The issue I have is if the animal is domesticated or not domesticated.
I have no problems eating pigs, cows, chickens, and other domesticated animals. Truth is these animals would never survive in the wold today in their present form. You really think if you let bessie loose in the wilderness she'd last more than a day before being eaten by a wolf? She has no speed, no defenses, she just STANDS THERE.
These animals have been bread by humans for centuries to provide us food. They live because we let them. That is it.
WILD animals however (including wild counterparts of above animals, like wild hogs and wild turkeys) - I do not agree with killing and eating these animals, unless you're doing it with nothing but a knife. A hunter with a rifle vs. a deer or moose is not a fair fight.
Fish are a bit in between for me - I don't mind eating them because fish have little to no intelligence. But I do not agree with over-fishing.
"Worried about software costs? People who use it say The Personal Mainframe is the easiest system they have ever worked with. The DBMS complies with COASYL specifications. All the languages, from COBOL to FORTRAN are highly interactive".
I should lay that one on my fiancee next time she complains about something being wrong with the PC.
You have two choices. in one corner, you have a nice, stable, secure ASP that hosts your email / calender/ etc. They have redundant filesystems and/or make regular backups.
Your other choice is being able to delete your profile with a click.
People who think that the idea of being able to delete your profile is in any way simple or trivial are deluding themselves. Google themselves have said that because of the way GFS works they can *NEVER* know when a piece of data flagged for deletion is actually no longer recoverable. That fault tolerance and redundancy is built into the design.
It is the same thing at Yahoo and MSN. All these guys have redundant systems with backups. It would take days worth of man hours to delete a persons profile. Hard thing to demand from a free service.
If you don't want Google holding your data, no one is putting a bullet to your head. You don't need to have cookies enabled or anything else to use their search engine. Frankly I trust them with my email more than my ISP.
Man: Ph! I read a great article on that the other day. It turns out the brain AUTOMATICALLY pushes less important memories for more important ones. So it turns out it is not my fault at all.
Woman: So.. what you are saying is the things I ask you to do are not important?
The Wii supports SD cards... considering I can get a 4 GB SD card for less than $80 (a fraction of the price for 360 memory), I don't think storage is much of an issue to save a couple hundred MB.
I think most would agree gasoline is a type of fuel... in fact if I say the word 'fuel' without any other context I feel pretty confident that the vast majority of people would assume I was talking about gasoline. Yet no mention of supporting gasoline or oil.
Degrade into a fat ugly slob. Then no one will want to socialize with you anyway, and those who till do won't want you to be seen with them in any pictures either. So no worries about being posted online.
Problem solved!
PS: The above is not really joking... people who worry about this are mentally deranged. I don't need the web to get a photo of you, all I need is a $50 and a lowlife with a camera, I give them your name and address (which I can get from your name) and I'll have a photo of you within a day.
I mean nowadays, with everyone getting digital cable systems, why aren't these companies already tracking this stuff?
Seriously - they could be providing ACTUAL USAGE NUMBERS FOR FREE, compared to Neilsen who pays families, and reaches a much smaller segment of the population.
Any digital cable company should be able to know at any given time exactly how many people are tuned into a given show. Hell they could even correlate it with account data to give stats by region - and could even take statistical correlations into effect to get you stats on median income, since people with higher incomes would be more likely to have more services on their bill.
I wouldn't really have any privacy issues with this as long as it was tracked in aggregate form. Maybe it would end up giving us less reality TV.
I don't really know why the above is modded funny... as a Canadian I agree 100%.
10 degrees C is not even cold at all. I don't even switch to my fall jacket until the temp. drops to 5C regularly. In fact I have slept outside in a tent in colder weather, with a summer rated sleeping bag.
I have 3 Rogers HD STBs in my house, each of which suck down 19~ Mbps. On top of that my Internet connection sucks down another 750kbps.
You're trying to tell me they have tech. that allows DSL to go 60+ Mbps now?
If so then why do DSL internet speeds still suck so much? I was always under the impression that phone lines and junctions in NA are too old to stably handle the kind of bandwidth being talked about.
Cranberries and some other berries create sodium bezonate naturally - and often higher than the 0.1% value allowed by the FDA.
Cranberries are known to be very good for you - in fact my doctor once prescribed it to me for an ailment:P
Another reason - it's simpel to "scale up"
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Another big problem iwth the hydrogen economy, is it's really hard to get it going because it's a chicken and the egg scenario - people don't want to buy hydrogen cars if there are no stations to fuel them, and people don't want to invest huge amounts of money in stations because there aren't enough cars to make them profitable.
The cool thing about this idea is that *starch is already sold*, and you can even buy it in large quantities at bakery supplys. SO if I wanted to I could go get one of these cars *right now, and be able to purchase the fuel at any number of places.
As more people buy the cars, the market will develop for businesses that only sell starch for cars (starch stations) - but unlike hydrogen, but this is not REQUIRED to sell the cars.
I did not care when facebook added news and classifides. In fact I really like the new redesign and all the new features.
What I am saying is the whole concept of a user mucking around with the layout IS THE ANTITHESIS of why we use facebook.
I am all for innovation - but if "innovation" means "copying an attribute of something I hate" I will jump ship, and I am sure many others will jump with me.
I use OpenDNS at home, because I find it faster than my ISP DNS, and I don't really mind the siteminder-like tricks they play with mis-typed URLs for two reasons - first, I find their search results to be accurate (I think they mus be powered by Yahoo or Google). Second, I installed them *myself*, and I cna uninstall them myself.
But seriously - this Dell/Google thing is the EXACT same idea. It is easy to uninstall and I can see no one hiding it's existance. If OpenDNS has any complaints about it it is just because they were not chosen for the factory install!
Facebook has become so popular among us 20-something crowd because it is NOT MySpace. It is a way to connect that is clean and organized, and not full of crap and clutter from tweens who think they know anything about web design. It is simple, slick, and does it's job very well.
I fear that going down this path they may be descending into MySpace-hell. I hope this is not the beginning of the end of the usfulness of facebook.
So.. I was curious as to what this company "Intellectual Ventures" had patented thus far, so I did a search on a href="http://www.google.com/patents>"Google Patents.
My point is it's Linux, there is no way for the virii writer to deduce what program I am using to manage my addresses. It could be thunderbird, it could be KABC, etc etc. He will either have to write a ton of code to catch all those cases, or not bother.
Oh an even if he does OO will not let him execute a program to send mail.
So I open this OO doc in Linux.... is it going to read my address book and email itself to other people? No, OO does not have access to my Thunderbird address book.
Is it going to infect other binaries in my system? No, they're only writeable by root.
Oh wait this is how it works:
"SB/BadBunny-A spreads by dropping malicious script files that affect the behavior of the popular IRC programs mIRC and X-Chat, causing them send SB/BadBunny-A to other users. These malicious script files are named badbunny.py (for XChat) and script.ini (for mIRC, overwriting the existing mIRC file) and are also detected as SB/BadBunny-A."
So.. this "virus" relies on some twisted assumption that I use XChat, to send itself to other people RUNNING XCHAT, NOT OPEN OFFICE?!?
So tell me again how this is a virus? If I email you a shell script named "Click me.sh" than runs "rm -Rf ~/", is that a virus too?
Rogers in Canada already outsources it's email to Yahoo!. I hope they take notice of this offer and switch - GMail is far superior to Yahoo! mail - even the newer AJAX-ified client.
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The issue I have is if the animal is domesticated or not domesticated.
I have no problems eating pigs, cows, chickens, and other domesticated animals. Truth is these animals would never survive in the wold today in their present form. You really think if you let bessie loose in the wilderness she'd last more than a day before being eaten by a wolf? She has no speed, no defenses, she just STANDS THERE.
These animals have been bread by humans for centuries to provide us food. They live because we let them. That is it.
WILD animals however (including wild counterparts of above animals, like wild hogs and wild turkeys) - I do not agree with killing and eating these animals, unless you're doing it with nothing but a knife. A hunter with a rifle vs. a deer or moose is not a fair fight.
Fish are a bit in between for me - I don't mind eating them because fish have little to no intelligence. But I do not agree with over-fishing.
"Worried about software costs? People who use it say The Personal Mainframe is the easiest system they have ever worked with. The DBMS complies with COASYL specifications. All the languages, from COBOL to FORTRAN are highly interactive".
I should lay that one on my fiancee next time she complains about something being wrong with the PC.
The exploit is simply sending an email a link that posts to a fo via JavaScript
On top of that it relies on posting a form to an external domain; such a thing gives a nasty warning in Firefox.
This really has nothing at all to do with XSS, you can do this with any email client that has HTML mail.
Paul McCartney is worth over $1.5 Billion.
Not $800 million.
He's pretty much the richest entertainer alive to my knowledge - I think richer than Oprah (who I wouldn't really consider an entertainer anyway).
You have two choices. in one corner, you have a nice, stable, secure ASP that hosts your email / calender/ etc. They have redundant filesystems and/or make regular backups.
Your other choice is being able to delete your profile with a click.
People who think that the idea of being able to delete your profile is in any way simple or trivial are deluding themselves. Google themselves have said that because of the way GFS works they can *NEVER* know when a piece of data flagged for deletion is actually no longer recoverable. That fault tolerance and redundancy is built into the design.
It is the same thing at Yahoo and MSN. All these guys have redundant systems with backups. It would take days worth of man hours to delete a persons profile. Hard thing to demand from a free service.
If you don't want Google holding your data, no one is putting a bullet to your head. You don't need to have cookies enabled or anything else to use their search engine. Frankly I trust them with my email more than my ISP.
Woman: Why did you forget to do X?
Man: Ph! I read a great article on that the other day. It turns out the brain AUTOMATICALLY pushes less important memories for more important ones. So it turns out it is not my fault at all.
Woman: So.. what you are saying is the things I ask you to do are not important?
Man: Yes! Umm... er...
No iTunes. Less space than an iPod. Lame.
The Wii supports SD cards... considering I can get a 4 GB SD card for less than $80 (a fraction of the price for 360 memory), I don't think storage is much of an issue to save a couple hundred MB.
I think most would agree gasoline is a type of fuel... in fact if I say the word 'fuel' without any other context I feel pretty confident that the vast majority of people would assume I was talking about gasoline. Yet no mention of supporting gasoline or oil.
What does that mean? Is this a Mr. Fusion type device I can run off of apple peels?
Oh wait...
"Acumentrics' 5000 Power System operates directly from natural gas, propane, biofuels, LPG or hydrogen. "
Looks like once again the Slashdot summary is overblown and misleading.
Anyway - sounds like a promising technology. I'll keep tabs on it.
Degrade into a fat ugly slob. Then no one will want to socialize with you anyway, and those who till do won't want you to be seen with them in any pictures either. So no worries about being posted online.
Problem solved!
PS: The above is not really joking... people who worry about this are mentally deranged. I don't need the web to get a photo of you, all I need is a $50 and a lowlife with a camera, I give them your name and address (which I can get from your name) and I'll have a photo of you within a day.
This whole discussion is assenine.
I mean nowadays, with everyone getting digital cable systems, why aren't these companies already tracking this stuff?
Seriously - they could be providing ACTUAL USAGE NUMBERS FOR FREE, compared to Neilsen who pays families, and reaches a much smaller segment of the population.
Any digital cable company should be able to know at any given time exactly how many people are tuned into a given show. Hell they could even correlate it with account data to give stats by region - and could even take statistical correlations into effect to get you stats on median income, since people with higher incomes would be more likely to have more services on their bill.
I wouldn't really have any privacy issues with this as long as it was tracked in aggregate form. Maybe it would end up giving us less reality TV.
I don't really know why the above is modded funny... as a Canadian I agree 100%.
10 degrees C is not even cold at all. I don't even switch to my fall jacket until the temp. drops to 5C regularly. In fact I have slept outside in a tent in colder weather, with a summer rated sleeping bag.
I think you need to RTFA, or event he summary, again. The Google toolbar updates automatically. So do a lot of other extensions.
Er... you make no sense. DSL is only over twisted pair.
I was already referring to cable in my above comment.
I have 3 Rogers HD STBs in my house, each of which suck down 19~ Mbps. On top of that my Internet connection sucks down another 750kbps.
You're trying to tell me they have tech. that allows DSL to go 60+ Mbps now?
If so then why do DSL internet speeds still suck so much? I was always under the impression that phone lines and junctions in NA are too old to stably handle the kind of bandwidth being talked about.
Cranberries and some other berries create sodium bezonate naturally - and often higher than the 0.1% value allowed by the FDA.
:P
Cranberries are known to be very good for you - in fact my doctor once prescribed it to me for an ailment
Another big problem iwth the hydrogen economy, is it's really hard to get it going because it's a chicken and the egg scenario - people don't want to buy hydrogen cars if there are no stations to fuel them, and people don't want to invest huge amounts of money in stations because there aren't enough cars to make them profitable.
The cool thing about this idea is that *starch is already sold*, and you can even buy it in large quantities at bakery supplys. SO if I wanted to I could go get one of these cars *right now, and be able to purchase the fuel at any number of places.
As more people buy the cars, the market will develop for businesses that only sell starch for cars (starch stations) - but unlike hydrogen, but this is not REQUIRED to sell the cars.
IMO this is a huge benefit.
I did not care when facebook added news and classifides. In fact I really like the new redesign and all the new features.
What I am saying is the whole concept of a user mucking around with the layout IS THE ANTITHESIS of why we use facebook.
I am all for innovation - but if "innovation" means "copying an attribute of something I hate" I will jump ship, and I am sure many others will jump with me.
I use OpenDNS at home, because I find it faster than my ISP DNS, and I don't really mind the siteminder-like tricks they play with mis-typed URLs for two reasons - first, I find their search results to be accurate (I think they mus be powered by Yahoo or Google). Second, I installed them *myself*, and I cna uninstall them myself.
But seriously - this Dell/Google thing is the EXACT same idea. It is easy to uninstall and I can see no one hiding it's existance. If OpenDNS has any complaints about it it is just because they were not chosen for the factory install!
Facebook has become so popular among us 20-something crowd because it is NOT MySpace. It is a way to connect that is clean and organized, and not full of crap and clutter from tweens who think they know anything about web design. It is simple, slick, and does it's job very well.
I fear that going down this path they may be descending into MySpace-hell. I hope this is not the beginning of the end of the usfulness of facebook.
p>What is the #2 result? A patent on how to find and protect intellectual property (aka patents).
So, this company already has a patent on patenting patents. So all you slashdotters with the Step 1, Step2, .... Profit jokes owe them money.
My point is it's Linux, there is no way for the virii writer to deduce what program I am using to manage my addresses. It could be thunderbird, it could be KABC, etc etc. He will either have to write a ton of code to catch all those cases, or not bother. Oh an even if he does OO will not let him execute a program to send mail.
So I open this OO doc in Linux.... is it going to read my address book and email itself to other people? No, OO does not have access to my Thunderbird address book.
Is it going to infect other binaries in my system? No, they're only writeable by root.
Oh wait this is how it works:
"SB/BadBunny-A spreads by dropping malicious script files that affect the behavior of the popular IRC programs mIRC and X-Chat, causing them send SB/BadBunny-A to other users. These malicious script files are named badbunny.py (for XChat) and script.ini (for mIRC, overwriting the existing mIRC file) and are also detected as SB/BadBunny-A."
So.. this "virus" relies on some twisted assumption that I use XChat, to send itself to other people RUNNING XCHAT, NOT OPEN OFFICE?!?
So tell me again how this is a virus? If I email you a shell script named "Click me.sh" than runs "rm -Rf ~/", is that a virus too?
Rogers in Canada already outsources it's email to Yahoo!. I hope they take notice of this offer and switch - GMail is far superior to Yahoo! mail - even the newer AJAX-ified client.