thats the gene responsible for creating sex drive. Without worrying about sex the mice can concentrate on solving mazes. The Seinfeld hypothesis is right(well for mice anyway, if it were right for humans I would be the smartest man on the planet:P)
Not to mention shit like a rear facing camera(the front one makes sense for video conferencing and whatnot). It's all the power of a cellphone camera thats bigger than most commercial SLRs(at least in terms of area)! It's the worst of both worlds! And of course, adds cost to the device. I really don't think Samsung knew where they were going with this one and used the old, "lets throw every hardware feature on this thing under the sun to beat Apple!" approach which has been tried many times before, and failed many times before. Maybe they will succeed, but just the fact that they put a back facing camera in a tablet makes me doubt it.(And yes I'm sure you can think of a couple of obscure uses for the thing, but 99% of the time I bet people won't even bother with it.)
But bittorrent and social networks are VERY different beasts. With bittorrent the amount of data that has to be centrally managed is minimal, your ip and what parts of the file you have. If a peer/seeder disappears in the bittorrent world it doesn't really affect the download(unless that person was the only seeder of course) since everyone is essentially sharing the same, unencrypted data.
Now look at it from a social network point of view. You have to join and filter massive amounts of data that may or may not exist(at least in an unencrypted form) on a server that is currently available. The data may not be replicated on a server that is anywhere near you, or one connected to a really slow pipe. The only way you can really get the information distributed is if you share it unencrypted, and by then you have pretty much defeated the entire purpose of the software. It's an interesting concept for sure, but I doubt it will turn into anything that even remotely threatens facebook.
If this really wants to be a "competitor" to facebook they are going to need a lot more than just software. Of course they need users, but they also need a central organization and a LOT of servers. Facebook is more than just a software interface, they have a massive # of globally distributed data centers that cost a ton of money. I doubt any one organization is going to put the same amount of resources behind this project. More than likely, if this amounts to anything it won't be a facebook competitor but instead a platform for much smaller communities to use. TFA even mentions this(but its not in the summary. Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your profile among communities, but that remains to be seen.
No, thats a strawman argument. Murder has a very clear victim and thus committing it is detrimental to society. The laws I am talking about, and specifically mentioned in my post(abortion, drugs, video games, prostitution etc.) have 0 victims. If I smoke a joint in my own house, the only person that I could even potentially be hurting is myself. However the moralizing of many right-wingers seem to think I'm doing something horrible and must be stopped.
This constant paranoia over pedophilia has gotten insane. While it is a terrible crime, the odds of your kid getting killed by an SUV dwarf the odds that they will get molested by a stranger(some studies suggest that the child knows the perpetrator about 90% of the time). Meanwhile fearful parents park their kids in front of some sort of glowing rectangle and let them eat themselves to an early grave because a guaranteed life of obesity seems somehow better than a slim(really slim if your properly educate and observe the children) chance that they will be molested.
Furthermore the whole police state mentality is driving people who have these urges further and further underground. Dan Savage had a really interesting call on his podcast a few months back about someone who said he couldn't control his attraction to children. He hadn't molested anyone yet but he was scared he might, but thanks to the way the law is written now, if he seeks help the psychiatrist MUST report him to the cops where he will be thrown in prison and then booted out into a world where he is a pariah just for THOUGHTS he may have had. So instead of this man being able to seek professional help(which could include chemical castration), he is now forced to battle his demons on his own and is probably MORE likely to molest a kid than if he had been able to get help. But somehow Americans think that if they can use the police to arrest someone, they should no matter what the actual or perceived crime is.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not trying to minimize molestation, it's a real and terrible thing. But being irrationally afraid of the problem isn't going to make it go away and really isn't going to leave your children in a very healthy state when they grow up.
The Economist did a really good piece on this. To sum it up, while all nations use laws to moralize to a certain degree, the Americans seem to be one of the few ones in the Western World so to speak, that do it to excess. It at Saudia Arabia....yet(give the Republicans time and it will be pretty damn soon).
Enforcing rules such as this are always a joke. What ends up happening is that the state ends up hiring a whole bunch of cops who do nothing all day but roam around the area going to various stores and trying to get the overworked clerk to sell them one of these games. And if the clerk gets caught the corporations usually end up not having to pay a dime(thats why they hire lobbyists), it's the poor overworked kid who made an honest mistake while performing a job that is a lot more stressful than most people realize. So now instead of paying for school he winds up having to pay a huge fine, may have his name printed in the paper etc. And yet pretty much any kid that wants these games will still be able to get their hands on them.
Ugh, Americans really need to give up this law and order fantasy where they think they can modify people's behavior just by creating laws(attn pro-lifers and anti-drug crusaders, this means you)
"A patent for a mobile telephony network requiring no power. Telephone A, consisting of a hollow cylindrical object with a hole drilled into the bottom, is connected via a high tech, string-like device, to Telephone B, another cylindrical object with the hole cut in the bottom. Range is excellent provided you buy lots of Monster brand string, it can even reach my super-secret treehouse!"
This thing is able to inject code as well. Imagine how much a company could gain if it was able to inject difficult to detect faults in its competitors products. Imagine how many armies around the world would be salivating at the opportunity to, for a few thousand dollars, basically have an opportunity to render their opponents half-billion dollar jet useless. These attacks only work, however, if you are able to fly under the radar. If the authors would have attacked normal PCs the odds of the bug being discovered and fixed would be much greater than if they only target a very small subset of Windows computers.
You do realize that a) Intel makes mobile chips as well that take power saving into consideration and b) TFA doesn't say it, but this feature will almost certainly be configurable by the bios and/or OS.
You mention in your question the number 30 which leads me to believe that there are only about 30 students in your class. Why can't you just monitor them during the exam, just like in olden days? If someone is holding up there phone above the test while they adjust the paper to get the right angle, it's pretty obvious what they are doing. If someone is typing a ton on their phone, it's pretty obvious what they are doing(if they are using their phone as a dictionary then for the most part they will just be checking a couple of words here and there). If you see these behaviors just start walking around that area for a while, if they keep it up they are stupid and deserve to fail, if they stop then they probably get the message.
Good call. Because there's absolutely no way in hell that the Russian government has people who could hack backdoors into open source, compile it, and surreptitiously install it onto rooted Linux systems.
Um, if you have root then what is the point of compiling and surreptitiously installing compromised code on the machine, YOU ALREADY HAVE FUCKING ROOT! It's no different than Windows(other than the fact that its harder to actually root a linux box, rooting windows is pretty trivial). I can compile and install any fucking kernel extension I want to do pretty much whatever I want. Writing kernel extensions for Windows(which in most situations is pretty much like changing the kernel, at least from a hackers perspective) isn't really that much different than writing them for Linux. That had to be the stupidest counterargument I have ever heard, and obviously you understand very little about computers.
Not to mention increased protection from prying eyes. If I was criticizing a government known for harassing its opponents I sure as shit wouldn't be using something as insecure as Windows.
Like any tool it all depends on how you use it. After I got a mac my spelling actually IMPROVED thanks to the real time spell checker built in to all applications*(ok, Cocoa applications). I could actually see my spelling errors real time and have been able to pinpoint words I frequently spell incorrectly and now I would say my spelling is better than ever before. Back in the stone age when I actually just wrote shit down I basically got 0 feedback and thus my spelling became atrocious(which I initially spelled with two ts, so obviously room for improvement:P).
As for effect calculators/computers are having on numeracy, I think you must have a very short memory:P People were complaining about this for years, well before such devices became ubiquitous. For instance I remember ALL the way back to 1990 there being this huge banner on the side of a store selling something for $2.50 or 2 for $5! What a deal!
If his payload was something *OTHER* than spam I might be more inclined to believe him, but delivering spam to people usually also involves delivering money to his bank account. He is just looking for a nobler purpose to game some "cred" I guess, and opposing the Iraq war in the cracker community is 99% of the time a pretty safe bet.
But the solar powered LEDs take a lot of energy to manufacture and ship. At what scales does it make more sense to use direct sunlight to grow algae rather than use a solar powered LED?
turns out clippy was working for pedobear this whole time! Or maybe... come to think of it I never have actually seen clippy and pedobear in the same place at the same time....
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thats the gene responsible for creating sex drive. Without worrying about sex the mice can concentrate on solving mazes. The Seinfeld hypothesis is right(well for mice anyway, if it were right for humans I would be the smartest man on the planet :P)
Not to mention shit like a rear facing camera(the front one makes sense for video conferencing and whatnot). It's all the power of a cellphone camera thats bigger than most commercial SLRs(at least in terms of area)! It's the worst of both worlds! And of course, adds cost to the device. I really don't think Samsung knew where they were going with this one and used the old, "lets throw every hardware feature on this thing under the sun to beat Apple!" approach which has been tried many times before, and failed many times before. Maybe they will succeed, but just the fact that they put a back facing camera in a tablet makes me doubt it.(And yes I'm sure you can think of a couple of obscure uses for the thing, but 99% of the time I bet people won't even bother with it.)
Come on, Scott Bakula was taking random quantum walks back in the late 80s, get with the times people!
But bittorrent and social networks are VERY different beasts. With bittorrent the amount of data that has to be centrally managed is minimal, your ip and what parts of the file you have. If a peer/seeder disappears in the bittorrent world it doesn't really affect the download(unless that person was the only seeder of course) since everyone is essentially sharing the same, unencrypted data.
Now look at it from a social network point of view. You have to join and filter massive amounts of data that may or may not exist(at least in an unencrypted form) on a server that is currently available. The data may not be replicated on a server that is anywhere near you, or one connected to a really slow pipe. The only way you can really get the information distributed is if you share it unencrypted, and by then you have pretty much defeated the entire purpose of the software. It's an interesting concept for sure, but I doubt it will turn into anything that even remotely threatens facebook.
With the internet you just get a movie, but with the pigeon you get both a movie AND dinner delivered to your door. Talk about convenience.
If this really wants to be a "competitor" to facebook they are going to need a lot more than just software. Of course they need users, but they also need a central organization and a LOT of servers. Facebook is more than just a software interface, they have a massive # of globally distributed data centers that cost a ton of money. I doubt any one organization is going to put the same amount of resources behind this project. More than likely, if this amounts to anything it won't be a facebook competitor but instead a platform for much smaller communities to use. TFA even mentions this(but its not in the summary. Of course being open source it is theoretically possible then to "transfer" your profile among communities, but that remains to be seen.
No, thats a strawman argument. Murder has a very clear victim and thus committing it is detrimental to society. The laws I am talking about, and specifically mentioned in my post(abortion, drugs, video games, prostitution etc.) have 0 victims. If I smoke a joint in my own house, the only person that I could even potentially be hurting is myself. However the moralizing of many right-wingers seem to think I'm doing something horrible and must be stopped.
This constant paranoia over pedophilia has gotten insane. While it is a terrible crime, the odds of your kid getting killed by an SUV dwarf the odds that they will get molested by a stranger(some studies suggest that the child knows the perpetrator about 90% of the time). Meanwhile fearful parents park their kids in front of some sort of glowing rectangle and let them eat themselves to an early grave because a guaranteed life of obesity seems somehow better than a slim(really slim if your properly educate and observe the children) chance that they will be molested.
Furthermore the whole police state mentality is driving people who have these urges further and further underground. Dan Savage had a really interesting call on his podcast a few months back about someone who said he couldn't control his attraction to children. He hadn't molested anyone yet but he was scared he might, but thanks to the way the law is written now, if he seeks help the psychiatrist MUST report him to the cops where he will be thrown in prison and then booted out into a world where he is a pariah just for THOUGHTS he may have had. So instead of this man being able to seek professional help(which could include chemical castration), he is now forced to battle his demons on his own and is probably MORE likely to molest a kid than if he had been able to get help. But somehow Americans think that if they can use the police to arrest someone, they should no matter what the actual or perceived crime is.
Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not trying to minimize molestation, it's a real and terrible thing. But being irrationally afraid of the problem isn't going to make it go away and really isn't going to leave your children in a very healthy state when they grow up.
The Economist did a really good piece on this. To sum it up, while all nations use laws to moralize to a certain degree, the Americans seem to be one of the few ones in the Western World so to speak, that do it to excess. It at Saudia Arabia....yet(give the Republicans time and it will be pretty damn soon).
Holy shit, Pope Benedict must be a majority shareholder at Google!
Enforcing rules such as this are always a joke. What ends up happening is that the state ends up hiring a whole bunch of cops who do nothing all day but roam around the area going to various stores and trying to get the overworked clerk to sell them one of these games. And if the clerk gets caught the corporations usually end up not having to pay a dime(thats why they hire lobbyists), it's the poor overworked kid who made an honest mistake while performing a job that is a lot more stressful than most people realize. So now instead of paying for school he winds up having to pay a huge fine, may have his name printed in the paper etc. And yet pretty much any kid that wants these games will still be able to get their hands on them.
Ugh, Americans really need to give up this law and order fantasy where they think they can modify people's behavior just by creating laws(attn pro-lifers and anti-drug crusaders, this means you)
"A patent for a mobile telephony network requiring no power. Telephone A, consisting of a hollow cylindrical object with a hole drilled into the bottom, is connected via a high tech, string-like device, to Telephone B, another cylindrical object with the hole cut in the bottom. Range is excellent provided you buy lots of Monster brand string, it can even reach my super-secret treehouse!"
Marge:"When I asked you if that Twitter account was to fake your own death you told me no."
This thing is able to inject code as well. Imagine how much a company could gain if it was able to inject difficult to detect faults in its competitors products. Imagine how many armies around the world would be salivating at the opportunity to, for a few thousand dollars, basically have an opportunity to render their opponents half-billion dollar jet useless. These attacks only work, however, if you are able to fly under the radar. If the authors would have attacked normal PCs the odds of the bug being discovered and fixed would be much greater than if they only target a very small subset of Windows computers.
I mean Carmen Sandiego and her gang have been known to steal whole monuments, I'm sure a house is a pretty easy job for them.
You do realize that a) Intel makes mobile chips as well that take power saving into consideration and b) TFA doesn't say it, but this feature will almost certainly be configurable by the bios and/or OS.
You mention in your question the number 30 which leads me to believe that there are only about 30 students in your class. Why can't you just monitor them during the exam, just like in olden days? If someone is holding up there phone above the test while they adjust the paper to get the right angle, it's pretty obvious what they are doing. If someone is typing a ton on their phone, it's pretty obvious what they are doing(if they are using their phone as a dictionary then for the most part they will just be checking a couple of words here and there). If you see these behaviors just start walking around that area for a while, if they keep it up they are stupid and deserve to fail, if they stop then they probably get the message.
Good call. Because there's absolutely no way in hell that the Russian government has people who could hack backdoors into open source, compile it, and surreptitiously install it onto rooted Linux systems.
Um, if you have root then what is the point of compiling and surreptitiously installing compromised code on the machine, YOU ALREADY HAVE FUCKING ROOT! It's no different than Windows(other than the fact that its harder to actually root a linux box, rooting windows is pretty trivial). I can compile and install any fucking kernel extension I want to do pretty much whatever I want. Writing kernel extensions for Windows(which in most situations is pretty much like changing the kernel, at least from a hackers perspective) isn't really that much different than writing them for Linux. That had to be the stupidest counterargument I have ever heard, and obviously you understand very little about computers.
Not to mention increased protection from prying eyes. If I was criticizing a government known for harassing its opponents I sure as shit wouldn't be using something as insecure as Windows.
Like any tool it all depends on how you use it. After I got a mac my spelling actually IMPROVED thanks to the real time spell checker built in to all applications*(ok, Cocoa applications). I could actually see my spelling errors real time and have been able to pinpoint words I frequently spell incorrectly and now I would say my spelling is better than ever before. Back in the stone age when I actually just wrote shit down I basically got 0 feedback and thus my spelling became atrocious(which I initially spelled with two ts, so obviously room for improvement :P).
:P People were complaining about this for years, well before such devices became ubiquitous. For instance I remember ALL the way back to 1990 there being this huge banner on the side of a store selling something for $2.50 or 2 for $5! What a deal!
As for effect calculators/computers are having on numeracy, I think you must have a very short memory
If his payload was something *OTHER* than spam I might be more inclined to believe him, but delivering spam to people usually also involves delivering money to his bank account. He is just looking for a nobler purpose to game some "cred" I guess, and opposing the Iraq war in the cracker community is 99% of the time a pretty safe bet.
Best way to hide 1-900 calls to sex lines from the wife ever!
But the solar powered LEDs take a lot of energy to manufacture and ship. At what scales does it make more sense to use direct sunlight to grow algae rather than use a solar powered LED?
turns out clippy was working for pedobear this whole time! Or maybe... come to think of it I never have actually seen clippy and pedobear in the same place at the same time....
The really smart criminals just bribe the cops or even better just bribe the politicians to make what they are doing not illegal.