A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.
For example it talks about marriage, how to meet women, and other things that you might expect from any modern relationship guide. It has a few sections about sex, kissing, and such but isn't the "sexual positions" guide that people think it is (often mis-referenced as such).
It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").
I actually read the article and it seems to lack one important thing... Why? Why should a Windows Power User wish to install Ubuntu? I mean it is "free" but my time certainly isn't, so I guess what is in it for me? What advantages does it have over, let's say, Windows XP?
PS - "Free" "Open Source" "You can compile it yourself!" don't count. People don't buy software because it is cheap, they buy it because it enriches their lives or increases their productivity.
Sorry but the show was bad. I watched a couple of episodes and it seemed to be a mix of: - Standard T2 storyline - Family porn (or super-softcore) (e.g. Enterprise) - One liners - Creepy sexual tension with the robot - Lacklustre action scenes
It just didn't grab my attention. Granted I could have watched more of it, but how much effort should *I* have to make to like a show? Shouldn't two episodes pull me in to watch more?
Traditionally when competition exists it pushes the technology (or industry) forward but unfortunately that hasn't been the case with browsers.
While browsers improve they also remain very much the same. If you pull up a copy of Netscape Navigator 4.0 you'll find that most things are still identical to today's browsers.
Just to give one example, look at bookmarks, they rarely have even basic search capabilities (e.g. title) and never have more sophisticated searches (e.g. content). Organisation is horribly difficult and finding anything often takes longer than googling it.
To give another example, history, it is a basic list of websites you've visited but often containing random javascript pages and giving no visual representation of what you visited (visual memory is useful). Search is bad here too.
I could list more and more examples but I think you get my point.
Since I was born I've learned only three things about women: - No two are alike - No two want the same thing - What a women wants changes from moment to moment
But that all being said, I'd try and sell Laptops via a "Aspirational Lifestyle" (e.g. "You're a 20~ successful, confident, and stylish women. This is the laptop for you.").
Then produce a bunch of stylish laptops that match that "look." Or match the look of the women in my adverts to my laptops. Either way, the people who aspire to "be that thing" will buy the laptop to do so...
Enough security at airports, we get it, they're "safe." The real security threats are against soft targets with no protection at all. Any location with a large crowd is a target and they're also impossible to defend.
I can see why you want fingerprints on passports, but all the insane stuff since then (e.g. "makes you naked" (Backscatter) child porno vision) is just over the top and adds an insanely small amount of additional protection.
Let's remember: - All 9/11 passengers used valid ID - All recent terrorists have also used valid ID
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You want to run around either a Warzone or hell the Streets of any major city with this thing? You'll wind up getting either shot, or if you're lucky tasered.
While discussing this exact type of crime with a cop (of sorts) who deals with this stuff day to day, his opinion can be summarised as followed:
- Throw away cell phone sim cards are good
- Throw away cell phones are better (Unique ID)
- Letter writing is safer than using a phone
- Having a conversation is safer than writing a letter
I am paraphrasing him now but he said something like "I would never touch a piece of technology if I didn't want to get court."
Adobe seriously needs to get its act together. Adobe Reader is in the top 5 most exploited applications and we have a new "highly serious" bug getting released every month or so.
It is slow, it is huge, and it is full of bugs... And it is entirely unjustified for an application designed to read a single file format!
There is nothing in principle bad about what is being demonstrated here. But let's be clear, this isn't a new step forward, this quality of facial recognition has been around for years (just ask Vegas).
The biggest limitation on facial recognition is and has always been the data processing cost. In terms of that the technology is obviously getting more and more viable as hardware progresses.
Might we see this in a TV in the future? Maybe. But only when the cost of the hardware gets to a certain point and then someone successfully markets that to the general populace.
Royal Mail (UK Postal Service) was made private and since then we've seen prices skyrocket, service diminish, and little or nothing of any actual benefit.
In fact the government is having to put more and more money into this private company each year to keep it afloat.
The USPO is SO cheap when you compare the two. And you all get first class mail with no additional charge!
If so, then just mount an encrypted drive and put the Search Index on the drive its self... Basically any encryption filter driver will do the mounting for you (Windows and Linux ship with these) and any old Search Software will work for the searching, just move the index.
Or you want to: - Search Encrypted Content - For other encrypted content (or decrypted content)
In either case this isn't possible. At least assuming you're using a Crypto algorithm written in the last thirty or so years then it won't work. Even in World War 2 they had encryption that would make this harder than just decrypted it.
The summary is just wrong... Nobody is suggesting (except the person writing this summary) that the payload of this rocket was anything more than a communications satellite.
What the international community is concerned about is that this really isn't about the satellite and is instead just an excuse to test better ICBMs.
North Korea is banned from launching ICBMs but allowed to conduct space exploration.
I have a copy of PIFTS.exe now and am examining it.
Notes: 1) It is small 2) Internally it is a "patch tool" from patch "021809db" 3) The Operating System function calls it makes are generally non-threatening 4) It accesses the registry (Norton products) and does some kind of date based validation
My guess is... It is an activation checker of some kind. It looks like it is pulling the registration information from the registry and checking it against file dates.
It also seems to copy its self to the temp folder on execution although I'm not entirely sure as to why.
Claiming that "Boxee" is like a browser's RSS feed is totally misleading. The software package cuts out the entire site, the adverts, etc and repackages it as almost its own material (with a small source icon).
How would you feel if someone hot-linked your content, consumed your bandwidth, and gave you no advertising revenue in exchange?
Sorry but you have $100k and you want to increase your security by wasting it on one highly secure pipe?
That is pretty sad. That money could be better allocated to toughen up systems or to employ spot checks on supposedly tough targets.
The truth is that almost no security breaches are conducted by cutting lines and intercepting the traffic (with the exception of satellite communications *cough* NSA *cough*).
Ultimately humans are the weakest part of the system, followed by the destination's security, and then last I'd say the transit between A->B.
Why are you purchasing six or so servers before you even have one online?
You say that you expect "1,000+ a day" visitors which frankly is nothing. A single home PC with Apache would handle that.
This entire posts strikes me as either bad planning or no planning. You're flirting with vague "out of thin air" projections that are likely impossible to make at this stage.
Have a plan in place for how you will scale your service *if* it becomes popular or as it becomes popular but don't go wasting the charities money just in case your load jumps from 0 to 30,000+ in 24 hours.
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A lot of people have the mistaken impression that the Karma Sutra is a sex guide when in reality it is a guide to having and maintaining a strong relationship.
For example it talks about marriage, how to meet women, and other things that you might expect from any modern relationship guide. It has a few sections about sex, kissing, and such but isn't the "sexual positions" guide that people think it is (often mis-referenced as such).
It is no more porn than any modern relationship book (e.g. "Women are from venus men are from mars").
I actually read the article and it seems to lack one important thing... Why? Why should a Windows Power User wish to install Ubuntu? I mean it is "free" but my time certainly isn't, so I guess what is in it for me? What advantages does it have over, let's say, Windows XP?
PS - "Free" "Open Source" "You can compile it yourself!" don't count. People don't buy software because it is cheap, they buy it because it enriches their lives or increases their productivity.
Sorry but the show was bad.
I watched a couple of episodes and it seemed to be a mix of:
- Standard T2 storyline
- Family porn (or super-softcore) (e.g. Enterprise)
- One liners
- Creepy sexual tension with the robot
- Lacklustre action scenes
It just didn't grab my attention. Granted I could have watched more of it, but how much effort should *I* have to make to like a show? Shouldn't two episodes pull me in to watch more?
Traditionally when competition exists it pushes the technology (or industry) forward but unfortunately that hasn't been the case with browsers.
While browsers improve they also remain very much the same. If you pull up a copy of Netscape Navigator 4.0 you'll find that most things are still identical to today's browsers.
Just to give one example, look at bookmarks, they rarely have even basic search capabilities (e.g. title) and never have more sophisticated searches (e.g. content). Organisation is horribly difficult and finding anything often takes longer than googling it.
To give another example, history, it is a basic list of websites you've visited but often containing random javascript pages and giving no visual representation of what you visited (visual memory is useful). Search is bad here too.
I could list more and more examples but I think you get my point.
Only bad lawyers walk away from a guilty party just because of their guilt. Hell that's what corp. lawyers could paid in the millions for.
More than likely a financial, reputation, personal, or conflicting issue.
Since I was born I've learned only three things about women:
- No two are alike
- No two want the same thing
- What a women wants changes from moment to moment
But that all being said, I'd try and sell Laptops via a "Aspirational Lifestyle" (e.g. "You're a 20~ successful, confident, and stylish women. This is the laptop for you.").
Then produce a bunch of stylish laptops that match that "look." Or match the look of the women in my adverts to my laptops. Either way, the people who aspire to "be that thing" will buy the laptop to do so...
Is it sensationalist? Perhaps.
But are people who struggle to read being hurt by it? Yes.
But I'm sure to 95% of the population "those" people aren't important.
Enough security at airports, we get it, they're "safe." The real security threats are against soft targets with no protection at all. Any location with a large crowd is a target and they're also impossible to defend.
I can see why you want fingerprints on passports, but all the insane stuff since then (e.g. "makes you naked" (Backscatter) child porno vision) is just over the top and adds an insanely small amount of additional protection.
Let's remember:
- All 9/11 passengers used valid ID
- All recent terrorists have also used valid ID
You want to run around either a Warzone or hell the Streets of any major city with this thing? You'll wind up getting either shot, or if you're lucky tasered.
While discussing this exact type of crime with a cop (of sorts) who deals with this stuff day to day, his opinion can be summarised as followed:
- Throw away cell phone sim cards are good
- Throw away cell phones are better (Unique ID)
- Letter writing is safer than using a phone
- Having a conversation is safer than writing a letter
I am paraphrasing him now but he said something like "I would never touch a piece of technology if I didn't want to get court."
PS - Terrorist cells are unique and individual.
Adobe seriously needs to get its act together. Adobe Reader is in the top 5 most exploited applications and we have a new "highly serious" bug getting released every month or so.
It is slow, it is huge, and it is full of bugs... And it is entirely unjustified for an application designed to read a single file format!
There is nothing in principle bad about what is being demonstrated here. But let's be clear, this isn't a new step forward, this quality of facial recognition has been around for years (just ask Vegas).
The biggest limitation on facial recognition is and has always been the data processing cost. In terms of that the technology is obviously getting more and more viable as hardware progresses.
Might we see this in a TV in the future? Maybe. But only when the cost of the hardware gets to a certain point and then someone successfully markets that to the general populace.
Royal Mail (UK Postal Service) was made private and since then we've seen prices skyrocket, service diminish, and little or nothing of any actual benefit.
In fact the government is having to put more and more money into this private company each year to keep it afloat.
The USPO is SO cheap when you compare the two. And you all get first class mail with no additional charge!
You hate it so much and want private? Trade?
In other countries it has led to exactly that.
Step 1) Child Porn
2) Other "Offensive" Material (e.g. Nazi Material)
3) ???
4) Welcome to the great firewall
Because 98% of the work was done by private contractors (thus the "most expensive project" part).
You can tell most Open Source advocates have never had to make costing decisions in large businesses.
Businesses are a lot more interested in the total value of something than its price tag.
Linux might be "free" but if you include the support contract, [re-]training, only then do you start to get close to its real cost in a business.
To get ever closer you have to look at how efficient it is for people to get their work done on that platform when compared to the competition.
I personally find getting almost anything done on Linux much more time consuming than either OS X or Windows...
So you either want to:
- Decrypted
- Search
If so, then just mount an encrypted drive and put the Search Index on the drive its self... Basically any encryption filter driver will do the mounting for you (Windows and Linux ship with these) and any old Search Software will work for the searching, just move the index.
Or you want to:
- Search Encrypted Content
- For other encrypted content (or decrypted content)
In either case this isn't possible. At least assuming you're using a Crypto algorithm written in the last thirty or so years then it won't work. Even in World War 2 they had encryption that would make this harder than just decrypted it.
Classical decision Theory *does* account for human's decision making. "Personal bias" (aka values) are very much accounted for.
... So you know what people say about academics being out-of-touch? ...
This article is the perfect example of that. The fact that they think any real person will use or understand a "sandbox mode" is just laughable.
The power boost button is just offloading what the OS should be doing behind the scenes onto the user to rarely get used by most of its users.
Security is insanely easy to solve on a phone...
1) Build a Java VM for 3rd party Apps
2) Limit its API scope
3) Win.
The summary is just wrong...
Nobody is suggesting (except the person writing this summary) that the payload of this rocket was anything more than a communications satellite.
What the international community is concerned about is that this really isn't about the satellite and is instead just an excuse to test better ICBMs.
North Korea is banned from launching ICBMs but allowed to conduct space exploration.
I have a copy of PIFTS.exe now and am examining it.
Notes:
1) It is small
2) Internally it is a "patch tool" from patch "021809db"
3) The Operating System function calls it makes are generally non-threatening
4) It accesses the registry (Norton products) and does some kind of date based validation
My guess is... It is an activation checker of some kind. It looks like it is pulling the registration information from the registry and checking it against file dates.
It also seems to copy its self to the temp folder on execution although I'm not entirely sure as to why.
Claiming that "Boxee" is like a browser's RSS feed is totally misleading. The software package cuts out the entire site, the adverts, etc and repackages it as almost its own material (with a small source icon).
How would you feel if someone hot-linked your content, consumed your bandwidth, and gave you no advertising revenue in exchange?
Sorry but you have $100k and you want to increase your security by wasting it on one highly secure pipe?
That is pretty sad. That money could be better allocated to toughen up systems or to employ spot checks on supposedly tough targets.
The truth is that almost no security breaches are conducted by cutting lines and intercepting the traffic (with the exception of satellite communications *cough* NSA *cough*).
Ultimately humans are the weakest part of the system, followed by the destination's security, and then last I'd say the transit between A->B.
Why are you purchasing six or so servers before you even have one online?
You say that you expect "1,000+ a day" visitors which frankly is nothing. A single home PC with Apache would handle that.
This entire posts strikes me as either bad planning or no planning. You're flirting with vague "out of thin air" projections that are likely impossible to make at this stage.
Have a plan in place for how you will scale your service *if* it becomes popular or as it becomes popular but don't go wasting the charities money just in case your load jumps from 0 to 30,000+ in 24 hours.