return to Slashdot since the early days (mid-2000s), I never seem to get any mod points, despite my karma levels (and now that I have posted, it's a moot point, anyway).
I started keeping a personal data retention rule on Twitter for this reason. 2 years—that's the maximum length of lifetime I am willing to allow on my tweets. Every New Year's, I'll delete every tweet that is more than 1 year old. I am willing to be held responsible for what I tweeted in the last year. But if somebody wants to dig up older tweets, they're going to have to maintain their own archive.
Not "past" a black hole. Gravity (at least the static kind; not entirely sure about with the dynamic kind governed by Einstein equations) is a central force and no transfer of angular momentum takes place. Put it this way: angular momentum is a conserved quantity; unless there is some way to take angular momentum (about the center of black hole) out of the passing star, the black hole can't gain any angular momentum. You could cause the star to fall into the black hole (carrying its angular momentum with it), but you are going to run into some issues doing that; you might just end up with a really elliptical orbit.
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Um, try actually uploading a video and re-downloading the highest quality available of the same video. If you uploaded one terabyte of video, you are lucky to get 100-GB back. Facebook applies a very lossy (I assume) compression to whatever you upload (video and photo), and the upload/download process is throttled to boot.
I am all for wasting Facebook's resources, but just as telemarketers' phones are filtered for whistles and sudden loud noises, Facebook has taken basic steps to protect itself.
There's a distinction between being forced to provide money for military (to draw a hasty analogy) and being forced to quarter troops at your home. The former might be distasteful and objectionable, but ultimately not protected against in our system of laws. The latter is distasteful, objectionable, and prohibited by our supreme law of the land.
If they try to prohibit secure end-to-end encryption here (because that's what this amounts to), you can bet somebody will make a (successful) First-Amendment-based argument.
Put it this way—if my wife must know my computer password, effectively letting her masquerade as me, she has trust issues, not me. Even between spouses, pretending to be other person (signing documents in their name, etc.) can constitute criminal fraud.
Yap. See a nice avant garde novel that could be made into a great movie? Why, just wait 10 years, after the novelist couldn't afford to get the copyright renewed for the first extension, you don't have to bother with negotiating for optioning it.
I would be happy with the original terms of copyright—28 years, registration required, and renewable for one term for additional 28 years. (And no more worrying about the author's estate—do what rest of us do and bequeath your heirs money, not IP.)
You have to understand he's talking two decades ago. MIME was cutting edge!
Groovy, man.
P.S. Not only your wife shouldn't know your password, even if she knew it, your computer's default keyboard layout should be set to something she doesn't know how to type in.
You are right that this is useless if simple death of a target is your goal.
OTOH, if you want to commit murder in a way that is hard to trace back to you, short of having a Death Note, this might be the next "best" thing.
Will this help improve the Matrix acceptance rate?
So the trade war with China should help.
As a former physics grad student, I completely agree. If you want a good programmer, don't hire a physicist—if you need a general manager who understands enough of programming principles to know when your software engineer is BS'ing (and not referring to their degree), hire a physicist.
I would be surprised to meet another physicist who even knows what big O notation means without having to look it up (I was an oddball who liked programming more than tweaking instrument controls).
Hm. Are you sure? This seems to suggest that cellular phones are designed with sidetone.
You are right. It is utterly impossible to ignore a phone-call ring the way you can ignore text or email notifications. Clearly, the iPhone user's superior reasoning and intellect has won the argument.
And unless you are into calligraphy, this does not matter.
My writing in my native language is horrible, because over the last 20 years, I have almost exclusively been using English (both in speech and writing). And absolutely nothing of value was lost by me not being able to write beautifully in my old mother tongue.
I don't know, have typewriters killed the art of penmanship?
People who lose the sight of the "end" (that is, maintaining a relationship with people you love) for the "means" (particular mechanisms by which you do it) annoy me. There are harms done by smartphones, but "killing the art of conversation" isn't one of them.
You are right, of course, but I wouldn't get worked up about it until somebody replicates the "study". Psychology as a field is currently undergoing a replication crisis, which, IMO, puts all "findings" in doubt (unless they are so obvious that we didn't need a study to know they are true).
You are right. Europe is a hell hole. Let's start the cleansing process now. I heard good things about the Thanos plan.
And why should we listen to somebody too stupid to tell the difference between impeachable and impeccable? Never mind science; they ought to go back to their grammar school!
If you ever traveled through U.S., you would know that the land area might as well be practically infinite. Earth has enough land area to support at least three times the number of people living on it right now; not every place on Earth looks like the European cities or Indian slums.
And who knows, maybe by the time we have three times the number of people we have now (so, safe bet to assume three times the number of geniuses alive today), maybe we can actually colonize something other than Earth.
If I had any mod points, I would mod this up. But since my return to Slashdot since the early days (mid-2000s), I never seem to get any mod points, despite my karma levels (and now that I have posted, it's a moot point, anyway).
Tweeting is like speeding. The first step in defense is obscurity. The second step in defense is not being so obvious about it.
Sorry, I meant to say "they should just build more series of tubes."
Maybe they should just build more tubes.
I started keeping a personal data retention rule on Twitter for this reason. 2 years—that's the maximum length of lifetime I am willing to allow on my tweets. Every New Year's, I'll delete every tweet that is more than 1 year old. I am willing to be held responsible for what I tweeted in the last year. But if somebody wants to dig up older tweets, they're going to have to maintain their own archive.
Not "past" a black hole. Gravity (at least the static kind; not entirely sure about with the dynamic kind governed by Einstein equations) is a central force and no transfer of angular momentum takes place. Put it this way: angular momentum is a conserved quantity; unless there is some way to take angular momentum (about the center of black hole) out of the passing star, the black hole can't gain any angular momentum. You could cause the star to fall into the black hole (carrying its angular momentum with it), but you are going to run into some issues doing that; you might just end up with a really elliptical orbit.
"These days"? I remember when I was a kid, we would spend the whole day at the library during the break. When were the libraries not a daycare?
Agreed.