...when are features like PGP, anti-phishing, anti-spam, working rich text/html, etc. going to become part of a standard that everyone can use easily? Right now there are a bunch of "hacks" that patch up problems with email, and as such there is a huge difference in what some people get versus what others are stuck with. Is this something like IPv6 that will simply have to be mandated and rolled out with the cooperation of lots of large organizations?
But on a more serious note, people here might be surprised that UK people (at least those in London, if I recall correctly), aren't as worried about privacy/spying issues as you might think. London has had hundreds of cameras in its metro area to prevent crime. I think it would be a little worrying if it recorded political protests or other citizen-sensitive events. But overall I imagine there's a reduction in person-to-person crime there.
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Why not volunteer at a school in a low income neighborhood? I'm sure young people would love to have an expert computer resource at their disposal. And what better audience for free/open source ideas?
Wouldn't sifting through data from potentially hundreds of thousands of machines (for popular viruses/worms) be difficult-to-impossible? Or maybe there's a way to determine which account are, e.g. admins on large IRC servers or otherwise useful.
...is that they probably don't have the enormous amounts of red tape that NASA projects have to wade through. It's incredible how delayed and expensive NASA's projects get because they spend so much time trying to achieve perfect safety these days. Looking our for your astronauts is laudable, but they're just going too far lately. This last manned shuttle flight... what was it, like two years extra they spent trying to avoid another foam problem... and they had one anyway? Of course, NASA is dealing with millions of funding people (you and I, taxpayers) keeping tabs on them via the news outlets, so maybe the private endevours would fall under the same kind of scrutiny if they ever became super popular.
I remember hearing something about Russia not being able to afford to help out the ISS project anymore, but what about China, India, France? These are hardly backwater nations... why aren't they helping more? Is it a contractual thing?
Statistics aren't the problem, out-of-context media reports of science studies are. When you read a reputable science journal, the articles are usually *very* focused and list the flaws of the study, its limits, etc.
(P.S. I know you were joking, but I hate it when people bash statistics.:-)
It's too bad that now fundamentalists are going to have this news story as a weapon against proponents of science. This is despite this person apparently having nothing to do with science. We need better representatives, like the following:
I guess I worded that wrong. I was surprised that an *online* protest was so large for people that I wouldn't typically associate with technology.
I lived in Eugene, Oregon at the time of Garcia's death. There was a huge mural of him painted on the wall of even a local mini mart. So, yeah, I understand that the fans were die-hard.
I always doubted the reliability of Nielsen ratings, especially given the cancellation of so many great shows (e.g. Family Guy.. for awhile anyway). Moreover, I have never, ever known anyone who's been in a so-called "Nielsen family". I guess my friends and I aren't average enough to make it into the sampling demographic.
One reason advertisers loved the web (at first, at least) was because it's possible to get exact numbers of "viewers", know what viewers are doing (clicking through, clicking then ordering, etc.), and not miss any viewers simply because they didn't get lucky enough to be sampled. I can't imagine being an advertiser trying to track my television ad results... what, survey everyone who walks in my store?
The RAID traps I used this last summer didn't work well. I wonder when someone will formulate a sprayable "do not enter" chemical as an alternative to poisons. Then how long will it take for ants to evolve an adaptation to ignore false "do not enter" signs?
...on a router/etc.? Like a programmer's backdoor that they forgot to shut off after they sold the units? I guess it's security through obscurity... relying on the subject not knowing they're even being tapped, and thus having no reason to try to stop the tap.
ADHD type problems already. I find that when I'm trying to do something else while watching video, I get less out of both activities... e.g. the email I'm writing is distracted *and* I'm missing some of the dialogue from the CSI (or whatever).
Yes, this bugs the crap outta me. Like when I'm downloading.WMV files. If it's sending it to Windows Media Player, the operating system isn't going to execute the file. If WMP tries to open an.exe disguised as a.WMV, nothing will happen except an error message. I think certain file types should be exempted from the paranoid "always ask" idea.
I haven't kept up on the emulation scene lately, so I don't know the legality of possessing ROMs these days. This looks like a really cool product, but is it legal to have the ROMs that'd be included? I guess there's some confusion on which 20-something ROMs is on the thing, but I'd be interested in a more general answer too. Thanks.
Just yesterday I was advising a coworker about his repetitive strain injury. He said he gamed a lot, and I told him that gaming (e.g. loads of rapid mouseclicks under stress) can be a factor. I'm afflicted with RSI crap to the point where I no longer game much, if at all. I can't wait for this brain wave kind of technology to be polished so I can play Far Cry, Half Life 2, etc. without worrying about pain.
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...when are features like PGP, anti-phishing, anti-spam, working rich text/html, etc. going to become part of a standard that everyone can use easily? Right now there are a bunch of "hacks" that patch up problems with email, and as such there is a huge difference in what some people get versus what others are stuck with. Is this something like IPv6 that will simply have to be mandated and rolled out with the cooperation of lots of large organizations?
But on a more serious note, people here might be surprised that UK people (at least those in London, if I recall correctly), aren't as worried about privacy/spying issues as you might think. London has had hundreds of cameras in its metro area to prevent crime. I think it would be a little worrying if it recorded political protests or other citizen-sensitive events. But overall I imagine there's a reduction in person-to-person crime there.
Why not volunteer at a school in a low income neighborhood? I'm sure young people would love to have an expert computer resource at their disposal. And what better audience for free/open source ideas?
Wouldn't sifting through data from potentially hundreds of thousands of machines (for popular viruses/worms) be difficult-to-impossible? Or maybe there's a way to determine which account are, e.g. admins on large IRC servers or otherwise useful.
...is that they probably don't have the enormous amounts of red tape that NASA projects have to wade through. It's incredible how delayed and expensive NASA's projects get because they spend so much time trying to achieve perfect safety these days. Looking our for your astronauts is laudable, but they're just going too far lately. This last manned shuttle flight... what was it, like two years extra they spent trying to avoid another foam problem... and they had one anyway? Of course, NASA is dealing with millions of funding people (you and I, taxpayers) keeping tabs on them via the news outlets, so maybe the private endevours would fall under the same kind of scrutiny if they ever became super popular.
I remember hearing something about Russia not being able to afford to help out the ISS project anymore, but what about China, India, France? These are hardly backwater nations... why aren't they helping more? Is it a contractual thing?
Normally isn't it Japan who gets all the video game-related tech first? Is it different because Microsoft is primarily a U.S. company?
I have QT 7 installed too. The page pauses for a little while on load, but doesn't crash.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/06/tehran.c rash/
"the blind belief in statistical based research"
:-)
Statistics aren't the problem, out-of-context media reports of science studies are. When you read a reputable science journal, the articles are usually *very* focused and list the flaws of the study, its limits, etc.
(P.S. I know you were joking, but I hate it when people bash statistics.
It's too bad that now fundamentalists are going to have this news story as a weapon against proponents of science. This is despite this person apparently having nothing to do with science. We need better representatives, like the following:
Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason
http://www.csicop.org/si/
Discussion and debate of biological and physical origins
http://www.talkorigins.org/
Understanding Evolution
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
I guess I worded that wrong. I was surprised that an *online* protest was so large for people that I wouldn't typically associate with technology.
I lived in Eugene, Oregon at the time of Garcia's death. There was a huge mural of him painted on the wall of even a local mini mart. So, yeah, I understand that the fans were die-hard.
I always doubted the reliability of Nielsen ratings, especially given the cancellation of so many great shows (e.g. Family Guy.. for awhile anyway). Moreover, I have never, ever known anyone who's been in a so-called "Nielsen family". I guess my friends and I aren't average enough to make it into the sampling demographic.
One reason advertisers loved the web (at first, at least) was because it's possible to get exact numbers of "viewers", know what viewers are doing (clicking through, clicking then ordering, etc.), and not miss any viewers simply because they didn't get lucky enough to be sampled. I can't imagine being an advertiser trying to track my television ad results... what, survey everyone who walks in my store?
Fans pissed off at the merchanise type people put up a petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/. Theirs is one of the largest petitions on the site.
I am really glad they added Foxy Load Balancing. Now asianpornstarlets.com will send me data at a nice, steady pace instead of in spurts and dribbles.
The RAID traps I used this last summer didn't work well. I wonder when someone will formulate a sprayable "do not enter" chemical as an alternative to poisons. Then how long will it take for ants to evolve an adaptation to ignore false "do not enter" signs?
...on a router/etc.? Like a programmer's backdoor that they forgot to shut off after they sold the units? I guess it's security through obscurity... relying on the subject not knowing they're even being tapped, and thus having no reason to try to stop the tap.
Umm, you DO know what the "Mrs." is using the webcam for, right?
ADHD type problems already. I find that when I'm trying to do something else while watching video, I get less out of both activities... e.g. the email I'm writing is distracted *and* I'm missing some of the dialogue from the CSI (or whatever).
Yes, this bugs the crap outta me. Like when I'm downloading .WMV files. If it's sending it to Windows Media Player, the operating system isn't going to execute the file. If WMP tries to open an .exe disguised as a .WMV, nothing will happen except an error message. I think certain file types should be exempted from the paranoid "always ask" idea.
I haven't kept up on the emulation scene lately, so I don't know the legality of possessing ROMs these days. This looks like a really cool product, but is it legal to have the ROMs that'd be included? I guess there's some confusion on which 20-something ROMs is on the thing, but I'd be interested in a more general answer too. Thanks.
Just yesterday I was advising a coworker about his repetitive strain injury. He said he gamed a lot, and I told him that gaming (e.g. loads of rapid mouseclicks under stress) can be a factor. I'm afflicted with RSI crap to the point where I no longer game much, if at all. I can't wait for this brain wave kind of technology to be polished so I can play Far Cry, Half Life 2, etc. without worrying about pain.
This is an excellent site, lots of free material from an expert:
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