It seems like there is a lot of FUD going around about this and things like it. Facebook got its act together mostly on the privacy thing and if you actually take the time to configure your privacy it offers you very good control. It's also up front about what information is accesible to applications when you install them. Pretty much you just need to not install anything that you don't trust - it's no different than installing software on your computer.
Personally I would like if everyone used Facebook for their contact information. That way my contacts stay up to date automatically on my phone. Just, again, be careful who you give that information to. I think they've struck a good balance between privacy and usability at this point.
Google started re-encoding everything to WebM last year and is probably done by now.
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Can someone explain to me how a small temperature decrease over ten years is meant to disprove global warming? If I understand it correctly, the argument is that man-made co2 is contributing to a warming effect of the planet. We might still have cooling periods, but we are warmer overall than we would have otherwise been. It's like if you have the flu, you can go stand out in the cold to decrease your temperature a bit, but you're still running hot.
So the only ones who will be ignorant of what is happening are government employees and those in the military? The only people who actually should know. Par for course, I guess.
I built out a car computer in my WRX (http://gthing.net/carputer-5-final) and can tell you if I had it all to do over again, I would go with the iPad. There are so many things to worry about with a carputer. Providing power, making sure the system sleeps properly, making sure it has enough power while sleeping to stay alive but not drain the battery, touch screen interface software for OS X, making a reliable internet connection, etc. etc. etc.
An iPad solves nearly every problem, costs $500 for a basic unit, and will work better than anything you can come up with using a computer the is required to be powered off of your car's battery.
Yes, thank you. I'm not sure why my comment rubbed so many people the wrong way. I'm not advocating fraud or theft or anything else, I'm just saying that it's reasonable to allow people to use the resources available to them when solving a problem.
If school is meant to prepare you for the workplace, it should more closely mimic things you might face in the workplace. Your boss is probably never going to come to you and ask you for a sales report, then tell you you are not allowed to look at any of the sales numbers and, oh yea, you have to complete it in exactly under 30 minutes.
Testing, at least the way it's done in most schools, is a cheat. It doesn't measure proficiency in solving problems (except maybe a math tes). It tests your ability to take tests, which are arbitrary an unrealistic compared to the everyday workplace. I'm sure there are exceptions, but that's generally the way it is.
I think the point I was making is that the precondition is illogical and in no way prepares you for "the real world."
I'm reminded of a story I saw about some MIT students who were building wearable computers. They wore their computers 24/7. Eventually the question came up wether or not they should be able to wear and use their computers during tests.
The professors and administration decided that they should be able to wear their computers, because they had become a part of them. If they were going to be wearing them all the time, and had augmented their own abilities, why wouldn't they be able to do that during any real world test they might face after school?
I didn't expect such a negative reaction to this. I'm not saying it's okay to cheat, I'm just saying that what is considered cheating in school has no baring on reality. If I work for a company and I have more to do then time to do it, I hire an assistant. My boss congratulates me on handling the problem and promotes me because I am not managing people. If you hire an assistant in school and push some of your workload off to them, it's the worst thing in the world and you will be kicked out of school.
Similarly, if I have a question about the job I am doing, and I google it, that is called research. It will help me do a better job. If I do that during a test in school with my cell phone, it's called cheating.
I was half joking, and I certainly wasn't saying that fraud, theft, or supplying weapons to nazis (as one other commenter suggested) are things that are okay to do.
Cheating in a school setting usually consists of using sources other then your brain. I'm not aware of students who have cheated by defrauding a corporation, violating safety regulations, or arming nazi germany. I'm also not aware of many companies that don't let you google something really quick to make sure you're doing it right.
There is no such thing as cheating, only getting creative with your sources. The real world, whatever your career will be, relies on the same behavior that is punished in school that they call "cheating."
I've never seen an airplane contrail look like that before. While that's not evidence that that's not what it is, I've seen lots of missiles that look like that. The video really makes it look like a missile to me. You can also see an airplane nearby in the video, so which flight is that? If it was flight 808 wouldn't it have been low like the passenger plane in the video? Why was it so much higher? Why was it leaving an enormous unusual contrail while the other plane wasn't?
Computers run contrary to 15+ years of slide rule usage for me, which is why I still use my slide rule for reading slashdot and posting snarky comments.
In my last city they offered 50mbps up.down connections for $50 a month. You know what? You actually got a little over what they advertised. Best ISP ever. In that city the Comcast connections cost half as much as they do in my new city only $25 miles away but (surprise!) without the 50mbps option from a rival carrier.
Competition breeds excellence and corrects market prices. My only choice where I live now is Comcast and they are not great.
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just come up with a protocol that didn't require trackers or centralization. Plug into a mesh and everyone is equally hosting, equally guilty.
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It seems like there is a lot of FUD going around about this and things like it. Facebook got its act together mostly on the privacy thing and if you actually take the time to configure your privacy it offers you very good control. It's also up front about what information is accesible to applications when you install them. Pretty much you just need to not install anything that you don't trust - it's no different than installing software on your computer.
Personally I would like if everyone used Facebook for their contact information. That way my contacts stay up to date automatically on my phone. Just, again, be careful who you give that information to. I think they've struck a good balance between privacy and usability at this point.
Google started re-encoding everything to WebM last year and is probably done by now.
Can someone explain to me how a small temperature decrease over ten years is meant to disprove global warming? If I understand it correctly, the argument is that man-made co2 is contributing to a warming effect of the planet. We might still have cooling periods, but we are warmer overall than we would have otherwise been. It's like if you have the flu, you can go stand out in the cold to decrease your temperature a bit, but you're still running hot.
The difference is that the jobs to build this stuff will now go to blue states instead of red states. This was never about anything else.
IE will support WebM in IE9.
They do if they decide to convert youtube.
So the only ones who will be ignorant of what is happening are government employees and those in the military? The only people who actually should know. Par for course, I guess.
I built out a car computer in my WRX (http://gthing.net/carputer-5-final) and can tell you if I had it all to do over again, I would go with the iPad. There are so many things to worry about with a carputer. Providing power, making sure the system sleeps properly, making sure it has enough power while sleeping to stay alive but not drain the battery, touch screen interface software for OS X, making a reliable internet connection, etc. etc. etc.
An iPad solves nearly every problem, costs $500 for a basic unit, and will work better than anything you can come up with using a computer the is required to be powered off of your car's battery.
How is it the largest satellite in the world if it's not ... uhh... in the world?
Funny, right after responding to all these comments I saw this article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/21485811928/200-students-admit-to-cheating-exam-bigger-question-is-if-it-was-really-cheating-studying.shtml
Yes, thank you. I'm not sure why my comment rubbed so many people the wrong way. I'm not advocating fraud or theft or anything else, I'm just saying that it's reasonable to allow people to use the resources available to them when solving a problem.
If school is meant to prepare you for the workplace, it should more closely mimic things you might face in the workplace. Your boss is probably never going to come to you and ask you for a sales report, then tell you you are not allowed to look at any of the sales numbers and, oh yea, you have to complete it in exactly under 30 minutes.
Testing, at least the way it's done in most schools, is a cheat. It doesn't measure proficiency in solving problems (except maybe a math tes). It tests your ability to take tests, which are arbitrary an unrealistic compared to the everyday workplace. I'm sure there are exceptions, but that's generally the way it is.
I think the point I was making is that the precondition is illogical and in no way prepares you for "the real world."
I'm reminded of a story I saw about some MIT students who were building wearable computers. They wore their computers 24/7. Eventually the question came up wether or not they should be able to wear and use their computers during tests.
The professors and administration decided that they should be able to wear their computers, because they had become a part of them. If they were going to be wearing them all the time, and had augmented their own abilities, why wouldn't they be able to do that during any real world test they might face after school?
I didn't expect such a negative reaction to this. I'm not saying it's okay to cheat, I'm just saying that what is considered cheating in school has no baring on reality. If I work for a company and I have more to do then time to do it, I hire an assistant. My boss congratulates me on handling the problem and promotes me because I am not managing people. If you hire an assistant in school and push some of your workload off to them, it's the worst thing in the world and you will be kicked out of school.
Similarly, if I have a question about the job I am doing, and I google it, that is called research. It will help me do a better job. If I do that during a test in school with my cell phone, it's called cheating.
I was half joking, and I certainly wasn't saying that fraud, theft, or supplying weapons to nazis (as one other commenter suggested) are things that are okay to do.
I don't think a school's definition of cheating really covers what you did to your wife.
Cheating in a school setting usually consists of using sources other then your brain. I'm not aware of students who have cheated by defrauding a corporation, violating safety regulations, or arming nazi germany. I'm also not aware of many companies that don't let you google something really quick to make sure you're doing it right.
There is no such thing as cheating, only getting creative with your sources. The real world, whatever your career will be, relies on the same behavior that is punished in school that they call "cheating."
So they're just throwing their partners under the bus? I bet that is going to make everyone want to build more Android phones.
I've never seen an airplane contrail look like that before. While that's not evidence that that's not what it is, I've seen lots of missiles that look like that. The video really makes it look like a missile to me. You can also see an airplane nearby in the video, so which flight is that? If it was flight 808 wouldn't it have been low like the passenger plane in the video? Why was it so much higher? Why was it leaving an enormous unusual contrail while the other plane wasn't?
ALT+UP, ALT+DOWN.
A search engine that does not dictate which results you get to see when you do a search would be a very interesting search engine indeed.
Right click ... open in new tab.
Computers run contrary to 15+ years of slide rule usage for me, which is why I still use my slide rule for reading slashdot and posting snarky comments.
In my last city they offered 50mbps up.down connections for $50 a month. You know what? You actually got a little over what they advertised. Best ISP ever. In that city the Comcast connections cost half as much as they do in my new city only $25 miles away but (surprise!) without the 50mbps option from a rival carrier.
Competition breeds excellence and corrects market prices. My only choice where I live now is Comcast and they are not great.
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just come up with a protocol that didn't require trackers or centralization. Plug into a mesh and everyone is equally hosting, equally guilty.
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