That was my first reaction, too. The grenade launcher is much faster to set up, though, so they can get this ready and launched very quickly. Besides, it is something they already know how to use.
A civilian version could use a slingshot, though, and should not be very hard to use.
The implication that you need to kill of a white male and replace him with a minority...
Well, obviously the white spiderman has been whining so much about the preferential treatment for minorities that he became really boring and had to be killed. No, wait, he was really boring to start with!
I think the point here is that you will eventually be using these protocols a lot. You should have those eventually ingrained in your memory in such a way that following the protocol will be more natural for you than not following the protocol. You should also know them well enough so that in the case you are tempted to take a shortcut, you will know "oh, I cannot do that, since the protocol says to do it in such and such way". Of course that can all be achieved without rote memorization, but I believe that at least for some people, memorizing the protocols helps them to get there.
What irks me more is the insistence of some instructors on "proper format" of citations. There are situations where you judge paper for some sort of writing award, you come across a paper that is very well written, so that in your opinion it far exceed all other submissions and deserves to win, and some colleague of yours insists that that paper cannot win, because it doesn't follow the proper MLA citation format.
I completely agree! Why should I memorize my own phone number? I only need it when somebody else asks me for it.
Also, phone numbers have no relation to anything else. They are just more or less random sequences of digits, knowing someone's phone number will not increase your understanding of how the world works.
Lot of "facts" are related to other things, and knowing them well can actually increase one's understanding. For example, I can always look up the binomial theorem if I need it, or I can always derive it. However, memorizing it, or at least some general pattern of it, will help you understand bunch of stuff about algebra. Memorizing digits of pi is mostly useless, memorizing the formula for the circumference of a circle as a function of radius isn't.
There are two articles linked in the summary. The actual "summary" itself is actually nothing but the first paragraph of the Science article, copied verbatim, with two links added to it.
The second linked article appeared in PLoS Pathogens, it is the actual research article reporting on the case, and while it does not specifically identify the vector of infection, leaving open even the possibility of introduction of the infection by a non-primate species, they clearly state: "Several lines of evidence support the contention that the direction of TMAdV transmission was zoonotic (monkeys to humans) rather than anthroponotic (humans to monkeys)."
While I am not sure whether the poster or the editors read any of the articles, I would definitely recommend you to read them before posting here.
1) No, I don't have important contact on Facebook. It's true that Facebook makes it easier to keep in touch with people I know, but if it went away tomorrow, I would just have to find another way to keep in touch with them. I managed to communicate with them before Facebook, I am sure I will manage it after Facebook.
2) I am not sure how is Facebook going to notice that my birthday is couple of weeks off from the correct one, or that I claim to live in a different city than I actually do? And considering that they let me leave most of the fields on my profile empty, why would they even care?
I don't think that would be a problem. For example with flickr API, it should be fairly easy to write a script crawling the directory structure you get from picasa, and recreate similar structure in flickr. I don't know if flickrfs still works, but if it does, you can just basically copy all your files to the locally mounted flickr file system.
C) Drug use. For example, just in tenth graders, 41% of American students have tried pot, compared to 17% in Europe. Also included in this same study* is the fact that 23% of American students have used illicit drugs other than cannabis (not counting alcohol), while only 6% in Europe have.
I somewhat doubt the numbers in this study. I grew up in Europe, and lived in the US the last 18 years. While pretty much all my friends and relatives in Europe have some experience with cannabis, only a very small percentage of my American friends and relatives ever tried it. I know that this is a completely anecdotal evidence, but it makes me question the numbers nevertheless.
I wonder if they really chose a representative sample of population in Europe. Europe, especially eastern Europe, has much higher degree of ethnic segregation than United States. I would like to know how well were students from ethnic minorities and from areas with extreme poverty represented in their sample.
Another point: while high crime rate and high drug use usually occur together mostly in impoverished areas, it does not necessarily mean that one of them causes the other. It is more likely, in my opinion, that they are both symptoms of poverty.
Alcohol, as a teenager is actually much harder to come by than say marijuana
Well, duh! Teenage alcohol is usually fairly high quality, and pretty expensive, no matter which country you are in. Most high school students (heck, even college students) simply cannot afford that sort of stuff. They usually drink the cheapest rakija or currant wine they can get!:)
Picasa? - i have the master copies of all my photos
That's true, but I do not have a master copy of my gallery structure, such as albums, captions, descriptions, or even the selection of photos. If I wanted to take my Picasaweb gallery and recreate it on another website, or even create my own website, it would take me hours and hours of hard work.
I have my window manager configured so that all window manager functions are mapped to key combinations that contain the "Windows" key. I think about the picture of window on it as standing for "window manager".
I use mouse to select windows, but with fvwm2, you can create shortcuts for that, too. I have edge-scroll disabled, since I find it annoying that sometimes when I just push the mouse out of the way on my desk, with edge-scroll, fvwm2 switches to a different virtual desktop. I switch desktops with keyboard. And I have my key-binding configured so the are as vi-like as possible.
One of the reasons I use neither Gnome nor KDE is that it is really hard to navigate them with just a keyboard. On the other hand, there are number of window managers that can be configured to be operated completely without a mouse. I use FVWM, and although I use a mouse, I can, and often do, get all my work done without it.
I did not read the details, but the example pictures they provided did seem to have several distinct planes of focus that you could choose. With the size of the pictures, I couldn't tell whether the focus changes if you select two objects that are actually fairly close to each other, but it didn't seem so to me.
Small point and shoot cameras have very small sensor and a lens with a small focal distance. That combination means that they have very large depth of field, which means that on a typical picture, everything or almost everything is in focus. That can be an advantage, but it can also be a disadvantage if you want to for example "isolate" an object by focusing on it, and having it show sharp and focused against blurry background.
In the days of MS/PC/4/IMB-DOS malware (like "del. > nul" in a setup.bat) on floppy drives required the user to actually execute the.exe/.com/.bat file.
And what does that have to do with autoplay? If you use a USB drive, you usually use it because you want to access the data on it. In that aspect, I don't see any difference between a floppy and a USB drive. If an infection was possible using a floppy disk, why wouldn't it work using a USB drive? Whether it is an infected executable, modified data that triggers a buffer overflow in a program that reads it, or a boot sector type virus.
Other thing I was trying to point out is the fact that you actually don't need to wait for the device to be mounted. With USB, the computer communicates with the device for quite a while in order to determine what kind of device it is, what kind of filesystem it has, etc. Theoretically there is a possibility for infection at any time during this process. Thinking that just because you don't have autoplay you are save is, IMHO, stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Even those.
Emacs had a web browser for quite a while now, pretty much as far as I can remember.
If I and several of my friends have a discussion about LaTeX, I wonder which page will it get associated with. Or vice versa.
May result in some amusing situations.
I mean, should not be very hard to build.
That was my first reaction, too. The grenade launcher is much faster to set up, though, so they can get this ready and launched very quickly. Besides, it is something they already know how to use.
A civilian version could use a slingshot, though, and should not be very hard to use.
The implication that you need to kill of a white male and replace him with a minority...
Well, obviously the white spiderman has been whining so much about the preferential treatment for minorities that he became really boring and had to be killed. No, wait, he was really boring to start with!
I think the point here is that you will eventually be using these protocols a lot. You should have those eventually ingrained in your memory in such a way that following the protocol will be more natural for you than not following the protocol. You should also know them well enough so that in the case you are tempted to take a shortcut, you will know "oh, I cannot do that, since the protocol says to do it in such and such way". Of course that can all be achieved without rote memorization, but I believe that at least for some people, memorizing the protocols helps them to get there.
What irks me more is the insistence of some instructors on "proper format" of citations. There are situations where you judge paper for some sort of writing award, you come across a paper that is very well written, so that in your opinion it far exceed all other submissions and deserves to win, and some colleague of yours insists that that paper cannot win, because it doesn't follow the proper MLA citation format.
I completely agree! Why should I memorize my own phone number? I only need it when somebody else asks me for it.
Also, phone numbers have no relation to anything else. They are just more or less random sequences of digits, knowing someone's phone number will not increase your understanding of how the world works.
Lot of "facts" are related to other things, and knowing them well can actually increase one's understanding. For example, I can always look up the binomial theorem if I need it, or I can always derive it. However, memorizing it, or at least some general pattern of it, will help you understand bunch of stuff about algebra. Memorizing digits of pi is mostly useless, memorizing the formula for the circumference of a circle as a function of radius isn't.
There are two articles linked in the summary. The actual "summary" itself is actually nothing but the first paragraph of the Science article, copied verbatim, with two links added to it.
The second linked article appeared in PLoS Pathogens, it is the actual research article reporting on the case, and while it does not specifically identify the vector of infection, leaving open even the possibility of introduction of the infection by a non-primate species, they clearly state: "Several lines of evidence support the contention that the direction of TMAdV transmission was zoonotic (monkeys to humans) rather than anthroponotic (humans to monkeys)."
While I am not sure whether the poster or the editors read any of the articles, I would definitely recommend you to read them before posting here.
1) No, I don't have important contact on Facebook. It's true that Facebook makes it easier to keep in touch with people I know, but if it went away tomorrow, I would just have to find another way to keep in touch with them. I managed to communicate with them before Facebook, I am sure I will manage it after Facebook.
2) I am not sure how is Facebook going to notice that my birthday is couple of weeks off from the correct one, or that I claim to live in a different city than I actually do? And considering that they let me leave most of the fields on my profile empty, why would they even care?
No, I do not have my address in Facebook. In fact, all the personal information except my name in my Facebook account is purely fictional.
How do you propose anybody would use my facebook data to target my house or steal my identity? I think I am missing something here.
I don't think that would be a problem. For example with flickr API, it should be fairly easy to write a script crawling the directory structure you get from picasa, and recreate similar structure in flickr. I don't know if flickrfs still works, but if it does, you can just basically copy all your files to the locally mounted flickr file system.
C) Drug use. For example, just in tenth graders, 41% of American students have tried pot, compared to 17% in Europe. Also included in this same study* is the fact that 23% of American students have used illicit drugs other than cannabis (not counting alcohol), while only 6% in Europe have.
I somewhat doubt the numbers in this study. I grew up in Europe, and lived in the US the last 18 years. While pretty much all my friends and relatives in Europe have some experience with cannabis, only a very small percentage of my American friends and relatives ever tried it. I know that this is a completely anecdotal evidence, but it makes me question the numbers nevertheless.
I wonder if they really chose a representative sample of population in Europe. Europe, especially eastern Europe, has much higher degree of ethnic segregation than United States. I would like to know how well were students from ethnic minorities and from areas with extreme poverty represented in their sample.
Another point: while high crime rate and high drug use usually occur together mostly in impoverished areas, it does not necessarily mean that one of them causes the other. It is more likely, in my opinion, that they are both symptoms of poverty.
Alcohol, as a teenager is actually much harder to come by than say marijuana
Well, duh! Teenage alcohol is usually fairly high quality, and pretty expensive, no matter which country you are in. Most high school students (heck, even college students) simply cannot afford that sort of stuff. They usually drink the cheapest rakija or currant wine they can get! :)
Picasa? - i have the master copies of all my photos
That's true, but I do not have a master copy of my gallery structure, such as albums, captions, descriptions, or even the selection of photos. If I wanted to take my Picasaweb gallery and recreate it on another website, or even create my own website, it would take me hours and hours of hard work.
I have my window manager configured so that all window manager functions are mapped to key combinations that contain the "Windows" key. I think about the picture of window on it as standing for "window manager".
Exactly! In fact, it is one of the reasons I don't use Gnome.
I use mouse to select windows, but with fvwm2, you can create shortcuts for that, too. I have edge-scroll disabled, since I find it annoying that sometimes when I just push the mouse out of the way on my desk, with edge-scroll, fvwm2 switches to a different virtual desktop. I switch desktops with keyboard. And I have my key-binding configured so the are as vi-like as possible.
One of the reasons I use neither Gnome nor KDE is that it is really hard to navigate them with just a keyboard. On the other hand, there are number of window managers that can be configured to be operated completely without a mouse. I use FVWM, and although I use a mouse, I can, and often do, get all my work done without it.
I did not read the details, but the example pictures they provided did seem to have several distinct planes of focus that you could choose. With the size of the pictures, I couldn't tell whether the focus changes if you select two objects that are actually fairly close to each other, but it didn't seem so to me.
Small point and shoot cameras have very small sensor and a lens with a small focal distance. That combination means that they have very large depth of field, which means that on a typical picture, everything or almost everything is in focus. That can be an advantage, but it can also be a disadvantage if you want to for example "isolate" an object by focusing on it, and having it show sharp and focused against blurry background.
You think corporations were any better at that time?
What the heck!? This is "desivy", slashdot cannot handle non-ascii alphabets? Or maybe it's because it knows I am posting from the US?
No to teda musà bejt hrÅza!
In the days of MS/PC/4/IMB-DOS malware (like "del. > nul" in a setup.bat) on floppy drives required the user to actually execute the .exe/.com/.bat file.
And what does that have to do with autoplay? If you use a USB drive, you usually use it because you want to access the data on it. In that aspect, I don't see any difference between a floppy and a USB drive. If an infection was possible using a floppy disk, why wouldn't it work using a USB drive? Whether it is an infected executable, modified data that triggers a buffer overflow in a program that reads it, or a boot sector type virus.
Other thing I was trying to point out is the fact that you actually don't need to wait for the device to be mounted. With USB, the computer communicates with the device for quite a while in order to determine what kind of device it is, what kind of filesystem it has, etc. Theoretically there is a possibility for infection at any time during this process. Thinking that just because you don't have autoplay you are save is, IMHO, stupid.