Working in a restaurant located in a business hub, I see two or three blue-tooth headsets each day. Sure, maybe not a lot by your standards, but it's significant that these are the people who forget that they're wearing them meaning many more probably use them regularly.
I use one, myself, because I'm never just talking on the phone. If I'm driving and a phone call comes in, I can't be holding the phone to my head. I don't often play games that can be paused so I can't stop just to answer the phone at the drop of a hat. While I'm walking around not doing anything else, sure, I could probably just hold the phone up to my head, but I already have a bluetooth earpiece. Why would I not want to use it?
On the topic of how often any of these come up, very rarely. My last phone bill had 6 minutes of airtime used for the month. Still, I've had the earpiece for over a year and the convenience for the above-listed situations makes it more than worth the $40 I paid for it.
I've never had a problem with an update being forced on me. Neither XBox360, nor PS3, Nor Wii has ever pushed it beyond saying "There's an update. Do you want it?"
You can always refuse to update. So you lose the ability to play online. Get over it. If you're modding your console, the only place you deserve to keep it is offline.
The local university, as I understand it, charges per credit hour up to 12 at which point you qualify for a Full-Time rate, and then if you have more than 18, they start charging per extra credit hour again. As with all hear-say, it could be wrong, but it's the word on the street for now.
Isn't that... hmmm. am I the only one that thinks that sounds like Dark Matter? I mean, it's valid, I suppose, to assume that the energy would be released as heat (I'm assuming that's what you're getting at with "boiling away"), but what if it's released as mass or gravity or an electric field or something?
Real world thinking doesn't apply because the assumptions are too simple.
If a man pays another man to beat you up, who are you going to beat up in self-defence: The man in front of you or the man holding the money?
Okay, maybe not an exact case. If a first man tells a second man you slept with the second man's wife, and that second man comes to beat you up (he was tricked and doesn't really know what's going on, much like a server), who are you going to beat up: the man in front of you or the man who lied to him?
I see no inherent problem with retaliating against the server that is attacking your server. What if the man coming to beat you up is a surgeon due to perform in two hours and you defend yourself sufficiently? His not being able to perform his scheduled surgery is collateral damage not unlike taking down a server performing an important function.
What I'm saying is that it should be up to the server administrators to make sure their servers aren't being used in illegal fashions or they should be held liable if their server is used (in whole or in part) in illegal activities in the same way the man in the above examples will be held liable for assaulting you regardless of his motivation.
As someone who had a cancelled account be inactive for 3 years without it being "hacked," I'd have to say you're full of shit. You created a conspiracy threory for which there is nothing but your own anecdotal evidence and want the world to believe a multi-billion-dollar company decided to sell your evidence rather than that your computer was compromised through an exploit your firewall and AV couldn't protect against. I'll continue to assume you failed rather than Blizzard failed because you clearly don't demonstrate a mental-ability to understand a picture larger than your preconceptions.
I, actually, *do* want IE. I don't use it because it's too popular of an attack target. I'm relishing IE's drop in popularity because I can't wait for the day when I can use it without fearing drive-by attacks from served-up ads from unknown sources. (I know I probably could do that, already, but Firefox hasn't pissed me off enough, yet, to check out the feasibility. Soon, though, the final straw will be added to my camel...)
You can install a different OS on a Microsoft PC. You're specifically allowed to do this, and then you can run Firefox or whatever you want (as long as it runs on Linux, and even if it doesn't, thanks to Wine!)
Well, I can't speak for the end of Alta Vista (I did prefer it over Yahoo for a very long time), but as for GeoCities, they permitted me the option of downloading everything I had on their server in a convenient, single.zip file. If that is the precedent, I won't mind at all when other services, like FB, hit their natural end-of-life. This, of course, precludes the case where they come to a violent end, such as by servers melting down or being confiscated by authorities or whatever one could imagine.
You are not everyone. I was beaten up about once a week on average for it from grade 2 until grade 8. I wish I was exxagerating, but I'm not. Not everyone is given the lavish life you enjoyed.
So, shut the fuck up, Bully. You didn't live the hardest life evar (and neither did I. I know because I'm still alive).
Intended side effect: The server operator may be more more willing in the future to censor who uses his remailer for what purposes. Hey, if it becomes obvious that some dickweed is going to cause your remailing business* to be impeded, you might be willing to do something about it.
"What?" you say. "Do something responsible? Perish the thought."
*I don't know if the operator of the remailer was making any money from it. If he wasn't, then he was operating it for some reason, and that reason could be impeded by his server being raided in meatspace.
New UIs always get resisted because no one actually *likes* changes to their personal process of doing things unless the benefits are immediately apparent. Give it a year and no one will even remember what Win7 looked like, and those that do will be telling epic tales about the slaying of the monsters that inhabited it's Start Menu.
Two different Toyota dealerships in my city gave me wildly different recommendations for repairs:
DealerA said I needed to change my brake fluid, power-steering fluid, and that my brakes were at 50%, so they should be replaced with new ones.
DealerB said everything was dandy, and assured me that I shouldn't need to change my brakes until they were around 20%
I understand that there are Best Practice recommendations, especially where brake fluid and power-steering are involved, but many people keep a car for ten years without needing to change those. I've had mine for one year. It makes me stop to wonder...
Did you remove all Honda branding from your vehicle? I guess, now, it doesn't matter because we all know you drive a Honda. There's you telling everyone on Slashdot what you bought which is the same mechanism for likes on Facebook. FB isn't saying you endorse the thing or are shilling for it. All Facebook is doing is telling your own friends that you clicked a button marked "Like" just like you announce to everyone around you when you drive that you own a Honda.
It is good that they are going to finally scan for malware.
Yes.
But in the end Android apps need better quality control.
yes.
Fixed that for you.
See, funny thing happens when there is no regulation: Everything is a race to the bottom. You say "Use a competitor" but that assumes two things: First, that there exists a competitor at all, and second, that the competitor is meaningfully better. In theory, you might have something. However, there is an adage for this: In Theory, theory and reality are the same. In Reality, they are completely different.
With regulation, however, there is a mandatory minimum to which all apps must adhere to ensure an amount of quality. That's why everyone who has an iPhone loves them. Google could do it, and indeed should do it because they have something Apple doesn't for all those rejected apps: An Alternative App Store. This is a tactical option Google is completely missing, and it is the reason I, and many like me, will never touch Android with a 10-meter pole.
Beside the obvious "OMGFreeSpeech" and "OMG1984" arguments, in the face of garbage programming like American Idol, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, etc, what practical non-what-if arguments are there for this being a bad thing?
"Happiness is finding something you love doing so much that you would do it for free, and then finding someone to pay you for it." (The internet attributes it to Adam Goldstein, but that doesn't sound familiar to me.)
It was predicted years ago that my anti-ninja rock will keep ninjas from killing me. Every confirmation that ninjas haven't killed me without providing any other plausible explanation for the lack of me dying is more evidence to confirm this hypothesis.
What this says is that lack of explanation is not confirmation of hypothesis.
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Working in a restaurant located in a business hub, I see two or three blue-tooth headsets each day. Sure, maybe not a lot by your standards, but it's significant that these are the people who forget that they're wearing them meaning many more probably use them regularly.
I use one, myself, because I'm never just talking on the phone. If I'm driving and a phone call comes in, I can't be holding the phone to my head. I don't often play games that can be paused so I can't stop just to answer the phone at the drop of a hat. While I'm walking around not doing anything else, sure, I could probably just hold the phone up to my head, but I already have a bluetooth earpiece. Why would I not want to use it?
On the topic of how often any of these come up, very rarely. My last phone bill had 6 minutes of airtime used for the month. Still, I've had the earpiece for over a year and the convenience for the above-listed situations makes it more than worth the $40 I paid for it.
I've never had a problem with an update being forced on me. Neither XBox360, nor PS3, Nor Wii has ever pushed it beyond saying "There's an update. Do you want it?"
You can always refuse to update. So you lose the ability to play online. Get over it. If you're modding your console, the only place you deserve to keep it is offline.
The local university, as I understand it, charges per credit hour up to 12 at which point you qualify for a Full-Time rate, and then if you have more than 18, they start charging per extra credit hour again. As with all hear-say, it could be wrong, but it's the word on the street for now.
Isn't that... hmmm. am I the only one that thinks that sounds like Dark Matter? I mean, it's valid, I suppose, to assume that the energy would be released as heat (I'm assuming that's what you're getting at with "boiling away"), but what if it's released as mass or gravity or an electric field or something?
Is it understood by everyone to denote a separate word? Appears to me that only a few people noticed and even fewer care.
Real world thinking doesn't apply because the assumptions are too simple.
If a man pays another man to beat you up, who are you going to beat up in self-defence: The man in front of you or the man holding the money?
Okay, maybe not an exact case. If a first man tells a second man you slept with the second man's wife, and that second man comes to beat you up (he was tricked and doesn't really know what's going on, much like a server), who are you going to beat up: the man in front of you or the man who lied to him?
I see no inherent problem with retaliating against the server that is attacking your server. What if the man coming to beat you up is a surgeon due to perform in two hours and you defend yourself sufficiently? His not being able to perform his scheduled surgery is collateral damage not unlike taking down a server performing an important function.
What I'm saying is that it should be up to the server administrators to make sure their servers aren't being used in illegal fashions or they should be held liable if their server is used (in whole or in part) in illegal activities in the same way the man in the above examples will be held liable for assaulting you regardless of his motivation.
As someone who had a cancelled account be inactive for 3 years without it being "hacked," I'd have to say you're full of shit. You created a conspiracy threory for which there is nothing but your own anecdotal evidence and want the world to believe a multi-billion-dollar company decided to sell your evidence rather than that your computer was compromised through an exploit your firewall and AV couldn't protect against. I'll continue to assume you failed rather than Blizzard failed because you clearly don't demonstrate a mental-ability to understand a picture larger than your preconceptions.
I, actually, *do* want IE. I don't use it because it's too popular of an attack target. I'm relishing IE's drop in popularity because I can't wait for the day when I can use it without fearing drive-by attacks from served-up ads from unknown sources. (I know I probably could do that, already, but Firefox hasn't pissed me off enough, yet, to check out the feasibility. Soon, though, the final straw will be added to my camel...)
You can install a different OS on a Microsoft PC. You're specifically allowed to do this, and then you can run Firefox or whatever you want (as long as it runs on Linux, and even if it doesn't, thanks to Wine!)
Fixed that for you.
Well, I can't speak for the end of Alta Vista (I did prefer it over Yahoo for a very long time), but as for GeoCities, they permitted me the option of downloading everything I had on their server in a convenient, single .zip file. If that is the precedent, I won't mind at all when other services, like FB, hit their natural end-of-life. This, of course, precludes the case where they come to a violent end, such as by servers melting down or being confiscated by authorities or whatever one could imagine.
You are not everyone. I was beaten up about once a week on average for it from grade 2 until grade 8. I wish I was exxagerating, but I'm not. Not everyone is given the lavish life you enjoyed.
So, shut the fuck up, Bully. You didn't live the hardest life evar (and neither did I. I know because I'm still alive).
Intended side effect: The server operator may be more more willing in the future to censor who uses his remailer for what purposes. Hey, if it becomes obvious that some dickweed is going to cause your remailing business* to be impeded, you might be willing to do something about it.
"What?" you say. "Do something responsible? Perish the thought."
*I don't know if the operator of the remailer was making any money from it. If he wasn't, then he was operating it for some reason, and that reason could be impeded by his server being raided in meatspace.
I bet psychics did not see that coming :)
I must be some kind of psychic because I did. ;)
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New UIs always get resisted because no one actually *likes* changes to their personal process of doing things unless the benefits are immediately apparent. Give it a year and no one will even remember what Win7 looked like, and those that do will be telling epic tales about the slaying of the monsters that inhabited it's Start Menu.
What the Labels want, and what they will get are two different things.
For example, just because I want a new car and a pony doesn't mean I'll get the pony.
One of 19 people, now. Devon, the one in South Carolina, got into an accident and died last month, so you're down by one, now.
Two different Toyota dealerships in my city gave me wildly different recommendations for repairs:
DealerA said I needed to change my brake fluid, power-steering fluid, and that my brakes were at 50%, so they should be replaced with new ones.
DealerB said everything was dandy, and assured me that I shouldn't need to change my brakes until they were around 20%
I understand that there are Best Practice recommendations, especially where brake fluid and power-steering are involved, but many people keep a car for ten years without needing to change those. I've had mine for one year. It makes me stop to wonder...
Did you remove all Honda branding from your vehicle? I guess, now, it doesn't matter because we all know you drive a Honda. There's you telling everyone on Slashdot what you bought which is the same mechanism for likes on Facebook. FB isn't saying you endorse the thing or are shilling for it. All Facebook is doing is telling your own friends that you clicked a button marked "Like" just like you announce to everyone around you when you drive that you own a Honda.
What I'm really getting out of this is that you were turned down 97 out of 100 times in interviews because you lacked an actual degree. Is that right?
It is good that they are going to finally scan for malware.
Yes.
But in the end Android apps need better quality control.
yes.
Fixed that for you.
See, funny thing happens when there is no regulation: Everything is a race to the bottom. You say "Use a competitor" but that assumes two things: First, that there exists a competitor at all, and second, that the competitor is meaningfully better. In theory, you might have something. However, there is an adage for this: In Theory, theory and reality are the same. In Reality, they are completely different.
With regulation, however, there is a mandatory minimum to which all apps must adhere to ensure an amount of quality. That's why everyone who has an iPhone loves them. Google could do it, and indeed should do it because they have something Apple doesn't for all those rejected apps: An Alternative App Store. This is a tactical option Google is completely missing, and it is the reason I, and many like me, will never touch Android with a 10-meter pole.
It's like five boys--Jimmy, Jaimie, Joey, Jack, and Rob--picking on a girl, and some teacher telling her dad that it was Jimmy picking on the girl.
You don't single someone out when there are many at fault. That's irresponsible and should not be justified. Ever.
I can't believe you made me log in for this.
Beside the obvious "OMGFreeSpeech" and "OMG1984" arguments, in the face of garbage programming like American Idol, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, etc, what practical non-what-if arguments are there for this being a bad thing?
"Happiness is finding something you love doing so much that you would do it for free, and then finding someone to pay you for it." (The internet attributes it to Adam Goldstein, but that doesn't sound familiar to me.)
Maybe he found his calling?
"Climate Change" would exist without man. So, you can't convince anyone but the ignorant that man causes it. At worst, man aids it.
It was predicted years ago that my anti-ninja rock will keep ninjas from killing me. Every confirmation that ninjas haven't killed me without providing any other plausible explanation for the lack of me dying is more evidence to confirm this hypothesis.
What this says is that lack of explanation is not confirmation of hypothesis.