If you mean overcharges or something like that, I have personal experience with having resolved those over the phone or by going into a store and talking to someone.
I'm not sure about Verizon because I have never owned a Verizon phone in my life... That said...
I have a suspicion that you have never been a Sprint PCS customer.
There is a reason they lost 1.3 million customers in 2008.
How would you rather it be setup? I have not found a single RTS that isn't dominated by Rushing Tactics. I still play Age of Empires 2 for the whole walling off thing but it still doesn't beat a well developed rush.
This is why I prefer Real Time Tactics Games to Real Time Strategy games.
I don't own an Xbox so I really don't care either way, but the people who I know that do mod theirs mostly for free games or ehanced features (like running the game without the disc) but none of the cheat.
Of course being anecdotal, I'm sure there are hardcore cheaters out there somewhere.
But anyways... It a moot point for them as well because each of them owns 2 or more xboxes.
Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.
Exactly. When Billionaire asks you do a five minute job in notepad, you tell him it will take a budget of over 20 million and 5 years to complete. Also bonuses and free Las Vegas convention trips.
Which is why I think the most secure OS would sandbox each program separately from each other and not just the OS. Say when you install a program it only gets access to \home\programs\programnamehere\ and not be able to look at anything else without going through hoops of fire.
May not be the most friendly OS and the easiest to use, but it would do a lot to making sure home directories are just as secure as the OS.
Truckers in general are pretty congenial amongst themselves on the road. It only takes a few minutes on listening to the CB radio to know they got each others backs.
This means he has full access to your personal room. The geeks who don't understand the real world will say "Ah, but OS XYZ is secure because the "maintenance personnel only" room is locked and unaccessible". But who the fuck cares? You keep most of your stuff and valuables in your personal room! Insurance can take care of recreating the maintenance room stuff - not hard since the stuff in there is the same for every house of that model. They'll never be able recreate your personal documents.
This is why you keep your very important things in a safety deposit box, in the bank, at a completely off site location.
AKA Backups.
Also insurance is as a last resort as you'll have to fight the reinstall process (just like your insurance company will fight your claim so will Windows if you modified your hardware when you format and reinstall the OS).
Anyways... The point of the matter is that no local program should modify the OS. It should be designed to work with the OS as no matter who intelligent and brilliant the programmer of the 3rd party app thinks he is, he cannot predict the behavior of the user and/or other 3rd party programs may do to the OS as well. Nor can he predict future fixes and patches and revisions of the OS API which may break their program down the road.
If the 3rd party app is mostly OS agnostic, then the less problems it will have down the road when thinks get changed or broken in the OS.
As far as the home directory analogy. Make backups. Make off line backups.
Because chances are your hard drive will fail just as easy as a malicious program wipes all your data. Secondly, as long as the OS has not been compromised, reinstalling home directory data usually will not cause the malicious program to run as it would require it to be manually run again.
It's an evolutionary advantage for the entire herd when a single injured member is incapacitated, thereby allowing predators to focus on the injured member instead of healthy members of the herd.
Not exactly... Its more evolutionary advantageous to the predator that it eats the weakest members of a herd group rather than having to fight the strongest or all of them at once.
As a weakened or injured member does not actually promote or demote the passing on of genes of other members of the herd as predators aren't as able or willing to catch the healthy ones anyways for the risk reward offer.
Ergo, the predator is the one that passes on its genes and techniques to its offspring because it is more likely to survive that way where the heard isn't simply evolved to sacrifice its members.
For example, Elephants will defend their young, injured, elderly, and even corpses from predators and scavengers even though they could spend resources elsewhere. That is more or less an evolved "denial of resources" to its natural predators which in turn makes less of them.
As far as why animals can't regenerate nerve endings, it has to do more or less that most animals that are attacked and injured don't live long enough anyways after the fact to pass on their genes because of persistence of the predator or infection.
Why isn't the outdoor "machinery" protected from debris ingress???
Chances are that there are a roof of sorts, but like many cities, birds like to roost anywhere they can so it was probably flying around inside and drop the bread.
Of course I'd be more concerned about the bird poop.
The only ferrous part of us being pumped around is Hemoglobin. It's extremely weakly ferromagnetic, and you need MRI magnets to see changes in its magnetic field - it's called the fMRI. Even then we have to use very recent (as in, last 15 years) DSP technologies to sort out the noise.
Unless you have metal on you, you can't even feel the enormous magnetic field of an MRI. How are you going to feel water flowing 5 feet under ground? We have to inject contrast fluid to get a good image - does he keep a stockpile of contrast to enhance his results?
I'm not so sure about the OP's claims to detect underground water with magnetic fields, but it has been scientifically proven that some animals do migrate by and do detect the earth's magnetic pole fields.
Notably birds and turtles... So there is a possibility that humans may be able to detect magnetic fields in some manner.
Now, as far as animals detecting water via means of magnetism, I would be very highly doubtful of.
I hope you mean calculated risk takers, because there are a lot of ex-millionaires out there that lost all their fortunes through dumb financial moves on risky markets.
Anyone who does anything that involves stocks or bonds will tell you upfront risk does not always equal reward. Its "risk mitigators" who eventually win out in the end.
How many hardworking people lost their 401K in 2008?
Also, the parent is a hostile classist and has more than appropriate hostility toward those that have more than him. I provided anecdotal evidence in contradiction of his assertions that lacked even that much corroborating evidence. He's free to respond to my post with something more substantial than blind hate or anecdote at which point I'll address him directly.
Well... In that case the wealthy are inherently immoral (intelligent or not) simply because of their indifference to the greater suffering of mankind simply due the the fact they still have 90% of the world's wealth and 99% of the political power and have not solved the problems of scarcity and poverty.;)
Apparently you are poor, becuase most of the rich people I know are very intelligent. They earned their money (ie not "Old Money") legitimately (ie not "Celebrity Money") and are not connected with hollywood (ie not actors, directors or writters).
That is still anecdotal and it depends on what you mean by intelligent.
Often more than not, an person intelligent in one field may not be intelligent in others...
Like a wealthy day trader who specializes in short sales may not know how to fix their car and his mechanic doesn't understand terminology such as calls, puts, longs, and shorts.
Or a wealthy construction manager who runs his own business may be very intelligent in how to manage his employees and contracts but god help you if he has to figure out how to install an antivirus on his computer.
That said... I know some wealthy people who, while not stupid, did not earn their money through their intelligence. They were simply either a victim of circumstance or had rather wealthy relatives.
Or in some case only are wealthy because they were able to leverage their wealth to earn more wealth whereas had them been middle class or poor, would not have been able to do so.
I recommend this: If you go out to pick up a girl, plan on the first dozen times you talk to a girl going horribly bad.
I never understood why guys do this with the mentality of picking a girl up. Make conversation with them about anything. You'll know in 5 minutes if your going to hit it off... But going up to them and saying "hey baby! come back to my place!" or something lame usually will get you the evil eye.
I think the hardest part is what to say first...
I suppose you could just have "Come here often?" or "having fun?" or "how's your evening ladies?"
And FFS, introduce yourself and your friends... It seems less creepy that way rather than trying to talk without names.
And by social contract... I mean implied. Unless the store specifically puts up a sign that says "No refills for friends!" or "No sharing your wifi access to friends while in the store!" then there is no outright understanding between the two parties on what is the acceptable behavior while you are in the store other than social norms.
Its still ethically dubious but because there is not moral or legal code dictating this behavior then the stores only recourse is to post their rules or make them known verbally to the customers.
After that they can simply refuse business and force the customer off the premise and invoke the legal clause of tresspassing.
Another bad analogy. Okay, my turn to play the silly moral analogy game...
This is more akin to visiting a place that gives free refills, and you constantly pouring it in someone else's cup, then doing the same for all your friends, in the process using far more coffee than you would reasonably have drunk yourself. You know damn well that wasn't the deal that was being offered.
Arguably, using the technique to garner free refills for your friends or say ordering a water and then using free soda is not technically morally wrong.
Ethically wrong? Yes... The social contract between you and the vendor is sort of abused.
Morally wrong? No... As in you are not actually doing evil directly to an individual or the evil is so minor that your not loosing karma points on this behavior since the lively hood of the company or employees are not threatened.
Legally wrong? Nope. There are no laws against liberal use of free refills or sharing data through a single point or downloading too much data. They can ask you to leave the premise and stop using their network. And even if they present you with an EULA before you use their network the most they can do is cut you off and ask you to leave.
And I bet part of the reason is that we may be close to having machines that can find and attack targets on their own, we're a hell of a long way from having machines that you can usefully reprimand for fucking up.
Well the issue here is that the US military is going to be fighting human targets for some time so the delay between a human operator in a bunker versus the target they are fighting.
Now, if the US ever went against an enemy whose targeting was based on computer decisions leaving humans out of the loop, then a human operator might be too slow to fight toe to toe and the US military decides the only way to maintain an edge would be to automate the systems completely as well.
Seeing no other nation at this point is attempting a complete automated system to beat a remote control system, it may not happen for another decade or so.
And even then... Such a system will not be deployed by anyone other than a major power like China and Russia so it will be doubtful we will ever fight them directly.
Is Engadget going to instruct us on how to distract the employees while you pour free coffee into your thermos too?
Hrm... Bad analogy.
The Cofeeshop already sold you the coffee (bandwidth) by the temporary key and you are simply pouring it in someone else's cup free of charge by running windows 7.
Downloading without giving the artist a dime is not really a "great thing" at all, in my opinion.
The real problem is that the record labels don't give the artists a dime either and then blame it on piracy while pocketing real earnings.
Personally, I think with should at least admit the RIAA is socialism where if the government stepped out of the equation that people would stop creating art simply for money because it would no longer be a guaranteed source of income (its currently not anyways but I digress).
But at the same time, if copyrights went away tomorrow people would still play music, paint paintings, and write books because they have been doing that for thousands of years without copyrights.
That said... Copyrights keep FOSS alive so its a double edged sword.
Also: "Hezbollah is now also a major provider of social services, which operate schools, hospitals, and agricultural services for thousands of Lebanese Shiites, and plays a significant force in Lebanese politics.".
I don't mean to Goodwin this, but so did the Nazi and other fascist political party throughout history prior to coming into power. I mean a lot of the National Socialist party members participated in social projects in the 1930s as volunteer work in response to the Weirmar's government inability to fix the economic situation of the depression.
Hell... Even Al Capone ran soup kitchens...
But that didn't make them much morally better obviously.
Exactly, because you were required to buy an iphone/ipod touch. There wasn't a million other choices you could have picked. Nope, it's Apple or nothing.
True.
At the same time some people are lucky to have more than one ISP in their area.
If Comcast pulled the same stuff that Apple does with their phone, then I'd be rather upset... Simply because I cannot switch to another broad band competitor because they do not exist.
At least with phones I have about 3 choices... Not much and isn't producing much competition, but its better than 1.
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If you mean overcharges or something like that, I have personal experience with having resolved those over the phone or by going into a store and talking to someone.
I'm not sure about Verizon because I have never owned a Verizon phone in my life... That said...
I have a suspicion that you have never been a Sprint PCS customer.
There is a reason they lost 1.3 million customers in 2008.
How would you rather it be setup? I have not found a single RTS that isn't dominated by Rushing Tactics. I still play Age of Empires 2 for the whole walling off thing but it still doesn't beat a well developed rush.
This is why I prefer Real Time Tactics Games to Real Time Strategy games.
You know... Like Total War series...
I don't own an Xbox so I really don't care either way, but the people who I know that do mod theirs mostly for free games or ehanced features (like running the game without the disc) but none of the cheat.
Of course being anecdotal, I'm sure there are hardcore cheaters out there somewhere.
But anyways... It a moot point for them as well because each of them owns 2 or more xboxes.
One for Live and one for single player.
No formula can ever quantify that value. It's subjective.
Are you saying human thought process is not bound by the laws of physics, biology, or chemistry?
Given enough computational power and enough information about something, it can be simulated.
It is just that economics tends to require a lot more information than we have available.
Also... Human irrationality and rationality is not random. Therefore even irrationality can be predicted.
Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.
Exactly. When Billionaire asks you do a five minute job in notepad, you tell him it will take a budget of over 20 million and 5 years to complete. Also bonuses and free Las Vegas convention trips.
Which is why I think the most secure OS would sandbox each program separately from each other and not just the OS. Say when you install a program it only gets access to \home\programs\programnamehere\ and not be able to look at anything else without going through hoops of fire.
May not be the most friendly OS and the easiest to use, but it would do a lot to making sure home directories are just as secure as the OS.
I'm sure they could... you know... take turns.
Truckers in general are pretty congenial amongst themselves on the road. It only takes a few minutes on listening to the CB radio to know they got each others backs.
This means he has full access to your personal room. The geeks who don't understand the real world will say "Ah, but OS XYZ is secure because the "maintenance personnel only" room is locked and unaccessible". But who the fuck cares? You keep most of your stuff and valuables in your personal room! Insurance can take care of recreating the maintenance room stuff - not hard since the stuff in there is the same for every house of that model. They'll never be able recreate your personal documents.
This is why you keep your very important things in a safety deposit box, in the bank, at a completely off site location.
AKA Backups.
Also insurance is as a last resort as you'll have to fight the reinstall process (just like your insurance company will fight your claim so will Windows if you modified your hardware when you format and reinstall the OS).
Anyways... The point of the matter is that no local program should modify the OS. It should be designed to work with the OS as no matter who intelligent and brilliant the programmer of the 3rd party app thinks he is, he cannot predict the behavior of the user and/or other 3rd party programs may do to the OS as well. Nor can he predict future fixes and patches and revisions of the OS API which may break their program down the road.
If the 3rd party app is mostly OS agnostic, then the less problems it will have down the road when thinks get changed or broken in the OS.
As far as the home directory analogy. Make backups. Make off line backups.
Because chances are your hard drive will fail just as easy as a malicious program wipes all your data. Secondly, as long as the OS has not been compromised, reinstalling home directory data usually will not cause the malicious program to run as it would require it to be manually run again.
It's an evolutionary advantage for the entire herd when a single injured member is incapacitated, thereby allowing predators to focus on the injured member instead of healthy members of the herd.
Not exactly... Its more evolutionary advantageous to the predator that it eats the weakest members of a herd group rather than having to fight the strongest or all of them at once.
As a weakened or injured member does not actually promote or demote the passing on of genes of other members of the herd as predators aren't as able or willing to catch the healthy ones anyways for the risk reward offer.
Ergo, the predator is the one that passes on its genes and techniques to its offspring because it is more likely to survive that way where the heard isn't simply evolved to sacrifice its members.
For example, Elephants will defend their young, injured, elderly, and even corpses from predators and scavengers even though they could spend resources elsewhere. That is more or less an evolved "denial of resources" to its natural predators which in turn makes less of them.
As far as why animals can't regenerate nerve endings, it has to do more or less that most animals that are attacked and injured don't live long enough anyways after the fact to pass on their genes because of persistence of the predator or infection.
Why isn't the outdoor "machinery" protected from debris ingress???
Chances are that there are a roof of sorts, but like many cities, birds like to roost anywhere they can so it was probably flying around inside and drop the bread.
Of course I'd be more concerned about the bird poop.
The only ferrous part of us being pumped around is Hemoglobin. It's extremely weakly ferromagnetic, and you need MRI magnets to see changes in its magnetic field - it's called the fMRI. Even then we have to use very recent (as in, last 15 years) DSP technologies to sort out the noise.
Unless you have metal on you, you can't even feel the enormous magnetic field of an MRI. How are you going to feel water flowing 5 feet under ground? We have to inject contrast fluid to get a good image - does he keep a stockpile of contrast to enhance his results?
I'm not so sure about the OP's claims to detect underground water with magnetic fields, but it has been scientifically proven that some animals do migrate by and do detect the earth's magnetic pole fields.
Notably birds and turtles... So there is a possibility that humans may be able to detect magnetic fields in some manner.
Now, as far as animals detecting water via means of magnetism, I would be very highly doubtful of.
They are risk takers
Hold the phone....
I hope you mean calculated risk takers, because there are a lot of ex-millionaires out there that lost all their fortunes through dumb financial moves on risky markets.
Anyone who does anything that involves stocks or bonds will tell you upfront risk does not always equal reward. Its "risk mitigators" who eventually win out in the end.
How many hardworking people lost their 401K in 2008?
A lot.
Also, the parent is a hostile classist and has more than appropriate hostility toward those that have more than him. I provided anecdotal evidence in contradiction of his assertions that lacked even that much corroborating evidence. He's free to respond to my post with something more substantial than blind hate or anecdote at which point I'll address him directly.
Well... In that case the wealthy are inherently immoral (intelligent or not) simply because of their indifference to the greater suffering of mankind simply due the the fact they still have 90% of the world's wealth and 99% of the political power and have not solved the problems of scarcity and poverty. ;)
I like to drive, can we just make it more difficult for douchebags to drive please rather than replacing them.
Sure. As soon as we finalize that empirical test for douchebaggery.
Multiple choice of course...
Apparently you are poor, becuase most of the rich people I know are very intelligent. They earned their money (ie not "Old Money") legitimately (ie not "Celebrity Money") and are not connected with hollywood (ie not actors, directors or writters).
That is still anecdotal and it depends on what you mean by intelligent.
Often more than not, an person intelligent in one field may not be intelligent in others...
Like a wealthy day trader who specializes in short sales may not know how to fix their car and his mechanic doesn't understand terminology such as calls, puts, longs, and shorts.
Or a wealthy construction manager who runs his own business may be very intelligent in how to manage his employees and contracts but god help you if he has to figure out how to install an antivirus on his computer.
That said... I know some wealthy people who, while not stupid, did not earn their money through their intelligence. They were simply either a victim of circumstance or had rather wealthy relatives.
Or in some case only are wealthy because they were able to leverage their wealth to earn more wealth whereas had them been middle class or poor, would not have been able to do so.
I recommend this: If you go out to pick up a girl, plan on the first dozen times you talk to a girl going horribly bad.
I never understood why guys do this with the mentality of picking a girl up. Make conversation with them about anything. You'll know in 5 minutes if your going to hit it off... But going up to them and saying "hey baby! come back to my place!" or something lame usually will get you the evil eye.
I think the hardest part is what to say first...
I suppose you could just have "Come here often?" or "having fun?" or "how's your evening ladies?"
And FFS, introduce yourself and your friends... It seems less creepy that way rather than trying to talk without names.
And by social contract... I mean implied. Unless the store specifically puts up a sign that says "No refills for friends!" or "No sharing your wifi access to friends while in the store!" then there is no outright understanding between the two parties on what is the acceptable behavior while you are in the store other than social norms.
Its still ethically dubious but because there is not moral or legal code dictating this behavior then the stores only recourse is to post their rules or make them known verbally to the customers.
After that they can simply refuse business and force the customer off the premise and invoke the legal clause of tresspassing.
Ethics != Morality != Legality
Another bad analogy. Okay, my turn to play the silly moral analogy game...
This is more akin to visiting a place that gives free refills, and you constantly pouring it in someone else's cup, then doing the same for all your friends, in the process using far more coffee than you would reasonably have drunk yourself. You know damn well that wasn't the deal that was being offered.
Arguably, using the technique to garner free refills for your friends or say ordering a water and then using free soda is not technically morally wrong.
Ethically wrong? Yes... The social contract between you and the vendor is sort of abused.
Morally wrong? No... As in you are not actually doing evil directly to an individual or the evil is so minor that your not loosing karma points on this behavior since the lively hood of the company or employees are not threatened.
Legally wrong? Nope. There are no laws against liberal use of free refills or sharing data through a single point or downloading too much data. They can ask you to leave the premise and stop using their network. And even if they present you with an EULA before you use their network the most they can do is cut you off and ask you to leave.
And I bet part of the reason is that we may be close to having machines that can find and attack targets on their own, we're a hell of a long way from having machines that you can usefully reprimand for fucking up.
Well the issue here is that the US military is going to be fighting human targets for some time so the delay between a human operator in a bunker versus the target they are fighting.
Now, if the US ever went against an enemy whose targeting was based on computer decisions leaving humans out of the loop, then a human operator might be too slow to fight toe to toe and the US military decides the only way to maintain an edge would be to automate the systems completely as well.
Seeing no other nation at this point is attempting a complete automated system to beat a remote control system, it may not happen for another decade or so.
And even then... Such a system will not be deployed by anyone other than a major power like China and Russia so it will be doubtful we will ever fight them directly.
Is Engadget going to instruct us on how to distract the employees while you pour free coffee into your thermos too?
Hrm... Bad analogy.
The Cofeeshop already sold you the coffee (bandwidth) by the temporary key and you are simply pouring it in someone else's cup free of charge by running windows 7.
Downloading without giving the artist a dime is not really a "great thing" at all, in my opinion.
The real problem is that the record labels don't give the artists a dime either and then blame it on piracy while pocketing real earnings.
Personally, I think with should at least admit the RIAA is socialism where if the government stepped out of the equation that people would stop creating art simply for money because it would no longer be a guaranteed source of income (its currently not anyways but I digress).
But at the same time, if copyrights went away tomorrow people would still play music, paint paintings, and write books because they have been doing that for thousands of years without copyrights.
That said... Copyrights keep FOSS alive so its a double edged sword.
Perhaps if the limits were reduced a bit.
Making music--good music--takes time and resources.
It may take time, but good music doesn't require resources or a multi-million dollar budget.
Beethoven didn't need a multi-million dollar record company to make the 9th nor did he need copyrights.
The whole need for a recording industry is a rather recent phenomenon and despite what people say, it is not needed in order create good music.
I'm not pro-piracy either, but I'm arguing a better system needs to come about because art doesn't need anymore lawyers.
I just don't get facebook apps. They all need to be given access to my personal data.
Facebook PROTIP:
Just make shit up.
Also: "Hezbollah is now also a major provider of social services, which operate schools, hospitals, and agricultural services for thousands of Lebanese Shiites, and plays a significant force in Lebanese politics.".
I don't mean to Goodwin this, but so did the Nazi and other fascist political party throughout history prior to coming into power. I mean a lot of the National Socialist party members participated in social projects in the 1930s as volunteer work in response to the Weirmar's government inability to fix the economic situation of the depression.
Hell... Even Al Capone ran soup kitchens...
But that didn't make them much morally better obviously.
Exactly, because you were required to buy an iphone/ipod touch. There wasn't a million other choices you could have picked. Nope, it's Apple or nothing.
True.
At the same time some people are lucky to have more than one ISP in their area.
If Comcast pulled the same stuff that Apple does with their phone, then I'd be rather upset... Simply because I cannot switch to another broad band competitor because they do not exist.
At least with phones I have about 3 choices... Not much and isn't producing much competition, but its better than 1.