My guess is that very few customers realize the details of security. Some know their information got pilfered in some way. This lot won't trust anything electronic and will make no distinction between a system like Apple's or CurrentC. However, most will merrily continue using whatever is available. Companies will continue to measure the cost of security against the cost of a breach, and still figure the cost of a breach is lower. To the individual, the cost of breach is higher.
Same here with the ATM card, it is not a debit card and I will never agree to have one. The bank was unhappy and couldn't understand why I wouldn't want the convenience of the debit card. I told them I couldn't understand why they would want me to have one.
Uh-oh, I think they are onto us. I think we better come clean with some of the secret documents:
1. Steve_Ballmer.pdf - reveals that he starches his shorts 2. Zune - details the dastardly scheme to make Americans hate music 3. Word - shows insanity producing psychological warfare
I'm sure you all know some more. Tell her now before it is too late!! She's quite important.
I still like the old Commando interface in Apple's MPW. You could highlight any text command in a window and popup the Commando interface. It was pre-populated with radio buttons, check boxes, text fields, etc. for everything that command could do. Clicking on the interface elements built a text command in an editable window so you could either run it right there or copy and paste it into a larger script.
I think if MS and Apple would do this for OSes, users would eventually learn to use the terminal windows for stuff they do repeatedly. Apple has gone another route with Automator which builds gui based workflows. It's okay, but it doesn't help me recall arcane Unix syntax.
"Our cops are driving assault vehicles, carrying M16 machine guns and waterboarding people for jay-walking."
Really, in what city does this routinely happen? When there is an incident, yes they use M16 machine guns and drive assault vehicles. Please refer us to where U.S. police are waterboarding anyone.
I agree with you. Also, he lived through an era where to get to the forefront of any science wasn't as time consuming as it is now. Although it was time consuming to the average Joe and hence most of the new ideas were technological, not scientific. These days, you'll be spending the first third of your life getting to the forefront of a very narrow field and then be required to constantly upgrade your scientific background. New physics theories might get scratched out on the back of a napkin, but that belies the years it took to know what scratches to put there, the number of colleagues you needed to consult to be sure they were the correct scratches, and the mathematics it will take to put the scratches in a language other physicists would understand. The other sciences are similar.
MS Watch: Hi there, I see you are trying to find the time. Human: Yes, please tell me the time. MS Watch: Would you like that in military time or civilian time? Human: Sigh...civilian please. MS Watch: Which time zone are you in? Human: Hell, I don't know, you figure it out. MS Watch: Hmmm....you must be in Tuvalu's time zone, are you on the east or the west side? Human: Egads...just give me the time and tell me what time zone you got it from. MS Watch: I don't think I like your attitude. Human: You don't know the time, do you? MS Watch: Why don't you tell me the time? Human: ** shoots self in head ** MS Watch: Look, I'm not telling the time to a dead guy, are you really dead? Human: ** raises a weak hand with gun...the final shot is fired ** MS Watch: Errr....I need a software upgrade and could you please reboot me? Yoo hoo? Yo? Sign...bloody humans!
Snowden had nothing to do with it. You could Cisco was circling the toilet bowl years ago when their idea of innovation was to buy other companies and attempt to pound whatever they bought into whatever they had.
"more childlike IU", yep, it looks like crap. I wish there was a switch so we could select the interface look we wanted, that probably would have been expensive for Apple to keep two looks around, but the Yosemite look just plain sucks MS balls.
Someone should inform the Greek guy with the electric hair. Surely this must have been designed by aliens with the weird elongated heads using anal probes...under a pyramid...and used to power UFOs.
Yep, and I'll bet that gets updated yearly since it was produced long ago. In fact, the Canada section of the U.S. Military is right now planning for Total Snow Control to take the Canadian Maple Syrup Harvest to prevent Quebec separatists from taking it and waging sugar war on the U.S. There's just nothing the U.S. Military isn't prepared for.
Why spend money on mathematics research? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on airline regulation? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on bank regulation? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on infection diseases and cancer? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money keeping the Islamo-Fascists from creating their nuclear-armed state (discounting the one they already have in Pakistan)? We should put it all into food and shelter.
Apparently you didn't get the memo from the U.S. Navy which intends to be free of non-renewable energy sometime in the 2020s (discounting nuclear). So this is some conspiracy you've manufactured.
Airline safety. Interstate highway construction. Moon landing. Mars landing. Social Security. Medicare. OSHA and what they do. NIST and what they do. NiH and what they do. NOAA and what they do. The U.S. Coast Guard. The U. S. Army. The U.S. Navy. Yet not the U.S. Air Force who never met an expensive plane they weren't determined to fly and who announced proudly to the world they were standardizing on Microsoft Malware. EPA and what they do. U.S. Forest Service and what they do. NTSB and what they do.
For the N. Korean readers, it is about the size of your average Kim Jong-un fart. His current absence is because some bureaucrat, who shall be known as Name Less from now on, lit a match at an inopportune time and burned the Dear Leader's hiney. Repairs are being made and he is expected back in action shortly.
I heard yesterday on CSPAN a debate between the two senatorial contenders in Colorado. It wasn't an uplifting experience. However, when the debate came to climate change. The Democrat said the usual things you'd expect a Democrat to say. The Republican started by expressing his concern for the environment but that when it came down to economics, he'd be choosing economics over the environment. So the boy clearly sees no link between the state of the environment and the state of the economy, a point the Democrat brought out.
Your sig fails to make the same connection. There will be much few personal freedom to pursue "wants" as well as "needs" if the environment cannot support the "wants", much less the "needs". You fail to acknowledge the premises of your position and then assume we must assume your assumptions.
Islam is self-radicalizing. They will create as many enemies as they need to keep the young and dumb generating income for the Mullahs and Imams. There's nothing the West can do to reform Islam. Any attempt by the West to do that will get twisted into an attack on Islam. And if the West ceased to exist, they'd just turn on each other. It is what they do, Islam demands a blood tribute, it is the whole idea behind martyrdom and Jihad.
Hey, you are right. Russia had every reason to steal part of Georgia. And Crimea, they were told to that by the U.S. military industrial complex, they've long been known to take orders from it. Ukraine? Same story, there's no history. And Taiwan? The U.S. m.i.c. moved Chaing there after the war just to give China a foil. The S. China Sea? China has long been taking orders direct from the U.S. to steal it. Islamo-Fascism? Why that's just another CIA plot, nothing home grown about it. Gee, now that I get to look at the world through your eyes, there's just nothing for which the U.S. is not responsible.
What will probably sink ISIS in terms of local support is that age old plague which has leveled empires everywhere, a scourge so horrible that people are willing to die to prevent it: taxes. There's an article on CNN's alleged news site explaining how ISIS is taxing the people in the territory they control. Religion is a powerful draw, but it is nothing compared to money. ISIS is more or less a criminal organization, it was started by criminals and run by criminals. It is what they know, sort of an Italian Mafia without the fetching rituals.
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My guess is that very few customers realize the details of security. Some know their information got pilfered in some way. This lot won't trust anything electronic and will make no distinction between a system like Apple's or CurrentC. However, most will merrily continue using whatever is available. Companies will continue to measure the cost of security against the cost of a breach, and still figure the cost of a breach is lower. To the individual, the cost of breach is higher.
Same here with the ATM card, it is not a debit card and I will never agree to have one. The bank was unhappy and couldn't understand why I wouldn't want the convenience of the debit card. I told them I couldn't understand why they would want me to have one.
So...she was fucking with herself....the implications are mind boggling...sort of like Zaphod Beeblebrox isolating part of his brain from himself.
Uh-oh, I think they are onto us. I think we better come clean with some of the secret documents:
1. Steve_Ballmer.pdf - reveals that he starches his shorts
2. Zune - details the dastardly scheme to make Americans hate music
3. Word - shows insanity producing psychological warfare
I'm sure you all know some more. Tell her now before it is too late!! She's quite important.
With all due respect, you wouldn't need full AI to replace him and many other "leaders". Some simple AI akin to a chicken brain would do just fine.
Yep, and what the other half believe is truly weird.
I still like the old Commando interface in Apple's MPW. You could highlight any text command in a window and popup the Commando interface. It was pre-populated with radio buttons, check boxes, text fields, etc. for everything that command could do. Clicking on the interface elements built a text command in an editable window so you could either run it right there or copy and paste it into a larger script.
I think if MS and Apple would do this for OSes, users would eventually learn to use the terminal windows for stuff they do repeatedly. Apple has gone another route with Automator which builds gui based workflows. It's okay, but it doesn't help me recall arcane Unix syntax.
"Our cops are driving assault vehicles, carrying M16 machine guns and waterboarding people for jay-walking."
Really, in what city does this routinely happen? When there is an incident, yes they use M16 machine guns and drive assault vehicles. Please refer us to where U.S. police are waterboarding anyone.
Bullshit. Your argument is that science cannot progress.
I agree with you. Also, he lived through an era where to get to the forefront of any science wasn't as time consuming as it is now. Although it was time consuming to the average Joe and hence most of the new ideas were technological, not scientific. These days, you'll be spending the first third of your life getting to the forefront of a very narrow field and then be required to constantly upgrade your scientific background. New physics theories might get scratched out on the back of a napkin, but that belies the years it took to know what scratches to put there, the number of colleagues you needed to consult to be sure they were the correct scratches, and the mathematics it will take to put the scratches in a language other physicists would understand. The other sciences are similar.
MS Watch: Hi there, I see you are trying to find the time.
Human: Yes, please tell me the time.
MS Watch: Would you like that in military time or civilian time?
Human: Sigh...civilian please.
MS Watch: Which time zone are you in?
Human: Hell, I don't know, you figure it out.
MS Watch: Hmmm....you must be in Tuvalu's time zone, are you on the east or the west side?
Human: Egads...just give me the time and tell me what time zone you got it from.
MS Watch: I don't think I like your attitude.
Human: You don't know the time, do you?
MS Watch: Why don't you tell me the time?
Human: ** shoots self in head **
MS Watch: Look, I'm not telling the time to a dead guy, are you really dead?
Human: ** raises a weak hand with gun...the final shot is fired **
MS Watch: Errr....I need a software upgrade and could you please reboot me? Yoo hoo? Yo? Sign...bloody humans!
Snowden had nothing to do with it. You could Cisco was circling the toilet bowl years ago when their idea of innovation was to buy other companies and attempt to pound whatever they bought into whatever they had.
"more childlike IU", yep, it looks like crap. I wish there was a switch so we could select the interface look we wanted, that probably would have been expensive for Apple to keep two looks around, but the Yosemite look just plain sucks MS balls.
Someone should inform the Greek guy with the electric hair. Surely this must have been designed by aliens with the weird elongated heads using anal probes...under a pyramid...and used to power UFOs.
It is on a 7 feet by 10 feet silicon chip, depth doesn't count here except for circuitry.
Yep, and I'll bet that gets updated yearly since it was produced long ago. In fact, the Canada section of the U.S. Military is right now planning for Total Snow Control to take the Canadian Maple Syrup Harvest to prevent Quebec separatists from taking it and waging sugar war on the U.S. There's just nothing the U.S. Military isn't prepared for.
Why spend money on mathematics research? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on airline regulation? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on bank regulation? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money on infection diseases and cancer? We should put it all into food and shelter. Why spend money keeping the Islamo-Fascists from creating their nuclear-armed state (discounting the one they already have in Pakistan)? We should put it all into food and shelter.
Sense any direction here?
Apparently you didn't get the memo from the U.S. Navy which intends to be free of non-renewable energy sometime in the 2020s (discounting nuclear). So this is some conspiracy you've manufactured.
The U.S. is now a net exporter of fossil fuels. It isn't as big a problem for the U.S. as your 1990s mind set.
Airline safety. Interstate highway construction. Moon landing. Mars landing. Social Security. Medicare. OSHA and what they do. NIST and what they do. NiH and what they do. NOAA and what they do. The U.S. Coast Guard. The U. S. Army. The U.S. Navy. Yet not the U.S. Air Force who never met an expensive plane they weren't determined to fly and who announced proudly to the world they were standardizing on Microsoft Malware. EPA and what they do. U.S. Forest Service and what they do. NTSB and what they do.
For the N. Korean readers, it is about the size of your average Kim Jong-un fart. His current absence is because some bureaucrat, who shall be known as Name Less from now on, lit a match at an inopportune time and burned the Dear Leader's hiney. Repairs are being made and he is expected back in action shortly.
I heard yesterday on CSPAN a debate between the two senatorial contenders in Colorado. It wasn't an uplifting experience. However, when the debate came to climate change. The Democrat said the usual things you'd expect a Democrat to say. The Republican started by expressing his concern for the environment but that when it came down to economics, he'd be choosing economics over the environment. So the boy clearly sees no link between the state of the environment and the state of the economy, a point the Democrat brought out.
Your sig fails to make the same connection. There will be much few personal freedom to pursue "wants" as well as "needs" if the environment cannot support the "wants", much less the "needs". You fail to acknowledge the premises of your position and then assume we must assume your assumptions.
Islam is self-radicalizing. They will create as many enemies as they need to keep the young and dumb generating income for the Mullahs and Imams. There's nothing the West can do to reform Islam. Any attempt by the West to do that will get twisted into an attack on Islam. And if the West ceased to exist, they'd just turn on each other. It is what they do, Islam demands a blood tribute, it is the whole idea behind martyrdom and Jihad.
Hey, you are right. Russia had every reason to steal part of Georgia. And Crimea, they were told to that by the U.S. military industrial complex, they've long been known to take orders from it. Ukraine? Same story, there's no history. And Taiwan? The U.S. m.i.c. moved Chaing there after the war just to give China a foil. The S. China Sea? China has long been taking orders direct from the U.S. to steal it. Islamo-Fascism? Why that's just another CIA plot, nothing home grown about it. Gee, now that I get to look at the world through your eyes, there's just nothing for which the U.S. is not responsible.
What will probably sink ISIS in terms of local support is that age old plague which has leveled empires everywhere, a scourge so horrible that people are willing to die to prevent it: taxes. There's an article on CNN's alleged news site explaining how ISIS is taxing the people in the territory they control. Religion is a powerful draw, but it is nothing compared to money. ISIS is more or less a criminal organization, it was started by criminals and run by criminals. It is what they know, sort of an Italian Mafia without the fetching rituals.