Of course, it will be reinstalled within a few hours if you run another Google program. On my Mac I just changed permissions on the/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate and ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate folders to 000, and Google Earth no longer reinstalls the updater or asks me to do so. I never gave GE my password. I'm not sure what the workaround is for Windows.
Would your average Joe Copper Thief be able to tell whether the cable is copper or fiber optic before cutting into it? I imagine that from the outside both look like a thick cable wrapped in a nondescript plastic insulator.
Hey, they never said it would be "good" change or "bad" change, they just said that we can believe that a change would take place. Sure, I believe that change happened. That's pretty hard to deny.
Ever notice how just about every contract/eula has some statement to the effect of "we reserve the right to change these terms at any time without notice"? When that happens, you have the option of dropping the service at that point, but that's about it. Continuing to pay your bill after the company changes their terms is considered "acceptance" of the new terms.
Of course, they'll do everything in their power to prevent you from noticing the changes while doing the bare minimum required to "notify" you. My credit card company is notorious for this. Whenever there's a change in the terms of service or interest rates, they mail you the notice as a tiny slip of paper with 5-point legalese text buried in an envelope that looks deceptively like a piece of junk mail, then cram the envelope full of glossy fliers advertising related "services" in hopes that you toss the whole thing out without giving it a second look.
If you find out about a pending change and you want to get out of a service contract without any fees, that's the time to do so. Of course, I'm sure if they could legally keep you from backing out without a fee, they would.
IMO the best April Fools jokes are those that are way out there, but still just believable enough to make you wonder for a fraction of a second whether there is any truth to them or not. If another source picks up on a joke and runs with it, that just lends more "credibility" to the gag and makes it even better.
I've always seen April Fools as a good way to remind people that one always needs to think critically about anything they hear reported as truth, especially online.
Rumor has it that the next version of Apple Mail, known as Apple Mail Wheel, will have only one interface button. Click once to reply, twice to reply all, hold for one second to forward, hold twice for one second each to compose a new message, click once and hold to open the address book.
It could be handy for those times when you _accidentally_ hit the send button instead of some other UI button, as has happened to me before.
Thunderbird for one places the address book button right next to the send button (at least on my system) and I've never bothered to change it. Same thing with the dropdown box that lets you choose which address you want to send your email from, which has caused me to send at least one blank email from my personal address to a colleague.
...require an active, always-on internet connection? Steam can be run in "offline mode" on a computer that is not connected to the internet. I do that all the time.
Of course, you still need to hook your computer up the internet to download the games in the first place, or when the program randomly decides that it wants to do so (which seems to be about once a month or so for me). I'm not sure what triggers it- a certain time period with no connection, sunspots, gnomes... In any case, I just plug in the ethernet cable, log in, log back out, unplug the cable, and start the game.
The light at the entrance to my girlfriend's apartment complex is similar. A new shopping center went in across the highway, and the light timing was changed to a ~3 minute red, 3 second green, three second yellow. The only way people could get through the intersection was to run the yellow/red (there was no camera, thankfully). It caused such a traffic problem that there was even an article about it on the local TV station (sorry, couldn't find the source).
I've also seen camera intersections in Tennessee that get around minimum yellow light times by reducing the speed limit right at the intersection (apparently the time is based on the speed limit). You have a 4-lane, 55 MPH divided highway with a "speed limit 25" sign 100 feet from the intersection, a 2-3 second yellow, then a "speed limit 55" sign 100 feet beyond.
Whoops, I accidentally modded offtopic, so now I have to post to undo that.
But while I'm at it, let's see... we're also the #1 fattest state in the country (although I think Louisiana overtook us last year), and I remember hearing that we'd have the worst education system in the country if not for Arkansas. But still, I love living here. Virtually no traffic, and now, no traffic cameras.
We have a voice recognition system where I work. In the intended environment it works fine but when we took it to a trade show to do demonstrations we found that it copes badly with background noise.
We had a system like that for changing the channel when I was growing up. It was called "the kids".
It dealt fine with background noise, but reliability and latency were always problematic.
IANAL (but it appears that you are). I wonder... did this question not come up before because it would be more appropriate to raise questions about the constitutionality of a law in a higher court? Say you want to challenge this particular Massachusetts law on first amendment grounds... is it better to challenge the law on appeal than to bring up the issue in a lower court?
In Firefox, you can set an exception for a particular website. Just allow only the opt-out cookie to be stored when you close the browser. I have Firefox set up to delete all cookies except for those from particular websites which I don't want to have to log in to many times per day (such as Slashdot).
Go to Help and Preferences, then click on the Authors link under the Index subheading. Uncheck kdawson and you'll find that the front page is much improved. Or uncheck them all and things could get really interesting (or not...)
Ever had to park in a big city, or on a college campus? While I believe that parking laws are important in general, I'm convinced that sometimes certain laws exist purely as a revenue source. Even the most cautious person is going to make a mistake at some point, no matter how carefully they try to understand and follow the rules.
I for one actually agree that you should not be able to buy one and get the other for free - they are fundamentally different.
When you buy an audio book on CD, you're paying for (among other things) the cost of production... hiring somebody to read the book, a sound studio to do the recording, the cost of mastering and pressing a set of CDs. That's how the higher price can be justified.
What the Kindle software does is essentially make the production cost of the audio zero (well, there's the cost of the software, but I'm simplifying things here).
What's to stop me as an individual from reading a book aloud and recording it for private use? Nothing. Selling such a recording, now that's another matter.
e) say something about the post being modded up. It's sort of like a reverse Fight Club, or a reverse "first rule": if you want to be modded up, always talk about being modded up.
It also seems to work backwards, too. If you want your post to be modded up, the magic words are, "I know I'll be modded down for this, but..."
Like this post, for example. I know it will be modded down. Nobody would ever mod it funny or insightful.
I know I'm not the only one who has no idea what this article is about. And yes, I read TFA. Just one link or two is all I'm asking for. I know this is News for Nerds, but the subject matter seems just a tad bit obscure.
I know, I know, I should do a Google search. Problem is, I suspect that I'd have to construct my search queries very carefully, as I worry about what kind of results I'd get...
TFA, er, TFS says that some of the team members are American. At least one of them are from Georgia (the state, not the country).
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I imagine that much of the incentive for searching in Russia as opposed to within the US is that most of the thermal features in the states are located within national parks. With the NPS having been "ripped off" (their own language, not mine) over the Taq enzyme (this New York Times article outlines the story), any of us wishing to do research in a national park must go through a seemingly endless process of permits, paperwork, and regulations. This can severely limit what you can do with the organisms you find.
I know, since I've been through the permit process. In my case, I am not surveying for bacteria, but for viruses of the chestnut blight fungus. If we find any on NPS land, they may be useful as a biological control of the fungus, but the conditions of our collection permits specifically limit any commercial use of anything we remove from the park.
having PirateBay go away will have no effect on the legitimate torrents
Legal torrent files are occasionally available on TPB; Linux ISOs for example. Granted, a vast majority of the content on that site is being shared against the wishes of the copyright holders.
Slashdot Mirror
Google has already provided instructions on how to uninstall the updater.
/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate and ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate folders to 000, and Google Earth no longer reinstalls the updater or asks me to do so. I never gave GE my password. I'm not sure what the workaround is for Windows.
Of course, it will be reinstalled within a few hours if you run another Google program. On my Mac I just changed permissions on the
Would your average Joe Copper Thief be able to tell whether the cable is copper or fiber optic before cutting into it? I imagine that from the outside both look like a thick cable wrapped in a nondescript plastic insulator.
Hey, they never said it would be "good" change or "bad" change, they just said that we can believe that a change would take place. Sure, I believe that change happened. That's pretty hard to deny.
Ever notice how just about every contract/eula has some statement to the effect of "we reserve the right to change these terms at any time without notice"? When that happens, you have the option of dropping the service at that point, but that's about it. Continuing to pay your bill after the company changes their terms is considered "acceptance" of the new terms.
Of course, they'll do everything in their power to prevent you from noticing the changes while doing the bare minimum required to "notify" you. My credit card company is notorious for this. Whenever there's a change in the terms of service or interest rates, they mail you the notice as a tiny slip of paper with 5-point legalese text buried in an envelope that looks deceptively like a piece of junk mail, then cram the envelope full of glossy fliers advertising related "services" in hopes that you toss the whole thing out without giving it a second look.
If you find out about a pending change and you want to get out of a service contract without any fees, that's the time to do so. Of course, I'm sure if they could legally keep you from backing out without a fee, they would.
IMO the best April Fools jokes are those that are way out there, but still just believable enough to make you wonder for a fraction of a second whether there is any truth to them or not. If another source picks up on a joke and runs with it, that just lends more "credibility" to the gag and makes it even better.
I've always seen April Fools as a good way to remind people that one always needs to think critically about anything they hear reported as truth, especially online.
I hear that a pair of binoculars works well for this purpose, too. I'm told that they even work through glass.
Rumor has it that the next version of Apple Mail, known as Apple Mail Wheel, will have only one interface button. Click once to reply, twice to reply all, hold for one second to forward, hold twice for one second each to compose a new message, click once and hold to open the address book.
It could be handy for those times when you _accidentally_ hit the send button instead of some other UI button, as has happened to me before.
Thunderbird for one places the address book button right next to the send button (at least on my system) and I've never bothered to change it. Same thing with the dropdown box that lets you choose which address you want to send your email from, which has caused me to send at least one blank email from my personal address to a colleague.
...require an active, always-on internet connection? Steam can be run in "offline mode" on a computer that is not connected to the internet. I do that all the time.
Of course, you still need to hook your computer up the internet to download the games in the first place, or when the program randomly decides that it wants to do so (which seems to be about once a month or so for me). I'm not sure what triggers it- a certain time period with no connection, sunspots, gnomes... In any case, I just plug in the ethernet cable, log in, log back out, unplug the cable, and start the game.
The light at the entrance to my girlfriend's apartment complex is similar. A new shopping center went in across the highway, and the light timing was changed to a ~3 minute red, 3 second green, three second yellow. The only way people could get through the intersection was to run the yellow/red (there was no camera, thankfully). It caused such a traffic problem that there was even an article about it on the local TV station (sorry, couldn't find the source).
I've also seen camera intersections in Tennessee that get around minimum yellow light times by reducing the speed limit right at the intersection (apparently the time is based on the speed limit). You have a 4-lane, 55 MPH divided highway with a "speed limit 25" sign 100 feet from the intersection, a 2-3 second yellow, then a "speed limit 55" sign 100 feet beyond.
Whoops, I accidentally modded offtopic, so now I have to post to undo that.
But while I'm at it, let's see... we're also the #1 fattest state in the country (although I think Louisiana overtook us last year), and I remember hearing that we'd have the worst education system in the country if not for Arkansas. But still, I love living here. Virtually no traffic, and now, no traffic cameras.
We have a voice recognition system where I work. In the intended environment it works fine but when we took it to a trade show to do demonstrations we found that it copes badly with background noise.
We had a system like that for changing the channel when I was growing up. It was called "the kids".
It dealt fine with background noise, but reliability and latency were always problematic.
IANAL (but it appears that you are). I wonder... did this question not come up before because it would be more appropriate to raise questions about the constitutionality of a law in a higher court? Say you want to challenge this particular Massachusetts law on first amendment grounds... is it better to challenge the law on appeal than to bring up the issue in a lower court?
Believe it or not, the sun still comes up every morning
What part of Canada are we talking about? Not in the winter if you live above the Arctic Circle, it doesn't. :P
In Firefox, you can set an exception for a particular website. Just allow only the opt-out cookie to be stored when you close the browser. I have Firefox set up to delete all cookies except for those from particular websites which I don't want to have to log in to many times per day (such as Slashdot).
If not, then I'd be a little annoyed if I had to use the site. If it does, then what's the problem? Just ignore the notice and go about your business.
Seriously, is this the kind of "news" that passes as a slashdot article now?
Go to Help and Preferences, then click on the Authors link under the Index subheading. Uncheck kdawson and you'll find that the front page is much improved. Or uncheck them all and things could get really interesting (or not...)
Ever had to park in a big city, or on a college campus? While I believe that parking laws are important in general, I'm convinced that sometimes certain laws exist purely as a revenue source. Even the most cautious person is going to make a mistake at some point, no matter how carefully they try to understand and follow the rules.
RTFA? Accurate Summary? You must be n- *looks at uid* uh, nevermind. :-P
I for one actually agree that you should not be able to buy one and get the other for free - they are fundamentally different.
When you buy an audio book on CD, you're paying for (among other things) the cost of production... hiring somebody to read the book, a sound studio to do the recording, the cost of mastering and pressing a set of CDs. That's how the higher price can be justified.
What the Kindle software does is essentially make the production cost of the audio zero (well, there's the cost of the software, but I'm simplifying things here).
What's to stop me as an individual from reading a book aloud and recording it for private use? Nothing. Selling such a recording, now that's another matter.
e) say something about the post being modded up. It's sort of like a reverse Fight Club, or a reverse "first rule": if you want to be modded up, always talk about being modded up.
It also seems to work backwards, too. If you want your post to be modded up, the magic words are, "I know I'll be modded down for this, but..."
Like this post, for example. I know it will be modded down. Nobody would ever mod it funny or insightful.
Actually not, since Slashdot (and many other forums) add the rel="nofollow" attribute to links posted in comments. Check out the page source.
I know I'm not the only one who has no idea what this article is about. And yes, I read TFA. Just one link or two is all I'm asking for. I know this is News for Nerds, but the subject matter seems just a tad bit obscure.
I know, I know, I should do a Google search. Problem is, I suspect that I'd have to construct my search queries very carefully, as I worry about what kind of results I'd get...
TFA, er, TFS says that some of the team members are American. At least one of them are from Georgia (the state, not the country).
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but I imagine that much of the incentive for searching in Russia as opposed to within the US is that most of the thermal features in the states are located within national parks. With the NPS having been "ripped off" (their own language, not mine) over the Taq enzyme (this New York Times article outlines the story), any of us wishing to do research in a national park must go through a seemingly endless process of permits, paperwork, and regulations. This can severely limit what you can do with the organisms you find.
I know, since I've been through the permit process. In my case, I am not surveying for bacteria, but for viruses of the chestnut blight fungus. If we find any on NPS land, they may be useful as a biological control of the fungus, but the conditions of our collection permits specifically limit any commercial use of anything we remove from the park.
having PirateBay go away will have no effect on the legitimate torrents
Legal torrent files are occasionally available on TPB; Linux ISOs for example. Granted, a vast majority of the content on that site is being shared against the wishes of the copyright holders.