I tried this product. It wreaked my computer. And all the computers in my household and then in my neighbourhood.
My neighbours hate me, and i had to move. I lost my job and then my wife and family.
I am now homeless and am writing this on a public computer, but i fear MyCleanPC has now infected it.
Stay away from this product, or you will lose everything.
I tried this product a few years ago. I ten accessed my home banking site. All my money was stolen. But that's not the worst of it. The MyCleanPC trojan spread from my PC to the bank's mainframe - then via inter-bank payments to the world stock markets. It completely wrecked the economy. The big secret they are not telling us is that the financial slump was caused by MyCleanPC.
Now name some peaceful Muslim countries...if you can because they are the the ones that don't get in the news because nothing interesting happens there, like all the peaceful Christian or Secular states that never get in the news....
Whereas the USA and the UK have been involved in most wars over the last 100 years or so...
Seriously, are all the threats realistic, or does the UK government suffer from a paranoid syndrome? At least once a week/. exposes a new plan in the UK to a) add cameras somewhere b) spy/censor Internet c) control this or that and now d) defense against EMPs.
The coming Olympics are maybe an excuse^w reason? Or maybe we should prohibit the 8 seasons of Jack Bauer / 24 to be sold in the UK?
We have a lot of Muslims who's self-confessed aim is to destroy the state. The threat is real. The question is whether the defences are proportionate and effective. For example an EMP bomb is not really the Muslims style - not enough blood and gore to satisfy their love of violence. On the other hand they might use it to add confusion in combination with other attacks.
I expect this organisation would be quaking in its boots if certain other organisations were given free reign to eliminate them. Think FSB, Mossad, the US secrete service, or MI5
That won't put Apple off. Remember Apple Corps v Apple Computer. One thing that ITV will have learned though is not to do any deal allowing them "limited use".
Think of all the ways that we could make laws neat. To paraphrase the judge "We know that the statutory rape law is sometimes misused and that's a shame. But I think that broad polemical exclusion of all cases where the couple are married is not the way to go".
or "we know that the breaking and entry law is sometimes misused, and that's a shame. But I think that broad polemical exclusion of emergency services in response to an urgent situation is not the way to go.
Whatever you do don't handcuff your briefcase to your hand. At least not if you value your hand:)
Seriously what couriers use is a handcuff that connects to a release pin. If the bag is snatched it is easily pulled away but will then emit a very load alarm and possibly smoke too (though the latter is not permitted on air travel for obvious reasons).
If ALL the cars were drivereless? Yes. The safe following distance for a driverless car is about 1 foot.
I had a friend who drove in "demolition derby", and he pointed out that this distance is actually safer than diriving at just less than your thinking distance. If the car in front breaks there is no time to build up a speed differential. That's why they try to get in a line on the demolition track - nobody can hit you fast
I'm with you on this, but it's you morons cruising down the road at a mere 120. I don't let the speedometer drop below 160 and I need 2 lanes minimum to handle safely at that speed. All of you one lane driving 120km/h freaks are the real problem.
If you need two lanes to handle your car at 160km/h you shouldn't be on the road. I was once driven in a Mercedes at 220 kph by a German - scarey as hell but he had no problem keeoing in a single lane and other cars seemed to expect this sort of speed.
I think this will be mostly the end of private cars for the majority of us.
One step closer to a society where "ownership" doesn't exist, everything is borrowed/leased/licensed?
On a tangent note, if this makes riding my bicycle less life-threatening, I have difficulty criticizing this particular shift.
How they deal with cycles, pedestrians, horses, etc. will be critical. It might make it safer, but it might make it very hard to prove liability if you are hit - you "must have" swerved out of the lane because the program should cope with passing you otherwise.
but once people start looking at the cost of owning a car versus a well priced car service I think the transition will be fast. Especially among the young.
"the young" will be the last ones to give it up. Elderly will enjoy being driven around before kids will.
Hint: A car to a young person is *freedom*. Go where anywhere they want and provides shelter to get it on in.
The young may keep it going for a bit, but if it ever gets really safe and efficient the insurance cost of manual driving especially for a young driver will make it unattractive. Also, if you have been driven around in a car since the age of 12 you might not see the point in learning to drive, taking the test, etc.
I agree in principle, but the "never raise the minimum bar unless you're absolutely forced to by law" implies that you just have a binary reward scheme. Ideally you should be able to give graded rewards, with the lowest level being achievable by an average worker trying hard. Of course the best workers need a higher reward than this.
Nope. Not a good motivator. More precisely it's a motivator for the wrong type of behaviour. Once you "gamify" a system, you've just added one more layer of indirection, and several orders of magnitude more ways to game the system.
Perfection in game design is not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to cheat.
I have actually seen that happen. A bonus scheme based on the number of incidents fixed meant that teams quickly found out that rather than "try something, test, try something, test" until it worked, if they instead would "try something, send back to user as done" it would not only mean that they could move on to the next problem quicker, but also have the added bonus that the user would probably have to raise another problem report on the same incident. Quality went down, incidents went up, bonuses went up - for nearly two months until the scheme was revised.
Instead of focusing on measurement and rivalry studies have shown that focusing on equality and everyone in class doing a good job lifts the entire group. I do not know if this carries over to work environments, but I'm sceptical about using rivalry when there could be co-operation instead.
Please provide some references. I have doubts about "focusing on equality"; all that does is give the lazy a free pass.
I am sure you are right if it is the sole motivator, but if there are other motivators for the class/team to do well then it may help reaching the optimum performance rather than letting a few "star players" do everything.
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The people who realize the government is the only perpetrator of terrorism
Ah - you're one of those "George Bush arranged 9/11" people. Muslim by any chance?
I tried this product. It wreaked my computer. And all the computers in my household and then in my neighbourhood. My neighbours hate me, and i had to move. I lost my job and then my wife and family. I am now homeless and am writing this on a public computer, but i fear MyCleanPC has now infected it.
Stay away from this product, or you will lose everything.
I tried this product a few years ago. I ten accessed my home banking site. All my money was stolen. But that's not the worst of it. The MyCleanPC trojan spread from my PC to the bank's mainframe - then via inter-bank payments to the world stock markets. It completely wrecked the economy. The big secret they are not telling us is that the financial slump was caused by MyCleanPC.
Now name some peaceful Muslim countries ...if you can because they are the the ones that don't get in the news because nothing interesting happens there, like all the peaceful Christian or Secular states that never get in the news ....
Whereas the USA and the UK have been involved in most wars over the last 100 years or so ...
No I can't because there aren't any.
You should be thankful for the war mongering else you would be speaking German(assuming you weren't wiped out).
More likely Russian - though the war would have gone on much longer
Seriously, are all the threats realistic, or does the UK government suffer from a paranoid syndrome? At least once a week /. exposes a new plan in the UK to a) add cameras somewhere b) spy/censor Internet c) control this or that and now d) defense against EMPs.
The coming Olympics are maybe an excuse^w reason? Or maybe we should prohibit the 8 seasons of Jack Bauer / 24 to be sold in the UK?
We have a lot of Muslims who's self-confessed aim is to destroy the state. The threat is real. The question is whether the defences are proportionate and effective. For example an EMP bomb is not really the Muslims style - not enough blood and gore to satisfy their love of violence. On the other hand they might use it to add confusion in combination with other attacks.
It's funny how similar (and crazy) both US and UK are while rest of the world lives in peace.
Yes its a shame we are not like those peaceful Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, the Sudan, etc.
the US secrete service
Yes, those secretions are to be avoided at all costs.
Oh shit!
I expect this organisation would be quaking in its boots if certain other organisations were given free reign to eliminate them. Think FSB, Mossad, the US secrete service, or MI5
see http://www.itv.com/ been a UK TV company since like forever
That won't put Apple off. Remember Apple Corps v Apple Computer. One thing that ITV will have learned though is not to do any deal allowing them "limited use".
or "we know that the breaking and entry law is sometimes misused, and that's a shame. But I think that broad polemical exclusion of emergency services in response to an urgent situation is not the way to go.
Sometimes you need exemption to a law.
Drug enforcement agents think the war on drugs is a really good thing.
And Muslims think the war against freedom is a really good thing.
Only in America are you narcissistic enough to think that what you have to say is SO important its work PAYING to put it in front of your 'friends'.
Not only in America. If your friends are politicians you can expect to do this anywhere
Don't do stupid things, at stupid times, in stupid places, with stupid people.
But I'm a politician you insensitive clod.
This could lead to one ninja trying to fight off their attacker with a Kindle.
Probability is your friend. Have 100 ninjas only one of which has the real kindle.
Whatever you do don't handcuff your briefcase to your hand. At least not if you value your hand :)
Seriously what couriers use is a handcuff that connects to a release pin. If the bag is snatched it is easily pulled away but will then emit a very load alarm and possibly smoke too (though the latter is not permitted on air travel for obvious reasons).
If ALL the cars were drivereless? Yes. The safe following distance for a driverless car is about 1 foot.
I had a friend who drove in "demolition derby", and he pointed out that this distance is actually safer than diriving at just less than your thinking distance. If the car in front breaks there is no time to build up a speed differential. That's why they try to get in a line on the demolition track - nobody can hit you fast
I'm with you on this, but it's you morons cruising down the road at a mere 120. I don't let the speedometer drop below 160 and I need 2 lanes minimum to handle safely at that speed. All of you one lane driving 120km/h freaks are the real problem.
If you need two lanes to handle your car at 160km/h you shouldn't be on the road. I was once driven in a Mercedes at 220 kph by a German - scarey as hell but he had no problem keeoing in a single lane and other cars seemed to expect this sort of speed.
I think this will be mostly the end of private cars for the majority of us.
One step closer to a society where "ownership" doesn't exist, everything is borrowed/leased/licensed? On a tangent note, if this makes riding my bicycle less life-threatening, I have difficulty criticizing this particular shift.
How they deal with cycles, pedestrians, horses, etc. will be critical. It might make it safer, but it might make it very hard to prove liability if you are hit - you "must have" swerved out of the lane because the program should cope with passing you otherwise.
"the young" will be the last ones to give it up. Elderly will enjoy being driven around before kids will.
Hint: A car to a young person is *freedom*. Go where anywhere they want and provides shelter to get it on in.
The young may keep it going for a bit, but if it ever gets really safe and efficient the insurance cost of manual driving especially for a young driver will make it unattractive. Also, if you have been driven around in a car since the age of 12 you might not see the point in learning to drive, taking the test, etc.
If I could use my laptop during my commute to/from work, I could shave an hour off my day ....
It could ... or it could add an hours more porn.
I agree in principle, but the "never raise the minimum bar unless you're absolutely forced to by law" implies that you just have a binary reward scheme. Ideally you should be able to give graded rewards, with the lowest level being achievable by an average worker trying hard. Of course the best workers need a higher reward than this.
I do believe the rewards are called "money".
That was last year. This year the management will have read the report and know that you will be better motivated with a gold star.
Nope. Not a good motivator. More precisely it's a motivator for the wrong type of behaviour. Once you "gamify" a system, you've just added one more layer of indirection, and several orders of magnitude more ways to game the system.
Perfection in game design is not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to cheat.
I have actually seen that happen. A bonus scheme based on the number of incidents fixed meant that teams quickly found out that rather than "try something, test, try something, test" until it worked, if they instead would "try something, send back to user as done" it would not only mean that they could move on to the next problem quicker, but also have the added bonus that the user would probably have to raise another problem report on the same incident. Quality went down, incidents went up, bonuses went up - for nearly two months until the scheme was revised.
Instead of focusing on measurement and rivalry studies have shown that focusing on equality and everyone in class doing a good job lifts the entire group. I do not know if this carries over to work environments, but I'm sceptical about using rivalry when there could be co-operation instead.
Please provide some references. I have doubts about "focusing on equality"; all that does is give the lazy a free pass.
I am sure you are right if it is the sole motivator, but if there are other motivators for the class/team to do well then it may help reaching the optimum performance rather than letting a few "star players" do everything.
It is X-ray computed tomography, often called "CAT scans (Computed axial tomography).