Everyone who wants to find the most painless way to kill themselves can find it on Wikipedia. THAT IS A GOOD THING. Information wants to be free and all that. What we should focus on, is why they're thinking about suicide in the first place.
It's not like someone's browsing, and they see the wikipedia entry and decide to kill themselves.
Aight, now I know what p4p is. Problem is, p2p protocols DO NOT NEED TO KNOW where that other connection is coming from. No, really. They do not. It's up to the ISP to sort those things out. Just read the specs. It's not just a routing problem, it's a political one. Think about it.
What they didn't anticipate though, is people screening out the warnings. Yes, it's important for you, the developer. No, it's not important for the user, who only wants to Get Stuff Done (tm).
If the same yes/no question pops up every 10 minutes, don't expect a different answer when it says "Do you want to install spyware, adware, a couple of trojans, and [whatever they actually wanted to install]?".
Remember, users don't read. Not because they're incapable, they have more important things to do.
However, if you're a windows user, and you just upgraded to vista, you see these warnings/questions. What's your first response?
1. Man, I wish these crappy coders would learn when to require root access 2. Stupid Vista... I should go back to XP
Upgrading the security model from a non-visible one to one that requires user attention can be a bitch. MS has a lot of difficult decisions to make these days.
I wasn't talking about abiding the law. If the speed limit is 20, and everyone's going 40, you go 40 because that's what everyone expects from you, law or not. It's the safest way to travel.
I can't comment on the legal preceence though, as I don't live in a country where precedence matters, but I would imagine any sane system would put the safety of human lives and property before arbitrary rules originally designed to protect human lives and property.
used wave patterns to make a type of logic gate called an "exclusive OR gate", or XOR gate." Why the explanation? Are/. readers braindead nowadays? What kind of "news for nerds" needs an explanation of what a XOR is?
I'd say the single thing most likely to really change over the next twenty years is this neat two way division of memory, especially as mobile and embedded devices become more common. Oh, please no. I already lost an mp3 player because of that. Memory got corrupted, the whole thing froze, and it's persistent across battery changes. Even the firmware updates were software only.
Of course, I previously voided the warranty as I did a firmware update (the updated version had no arbitrary volume limit imposed on it, and also it enabled the built-in radio).
Seriously, whoever came up with that summary should be dismembered and have their body parts on display in every major city There, fixed it for myself.
If it's still theirs, why not just sue them for theft?
Seriously, whoever came up with the idea of this lawsuit should be dismembered and have their body parts on display in every major city, just to warn the lawyers.
NLP is also not a science, but it has a "Do what works and shut up" kind of attitude, and also a great track record.
I hate Scientology as much as anyone here, but if there's one thing they're right about (or close to), it's psychology.
P.S. There ARE good psychologists. They're good precisely because they don't do what they've been taught. Can you imagine engineering today if you had to start out with analyzing the tree's childhood dreams if you wanted to make a table?
It was not until bribery (sorry, campaign contributions) became common practice, that the US lawmaking process became fundamentally flawed. See also: "Federal" "Reserve", corporate personhood etc.
You know, how not to fall for spam (last I heard they were making huge profits), how to check if it's really your bank's website before you enter your password, how not to get infected with enough malware to make a grown tech cry, stuff like that...
but about 10% of people respond exceptionally well
Only 10% of people are simple minded enough to be mesmerized by these witch doctors. Do you see the gap between "exceptionally well" and "not at all"? That's where most people are. Also, "not everybody" does not mean "only 10%".
Did you use Wikipedia to find out new things, or just to justify your beliefs?
Sleep and dreams is bullshit and only work on people who believe it will work.... Fixed that for you.
Hypnosis is a state of mind, like any other form of meditation, not the ritual used to achieve it. Everyone can be "hypnotized", it's just that there are a lot of crappy hypnotists out there.
and my GF wants to pop up a chat window every 10 freaking minutes, breaking my concentration, effectively ending my ability to do any meaningful work You need to train her properly:P The easiest way to do that is to not respond.
I have MSN online 24/7, and all the people I talk to already know that only means my computer is switched on. They also don't complain if I only reply to them after half an hour (unless it's urgent of course, but that doesn't happen every 10 minutes). Saves a lot of trouble when you're not in the mood to actually talk to them.
Ahh... The joy of creeping on your best beloved with a double barrel shotgun and blowing his head off... Aaaa.... Wonderful... Agreed. So much more cheaper than a divorce lawyer.
As a milder example, human memory isn't photographic, ever. It seems to store more like the description of a scene, and just ad-lib the details that it forgot. That's only true for conscious memories. The subconscious remembers everything. Hypnosis can be used to remember e.g. a phone number you saw when you were 6 months old and couldn't read yet...
I fully agree with the rest of your post, however.
Until now, researchers were relying on somewhat unreliable questionnaires to study paranoid thoughts Like any decent paranoid is going fill those out honestly?
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Everyone who wants to find the most painless way to kill themselves can find it on Wikipedia. THAT IS A GOOD THING. Information wants to be free and all that.
What we should focus on, is why they're thinking about suicide in the first place.
It's not like someone's browsing, and they see the wikipedia entry and decide to kill themselves.
P.S. I'm Hungarian, and I'm after my 10th beer, so be gentle.
Aight, now I know what p4p is. Problem is, p2p protocols DO NOT NEED TO KNOW where that other connection is coming from. No, really. They do not. It's up to the ISP to sort those things out. Just read the specs.
It's not just a routing problem, it's a political one. Think about it.
What they didn't anticipate though, is people screening out the warnings. Yes, it's important for you, the developer. No, it's not important for the user, who only wants to Get Stuff Done (tm).
If the same yes/no question pops up every 10 minutes, don't expect a different answer when it says "Do you want to install spyware, adware, a couple of trojans, and [whatever they actually wanted to install]?".
Remember, users don't read. Not because they're incapable, they have more important things to do.
Yes, it forces coders.
:) )
However, if you're a windows user, and you just upgraded to vista, you see these warnings/questions. What's your first response?
1. Man, I wish these crappy coders would learn when to require root access
2. Stupid Vista... I should go back to XP
Upgrading the security model from a non-visible one to one that requires user attention can be a bitch. MS has a lot of difficult decisions to make these days.
Just see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html.
(Now, if only someone could show me how to embed nice links here...
P.S. I use Gentoo.
I wasn't talking about abiding the law. If the speed limit is 20, and everyone's going 40, you go 40 because that's what everyone expects from you, law or not. It's the safest way to travel.
I can't comment on the legal preceence though, as I don't live in a country where precedence matters, but I would imagine any sane system would put the safety of human lives and property before arbitrary rules originally designed to protect human lives and property.
Which constitution? The internet is worldwide, you know.
The way I've been taught the three rules of driving are:
1. Don't cause accidents
2. Do what everyone else expects from you
3. The regulations are just there to give you an idea on how to do that.
Konqueror doesn't try to do everything, it just embeds the appropriate KPart. And those do one thing really well.
Do we count maintaining a botnet as "shares his cost"?
Of course, I previously voided the warranty as I did a firmware update (the updated version had no arbitrary volume limit imposed on it, and also it enabled the built-in radio).
From that day on I only buy things I can reboot.
Yes, I just RTFA. I learned my lesson.
If it's still theirs, why not just sue them for theft?
Seriously, whoever came up with the idea of this lawsuit should be dismembered and have their body parts on display in every major city, just to warn the lawyers.
Parent is not a troll. Psychology is not science. All they know is how to torture dogs and give people bad drugs for years.
OTOH, there are existing methodologies to fix people:
http://www.deep-trance.com/techniques/fast-phobia-cure.html
NLP is also not a science, but it has a "Do what works and shut up" kind of attitude, and also a great track record.
I hate Scientology as much as anyone here, but if there's one thing they're right about (or close to), it's psychology.
P.S. There ARE good psychologists. They're good precisely because they don't do what they've been taught. Can you imagine engineering today if you had to start out with analyzing the tree's childhood dreams if you wanted to make a table?
It was not until bribery (sorry, campaign contributions) became common practice, that the US lawmaking process became fundamentally flawed. See also: "Federal" "Reserve", corporate personhood etc.
That place is fucked up beyond recognition.
They were, back when the US was founded...
You know, how not to fall for spam (last I heard they were making huge profits), how to check if it's really your bank's website before you enter your password, how not to get infected with enough malware to make a grown tech cry, stuff like that...
Or does that not qualify as 'internet safety'?
Only 10% of people are simple minded enough to be mesmerized by these witch doctors. Do you see the gap between "exceptionally well" and "not at all"? That's where most people are. Also, "not everybody" does not mean "only 10%".
Did you use Wikipedia to find out new things, or just to justify your beliefs?
Hypnosis is a state of mind, like any other form of meditation, not the ritual used to achieve it. Everyone can be "hypnotized", it's just that there are a lot of crappy hypnotists out there.
I have MSN online 24/7, and all the people I talk to already know that only means my computer is switched on. They also don't complain if I only reply to them after half an hour (unless it's urgent of course, but that doesn't happen every 10 minutes). Saves a lot of trouble when you're not in the mood to actually talk to them.
I fully agree with the rest of your post, however.
http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
A bit long, but well worth it.