Who wants to burn over 100 discs per client? I guess they make automated disc burners, but that's a little nutso. Plus, with that many discs you have a high chance of failure, so you'll need some kind of ecc scheme (parity discs?).
I'd also have to vote for hard drives, although I agree with the shortcomings of that solution.
More importantly, people tend to CALL from predictable places. As others have pointed out, most people spend the majority of their time at home and work. But on top of that, these studies only look at where calls are made, not where people actually are. So while I may spend a lot of time out and about on the weekends, I still make the majority of phone calls when I'm at home (not at the movie, shopping, gym, etc..)
I usually take my family with me on my space trips. Also, if I send out a probe, I'll be dead by the time it gets back. If I fly from system to system at.9999999 C, I can actually live to see the colonization. (Yes, realize that a civilization that can send me from system to system at relativistic speeds probably has life-prolonging or stasis technology too... but the point is that there ARE reasons to travel that fast)
Why would I want to measure travel time externally? The closer you get to C, the shorter the distance to Alpha Centauri seems. And this dilation increases asymptotically as you approach C. So if I'm travelling at 99.999998% of C, and you're travelling at a mere 99.9%, you will age much faster during the same trip.
Yeah, thanks everyone for playing. To clarify, I was aware of the guy generally, and we were on course to pass by each other. In other words, he was not "immediately in front of me" and there was no collision risk. I never claimed to be able to do threat-assessment on all passers-by, which is in fact why I changed my behavior, as stated in my OP.
Wow, those are some big words. I guess you win. Except for the fact that most of what you said is bullshit. Either do analog summation after the DAC or do digital mixing on-chip. None of this is hard and none of it requires a chip-wide redesign. Or you could do it in software, depending on the design of the phone. Battery drain? Go back to trolling high school electronics club forums.
When the hell are phone manufacturers going to provide microphone feedback so you can hear your own voice in the earpiece? It's not like it's hard. (And I'm not talking about the half-second-delay echo of my own voice that I sometimes get on AT&T)
The other day I was guilty of walking downtown while reading some random slashdot article. Someone coming the other direction tried to grab my phone (I imagine him saying "yoink" in his head) and I kind of instinctually pulled it away and kept reading/walking. Only later did I consider that he may have been trying to rob me. I stopped doing the reading/walking thing shortly thereafter (although I had never run into anything, or anyone... not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me).
I thought this was obvious until my mom mentioned that she had to cancel service soon because she "doesn't want to get stuck in a new contract." Apparently this may be a more common misconception than I thought. Of course, every month you are out of contract is a month you are paying "subsidizing rates" without getting the benefit of a phone subsidy. So there are people who would like to get that subsidy as soon as possible. I'm able to get a subsidized upgrade now, but would like to wait for the new iPhone to make a decision.
He assumes only 1 in 20 women are attractive enough. Maybe I'm a horn dog, but it seems that if you lined up 20 random women MY AGE, I would find more than one attractive enough to give a chance. Either he's not accounting for correlation between the age requirements and the attractiveness requirements, or he seems extremely picky about looks.
Maybe you don't want that cute barista (who is also a geek and watches coffee-shop router traffic for fun) to know you are watching a Taylor Swift video?
What, exactly, is unreasonable about expecting something that was promised? If I came into your restaurant, ate some food, and then decided I wasn't hungry, would you accept partial payment? I guess I should print a *payment subject to hunger* clause on my fat pants.
I agree that 250GB is a non-issue for most people. So why wasn't Comcast just upfront about the cap to begin with? I guess if they are advertising the cap now, it's better for everyone.
Depends on the implementation. When done right, credit is faster:
"improved high-speed connections allow card purchases to be faster than cash payments, about five seconds a purchase, compared with 8-to-10 seconds for cash, the paper reported." (http://money.cnn.com/2002/11/26/news/companies/mcdonalds/index.htm)
Robotic change makers might be equally fast, but they are way more expensive.
My point is that an email purportedly from Foo, that never once contains the string foo.com in body or headers, sets off my phishing alarm. While this particular email was legitimate, I think it is poor practice for Facebook to send official mail from facebookmail.com, when facebook.com, mail.facebook.com, official.facebook.com, etc. are more intuitive and save me the trouble of a whois lookup. I have this problem with Citibank as well, which tries to direct me to accountonline.com to check my credit card statement.
I don't gain anything by agreeing to this settlement, and I'm too lazy to read the agreement to see what rights I'm giving up (possibly the right to sue Facebook in the event I later discover egregious Beacon-related privacy violations), so I too will be opting out.
Did the settlement notification email set off anyone else's "phishing spider sense"? The email was sent from "root+5_-hkmdi@facebookmail.com" -- why not send it from facebook.com?
Slashdot Mirror
Who wants to burn over 100 discs per client? I guess they make automated disc burners, but that's a little nutso. Plus, with that many discs you have a high chance of failure, so you'll need some kind of ecc scheme (parity discs?). I'd also have to vote for hard drives, although I agree with the shortcomings of that solution.
More importantly, people tend to CALL from predictable places. As others have pointed out, most people spend the majority of their time at home and work. But on top of that, these studies only look at where calls are made, not where people actually are. So while I may spend a lot of time out and about on the weekends, I still make the majority of phone calls when I'm at home (not at the movie, shopping, gym, etc..)
I usually take my family with me on my space trips. Also, if I send out a probe, I'll be dead by the time it gets back. If I fly from system to system at .9999999 C, I can actually live to see the colonization. (Yes, realize that a civilization that can send me from system to system at relativistic speeds probably has life-prolonging or stasis technology too... but the point is that there ARE reasons to travel that fast)
Why would I want to measure travel time externally? The closer you get to C, the shorter the distance to Alpha Centauri seems. And this dilation increases asymptotically as you approach C. So if I'm travelling at 99.999998% of C, and you're travelling at a mere 99.9%, you will age much faster during the same trip.
World's fastest submarine: 51mph (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/15514)
World's fastest fish: 68mph (http://www.thetravelalmanac.com/lists/fish-speed.htm)
I, for one, am DYING to know when we are going to build a submarine that can escape an angry sailfish...
You might not like PCI
The only thing I don't like about PCI is the acronym they chose.
Yeah, thanks everyone for playing. To clarify, I was aware of the guy generally, and we were on course to pass by each other. In other words, he was not "immediately in front of me" and there was no collision risk. I never claimed to be able to do threat-assessment on all passers-by, which is in fact why I changed my behavior, as stated in my OP.
Wow, those are some big words. I guess you win. Except for the fact that most of what you said is bullshit. Either do analog summation after the DAC or do digital mixing on-chip. None of this is hard and none of it requires a chip-wide redesign. Or you could do it in software, depending on the design of the phone. Battery drain? Go back to trolling high school electronics club forums.
When the hell are phone manufacturers going to provide microphone feedback so you can hear your own voice in the earpiece? It's not like it's hard. (And I'm not talking about the half-second-delay echo of my own voice that I sometimes get on AT&T)
The other day I was guilty of walking downtown while reading some random slashdot article. Someone coming the other direction tried to grab my phone (I imagine him saying "yoink" in his head) and I kind of instinctually pulled it away and kept reading/walking. Only later did I consider that he may have been trying to rob me. I stopped doing the reading/walking thing shortly thereafter (although I had never run into anything, or anyone... not even a close call as it really wasn't that hard to keep track of things immediately in front of me).
I thought this was obvious until my mom mentioned that she had to cancel service soon because she "doesn't want to get stuck in a new contract." Apparently this may be a more common misconception than I thought. Of course, every month you are out of contract is a month you are paying "subsidizing rates" without getting the benefit of a phone subsidy. So there are people who would like to get that subsidy as soon as possible. I'm able to get a subsidized upgrade now, but would like to wait for the new iPhone to make a decision.
He assumes only 1 in 20 women are attractive enough. Maybe I'm a horn dog, but it seems that if you lined up 20 random women MY AGE, I would find more than one attractive enough to give a chance. Either he's not accounting for correlation between the age requirements and the attractiveness requirements, or he seems extremely picky about looks.
Maybe you don't want that cute barista (who is also a geek and watches coffee-shop router traffic for fun) to know you are watching a Taylor Swift video?
Nope, it's a genuine Magnetbox! (Better than those crappy foreign Sornys)
What, exactly, is unreasonable about expecting something that was promised? If I came into your restaurant, ate some food, and then decided I wasn't hungry, would you accept partial payment? I guess I should print a *payment subject to hunger* clause on my fat pants.
I agree that 250GB is a non-issue for most people. So why wasn't Comcast just upfront about the cap to begin with? I guess if they are advertising the cap now, it's better for everyone.
Bullshit. I know the dog radiates because of my allergy to thermal radiation.
If you wear glasses, make sure to look over them, down your nose
Somebody has a funny shaped face
Depends on the implementation. When done right, credit is faster:
"improved high-speed connections allow card purchases to be faster than cash payments, about five seconds a purchase, compared with 8-to-10 seconds for cash, the paper reported." (http://money.cnn.com/2002/11/26/news/companies/mcdonalds/index.htm)
Robotic change makers might be equally fast, but they are way more expensive.
My point is that an email purportedly from Foo, that never once contains the string foo.com in body or headers, sets off my phishing alarm. While this particular email was legitimate, I think it is poor practice for Facebook to send official mail from facebookmail.com, when facebook.com, mail.facebook.com, official.facebook.com, etc. are more intuitive and save me the trouble of a whois lookup. I have this problem with Citibank as well, which tries to direct me to accountonline.com to check my credit card statement.
It is common for your right to sue to lapse due to inaction. See, e.g., statute of limitations.
Damn skippy, I demand a refund at least!
I don't gain anything by agreeing to this settlement, and I'm too lazy to read the agreement to see what rights I'm giving up (possibly the right to sue Facebook in the event I later discover egregious Beacon-related privacy violations), so I too will be opting out.
Ok, I realize that all facebook mail comes from facebookmail.com, but the question still stands, and the email text looked extra phishy.
Did the settlement notification email set off anyone else's "phishing spider sense"? The email was sent from "root+5_-hkmdi@facebookmail.com" -- why not send it from facebook.com?
The vacuum cleaner manufacturer is actually named Noiseless Sucking Appliances.
That's definitely not a "sure" way to prevent a signal, unless the duffel bag also happens to be a faraday cage.