Just so long as my measurements of "reality" are consistent enough that this universe remains believable, I'll believe in it.
This scientist who is attempting to measure aspects of the universe in order to reveal anomalies may be trying to attempt the impossible. After all, the light emanating from the computer display that contains measurement results is part of the simulation itself, and could be manipulated in order to convince the scientist that his method of finding and measuring anomalies yielded none.
For that matter, perhaps the entire simulation is directly on our senses and reality as we know it is completely local. "There is no spoon."
It has the same problems that Google's current two factor has, namely that it is game over if someone steals your phone.
Not really, Google Authenticator allows you to switch to another phone or disable it so that codes from the old phone don't work. I assume the same would apply to SlickLogin.
The point is checks and balances. When just one person/group has all the power, they get everything they want.
Just as the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government help to reduce the amount of power given to any one group, the states exist to reduce the amount of power contained within the borders of Washington.
I considered the Nexus 5 but there were 2 things I wanted that it didn't have: expandable memory and Verizon support. I really didn't care about expandable memory, it was more that it didn't have enough stock. I had been on AT&T for several years and I was fed up with their service and many of my friends in my area praised Verizon's, so I was set on switching for months. (Unfortunately the joke's on me, my house is in pretty much the only bad spot in our city.)
Are they supposed to put in a screen asking if you're sure you want the update?
Yes!
My phone normally asks me if I'm sure I want to reboot. But it doesn't ask when the update will take 5 times as long as a standard reboot, my phone isn't plugged in, and most importantly it is a firmware update and no OEM can be absolutely certain it won't brick or permanently wipe the data on my phone. That makes no sense at all.
If everyone is happy without jobs, most don't get jobs. If most people don't work, they don't produce taxable income. If we don't have taxes, we can't afford to make everyone happy. Everyone is now unhappy.
This is actually why welfare is important. Everyone that has a crap job has options such as demanding higher pay or learning new skills and applying for other jobs, but those are risks and the person could wind up seriously risking their livelihoods by losing their job. They won't take those risks. But if one can still survive without a job, the wages will be forced up in order to entice people to take on the crap jobs.
Why are you so sadistic that you want to force people to work as garbage men?
Because today we need garbage people. I'd love for it to become automated. Once that happens, there are still plenty of jobs people don't want to do.
If/when we get to the point that 100,000 people can operate and maintain the machinery to provide all the needs and wants of the other 8 billion people on the planet, is it honestly your suggestion that the 8 billion should live in squalor and poverty, and the entire production of the planet only be distributed among the 100,000 who have the needed skills?
Our society has become massively automated compared to the middle ages. And we have 25 times the world population now. Yet we still have plenty of jobs; I'd wager that employment as a percentage is much higher today. This seems to contradict the idea that we will ever come to a point that automation will reduce jobs permanently.
I don't see why not. I guess it's not mandatory that the search engine publishes any kind of link to the original content whatsoever. But I think they lose fair use status if they publish more than a small percentage of the original, so I'm not sure what utility such a search engine would have.
The amount of welfare benefits available to all citizens is in excess of the needs of the citizens.
I don't see why this is considered a good thing. If I have all necessity plus a few luxuries, I'm not going to work as a garbage man. (I don't doubt that some people who have worked that job all their lives actually love it, but I don't know of any teenager who would sign up for it willingly.)
Welfare's goal should be to cover exactly and not a bit more than the absolutely basic needs of life. Its goal is to help you survive, not to make you happy. If you want to eat Cheerios instead of cardboard, well, that's going to require either 1) a job, or 2) a waiver based on medical hardship, inability to find a job, etc.
1) I had never purchased from Motorola. I came off one WinMo phone and 2 iPhones. I just wanted a Verizon Android phone and what I saw from reviews said it was a very good model. And it was. Remember, at the time it was completely bootloader unlockable, it shipped with near-stock Android, and it was upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 within a couple of months.
2) Motorola was bought by Google and most people, including myself, felt that Motorola was going to become more open as a result. Instead the opposite happened.
3) Very few Android OEMs have a hardware advantage over Motorola. I'm not paying twice as much for half the hardware capabilities and poor build quality just so that I can feel safer that I can unlock in the future.
Agreed... in my case, installing CM is supported for the firmware that the phone had when I bought it.
I hadn't gotten around to installing CM yet, and Motorola sent out a "minor" update, one that didn't change the OS version. While I was typing text on the phone, the update dialog popped up and my thumb was already heading toward the "Update Now" button. It was too late... it immediately rebooted and began installing the update that "fixed" the exploit.
Because of that little number by Motorola (its fairly sneaky update dialog coupled with killing bootstrapper unlock) means I'll probably never buy another Moto phone again, and honestly I've just about had it with Android in general given that quite a few other Android OEMs act the same way or worse (at least Moto uses nearly-stock UI).
What about the ability to unlock the bootstrapper? My Motorola phone, which came out while Motorola was owned by Google, doesn't allow me to unlock the bootstrapper. No exploit exists, so no CyanogenMod for me... and Motorola's last OS update was to 4.1.2 over a year ago, and I purchased the phone with that version.
I don't see how you can say there is a requirement to "maintain the platform's open-ness" when the company you own doesn't keep their devices open.
I'm not following. You said to Nokia, "YOU had hired us to develop APPs for you"... doesn't that by definition mean they requested you to develop apps for them? Why would you then say "YOU had NOT asked for it"?
What, pray tell, is a "continuous image" and how is it not a series of snapshots?
Is this like a video (which is seemingly continuous over time, made by sequencing snapshots) or like a panoramic image (which is continuous over space, made by processing/overlaying snapshots)?
There is a difference between a hyperlink and storing the files on your own server. In the former case, the files can simply be denied access once the problem is discovered. In the latter case, the files are still available and are not in control of the owners.
To make your analogy more correct, it's like he made a photocopy of sensitive material and left it on the train table station. That's wholly different from leaving a note on the table stating where to find the original copy... at that point it is on the owners of that original copy to make sure it is secured.
I have to agree with the AC. This method would give higher scores to "jack of all trades, master of none" than to those who are especially gifted at certain areas but uninterested in others. That's not to say that it should necessarily be the opposite either; both types of person are important in the world.
But more importantly, why do we feel we must compare math majors with French majors? They have little to do with each other. Even if a few candidates were trying to get a job where both skill sets were important, the employer would look at the corpus of work in both subject areas, not a single number trying to describe both concepts.
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Just so long as my measurements of "reality" are consistent enough that this universe remains believable, I'll believe in it.
This scientist who is attempting to measure aspects of the universe in order to reveal anomalies may be trying to attempt the impossible. After all, the light emanating from the computer display that contains measurement results is part of the simulation itself, and could be manipulated in order to convince the scientist that his method of finding and measuring anomalies yielded none.
For that matter, perhaps the entire simulation is directly on our senses and reality as we know it is completely local. "There is no spoon."
It has the same problems that Google's current two factor has, namely that it is game over if someone steals your phone.
Not really, Google Authenticator allows you to switch to another phone or disable it so that codes from the old phone don't work. I assume the same would apply to SlickLogin.
The point is checks and balances. When just one person/group has all the power, they get everything they want.
Just as the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government help to reduce the amount of power given to any one group, the states exist to reduce the amount of power contained within the borders of Washington.
I considered the Nexus 5 but there were 2 things I wanted that it didn't have: expandable memory and Verizon support. I really didn't care about expandable memory, it was more that it didn't have enough stock. I had been on AT&T for several years and I was fed up with their service and many of my friends in my area praised Verizon's, so I was set on switching for months. (Unfortunately the joke's on me, my house is in pretty much the only bad spot in our city.)
Are they supposed to put in a screen asking if you're sure you want the update?
Yes!
My phone normally asks me if I'm sure I want to reboot. But it doesn't ask when the update will take 5 times as long as a standard reboot, my phone isn't plugged in, and most importantly it is a firmware update and no OEM can be absolutely certain it won't brick or permanently wipe the data on my phone. That makes no sense at all.
I was typing. The button appeared on top of the character I was already in the act of pressing.
Your solution is that I don't type with my phone. Screw that.
If everyone is happy without jobs, most don't get jobs. If most people don't work, they don't produce taxable income. If we don't have taxes, we can't afford to make everyone happy. Everyone is now unhappy.
I agree with this sentiment.
This is actually why welfare is important. Everyone that has a crap job has options such as demanding higher pay or learning new skills and applying for other jobs, but those are risks and the person could wind up seriously risking their livelihoods by losing their job. They won't take those risks. But if one can still survive without a job, the wages will be forced up in order to entice people to take on the crap jobs.
Did you not read that I didn't intend to update? The popup appeared and I hit "Update Now" before I even realized it happened.
Your ratios are a little skewed
I based it on a 7 billion population today and 275 million at the high middle ages, according to this site: http://www.timelines.info/hist...
Why are you so sadistic that you want to force people to work as garbage men?
Because today we need garbage people. I'd love for it to become automated. Once that happens, there are still plenty of jobs people don't want to do.
If/when we get to the point that 100,000 people can operate and maintain the machinery to provide all the needs and wants of the other 8 billion people on the planet, is it honestly your suggestion that the 8 billion should live in squalor and poverty, and the entire production of the planet only be distributed among the 100,000 who have the needed skills?
Our society has become massively automated compared to the middle ages. And we have 25 times the world population now. Yet we still have plenty of jobs; I'd wager that employment as a percentage is much higher today. This seems to contradict the idea that we will ever come to a point that automation will reduce jobs permanently.
Oh Lord, now that people know they can do this...
Slashdot has officially gone to hell.
Because the game's UI is a Javascript textbox?
Duh.
I don't see why not. I guess it's not mandatory that the search engine publishes any kind of link to the original content whatsoever. But I think they lose fair use status if they publish more than a small percentage of the original, so I'm not sure what utility such a search engine would have.
The amount of welfare benefits available to all citizens is in excess of the needs of the citizens.
I don't see why this is considered a good thing. If I have all necessity plus a few luxuries, I'm not going to work as a garbage man. (I don't doubt that some people who have worked that job all their lives actually love it, but I don't know of any teenager who would sign up for it willingly.)
Welfare's goal should be to cover exactly and not a bit more than the absolutely basic needs of life. Its goal is to help you survive, not to make you happy. If you want to eat Cheerios instead of cardboard, well, that's going to require either 1) a job, or 2) a waiver based on medical hardship, inability to find a job, etc.
1) I had never purchased from Motorola. I came off one WinMo phone and 2 iPhones. I just wanted a Verizon Android phone and what I saw from reviews said it was a very good model. And it was. Remember, at the time it was completely bootloader unlockable, it shipped with near-stock Android, and it was upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 within a couple of months.
2) Motorola was bought by Google and most people, including myself, felt that Motorola was going to become more open as a result. Instead the opposite happened.
3) Very few Android OEMs have a hardware advantage over Motorola. I'm not paying twice as much for half the hardware capabilities and poor build quality just so that I can feel safer that I can unlock in the future.
Razr HD xt926 with firmware 9.18.79. I haven't looked at the kexec option. If CM works with that, I'll definitely be happy. Thanks for the pointer!
My phone is rooted. It's not bootloader unlocked.
Agreed... in my case, installing CM is supported for the firmware that the phone had when I bought it.
I hadn't gotten around to installing CM yet, and Motorola sent out a "minor" update, one that didn't change the OS version. While I was typing text on the phone, the update dialog popped up and my thumb was already heading toward the "Update Now" button. It was too late... it immediately rebooted and began installing the update that "fixed" the exploit.
Because of that little number by Motorola (its fairly sneaky update dialog coupled with killing bootstrapper unlock) means I'll probably never buy another Moto phone again, and honestly I've just about had it with Android in general given that quite a few other Android OEMs act the same way or worse (at least Moto uses nearly-stock UI).
What about the ability to unlock the bootstrapper? My Motorola phone, which came out while Motorola was owned by Google, doesn't allow me to unlock the bootstrapper. No exploit exists, so no CyanogenMod for me... and Motorola's last OS update was to 4.1.2 over a year ago, and I purchased the phone with that version.
I don't see how you can say there is a requirement to "maintain the platform's open-ness" when the company you own doesn't keep their devices open.
I'm not following. You said to Nokia, "YOU had hired us to develop APPs for you"... doesn't that by definition mean they requested you to develop apps for them? Why would you then say "YOU had NOT asked for it"?
What, pray tell, is a "continuous image" and how is it not a series of snapshots?
Is this like a video (which is seemingly continuous over time, made by sequencing snapshots) or like a panoramic image (which is continuous over space, made by processing/overlaying snapshots)?
There is a difference between a hyperlink and storing the files on your own server. In the former case, the files can simply be denied access once the problem is discovered. In the latter case, the files are still available and are not in control of the owners.
To make your analogy more correct, it's like he made a photocopy of sensitive material and left it on the train table station. That's wholly different from leaving a note on the table stating where to find the original copy... at that point it is on the owners of that original copy to make sure it is secured.
The majority of (all) Americans think health care is the same thing as health insurance.
I have to agree with the AC. This method would give higher scores to "jack of all trades, master of none" than to those who are especially gifted at certain areas but uninterested in others. That's not to say that it should necessarily be the opposite either; both types of person are important in the world.
But more importantly, why do we feel we must compare math majors with French majors? They have little to do with each other. Even if a few candidates were trying to get a job where both skill sets were important, the employer would look at the corpus of work in both subject areas, not a single number trying to describe both concepts.