They just want to get the money from the zillionaires. My aunt was at one point the oldest person alive in the world. When I asked her how that felt, she told me that somebody had to be the oldest and by pure luck, this time it was her.
She gave her body to science and several things have been found thanks to that. It also encouraged a search for more people above 100 to donate their body to do more research.
She not only gave her body. She also insited that the outcome was for others to learn. She opensourced her body.
If people are able to get older, you talk about the species, not only about a happy few (just ask Steve Jobs). And no, I do not think I will be getting that old. She was just a statistical anomaly.
I often see where IT departments do all the restore, but never check the backup. The tape was never changed, because the procedure to do that was never followed up when 1 person left and a few months later his backup left as well. The tape was now without any metal.
Another was where the backup was in testmode and never actually ran.
A third one was where they did not do incremental backups, but only a copy instead, resulting in not having the data that was needed.
This all due to various reasons. Mostly because they were interested if the backup were running. Backups are just a tool, not a goal. Restoration of data is the goal and the best way to do that is with backups.
Do you really think they would be able to have a working retention plan? Only the larger companies I have seen actually test their retention plan. Cut everything off and see if their backup site will handle it.
by configuring your computer in a certain way to connect to I2P web pages
Is it really needed to make it sound as if something magical needs to be done?
I am sure that some technical information about what this "certain way" is would be understood by the readers of/. (perhaps not the moderators, but that is something else altogether.)
And in what way is it more secure then Tor? It uses something lesser known? That is security through obscurity.
Using something less known by configuring my PC in a certain way does convince me this will be more secure. I can buy most drugs legally if I want to, so I am interested in the technical aspect. This sounds as if was written by somebody at the FBI to use entrapment to get their quota in arrests.
And that in itself is wrong in my opinion. He should investigate on how to vote. You should not tell on how to vote. Politics should not depend on a sales pitch where the best salesperson wins.
Because otherwise you will go either/or instead of finding perhaps a middle ground.
Not sure how it works in other places, but in Europe the manufacturers could set up sales points, yet they still don't. They are also allowed to sell more then one brand since a change in law a few years ago. (Before that the manufacturers could enforce to only sell their product.)
I don't think that they are THAT interested in the whole matter. If they are smart, they will just wait it out. They are selling their cars and it is easier to NOT deal with the end user.
The companies who don't do that are the exception. (e.g. Apple) What might happen is that they open some showroom stores, but it will probably still be cheaper to buy them at a dealer.
Many people think that censorship is only censorship if it is done by the government. That is not the case.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.
So where are all these people who say that free speech is important? So how imporatnt is it for you? Enough to press 'like' on Facebook? Enough to actually talk to people in person? Enough to go on the streets for and demand change? Enough to die for?
My guess it stops at the Facebook stage. I know I am guilty of that.
So you are saying that the Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam who was elected has overstayed his welcome? And about the 'Muslim leaders', could you tell me who they are? There are Imams who do not even agree with each other and the HUGE majority is against what happend. #NotInMyName images.
So they do NOT silently agree with them.
And the USofA forming something in another country. If Russia or China would overtrow the corrupt political situation in the USofA, what would you think would happen? People aplauding them for their effort? But I am sure they are thanking you for pouring some more oil on the fire, because THTA is what the lunatics want.
Like the NSDAP in Germany in 1933. Hitler was elected. Just a reminder for those who think that this can never happen. It already has and only afterwards will we see how wrong it was.
Old Google Image Search does not only give you back the old layout. It also gives you the old way of searching.
Basically it adds &safe=off If you are able to edit your search enigine, you could do something like: http://images.google.co.uk/images?sout=1&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp,qdr:m&safe=off&q=tits This will search 4MegaPixel images in the last month with no filtering with the search "tits". Compare that with http://images.google.co.uk/images?sout=1&q=tits
By adding stuff to the URL you can easily define your search. Very handy if you always want to use the same filters. Will also work for the other searches. Parameters here and some extra in the discussion below it.
To know somebody is a treat, you need at one point turn him from a non-treat into a treat. The only way (according to them) is to follow the non-treats as well.
The second issue is 'what is a treat?'. Amd I because I do not like governement X? Or if I just am opposed to the current political party in power (which changes every few years).
This is just number filling. I see this where I work as well. Managers asking for data. I can produce the data, but they seldom can answer the question "Why do you need it?". I can bury them in reports, but I know that it will never be used.
It is just a way to be sure that if somebody somewhere asks, they can say that they have the data. Not processed the data. That question is never asked.
And then suddenly somebody sees something strange in the data. Then we need to spend X mandays on it, just to realize that it means absolutely nothing. (I don't know why it looks as if somebody was on the phone for 72 hours.) and then again nothing will happen.
It was proposed by the Democrats, so the Republicans HAVE to be against it. (It works the other way as well.) Politics is not so much about what is good for the people, but dislike whatever the other is doing, no matter what.
I do not find the airport all that unpleasant, except for the security circus. I have several ways of checking in. I have several ways of buying a ticket. When I am there I have several options of spending my time.
If I want I can spend more or less on anything and get the service I desire or can or will pay for.
So what is bad about it? As expected if you want better service, you pay for it, just as in the past. However now you can also pay less and get less service.
My great aunt said "It is better to give with a warm hand then to give with a cold hand.". There was almost nothing left when she died (at the age of 115). She even gave her body to science.
I just don't have TV anymore. I am not interested in sports. The rest of the programming is also not very interesting and although I received several channels from several countries, they all showed the same things. Just with different people. 10 variations of CSI (in several languages). Talent shows where the names are different. Reality TV where the only interesting thing is how they edited to make an apple look interesting.
As an added bonus, when I talk with friends, they know I don't watch TV, so we talk about things that are interesting for them AND for me. It goes further then just 'have you seen X yesterday?.
OK, this is not ideal if you have no idea what to do with your time.
They do it a lot better then they used to. The fact is that they just do not know everything. There are so many symptoms that might lead to so many problems that is is just not possible.
And most of the things will just go away by themself if you take a bit of rest. Further: many people lie when they are at the doctor and he takes that into account, even if YOU are telling the truth.
When my aunt was born, the doctors told she would not become 6 weeks old. She became 115 and the oldest person in the world. (Opensourced her body for science). One docter later told me : she bacam that old not thanks to us [doctors], but despite us.
And it is great to bash doctors, while remembering that they diagnose 99% correct is a lot harder. They are not magicians. You must accept that sometimes they just do not know, which is the best case, because then they can tell you to look elsewhere. Sometimes they misdiagnose.
I was misdiagnosed for a few years. The doctor and myself thought I had weak ankles as I sprained them a lot. Now I know that was not the case. I had a gout attack each time. As it was in my ankle and none of any of the other issues related normally with gout, he did not see it.
Some rest and it was over, so the sprained-ankle idea seemed to be good.
At one point he asked if some medical students could see it and they came up with the identical wrong diagnosis. Luckily at that moment we already knew what it was and he could teach them something.
So doctors still DO that shit and they do it better then ever as they also use the Intertubes to look things up (at least the many doctors I know.)
Here we all talk about ROI and we wonder why the companies don't do any research anymore. It is because research can never prove what the ROI will be. And if you know what the ROI will be, you won't get something new. At the most something improved, but most of the times something cheaper.
Google is one of the few companies that invests in products that might become useless.
Why not just do things and then see where it leads us. Are we not a curious species? Do we not know what and how just because we crave knowledge?
Does not mean they won't do it in the future. Especially when they are starting up in different countries. Although it also might be that they will be able to cut through the bullshit and just show their shows all over the world at the same time. They might have the leverage.
Slashdot Mirror
How can they compile updates if Google does not solve the problems?
They just want to get the money from the zillionaires. My aunt was at one point the oldest person alive in the world.
When I asked her how that felt, she told me that somebody had to be the oldest and by pure luck, this time it was her.
She gave her body to science and several things have been found thanks to that. It also encouraged a search for more people above 100 to donate their body to do more research.
She not only gave her body. She also insited that the outcome was for others to learn. She opensourced her body.
If people are able to get older, you talk about the species, not only about a happy few (just ask Steve Jobs). And no, I do not think I will be getting that old. She was just a statistical anomaly.
I often see where IT departments do all the restore, but never check the backup. The tape was never changed, because the procedure to do that was never followed up when 1 person left and a few months later his backup left as well.
The tape was now without any metal.
Another was where the backup was in testmode and never actually ran.
A third one was where they did not do incremental backups, but only a copy instead, resulting in not having the data that was needed.
This all due to various reasons. Mostly because they were interested if the backup were running. Backups are just a tool, not a goal. Restoration of data is the goal and the best way to do that is with backups.
Do you really think they would be able to have a working retention plan? Only the larger companies I have seen actually test their retention plan. Cut everything off and see if their backup site will handle it.
For me it was the CD player that was available for the PC. DUAL SPEED. That and the 56K modem coming from 28.8. I was able to use it at 50K.
Is it really needed to make it sound as if something magical needs to be done?
I am sure that some technical information about what this "certain way" is would be understood by the readers of /.
(perhaps not the moderators, but that is something else altogether.)
And in what way is it more secure then Tor? It uses something lesser known? That is security through obscurity.
Using something less known by configuring my PC in a certain way does convince me this will be more secure. I can buy most drugs legally if I want to, so I am interested in the technical aspect. This sounds as if was written by somebody at the FBI to use entrapment to get their quota in arrests.
And that in itself is wrong in my opinion. He should investigate on how to vote. You should not tell on how to vote. Politics should not depend on a sales pitch where the best salesperson wins.
Because otherwise you will go either/or instead of finding perhaps a middle ground.
Not sure how it works in other places, but in Europe the manufacturers could set up sales points, yet they still don't.
They are also allowed to sell more then one brand since a change in law a few years ago. (Before that the manufacturers could enforce to only sell their product.)
I don't think that they are THAT interested in the whole matter. If they are smart, they will just wait it out. They are selling their cars and it is easier to NOT deal with the end user.
The companies who don't do that are the exception. (e.g. Apple) What might happen is that they open some showroom stores, but it will probably still be cheaper to buy them at a dealer.
Many people think that censorship is only censorship if it is done by the government. That is not the case.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.
So where are all these people who say that free speech is important? So how imporatnt is it for you? Enough to press 'like' on Facebook? Enough to actually talk to people in person? Enough to go on the streets for and demand change? Enough to die for?
My guess it stops at the Facebook stage. I know I am guilty of that.
You think the people have computers? This is for the rest of the world and those are not securety leaks, they are features.
So you are saying that the Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam who was elected has overstayed his welcome? And about the 'Muslim leaders', could you tell me who they are? There are Imams who do not even agree with each other and the HUGE majority is against what happend.
#NotInMyName images.
So they do NOT silently agree with them.
And the USofA forming something in another country. If Russia or China would overtrow the corrupt political situation in the USofA, what would you think would happen? People aplauding them for their effort?
But I am sure they are thanking you for pouring some more oil on the fire, because THTA is what the lunatics want.
Like the NSDAP in Germany in 1933. Hitler was elected.
Just a reminder for those who think that this can never happen. It already has and only afterwards will we see how wrong it was.
Old Google Image Search does not only give you back the old layout. It also gives you the old way of searching.
Basically it adds &safe=off If you are able to edit your search enigine, you could do something like:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?sout=1&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp,qdr:m&safe=off&q=tits
This will search 4MegaPixel images in the last month with no filtering with the search "tits". Compare that with
http://images.google.co.uk/images?sout=1&q=tits
By adding stuff to the URL you can easily define your search. Very handy if you always want to use the same filters. Will also work for the other searches. Parameters here and some extra in the discussion below it.
Things posted in Arab countries http://imgur.com/gallery/zd5rl
You have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Je suis Charlie.
To know somebody is a treat, you need at one point turn him from a non-treat into a treat. The only way (according to them) is to follow the non-treats as well.
The second issue is 'what is a treat?'. Amd I because I do not like governement X? Or if I just am opposed to the current political party in power (which changes every few years).
This is just number filling. I see this where I work as well. Managers asking for data. I can produce the data, but they seldom can answer the question "Why do you need it?". I can bury them in reports, but I know that it will never be used.
It is just a way to be sure that if somebody somewhere asks, they can say that they have the data. Not processed the data. That question is never asked.
And then suddenly somebody sees something strange in the data. Then we need to spend X mandays on it, just to realize that it means absolutely nothing. (I don't know why it looks as if somebody was on the phone for 72 hours.) and then again nothing will happen.
It wins hads, but does it also win money? If they win 2 hands with a 10USD pot and loose the one with a 1000USD pot, they win hands, but loose money.
It was proposed by the Democrats, so the Republicans HAVE to be against it. (It works the other way as well.)
Politics is not so much about what is good for the people, but dislike whatever the other is doing, no matter what.
Did it go up or did it stay about the same?
If I can pick what channels I get and it stays the same, I have less channels that I pay for and not watch. Sounds good to me.
I do not think it is so much about money. It is about choice.
I do not find the airport all that unpleasant, except for the security circus. I have several ways of checking in. I have several ways of buying a ticket. When I am there I have several options of spending my time.
If I want I can spend more or less on anything and get the service I desire or can or will pay for.
So what is bad about it? As expected if you want better service, you pay for it, just as in the past. However now you can also pay less and get less service.
My great aunt said "It is better to give with a warm hand then to give with a cold hand.". There was almost nothing left when she died (at the age of 115). She even gave her body to science.
That would then be one. It would nice if we could have the same here.
I just don't have TV anymore. I am not interested in sports. The rest of the programming is also not very interesting and although I received several channels from several countries, they all showed the same things. Just with different people.
10 variations of CSI (in several languages). Talent shows where the names are different. Reality TV where the only interesting thing is how they edited to make an apple look interesting.
As an added bonus, when I talk with friends, they know I don't watch TV, so we talk about things that are interesting for them AND for me. It goes further then just 'have you seen X yesterday?.
OK, this is not ideal if you have no idea what to do with your time.
They do it a lot better then they used to. The fact is that they just do not know everything. There are so many symptoms that might lead to so many problems that is is just not possible.
And most of the things will just go away by themself if you take a bit of rest. Further: many people lie when they are at the doctor and he takes that into account, even if YOU are telling the truth.
When my aunt was born, the doctors told she would not become 6 weeks old. She became 115 and the oldest person in the world. (Opensourced her body for science). One docter later told me : she bacam that old not thanks to us [doctors], but despite us.
And it is great to bash doctors, while remembering that they diagnose 99% correct is a lot harder. They are not magicians. You must accept that sometimes they just do not know, which is the best case, because then they can tell you to look elsewhere. Sometimes they misdiagnose.
I was misdiagnosed for a few years. The doctor and myself thought I had weak ankles as I sprained them a lot. Now I know that was not the case. I had a gout attack each time.
As it was in my ankle and none of any of the other issues related normally with gout, he did not see it.
Some rest and it was over, so the sprained-ankle idea seemed to be good.
At one point he asked if some medical students could see it and they came up with the identical wrong diagnosis. Luckily at that moment we already knew what it was and he could teach them something.
So doctors still DO that shit and they do it better then ever as they also use the Intertubes to look things up (at least the many doctors I know.)
Here we all talk about ROI and we wonder why the companies don't do any research anymore. It is because research can never prove what the ROI will be. And if you know what the ROI will be, you won't get something new. At the most something improved, but most of the times something cheaper.
Google is one of the few companies that invests in products that might become useless.
Why not just do things and then see where it leads us. Are we not a curious species? Do we not know what and how just because we crave knowledge?
Those masses of stupid people will vote. That is what I am worried about.
Does not mean they won't do it in the future. Especially when they are starting up in different countries.
Although it also might be that they will be able to cut through the bullshit and just show their shows all over the world at the same time. They might have the leverage.