Why is it that because you don't listen to the radio, it is useless?
I suppose if you don't use it then it is useless henceforth the definition, but again its useless to them as the same reason a survey of society a single person does not make for them either.
Radio is cool. It's completely free and I can find really good music on it. For free. No payments necessary to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint.
I'd like to know which radio stations you have access to that have good music on these days? I'm serious... All I get on the dial is Clear Channel crap and radio talk shows. There is NRP and college radio but often hard to get a station to come in if out of the city limits.
They lack money because they have make poor lifestyle decisions that RESULT in a lack of money. Things like failure to get an education (or worse reject the value of knowledge entirely), become a single parent, waste money on substance abuse or Xbox... but I repeat myself.
I would agree if higher education was free to the poor. Which if you haven't noticed is not... So... The poor can buy all the Xbox's they want and still not even get a fraction of money required for a year of college.
I guess they could join the military, but there is that whole dying and killing people which many may not morally agree with.
Also, they must obviously pay for their operations. I don't understand how someone could expect a financial transaction service to be free.
It shouldn't be free as much as it should be cheaper.
There is no point to micro-transactions anymore with Pay-Pal because of the fees and people are too afraid of their revocations without recourse to sell expensive items through them.
Sadly there is no alternative for ebay these days so people have stopped using it.
I've been through one too many hurricanes in my life and the one thing that worked when all hell was breaking loose outside was the landline.
I dunno. I think the hurricanes are the problem and not the cell phone towers.
Maybe it is just me but I don't like to live areas below 30 feet sea level, earthquake zones, in fire prone forests, near hills that have been known to have mudslides, in the shadow of a volcano, or tornado alleys.
Maybe humans have that out of site out of mind mentality...
In this instance they were playing against other robots for "food".
In that regards I'm sure that is the evolutionary drive for most species in acquiring meals and keeping the next animal from taking it away from him.
Like a dog burying a bone... He's not doing it to be evil. Its just instinctive to keep his find from other animals because it helped his species survive in the past.
... keep your landline? we ended up disconnecting our landline...
The only reason I had a land line for the longest time was the alarm system. Now you can get those wireless too these days and I got upgraded to wireless system which is cell phone based so we finally got rid of the old land line.
Which is superior because now we don't have to worry about the neighbors tree knocking it out anymore or someone trying to cut the phone cord before breaking in.
If you need to have good handwriting to earn a living you a probably working for a greeting card company doing the inserts.
For everyone else... It is just faster and more economical to type.
Yes, with the advent of the auto-spell checker, you don't have to often memorize certain spellings but in a business environments where deadlines are looming, do you need to whip out a dictionary every time you need to write an email?
For a car analogy, think of how people who never learned how to use a manual and only drove automatics. Yes, their manual shifting skills are somewhat degraded, but if they can drive a car fine then who are we to say they need to learn how to use a stick.
At least in the developed world, where age distribution tends to bulge out at around 35-40. Waistlines bulge out at around the same time, just in time for a mid-life crisis.
Specifically you mean the United States world... Other developed nations do not have our problem for one reason or another.
Basically our lifestyle really only works for people 18-30, but after that we fall apart.
Now take someone living in Japan and you'll see that they don't have our obesity and health problems. Probably because they don't use cars as much as we do and use their nice public transportation and walk a lot and their diet consists of generally healthy things like fish.
I'm sure the same can be said of many European countries...
Whereas we Americans drive everywhere and walk rarely and eat tons of unhealthy processed foods containing lots of fats and corn syrup which we can push through our bodies when young but not so much when we get old. I think for many Americans we simply don't understands how our body changes so we keep plugging along like we did as before but its not feasible.
I mean I've put on a few pounds after 30, but I've actually made a conscious effort to not eat like I did young and so far its working out pretty good. Yes it makes me kind of sad I can't have a 4am binge of 30 white castle burgers after a night of drinking but I guess we have to grow up sometime.
What is "true security" against the main threat of the modern era: social engineering?
Social engineering will always be a problem but there is a simple fix. Restrict the user on damage they can do on their own given the worse case circumstances and you will also end up with the same prevention of malware in the process.
Speaking of which... Why does a web page ever need to communicate with the OS to make file changes to the OS? Why?! Why I ask?!
This is a flawed premise and will solve 99% of the problems we face with internet security.
The OS must sandbox the browser and its add-ons between it and the OS.
In fact... Why stop there... The OS must be sandboxes between it and the user.
Basically true security is basically given the users and OS like the iPhone and patting them on the back and say "have a nice day".
"But I want to use my legacy apps?" they say...
"Well I want a pony!" you reply "But you'll just have to deal with a limited OS because we can't have nice things because they keep installing viruses on their machine!"
How do you protect a user that will click on the user account control pop-up as many times as is required to install that cool "weather forecasting" program that sits in his task tray?
Require the "weather forecasting" app to submit an approval to a central repository like the iPhone.
See where I am leading you...
Seriously... In the future the average user will put up with an OS like the iPhone and they'll be happy because it just works or appears to and the admins of the world will be happy because people aren't screwing things up with bot nets.
Win7 and IE8 might be a big step in that direction but we'll have to see.
The lack of proper buttons, which are fairly essential for many games? Every time you want the user to press somewhere on the screen, you lose some screen estate due to the finger covering the parts at and below that point.
A lot of games I have played use the tilt feature which does not require you to actively use the screen.
That said, a few games make excellently use of the dual thumb pad technique like you would on a PS2 analog controller and I find it no more difficult than a standard controller.
There are one or two games that could really use a controller but I think those or more the fault of the game design than the platform.
ove my 2GB shuffle though. I guess I could see this with movies/videos on the iPhone but is there any reason I'm not getting that one would enjoy 32GB of storage?
On my 16gb I ran out of room not because of music but because of apps. I've got a few games that are over 100mb each. Its not a bad gaming platform and seeing the games are cheaper than the DS, I don't mind shelling out $9.99 every now and then.
Perhaps its popular in Japan because of the games? I don't know if anyone has looked into this.
Maybe I just don't understand their plan, but this seems like it would be close to a useless technology. It seems like it would be more expensive to develop and implement than a standard power cable, and you would have to set your device onto the power mat.
They should work with Obama to get executive orders and statutes written to position the federal government's management to not only hire 1099s like the private sector can, but to have that become the norm.
As someone who has worked a portion of their life living off of 1099s, I have to frown on that simply because contract work does not induce economic stability if done on a large enough scale. People want permanent jobs (well most people).
Living off of contracts month to month is great when you are young because you can take as much vacation as you need and you don't have to worry about having a boss you don't like for that long.
But sometimes work gets slow and you have to turn to other work besides IT especially in a down turn.
I've always believed in having internal IT not because of the efficiency aspect but because it provides economic stability for those involved. Its more of an ethical thing to me.
I'm not sure sure we should look at those nations as a way to improve law enforcement.
I say this because the reason it is low in Japan is the high quality of life and import restriction. (Its an island and everything goes through customs)
And China... Well China is China.
Not only is the fact drugs are taboo over there (remember the Opium wars) it is just that there system of law enforcement is quite different from ours.
And that perhaps no one has ever though to use a Yuan to snort coke through? Maybe they all smoke it over there? Inject it?
Or perhaps they use coins at the commonest level of transactions. Who knows... But for whatever reason you cannot simply say that law enforcement needs to look at those nations to why drugs on paper money is lower.
Either way, I doubt prohibition is going to resolve the US's drug problem. Black markets will always exist so perhaps it should be regulated and taxed.
... someone must have sought to do harm by planning to commit some morally wrong action with no prompting from others...
By that definition, Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were not truly evil because they were reactionary in a sense to forces that pre-existed or were rather an extreme answer to a problem that did exist.
As in (and not to goodwin this because we are talking about evil people) Hitler came to power because the German populace was upset about the rise of the threat of communism and hurtful over the economic conditions they saw were caused by the Versailles treaty.
And the invasion of Poland was reasoned simply to retake lands that were previously there taken away by the treaty. Then the invasion of France because they wanted to avenge the loss that was imposed on them at the end of WWI. Then they invaded the USSR to defend themselves from communism all the way destroying people who they believed they had the scientific justification to eliminate.
It was a reaction to what they thought was a threat against them and they used it to justify their actions. No one simply kills millions of people in a vacuum.
Until the end he thought he was in the right and had the moral justification to do those things.
Stalin felt the same way... After all he was invaded so why not punish Eastern Europe with his iron grip for allowing the invasion to happen.
The people never thought themselves evil. They always had moral justifications what they do. The same way our society always justifies our actions. Yes we don't do what they do in the extreme but when society is faced with a gray area we simply say "collateral damage" or "pre-emptive attack" and make it so we have the moral high ground.
In that regard I think the definition is flaws. Sure a psychopath may go out and murder people without justification and need no reason to do so and he can be called evil because he inflicts pain simply to inflict pain.
But when a person waves a flag, thumps on a podium, reads from his holy book or manifesto, so much more evil can be done simply because it turns thousands if not millions of innocent people into murders all complicit in committing evil "for the greater good" without question.
No one invaded another nation or committed genocide simply for that sake of doing it.
They do evil simply because it must be done and they have the moral high ground to commit such acts.
That my friend. Is the true evil of the human race.
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Funny how no democracy in history has lasted for more than a few centuries.
You forgot about the Swiss, but hell... They have health care too.
So if I make fake DNA of myself and throw around a crime scene then I can use this method to prove I wasn't there?
Mine doesn't confuse visually, though... it's more of an olfactory experience.
I'm sure after that trip to the Taco Bell, you'll get a few watery eyes in the room.
I listen to the radio.
You sir, a survey of society does not make.
Why is it that because you don't listen to the radio, it is useless?
I suppose if you don't use it then it is useless henceforth the definition, but again its useless to them as the same reason a survey of society a single person does not make for them either.
Radio is cool. It's completely free and I can find really good music on it. For free. No payments necessary to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint.
I'd like to know which radio stations you have access to that have good music on these days? I'm serious... All I get on the dial is Clear Channel crap and radio talk shows. There is NRP and college radio but often hard to get a station to come in if out of the city limits.
They lack money because they have make poor lifestyle decisions that RESULT in a lack of money. Things like failure to get an education (or worse reject the value of knowledge entirely), become a single parent, waste money on substance abuse or Xbox... but I repeat myself.
I would agree if higher education was free to the poor. Which if you haven't noticed is not... So... The poor can buy all the Xbox's they want and still not even get a fraction of money required for a year of college.
I guess they could join the military, but there is that whole dying and killing people which many may not morally agree with.
I see you didn't defend the Storm Trooper armor...
If I want access to the web, I can get it, but that's only a few times a day when I need it.
I don't know about you but I need internet access 24/7.
Secondly, cloud computer is not for nerds.
Its for non-tech types who want to outsource things.
Actually "cloud computing" is a euphemism for "outsourcing".
Well I suppose its for nerds if you are the administrator of a "cloud" but for end users not so much.
Also, they must obviously pay for their operations. I don't understand how someone could expect a financial transaction service to be free.
It shouldn't be free as much as it should be cheaper.
There is no point to micro-transactions anymore with Pay-Pal because of the fees and people are too afraid of their revocations without recourse to sell expensive items through them.
Sadly there is no alternative for ebay these days so people have stopped using it.
I've been through one too many hurricanes in my life and the one thing that worked when all hell was breaking loose outside was the landline.
I dunno. I think the hurricanes are the problem and not the cell phone towers.
Maybe it is just me but I don't like to live areas below 30 feet sea level, earthquake zones, in fire prone forests, near hills that have been known to have mudslides, in the shadow of a volcano, or tornado alleys.
Maybe humans have that out of site out of mind mentality...
In this instance they were playing against other robots for "food".
In that regards I'm sure that is the evolutionary drive for most species in acquiring meals and keeping the next animal from taking it away from him.
Like a dog burying a bone... He's not doing it to be evil. Its just instinctive to keep his find from other animals because it helped his species survive in the past.
Does it have that damn dog again?
... keep your landline? we ended up disconnecting our landline ...
The only reason I had a land line for the longest time was the alarm system. Now you can get those wireless too these days and I got upgraded to wireless system which is cell phone based so we finally got rid of the old land line.
Which is superior because now we don't have to worry about the neighbors tree knocking it out anymore or someone trying to cut the phone cord before breaking in.
Sadly, I re-read my first sentence and feel a sense of irony creeping in. That said... No one pays me to post on slashdot so it really doesn't matter.
If you need to have good handwriting to earn a living you a probably working for a greeting card company doing the inserts.
For everyone else... It is just faster and more economical to type.
Yes, with the advent of the auto-spell checker, you don't have to often memorize certain spellings but in a business environments where deadlines are looming, do you need to whip out a dictionary every time you need to write an email?
For a car analogy, think of how people who never learned how to use a manual and only drove automatics. Yes, their manual shifting skills are somewhat degraded, but if they can drive a car fine then who are we to say they need to learn how to use a stick.
At least in the developed world, where age distribution tends to bulge out at around 35-40. Waistlines bulge out at around the same time, just in time for a mid-life crisis.
Specifically you mean the United States world... Other developed nations do not have our problem for one reason or another.
Basically our lifestyle really only works for people 18-30, but after that we fall apart.
Now take someone living in Japan and you'll see that they don't have our obesity and health problems. Probably because they don't use cars as much as we do and use their nice public transportation and walk a lot and their diet consists of generally healthy things like fish.
I'm sure the same can be said of many European countries...
Whereas we Americans drive everywhere and walk rarely and eat tons of unhealthy processed foods containing lots of fats and corn syrup which we can push through our bodies when young but not so much when we get old. I think for many Americans we simply don't understands how our body changes so we keep plugging along like we did as before but its not feasible.
I mean I've put on a few pounds after 30, but I've actually made a conscious effort to not eat like I did young and so far its working out pretty good. Yes it makes me kind of sad I can't have a 4am binge of 30 white castle burgers after a night of drinking but I guess we have to grow up sometime.
What is "true security" against the main threat of the modern era: social engineering?
Social engineering will always be a problem but there is a simple fix. Restrict the user on damage they can do on their own given the worse case circumstances and you will also end up with the same prevention of malware in the process.
Speaking of which... Why does a web page ever need to communicate with the OS to make file changes to the OS? Why?! Why I ask?!
This is a flawed premise and will solve 99% of the problems we face with internet security.
The OS must sandbox the browser and its add-ons between it and the OS.
In fact... Why stop there... The OS must be sandboxes between it and the user.
Basically true security is basically given the users and OS like the iPhone and patting them on the back and say "have a nice day".
"But I want to use my legacy apps?" they say...
"Well I want a pony!" you reply "But you'll just have to deal with a limited OS because we can't have nice things because they keep installing viruses on their machine!"
How do you protect a user that will click on the user account control pop-up as many times as is required to install that cool "weather forecasting" program that sits in his task tray?
Require the "weather forecasting" app to submit an approval to a central repository like the iPhone.
See where I am leading you...
Seriously... In the future the average user will put up with an OS like the iPhone and they'll be happy because it just works or appears to and the admins of the world will be happy because people aren't screwing things up with bot nets.
Win7 and IE8 might be a big step in that direction but we'll have to see.
Is it easier to get something in a CIRCULAR orbit around earth, or is it easier to launch something to impact the moon.
Its more complicated to calculate a moon orbit versus an earth orbit so I am pretty sure its going to take more resources to do a moon orbit.
The lack of proper buttons, which are fairly essential for many games? Every time you want the user to press somewhere on the screen, you lose some screen estate due to the finger covering the parts at and below that point.
A lot of games I have played use the tilt feature which does not require you to actively use the screen.
That said, a few games make excellently use of the dual thumb pad technique like you would on a PS2 analog controller and I find it no more difficult than a standard controller.
There are one or two games that could really use a controller but I think those or more the fault of the game design than the platform.
ove my 2GB shuffle though. I guess I could see this with movies/videos on the iPhone but is there any reason I'm not getting that one would enjoy 32GB of storage?
On my 16gb I ran out of room not because of music but because of apps. I've got a few games that are over 100mb each. Its not a bad gaming platform and seeing the games are cheaper than the DS, I don't mind shelling out $9.99 every now and then.
Perhaps its popular in Japan because of the games? I don't know if anyone has looked into this.
Maybe I just don't understand their plan, but this seems like it would be close to a useless technology. It seems like it would be more expensive to develop and implement than a standard power cable, and you would have to set your device onto the power mat.
The average user does not like cables.
You are just not the average user.
They should work with Obama to get executive orders and statutes written to position the federal government's management to not only hire 1099s like the private sector can, but to have that become the norm.
As someone who has worked a portion of their life living off of 1099s, I have to frown on that simply because contract work does not induce economic stability if done on a large enough scale. People want permanent jobs (well most people).
Living off of contracts month to month is great when you are young because you can take as much vacation as you need and you don't have to worry about having a boss you don't like for that long.
But sometimes work gets slow and you have to turn to other work besides IT especially in a down turn.
I've always believed in having internal IT not because of the efficiency aspect but because it provides economic stability for those involved. Its more of an ethical thing to me.
I'd rather have my tax dollars go to that.
I'm not sure sure we should look at those nations as a way to improve law enforcement.
I say this because the reason it is low in Japan is the high quality of life and import restriction. (Its an island and everything goes through customs)
And China... Well China is China.
Not only is the fact drugs are taboo over there (remember the Opium wars) it is just that there system of law enforcement is quite different from ours.
And that perhaps no one has ever though to use a Yuan to snort coke through? Maybe they all smoke it over there? Inject it?
Or perhaps they use coins at the commonest level of transactions. Who knows... But for whatever reason you cannot simply say that law enforcement needs to look at those nations to why drugs on paper money is lower.
Either way, I doubt prohibition is going to resolve the US's drug problem. Black markets will always exist so perhaps it should be regulated and taxed.
... someone must have sought to do harm by planning to commit some morally wrong action with no prompting from others ...
By that definition, Mao, Stalin, and Hitler were not truly evil because they were reactionary in a sense to forces that pre-existed or were rather an extreme answer to a problem that did exist.
As in (and not to goodwin this because we are talking about evil people) Hitler came to power because the German populace was upset about the rise of the threat of communism and hurtful over the economic conditions they saw were caused by the Versailles treaty.
And the invasion of Poland was reasoned simply to retake lands that were previously there taken away by the treaty. Then the invasion of France because they wanted to avenge the loss that was imposed on them at the end of WWI. Then they invaded the USSR to defend themselves from communism all the way destroying people who they believed they had the scientific justification to eliminate.
It was a reaction to what they thought was a threat against them and they used it to justify their actions. No one simply kills millions of people in a vacuum.
Until the end he thought he was in the right and had the moral justification to do those things.
Stalin felt the same way... After all he was invaded so why not punish Eastern Europe with his iron grip for allowing the invasion to happen.
The people never thought themselves evil. They always had moral justifications what they do. The same way our society always justifies our actions. Yes we don't do what they do in the extreme but when society is faced with a gray area we simply say "collateral damage" or "pre-emptive attack" and make it so we have the moral high ground.
In that regard I think the definition is flaws. Sure a psychopath may go out and murder people without justification and need no reason to do so and he can be called evil because he inflicts pain simply to inflict pain.
But when a person waves a flag, thumps on a podium, reads from his holy book or manifesto, so much more evil can be done simply because it turns thousands if not millions of innocent people into murders all complicit in committing evil "for the greater good" without question.
No one invaded another nation or committed genocide simply for that sake of doing it.
They do evil simply because it must be done and they have the moral high ground to commit such acts.
That my friend. Is the true evil of the human race.
Almost forget to add... It was the 1934 referendum that gave Hitler supreme power in Germany or at least legal legitimacy.
Fair enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Germany#Referendums_and_plebiscites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1934
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1936
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1938