Without teenagers we'd never have found out how a Tesla will behave in a real-world crash situation because the only people who can afford to actually buy one are loaded old geezers who drive like their grandmas.
Look, if they cherry-pick for juries from the population, then they're clearly selecting for those individuals more easily manipulated/swayed/persuaded -- so to precede that information with a generalized statement like "[all] People are programmed" is potentially self-contradictory and therefore illogical. But don't mind me; you just go on thinking that way.
Say, wouldn't you feel left behind without this shiny, new, latest-generation iGadget? C'mon right over here...
Nope. My hardware (apparently) won't support Windows 7. Ergo, the upgrade wouldn't make me any happier; quite the opposite, actually.
Plus, under XP, I escape the constant nagging / threats to upgrade to Windows 10. We are the Forgotten Ones that Microsoft has (thankfully) left behind.
Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore? Both the 3rd and 7th sentences of the summary read, "low-level criminal attackers are even creating call center operations to increase the impact of their scams". I think we all got the point the first time it was made. Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore?
Most importantly, avoid places both real and online, where they may congregate. Specifically mentioned as such dangerously stupid locations are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and LinkedIn.
And Peeple. Don't forget Peeple. Especially stay away from Peeple if you want to avoid really dangerously stupid people.
Hey Derek, here's some of the groundbreaking, really cutting edge "amazing solutions for real people in the real world" that Facebook has been working on lately:
OK, well,I thought I possibly might be communicating with someone of some intelligence. Now I understand that you're just an asshole. Your years have taught you very little, I see. You can go back to flogging Facebook with your free hand now.
Depends on the context, doesn't it? I've never suggested that nothing else has any value, and if you think that, I suggest you go back and reread what was written. I have asserted that there are questions of priority and significance and that cat videos come fairly low on the totem pole. You are, of course, within your rights to disagree.
You make it sound as if Facebook invented group communication. Judging by your/. ID, you've been around at least as long as I have -- or well before the internet, so you must be well aware that there are any number of other ways to accomplish exactly what you carried out on your busy Sunday afternoon equally well. Oh, I get it: it's just so much more convenient doing it all in Facebook. Fine, but don't try to pretend that there's nothing else and no other way. So the whole "quest to engineer meaningful solutions... is not just about math and science, it's about making amazing solutions for real people in the real world. It's about pushing mankind to its outer limits by inspiring the world to imagine bigger solutions than our hands can hold" is just so much meaningless nauseating babble.
Civilization depends on people putting food on your table, a roof over your head, clothing on your back, and transporting you safely from place to place. That kind of stuff is hard. People used to die trying to get it done -- and still do, sometimes. That's what real engineering is about, not the kind of fluff that self-aggrandizing Facebook is trying to sell you. That's why "sales engineer" or "support engineer" aren't disciplines recognized by any professional engineering association anywhere.
I absolutely respect your preferences and priorities. But ask yourself: will you die if they vanish tomorrow?
You gave me a reasoned and thoughtful reply, so I'll give you one in turn.
Facebook is a microscopically thin veneer sitting atop the infrastructure that we call the internet. There is nothing that they provide that cannot be accomplished in any number of other ways and with other tools. In fact, many people communicate, network, exchange information and ideas, document their history and enterprises, and carry on social networking very well without Facebook at all. Remember email? Works brilliantly. That's why it's still around. For those times when you want a whole group participating in a discussion, a BBS (e.g. Google Groups) works very well. You don't need Facebook for any of it!
I'm not arguing against the value of social networking -- although very few, if any, people will die tomorrow if Facebook vanishes from existence. The kind of engineering I'm talking about and the kind of engineering that real engineers talk about is the kind where work is checked and rechecked because actual lives are at stake if someone makes a mistake. That's why I take issue with the inflated self-importance of Facebook's grandiose announcement.
... would Facebook know about "real solutions for real people"? It's a frickin' social network, fer Chrissake! What exactly do they produce? What particular problems do they address? How is mankind's lot significantly improved by the presence of Facebook?
Just find the people that do this and come down hard on them.
Aye, there's the rub.
We have laws against talking on your cellphone while driving too. But the laws themselves don't stop anyone, as evidenced by the number of people who just go ahead and do it anyway. There has to be enforcement -- and that's always the hardest part, isn't it?
Simply switching off the ringer on my landline has had the same effect; after tailing off over the first 6 months or so, I rarely get telemarketing calls anymore (as in, not even once a month). Anyone who really wants to reach me will leave me voicemail. Messages from those few telemarketers who don't hang up get deleted on recognition within the first couple of seconds of playback. And anyone who really needs to reach me directly will have been given my cell number to do so. Works admirably.
Mozilla's apparent position is that users wishing fine-grained cookie control should be using a third-party add-on instead, and that an "Ask before accept" option was, "not really nice to use on today's Web."
After updating to v43.0 this morning (32-bit version), I found that the Avira Browser Safety extension had been auto-disabled. This extension is unsigned by Mozilla but, coming from Avira, can surely be trusted. That decision, IMHO, should ultimately rest with the user, not with Mozilla.
To re-enable it, it was necessary to turn off signature checking for all extensions (xpinstall.signatures.required) -- a somewhat risky and therefore perhaps sketchy measure. To re-install it, it was necessary to manually download the extension.xpi file and install it from a local file because Firefox now refuses outright to install any unsigned extension from a website.
I do know a female doctor who married a male nurse. Although I have no direct evidence of this, I assume that screwing is part of their relationship; they've had 2 children together and neither one seems to be the platonic type. It rather undermines your utterly unsubstantiated and unsupported arguments.
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Without teenagers we'd never have found out how a Tesla will behave in a real-world crash situation because the only people who can afford to actually buy one are loaded old geezers who drive like their grandmas.
Now we know.
Look, if they cherry-pick for juries from the population, then they're clearly selecting for those individuals more easily manipulated/swayed/persuaded -- so to precede that information with a generalized statement like "[all] People are programmed" is potentially self-contradictory and therefore illogical. But don't mind me; you just go on thinking that way.
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Say, wouldn't you feel left behind without this shiny, new, latest-generation iGadget? C'mon right over here
Oh well, there's always Pale Moon
Nope. My hardware (apparently) won't support Windows 7. Ergo, the upgrade wouldn't make me any happier; quite the opposite, actually.
Plus, under XP, I escape the constant nagging / threats to upgrade to Windows 10. We are the Forgotten Ones that Microsoft has (thankfully) left behind.
Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore? Both the 3rd and 7th sentences of the summary read, "low-level criminal attackers are even creating call center operations to increase the impact of their scams". I think we all got the point the first time it was made. Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore?
Does /. count as social media?
No, we're generally tech-savvy here, so it's more antisocial media
Most importantly, avoid places both real and online, where they may congregate. Specifically mentioned as such dangerously stupid locations are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and LinkedIn.
And Peeple. Don't forget Peeple. Especially stay away from Peeple if you want to avoid really dangerously stupid people.
Hey Derek, here's some of the groundbreaking, really cutting edge "amazing solutions for real people in the real world" that Facebook has been working on lately:
Facebook explains that it is totally not doing racial profiling
I completely get why you're so turgid about them.
OK, well,I thought I possibly might be communicating with someone of some intelligence. Now I understand that you're just an asshole. Your years have taught you very little, I see. You can go back to flogging Facebook with your free hand now.
Depends on the context, doesn't it? I've never suggested that nothing else has any value, and if you think that, I suggest you go back and reread what was written. I have asserted that there are questions of priority and significance and that cat videos come fairly low on the totem pole. You are, of course, within your rights to disagree.
You make it sound as if Facebook invented group communication. Judging by your /. ID, you've been around at least as long as I have -- or well before the internet, so you must be well aware that there are any number of other ways to accomplish exactly what you carried out on your busy Sunday afternoon equally well. Oh, I get it: it's just so much more convenient doing it all in Facebook. Fine, but don't try to pretend that there's nothing else and no other way. So the whole "quest to engineer meaningful solutions... is not just about math and science, it's about making amazing solutions for real people in the real world. It's about pushing mankind to its outer limits by inspiring the world to imagine bigger solutions than our hands can hold" is just so much meaningless nauseating babble.
Civilization depends on people putting food on your table, a roof over your head, clothing on your back, and transporting you safely from place to place. That kind of stuff is hard. People used to die trying to get it done -- and still do, sometimes. That's what real engineering is about, not the kind of fluff that self-aggrandizing Facebook is trying to sell you. That's why "sales engineer" or "support engineer" aren't disciplines recognized by any professional engineering association anywhere.
I absolutely respect your preferences and priorities. But ask yourself: will you die if they vanish tomorrow?
You gave me a reasoned and thoughtful reply, so I'll give you one in turn.
Facebook is a microscopically thin veneer sitting atop the infrastructure that we call the internet. There is nothing that they provide that cannot be accomplished in any number of other ways and with other tools. In fact, many people communicate, network, exchange information and ideas, document their history and enterprises, and carry on social networking very well without Facebook at all. Remember email? Works brilliantly. That's why it's still around. For those times when you want a whole group participating in a discussion, a BBS (e.g. Google Groups) works very well. You don't need Facebook for any of it!
I'm not arguing against the value of social networking -- although very few, if any, people will die tomorrow if Facebook vanishes from existence. The kind of engineering I'm talking about and the kind of engineering that real engineers talk about is the kind where work is checked and rechecked because actual lives are at stake if someone makes a mistake. That's why I take issue with the inflated self-importance of Facebook's grandiose announcement.
Cheers
... would Facebook know about "real solutions for real people"? It's a frickin' social network, fer Chrissake! What exactly do they produce? What particular problems do they address? How is mankind's lot significantly improved by the presence of Facebook?
Signed,
an engineer
Most colleges require you have foreign language credit that you either took in high school or you take it while in college.
So you can get a BS Eng without taking foreign language in college as long as you took it in high school.
To most engineers, English is a foreign language.
[disclaimer: I is one]
Hah! Beat me to it. Well done!
[...] while they let him off with a warning my parents certainly didn't.
Good on your parents, mate! Wish more people had parents like yours!
Just find the people that do this and come down hard on them.
Aye, there's the rub.
We have laws against talking on your cellphone while driving too. But the laws themselves don't stop anyone, as evidenced by the number of people who just go ahead and do it anyway. There has to be enforcement -- and that's always the hardest part, isn't it?
Suggestions?
It was the combination of "around" (approximately) and "to be precise" that got to gstoddart. They do seem to be mutually incompatible.
Simply switching off the ringer on my landline has had the same effect; after tailing off over the first 6 months or so, I rarely get telemarketing calls anymore (as in, not even once a month). Anyone who really wants to reach me will leave me voicemail. Messages from those few telemarketers who don't hang up get deleted on recognition within the first couple of seconds of playback. And anyone who really needs to reach me directly will have been given my cell number to do so. Works admirably.
Mozilla's apparent position is that users wishing fine-grained cookie control should be using a third-party add-on instead, and that an "Ask before accept" option was, "not really nice to use on today's Web."
The same could be said for Firefox 44, really.
After updating to v43.0 this morning (32-bit version), I found that the Avira Browser Safety extension had been auto-disabled. This extension is unsigned by Mozilla but, coming from Avira, can surely be trusted. That decision, IMHO, should ultimately rest with the user, not with Mozilla.
.xpi file and install it from a local file because Firefox now refuses outright to install any unsigned extension from a website.
To re-enable it, it was necessary to turn off signature checking for all extensions (xpinstall.signatures.required) -- a somewhat risky and therefore perhaps sketchy measure. To re-install it, it was necessary to manually download the extension
You can't blame Microsoft for this. They only want computers more secure.
That's all they want? You really think that?
I call bullshit.
Female doctors do not screw male nurses.
I do know a female doctor who married a male nurse. Although I have no direct evidence of this, I assume that screwing is part of their relationship; they've had 2 children together and neither one seems to be the platonic type. It rather undermines your utterly unsubstantiated and unsupported arguments.
Who modded PP insightful???
QED
Can I have my doctorate now, please?