What are you talking about? There is no excuse for a screen saver to have an installer. It makes no more sense than having an installer for the text document that you just downloaded, or for a jpg picture that you just downloaded. So, there are no excuses for running anything to do with a screen saver outside of a sandbox.
Is there any legitimate reason that screen savers in every single OS should not be 100% sandboxed? Is there even one OS that does sandbox the screen savers? Heck, there are not even that many screen savers that have a use for network access. You should have to explicitly authorize your sandboxed screen saver to have network access. As far as I know, every single OS is guilty of this security hole.
I have had very cordial conversations with several police officers in private non-official settings. I.e. we were both invited to the same 4th of July party. Two of them I knew before they became police. Every single one of them agreed that they let other officers break the law, and that it would take something really serious for them to even consider arresting another officer. Most of them rationalized this by calling it "professional courtesy". Here in the US, it is semi-openly accepted that the police are criminals. I have yet to meet a person here that does not believe the police are criminals. This includes, as I said, several police officers. What is done is that people explain why they don't count the police officers criminal activity as a crime. Now, there may be 1% of the police that are good cops, but I have a hard time believing it. Why? Because when one cop knows that another one is violating the law, but does not enforce the law with equal vigilance because of "professional courtesy", they are not a good cop. The only way a good cop could survive in a police department is if they were in a town so small that there were only a couple of officers AND they had a higher set of moral standards than most police. I doubt that even comes close to making up 1%.
We pretty much just have to accept that having criminal police is a lesser evil than not having police at all.
The 'deadman switch' scenario does remove the problem that would inevitably happen, which is that while places like theaters and libraries would make sure that the 'off' transmission works, they would have little to no incentive to make sure that the 'on' transmission works. I was thinking that the notification ring would be important because if there is simple 'off' transmission that can be broadcast, it would be used in places other than a theater. Libraries, offices, some peoples homes. While you are correct that theaters have plenty of opportunities to inform their patrons that their phones have been turned to vibrate, and likely would inform them, there would inevitably be some Neo-Luddite that would think it was their place to broadcast the signal anywhere they can to mess with peoples phones.
Why start so big. I'll believe that you can stop people from doing bad things to each other when you head up a way to make it work even on a small scale. How about just one city. You figure out a way to get, say, New York to have no human on human violence without any police force at all, and then we can talk.
The solution to cell phones in theaters is to get the cell phone manufacturers to agree on a standard "set to vibrate" signal that all cell phones will pick up. Then have short range transmitters at the entrances of the theaters. This would automatically set any phone entering the building to vibrate. There would not be the issue of emergency calls not getting through, and people would not forget to turn off their ringers.
For the inevitable "But people will still talk on them" argument... Getting people not to disturbe others in a theater is the job of the theater. It is a problem that has been presented by smoking, talking to other people, crying babies, and laser pointers. Some theaters choose to kick out people creating problems, and some theaters don't. Some jackass that decides to carry on a conversation during a movie with someone that is on the other side of town is no worse than the jackass that decides yell at the screen or carry on a conversation with the guy next to them.
If the cell phone manufacturers REALLY wanted to make the auto vibrate slick, they could set it up so that the auto vibrate mode could receive a second signal that could be mounted outside that turned the ringer back on if the way it was turned off was by the first signal. Another option would be that the ringer is turned off only while it is receiving the signal, and the transmitters could be put in the theater itself. Of course when the signal is first received, the phone should notify the owner that it is changing modes. Either by vibrating if it is already on vibrate, or by ringing with a its "I received a vibrate only signal" ring.
I did not mean that the taser was supposed to be used in ALL cases that a gun would be used, but that the taser was designed to be used in a subset of instances where a gun would be used. I would never suggest that the police were, or should consider not carrying guns.
That is pretty much it. The point of the taser was to replace the gun. The idea being that we want to reduce the damage done to the person being shot. The problem is that the police have decided that because it "isn't fatal" that it is ok to use when it is convenient. A taser should only be used when a cop would normally use a gun, and the exact same procedure should used every time a cop discharges a taser as would be used if a cop discharges a gun.
Thanks for those links. I have had many debates about the intelligence of the Chicken Pox vaccine, and people arguing for it are always trying to claim that it is super dangerous. CDC links are always good for backing up an argument.
No, I have been using Lotus Notes, which has allowed you to put the same email in multiple folders for well over a decade. Anything less is truly a crappy design. I am just shocked that every other email application out there is still decades behind in such a basic function.
Ok, it's been a number of years since I have used Outlook, but are you saying that you can't put a single email into two different folders at the same time in Outlook or most other email programs?
I can tell you that my system is CPU bound a lot. Of course, If I increased the speed of my CPU by 10% by overclocking, it would still be CPU bound, and getting a task done in 54 minutes instead of 60 isn't really worth the effort of overclocking. This is particularly true when it comes to the kinds of things that take an hour to run since I will likely not be sitting and watching my screen count down for an hour anyways.
Oh, come now. The book is about some married chick banging her minister. Really, have you ever heard the dialog in porn? Just because the writing was crappy doesn't mean that it wasn't SUPPOSED to be porn.
My favorite example (I did not enjoy it, but it is a great example) is 'The Scarlet Letter'. It is basically porn of a bygone era. It is definitely written with the explicit purpose of being sexually titillating, and yet it is assigned reading in many high schools around the country.
I could buy that excuse if this were a bug that only manifested in bizarre configurations. If this is simply a case of RMS failing to work on any XP SP3, then your excuse doesn't hold water.
Of course, this doesn't even get into the fact that MS is using it's dominance in the OS market to give it an advantage in other markets... AGAIN. I sincerely doubt that MS would hold up a service pack release if I notified them that MY application would not run on their SP.
Huh. I've always thought that the cache on Hard drives was amazingly small. 16MB? Heck, give me a drive with at least a gigabyte of cache. When I boot up my computer, it should just start reading any sectors that have been used frequently.
I hope they don't go the BSG route. We don't need any more Star Trek Voyager character rehashes with extremely poor writing that is slipped past it's audience by confusing them with unnecessary zooms.
Much better would be to give it the Dr. Who treatment. The special effects can be total crap, but make the writing good, and do be to pretentious.
To tell you the truth, I would not put it past King Diamond. Compare the good "The Good Ship Lollipop" with things like "Welcome Home" or "No Presents For Christmas". Heck, he even had "Little Drummer Boy" as part of "Christmas".
Kind Diamond is clearly very aware of the effects that can be achieved by contrasting innocents, and sweetness with darkness and evil. That is why he sings about children in his albums so much. Of course, I have no doubt that you would not be left with the same image of "The Good Ship Lollipop" from King Diamond as you would from Shirly Temple. King Diamond could easily sing "The Good Ship Lollipop" on an album and retain all of his "street cred". But then King Diamond was always more of an artist than Metallica anyways.
Of course none of this supports of invalidates our point about Metallica, so you can feel free to ignore it all.
(Oh, and no, I would not pay Metallica for for their music. Their ship sailed a long time ago.)
Nah. The problem is that there is no grind. They just need to make a table that has no no drain. That way anyone can just sit all day and grand away hitting the ball into a target. That way they can feel good that they are doing well.
It is flamebait for the same reason that it would be flame bait to say that blacks are predisposed to crime because they make up a larger percentage of the prison population. While it would be stupid to think that different races were separated long enough for evolution to make a difference in skin color and even height, but we could not have evolved different reaction times, hand eye coordination, muscle mass, and brain functionality.
It is pretty dumb to think that our cultural environment is not influential enough to make any kind of statistics concerning athletic ability, intelligence, or predisposition to crime, even close to any kind of evidence for racial genetic superiority.
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What are you talking about? There is no excuse for a screen saver to have an installer. It makes no more sense than having an installer for the text document that you just downloaded, or for a jpg picture that you just downloaded. So, there are no excuses for running anything to do with a screen saver outside of a sandbox.
Is there any legitimate reason that screen savers in every single OS should not be 100% sandboxed? Is there even one OS that does sandbox the screen savers? Heck, there are not even that many screen savers that have a use for network access. You should have to explicitly authorize your sandboxed screen saver to have network access. As far as I know, every single OS is guilty of this security hole.
If the table they showed was what they used, it HAD zebra stripping. They just made every other row really thin, and left the data fields blank.
I have had very cordial conversations with several police officers in private non-official settings. I.e. we were both invited to the same 4th of July party. Two of them I knew before they became police. Every single one of them agreed that they let other officers break the law, and that it would take something really serious for them to even consider arresting another officer. Most of them rationalized this by calling it "professional courtesy". Here in the US, it is semi-openly accepted that the police are criminals. I have yet to meet a person here that does not believe the police are criminals. This includes, as I said, several police officers. What is done is that people explain why they don't count the police officers criminal activity as a crime. Now, there may be 1% of the police that are good cops, but I have a hard time believing it. Why? Because when one cop knows that another one is violating the law, but does not enforce the law with equal vigilance because of "professional courtesy", they are not a good cop. The only way a good cop could survive in a police department is if they were in a town so small that there were only a couple of officers AND they had a higher set of moral standards than most police. I doubt that even comes close to making up 1%.
We pretty much just have to accept that having criminal police is a lesser evil than not having police at all.
The 'deadman switch' scenario does remove the problem that would inevitably happen, which is that while places like theaters and libraries would make sure that the 'off' transmission works, they would have little to no incentive to make sure that the 'on' transmission works. I was thinking that the notification ring would be important because if there is simple 'off' transmission that can be broadcast, it would be used in places other than a theater. Libraries, offices, some peoples homes. While you are correct that theaters have plenty of opportunities to inform their patrons that their phones have been turned to vibrate, and likely would inform them, there would inevitably be some Neo-Luddite that would think it was their place to broadcast the signal anywhere they can to mess with peoples phones.
Why start so big. I'll believe that you can stop people from doing bad things to each other when you head up a way to make it work even on a small scale. How about just one city. You figure out a way to get, say, New York to have no human on human violence without any police force at all, and then we can talk.
The solution to cell phones in theaters is to get the cell phone manufacturers to agree on a standard "set to vibrate" signal that all cell phones will pick up. Then have short range transmitters at the entrances of the theaters. This would automatically set any phone entering the building to vibrate. There would not be the issue of emergency calls not getting through, and people would not forget to turn off their ringers.
For the inevitable "But people will still talk on them" argument... Getting people not to disturbe others in a theater is the job of the theater. It is a problem that has been presented by smoking, talking to other people, crying babies, and laser pointers. Some theaters choose to kick out people creating problems, and some theaters don't. Some jackass that decides to carry on a conversation during a movie with someone that is on the other side of town is no worse than the jackass that decides yell at the screen or carry on a conversation with the guy next to them.
If the cell phone manufacturers REALLY wanted to make the auto vibrate slick, they could set it up so that the auto vibrate mode could receive a second signal that could be mounted outside that turned the ringer back on if the way it was turned off was by the first signal. Another option would be that the ringer is turned off only while it is receiving the signal, and the transmitters could be put in the theater itself. Of course when the signal is first received, the phone should notify the owner that it is changing modes. Either by vibrating if it is already on vibrate, or by ringing with a its "I received a vibrate only signal" ring.
I did not mean that the taser was supposed to be used in ALL cases that a gun would be used, but that the taser was designed to be used in a subset of instances where a gun would be used. I would never suggest that the police were, or should consider not carrying guns.
That is pretty much it. The point of the taser was to replace the gun. The idea being that we want to reduce the damage done to the person being shot. The problem is that the police have decided that because it "isn't fatal" that it is ok to use when it is convenient. A taser should only be used when a cop would normally use a gun, and the exact same procedure should used every time a cop discharges a taser as would be used if a cop discharges a gun.
Thanks for those links. I have had many debates about the intelligence of the Chicken Pox vaccine, and people arguing for it are always trying to claim that it is super dangerous. CDC links are always good for backing up an argument.
That is truly surprising. Lotus Notes has been handling this correctly for decades.
No, I have been using Lotus Notes, which has allowed you to put the same email in multiple folders for well over a decade. Anything less is truly a crappy design. I am just shocked that every other email application out there is still decades behind in such a basic function.
Ok, it's been a number of years since I have used Outlook, but are you saying that you can't put a single email into two different folders at the same time in Outlook or most other email programs?
I can tell you that my system is CPU bound a lot. Of course, If I increased the speed of my CPU by 10% by overclocking, it would still be CPU bound, and getting a task done in 54 minutes instead of 60 isn't really worth the effort of overclocking. This is particularly true when it comes to the kinds of things that take an hour to run since I will likely not be sitting and watching my screen count down for an hour anyways.
Maybe we could call this an "eMancipation Proclamation".
I think you mean FOUR times as expensive. It is already twice as expensive.
Oh, come now. The book is about some married chick banging her minister. Really, have you ever heard the dialog in porn? Just because the writing was crappy doesn't mean that it wasn't SUPPOSED to be porn.
My favorite example (I did not enjoy it, but it is a great example) is 'The Scarlet Letter'. It is basically porn of a bygone era. It is definitely written with the explicit purpose of being sexually titillating, and yet it is assigned reading in many high schools around the country.
I could buy that excuse if this were a bug that only manifested in bizarre configurations. If this is simply a case of RMS failing to work on any XP SP3, then your excuse doesn't hold water.
Of course, this doesn't even get into the fact that MS is using it's dominance in the OS market to give it an advantage in other markets... AGAIN. I sincerely doubt that MS would hold up a service pack release if I notified them that MY application would not run on their SP.
Huh. I've always thought that the cache on Hard drives was amazingly small. 16MB? Heck, give me a drive with at least a gigabyte of cache. When I boot up my computer, it should just start reading any sectors that have been used frequently.
I hope they don't go the BSG route. We don't need any more Star Trek Voyager character rehashes with extremely poor writing that is slipped past it's audience by confusing them with unnecessary zooms.
Much better would be to give it the Dr. Who treatment. The special effects can be total crap, but make the writing good, and do be to pretentious.
To tell you the truth, I would not put it past King Diamond. Compare the good "The Good Ship Lollipop" with things like "Welcome Home" or "No Presents For Christmas". Heck, he even had "Little Drummer Boy" as part of "Christmas".
Kind Diamond is clearly very aware of the effects that can be achieved by contrasting innocents, and sweetness with darkness and evil. That is why he sings about children in his albums so much. Of course, I have no doubt that you would not be left with the same image of "The Good Ship Lollipop" from King Diamond as you would from Shirly Temple. King Diamond could easily sing "The Good Ship Lollipop" on an album and retain all of his "street cred". But then King Diamond was always more of an artist than Metallica anyways.
Of course none of this supports of invalidates our point about Metallica, so you can feel free to ignore it all.
(Oh, and no, I would not pay Metallica for for their music. Their ship sailed a long time ago.)
Nah. The problem is that there is no grind. They just need to make a table that has no no drain. That way anyone can just sit all day and grand away hitting the ball into a target. That way they can feel good that they are doing well.
It is flamebait for the same reason that it would be flame bait to say that blacks are predisposed to crime because they make up a larger percentage of the prison population. While it would be stupid to think that different races were separated long enough for evolution to make a difference in skin color and even height, but we could not have evolved different reaction times, hand eye coordination, muscle mass, and brain functionality.
It is pretty dumb to think that our cultural environment is not influential enough to make any kind of statistics concerning athletic ability, intelligence, or predisposition to crime, even close to any kind of evidence for racial genetic superiority.
That is the EXACT analogy that I was going to write.