That's still not right, you can't have "big eye" in there twice. Each of the first 6 symbols identifies a unique point in space, denoting the endpoints of three line segments which intersect at the target location. The seventh is the symbol for the point you are dialing from.
Ugh. I feel dirty for being compelled to point this out.
I loved the map annotation, but I found it very difficult to mark much useful information on such a small screen without obscuring the map with all my "ink." I just can't legibly write/draw small enough with a stylus to do much more than put down dots whereever there is "something interesting."
I just started my second play through, and I'm trying to keep better notes in the temple of the Ocean King about where the shortcuts are for later trips, so I've taken to drawing little bombs where there are bombable walls, and little shovels where there are air jets to dig up, and little grappling hooks wherever I see a spot that I could get to if I had that item -- but with a handful of pixels to work with, drawing free hand, those three marks all kinda look the same.
So I like the feature, but I wish they had made it possible to zoom in and out when drawing on the map, or given me a way to turn it over and write notes on the back of it or something.
Overall, I loved this game. It's the first Zelda game I've played since Link to the Past.
Wow, you are reading the wrong sentiment into what I said. I was making an amusing (to me anyway) observation, not an argument.
To be clear, I'm dead set against the government reading my email, encrypted or not. All I was trying to say is that the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy," on which the legal test is currently based, is a shitty test, as what a reasonable person would "expect" the government to do is to violate you in any manner they can get away with.
In other words, this is an unconstitutional policy that is wrong, and that is exactly what I expect from my government and my ISP. I consider it reasonable of me to expect that, as they have demonstrated their disregard for civil liberties on numerous occasions.
In that sense, it is not reasonable to expect your email to be kept private -- it is still, however, reasonable to demand that it shouldbe kept private.
I was lamenting the present state of affairs, not making a case for them.
If your electronic mail is not encrypted, then one might argue that it is unreasonable to expect privacy. It sucks, but there's some truth to the idea that we all know already that our ISP can monitor any unencrypted traffic we send, and that they reserve the right to. Knowing that, we don't really expect our communications to be private. . . instead we hope that our ISP will at least do us the courtesy of not handing them over to another party without a good reason.
But is that a reasonable expectation? Not if you have any ISP that I've ever dealt with -- it would be reasonable based on my experience with them to assume that they are assholes.
Yet another case for encrypting everything. Of course, I don't practice what I preach. If I did, only about 3 percent of my contacts would be able to read my messages to them.
If the the layers of security are really layers of security, then no you couldn't argue that. You have to breech the outtermost layer before you can even attack the second layer, and you have to breech that layer before you can attack the third, etc.
If you want max speed schedule your gigabyte downloads for off-peak hours. This is not rocket science.
I don't get what you're driving at. What's the point of getting maximum speed for your download if you have to schedule that download to happen several hours later? If I start a download now and it takes an hour to complete, am I worse off than if I start it 4 hours from now and it takes a few minutes?
To use our much abused and beloved car analogies: I could drive to work in 10 minutes instead of 30 if I waited a couple of hours for traffic to lighten up before leaving, but that speed wouldn't matter much -- It would just make me late.
Having my choice of two equally horrid alternatives somehow gives me no comfort.
As I mentioned, DSL is an option here. Qwest owns the lines. And I already employed the suggested vote-with-your-dollars strategy because they suck. So what would you have me do? Keep switching back and forth between them every month? And by the way, DSL requires doing business with Qwest because they own the phone lines, so the dial-up option doesn't change anything.
My point is that you act as though its a free and open market and gee-golly if someone doesn't like how they do business we can just find another provider -- and that's bull. Two providers does not add up to consumer freedom of choice. It's not helpful to excuse a company's bad policies by noting that one can "freely choose" equivalent or worse options. You're saying that because Comcast is still the more palatable of two rotten providers, whatever level of service they provide must be okay then, right?
Great. And if I don't like eating dirt, I can always eat shit instead or just go hungry. Lucky me.
"Ditch Comcast" is a lovely sentiment that has little to do with the world in which we live. For a lot of us, that means ditching internet service, as our only other option is to have our data transported through the tubes by invisible magic bit-fairies.
I am a Comcast customer not because I like Comcast, but because they bought out Time Warner in my city. I was a Time Warner customer not because I liked Time Warner (Though they certainly are better than Comcast), but because I DID ditch Qwest DSL for having the shittiest reliability and service I have ever encountered. I would tell you my Qwest story in detail, but it would take me all day and several pages. Suffice it to say that I will never, NEVER be a customer of Qwest again.
So that's it for me. Qwest or Comcast. Some f*cking choice. At least until the invisible magic bit-fairies decide to expand into my market.
What is it with German exchange students and driving? When I was in High School myself, 15 years before you and one state north, I let a very cute German exchange student drive my car, just a mile or so on quiet residential streets, from one friend's house to another. There was no alcohol involved, and she still managed to crash it headlong into my buddy's truck. Then I had to tell my dad that it was some hit and run driver while I had it parked in the street, so she wouldn't get in trouble.
And I didn't even get laid.
Not so bad as people dying, I suppose, but. . . damn, I wonder where she is now?
I certainly don't think that a cop will always be on hand, and his example was a good one. His statement about what the ROLE of the police is was ludicrous.
I assure you, it is among the intended functions of the police to stop crimes that are in progress. If an officer sees one man beating the shit out of another man on the street, do you think he politely waits for the assault to end, gives the perp a ten minute head start, and then calls in the detectives to start investigating?
Lawsuits were filed over it. The executive branch of the government argued in court (successfully as I recall, I haven't paid attention lately) that the case should be dismissed on the grounds that trying it would expose national security secrets.
That service looked interesting, but their website is so dumbed down for "the average user" that it doesn't give any information on how it actually works. Care to enlighten me? My best guess from their marketing pitch is that it is just an ssh tunnel to their server with a toolbar for turning it on and off.
I'm just curious as to whether it is something more than that.
I don't think he was talking about FM transmitters when he talked about integrating with high-end car steroes. He was probably referring to car stereos that you connect to the ipod via that proprietary connector you mentioned, and then play the music at line-out quality with the controls on the dashboard or steering wheel controlling playback (much easier when driving).
As for my own two cents, the first hard-drive based music player I bought was a Nomad III from Creative. I had to return the first two as they crapped out in a week, the third one survived but the interface sucked. And forget about using it while driving. The sound quality was phenomenal, I'll give it that, but the accessory support for the ipod is just amazing. It's ubiquitous now, and that alone makes it more convenient. I'm sure there are a few players out there that are "better" in their own right, but easily finding the accessories to plug them into your life is another matter.
I'm pretty sure the Nomad is still in my closet somewhere, if you want to make me an offer.;)
Can you cite a source on this? I am not doubting you, because you sound like you know what you're talking about, but I had been under the impression that sperm cells did not have mitochondria, and had a limited amount of energy to use before they burned out.
In fact, I was under the impression that the whole reason sexual reproduction requires two different types of gametes is that one gamete has to be responsible for providing all the mitochondria in the fertilized cell, or the two differing breeds of mitochondria would somehow interfere with one another and leave the cell underpowered.
Obviously I'm just an interested layman, but I'd love to read up on this some more if my impression of how this works is not right.
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That's still not right, you can't have "big eye" in there twice. Each of the first 6 symbols identifies a unique point in space, denoting the endpoints of three line segments which intersect at the target location. The seventh is the symbol for the point you are dialing from.
Ugh. I feel dirty for being compelled to point this out.
I loved the map annotation, but I found it very difficult to mark much useful information on such a small screen without obscuring the map with all my "ink." I just can't legibly write/draw small enough with a stylus to do much more than put down dots whereever there is "something interesting."
I just started my second play through, and I'm trying to keep better notes in the temple of the Ocean King about where the shortcuts are for later trips, so I've taken to drawing little bombs where there are bombable walls, and little shovels where there are air jets to dig up, and little grappling hooks wherever I see a spot that I could get to if I had that item -- but with a handful of pixels to work with, drawing free hand, those three marks all kinda look the same.
So I like the feature, but I wish they had made it possible to zoom in and out when drawing on the map, or given me a way to turn it over and write notes on the back of it or something.
Overall, I loved this game. It's the first Zelda game I've played since Link to the Past.
Wow, you are reading the wrong sentiment into what I said. I was making an amusing (to me anyway) observation, not an argument.
To be clear, I'm dead set against the government reading my email, encrypted or not. All I was trying to say is that the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy," on which the legal test is currently based, is a shitty test, as what a reasonable person would "expect" the government to do is to violate you in any manner they can get away with.
In other words, this is an unconstitutional policy that is wrong, and that is exactly what I expect from my government and my ISP. I consider it reasonable of me to expect that, as they have demonstrated their disregard for civil liberties on numerous occasions.
In that sense, it is not reasonable to expect your email to be kept private -- it is still, however, reasonable to demand that it shouldbe kept private.
I was lamenting the present state of affairs, not making a case for them.
If your electronic mail is not encrypted, then one might argue that it is unreasonable to expect privacy. It sucks, but there's some truth to the idea that we all know already that our ISP can monitor any unencrypted traffic we send, and that they reserve the right to. Knowing that, we don't really expect our communications to be private. . . instead we hope that our ISP will at least do us the courtesy of not handing them over to another party without a good reason.
But is that a reasonable expectation? Not if you have any ISP that I've ever dealt with -- it would be reasonable based on my experience with them to assume that they are assholes.
Yet another case for encrypting everything. Of course, I don't practice what I preach. If I did, only about 3 percent of my contacts would be able to read my messages to them.
If the the layers of security are really layers of security, then no you couldn't argue that. You have to breech the outtermost layer before you can even attack the second layer, and you have to breech that layer before you can attack the third, etc.
To disable ethernet, just don't plug a cable into it. To disable 802.11, physically move the machine to anyplace that is NOT in a wireless hotspot.
iRobot, the company that brought you the Roomba, makes a robot that cleans gutters.
http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=354
If you want max speed schedule your gigabyte downloads for off-peak hours. This is not rocket science.
I don't get what you're driving at. What's the point of getting maximum speed for your download if you have to schedule that download to happen several hours later? If I start a download now and it takes an hour to complete, am I worse off than if I start it 4 hours from now and it takes a few minutes?
To use our much abused and beloved car analogies: I could drive to work in 10 minutes instead of 30 if I waited a couple of hours for traffic to lighten up before leaving, but that speed wouldn't matter much -- It would just make me late.
Having my choice of two equally horrid alternatives somehow gives me no comfort.
As I mentioned, DSL is an option here. Qwest owns the lines. And I already employed the suggested vote-with-your-dollars strategy because they suck. So what would you have me do? Keep switching back and forth between them every month? And by the way, DSL requires doing business with Qwest because they own the phone lines, so the dial-up option doesn't change anything.
My point is that you act as though its a free and open market and gee-golly if someone doesn't like how they do business we can just find another provider -- and that's bull. Two providers does not add up to consumer freedom of choice. It's not helpful to excuse a company's bad policies by noting that one can "freely choose" equivalent or worse options. You're saying that because Comcast is still the more palatable of two rotten providers, whatever level of service they provide must be okay then, right?
Great. And if I don't like eating dirt, I can always eat shit instead or just go hungry. Lucky me.
"Ditch Comcast" is a lovely sentiment that has little to do with the world in which we live. For a lot of us, that means ditching internet service, as our only other option is to have our data transported through the tubes by invisible magic bit-fairies.
I am a Comcast customer not because I like Comcast, but because they bought out Time Warner in my city. I was a Time Warner customer not because I liked Time Warner (Though they certainly are better than Comcast), but because I DID ditch Qwest DSL for having the shittiest reliability and service I have ever encountered. I would tell you my Qwest story in detail, but it would take me all day and several pages. Suffice it to say that I will never, NEVER be a customer of Qwest again.
So that's it for me. Qwest or Comcast. Some f*cking choice. At least until the invisible magic bit-fairies decide to expand into my market.
What is it with German exchange students and driving? When I was in High School myself, 15 years before you and one state north, I let a very cute German exchange student drive my car, just a mile or so on quiet residential streets, from one friend's house to another. There was no alcohol involved, and she still managed to crash it headlong into my buddy's truck. Then I had to tell my dad that it was some hit and run driver while I had it parked in the street, so she wouldn't get in trouble.
And I didn't even get laid.
Not so bad as people dying, I suppose, but. . . damn, I wonder where she is now?
Only if your son can FLY.
Mod parent up. Way up.
I certainly don't think that a cop will always be on hand, and his example was a good one. His statement about what the ROLE of the police is was ludicrous.
Excuse me?
I assure you, it is among the intended functions of the police to stop crimes that are in progress. If an officer sees one man beating the shit out of another man on the street, do you think he politely waits for the assault to end, gives the perp a ten minute head start, and then calls in the detectives to start investigating?
I sure hope you aren't a cop.
Lawsuits were filed over it. The executive branch of the government argued in court (successfully as I recall, I haven't paid attention lately) that the case should be dismissed on the grounds that trying it would expose national security secrets.
That service looked interesting, but their website is so dumbed down for "the average user" that it doesn't give any information on how it actually works. Care to enlighten me? My best guess from their marketing pitch is that it is just an ssh tunnel to their server with a toolbar for turning it on and off.
I'm just curious as to whether it is something more than that.
I don't think he was talking about FM transmitters when he talked about integrating with high-end car steroes. He was probably referring to car stereos that you connect to the ipod via that proprietary connector you mentioned, and then play the music at line-out quality with the controls on the dashboard or steering wheel controlling playback (much easier when driving).
;)
As for my own two cents, the first hard-drive based music player I bought was a Nomad III from Creative. I had to return the first two as they crapped out in a week, the third one survived but the interface sucked. And forget about using it while driving. The sound quality was phenomenal, I'll give it that, but the accessory support for the ipod is just amazing. It's ubiquitous now, and that alone makes it more convenient. I'm sure there are a few players out there that are "better" in their own right, but easily finding the accessories to plug them into your life is another matter.
I'm pretty sure the Nomad is still in my closet somewhere, if you want to make me an offer.
As long as the US Government doesn't go insane in the next ten years . . . .
No risk of that, I assure you. However, I think it likely to remain in that state for at least that long.
Wait! My cheating unit malfunctioned! You gotta give me a do-over!
...fined a large amount and promised jail time the next time this happens...
How exactly does one send a corporate entity to jail?
Thanks!
Can you cite a source on this? I am not doubting you, because you sound like you know what you're talking about, but I had been under the impression that sperm cells did not have mitochondria, and had a limited amount of energy to use before they burned out.
In fact, I was under the impression that the whole reason sexual reproduction requires two different types of gametes is that one gamete has to be responsible for providing all the mitochondria in the fertilized cell, or the two differing breeds of mitochondria would somehow interfere with one another and leave the cell underpowered.
Obviously I'm just an interested layman, but I'd love to read up on this some more if my impression of how this works is not right.
I don't think you'd get a bubble filled with nothing from that. I think that it would be filled with machines.
Which they don't install.
Unstoppable? Really? So. . . it's what, magic?
And if my IP address is on a local subnet, the OS is going to know my gateway's location how?