This sounds like a desperate attempt by the school to get funding. Gotta keep every kid in a seat to get paid for that seat. Rather than wasting money on a fucking robot, it seems they could have just hired a tutor to home school the kid and he'd have gotten much more out of it. Being virtually surrounded by a bunch of loser schoolmates isn't really worth the cash involved.
Oh, I thought the headline indicated the story was going to be about how Chrome went from version 1.0 to like version 18 in two years, because of the stupid numbering scam^h^hheme.
Correct. You can use the "opt-out" feature, but it only works if the advertiser also "opts-in". In other words, this is completely fucking useless. It's like having a car that is crash-proof, as long as nobody crashes into you. (Because this is slashdot and this post would be useless without a car analogy).
We've bought into the mutual-delusion that geeks are cool, because we've gathered around places like Slashdot over the last fifteen years. If you're a furry and you hang around other furries all the time, you're probably going to have an inaccurate perception that being a furry is more popular and accepted than it really is. Likewise, we geeks have had a way to congregate like never before, thanks to the internet. And because we've been big on technology, we've been doing this longer than most other groups. So, in that time, our self-delusion has thrived.
The fact is that society may like a few of the things that geeks like, from time to time, but that should not be misconstrued as liking geeks. They may like Kick-Ass and some may even like Catan, but that doesn't mean they like *you*. It just means they like Kick-Ass and Catan.
An overwhelming portion of the population still thinks of "geek" as a pejorative. How many times have you watched movies or television recently, where "geek" was used as a put-down? Personally, my reality-check was only a few years ago. I did something absurdly dorky and mumbled something about what a geek I am. The girl I was seeing at the time consoled me with a concerned "oh, no, you're not a geek!" the same way you'd say "oh, no, you're not a loser...!" to someone who was just berating themselves and slamming their head against a wall.
Geeks think geeks are cool. Society thinks a couple things here and there that geeks like are cool. There is no overlapping venn diagram there, where society thinks some of the things geeks like are cool *and* geeks are cool. Accept it and deal with it. Frankly, I'm about fifteen years too old to give a flying fuck who thinks I'm cool or whether or not I'm accepted by anyone. I'd hope the majority here feel the same.
I think it's a fantastic idea and I hate dealing with saves (especially on the 360, where I don't believe there is any way to have a backup of your data . . . which is really fucked). I just don't buy that it's some innocent attempt to give customer's a great feature. It's a trojan horse in response to GeoHot, almost certainly.
I've never bothered, so I don't know . . . but can you save to multiple USB devices? If, like with the 360, there can only ever be one instance of your data *ANYWHERE*, then the reason is that you have data stored somewhere in case your device fails.
Moot point. How are you going to (without much more effort) jailbreak your console, when they take away the USB ports, because they have replaced USB ports/memory sticks with cloud saves?
Offering local backups/saves undermines the entire point of why they want to store saves in the cloud. By saying "you don't need any memory device for saves", they can justify eradication of any sort of USB port. Go proprietary only for headset and other devices and wipe out all USB type ports, to make jailbreaking and customizing your PS3 more difficult.
Don't let them bullshit you for one second that the value of lives is at all relevant to them, here. The motivating factor is the value of the government contracts that will be handed out should this idea succeed. The same kind of contracts that benefit certain industries if we fall for the idea that we should stick everyone under house arrest and fit them with an electronic bracelet for even the slightest crime (and, of course, people will think that's a tremendous idea if the alternative is jail time).
The result is an enormous revenue stream. Every single person in this country convicted of some sort of a violation (in this case, we'll just stick to alcohol related) fitted with an expensive device for an additional expensive installation fee. Then their car, fitted with an expensive device and another expensive installation fee. Then expensive monthly subscriptions (paid out of the individual's pocket) for monitoring and maintenance. If you don't have the money or you find it an abhorrent solution, then you can always opt not to participate and not pay all of that money. Of course, then we're going to lock you up in prison for a year. So it's not like we're not giving you freedom of choice!
If they REALLY gave a fuck about preventing lives, the solution wouldn't involve ridiculously complex and expensive monitoring and fittings and equipment farmed out to private industry. The solution would be that if you are convicted of driving drunk, your license would be revoked for the rest of your life and if you still put society in danger by driving without a license, then we stick you in prison.
Except for the death penalty or when a cop shoots you in the face point blank at a light rail stop in Oakland without justification or when a SWAT team breaks down your door and blasts away at everyone inside, before realizing they had the wrong address, or when we want to test some horrible new drug on a segment of our population that is disenfranchised and unlikely to seek recourse.
Are you kidding me? In America, the only thing harder to pry from our hands than a slice of pizza or a twinky is our cars. Any fuel other than petrol is for pussies. Automation is for pussies. And it's more important that the nearly blind 94 year old great great grandmother continue to feel as if she's "independent" than to prevent a soccer field full of children from being run over when she mistakes the gas for the brake.
First of all, if the driver has this installed because they have been convicted of driving drunk . . . WHY ARE THEY BEING ALLOWED TO DRIVE AT ALL?
Second of all, if the device is preventing the person from driving, who cares if they fail the "test" a thousand times in a year?
This kind of stuff reminds me of the bullshit in Oregon. In Oregon, we have the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission). In Oregon, a shop keeper is not allowed to directly purchase alcohol. The state purchases all of the alcohol and then marks up the price and sells it to retailers who then mark it up and sell it to customers. Until just a few years ago, one of the OLCC's laws required that customers provide a DRIVER'S LICENSE as identification at a bar. Not a state ID card. It had to be a LICENSE. In other words, if you had absolutely no way you could be driving yourself home, then you weren't allowed to drink. I think this was changed only about five years ago.
Of course, the OLCC is a whole other story, frankly. In Oergon, all liquor is owned by the state. The entire inventory in your store is owned by the state and you are working on commission, essentially. And only liquor stores can sell liquor (ie, nothing stronger than beer in your grocery store). There are about 200+ of these in the state. They also don't allow places to serve more than one drink at a time. Or drink from a pitcher (even if you ordered a pitcher).
The first thing people need to do is stop treating MADD (which is an outrageous scam) as some respected and righteous organization. Treat them like the pope -- let them talk and completely ignore them because they have no place in civil discourse.
The second thing people need to do is stop thinking of ways to avoid letting drunks start up their car while drunk and STOP LETTING DRUNKS HAVE A LICENSE. It's that fucking simple. First drunk driving conviction, lose your license forever. A second conviction means you are both driving drunk and without a license. It's a year in prison, for you (because you are proven risk to society, at that point).
For everyone else? Fuck this shit. I don't drink and drive and I'm offended at the idea of being treated like a criminal the moment I get into my own property and turn the key.
It's not idle time -- it's pure stupidity. If you have nothing but downtime for fucking, you can still use a god damn condom. They're incredibly cheap and for a lot of poor people, even provided for free (in schools or planned parenthood clinics, for example). It's also pretty damn easy to get the pill, for that double shot of prevention (though, not as easy or cheap as condoms, of course). And in all cases, both are fare cheaper than the expense of a hospital delivery or raising a kid.
Of course, people will whine about how they have failure rates and blah blah blah. All I know is that the people I've known (including myself) who enjoy sex and don't want children . . . *gasp* . . . have somehow made it through life without having children.
That statement is awfully close to the bullshit people throw around about "atheism is a religon durr durr durr", which in itself is just a sad attempt by people to try and gain legitimacy by forcing a non-existent association between their view and another's. The same thing as creationists trying to assert that creationism is "just as valid a *theory* as evolution".
No, Collins said it wouldn't be used like that. You can trust the government. If they say they want additional power, that they won't abuse, you can always rely on government to be true to its word, right?
I just finished all eight seasons of 24 in a period of two weeks, so I feel I'm qualified to suggest that you hold said admin's family hostage and then use enhanced interrogation techniques in the event that he fails you.
No, they probably didn't consider the possibility that the boy was unusually good, because the news report itself states that microsoft sent the mother three response emails that mentioned using something external to acquire achievements without actually playing the game. As others have pointed out, that would be a saved game copied downloaded and copied onto a USB stick so that when you loaded it up, you got all the achievements that save already accomplished, without YOU ever actually having played the game.
Since they can pretty easily detect that sort of thing, they of course would have no reason to ever consider "he's just super good".
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This sounds like a desperate attempt by the school to get funding. Gotta keep every kid in a seat to get paid for that seat. Rather than wasting money on a fucking robot, it seems they could have just hired a tutor to home school the kid and he'd have gotten much more out of it. Being virtually surrounded by a bunch of loser schoolmates isn't really worth the cash involved.
Of course Netscape had double digit market share. It was the dominating browser, until about 1999 with a peak of around 80% market share earlier on.
Oh, I thought the headline indicated the story was going to be about how Chrome went from version 1.0 to like version 18 in two years, because of the stupid numbering scam^h^hheme.
At least our tax dollars aren't funding stupid slashdot stories. :/
That'll be great. For Americans in America visiting American websites hosted in America and advertising for American advertisers in America.
Correct. You can use the "opt-out" feature, but it only works if the advertiser also "opts-in". In other words, this is completely fucking useless. It's like having a car that is crash-proof, as long as nobody crashes into you. (Because this is slashdot and this post would be useless without a car analogy).
We've bought into the mutual-delusion that geeks are cool, because we've gathered around places like Slashdot over the last fifteen years. If you're a furry and you hang around other furries all the time, you're probably going to have an inaccurate perception that being a furry is more popular and accepted than it really is. Likewise, we geeks have had a way to congregate like never before, thanks to the internet. And because we've been big on technology, we've been doing this longer than most other groups. So, in that time, our self-delusion has thrived.
The fact is that society may like a few of the things that geeks like, from time to time, but that should not be misconstrued as liking geeks. They may like Kick-Ass and some may even like Catan, but that doesn't mean they like *you*. It just means they like Kick-Ass and Catan.
An overwhelming portion of the population still thinks of "geek" as a pejorative. How many times have you watched movies or television recently, where "geek" was used as a put-down? Personally, my reality-check was only a few years ago. I did something absurdly dorky and mumbled something about what a geek I am. The girl I was seeing at the time consoled me with a concerned "oh, no, you're not a geek!" the same way you'd say "oh, no, you're not a loser...!" to someone who was just berating themselves and slamming their head against a wall.
Geeks think geeks are cool. Society thinks a couple things here and there that geeks like are cool. There is no overlapping venn diagram there, where society thinks some of the things geeks like are cool *and* geeks are cool. Accept it and deal with it. Frankly, I'm about fifteen years too old to give a flying fuck who thinks I'm cool or whether or not I'm accepted by anyone. I'd hope the majority here feel the same.
I think it's a fantastic idea and I hate dealing with saves (especially on the 360, where I don't believe there is any way to have a backup of your data . . . which is really fucked). I just don't buy that it's some innocent attempt to give customer's a great feature. It's a trojan horse in response to GeoHot, almost certainly.
I've never bothered, so I don't know . . . but can you save to multiple USB devices? If, like with the 360, there can only ever be one instance of your data *ANYWHERE*, then the reason is that you have data stored somewhere in case your device fails.
Moot point. How are you going to (without much more effort) jailbreak your console, when they take away the USB ports, because they have replaced USB ports/memory sticks with cloud saves?
It's because if they have a cloud save solution, they can justify taking away USB ports and making jailbreaking more difficult.
Offering local backups/saves undermines the entire point of why they want to store saves in the cloud. By saying "you don't need any memory device for saves", they can justify eradication of any sort of USB port. Go proprietary only for headset and other devices and wipe out all USB type ports, to make jailbreaking and customizing your PS3 more difficult.
Which would win at Wheel of Fortune?
Don't let them bullshit you for one second that the value of lives is at all relevant to them, here. The motivating factor is the value of the government contracts that will be handed out should this idea succeed. The same kind of contracts that benefit certain industries if we fall for the idea that we should stick everyone under house arrest and fit them with an electronic bracelet for even the slightest crime (and, of course, people will think that's a tremendous idea if the alternative is jail time).
The result is an enormous revenue stream. Every single person in this country convicted of some sort of a violation (in this case, we'll just stick to alcohol related) fitted with an expensive device for an additional expensive installation fee. Then their car, fitted with an expensive device and another expensive installation fee. Then expensive monthly subscriptions (paid out of the individual's pocket) for monitoring and maintenance. If you don't have the money or you find it an abhorrent solution, then you can always opt not to participate and not pay all of that money. Of course, then we're going to lock you up in prison for a year. So it's not like we're not giving you freedom of choice!
If they REALLY gave a fuck about preventing lives, the solution wouldn't involve ridiculously complex and expensive monitoring and fittings and equipment farmed out to private industry. The solution would be that if you are convicted of driving drunk, your license would be revoked for the rest of your life and if you still put society in danger by driving without a license, then we stick you in prison.
Except for the death penalty or when a cop shoots you in the face point blank at a light rail stop in Oakland without justification or when a SWAT team breaks down your door and blasts away at everyone inside, before realizing they had the wrong address, or when we want to test some horrible new drug on a segment of our population that is disenfranchised and unlikely to seek recourse.
Are you kidding me? In America, the only thing harder to pry from our hands than a slice of pizza or a twinky is our cars. Any fuel other than petrol is for pussies. Automation is for pussies. And it's more important that the nearly blind 94 year old great great grandmother continue to feel as if she's "independent" than to prevent a soccer field full of children from being run over when she mistakes the gas for the brake.
That doesn't make any sense.
First of all, if the driver has this installed because they have been convicted of driving drunk . . . WHY ARE THEY BEING ALLOWED TO DRIVE AT ALL?
Second of all, if the device is preventing the person from driving, who cares if they fail the "test" a thousand times in a year?
This kind of stuff reminds me of the bullshit in Oregon. In Oregon, we have the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission). In Oregon, a shop keeper is not allowed to directly purchase alcohol. The state purchases all of the alcohol and then marks up the price and sells it to retailers who then mark it up and sell it to customers. Until just a few years ago, one of the OLCC's laws required that customers provide a DRIVER'S LICENSE as identification at a bar. Not a state ID card. It had to be a LICENSE. In other words, if you had absolutely no way you could be driving yourself home, then you weren't allowed to drink. I think this was changed only about five years ago.
Of course, the OLCC is a whole other story, frankly. In Oergon, all liquor is owned by the state. The entire inventory in your store is owned by the state and you are working on commission, essentially. And only liquor stores can sell liquor (ie, nothing stronger than beer in your grocery store). There are about 200+ of these in the state. They also don't allow places to serve more than one drink at a time. Or drink from a pitcher (even if you ordered a pitcher).
The first thing people need to do is stop treating MADD (which is an outrageous scam) as some respected and righteous organization. Treat them like the pope -- let them talk and completely ignore them because they have no place in civil discourse.
The second thing people need to do is stop thinking of ways to avoid letting drunks start up their car while drunk and STOP LETTING DRUNKS HAVE A LICENSE. It's that fucking simple. First drunk driving conviction, lose your license forever. A second conviction means you are both driving drunk and without a license. It's a year in prison, for you (because you are proven risk to society, at that point).
For everyone else? Fuck this shit. I don't drink and drive and I'm offended at the idea of being treated like a criminal the moment I get into my own property and turn the key.
It's not idle time -- it's pure stupidity. If you have nothing but downtime for fucking, you can still use a god damn condom. They're incredibly cheap and for a lot of poor people, even provided for free (in schools or planned parenthood clinics, for example). It's also pretty damn easy to get the pill, for that double shot of prevention (though, not as easy or cheap as condoms, of course). And in all cases, both are fare cheaper than the expense of a hospital delivery or raising a kid.
Of course, people will whine about how they have failure rates and blah blah blah. All I know is that the people I've known (including myself) who enjoy sex and don't want children . . . *gasp* . . . have somehow made it through life without having children.
That statement is awfully close to the bullshit people throw around about "atheism is a religon durr durr durr", which in itself is just a sad attempt by people to try and gain legitimacy by forcing a non-existent association between their view and another's. The same thing as creationists trying to assert that creationism is "just as valid a *theory* as evolution".
Holy fuck, I have a paper cut on my finger -- CUT OFF MY HEAD, QUICK!
No, Collins said it wouldn't be used like that. You can trust the government. If they say they want additional power, that they won't abuse, you can always rely on government to be true to its word, right?
I just finished all eight seasons of 24 in a period of two weeks, so I feel I'm qualified to suggest that you hold said admin's family hostage and then use enhanced interrogation techniques in the event that he fails you.
Isn't autism something you HAVE? She LIVES with her son. Her son HAS autism. Unless autism is another person living with them.
No, they probably didn't consider the possibility that the boy was unusually good, because the news report itself states that microsoft sent the mother three response emails that mentioned using something external to acquire achievements without actually playing the game. As others have pointed out, that would be a saved game copied downloaded and copied onto a USB stick so that when you loaded it up, you got all the achievements that save already accomplished, without YOU ever actually having played the game.
Since they can pretty easily detect that sort of thing, they of course would have no reason to ever consider "he's just super good".