“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” - Rod Sterling
Perhaps it is. But OTOH, Rod Serling and his staff were able to make a virtue of the vice of commercial advertisementbreaks in their selection of delimitations between acts to good effect. Remember, limitations in form can be an excellent artistic inspiration. Viz sonnet form for some examples of constraints as inspiration.
As the US government operates outside of my interpretation of its constitutional limits, it can only be considered by me to be a criminal organization.
FTFY.
You clarified that a signed post on Slashdot was the judgement and opinion of the poster? I don't think that rises to the level of "repair" that "fixing" implies.
It is a great device and I know it has saved me money during long hot summers.
If you are worried about privacy, turn off your cell phones and computers. You've already been pwned.
Just because you've been pwned, doesn't mean you can't get pwned even more. Like how losing your virginity doesn't mean you can't get screwed again.
Wait, a car analogy would be more appropriate (and relevant): Just because you've already had a flat tire doesn't mean you can't get another.
I got an e-mail from Target offering me free credit monitoring.
Yeah, they leaked my name, address, credit card number etc and now they want me to sign up for credit monitoring with them. Just input your social security number and answer a few questions...
Surely, they aren't offering to sign you up with their roll-your-own credit-monitoring system, right? (Because I wouldn't go for that either.) Last time I had a credit card possibly compromised, the retailer at fault gave me a free one year subscription to Equifax's credit monitoring service. I got a coupon code from the retailer, but all the interaction was with the credit bureau.
(For the sake of closure on that anecdote, nothing weird happened over the following year.)
There's nothing wrong with the car that makes it fire prone... but we'll raise the clearance just because.
There's nothing wrong with the charger that caught fire... but we'll fix it anyway.
Seriously does anybody believe one word Musk says?
Engineers: People who, when finding out that their system might fail in your horrifically substandard conditions, attempt to address the problem present in your conditions and incorporate that knowledge of those conditions into the system, both in your version and the future.
The first thing I'll be doing is hunting around with ball-peen hammer for the GPS module.
The end.
Not if you have a spouse. [Annoyed grunt] They really don't care for principled economic losses (in this case, resale value). Ignorance-based losses (like not changing the oil) they're cool with. Principle, no.
As a consumer, why would this entice me to purchase a car from Ford?
At this point, the question you gotta ask yourself is: what other manufacturers are also doing this but haven't accidentally mentioned it in a public forum? Not buying Ford might punish Ford, true. But it might punish Ford not so much for doing it as to admitting it. (But that's your business as a consumer, of course. You can buy or not buy anything for any reason or no reason at all. I don't know which one I'd pick.)
Long time ago, I interviewed for a job and the boss told me that he really didn't have that good of a method to honestly evaluate employees. So raises tended to go to the employees he thought were working the hardest and thus the most productive. And those employees were the ones he saw the most. In turning down the position, I wondered if I was giving up working for an honest boss in favor of a liar who would do the same thing but not admit to it. (For closure purposes, I found a middle ground: the boss admitted to the "face time" thing after I signed on.)
Google+: Google's third failure of a social network that nobody wants but Google is going to push by forcing integration with their popular services such as YouTube and Gmail.
This is the kind of thing that antitrust laws are supposed to stop. Unfortunately, we don't do antitrust enforcement in the U.S. any more, at least not in any meaningful sense.
I don't like Google integrating its other -- more useful or popular -- services like YouTube GMail with Google+, but where's the antitrust angle to that?
I used to be like that as well (although never liked the BlackBerry keyboards). Swype on Android changed my mind in a big way.
Exact opposite for me. I tried "swyping" for about 30 seconds before purging it from my phone with extreme prejudice. Regular QWERTY on a touchscreen is bad enough. I really want my H/W keyboard back.
If you're under 40, you haven't seen this kind of thing before
Does whoever wrote this think that a decade is 20 years? Or am I slow this AM?
It's not the best-written article ever, but I think it's the phenomenon itself that's the meteorologist is calling the rare thing, not the low temperatures. I've certainly seen colder temps less than 40 years ago in the central US. At least this time I wasn't outside adjusting the antifreeze ratio in my car.
You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on. It's in their ToS which most people agree with because they just HAVE to see their 3rd cousin's dancing cat videos.
Bitching is easy, doing something about it is harder.
Actually, filing a class action lawsuit is doing something.
If a suit at least forces facebook and others to be more clear about what "private" means, that's something. It would help people to make more informed decisions if fb posted something like: "By 'private' we mean we won't intentionally share your message with other individual members until the next ToS change, but the contents are still fair game for us and our advertisers."
Sure, everyone should know that "private" isn't private any more than a "lifetime warranty" last your whole life. And I'm sure that fb has buried something deep in the ToS. But if they're not doing anything wrong -- and they aren't according to the "contract" you have to accept in toto (or Scooby Doo, or whatever) to use the service -- they shouldn't have any problem making their policies more explicit. Nothing to hide, so to speak.
Here's what consumers can do. Simply use cards you preload money on. Walmart has them for $3 for Visa or Mastercard. Costs $3 each time you load funds onto the card (thus it's the same cost to reuse an existing card, or get a completely new one). Only load a couple hundred on the card each month, and if any issues come up, don't reload it and grab a new one next time. It's totally disconnected from your actual accounts in every way, and you mitigate any potential financial loss by only placing relatively small amounts of funds on the card.
Plus, it's not a "credit" card, so you don't have to worry about going into debt or interest rates.
At three dollars a reload, you're paying quite a premium to load a card with two-hundred bucks at a time. Even in absolute terms, $36/year is a substantial fraction of the $50 worst-case liability limit you might get hit with if your credit card was compromised. Also, using pre-loaded cards (or bank debit cards) for gas purchases can be a hassle (or worse) when they sometimes hold $100 or so until your purchase transaction is finalized -- a process that could take days.
It may be an effective spending limiter, but that's a different financial story.
I'd suggest reading at least one F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The Great Gatsby is the most popular and certainly an easy read -- if you're a reasonably fast reader, you can knock it out after lunch on a public holiday and be done by supper. This Side of Paradise is very good too, but should preferably be read for the first time before the reader is in their mid twenties. Once you're an English teacher, it's too late.
But seriously, tell your young ones not to wait till they're old to read Fitzgerald. And if they like him, he's got a metric assload of short stories to fill those idle times between leap years.
Here are a few that are mentioned because of importance, or don't first come to mind.
1: The Bible (because good or bad, it influences our society.
This was on the "Summer reading before my class" list from one of my high school English teachers. (She was Jewish, as I recall, if that matters to you.) The primary reason was all the Western literary references you wouldn't understand without at least a basic knowledge of the Bible.
For example: In Western literature -- or its squellae* -- anyone with initials J.C. is probably a "Christ figure".
Go ahead, test it. Try, oh . . . say, "The Terminator".
*Yes, I'm being silly by calling "film" a pathology. I kid.
I voted against McCain/Palin, not for Obama. It sucks that we can't get a president who's trustworthy, but it's pointless to cry over spilt milk
The best way to have a trustworthy president is to have an accountable president, not to rely on the personal ethics of the individual. And this falls to the legislative and judicial branches. This particular example is a failure of the judicial branch, but Congress isn't helping either.
If you're counting on the good will of the incumbant of the Executive office as your sole protection from government overreach, you're (we're) doing it wrong.
Any president must be held accountable by the other two branches of government for the system to work. Any president is subject to the temptation to stretch his authority if he knows it won't be challenged.
If you knew that speed limits were never enforced, would you be tempted to exceed them? Of course not. Except if you're late to work. Or some idiot is driving too slowly. Or you're gonna miss your doctor's appointment. But you're a good driver, and can be trusted not to overdo it, right?
Maybe they could also redefine "search" as continuous monitoring. So when we cross the border, they are legally allowed to install a rootkit on our computer.
I doubt that they even feel the need to consider the legality, given that it would take years for such a case to be discovered, investigated and eventually work its way to a kangaroo court to proclaim it okey-dokey.
'Need'?? Are you nuts?
Or are your interests just such that you think you 'need'?
If the boss says "You need to go to America," then your interest might be in keeping your job to, as we sometimes say here, "put food on your family." Of course, if you're independently wealthy, you do have many more choices and lots fewer problems . ..
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“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” - Rod Sterling
Perhaps it is. But OTOH, Rod Serling and his staff were able to make a virtue of the vice of commercial advertisementbreaks in their selection of delimitations between acts to good effect. Remember, limitations in form can be an excellent artistic inspiration. Viz sonnet form for some examples of constraints as inspiration.
As the US government operates outside of my interpretation of its constitutional limits, it can only be considered by me to be a criminal organization.
FTFY.
You clarified that a signed post on Slashdot was the judgement and opinion of the poster? I don't think that rises to the level of "repair" that "fixing" implies.
Your argument would be more effective as a horse/buggy/whip analogy.
Whatever you're into, man. As long as it's two consenting adults ain't none of my business.
It is a great device and I know it has saved me money during long hot summers. If you are worried about privacy, turn off your cell phones and computers. You've already been pwned.
Just because you've been pwned, doesn't mean you can't get pwned even more. Like how losing your virginity doesn't mean you can't get screwed again.
Wait, a car analogy would be more appropriate (and relevant): Just because you've already had a flat tire doesn't mean you can't get another.
I got an e-mail from Target offering me free credit monitoring.
Yeah, they leaked my name, address, credit card number etc and now they want me to sign up for credit monitoring with them. Just input your social security number and answer a few questions ...
Surely, they aren't offering to sign you up with their roll-your-own credit-monitoring system, right? (Because I wouldn't go for that either.) Last time I had a credit card possibly compromised, the retailer at fault gave me a free one year subscription to Equifax's credit monitoring service. I got a coupon code from the retailer, but all the interaction was with the credit bureau.
(For the sake of closure on that anecdote, nothing weird happened over the following year.)
There's nothing wrong with the car that makes it fire prone... but we'll raise the clearance just because.
There's nothing wrong with the charger that caught fire... but we'll fix it anyway.
Seriously does anybody believe one word Musk says?
Engineers: People who, when finding out that their system might fail in your horrifically substandard conditions, attempt to address the problem present in your conditions and incorporate that knowledge of those conditions into the system, both in your version and the future.
If Ford knows people are committing crimes, aren't they legally required to report it, otherwise they become an accessory..?
All that's left now is to send the monthly fine statements to each owner.
And to figure out how to use the three seashells.
The first thing I'll be doing is hunting around with ball-peen hammer for the GPS module.
The end.
Not if you have a spouse. [Annoyed grunt] They really don't care for principled economic losses (in this case, resale value). Ignorance-based losses (like not changing the oil) they're cool with. Principle, no.
As a consumer, why would this entice me to purchase a car from Ford?
At this point, the question you gotta ask yourself is: what other manufacturers are also doing this but haven't accidentally mentioned it in a public forum? Not buying Ford might punish Ford, true. But it might punish Ford not so much for doing it as to admitting it. (But that's your business as a consumer, of course. You can buy or not buy anything for any reason or no reason at all. I don't know which one I'd pick.)
Long time ago, I interviewed for a job and the boss told me that he really didn't have that good of a method to honestly evaluate employees. So raises tended to go to the employees he thought were working the hardest and thus the most productive. And those employees were the ones he saw the most. In turning down the position, I wondered if I was giving up working for an honest boss in favor of a liar who would do the same thing but not admit to it. (For closure purposes, I found a middle ground: the boss admitted to the "face time" thing after I signed on.)
Google+: Google's third failure of a social network that nobody wants but Google is going to push by forcing integration with their popular services such as YouTube and Gmail.
This is the kind of thing that antitrust laws are supposed to stop. Unfortunately, we don't do antitrust enforcement in the U.S. any more, at least not in any meaningful sense.
I don't like Google integrating its other -- more useful or popular -- services like YouTube GMail with Google+, but where's the antitrust angle to that?
I used to be like that as well (although never liked the BlackBerry keyboards). Swype on Android changed my mind in a big way.
Exact opposite for me. I tried "swyping" for about 30 seconds before purging it from my phone with extreme prejudice. Regular QWERTY on a touchscreen is bad enough. I really want my H/W keyboard back.
Does whoever wrote this think that a decade is 20 years? Or am I slow this AM?
It's not the best-written article ever, but I think it's the phenomenon itself that's the meteorologist is calling the rare thing, not the low temperatures. I've certainly seen colder temps less than 40 years ago in the central US. At least this time I wasn't outside adjusting the antifreeze ratio in my car.
Seriously though, why would they speculate that it was something that was eaten, if they only found one?
Because they ate all the rest, of course. . .
Switching to Windows Phone is a better idea.
. . . Which you've stuffed into the iPhone that you've stuffed into the hollowed-out HTC One.
Romans put Turducken to shame.
You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on. It's in their ToS which most people agree with because they just HAVE to see their 3rd cousin's dancing cat videos. Bitching is easy, doing something about it is harder.
Actually, filing a class action lawsuit is doing something.
If a suit at least forces facebook and others to be more clear about what "private" means, that's something. It would help people to make more informed decisions if fb posted something like: "By 'private' we mean we won't intentionally share your message with other individual members until the next ToS change, but the contents are still fair game for us and our advertisers."
Sure, everyone should know that "private" isn't private any more than a "lifetime warranty" last your whole life. And I'm sure that fb has buried something deep in the ToS. But if they're not doing anything wrong -- and they aren't according to the "contract" you have to accept in toto (or Scooby Doo, or whatever) to use the service -- they shouldn't have any problem making their policies more explicit. Nothing to hide, so to speak.
Yes, because travelling forward in time is actually possible.
I'm doing it right now.
Here's what consumers can do. Simply use cards you preload money on. Walmart has them for $3 for Visa or Mastercard. Costs $3 each time you load funds onto the card (thus it's the same cost to reuse an existing card, or get a completely new one). Only load a couple hundred on the card each month, and if any issues come up, don't reload it and grab a new one next time. It's totally disconnected from your actual accounts in every way, and you mitigate any potential financial loss by only placing relatively small amounts of funds on the card.
Plus, it's not a "credit" card, so you don't have to worry about going into debt or interest rates.
At three dollars a reload, you're paying quite a premium to load a card with two-hundred bucks at a time. Even in absolute terms, $36/year is a substantial fraction of the $50 worst-case liability limit you might get hit with if your credit card was compromised. Also, using pre-loaded cards (or bank debit cards) for gas purchases can be a hassle (or worse) when they sometimes hold $100 or so until your purchase transaction is finalized -- a process that could take days.
It may be an effective spending limiter, but that's a different financial story.
This should be required reading for everyone of junior high/high school age.
Excellent choice: Short. Easy to understand. Explains complicated topics in a user-friendly fashion. Has pictures.
I'd suggest reading at least one F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The Great Gatsby is the most popular and certainly an easy read -- if you're a reasonably fast reader, you can knock it out after lunch on a public holiday and be done by supper. This Side of Paradise is very good too, but should preferably be read for the first time before the reader is in their mid twenties. Once you're an English teacher, it's too late.
But seriously, tell your young ones not to wait till they're old to read Fitzgerald. And if they like him, he's got a metric assload of short stories to fill those idle times between leap years.
Here are a few that are mentioned because of importance, or don't first come to mind.
1: The Bible (because good or bad, it influences our society.
This was on the "Summer reading before my class" list from one of my high school English teachers. (She was Jewish, as I recall, if that matters to you.) The primary reason was all the Western literary references you wouldn't understand without at least a basic knowledge of the Bible.
For example: In Western literature -- or its squellae* -- anyone with initials J.C. is probably a "Christ figure".
Go ahead, test it. Try, oh . . . say, "The Terminator".
*Yes, I'm being silly by calling "film" a pathology. I kid.
"representation" is about money, add cash.
Yup. Money is speech. If it doesn't work, you didn't send enough. Doesn't even have to be small, unmarked bills anymore.
I voted against McCain/Palin, not for Obama. It sucks that we can't get a president who's trustworthy, but it's pointless to cry over spilt milk
The best way to have a trustworthy president is to have an accountable president, not to rely on the personal ethics of the individual. And this falls to the legislative and judicial branches. This particular example is a failure of the judicial branch, but Congress isn't helping either.
it would be different if Ron Paul were president
If you're counting on the good will of the incumbant of the Executive office as your sole protection from government overreach, you're (we're) doing it wrong.
Any president must be held accountable by the other two branches of government for the system to work. Any president is subject to the temptation to stretch his authority if he knows it won't be challenged.
If you knew that speed limits were never enforced, would you be tempted to exceed them? Of course not. Except if you're late to work. Or some idiot is driving too slowly. Or you're gonna miss your doctor's appointment. But you're a good driver, and can be trusted not to overdo it, right?
Maybe they could also redefine "search" as continuous monitoring. So when we cross the border, they are legally allowed to install a rootkit on our computer.
I doubt that they even feel the need to consider the legality, given that it would take years for such a case to be discovered, investigated and eventually work its way to a kangaroo court to proclaim it okey-dokey.
'Need'?? Are you nuts? Or are your interests just such that you think you 'need'?
If the boss says "You need to go to America," then your interest might be in keeping your job to, as we sometimes say here, "put food on your family." Of course, if you're independently wealthy, you do have many more choices and lots fewer problems . . .