You can't remember the name of something but you can recognize thousands of icons designed for 16x16 display?
Have you noticed that some banks present a picture for you to verify after giving your user name but before you enter your password? That is because our brains are wired to recognize visual patterns very well. Hence recognizing an icon while not being able to remember the name is very likely to happen.
No, the issue at question here is whether it is right and legal to force religious organizations to act against their conscience, i.e. to provide health insurance that must includes contraceptives
The hypocricy amongst these religious organizations is massive. Surely the religious people that are employed by those organizations won't make use of the availability of the contraceptives will they? Noooo. That would never happen. And, as for non-religious employees of those organzations, why should the religious beliefs of the the employer be forced onto the employee? Freedom of religion does not include the being able to impose your beliefs onto others.
It's not the only "trick". A friend has taken a knife in the cabin multiple times, simply by overlooking the knife when packing his musical instrument. The scanner operators simply don't notice the knife amongst the other metal.
Have to wonder if the US over-played its hand in this case. Seems very little is going the way they've hoped.
No, I don't think so. The desired result has already been achieved -- they have wrecked his business.
All that is happening now is after-the-fact justification for wrecking the business and to avoid accusations that the sole purpose was not to go after a criminal, but to wreck a business that some powerful people did not like.
Even if this is appealed it will be struck down for the useless crap it is.
He is hoping that it won't be struck down before Facebook's IPO and that Facebook might decide that it would be prudent to keep their IPO paperwork clean of pending patent litigation by paying him some money to go away (AKA "settling the case").
Nice IPO you have there, it would be a shame if you lost a few $B on the IPO because of a little lawsuit, wouldn't it?
EU regulations don't allow individual countries to specify unique technical requirements for cars. The law can only require people to carry a breathalizer in their cars, and cannot require all new cars to be fitted with a breathalizer.
And I should have said -- you have wasted your time. You have wasted much of your Sunday evening. Reviewing the specific video and releasing it immediately would have defused a lot of the anger expressed here. Instead of whining about how complex the issues are, you should have taken the necessary action first, then explained the issues here.
Forgive us for being a little short in our responses -- it is a complex issue, and we're working through it on a Sunday evening.:)
I suspect you are bing disingenuous here. Why have you and your CEO been posting here without first checking the YouTube video and "releasing" it? There are complex issues here, but there is one simple issue: whether this particular video has any copyrighted material that you control. The fact that you and your CEO have spent your Sunday evening posting in/. before checking the specific video speaks volumes about your priorities.
Seriously, why was it considered ok to dump antibiotics into animal feed? It seems like total idiocy from this angle, regardless of the short term benefits.
Farmers just don't understand the issue. I heard an interview with a representative of some group of farmers discussing this issue last year. He was defending the use of antibiotics for "growth promotin" (sic) because they only used a low dose! Of course high doses may have their problems also (if it would allow some to get to the human food supply), but he did not seem to understand that using low doses (presumably somewhat inconsistently administered through the animal feed) could lead to resistence in bacteria.
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T-Mobile gives me 2 MBit on bad days and as much as 5+ on good days. Is that now considered poor?
In the US? Wow. On bad days, T-Mobile gives me 4Mbps and on good days (or good locations), 15Mbps. On a recent trip to the UK, I never saw more than 2Mbps and even at Heathrow airport, I only got 1Mbps, but mostly, I got EDGE or GPRS speeds.
Usually, the govts don't write laws, that's the job of the Parliament and somehow judiciary (by creating precedents).
Where this becomes relevant: at most (and only if smart enough), the executive section of the politics (the govts) might be interested in simplifing the laws - targeting lower cost of enforcement and (possible) higher amount of taxes resulting from a swifter/more flexible economy...
Strangely, not every country has a system of government that is identical to the USA. In the UK, there is not the same separation between executive branch and legislative branch, because the executive (civil service etc.) is ultimately controlled by the Prime Minister, who is the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons. The equivalent of cabinet secretaries all either have a seat in the House of Commons or (rarely) the House of Lords. Civil servants under the purview of the ministers write most laws.
On the other hand, "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" (written by someone well connected to a former Minister) suggests what little control the politicians have and how much the civil servants are able to exercise their own will.
Oh, I wouldn't say high quality. I have a 1600x1200 LCD and I can't find a way to replace it other than downgrading to only 1080, which would suck given the recent UI designer fixation on as many horizontal tool bars as large as possible. Major Bummer.
Completely agree. I am pondering the possiblity of two 16x9 displays, side-by side, but each one rotated 90 degrees.
Actually, the server's hosted by Private Layer in Switzerland.
Doesn't look like it to me. Looks like Rackspace in the UK:
traceroute to rnbxclusive.com (83.138.166.114), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ....
4 nyk-b2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.105) 0.621 ms 0.601 ms 0.581 ms
5 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.245.246) 0.560 ms 0.554 ms 0.537 ms
6 ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (213.248.65.93) 70.682 ms 70.634 ms 70.836 ms
7 ldn-b4-link.telia.net (80.91.251.13) 71.043 ms 71.016 ms 70.986 ms
8 rackspace-ic-132020-ldn-b4.c.telia.net (213.248.85.202) 72.684 ms 70.921 ms 71.109 ms
9 vl912.core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.245) 73.318 ms 73.291 ms vl911.core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.203) 73.002 ms
10 aggr310a-core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.111) 72.219 ms 71.905 ms 72.352 ms
11 S82574.clubonside.dk (83.138.166.114) 74.882 ms 75.357 ms 75.543 ms
# whois 83.138.166.114
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% Information related to '83.138.166.64 - 83.138.166.127'
inetnum: 83.138.166.64 - 83.138.166.127
netname: RSPC-UK-RACKSPACE-INTERNAL
remarks:
descr: Rackspace Managed Hosting
country: GB
admin-c: IA247-RIPE
Yeah, well I noticed the U.K. serious sissy patrol neglected to leave any contact information so I could ridicule them about tracking me and offer them a taste of my stool
People don't understand or care about the implications of the surveillance. The only way to make them care is to raise awareness using an image that people know and understand.
That image is "Big Brother" from 1984. That's the message that has to be put across by the anti-surveillance campaigners. Move the argument from a rational one to an emotional one. The other side has already done this, the solution is to raise the stakes.
Displaying multiple windows at the same time means that screen space isnâ(TM)t used efficiently, and it means that you donâ(TM)t get a focused view of what it is that you are interested in. Windows that arenâ(TM)t maximised also create additional tasks for people. Often you need to adjust their size, or you have to move them around.
My work requires me to frequently copy and paste from one window to another, or to compare the contents of one window to another, or I switch to another task while I keep an eye on window waiting for a task to finish. A single maximized window would be horribly inefficient for me, not to mention a stupid waste of space (I have a 2 monitor setup -- there is only so much usable width in a broswer window).
It's one thing to set the default to be optimized for maximized windows, but make it impossible for me to reconfigure it to work well with multiple windows and your window manager becomes useless for me.
The era when Sony made good hardware has long passed. They do still make some acceptable hardware,
The last Sony product I bought was a car stereo. One of the features I wanted was the ability to plug in a flash drive and have it play MP3s from it. The radio does this, but, I found after buying it (and there was no indication of this limitation in any of the literature) that it cannot read anything past the first 4GB of the flash drive. When I bought the radio, that model was only a few months old and 64GB flash drives were commonly available in stores. So, at the time of releasing the product, it was obsolete. Never again will Sony get my money.
I don't think many consumers are aware of the rootkit fiasco. Some time ago, I spoke to someone who worked for Sony, selling professional TV studio equipment -- he had not heard of the rootkit fiasco. If the employees haven't heard of the issue, why would the general population?
On the other hand, Sony used to build premium products and charge premium prices for them. I recall reading (during the late '80s I think) that Sony was the most valuable brand name in the world. Now they build cr*p and still charge premium prices. They also make those devices even more expensive for consumers by using proprietary add-ons such as Sony memory sticks. Consumers have started to notice those things. Sony was living off its valuable brand name for years, but now that train has hit the buffers.
Just like the EU referendum in Ireland. The government made it clear that they would keep holding referenda until they got the "correct" result. Spending taxpayers' money to fight the will of the people, that's the way governments work. Was it different in the past?
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Have you noticed that some banks present a picture for you to verify after giving your user name but before you enter your password? That is because our brains are wired to recognize visual patterns very well. Hence recognizing an icon while not being able to remember the name is very likely to happen.
The hypocricy amongst these religious organizations is massive. Surely the religious people that are employed by those organizations won't make use of the availability of the contraceptives will they? Noooo. That would never happen. And, as for non-religious employees of those organzations, why should the religious beliefs of the the employer be forced onto the employee? Freedom of religion does not include the being able to impose your beliefs onto others.
It's not the only "trick". A friend has taken a knife in the cabin multiple times, simply by overlooking the knife when packing his musical instrument. The scanner operators simply don't notice the knife amongst the other metal.
No, I don't think so. The desired result has already been achieved -- they have wrecked his business.
All that is happening now is after-the-fact justification for wrecking the business and to avoid accusations that the sole purpose was not to go after a criminal, but to wreck a business that some powerful people did not like.
Low doses don't cause mutations? That's why there is no research on how low doses cause mutations and resistance
He is hoping that it won't be struck down before Facebook's IPO and that Facebook might decide that it would be prudent to keep their IPO paperwork clean of pending patent litigation by paying him some money to go away (AKA "settling the case").
Nice IPO you have there, it would be a shame if you lost a few $B on the IPO because of a little lawsuit, wouldn't it?
EU regulations don't allow individual countries to specify unique technical requirements for cars. The law can only require people to carry a breathalizer in their cars, and cannot require all new cars to be fitted with a breathalizer.
And I should have said -- you have wasted your time. You have wasted much of your Sunday evening. Reviewing the specific video and releasing it immediately would have defused a lot of the anger expressed here. Instead of whining about how complex the issues are, you should have taken the necessary action first, then explained the issues here.
I suspect you are bing disingenuous here. Why have you and your CEO been posting here without first checking the YouTube video and "releasing" it? There are complex issues here, but there is one simple issue: whether this particular video has any copyrighted material that you control. The fact that you and your CEO have spent your Sunday evening posting in /. before checking the specific video speaks volumes about your priorities.
... as a clear example of why SOPA and PIPA would have been a disaster for the Internet.
Farmers just don't understand the issue. I heard an interview with a representative of some group of farmers discussing this issue last year. He was defending the use of antibiotics for "growth promotin" (sic) because they only used a low dose! Of course high doses may have their problems also (if it would allow some to get to the human food supply), but he did not seem to understand that using low doses (presumably somewhat inconsistently administered through the animal feed) could lead to resistence in bacteria.
( ! ) Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 15728640) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /var/www/overthinkingit.com/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1358
In the US? Wow. On bad days, T-Mobile gives me 4Mbps and on good days (or good locations), 15Mbps. On a recent trip to the UK, I never saw more than 2Mbps and even at Heathrow airport, I only got 1Mbps, but mostly, I got EDGE or GPRS speeds.
Strangely, not every country has a system of government that is identical to the USA. In the UK, there is not the same separation between executive branch and legislative branch, because the executive (civil service etc.) is ultimately controlled by the Prime Minister, who is the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons. The equivalent of cabinet secretaries all either have a seat in the House of Commons or (rarely) the House of Lords. Civil servants under the purview of the ministers write most laws.
On the other hand, "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" (written by someone well connected to a former Minister) suggests what little control the politicians have and how much the civil servants are able to exercise their own will.
Completely agree. I am pondering the possiblity of two 16x9 displays, side-by side, but each one rotated 90 degrees.
FTFY
"They" don't care. His business is irretrievably destroyed. The original objective has been achieved.
Doesn't look like it to me. Looks like Rackspace in the UK:
....
traceroute to rnbxclusive.com (83.138.166.114), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
4 nyk-b2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.105) 0.621 ms 0.601 ms 0.581 ms
5 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.245.246) 0.560 ms 0.554 ms 0.537 ms
6 ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (213.248.65.93) 70.682 ms 70.634 ms 70.836 ms
7 ldn-b4-link.telia.net (80.91.251.13) 71.043 ms 71.016 ms 70.986 ms
8 rackspace-ic-132020-ldn-b4.c.telia.net (213.248.85.202) 72.684 ms 70.921 ms 71.109 ms
9 vl912.core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.245) 73.318 ms 73.291 ms vl911.core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.203) 73.002 ms
10 aggr310a-core5a.lon3.rackspace.net (92.52.76.111) 72.219 ms 71.905 ms 72.352 ms
11 S82574.clubonside.dk (83.138.166.114) 74.882 ms 75.357 ms 75.543 ms
# whois 83.138.166.114
...
% Information related to '83.138.166.64 - 83.138.166.127'
inetnum: 83.138.166.64 - 83.138.166.127
netname: RSPC-UK-RACKSPACE-INTERNAL
remarks:
descr: Rackspace Managed Hosting
country: GB
admin-c: IA247-RIPE
So leave a message in their logs, go to: http://rnbxclusive.com/SOCA_Are_Wankers or some similar URL
People don't understand or care about the implications of the surveillance. The only way to make them care is to raise awareness using an image that people know and understand.
That image is "Big Brother" from 1984. That's the message that has to be put across by the anti-surveillance campaigners. Move the argument from a rational one to an emotional one. The other side has already done this, the solution is to raise the stakes.
My work requires me to frequently copy and paste from one window to another, or to compare the contents of one window to another, or I switch to another task while I keep an eye on window waiting for a task to finish. A single maximized window would be horribly inefficient for me, not to mention a stupid waste of space (I have a 2 monitor setup -- there is only so much usable width in a broswer window).
It's one thing to set the default to be optimized for maximized windows, but make it impossible for me to reconfigure it to work well with multiple windows and your window manager becomes useless for me.
The last Sony product I bought was a car stereo. One of the features I wanted was the ability to plug in a flash drive and have it play MP3s from it. The radio does this, but, I found after buying it (and there was no indication of this limitation in any of the literature) that it cannot read anything past the first 4GB of the flash drive. When I bought the radio, that model was only a few months old and 64GB flash drives were commonly available in stores. So, at the time of releasing the product, it was obsolete. Never again will Sony get my money.
Tell that to my daughter who dropped her iPod Touch two feet onto carpet which resulted in a broken touchscreen.
I don't think many consumers are aware of the rootkit fiasco. Some time ago, I spoke to someone who worked for Sony, selling professional TV studio equipment -- he had not heard of the rootkit fiasco. If the employees haven't heard of the issue, why would the general population?
On the other hand, Sony used to build premium products and charge premium prices for them. I recall reading (during the late '80s I think) that Sony was the most valuable brand name in the world. Now they build cr*p and still charge premium prices. They also make those devices even more expensive for consumers by using proprietary add-ons such as Sony memory sticks. Consumers have started to notice those things. Sony was living off its valuable brand name for years, but now that train has hit the buffers.
... until they get what they want.
Just like the EU referendum in Ireland. The government made it clear that they would keep holding referenda until they got the "correct" result. Spending taxpayers' money to fight the will of the people, that's the way governments work. Was it different in the past?