staying in lanes that end until the very last moment to cut in front of traffic?
That may seem like a pretty antisocial thing to do, but if everyone were doing it it would make traffic much more orderly. Where I live, it's actually required by law...
Censorship is a free for all game, anyone can join in.
Or can you point me to some definition of censorship that required a government to do the actual censoring?
It's easy to bash Twitter, but the message length isn't a very good attack vector. People have been using SMS for quite a while now, they're accustomed to expressing themselves in short messages. Also, nobody expects you to communicate complete thoughts through Twitter messages, it's for communicating bits of information to an audience - which may or may not make up a train of thought.
Comparing that to email is doesn't make sense either, as Twitter messages are intended for a larger audience than email is.
Bashing things works better with at least some clue about the subject..
Oh really, there is a Linux distribution that approaches the user experience Windows or the Apple devices offer?
Face it, even Ubuntu, supposedly the easiest to use Linux distribution, has a very active forum where people share commands and shellscripts for others to copy'n'paste. How often do you see $youraverageuser open up cmd.exe?
"We have exploited a purely technological loophole that turns a quantum cryptographic system into a classical system, without anyone noticing," says Makarov.
Choosing whether to buy an Android or iOS based phone is a political decision, and just that.
There are Android phones with a build quality comparable to iPhones (though I haven't played around with the iPhone 4 yet, maybe that ones better..), there also are apps for everything, and the usability, well, Android require about as much training as iOS does. Only when you're already used to iOS will iPhones be easier to use. The integration of different Apple devices is great of course, and makes for a better experience, but if you already have multiple Apple devices, the political decision was already made. That's a kind of vendor lock-in Microsoft can only dream of, at least concerning endusers.
That is impossible to enforce. But it will make them at least try to hide the fact that they're rejecting you based on your profile, making them think a little more about what they're doing there. Can't be bad, except for the fundamental problem of trying to solve an essentially social problem by the means of legislation.
If you have to monitor the person doing the work to know it is getting done something is...off.
Usually, you should be aware of what that person is supposed to do, and when that isn't getting done, only then you have any reason to question the person's workhabit. And even then, you don't go out get surveillance equipment and record that person's every move - no, you talk to him. That's a human being you're dealing with there, you can communicate with him. Your monitor the work done, not the guy doing it.
That would be like me saying I can't put a GPS on my car to keep tabs on where it goes when my son drives it.
Really? So you have the same relationship to your son as an employer to his employees? To each his own I guess.
If you're on facebook at work when you should be working, I think the employer has a right to know about it.
Like that doesn't happen anyways. Who actually works the whole 8 hours a day continuously? No one, everyone takes a break at times. At least people with jobs worth doing... Guess when you could be replaced by a robot or a moderately clever shell script, you can manage to stay at it for 8h...
Also, no cameras? So they can't utilize technology, but they're still allowed to stand behind you and watch you work, right? The only difference between the two is the technology behind the first one.
Getting constantly recorded is the same thing as someone standing behind you constantly? I don't think so. When you're constantly recorded you subtly change your behavior, hoping not to get the attention of whoever watches the monitors. When there's someone behind you you're just perpetually spooked.
At first, your comment, and its moderation, baffled me and left me speechless.
You're advocating the annulment of privacy laws, implicating that who doesn't has something to hide and is afraid of some unspecified threat.
Either you have never listened to the arguments of privacy advocates, or you've dismissed them. In the latter case I'd be real interested in the train of thought that lead to that dismissal.
If all you were referring to was the right to privacy for officers on duty that's a whole different thing of course..
My judgement isn't based on the title alone, rather the whole context in which they're produced.
Comparing a US gov't project to something Nintendo pulled off doesn't work very well..
I'm sure they've already got their own plans..
But honestly, there is no real danger. What kid would voluntarily play games with such titles, games designed not for fun, but for indoctrination?
Huh? I've been using 64 bit linnics ever since I had a 64 bit cpu - a while that is. And I've used Skype the entire time. While there were issues with the sound drivers - but that's the linnics way I guess - I never had any issues with the v4l driver.
But then, all my webcams used the UVC driver, so there probably are drivers that are a little more buggy..
I'm pretty sure the iPhone has some recyclable parts.. Regardless of what Greenpeace says about Apple's environmental policies, they're still bound by environmental laws..
Why would you want wireless in a desktop anyway? Slower, more susceptible to interference, and really, there's enough HF flowing through the ether as it is.
I don't see any reason to connect a stationary system to a wireless network...
Uh huh. Do you always stop to think about the security of the connection when you want to share something? Normal landline phones are trivial to eavesdrop on, yet I have yet to see someone to care about that. Except people that only communicate electronically using end-to-end encryption, but there aren't many of those...
If you don't, how can you expect technically less inclined people to do?
I beg to differ.
Some people (most console gamers I know) prefer consoles exactly because they have a clue. Tthey know what it entails to get a game running on computers, and want nothing none of it.
They want to be entertained, and not have to tinker around with their computers first.
Countersuggestion:
Instead of taking people's attention for granted, do something to capture it.
If you feel people don't read or understand what you are writing, it might be nice and comfy to blame them, but it's also pretty useless.
In the real world, people have things like reputation and academic titles to go on when deciding if and how to read something. That doesn't apply here, here, people only have content and it's presentation (which is an essential part of the content) to go on. Combined with an extremely large amount of messages to read.
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staying in lanes that end until the very last moment to cut in front of traffic?
That may seem like a pretty antisocial thing to do, but if everyone were doing it it would make traffic much more orderly. Where I live, it's actually required by law...
Censorship is a free for all game, anyone can join in.
Or can you point me to some definition of censorship that required a government to do the actual censoring?
It's easy to bash Twitter, but the message length isn't a very good attack vector. People have been using SMS for quite a while now, they're accustomed to expressing themselves in short messages. Also, nobody expects you to communicate complete thoughts through Twitter messages, it's for communicating bits of information to an audience - which may or may not make up a train of thought.
Comparing that to email is doesn't make sense either, as Twitter messages are intended for a larger audience than email is.
Bashing things works better with at least some clue about the subject..
Oh really, there is a Linux distribution that approaches the user experience Windows or the Apple devices offer?
Face it, even Ubuntu, supposedly the easiest to use Linux distribution, has a very active forum where people share commands and shellscripts for others to copy'n'paste. How often do you see $youraverageuser open up cmd.exe?
[..] years of dedicated effort in an open environment.
"We have exploited a purely technological loophole that turns a quantum cryptographic system into a classical system, without anyone noticing," says Makarov.
Choosing whether to buy an Android or iOS based phone is a political decision, and just that.
There are Android phones with a build quality comparable to iPhones (though I haven't played around with the iPhone 4 yet, maybe that ones better..), there also are apps for everything, and the usability, well, Android require about as much training as iOS does. Only when you're already used to iOS will iPhones be easier to use. The integration of different Apple devices is great of course, and makes for a better experience, but if you already have multiple Apple devices, the political decision was already made. That's a kind of vendor lock-in Microsoft can only dream of, at least concerning endusers.
That is impossible to enforce. But it will make them at least try to hide the fact that they're rejecting you based on your profile, making them think a little more about what they're doing there. Can't be bad, except for the fundamental problem of trying to solve an essentially social problem by the means of legislation.
If you have to monitor the person doing the work to know it is getting done something is...off.
Usually, you should be aware of what that person is supposed to do, and when that isn't getting done, only then you have any reason to question the person's workhabit. And even then, you don't go out get surveillance equipment and record that person's every move - no, you talk to him. That's a human being you're dealing with there, you can communicate with him. Your monitor the work done, not the guy doing it.
That would be like me saying I can't put a GPS on my car to keep tabs on where it goes when my son drives it.
Really? So you have the same relationship to your son as an employer to his employees? To each his own I guess.
If you're on facebook at work when you should be working, I think the employer has a right to know about it.
Like that doesn't happen anyways. Who actually works the whole 8 hours a day continuously? No one, everyone takes a break at times. At least people with jobs worth doing... Guess when you could be replaced by a robot or a moderately clever shell script, you can manage to stay at it for 8h...
Also, no cameras? So they can't utilize technology, but they're still allowed to stand behind you and watch you work, right? The only difference between the two is the technology behind the first one.
Getting constantly recorded is the same thing as someone standing behind you constantly? I don't think so. When you're constantly recorded you subtly change your behavior, hoping not to get the attention of whoever watches the monitors. When there's someone behind you you're just perpetually spooked.
At first, your comment, and its moderation, baffled me and left me speechless.
You're advocating the annulment of privacy laws, implicating that who doesn't has something to hide and is afraid of some unspecified threat.
Either you have never listened to the arguments of privacy advocates, or you've dismissed them. In the latter case I'd be real interested in the train of thought that lead to that dismissal.
If all you were referring to was the right to privacy for officers on duty that's a whole different thing of course..
While your comment is kinda 'meh', you'd get +1 from me for your sig alone ^_^
Even Hitler knew this.
Yes well, so did a great many people before him.
Not the same thing obviously
So why bother bringing it up? Wasn't there some kind of law against that?
My judgement isn't based on the title alone, rather the whole context in which they're produced.
Comparing a US gov't project to something Nintendo pulled off doesn't work very well..
I'm sure they've already got their own plans..
But honestly, there is no real danger. What kid would voluntarily play games with such titles, games designed not for fun, but for indoctrination?
You, sir, are suffering from delusions of relevance.
Windows and OSX are what people use on their workstations.
Huh? I've been using 64 bit linnics ever since I had a 64 bit cpu - a while that is. And I've used Skype the entire time. While there were issues with the sound drivers - but that's the linnics way I guess - I never had any issues with the v4l driver.
But then, all my webcams used the UVC driver, so there probably are drivers that are a little more buggy..
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
I'm pretty sure the iPhone has some recyclable parts.. Regardless of what Greenpeace says about Apple's environmental policies, they're still bound by environmental laws..
People invest money in entertainment, news at 11.
So they invested 20-40 bucks into what to them is entertainment. Hardly a sign of a lack of brains..
Why would you want wireless in a desktop anyway? Slower, more susceptible to interference, and really, there's enough HF flowing through the ether as it is.
I don't see any reason to connect a stationary system to a wireless network...
Uh huh. Do you always stop to think about the security of the connection when you want to share something? Normal landline phones are trivial to eavesdrop on, yet I have yet to see someone to care about that. Except people that only communicate electronically using end-to-end encryption, but there aren't many of those...
If you don't, how can you expect technically less inclined people to do?
I beg to differ.
Some people (most console gamers I know) prefer consoles exactly because they have a clue. Tthey know what it entails to get a game running on computers, and want nothing none of it.
They want to be entertained, and not have to tinker around with their computers first.
Countersuggestion:
Instead of taking people's attention for granted, do something to capture it.
If you feel people don't read or understand what you are writing, it might be nice and comfy to blame them, but it's also pretty useless.
In the real world, people have things like reputation and academic titles to go on when deciding if and how to read something. That doesn't apply here, here, people only have content and it's presentation (which is an essential part of the content) to go on. Combined with an extremely large amount of messages to read.