The current policy is extortion on non-savvy users. It's like a car dealership filling your new car with trash and charging you to take it out again!
Drop the gimmicks, and get into selling PCs as a business. Get the markup right, make a profit, and compete. If people WANT to buy computers that are $30 cheaper and full of crap, that's their decision. Don't regulate it either way - do what the market can stand.
We followed up with the article Flash SSD Update: More Results, More Answers, which proves our conclusion correct, despite the procedural mistake. Most of the Flash SSDs are not there yet.
Only one in the re-test (the newest, most cutting edge one) come out ahead in terms of power - and I wouldn't consider that one of the "current batch."
Ergo, we should have more wars because wars = progress.
Not.
Wars do promote progress, a lot of which becomes very useful for civilian purposes. I'd argue, however, that wars are a form of problem that gives countries the motivation to invest heavily into science and technology. Other problems that aren't war-related can do the same - such as global warming, terrorism (not strictly war), and health crises.
Short of trying to solve problems, what other motivation for heavy investment into the sciences is there? The majority of the population fail to recognize how scientific achievements improve their lives (and the reality is, they often don't for many decades). If a way to encourage heavy investment into the sciences can be found that doesn't involve responding to wars, health crises and other unpleasantness, then we'd move forward a lot quicker.
This system is in extremely frequent use in traffic patrol cars in the UK. They can scan hundreds of plates an hour and the cops are immediately alerted when someone with no road tax, insurance, or what not goes past.
It's not "Minority Report"-like at all.. in Minority Report they're catching people BEFORE a crime is committed. These cameras catch people who've slipped the net. I'd much rather people with no insurance are pulled off the roads by any means necessary, than have them crash into me and make me lose my no claims bonus.
No one has bothered to write one? You just take the BSD-licensed ssh client and tweak it for iPhone use. Since the iPhone runs a modified BSD anyway, it's reasonably trivial. What the issue is is that Apple do not seem to be approving these apps for distribution on the App Store. Even if something is not prohibited in the user license, doesn't mean Apple will approve it for the App Store. This is unsurprising from a walled-garden provider selling a device that can't even legitimately run GPLv3 software yet.
Despite a lot of people clamoring for one, there's still no SSH client available to download, which is a shame since the iPhone has an ideal display for it. Apple appears to have some sort of restriction on "terminal" type applications, which is a far bigger restriction than just "illegal and pr0n".
It's a literal reading of some poorly written (and spelled) English out by an animated character. It's funny because the reading is literal and so the misspellings are pronounced as if they are real words.
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It's no surprise that this has happened to a high ranking UK official. The state of security in the United Kingdom is absolutely pathetic nowadays, and the country deserves to be laughed at. Before we go on, yes, I'm British.
Barely a week seems to go by without a story of confidential government (or secret service) files being left on a train, on a laptop on a train, or what not. Think I'm joking? Google for "uk lost files train" to see a plethora of stories.
The British government is a fucking shambles when it comes to anything relating to IT (what about the £20bn wasted on an NHS computer system that barely works - with a reported 110 "major incidents" in 2006) or the secure management of data.
In the UK, any data stored by the government (which includes most of your personal information) is extremely unsafe and should be assumed to be public knowledge.
Approximately 5% of people are homosexual. Forcing 5% of employees to be gay would be rather odd. Likewise, in the UK 92% of people are white, so in companies with more than 8% who are non-white, they should be fired to make way for whites? Nah. Anti-discrimination laws are stupid and pointless.
Okay, so we have gender equality in science. You've raised racial equality. What about sexual orientation too?
The way I see it, we now need the industry's population to be enforced to:
12.5% - Gay, white, male 12.5% - Gay, white, female 12.5% - Gay, non-white, male 12.5% - Gay, non-white, female 12.5% - Straight, white, male 12.5% - Straight, white, female 12.5% - Straight, non-white, male 12.5% - Straight, non-white, female
But what if we get age equality in there too? Do we now need 6.25% segments with old and young of gay/straight, black/white, male/female? What about transgendered people? Do they get a slice of the pie? I'd also want to include people from the US versus not from the US. Oh, and don't forget people with Down's Syndrome.
At this rate, there'd only be one guy sitting in the computer science department with 99 vacancies going. The problem is, legally they can't discriminate when posting job vacancies, so how will the quota be filled? Who will find that gay Chinese hermaphrodite needed to fill a 1%?
The 8-bit version lost to most human players, but the 32-bit microcontroller has defeated even the best human air hockey players by a ratio of three to one.
Cripes, I dread to imagine how powerful a 64 bit microcontroller would be!
I was ego-surfing the other day, and was surprised to discover that I was listed as a member of the an on-line dating service.
I don't see anything on the jLove Curt Monash page that demonstrates that it's the guy who submitted this article. Surely there's more than one "Curt Monash" in the world?
If the site had scraped your Web site URL, e-mail address, or some other personal identifier that made the page look more "authentic", then there's a scam and a real privacy issue for us to be concerned about. If some computer is just putting together combinations of first and last names and building pages with no further personally identifiable information, that's spam for Google to worry about, not a scam or a privacy infringement for us to worry about.
at least one had lost interest in a guy because he appeared to be a member
The world is full of idiots. Just because someone's NAME (which is far from unique) is on a dating site, they lost interest? I'd say the guy had a lucky escape!
If there's any problem here, it's the Western naming convention that allows thousands of people to end up with the same name. Perhaps we should all become known by our e-mail addresses or IM screennames in the future to avoid this.
The deception is advertising as "free" something that costs money. If you have a coupon for a free cheeseburger, and they charged you $88, wouldn't you be displeased?
If that wasn't made clear before I entered into a contract, yes, but that is not the likely case here. If they took your details, gave you the box, then deceived you by charging for the warranty later on, that's a scam. If you know about the warranty before entering into contract, it's not a scam.
Your argument does not make logical sense, even though it successfully appeals to the emotions. If, say, Toyota offered you a free car, but you still had to pay for the registration, insurance, and so forth, does that mean the car is no longer "free"?
It depends how you view the purchase, whether holistically or in a logical sense based on the individual components of the transaction. You appear to be looking at the TV box transaction holistically, whereas I am just duly itemizing the cost of the various parts of the transaction. There is room for both arguments, and while only one is strictly logically correct, the other may be more pragmatic in scope.
Wrong. Bloggers who set up blogs to promote apostasy, promiscuity or "corruption" may be opened up to the joys of the death penalty in future, not anyone who's "blogging."
The headline as factual as saying, "In the USA, Touching Another Person May Be Punishable By Death." There are lots of other situations in which you can touch people than in the act of killing them.
The "free" digital TV box gimmick is not necessarily a scam. Comparing a box with a 5 year warranty to one with a 1 year warranty is not a fair comparison. It's gimmicky pricing to make people think they're getting a great deal. A scam, on the other hand, requires deception to secure an unfair or unlawful gain. In this case, the user is getting a 5 year warranty rather than the typical 1 year warranty, so it is understandable the overall cost should be higher, meaning it's not an unfair or unlawful gain.
(It could be argued that warranties aren't worth the paper they're written on. If a warranty is not workable, that's the part you can call a scam, not the gimmicky pricing.)
I believe the test you're referring to was discussed in something like The Economist or the New York Times. It was a pretty popular article that got linked from a bunch of places in the last couple of months. Sadly I cannot seem to find it through Google either, but the topic was photography. People did a photography class but then were only allowed to take one picture home, one group were forced to switch it later, another did not.
Am I saying that acedemics should take a backseat? Not in the slightest! I just really resent the idea that many on/. espouse that beign SMART and being ATHELETIC are mutually exclusive. They are not and never have been. Get over the group inferiority complex! PLEASE!
I think you have some sort of complex about this. Either that, or you're responding to a general community "mindthink" rather than what I actually said (which didn't include any of the things you seem to be "disagreeing" with).
I was comparing how sports departments seem to have differing priorities to academic departments. Whether you are in one group or another (or both, in your case) is irrelevant to my point. Further, your "business" and "money" angles also don't hold any water with where I'm from, the United Kingdom. Schools don't make money out of sports here and money-oriented school and college sports, in terms of a business, are almost unheard of.
If you belong in said group, feel free to mod me down. It might make you feel better to get back and one of those damned "jocks."
Seriously.. no-one's picking on you, but you seem rather bitter about something.
Interestingly, these sort of braindead policies never seem to apply to sports in schools. The focus is definitely on pushing and supporting the most athletic and physically skilled students, while those who are not good at sports are left to flail around and just do time. This makes a lot of sense, since not everyone/needs/ to be a hot football or tennis player.. but for some reason society feels that "everyone" has to be of average intelligence, which is just wrong (and totally impossible statistically).
Great Britain is actually the name of the largest of the British Isles. The Isle of Skye is in Scotland, but it's not part of Great Britain. The Isle of Wight is part of England, but not part of Great Britain either.
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The current policy is extortion on non-savvy users. It's like a car dealership filling your new car with trash and charging you to take it out again!
Drop the gimmicks, and get into selling PCs as a business. Get the markup right, make a profit, and compete. If people WANT to buy computers that are $30 cheaper and full of crap, that's their decision. Don't regulate it either way - do what the market can stand.
You missed:
We followed up with the article Flash SSD Update: More Results, More Answers, which proves our conclusion correct, despite the procedural mistake. Most of the Flash SSDs are not there yet.
Only one in the re-test (the newest, most cutting edge one) come out ahead in terms of power - and I wouldn't consider that one of the "current batch."
Power? The current batch of SSDs use more power, not less although I suspect this is a temporary issue.
Ergo, we should have more wars because wars = progress.
Not.
Wars do promote progress, a lot of which becomes very useful for civilian purposes. I'd argue, however, that wars are a form of problem that gives countries the motivation to invest heavily into science and technology. Other problems that aren't war-related can do the same - such as global warming, terrorism (not strictly war), and health crises.
Short of trying to solve problems, what other motivation for heavy investment into the sciences is there? The majority of the population fail to recognize how scientific achievements improve their lives (and the reality is, they often don't for many decades). If a way to encourage heavy investment into the sciences can be found that doesn't involve responding to wars, health crises and other unpleasantness, then we'd move forward a lot quicker.
Is that sarcasm? Things like nuclear power and landing on the moon came out of a "my dick is bigger than yours" contest between countries.
This system is in extremely frequent use in traffic patrol cars in the UK. They can scan hundreds of plates an hour and the cops are immediately alerted when someone with no road tax, insurance, or what not goes past.
It's not "Minority Report"-like at all.. in Minority Report they're catching people BEFORE a crime is committed. These cameras catch people who've slipped the net. I'd much rather people with no insurance are pulled off the roads by any means necessary, than have them crash into me and make me lose my no claims bonus.
No one has bothered to write one? You just take the BSD-licensed ssh client and tweak it for iPhone use. Since the iPhone runs a modified BSD anyway, it's reasonably trivial. What the issue is is that Apple do not seem to be approving these apps for distribution on the App Store. Even if something is not prohibited in the user license, doesn't mean Apple will approve it for the App Store. This is unsurprising from a walled-garden provider selling a device that can't even legitimately run GPLv3 software yet.
Despite a lot of people clamoring for one, there's still no SSH client available to download, which is a shame since the iPhone has an ideal display for it. Apple appears to have some sort of restriction on "terminal" type applications, which is a far bigger restriction than just "illegal and pr0n".
It's a literal reading of some poorly written (and spelled) English out by an animated character. It's funny because the reading is literal and so the misspellings are pronounced as if they are real words.
This service comes to you from FlashMoviesReviewedForPeopleWithoutFlash.com.
It's no surprise that this has happened to a high ranking UK official. The state of security in the United Kingdom is absolutely pathetic nowadays, and the country deserves to be laughed at. Before we go on, yes, I'm British.
Barely a week seems to go by without a story of confidential government (or secret service) files being left on a train, on a laptop on a train, or what not. Think I'm joking? Google for "uk lost files train" to see a plethora of stories.
For more, try a search for UK lost data. This includes November 2007's leak of 25 million people's bank details, national insurance numbers (like an SSN in the US), name, birthday and address. How about December 2007's story of the DVA losing the details of 6000 drivers?
The British government is a fucking shambles when it comes to anything relating to IT (what about the £20bn wasted on an NHS computer system that barely works - with a reported 110 "major incidents" in 2006) or the secure management of data.
In the UK, any data stored by the government (which includes most of your personal information) is extremely unsafe and should be assumed to be public knowledge.
Approximately 5% of people are homosexual. Forcing 5% of employees to be gay would be rather odd. Likewise, in the UK 92% of people are white, so in companies with more than 8% who are non-white, they should be fired to make way for whites? Nah. Anti-discrimination laws are stupid and pointless.
Okay, so we have gender equality in science. You've raised racial equality. What about sexual orientation too?
The way I see it, we now need the industry's population to be enforced to:
12.5% - Gay, white, male
12.5% - Gay, white, female
12.5% - Gay, non-white, male
12.5% - Gay, non-white, female
12.5% - Straight, white, male
12.5% - Straight, white, female
12.5% - Straight, non-white, male
12.5% - Straight, non-white, female
But what if we get age equality in there too? Do we now need 6.25% segments with old and young of gay/straight, black/white, male/female? What about transgendered people? Do they get a slice of the pie? I'd also want to include people from the US versus not from the US. Oh, and don't forget people with Down's Syndrome.
At this rate, there'd only be one guy sitting in the computer science department with 99 vacancies going. The problem is, legally they can't discriminate when posting job vacancies, so how will the quota be filled? Who will find that gay Chinese hermaphrodite needed to fill a 1%?
The 8-bit version lost to most human players, but the 32-bit microcontroller has defeated even the best human air hockey players by a ratio of three to one.
Cripes, I dread to imagine how powerful a 64 bit microcontroller would be!
I was ego-surfing the other day, and was surprised to discover that I was listed as a member of the an on-line dating service.
I don't see anything on the jLove Curt Monash page that demonstrates that it's the guy who submitted this article. Surely there's more than one "Curt Monash" in the world?
If the site had scraped your Web site URL, e-mail address, or some other personal identifier that made the page look more "authentic", then there's a scam and a real privacy issue for us to be concerned about. If some computer is just putting together combinations of first and last names and building pages with no further personally identifiable information, that's spam for Google to worry about, not a scam or a privacy infringement for us to worry about.
at least one had lost interest in a guy because he appeared to be a member
The world is full of idiots. Just because someone's NAME (which is far from unique) is on a dating site, they lost interest? I'd say the guy had a lucky escape!
If there's any problem here, it's the Western naming convention that allows thousands of people to end up with the same name. Perhaps we should all become known by our e-mail addresses or IM screennames in the future to avoid this.
The deception is advertising as "free" something that costs money. If you have a coupon for a free cheeseburger, and they charged you $88, wouldn't you be displeased?
If that wasn't made clear before I entered into a contract, yes, but that is not the likely case here. If they took your details, gave you the box, then deceived you by charging for the warranty later on, that's a scam. If you know about the warranty before entering into contract, it's not a scam.
Your argument does not make logical sense, even though it successfully appeals to the emotions. If, say, Toyota offered you a free car, but you still had to pay for the registration, insurance, and so forth, does that mean the car is no longer "free"?
It depends how you view the purchase, whether holistically or in a logical sense based on the individual components of the transaction. You appear to be looking at the TV box transaction holistically, whereas I am just duly itemizing the cost of the various parts of the transaction. There is room for both arguments, and while only one is strictly logically correct, the other may be more pragmatic in scope.
Of course, that anything is "punishable by death" demonstrates a country with a cruel and warped sense of justice.
In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death
Wrong. Bloggers who set up blogs to promote apostasy, promiscuity or "corruption" may be opened up to the joys of the death penalty in future, not anyone who's "blogging."
The headline as factual as saying, "In the USA, Touching Another Person May Be Punishable By Death." There are lots of other situations in which you can touch people than in the act of killing them.
The "free" digital TV box gimmick is not necessarily a scam. Comparing a box with a 5 year warranty to one with a 1 year warranty is not a fair comparison. It's gimmicky pricing to make people think they're getting a great deal. A scam, on the other hand, requires deception to secure an unfair or unlawful gain. In this case, the user is getting a 5 year warranty rather than the typical 1 year warranty, so it is understandable the overall cost should be higher, meaning it's not an unfair or unlawful gain.
(It could be argued that warranties aren't worth the paper they're written on. If a warranty is not workable, that's the part you can call a scam, not the gimmicky pricing.)
I believe the test you're referring to was discussed in something like The Economist or the New York Times. It was a pretty popular article that got linked from a bunch of places in the last couple of months. Sadly I cannot seem to find it through Google either, but the topic was photography. People did a photography class but then were only allowed to take one picture home, one group were forced to switch it later, another did not.
And the solution will be to make it illegal for one to make loud noises in public, or some other such nonsense.
You say that as if that'd be a bad thing!
Nah, I was using the rare variant of "English" that we down here use when Scotland has something we want to usurp!
I'd like to see them write Grand Theft Auto 4 with VB ;-)
Yes, GTA4 is a British production.
Am I saying that acedemics should take a backseat? Not in the slightest! I just really resent the idea that many on /. espouse that beign SMART and being ATHELETIC are mutually exclusive. They are not and never have been. Get over the group inferiority complex! PLEASE!
I think you have some sort of complex about this. Either that, or you're responding to a general community "mindthink" rather than what I actually said (which didn't include any of the things you seem to be "disagreeing" with).
I was comparing how sports departments seem to have differing priorities to academic departments. Whether you are in one group or another (or both, in your case) is irrelevant to my point. Further, your "business" and "money" angles also don't hold any water with where I'm from, the United Kingdom. Schools don't make money out of sports here and money-oriented school and college sports, in terms of a business, are almost unheard of.
If you belong in said group, feel free to mod me down. It might make you feel better to get back and one of those damned "jocks."
Seriously.. no-one's picking on you, but you seem rather bitter about something.
Interestingly, these sort of braindead policies never seem to apply to sports in schools. The focus is definitely on pushing and supporting the most athletic and physically skilled students, while those who are not good at sports are left to flail around and just do time. This makes a lot of sense, since not everyone /needs/ to be a hot football or tennis player.. but for some reason society feels that "everyone" has to be of average intelligence, which is just wrong (and totally impossible statistically).
Great Britain is actually the name of the largest of the British Isles. The Isle of Skye is in Scotland, but it's not part of Great Britain. The Isle of Wight is part of England, but not part of Great Britain either.