uppercase is frequently required to ensure consistency in the system and ease of searching and visually comparing lists (plus some users are lazy and forget to type capital letters, or get confused on something like McIntire, so by making everything capitalized, they remove all this doubt and potential for mistakes/trouble).
However, the proper solution is software-based, not user-based... something like
more to the point: why does the brightest object in the solar system have nice shading effect to make it look spherical?
I accept that this photo has been certified legit, but that shading screams fake to me because the sun should only look like a flat disc. So the question I'm asking astronomers is to explain why the sun appears spherical instead of like a big flat bright disc?
What if I, today as an adult, sent someone a naked picture of myself as a child that I have in my possession? Would they try to claim that as child porn? Would I be considered to be exploiting my younger self? What about the photographer who took that picture (a parent, for instance) way back when... would they go after that person too?
Or--total off the wall yet relevant argument: what if as an adult, I actually get off on looking at pictures of myself as a kid. Would that be a crime?
I don't think sending someone a picture of yourself counts as a crime. You are willfully sending the picture. No one coerced you, etc. You are not a victim.
so what happens when hundreds of such black holes all go to retire at the center of the earth and collect there?
As for the solar radiation argument, this is a stable part of the universe as we know it. The emanate from point sources and travel radially outward.
We are introducing an unknown because our black holes are gong to be different and moving/accelerating in different ways... compared to those produced by cosmic rays. We can't say for sure how they might intersect/interact/collide/behave with each other or the solar generated black holes. Just basing an argument on knowing how something else that seems similar behaves but actually it isn't the same isn't any kind of guarantee to me.
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This is actually a well-documented phenomenon.
I believe the theory that seeks to explain it is that, especially during the early stages of treatment, and especially for younger patients, when they start taking the medication they literally become more motivated to do something about their situation and kill themselves.
1) School is responsible for computer usage while student is physically in the school building 2) Parents are responsible for student's off-campus usage of any kind. The only thing they are responsible for is making sure their kids are not doing anything they don't want them to and they agree not to hold the school liable for anything. 3) Parents not agreeing to 2 can choose to opt-out of the program, meaning their kids have to turn in their laptops at the end of each school day where they get locked up until the student returns the next day. 4) Students who's parents opt out and having no computers at home and needing use of their laptops for homework can continue to use them in an after-hours computer lab or the school library. 5) Parents who opt-out will have no recourse except to hold other parents responsible if their kid is shown objectionable content off-campus via a friend's computer.
You'd want to use an ethernet cable in that case to move the stuff you care about off the macbook.
As for open firmware, I tried setting that on a mac years back and it proved to be a hassle more than anything. Anytime I needed to troubleshoot it just was an extra step in the way.
Then there's the matter of having to set a password for every single mac. Will it be the same password? Will it ever expire? What happens if one student figures it out and shares it and you need to "recall all the macs" to change it? All that and it's still fairly simple to bypass it with physical access:
Here are instructions to strip OF protection from computerworld.com:
"First, open the computer and either remove or install RAM. What you need to do is change the amount of RAM that's installed in the computer, so simply moving modules around won't do the trick. Reboot the computer with the changed amount of RAM and zap the PRAM. (Changing the installed RAM allows you to use the command-option-P-R key combination to zap the PRAM, regardless of the Open Firmware security mode, which removes the password.) Then boot into the Open Firmware prompt and use the set-defaults command. This should reset all Open Firmware configurations to the default settings. Use the reset-all command to reboot with the new settings, after which you can set a new password and security mode (either directly through the Open Firmware prompt or using another tool). Restore the original amount of RAM in the computer." [computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,103889,00.html ]
"Don't be a nazi" is not just the most ethical advice, it's also the most practical.
Here's how to defeat any censorship attempts:
1) boot macbook while holding T key and it's connected to another mac via firewire 2) drag home folder / apps and files you care about off your macbook when it shows up as an external FW drive on the other machine 3) launch disk utility on the other machine and reformat the drive on the macbook 4) shut down the macbook and boot it back up using the Leopard install DVD 5) install Leopard 6) migrate your files back and enjoy your new computer
Here's how you REALLY NEED TO HANDLE IT:
IN THE SCHOOL 1) set up port and internet filtering as per state/local law and reasonable requirements. Block chat stuff. 2) walk around frequently to monitor usage 3) make restrictions and penalties for unauthorized usage crystal clear
AT HOME Students are free to do whatever they want with the laptop but parents are on the hook to ensure the students don't do anything the parents don't want. It's not the school's responsibility anymore once it's at home.
Why do people treat shit camera work as though it's something raw and edgy?
This crappy trend started with Gladiator. I remember when that came out all the fight scenes were jerky in a way that made my eyes bug out and I hated the movie. Everything else about the movie was decent, but the stupid editor who came up with that effect ruined it and movies for generations to come as lemming producers demand the crap.
Of course, it also helps make it so you can't see how fake props look etc.
oh, you say that... now......but how are you going to feel about it when we start outsourcing IT jobs to starving kids cranking and typing away furiously in the desert sun for $5/hr
Some mod with a sense of decency should probably be re-modding 19thNervousBreakdown's posts that were modded as trolls as 'underrated'
I don't see anything trollish or even flame-bait-ish about his posts. I won't jump on his bandwagon, but his opinion is completely valid, educated, and well-stated.
Normally, when I get Deja Vu, it is very intense. Often times I'm so convinced I'm reliving something that I feel I can predict the next instant, and as I try to make sense of it all, I generally end up feeling like it's just a case of something pretty similar happened before.
Many times, I'll feel not only like I've experienced it before, but also like the last time I experienced it, I also had deja vu.
The worst part about this is that as I sit here writing this, I can't even know for sure my memory of those deja vu events is really correct. Maybe some of them were dreams, or maybe some memories were adjusted to deal with the deja vu or to further intensify it.
The telecos would quickly pay for laws and regulations that would prevent people from creating a last mile infrastructure. As an example, look at how the telecos are preventing municipal ISPs and other "community" networks.
I have proposed a similar idea as Cringely. The difference is I take more regulatory approach to the question, to avoid the scenario you describe.
As much as I hate regulatory solutions, I think there is a common problem across the entire trade spectrum: what should be two separate concepts and transactions, the demand for goods and services, and the delivery of those goods and services, when that delivery depends on shared resources and creates a natural monopoly, is currently normally combined into a single regional provider. This applies to your power, your gas, and to a lesser extent nowadays, your landline phone service as well.
I think we should make it illegal to be both the content provider and the channel provider when the channels must be a shared resource. This would apply to any and all trade scenarios.
So you could demand from your power company that you only want energy from a company that uses wind to generate its energy. Of course, you can't control that the electrons that flow to your home came from wind, but you can control that the dollars you spend go to that company instead. This allows the last mile markets to all be heavily regulated, where it's impossible to have any competition, and puts market pressure on all the actual goods/content providers to compete for your dollars without being locked in by the last mile.
Yes that would be a lot of work, and I'm sure there are gray areas. But it's a start. And I think adoption of such a law could become complete across the spectrum within a decade.
Adult Resignation... I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them. I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers day. I want to return to a time when life was simple....
Unfortunately, living such a simple life is dependent upon being supported by someone who absorbs all the complicated things for you.
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the "program design' is clearly defective here
uppercase is frequently required to ensure consistency in the system and ease of searching and visually comparing lists (plus some users are lazy and forget to type capital letters, or get confused on something like McIntire, so by making everything capitalized, they remove all this doubt and potential for mistakes/trouble).
However, the proper solution is software-based, not user-based... something like
String upper = string.toUpperCase();
it does look a lot like an orange.
more to the point: why does the brightest object in the solar system have nice shading effect to make it look spherical?
I accept that this photo has been certified legit, but that shading screams fake to me because the sun should only look like a flat disc. So the question I'm asking astronomers is to explain why the sun appears spherical instead of like a big flat bright disc?
um... how about this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=justfuckinggoogleit
And on a related point:
What if I, today as an adult, sent someone a naked picture of myself as a child that I have in my possession? Would they try to claim that as child porn? Would I be considered to be exploiting my younger self? What about the photographer who took that picture (a parent, for instance) way back when... would they go after that person too?
Or--total off the wall yet relevant argument: what if as an adult, I actually get off on looking at pictures of myself as a kid. Would that be a crime?
I don't think sending someone a picture of yourself counts as a crime. You are willfully sending the picture. No one coerced you, etc. You are not a victim.
so what happens when hundreds of such black holes all go to retire at the center of the earth and collect there?
As for the solar radiation argument, this is a stable part of the universe as we know it. The emanate from point sources and travel radially outward.
We are introducing an unknown because our black holes are gong to be different and moving/accelerating in different ways... compared to those produced by cosmic rays. We can't say for sure how they might intersect/interact/collide/behave with each other or the solar generated black holes. Just basing an argument on knowing how something else that seems similar behaves but actually it isn't the same isn't any kind of guarantee to me.
indeed.
where's the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag?
This is actually a well-documented phenomenon.
I believe the theory that seeks to explain it is that, especially during the early stages of treatment, and especially for younger patients, when they start taking the medication they literally become more motivated to do something about their situation and kill themselves.
Ok, how about:
1) School is responsible for computer usage while student is physically in the school building
2) Parents are responsible for student's off-campus usage of any kind. The only thing they are responsible for is making sure their kids are not doing anything they don't want them to and they agree not to hold the school liable for anything.
3) Parents not agreeing to 2 can choose to opt-out of the program, meaning their kids have to turn in their laptops at the end of each school day where they get locked up until the student returns the next day.
4) Students who's parents opt out and having no computers at home and needing use of their laptops for homework can continue to use them in an after-hours computer lab or the school library.
5) Parents who opt-out will have no recourse except to hold other parents responsible if their kid is shown objectionable content off-campus via a friend's computer.
Sorry, I forgot about the missing FW.
You'd want to use an ethernet cable in that case to move the stuff you care about off the macbook.
As for open firmware, I tried setting that on a mac years back and it proved to be a hassle more than anything. Anytime I needed to troubleshoot it just was an extra step in the way.
Then there's the matter of having to set a password for every single mac. Will it be the same password? Will it ever expire? What happens if one student figures it out and shares it and you need to "recall all the macs" to change it? All that and it's still fairly simple to bypass it with physical access:
Here are instructions to strip OF protection from computerworld.com:
"First, open the computer and either remove or install RAM. What you need to do is change the amount of RAM that's installed in the computer, so simply moving modules around won't do the trick. Reboot the computer with the changed amount of RAM and zap the PRAM. (Changing the installed RAM allows you to use the command-option-P-R key combination to zap the PRAM, regardless of the Open Firmware security mode, which removes the password.) Then boot into the Open Firmware prompt and use the set-defaults command. This should reset all Open Firmware configurations to the default settings. Use the reset-all command to reboot with the new settings, after which you can set a new password and security mode (either directly through the Open Firmware prompt or using another tool). Restore the original amount of RAM in the computer." [computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,103889,00.html ]
"Don't be a nazi" is not just the most ethical advice, it's also the most practical.
Here's how to defeat any censorship attempts:
1) boot macbook while holding T key and it's connected to another mac via firewire
2) drag home folder / apps and files you care about off your macbook when it shows up as an external FW drive on the other machine
3) launch disk utility on the other machine and reformat the drive on the macbook
4) shut down the macbook and boot it back up using the Leopard install DVD
5) install Leopard
6) migrate your files back and enjoy your new computer
Here's how you REALLY NEED TO HANDLE IT:
IN THE SCHOOL
1) set up port and internet filtering as per state/local law and reasonable requirements. Block chat stuff.
2) walk around frequently to monitor usage
3) make restrictions and penalties for unauthorized usage crystal clear
AT HOME
Students are free to do whatever they want with the laptop but parents are on the hook to ensure the students don't do anything the parents don't want. It's not the school's responsibility anymore once it's at home.
looks like it came from a "very special episode of lost in space celebrates christmas a million miles from home"
Why do people treat shit camera work as though it's something raw and edgy?
This crappy trend started with Gladiator. I remember when that came out all the fight scenes were jerky in a way that made my eyes bug out and I hated the movie. Everything else about the movie was decent, but the stupid editor who came up with that effect ruined it and movies for generations to come as lemming producers demand the crap.
Of course, it also helps make it so you can't see how fake props look etc.
oh, you say that ... now... ...but how are you going to feel about it when we start outsourcing IT jobs to starving kids cranking and typing away furiously in the desert sun for $5/hr
=P
bingo.
Some mod with a sense of decency should probably be re-modding 19thNervousBreakdown's posts that were modded as trolls as 'underrated'
I don't see anything trollish or even flame-bait-ish about his posts. I won't jump on his bandwagon, but his opinion is completely valid, educated, and well-stated.
For those of us older than 2^5
Huh? You mean 32?
Right on!
My laptops use trackpads and capture of hover events --indeed all mouse events gestures and conventions-- works perfectly fine.
1) I don't see why touchscreens, multitouch or otherwise should be any less capable
2) I'd like to get away from the mouse paradigm some day anyway. Multitouch gestures is a positive step in that direction.
brilliant post
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it... ...(It's worse than that, he's dead Jim)"
Why not just broadcast all data out into space. Maybe we can set up a relayer way far away and bounce it back to earth and back again indefinitely.
Normally, when I get Deja Vu, it is very intense. Often times I'm so convinced I'm reliving something that I feel I can predict the next instant, and as I try to make sense of it all, I generally end up feeling like it's just a case of something pretty similar happened before.
Many times, I'll feel not only like I've experienced it before, but also like the last time I experienced it, I also had deja vu.
The worst part about this is that as I sit here writing this, I can't even know for sure my memory of those deja vu events is really correct. Maybe some of them were dreams, or maybe some memories were adjusted to deal with the deja vu or to further intensify it.
I have proposed a similar idea as Cringely. The difference is I take more regulatory approach to the question, to avoid the scenario you describe.
As much as I hate regulatory solutions, I think there is a common problem across the entire trade spectrum: what should be two separate concepts and transactions, the demand for goods and services, and the delivery of those goods and services, when that delivery depends on shared resources and creates a natural monopoly, is currently normally combined into a single regional provider. This applies to your power, your gas, and to a lesser extent nowadays, your landline phone service as well.
I think we should make it illegal to be both the content provider and the channel provider when the channels must be a shared resource. This would apply to any and all trade scenarios.
So you could demand from your power company that you only want energy from a company that uses wind to generate its energy. Of course, you can't control that the electrons that flow to your home came from wind, but you can control that the dollars you spend go to that company instead. This allows the last mile markets to all be heavily regulated, where it's impossible to have any competition, and puts market pressure on all the actual goods/content providers to compete for your dollars without being locked in by the last mile.
Yes that would be a lot of work, and I'm sure there are gray areas. But it's a start. And I think adoption of such a law could become complete across the spectrum within a decade.
Unfortunately, living such a simple life is dependent upon being supported by someone who absorbs all the complicated things for you.