Have you missed your morning coffee or do think I was seriously suggesting that IE isn't stable enough to survive a 30 second puzzle??
I was responding to a thread that suggested that IE users left more puzzles unfinished because they think the puzzles are a waste of time, which was in turn in response to a FA suggesting that you can draw meaningful conclusions about intelligence from browser use. Why on earth do you think I was being serious?
I guess a smiley on the end would have made it clearer, but the joke isn't funny if you have to point it out.
I would hope that if the threat is significant and "imminent" that the FCC would just do whatever the hell they wanted, laws be damned, on the sole condition that the decision maker is held personally accountable for their decision after the threat has subsided, and that their accountability would be judged by the people.
I'm not sure that you are the target audience of the modelling industry. Most of the mens magazines have women in them that seem to be relatively well proportioned. Not necessarily really skinny, but healthy (eg the sort of woman likely to give you healthy kids). It's the magazines targeted at women that have the really skinny girls in them, and women keep buying them.
This. The obesity epidemic in western countries is a far greater problem (in terms of both number of people effected, and the severity of health effects) than anorexia is.
Yes it doesn't make sense the amount of research and publicity that anorexia gets while obesity is a far greater problem. I guess it's more horrible for the individual in question (it's a mental illness too). That said, I probably don't understand the effectiveness of treatment of anorexia vs obesity and the return on investment for funds spent on either cause.
Still... if images of skinny models are a contributing factor to anorexia, then maybe images of fatties are a contributing factor to obesity, and there should be a ban on obese models appearing on the front page of glamor magazines... oh wait.
If you get 100,000 signatures they only have to consider offering a debate, which means less than nothing in the Commons.
That is a certain measure that the politicians are too far removed from the public. If 100,000 potential votes aren't worth even thinking about for a moment then something is terribly wrong, especially if the signatures have been collected over a reasonably small area.
This thing could very likely be used for the purposes of doing a complete patent and copyright system reform in small steps. I personally do not seek to completely abolish either, but I wish to bring both of them down to a maximum of 10 years so that people who patent stuff will actually have to also start utilizing their patents and not just hoard them, and copyrights won't keep on benefiting the creator for several lifetimes without them having to do any work ever again.
Do we have any Finns around here on/. that agree? I'm just curious.
Wait a minute... are you trying to subvert these new laws for good rather than evil? I don't think that's what they had in mind.
Loud people dominating conversations is undeniably an actual social problem, and this is an actual technical solution to it.
Yes there is nothing wrong with a technical solution to a social problem if it works. It's only when it doesn't work (eg nearly all the time) and you have to enforce the technical solution with ridiculous laws and then further technical solutions that it's a problem. This doesn't seem to have any of those shortcomings yet but I'd need to try it out on my kids to know for sure;)
Early intervention with autism probably makes a huge difference. I would agree with your assessment if it didn't though.
If they can positively identify a brain layout that correlates to autism, and then try various early intervention techniques and measure the results, in the future we may be able to say "early intervention definitely makes a huge difference".
No need for explosives, just high relative velocity and a high mass projectile.
This pretty much eliminates the possibility of a 'chase'. If you want to go faster then throw some mass behind you, which could do serious damage to whoever is trying to follow you.
There was an Asimov (I think) story along vaguely similar lines. Aliens notice a star (ours) going through it's red giant phase and notice vague blips coming from a planet (Earth) that might indicate life. They land on a dying Earth but find it abandoned, and then notice a bunch of STL spacecraft heading out of the solar system, and go and rescue them.
The closing lines of the story are someone making a comment about the poor little harmless earthlings, then something like "10 years later, that comment wouldn't seem nearly as funny".
I dug out dosbox and Wing Commander a few months ago... and i'm guessing the answer to the question would be "nothing like Wing Commander".
All the space games i've ever played (which isn't that many) have been more like playing under water, with speed measured as an absolute, and constant forward motion requiring fuel.
So this organization is only a whitewash group for Apple.
It may turn out that that is the case, but if the only evidence you have is "I don't like their findings" then you might as well be talking about the fairies at the bottom of the garden.
It wasn't quite that bad. He said you were either with the child pornographers or with the government. Given those two options, I'm not really sure which one is less bad.
Are you familiar with the concept of false choice?
Given that these days child pornographers includes teenagers who send naked photos to each other, parents who photograph their children in the bath, and people who distribute illustrations of nude fictional children, I think on balance I'd rather be with them than with the power-crazed sociopaths.
It has gotten pretty stupid. My 8yo daughter had chicken pox a few years ago and wanted me to take some pictures of her in the bath with the spots painted. After taking the pictures I was sure to delete any that might raise suspicions if they were found... which was pretty much all of them. "Hmmm... there's a picture of a bare shoulder here. You'd better come with us".
The irony is, if the general population was stoned the government could do pretty much whatever it wanted and people wouldn't care, and if they did care, they'd never get themselves organised enough to do anything about it. They might get less tobacco tax revenue, but that's not going to last forever anyway.
Drivers are also the largest security hole there is - a kernel module has full and complete access to your system.
Then perhaps Microsoft should expand its own user-mode driver framework instead of running all drivers in kernel mode and monopolizing their distribution. At least under Linux, device classes with user-mode drivers include printers (CUPS), scanners (SANE), video (X), and even installable file systems (FUSE).
There have been similar claims about more dubious Alzheimer's treatments, such as coconut oil, but when it comes down to it my approach is "Will it kill him or hurt him? If not, then let's try it, what have we got to lose."
You do need to be a little cautious though. $99.95 for 1-week treatment of snake^H^H^H^H^Hcoconut oil might not send you broke, but many people have spent tens of thousands of dollars on cancer and HIV treatments that were bogus.
There's also the risk that someone might use snakeoil treatment instead of mainstream treatment, although given that there really isn't any effective mainstream treatment for alzheimers yet that's not so much of a risk.
Check out the quote: "We've fixed Alzheimer's in mice lots of times, so we need to move forward expeditiously but cautiously."
So, would it be safe to say that Alzheimer's in mice is different from that in humans (on some level) so you might want to wait a bit before overdosing on Skin Cancer meds?
myke
Once they've done the basic "this probably isn't going to kill you in the next 5 years and stands a good chance of treating (curing?) your alzheimers disease" testing, I bet you'll get a long queue of people lining up to try it. I know I would. The drug would have to have some pretty major failings to give a worse 5 year outlook than alzheimers disease itself.
From police statistics it is proven that people that speed have a higher risk of accidents. It's a simple as that.
Higher than what?
I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but in the UK speeding is only the primary cause of a small percentage of accidents and most of them are extreme speeding (e.g. 60mph in a 30) rather than people doing 10mph above the limit.
And numerous studies have shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed. They're certainly safer than those who mindlessly drive at the speed limit because they're unable to determine the safe speed for the conditions by themselves.
And that's 5kph (~3mph). A "just stopped in time" incident from 60mph would be a 40mph collision if you were starting from 70mph. People are really bad at measuring risk vs speed on the road, as you have clearly demonstrated.
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Have you missed your morning coffee or do think I was seriously suggesting that IE isn't stable enough to survive a 30 second puzzle??
I was responding to a thread that suggested that IE users left more puzzles unfinished because they think the puzzles are a waste of time, which was in turn in response to a FA suggesting that you can draw meaningful conclusions about intelligence from browser use. Why on earth do you think I was being serious?
I guess a smiley on the end would have made it clearer, but the joke isn't funny if you have to point it out.
> The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users
As usual, Microsoft products users show more common sense: they are the ones that figure out quickly that the puzzles are a waste of time!
Interesting conclusion. The more likely conclusion is that IE is likely to crash before a puzzle can be completed.
I would hope that if the threat is significant and "imminent" that the FCC would just do whatever the hell they wanted, laws be damned, on the sole condition that the decision maker is held personally accountable for their decision after the threat has subsided, and that their accountability would be judged by the people.
I'm not sure that you are the target audience of the modelling industry. Most of the mens magazines have women in them that seem to be relatively well proportioned. Not necessarily really skinny, but healthy (eg the sort of woman likely to give you healthy kids). It's the magazines targeted at women that have the really skinny girls in them, and women keep buying them.
This. The obesity epidemic in western countries is a far greater problem (in terms of both number of people effected, and the severity of health effects) than anorexia is.
Yes it doesn't make sense the amount of research and publicity that anorexia gets while obesity is a far greater problem. I guess it's more horrible for the individual in question (it's a mental illness too). That said, I probably don't understand the effectiveness of treatment of anorexia vs obesity and the return on investment for funds spent on either cause.
Still... if images of skinny models are a contributing factor to anorexia, then maybe images of fatties are a contributing factor to obesity, and there should be a ban on obese models appearing on the front page of glamor magazines... oh wait.
If you get 100,000 signatures they only have to consider offering a debate, which means less than nothing in the Commons.
That is a certain measure that the politicians are too far removed from the public. If 100,000 potential votes aren't worth even thinking about for a moment then something is terribly wrong, especially if the signatures have been collected over a reasonably small area.
This thing could very likely be used for the purposes of doing a complete patent and copyright system reform in small steps. I personally do not seek to completely abolish either, but I wish to bring both of them down to a maximum of 10 years so that people who patent stuff will actually have to also start utilizing their patents and not just hoard them, and copyrights won't keep on benefiting the creator for several lifetimes without them having to do any work ever again.
Do we have any Finns around here on /. that agree? I'm just curious.
Wait a minute... are you trying to subvert these new laws for good rather than evil? I don't think that's what they had in mind.
The real drawback is that it only takes $250,000 to pay 50,000 citizens $50 each to vote on crazy stuff to put before parliament...
Loud people dominating conversations is undeniably an actual social problem, and this is an actual technical solution to it.
Yes there is nothing wrong with a technical solution to a social problem if it works. It's only when it doesn't work (eg nearly all the time) and you have to enforce the technical solution with ridiculous laws and then further technical solutions that it's a problem. This doesn't seem to have any of those shortcomings yet but I'd need to try it out on my kids to know for sure ;)
These guys will learn the hard way about the Streisand Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect [wikipedia.org] ).>/quote>
I'm sure wikipedia will be hearing from Ms Streisand's lawyers soon about that...
Early intervention with autism probably makes a huge difference. I would agree with your assessment if it didn't though.
If they can positively identify a brain layout that correlates to autism, and then try various early intervention techniques and measure the results, in the future we may be able to say "early intervention definitely makes a huge difference".
The technique is essentially harmless.
Except that 30% of those scanned in the study now have autism... coincidence? ;)
No need for explosives, just high relative velocity and a high mass projectile.
This pretty much eliminates the possibility of a 'chase'. If you want to go faster then throw some mass behind you, which could do serious damage to whoever is trying to follow you.
There was an Asimov (I think) story along vaguely similar lines. Aliens notice a star (ours) going through it's red giant phase and notice vague blips coming from a planet (Earth) that might indicate life. They land on a dying Earth but find it abandoned, and then notice a bunch of STL spacecraft heading out of the solar system, and go and rescue them.
The closing lines of the story are someone making a comment about the poor little harmless earthlings, then something like "10 years later, that comment wouldn't seem nearly as funny".
I dug out dosbox and Wing Commander a few months ago... and i'm guessing the answer to the question would be "nothing like Wing Commander".
All the space games i've ever played (which isn't that many) have been more like playing under water, with speed measured as an absolute, and constant forward motion requiring fuel.
So this organization is only a whitewash group for Apple.
It may turn out that that is the case, but if the only evidence you have is "I don't like their findings" then you might as well be talking about the fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Feel free to post evidence...
I'd much rather stand with a child pornagrapher than a tyrant.
Don't fall into the trap of limiting your choices to the ones the tyrant gave you.
It wasn't quite that bad. He said you were either with the child pornographers or with the government. Given those two options, I'm not really sure which one is less bad.
Are you familiar with the concept of false choice?
Given that these days child pornographers includes teenagers who send naked photos to each other, parents who photograph their children in the bath, and people who distribute illustrations of nude fictional children, I think on balance I'd rather be with them than with the power-crazed sociopaths.
It has gotten pretty stupid. My 8yo daughter had chicken pox a few years ago and wanted me to take some pictures of her in the bath with the spots painted. After taking the pictures I was sure to delete any that might raise suspicions if they were found... which was pretty much all of them. "Hmmm... there's a picture of a bare shoulder here. You'd better come with us".
The irony is, if the general population was stoned the government could do pretty much whatever it wanted and people wouldn't care, and if they did care, they'd never get themselves organised enough to do anything about it. They might get less tobacco tax revenue, but that's not going to last forever anyway.
I wouldn't mind either. Maybe not facebook, but i'd be happy to pay something to be a customer rather than an asset.
I suspect Facebook would be afraid of paying customers though.
Drivers are also the largest security hole there is - a kernel module has full and complete access to your system.
Then perhaps Microsoft should expand its own user-mode driver framework instead of running all drivers in kernel mode and monopolizing their distribution. At least under Linux, device classes with user-mode drivers include printers (CUPS), scanners (SANE), video (X), and even installable file systems (FUSE).
UMDF
There have been similar claims about more dubious Alzheimer's treatments, such as coconut oil, but when it comes down to it my approach is "Will it kill him or hurt him? If not, then let's try it, what have we got to lose."
You do need to be a little cautious though. $99.95 for 1-week treatment of snake^H^H^H^H^Hcoconut oil might not send you broke, but many people have spent tens of thousands of dollars on cancer and HIV treatments that were bogus.
There's also the risk that someone might use snakeoil treatment instead of mainstream treatment, although given that there really isn't any effective mainstream treatment for alzheimers yet that's not so much of a risk.
Lots of outlets are publishing this, one of the more interesting ones was CNN's: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/09/health/us-cancer-drug-alzheimers/index.html?hpt=he_c2
Check out the quote: "We've fixed Alzheimer's in mice lots of times, so we need to move forward expeditiously but cautiously."
So, would it be safe to say that Alzheimer's in mice is different from that in humans (on some level) so you might want to wait a bit before overdosing on Skin Cancer meds?
myke
Once they've done the basic "this probably isn't going to kill you in the next 5 years and stands a good chance of treating (curing?) your alzheimers disease" testing, I bet you'll get a long queue of people lining up to try it. I know I would. The drug would have to have some pretty major failings to give a worse 5 year outlook than alzheimers disease itself.
Your "cut" is that you get to use Facebook without paying any money for it.
From police statistics it is proven that people that speed have a higher risk of accidents. It's a simple as that.
Higher than what?
I can't vouch for the rest of the world, but in the UK speeding is only the primary cause of a small percentage of accidents and most of them are extreme speeding (e.g. 60mph in a 30) rather than people doing 10mph above the limit.
And numerous studies have shown that the safest drivers are around the 85th percentile by speed. They're certainly safer than those who mindlessly drive at the speed limit because they're unable to determine the safe speed for the conditions by themselves.
You require a lot of education on the impact a difference in speed has. Have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuY_VHzKdjc
And that's 5kph (~3mph). A "just stopped in time" incident from 60mph would be a 40mph collision if you were starting from 70mph. People are really bad at measuring risk vs speed on the road, as you have clearly demonstrated.