I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
Images + association = Memory.
Probably because you enjoyed learning that "useless" triva, and you don't really like the stupid process for the windows thingy.
Emotion seems to play a part in memory. It's easier to remember stuff when your in a good mood, happy, interested, then when your bored, not interested.
*IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not. They're won by ordinary people with pretty average memories who dedicate their spare time to mastering memory techniques.
"Photographic memory" is the stuff of magicians, hucksters and B movie thrillers.
Did it ever occur to you that not all people are greedy? Some people do not feel the need to get rich on shortcuts/gameshows/gambling?
I like horror movies, probably because I know they are fake.
But serious, the stuff that scares me is real life stuff. Like the government becoming more of an ass then it is. Corps making the laws.
I'm scared that my fellow humans will stop thinking of others, and only think of themselves. I'm scared how man can say they are doing things for the good of humans, while they are purposely doing what they can to just make money & power. I'm scared that my fellow humans are going to sit around while we lose more of our rights, and that they won't do anything because "it's okay because it's for our protection".
What i'm really scared is the crappy scary future I imagined as a kid, is actually happening.
But get scared over some slasher dude? Or some entity you can't see doing crap? Sorry, ain't happening. The video game isn't going to scare me either, mainly if it's just shit jumping at you, might startle me, which makes me laugh, but not scare me.
Probably the scariest thing I know is, if I really do reincarnate, I forget everything and have to learn it all over (not to mention go thru puberty again!)
Ah well, what can you do? I should mention, I stopped having "scary" dreams when I was in like 6th grade, I realized that my dreams were like movies and it couldn't affect me. After that, if I had a rare "bad" dream with monster or crap, I enjoyed them. Now of course, my bad dreams now are any that have my dad's ex bitch in them, or my sister in them. I mean, shit, leave me alone, will ya? That is scary.
Researchers say some people are sensation-seekers attracted to any emotional high, be it from sky diving, shark-punching or horror films.
My girlfriend (German) got hit by a car when she was a child, and had to undergo some nasty operations on her leg, which left her with "Frankenstein" scars on her leg. On a business trip to Austin, Texas, she tagged along. She was concerned about how she should describe to the local yokels, what happened to her leg. I told her to tell the folks, that she was attacked by a shark, but that she fought off the shark, buy punching it in the head. It worked for five minutes, until she started giggling, and one of the guys that I worked with screamed, "Bullshit!"
I don't understand this. I know they grow them big in texas, and they have some stupid people there, but are they stupid enough to not think that the person had major surgery on their leg at one time of another?
I had a GF that had big scars on her chest from heart surgery and scars going down her legs from getting hit by a car and breaking both. She really had "Frankenstein" scars covering large parts of her body. And guess what? It didn't really doesn't need to be explain. It's pretty obvious how she got them.
I think it more that your GF was really, really self concious about her scars and making more a deal over it then needed.
Some risks we just shouldn't take? What risks? Drilling for oil? Come on, give us a break, if we didn't harvest fossil fuels civilisation would be far less advanced than we are now. I acknowledge BP messed up and oil companies are generally assholes, but don't pretend America would be better off without them.
The Gulf of Mexico would be better off with out them.
And it's not the harvesting of fossil fuels that is the problem, it's how they are doing it that is the problem.
The age when you cannot say "internet only when I'm around" - 10-12 yrs I guess
The age when the children start maintaining the computers themselves, taking basic precautions against malware,etc -- 12-14 (and then they find out about the parent installed keylogger)
Would you really want your kids not to trust you after the age of 14?
Kids stop trusting their parents after they find out santa, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunny aren't real. And that babies don't come from storks, and all the other assorted lies you told them over the year, are well, lies.
Then puberty starts up, and you lost them for good.
Congratulations on being an asshole who's kids hate you and will want nothing to do with you later in life after they move out.
I'm a parent, not a friend.
Your kids in high school are plenty capable of making their own decisions
Then we should make kids emancipated at 14. Or is that a bad idea?
the only way you teach them how to be a responsible adult is to TREAT them like one
I have to keep them safe enough to reach adulthood, and that means (in part) protecting them from their own inexperience, lack of brain development, and hormone imbalances. A kid is, by definition, not an adult and should only be given the responsibility and respect that they earn. Even then, you must stay on top of them because no teenager has the life experience to avoid bad situations.
Your attitude has nothing to do with the well being of your children and everything to do with your personal desire to lord power over others.
I'm actually more libertarian-leaning, so I'm not sure where you get off making that assumption. My attitude is 100% driven by my desire to raise healthy, productive adults. Many "good kids" get mixed up in drugs through no fault of parenting - many kids are just not capable of making mature, informed decisions. I'm not talking about sheltering kids - I'm talking about having all the facts to judge and direct your parenting. I'm sorry, but I won't just "trust" that my kids aren't taking drugs or meeting predatory people (online or elsewhere). They will have full privacy when they leave my house.
I had a step mom like you. She just wanted to protect me from the evils of the world. She forced her way of living onto me.
Guess what I did after I turned 16? Moved out, got emancipated and haven't regretted that decision since. Am I perfect? Hell no. I, like everyone else, have problems. But under the evil step mom, I only had her solutions. Nothing else. She wasn't open to anyone else's ideas. She was an adult, she knew what was best for me, the child.
What she didn't do was, of course was actually teach me anything about the real world. Her sheltering, and beliefs, only made me more naive then I should of been. But it was for my good. So that's okay.
Guess what? The means never justity the ends. NEVER.
If you don't understand that, then internet access is the least of your parenting worries.
Nonsense. This is "trust, but verify". My kids have no privacy, period, end of discussion. I remember raging hormones and the inability to make a lucid choice - that is why they are in parental care until 18, which frankly is still too young but you have to cut the cord eventually. Besides, if you can throw them into battle it is hard to argue that they don't have the right to make up their own minds.
Sweet. Glad your happy to have trust issues with your kids, since you are showing you don't trust them, they in turn, will pay in kind. And not to mention sheltering your kids so much is going to make them worse targets for crap when they turn 18 and flee from you.
And 18 is still too young? Do birds keep their babies in their nest, or do they push them out to teach them to fly?
Why don't you be a parent. Lead by example. Teach them what is correct by doing the correct things yourself. Explain to them the dangers of stuff online, educate them. Show them respect.
If they can't grasp it after that, then beat the little brats and keep them inside till their 18, which is i'm sure your game plan.
if your story is remotely true, then you are an idiot.
You could have made millions on this - everybody is in on the game, so are you holier than the rest of them?
You should have approached this fella privately and 'sold' him a module to his application that would also provide ability to track all GPS systems installed in all cars/other vehicles with just a few simple clicks.
If/when he would have told you: "BS/impossible", you could have just point back at him and winÐ and said something like - "not less possible than whatever you are selling", and you would have been in business.
Millions, you could have made millions.
I guess this might be hard to grasp with your greedy mind, but some of us, me for sure, and probably the OP, aren't into making money via lies and fraud. Not to mention that money the guy got was from taxes, which means we paid it.
But ya, there are peeps who are holier then you, because you are apparently a greedy prick.
sorry for totally OOT reply, but why do people name their porn folders like that? I keep my private files on a folder named "temp" and goes 3-4 levels deep.
I name my porn file: stuff.
Guess what? It's a truecrypt file, so I can't accidently open up my porn for anyone to see.
And when I die, my family doesn't get to see what sort of pervert I am.
I used to think it was odd, seeing my supervisor do that at work, when I suggested a site to him which might not necessarily be work related. Some great time later, I realized why he did it that way-- If you type the URL into Google, it doesn't show up in the URL bar's history. This was before private browsing and that sort of thing started showing up, and while he wasn't too concerned about what someone might find if they pulled up the browser history, he didn't necessarily want everywhere he's recently gone to appear if someone just happened to sit down at his desk to use the web.
Ya, it doesn't show up in you history, until you click on the link that takes you to it. While google search is good, it doesn't actually show you the whole page.
Now you can use the cache, but if someone is browsing your URL history, they can easily follow the cache links.
You wouldn't believe how many people actually browse that way. I have seen my fair share of people that type URLs in the searchfield of their google homepage.
You have no idea how many stupid ass people I have tried to help over the phone, that when I tell them to type an address in the URL field of the web browser, they type it into google search, and then end up on the wrong page?
While I totally support Geohotz and his fight, I sent money to Sony.
I don't want it to be use in the PS3 fights, but I have no control over that.
My problem? Everquest 2.
New expansion comes out tuesday, and I bought 3 copies of it. (it's funny though, how some years ago it went from being $20 for an expansion to having to pay $40 for the whole game every expansion. Bastards, but then, we know that, don't we?
But what I don't understand here, is how Sony can sue Geohotz for not doing anything illegal?
I mean, they got it so the court says give up your computer and crap, based on Sony saying Geohotz broke the law. So it means, that Sony decides what the laws means, takes you to court, only then to have the courts say, No, the law means this. Seems like bullshit to me.
So... this prevents someone copying a BD disk with a VCR? Or a TV capture card?
I’m actually confused here. Do people actually copy digital media this way any more? What does this prevent?
This kind of sounds like something that has been in the works for a while and is now irrelevant (now that AACS has been dealt with), but the guy’s at the top are two stupid (or afraid of getting fired) to stop it.
Component is the 3 RCA prong connection, Red Blue Green that became popular a decade ago. It's an analog connection, not digital. This is why if that is detected, they lower the quality in case someone does happen to have a HDTV Capture Card, or lets say a DVR that does HDTV captures.
They want you to buy a new TV and/or Bluray player.
Better get the 3D version while your at it, so you'll be good for another 3 years before they change something else so you can buy more stuff.
the creation of dazzling artificial movie worlds is limited to family-friendly output
I think if you like this kind of thing, you have to skip films and play games instead. I recommend Dead Space 2 right now.
let me think on this. does Dead Space 2 have the same crappy over the shoulder view that Dead Space had? You know, the one that made me so nauseous in the first 5 mins of play it, and I had to stop?.
The game that decided having 3rd person view was more scary then being in 1st person? The game who's graphics look, well, like the early 2000's graphics, on the commericals you see on TV?
Watchmen was a bad movie and it failed because it was a bad movie. Is Slashdot going to post an article next week about Scott Pilgrim and how it was actually a good movie?
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You do realize that this article is NOT about how good or bad The Watchmen is, but how movies, like The Watchman, have killed R-rated fantasy movies (you know, like the title of the article says?).
So why are you pushing an agenda that has nothing to do with the article?
That depends on whether you evaluate it as an adaptation of the comic or on its own merits, of course. Having not read the comic (and having no desire to, for that matter), I evaluated the movie simply as a movie, and in that regard I thought it was excellent. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
You have to rate movies from books/comics by their own merit, not based on the original source.
What Anonymous did was wrong. Make no mistake about it.
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That is your opinion.
I think what they did was right. HBGary talked the talk, but couldn't walk the walk. Who better but anonymous to show us whats up?
anonymous is the public. It's mobs. Mob justice. It's the reminder that you might not be all that and a bag of chips if your doing something people might not like.
If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be worried.
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I would love to remember more things that aren't easy to remember automagically. Like, why do I remember that a MIG 25 used drone engines with a overhaul time of 100hrs and that mach 3 would kill the engines in short order, but can't remember the process for some stupid Windows thing that I do every other day? Seems like my head is full of useless trivia, but when I think about those things guess what pops into my head? Images.
Images + association = Memory.
Probably because you enjoyed learning that "useless" triva, and you don't really like the stupid process for the windows thingy.
Emotion seems to play a part in memory. It's easier to remember stuff when your in a good mood, happy, interested, then when your bored, not interested.
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*IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not. They're won by ordinary people with pretty average memories who dedicate their spare time to mastering memory techniques.
"Photographic memory" is the stuff of magicians, hucksters and B movie thrillers.
Did it ever occur to you that not all people are greedy? Some people do not feel the need to get rich on shortcuts/gameshows/gambling?
I like horror movies, probably because I know they are fake.
But serious, the stuff that scares me is real life stuff. Like the government becoming more of an ass then it is. Corps making the laws.
I'm scared that my fellow humans will stop thinking of others, and only think of themselves.
I'm scared how man can say they are doing things for the good of humans, while they are purposely doing what they can to just make money & power.
I'm scared that my fellow humans are going to sit around while we lose more of our rights, and that they won't do anything because "it's okay because it's for our protection".
What i'm really scared is the crappy scary future I imagined as a kid, is actually happening.
But get scared over some slasher dude? Or some entity you can't see doing crap? Sorry, ain't happening. The video game isn't going to scare me either, mainly if it's just shit jumping at you, might startle me, which makes me laugh, but not scare me.
Probably the scariest thing I know is, if I really do reincarnate, I forget everything and have to learn it all over (not to mention go thru puberty again!)
Ah well, what can you do? I should mention, I stopped having "scary" dreams when I was in like 6th grade, I realized that my dreams were like movies and it couldn't affect me. After that, if I had a rare "bad" dream with monster or crap, I enjoyed them.
Now of course, my bad dreams now are any that have my dad's ex bitch in them, or my sister in them. I mean, shit, leave me alone, will ya? That is scary.
I think it was Faces of Death 1 that had the people eating monkey brains in it.
Funny how that video affected people back then. I should rewatch them since I haven't seen them since the late 80's.
I know the later ones had too much stuff I thought was fake, but the first one wasn't bad.
Researchers say some people are sensation-seekers attracted to any emotional high, be it from sky diving, shark-punching or horror films.
My girlfriend (German) got hit by a car when she was a child, and had to undergo some nasty operations on her leg, which left her with "Frankenstein" scars on her leg.
On a business trip to Austin, Texas, she tagged along. She was concerned about how she should describe to the local yokels, what happened to her leg. I told her to tell the folks, that she was attacked by a shark, but that she fought off the shark, buy punching it in the head. It worked for five minutes, until she started giggling, and one of the guys that I worked with screamed, "Bullshit!"
I don't understand this. I know they grow them big in texas, and they have some stupid people there, but are they stupid enough to not think that the person had major surgery on their leg at one time of another?
I had a GF that had big scars on her chest from heart surgery and scars going down her legs from getting hit by a car and breaking both. She really had "Frankenstein" scars covering large parts of her body. And guess what? It didn't really doesn't need to be explain. It's pretty obvious how she got them.
I think it more that your GF was really, really self concious about her scars and making more a deal over it then needed.
Some risks we just shouldn't take? What risks? Drilling for oil? Come on, give us a break, if we didn't harvest fossil fuels civilisation would be far less advanced than we are now. I acknowledge BP messed up and oil companies are generally assholes, but don't pretend America would be better off without them.
The Gulf of Mexico would be better off with out them.
And it's not the harvesting of fossil fuels that is the problem, it's how they are doing it that is the problem.
The age when you cannot say "internet only when I'm around" - 10-12 yrs I guess
The age when the children start maintaining the computers themselves, taking basic precautions against malware,etc -- 12-14 (and then they find out about the parent installed keylogger)
Would you really want your kids not to trust you after the age of 14?
Kids stop trusting their parents after they find out santa, the tooth fairy, and the easter bunny aren't real. And that babies don't come from storks, and all the other assorted lies you told them over the year, are well, lies.
Then puberty starts up, and you lost them for good.
Congratulations on being an asshole who's kids hate you and will want nothing to do with you later in life after they move out.
I'm a parent, not a friend.
Your kids in high school are plenty capable of making their own decisions
Then we should make kids emancipated at 14. Or is that a bad idea?
the only way you teach them how to be a responsible adult is to TREAT them like one
I have to keep them safe enough to reach adulthood, and that means (in part) protecting them from their own inexperience, lack of brain development, and hormone imbalances. A kid is, by definition, not an adult and should only be given the responsibility and respect that they earn. Even then, you must stay on top of them because no teenager has the life experience to avoid bad situations.
Your attitude has nothing to do with the well being of your children and everything to do with your personal desire to lord power over others.
I'm actually more libertarian-leaning, so I'm not sure where you get off making that assumption. My attitude is 100% driven by my desire to raise healthy, productive adults. Many "good kids" get mixed up in drugs through no fault of parenting - many kids are just not capable of making mature, informed decisions. I'm not talking about sheltering kids - I'm talking about having all the facts to judge and direct your parenting. I'm sorry, but I won't just "trust" that my kids aren't taking drugs or meeting predatory people (online or elsewhere). They will have full privacy when they leave my house.
I had a step mom like you. She just wanted to protect me from the evils of the world. She forced her way of living onto me.
Guess what I did after I turned 16? Moved out, got emancipated and haven't regretted that decision since. Am I perfect? Hell no. I, like everyone else, have problems. But under the evil step mom, I only had her solutions. Nothing else. She wasn't open to anyone else's ideas. She was an adult, she knew what was best for me, the child.
What she didn't do was, of course was actually teach me anything about the real world. Her sheltering, and beliefs, only made me more naive then I should of been. But it was for my good. So that's okay.
Guess what? The means never justity the ends. NEVER.
If you don't understand that, then internet access is the least of your parenting worries.
Nonsense. This is "trust, but verify". My kids have no privacy, period, end of discussion. I remember raging hormones and the inability to make a lucid choice - that is why they are in parental care until 18, which frankly is still too young but you have to cut the cord eventually. Besides, if you can throw them into battle it is hard to argue that they don't have the right to make up their own minds.
Sweet. Glad your happy to have trust issues with your kids, since you are showing you don't trust them, they in turn, will pay in kind.
And not to mention sheltering your kids so much is going to make them worse targets for crap when they turn 18 and flee from you.
And 18 is still too young? Do birds keep their babies in their nest, or do they push them out to teach them to fly?
Why don't you be a parent. Lead by example. Teach them what is correct by doing the correct things yourself. Explain to them the dangers of stuff online, educate them. Show them respect.
If they can't grasp it after that, then beat the little brats and keep them inside till their 18, which is i'm sure your game plan.
if your story is remotely true, then you are an idiot.
You could have made millions on this - everybody is in on the game, so are you holier than the rest of them?
You should have approached this fella privately and 'sold' him a module to his application that would also provide ability to track all GPS systems installed in all cars/other vehicles with just a few simple clicks.
If/when he would have told you: "BS/impossible", you could have just point back at him and winÐ and said something like - "not less possible than whatever you are selling", and you would have been in business.
Millions, you could have made millions.
I guess this might be hard to grasp with your greedy mind, but some of us, me for sure, and probably the OP, aren't into making money via lies and fraud. Not to mention that money the guy got was from taxes, which means we paid it.
But ya, there are peeps who are holier then you, because you are apparently a greedy prick.
then they wouldn't need to encrypt their content. After all, only people that encrypt stuff have something to hide, right?
sorry for totally OOT reply, but why do people name their porn folders like that? I keep my private files on a folder named "temp" and goes 3-4 levels deep.
I name my porn file: stuff.
Guess what? It's a truecrypt file, so I can't accidently open up my porn for anyone to see.
And when I die, my family doesn't get to see what sort of pervert I am.
I used to think it was odd, seeing my supervisor do that at work, when I suggested a site to him which might not necessarily be work related. Some great time later, I realized why he did it that way-- If you type the URL into Google, it doesn't show up in the URL bar's history. This was before private browsing and that sort of thing started showing up, and while he wasn't too concerned about what someone might find if they pulled up the browser history, he didn't necessarily want everywhere he's recently gone to appear if someone just happened to sit down at his desk to use the web.
Ya, it doesn't show up in you history, until you click on the link that takes you to it. While google search is good, it doesn't actually show you the whole page.
Now you can use the cache, but if someone is browsing your URL history, they can easily follow the cache links.
Guess the mods are not tech savy today.
You wouldn't believe how many people actually browse that way. I have seen my fair share of people that type URLs in the searchfield of their google homepage.
You have no idea how many stupid ass people I have tried to help over the phone, that when I tell them to type an address in the URL field of the web browser, they type it into google search, and then end up on the wrong page?
Probably 75% of peeps.
I bet phishers will love this feature...
Seeing as the URL bar can be made to show the wrong website, i don't think they will care.
It's the mouseover that shows the actual link they don't like.
While I totally support Geohotz and his fight, I sent money to Sony.
I don't want it to be use in the PS3 fights, but I have no control over that.
My problem? Everquest 2.
New expansion comes out tuesday, and I bought 3 copies of it. (it's funny though, how some years ago it went from being $20 for an expansion to having to pay $40 for the whole game every expansion. Bastards, but then, we know that, don't we?
But what I don't understand here, is how Sony can sue Geohotz for not doing anything illegal?
I mean, they got it so the court says give up your computer and crap, based on Sony saying Geohotz broke the law. So it means, that Sony decides what the laws means, takes you to court, only then to have the courts say, No, the law means this. Seems like bullshit to me.
and yet, I am supporting Sony.
God I suck.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen after the movie wrapped up the story line and killed off major characters.
I'm prepared to pretend the movie never happened if it mean more episodes. Who's with me?!
What movie?
I thought it was a alternative reality 1 shot double episode myelf.
I'mma let you finish... but I just wanna say... Stargate is the best show of all time!
Oh, come on, mods, do you think it responsible to mod up flamebait comments like this as insightful?
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
You sill peeps that don't even understand quality Sci-fi.
Doctor Who is, was and will always be, the best.
So... this prevents someone copying a BD disk with a VCR? Or a TV capture card?
I’m actually confused here. Do people actually copy digital media this way any more? What does this prevent?
This kind of sounds like something that has been in the works for a while and is now irrelevant (now that AACS has been dealt with), but the guy’s at the top are two stupid (or afraid of getting fired) to stop it.
Component is the 3 RCA prong connection, Red Blue Green that became popular a decade ago. It's an analog connection, not digital. This is why if that is detected, they lower the quality in case someone does happen to have a HDTV Capture Card, or lets say a DVR that does HDTV captures.
They want you to buy a new TV and/or Bluray player.
Better get the 3D version while your at it, so you'll be good for another 3 years before they change something else so you can buy more stuff.
I think if you like this kind of thing, you have to skip films and play games instead. I recommend Dead Space 2 right now.
let me think on this. does Dead Space 2 have the same crappy over the shoulder view that Dead Space had? You know, the one that made me so nauseous in the first 5 mins of play it, and I had to stop?.
The game that decided having 3rd person view was more scary then being in 1st person?
The game who's graphics look, well, like the early 2000's graphics, on the commericals you see on TV?
No, thanks, I'll pass.
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Watchmen was a bad movie and it failed because it was a bad movie.
Is Slashdot going to post an article next week about Scott Pilgrim and how it was actually a good movie?
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You do realize that this article is NOT about how good or bad The Watchmen is, but how movies, like The Watchman, have killed R-rated fantasy movies (you know, like the title of the article says?).
So why are you pushing an agenda that has nothing to do with the article?
That depends on whether you evaluate it as an adaptation of the comic or on its own merits, of course. Having not read the comic (and having no desire to, for that matter), I evaluated the movie simply as a movie, and in that regard I thought it was excellent. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
You have to rate movies from books/comics by their own merit, not based on the original source.
Almost no movie stays true to it's source.
for a wrong situation.
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What Anonymous did was wrong. Make no mistake about it.
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That is your opinion.
I think what they did was right. HBGary talked the talk, but couldn't walk the walk. Who better but anonymous to show us whats up?
anonymous is the public. It's mobs. Mob justice. It's the reminder that you might not be all that and a bag of chips if your doing something people might not like.
If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be worried.
but they are still super massive right? If not that totally ruins most of my celestial bodies jokes.
They like to call themselves "big boned".