No, Slashdot users are a large majority of the people who would be ABLE to install the plugin.
Most users will find it doesn't work and do something else.
I'm a slashdot user and all I know about Silverlight is that my Windows update log looks like this:
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed [repeat 100 times] Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
I eventually killed it after I got fed up of all the error popups.
PS: Yea,.Net does the exact same thing on all the machines in the house too, except there's three versions of that trying to update themselves.
You will get in trouble for actively seeking child porn however, which is different.... we don't know if someone was actually actively trying to get nudies of some highschool kids... DO WE?
They took 30,000 pictures of kids at their computers. What are the odds of NOT getting nudie pics?
Problem is: It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
Yep. How could they possibly imagine that any good would come of this? What *useful* pictures could they possibly obtain?
Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. NAKED student in front of computer!!! Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer.
You're forgetting that the head of the TSA has a huge budget and personal financial interest in the scanner companies...
People who can think about real attack scenarios don't get very far in the TSA of the 21st century. It's all about expensive, shiny machines and fancy dinners with politicians.
That's the problem....the policy makers spend too much time watching movies.
What they really need to do is think like a terrorist. A terrorist can just blow up the queue for the security machine.
Problem 2: That sort of thinker doesn't get to build impressive shiny installations at taxpayer expense then stand in front of cameras at the official opening before going off to dinner with people in suits. At taxpayer expense.
The fun thing is that you can do this with photons which were gravitational lensed around both sides of a galaxy and *still* collapse the wave function. Your measurement instantly changes something which happened a billion years ago (the lensing).
a) It's not "recent news" b) There's no possible link. Not even "maybe".
To quote Bob Parks:
Here's the conversation I have several times a day with total strangers: Caller: do you use a wired earphone? BP: No. Caller: would it be too much trouble? BP: No. Caller: Wouldn’t you be safer? BP: No. Caller: How do you know? BP: Quantum physics; all cancers are caused by mutant strands of DNA. Electromagnetic radiation can't create mutant strands of DNA unless the frequency is at or higher than the blue limit of the visible spectrum – the near-ultraviolet. The frequency of cell phone radiation is about 1 million times too low. Caller: Wow! When did this news break? BP: Albert Einstein let it out in 1905. Robert Millikan, considered to be the world's top physics experimentalist, spent a decade constructing an experiment to test it. It confirmed Einstein's theory perfectly. Caller: I'm shocked! Are you sure this is right? BP: Virtually the entire modern world rests on it. Caller: Why am I just hearing about this? BP: Because Sanjay didn't tell you.
It's worse than that. If TFS is accurate, it's based on stupid logic.
'Think about the number of studies that had to be published for people to realize smoking is bad for you,'
No, jackass. These studies went on for, what, over half a century? People haven't kept on smoking because you haven't convinced them that it's unhealthy.
Um, the summary says the studies were done to influence public policy, not to try and get smokers to give up.
No, the solution is to build new, safer, more efficient, more powerful nuclear plants. Relying on 50 year old designs is almost as retarded as deciding to ditch nuclear entirely.
This.
Nuclear could be sooooo much cleaner/safer than it currently is but people are forming their opinions by looking at reactors which were built in the 1960s.
Slashdot Mirror
Does "Java 7" mean we're in for another never-ending series of huge updates, none of which will bother to remove the previous update from my disk?
If so... no thanks.
Typical
You expected Google to vote in favor of something that validates the Java-patent-troll-lawsuit against them?
In other news: Zebras are made of wood!
No, Slashdot users are a large majority of the people who would be ABLE to install the plugin.
Most users will find it doesn't work and do something else.
I'm a slashdot user and all I know about Silverlight is that my Windows update log looks like this:
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
[repeat 100 times]
Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB2526954) Failed
I eventually killed it after I got fed up of all the error popups.
PS: Yea, .Net does the exact same thing on all the machines in the house too, except there's three versions of that trying to update themselves.
You will get in trouble for actively seeking child porn however, which is different.... we don't know if someone was actually actively trying to get nudies of some highschool kids ... DO WE?
They took 30,000 pictures of kids at their computers. What are the odds of NOT getting nudie pics?
Problem is: It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
Oh, that makes it perfectly OK then...
Yep. How could they possibly imagine that any good would come of this? What *useful* pictures could they possibly obtain?
Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer. NAKED student in front of computer!!! Student sat in front of computer. Student sat in front of computer.
They took 30,000 pictures of students in their dorm rooms. What are that odds of them NOT having any nude pictures...?
That's only if it comes this way...and TA says it doesn't.
No.
You're forgetting that the head of the TSA has a huge budget and personal financial interest in the scanner companies...
People who can think about real attack scenarios don't get very far in the TSA of the 21st century. It's all about expensive, shiny machines and fancy dinners with politicians.
That's the problem....the policy makers spend too much time watching movies.
What they really need to do is think like a terrorist. A terrorist can just blow up the queue for the security machine.
Problem 2: That sort of thinker doesn't get to build impressive shiny installations at taxpayer expense then stand in front of cameras at the official opening before going off to dinner with people in suits. At taxpayer expense.
Who would take an 8 hour drive instead of a 1 hour flight?
You can get to the airport, go through security,board a 'plane, fly somewhere, disembark then get to your destination in only one hour?
Maybe in a private jet with limo service...
So it takes a minute to log in anywhere? That'll go down well with people...
The crazy thing about salt is that it's always known by the attacker...
Sure, IF we're talking about remote logins.
What about, say, a stolen laptop, how exactly will you enforce "1min/try" there...?
The fun thing is that you can do this with photons which were gravitational lensed around both sides of a galaxy and *still* collapse the wave function. Your measurement instantly changes something which happened a billion years ago (the lensing).
I thought the entire point of the experiment was that you still get interference with single photons, ie. they go through both slits.
Saying they measured which slit they went through doesn't make any sense if they go through both.
I thought the photons went through both slits.
(and also took a detour around the Horsehead Nebula along the way...)
a) It's not "recent news"
b) There's no possible link. Not even "maybe".
To quote Bob Parks:
Here's the conversation I have several times a day with total strangers:
Caller: do you use a wired earphone? BP: No. Caller: would it be too much
trouble? BP: No. Caller: Wouldn’t you be safer? BP: No. Caller: How do
you know? BP: Quantum physics; all cancers are caused by mutant strands of
DNA. Electromagnetic radiation can't create mutant strands of DNA unless
the frequency is at or higher than the blue limit of the visible spectrum –
the near-ultraviolet. The frequency of cell phone radiation is about 1
million times too low. Caller: Wow! When did this news break? BP: Albert
Einstein let it out in 1905. Robert Millikan, considered to be the world's
top physics experimentalist, spent a decade constructing an experiment to
test it. It confirmed Einstein's theory perfectly. Caller: I'm shocked!
Are you sure this is right? BP: Virtually the entire modern world rests on
it. Caller: Why am I just hearing about this? BP: Because Sanjay didn't
tell you.
I heard he was saving his arm/leg to buy the inevitable iPad3...
Ah, the geek "If it isn't absolutely 100% foolproof it's completely useless!!" mentality.
Governments love people like you.
It's worse than that. If TFS is accurate, it's based on stupid logic.
'Think about the number of studies that had to be published for people to realize smoking is bad for you,'
No, jackass. These studies went on for, what, over half a century? People haven't kept on smoking because you haven't convinced them that it's unhealthy.
Um, the summary says the studies were done to influence public policy, not to try and get smokers to give up.
No, the solution is to build new, safer, more efficient, more powerful nuclear plants. Relying on 50 year old designs is almost as retarded as deciding to ditch nuclear entirely.
This.
Nuclear could be sooooo much cleaner/safer than it currently is but people are forming their opinions by looking at reactors which were built in the 1960s.
...it wouldn't be but a few percent of the energy stored in your gas tank.
Given that gasoline engines are only a few percent efficient, it all evens out...