...would allow any remote device to access a cars "control systems", especially when the car is running
...would allow any kind of connection between the "control systems", and other systems like entertainment
...would not have a "physical" off switch on the communication chips, so when you are not at a service center(with the proper equipment) there is absolutely no way to talk to the vital systems.
If the gps/navigation system of the entertainment system get hacked, one should be ably to just turn them off.
The amount that google pays the raters ensures that the pages will be glanced at for no more than 30 seconds each.
Included in that time one has to fill out a check list to specify the relevance of the page in respect to the search, "spamminess", trustworthiness, deceptiveness of title, level of "offensiveness"(hate speech/porn), etc.
The raters get paid by the hour, but they have a quota to fulfil. This ensures that one will pay a minimum of attention to the content of the pages one is rating.
"Independent contractors" sounds a little grandiose... google rating is the cheapest for of "mass production"
google also expects its "staff" to be active in the "rater forums"(on their own dime) to discuss the cases where people disagreed about the ratings.
and then block all the IP addresses and URLs that serve the Windows ads. One can probably find a list on the internet.
Easy:)
I'm sure Microsoft would argue that they are "giving" Windows(TM) to you with the PC you buy, because "that's what you want":)
It's YOU, the users who are choosing Microsoft products, so you don't get to complain about your own choices.
the real problem is the millions of Wi-Fi cameras, routers, etc. in which the users have turned the security features off.
Many people have about 2 minutes the patience to get their gadgets to work with the security features on.
Then they will happily use hours finding out how to turn the security features off.
he's only being sentenced to 5.4 hours/victim.. which isn't fair to the victims.
Personally, I'd like him to be sentenced to:
- 2 years jail.
- probation, where he must spend the remaining 70080hours (8years*365days*24hours) doing community service.
He can use his skills teaching basic computer usage to senior citizens, preschoolers, etc.
- no "personal access" to computers outside his community service work, until every last hour is worked off.
1) Facebook is not, and never will be, a democracy.
2) Facebook does not, and never will, guarantee freedom of speech, expression, communication
- Facebook risks being blocked by "non-democratic" governments
- Facebook risks being sued or blocked by people, companies, and countries.
Unfortunately... Facebook has reached a point where... Every-one uses Facebook because every-one they know uses it
Invention is driven by people who think "We can", "We'll figure it out", etc. The fact that Benjamin Franklin couldn't see perspective in flight... makes him... "human". In the same way that some-one(supposedly) said "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".
Fortunately there are people in the world with "vision", it's these people drive development
NASA has been around for a fairly long time, and I doubt it has been good investment as a "development platform".
Universities and are great at inventing stuff to solve problems. If USA had invested "NASA's" billions of dollars in universities, then more people could get a better education... which would be also be a better driving-force for the economy.
If NASA(USA's taxpayers) hadn't paid excessively for these "developments", then the "private sector" and universities would have done the same, and spent a lot less to do it.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (trademarked as Teflon)... discovered in 1938. NASA created on July 29, 1958... nope
NASA may have invested millions of dollars in developing computers... but they did NOT invent them. So again... nope You may have meant the NSA, which was created on November 4, 1952. It's an easy mistake to make... NASA/NSA, just one letter difference:)
Tang was created by "General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957"(according to Wikipedia)... NASA made it popular by using it on some missions. That's about the best marketing that a company could get. So again... nope
"Humans are not well made"... this depends on what the purpose of "the human species" would be.
What if the purpose of humans is to "intentionally or accidentally cause their own destruction" then we seem to be "perfect".
Just because because it would seen logical(evolutionarily speaking) that any species' goal would be to evolve into an improved species, or a "better version" of the current species.
Here's a draft for good law:
"it is illegal to place, or allow automatic placement, of virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' in any private property(except places pointed out in the next law). It is also illegal to place virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' in areas which are inherently dangerous such as, but not limited to: roads, bike lanes, railways, airports, military bases."
Here's a draft for another good law:
"to help weed out the people 'who are too stupid to be of use to society', the placement of of virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' is encouraged in and around properties which are known hangouts for violent criminals, such as drug and weapon vendors, also close to properties owned by 'biker gangs', and other groups of people who protect their property using violence"
...but Microsoft euthanized Windows 95 long ago
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Nostalgia has its place somewhere on the internet, but this is supposed to be a news site.
Considering that Microsoft announced the "death"(a.k.a. "Extended Support End Date") of Windows 95 to have been in 2001, the news should read:
"Windows 95 would have turned 20 if Microsoft hadn't euthanized it"
Yes, I'm a Linux user. That has nothing to do with my dislike of Windows.
Before I was a Linux user, I hated Windows. How could one like a company that was responsible for autoexec.bat and config.sys. So many hours fiddling with these files just to get games to work. That's why as soon as OS2 came out, I tried that.
Unfortunately, the fact that "everyone else" uses Windows means that one has to have Windows. Even just to maintain some level of "most of the world" compatibility.
On another note... at the moment I'm making website "responsive", so that they scale to work on phones, tablets, etc. One can easily get the responsive coding to work in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, for every shape and size of device. I converted one site in about 20 minutes, only to realize that Internet Explorer wasn't compatible with the coding. After finding a JavaScript patch, I then used 3 hours getting the site to also work in IE. Coding that will work in every other browser just won't work in IE, thanks Microsoft:(
Just because the people/companies in Greece are not paying for it, doesn't make the electricity free. The "rest of the world" is paying for the electricity by loaning the Greek government money.
"Linux is not really meant to be a desktop OS."....tell that to Valve. They only "relatively recently" releases Steam, 'Counter Strike' and 'Left 4 Dead 2'.
Despite that "Linux is not really meant to be a desktop OS.",(in my highly unscientific test of 3 computers) the few games that are made for Linux all work MUCH better in Linux(on the computers I tested) than their Windows counterparts.
And yes, to give Windows a fair chance... I did turn off updates, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, the firewall, and any other program that could by slowing Windows down. I did not remember to disable the webserver, ftp server, or any other software which I have running in Linux.
I was told by sone-one from USA, who was American:
"Here in America, common sense is so rare that it should be seen as a super-power".
By the age of 9, one's parents should have explained that the "magic" in fantasy movies/series/books is not real. Also, the magic in "stage acts", etc. is not the same as "fantasy magic".
Every child should read "magic books" which show card tricks, disappearing acts, illusions... so that they know that "real magic", is not the same as "fantasy magic".
It is utterly unreasonable to expect a software supplier to provide free updates for software "in perpetuity".
Microsoft is a business, they make money from selling new software. If you don't like that they make their software obsolete, ask them to make change their business plan.
Software could be sold with free updates until a "replacement" is released, and then one pays for an "update subscription".
This way one could have chosen whether one upgraded to "Windows Server 2008", or pays a yearly fee for updates "in perpetuity".
I admit that I don't play many games, the only one I play at the moment is Left4Dead2 (though previous measurements when playing Counterstrike where similar).
All my testing show, in a highly scientific study of 2 computers, that playing Left4Dead2 in Linux (Fedora 20 and 21) uses less processor power, and less ram than playing in Windows 7(which both computers came with). I don't have a program that tracks GPU usage, but tracking the temperature of the GPU's shows that they run cooler in Linux.
So using the same resolution, detail level, etc., I get a better frame-rate in Linux, and lower chance of network lag. Over all power usage, tracked from the power-supplies, show that both of computer systems use less power in Linux, for the same over-all result, the frame-rate is marginally better in Linux.
All computers/OS's combinations have as few other programs running as possible, so firewalls, antivirus, and stuff are also disabled. All computers/OS's combinations run with updates on, and the latest drivers drivers(official AMD Catalyst driver in Linux), etc.).
But as this is a tiny, unscientific study as always... YMMV.
Why does there need to be a "problem", there is no "good reason" to point lasers at planes.
If you have a car, please post your licence plate number so that we can make an objective study of whether you will crash if people point lasers at your car.
Who cares if the chance of hitting the planes if incredibly small... using this argument it should be legal to stand in your garden with a blindfold, and shoot at your house with a BB gun. The chance of hitting a window would be small, the chance of hitting you even smaller, so if one did hit you it would be an "accident".
About the "jitter from your hand" argument... what if one has the laser pointer mounted on something that is easy to aim... like a riffle. Rifles are designed to be held steady, even a toy would do.
Considering that only a complete moron would point a laser at plane, shouldn't this be something that one bans "just because its a good idea". Exactly why would one be stupid enough argue the case that "because no-one had died yet, it probably isn't a problem".
ps. could you give us the licence plate number of your car, so that we know to point lasers at you if you drive by.
...unless this leads to the development of technology which has a "useful" use.
This could be for the hypothetical, and highly unlikely scenarios, where one knows a plane will fall apart in the next few minutes and the only hope for the passengers is to put on their high altitude parachute gear, jump, and hope for the best.
Spending ridiculous amounts of money breaking this record just to seek notoriety, is about as interesting as breaking the record for eating boiled eggs. (That just happened to be on the TV earlier.)
"While those certainly were durable and useful, they are also very archaic."...
I had a Nokia N8, which was their second to last smart phone running Symbian. It was both durable and very useful, but very far from archaic. I would still be using it, if it wasn't that it stopped working after the 6000th time that I dropped it.
- It was durable, I dropped it on everything concrete, paving stones, etc. from "ear height" (about 1.70 meters... yes, I'm very clumsy)
- Between recharges, I could talk for about 10 hours, use the GPS for 10 hours, the internet for 5 hours, and take a few hundred pictures.
- Most of the housing was metal... you have to pay mega-money for many other phones like that.
- Because the housing was metal it "felt well made", Many newer/expensive phones feel flimsy. I heard that some even bend:)
- There was no "system rot", it didn't get slower over time.
- It was a very good map system. You didn't need an internet connection to use them, and the maps were always up to date (much better that Garmin's maps).
- The GPS was much better than most newer phones I have tried. It connected faster, and as far as I can remember, it never lost connection.
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on Twitter, but I don't know if he uses a phone.
If he does, then it's probably one like this official presidential phone
...would allow any remote device to access a cars "control systems", especially when the car is running
...would allow any kind of connection between the "control systems", and other systems like entertainment
...would not have a "physical" off switch on the communication chips, so when you are not at a service center(with the proper equipment) there is absolutely no way to talk to the vital systems.
If the gps/navigation system of the entertainment system get hacked, one should be ably to just turn them off.
and then trying to charge the business owners for service like "penetration testing", "quality assurance", or "theft prevention".
The "real world" version is ridiculous to 100% of the world, even the criminals.
Why is there any doubt about the illegality of the "on-line" version?
"Trump supporter" = "Gun-Shooting Robot"
The amount that google pays the raters ensures that the pages will be glanced at for no more than 30 seconds each. Included in that time one has to fill out a check list to specify the relevance of the page in respect to the search, "spamminess", trustworthiness, deceptiveness of title, level of "offensiveness"(hate speech/porn), etc.
The raters get paid by the hour, but they have a quota to fulfil. This ensures that one will pay a minimum of attention to the content of the pages one is rating.
"Independent contractors" sounds a little grandiose... google rating is the cheapest for of "mass production"
google also expects its "staff" to be active in the "rater forums"(on their own dime) to discuss the cases where people disagreed about the ratings.
and then block all the IP addresses and URLs that serve the Windows ads. One can probably find a list on the internet. :)
:)
Easy
I'm sure Microsoft would argue that they are "giving" Windows(TM) to you with the PC you buy, because "that's what you want"
It's YOU, the users who are choosing Microsoft products, so you don't get to complain about your own choices.
the real problem is the millions of Wi-Fi cameras, routers, etc. in which the users have turned the security features off.
Many people have about 2 minutes the patience to get their gadgets to work with the security features on. Then they will happily use hours finding out how to turn the security features off.
he's only being sentenced to 5.4 hours/victim.. which isn't fair to the victims.
Personally, I'd like him to be sentenced to:
- 2 years jail.
- probation, where he must spend the remaining 70080hours (8years*365days*24hours) doing community service.
He can use his skills teaching basic computer usage to senior citizens, preschoolers, etc.
- no "personal access" to computers outside his community service work, until every last hour is worked off.
1) Facebook is not, and never will be, a democracy.
2) Facebook does not, and never will, guarantee freedom of speech, expression, communication
- Facebook risks being blocked by "non-democratic" governments
- Facebook risks being sued or blocked by people, companies, and countries.
Unfortunately... Facebook has reached a point where...
Every-one uses Facebook because every-one they know uses it
The anti Microsoft feelings in me made me immediately assume ulterior/negative motives :(
ps. just so you all know... autoexec.bat and config.sys made me hate Microsoft a long, long time before I used Linux!
Invention is driven by people who think "We can", "We'll figure it out", etc. The fact that Benjamin Franklin couldn't see perspective in flight... makes him... "human". In the same way that some-one(supposedly) said "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".
Fortunately there are people in the world with "vision", it's these people drive development
NASA has been around for a fairly long time, and I doubt it has been good investment as a "development platform".
Universities and are great at inventing stuff to solve problems. If USA had invested "NASA's" billions of dollars in universities, then more people could get a better education... which would be also be a better driving-force for the economy.
If NASA(USA's taxpayers) hadn't paid excessively for these "developments", then the "private sector" and universities would have done the same, and spent a lot less to do it.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (trademarked as Teflon)... discovered in 1938. NASA created on July 29, 1958... nope
:)
NASA may have invested millions of dollars in developing computers... but they did NOT invent them. So again... nope
You may have meant the NSA, which was created on November 4, 1952. It's an easy mistake to make... NASA/NSA, just one letter difference
Tang was created by "General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957"(according to Wikipedia)... NASA made it popular by using it on some missions. That's about the best marketing that a company could get. So again... nope
Any other myths you'd like to quote?
"Humans are not well made"... this depends on what the purpose of "the human species" would be.
What if the purpose of humans is to "intentionally or accidentally cause their own destruction" then we seem to be "perfect".
Just because because it would seen logical(evolutionarily speaking) that any species' goal would be to evolve into an improved species, or a "better version" of the current species.
Humans might just be the exception.
Here's a draft for good law:
"it is illegal to place, or allow automatic placement, of virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' in any private property(except places pointed out in the next law). It is also illegal to place virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' in areas which are inherently dangerous such as, but not limited to: roads, bike lanes, railways, airports, military bases."
Here's a draft for another good law:
"to help weed out the people 'who are too stupid to be of use to society', the placement of of virtual items/effects/prizes/bonus' is encouraged in and around properties which are known hangouts for violent criminals, such as drug and weapon vendors, also close to properties owned by 'biker gangs', and other groups of people who protect their property using violence"
Nostalgia has its place somewhere on the internet, but this is supposed to be a news site.
Considering that Microsoft announced the "death"(a.k.a. "Extended Support End Date") of Windows 95 to have been in 2001, the news should read:
"Windows 95 would have turned 20 if Microsoft hadn't euthanized it"
Yes, I'm a Linux user. That has nothing to do with my dislike of Windows.
Before I was a Linux user, I hated Windows. How could one like a company that was responsible for autoexec.bat and config.sys. So many hours fiddling with these files just to get games to work. That's why as soon as OS2 came out, I tried that.
Unfortunately, the fact that "everyone else" uses Windows means that one has to have Windows. Even just to maintain some level of "most of the world" compatibility.
On another note... at the moment I'm making website "responsive", so that they scale to work on phones, tablets, etc. One can easily get the responsive coding to work in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, for every shape and size of device. I converted one site in about 20 minutes, only to realize that Internet Explorer wasn't compatible with the coding. After finding a JavaScript patch, I then used 3 hours getting the site to also work in IE. Coding that will work in every other browser just won't work in IE, thanks Microsoft :(
Just because the people/companies in Greece are not paying for it, doesn't make the electricity free. The "rest of the world" is paying for the electricity by loaning the Greek government money.
People use the word "free" much to freely.
"Linux is not really meant to be a desktop OS."....tell that to Valve. They only "relatively recently" releases Steam, 'Counter Strike' and 'Left 4 Dead 2'.
Despite that "Linux is not really meant to be a desktop OS.",(in my highly unscientific test of 3 computers) the few games that are made for Linux all work MUCH better in Linux(on the computers I tested) than their Windows counterparts.
And yes, to give Windows a fair chance... I did turn off updates, the anti-virus, anti-spyware, the firewall, and any other program that could by slowing Windows down. I did not remember to disable the webserver, ftp server, or any other software which I have running in Linux.
I was told by sone-one from USA, who was American:
"Here in America, common sense is so rare that it should be seen as a super-power".
By the age of 9, one's parents should have explained that the "magic" in fantasy movies/series/books is not real. Also, the magic in "stage acts", etc. is not the same as "fantasy magic".
Every child should read "magic books" which show card tricks, disappearing acts, illusions... so that they know that "real magic", is not the same as "fantasy magic".
It is utterly unreasonable to expect a software supplier to provide free updates for software "in perpetuity".
Microsoft is a business, they make money from selling new software. If you don't like that they make their software obsolete, ask them to make change their business plan.
Software could be sold with free updates until a "replacement" is released, and then one pays for an "update subscription".
This way one could have chosen whether one upgraded to "Windows Server 2008", or pays a yearly fee for updates "in perpetuity".
I admit that I don't play many games, the only one I play at the moment is Left4Dead2 (though previous measurements when playing Counterstrike where similar).
All my testing show, in a highly scientific study of 2 computers, that playing Left4Dead2 in Linux (Fedora 20 and 21) uses less processor power, and less ram than playing in Windows 7(which both computers came with).
I don't have a program that tracks GPU usage, but tracking the temperature of the GPU's shows that they run cooler in Linux.
So using the same resolution, detail level, etc., I get a better frame-rate in Linux, and lower chance of network lag.
Over all power usage, tracked from the power-supplies, show that both of computer systems use less power in Linux, for the same over-all result, the frame-rate is marginally better in Linux.
All computers/OS's combinations have as few other programs running as possible, so firewalls, antivirus, and stuff are also disabled.
All computers/OS's combinations run with updates on, and the latest drivers drivers(official AMD Catalyst driver in Linux), etc.).
But as this is a tiny, unscientific study as always... YMMV.
Why does there need to be a "problem", there is no "good reason" to point lasers at planes.
If you have a car, please post your licence plate number so that we can make an objective study of whether you will crash if people point lasers at your car.
Who cares if the chance of hitting the planes if incredibly small... using this argument it should be legal to stand in your garden with a blindfold, and shoot at your house with a BB gun. The chance of hitting a window would be small, the chance of hitting you even smaller, so if one did hit you it would be an "accident".
About the "jitter from your hand" argument... what if one has the laser pointer mounted on something that is easy to aim... like a riffle. Rifles are designed to be held steady, even a toy would do.
Considering that only a complete moron would point a laser at plane, shouldn't this be something that one bans "just because its a good idea". Exactly why would one be stupid enough argue the case that "because no-one had died yet, it probably isn't a problem".
ps. could you give us the licence plate number of your car, so that we know to point lasers at you if you drive by.
...unless this leads to the development of technology which has a "useful" use.
This could be for the hypothetical, and highly unlikely scenarios, where one knows a plane will fall apart in the next few minutes and the only hope for the passengers is to put on their high altitude parachute gear, jump, and hope for the best.
Spending ridiculous amounts of money breaking this record just to seek notoriety, is about as interesting as breaking the record for eating boiled eggs. (That just happened to be on the TV earlier.)
"While those certainly were durable and useful, they are also very archaic."...
I had a Nokia N8, which was their second to last smart phone running Symbian. It was both durable and very useful, but very far from archaic.
I would still be using it, if it wasn't that it stopped working after the 6000th time that I dropped it.
- It was durable, I dropped it on everything concrete, paving stones, etc. from "ear height" (about 1.70 meters... yes, I'm very clumsy) :)
- Between recharges, I could talk for about 10 hours, use the GPS for 10 hours, the internet for 5 hours, and take a few hundred pictures.
- Most of the housing was metal... you have to pay mega-money for many other phones like that.
- Because the housing was metal it "felt well made", Many newer/expensive phones feel flimsy. I heard that some even bend
- There was no "system rot", it didn't get slower over time.
- It was a very good map system. You didn't need an internet connection to use them, and the maps were always up to date (much better that Garmin's maps).
- The GPS was much better than most newer phones I have tried. It connected faster, and as far as I can remember, it never lost connection.