Makes me think of The Langoliers. The data of yesterday getting sucked up one byte at a time, obliterated. Meanwhile, Our Heroes try to rescue all the content they can find... before the Langoliers get to it.
More correctly: "here comes a plane where there is never supposed to be a plain. Last time that happened, a lot of people died. Gee, maybe I should get myself out of danger." This wasn't a matter of seeing a plane and fleeing the building - it was seeing a plane approaching in the exact same way as occurred on 9/11.
Ridiculing rational behavior that assists in self-preservation just makes you an ass.
The way to deal with such problems, Dr. Ferrucci said, is to improve the programâ(TM)s ability to understand the way Jeopardy! clues are offered. The complexity of the challenge is underscored by the subtlety involved in capturing the exact meaning of a spoken sentence. For example, the sentence "I never said she stole my money" can have seven different meanings depending on which word is stressed.
"We love those sentences," Dr. Nyberg said. "Those are the ones we talk about when weâ(TM)re sitting around having beers after work."
Seriously guys, I just had a geek-gasm. Anyone else?
Citing a picture of a random person spelling it that way doesn't make it any more correct. For all we know, that could be YOU holding that sign.
If you have any other (more substantial proof), then I'd be happy to take it into consideration... but that picture simply doesn't cut it. Sorry.
Doesn't cut what? Proof of what? Did I say my spelling was correct? Or perhaps I was subtly saying that my misspelling was intentional - you know, as subtle as you can get with a "whoosh" post. Wait, was I even having a discussion with you? You've just overwhelmed me and my moranic brain.
So that leaves me with two ways to interpret your post. Either you're annoyed and feeling defensive because you didn't "get" the fact that it was an intentional misspelling (that's ok, you don't have to "get it" all the time), or I've been effectively trolled.
I'd like to think that it's the latter - if so, well done! If not... well, pretend like that was your intention all along. It'll make you look better in this case.
Hmm, there's a third possibility. You're applying a bit of sarcasm that's gone completely over my head. I actually like that option best - when I re-read with that in mind, your post makes me chuckle.
Poop. So many choices! Could you post a WAV of you reading your post? There's at least three different ways it can be interpreted, based on your intonation! It does need to be WAV though, otherwise the sound might not be warm enough; and I might miss some of the nuances present in your tone.
Seriously, it's capitalism, let the companies stand/fall on their own merits, if you help them, then they should pay you, and if you don't, then all you are promoting is communism, except with corporations in charge, instead of government.
Heh - here I thought that it was this radical new concept called "free will", wherein I and others can choose how we want to spend our time. Sometimes it can be gratifying to help the people who need the help - regardless of which company it is that's failing to meet their needs.
What a bunch of crap. My data transfers so much cleaner over my Monster gold-plated ethernet cabling, I can easily hear the difference. Just because you're bit-deaf doesn't mean that there isn't real benefit to the rest of us.
*=If someone's going to pull another stupid hours/$ comparison I'll point at books.
What about books? I pay $8-10 for 3-6 hours of reading (1.6 - 2.6/hr). I pay $40-50 for 20-40 hours of gameplay (1.25 - 2/hr). Price per hour works out better for games. So... I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand your comment about referencing books?
I personally think the healthiest thing to do would have been to let the market collapse and allow other companies to fill the voids. Definitely more painful in the short term, but in the long term I think it would be better. We'll be suffering for a long time with the current bailout plan. Though of course, I'm no economist, but they haven't done so hot anyway so...
That seems to be what nearly everyone with a brain thinks (including most experts), but neither this administration nor the previous had any interest in doing what is best for the economy - instead, it's all about making people feel like something useful is being done. If there's a path that involves massive job loss and disruption today but better long-term health, and another path that means even BIGGER disruption and chaos but five or ten years down the road - they can be relied upon to put it off every time. (Even with the best of intentions, as I think is the case with our current starry-eyed president.)
Congress members received overwhelming volume of communincation from their constituents telling them NOT to pass the bailout - which they happily ignored.
And the worst part is that the people in this great country (no sarcasm, I am in an apparent minority who thinks that US/is/ a great country) won't punish them for it. They'll vote them back in at the next mid-term election, because the average voter has the attention span of a gnat, and politicians have whole/teams/ of people dedicated to making themselves look good.
20 or more of the top-level posts on this page are all "Well yeah, but if a computer can test it, then a computer can emulate it." I'd ask if anybody bothered reading other comments before they posted, but I already know the answer (this/is/ slashdot after all).
On to the topic at hand: this is impractical for another, less complex reason. From what I've been seeing, most of the "bot" registrations these days are not bots, they're people. If those who wish to can pay someone a couple dollars a day to spam registrations and comments, there's really not much defense against it.
I'm not sure I follow this. Do you not want your doctor to have access to full health information? What if the information you wanted withheld was critical, but you simply don't have the background or knowledge to know that it's critical?
From a privacy perspective, I can understand - but only to a point. It seems hubris to me when someone presumes to decide what information their doctors "need" access to in order to provide the best treatment for them.
In principle, you could say that it's your right - after all, if you want to die via stupidity, there's nothing anybody should do to stop you. But there's a fine line between dying of stupidity and dying of ignorance. I'm not so sure that the patient is the right person to make that decision.
...in the wild under Linux that gets around much of the security in the system.
Well... kind of. It doesn't get around anything unless you are root - in which case you can do whatever you want anyway. It sounds like a non-issue in that context, to me.
> In the case of a trojan payload, properly patched machines
> along with restricted user accounts help quite a bit.
So why does the XP installer first create an Administrator account and then prompts you to create a "user" account, which ALSO has (to have) administrative access??
There's a few million infections right there...
We're not talking about home users, we're talking about sys admins who should know better than to allow this when they configure users in their domains; and when they mass-prepare their workstation images.
The USA thought long and hard about this.
They needed to shift data around the world and sniff for it.
Huge amounts, everyday, all day.
The last thing that would help is a big slow computer up in space.
Encrypt, bounce (in space), decrypt
You can swap out the ground stations and systems if the Soviets got the info.
Swapping out a satellite is a pain.
Back in the cold war all the Soviets could do was read encrypted traffic.
Anyone can bounce their own 'data' too.
US 'training' staff and private 'consultants' will track your position as you are transmitting.
Now your "arrested" ie your not up on condortel for the SNI to "find".
The beginning ? MMOs have been around for decades.
Oh, you mean graphical big-money MMOs... riiight!
Joking aside, even "modern" MMOs have been around since the 90's. The formula has not changed much since Everquest. Perhaps the MMO producers are just too dense to actually think beyond their quarterly report.
age of human race: millions of years.
age of computers: almost 100 years
age of mmos: about 15 years.
Yeah, I'd say that this qualifies as "the beginning".
hile it's wrong that they store the data without telling the users, and while users should have better expectations of privacy, you have to look at this in context
No, back up. Why is it wrong? THey own the network. They are responsible for the health and maintenance of that network; and further they are responsible for the things people/do/ on that network to some extent.
I agree with looking at this in context/with perspective, but I don't see how what they're doing is in any way wrong.
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I usually listen to mine, but each to his own.
Looking allows me to take advantage of my Monster Gold Plated Spectacles. Music has never looked so good!
Makes me think of The Langoliers. The data of yesterday getting sucked up one byte at a time, obliterated. Meanwhile, Our Heroes try to rescue all the content they can find... before the Langoliers get to it.
Hah, I took a guess and googled it. If there's a profit to be made selling something component cables at an inflated price, Monster will be there.
Hah, that wrapped it up so much more succinctly than my rather long-winded post above... well played.
Ridiculing rational behavior that assists in self-preservation just makes you an ass.
The way to deal with such problems, Dr. Ferrucci said, is to improve the programâ(TM)s ability to understand the way Jeopardy! clues are offered. The complexity of the challenge is underscored by the subtlety involved in capturing the exact meaning of a spoken sentence. For example, the sentence "I never said she stole my money" can have seven different meanings depending on which word is stressed. "We love those sentences," Dr. Nyberg said. "Those are the ones we talk about when weâ(TM)re sitting around having beers after work."
Seriously guys, I just had a geek-gasm. Anyone else?
Citing a picture of a random person spelling it that way doesn't make it any more correct. For all we know, that could be YOU holding that sign.
If you have any other (more substantial proof), then I'd be happy to take it into consideration... but that picture simply doesn't cut it. Sorry.
Doesn't cut what? Proof of what? Did I say my spelling was correct? Or perhaps I was subtly saying that my misspelling was intentional - you know, as subtle as you can get with a "whoosh" post. Wait, was I even having a discussion with you? You've just overwhelmed me and my moranic brain.
So that leaves me with two ways to interpret your post. Either you're annoyed and feeling defensive because you didn't "get" the fact that it was an intentional misspelling (that's ok, you don't have to "get it" all the time), or I've been effectively trolled.
I'd like to think that it's the latter - if so, well done! If not... well, pretend like that was your intention all along. It'll make you look better in this case.
Hmm, there's a third possibility. You're applying a bit of sarcasm that's gone completely over my head. I actually like that option best - when I re-read with that in mind, your post makes me chuckle.
Poop. So many choices! Could you post a WAV of you reading your post? There's at least three different ways it can be interpreted, based on your intonation! It does need to be WAV though, otherwise the sound might not be warm enough; and I might miss some of the nuances present in your tone.
Seriously, it's capitalism, let the companies stand/fall on their own merits, if you help them, then they should pay you, and if you don't, then all you are promoting is communism, except with corporations in charge, instead of government.
Heh - here I thought that it was this radical new concept called "free will", wherein I and others can choose how we want to spend our time. Sometimes it can be gratifying to help the people who need the help - regardless of which company it is that's failing to meet their needs.
Don't look now, buy your monster cables missed a byte. That should've been "Moron."
Moran.
Whoosh.
What a bunch of crap. My data transfers so much cleaner over my Monster gold-plated ethernet cabling, I can easily hear the difference. Just because you're bit-deaf doesn't mean that there isn't real benefit to the rest of us.
Moran.
audio grade Ethernet cables
Yeah, I have those. I keep it next to my hydrogen grade garden hose, and my lava grade plumbing.
*=If someone's going to pull another stupid hours/$ comparison I'll point at books.
What about books? I pay $8-10 for 3-6 hours of reading (1.6 - 2.6/hr). I pay $40-50 for 20-40 hours of gameplay (1.25 - 2/hr). Price per hour works out better for games. So... I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand your comment about referencing books?
Dude, that was funny.
Who said it was acceptable? -1 troll clearly says that it's not.
sorry, I don't reply seriously to anyone who says "o'rly". Besides, you could just RTFA for your answer.
I personally think the healthiest thing to do would have been to let the market collapse and allow other companies to fill the voids. Definitely more painful in the short term, but in the long term I think it would be better. We'll be suffering for a long time with the current bailout plan. Though of course, I'm no economist, but they haven't done so hot anyway so...
That seems to be what nearly everyone with a brain thinks (including most experts), but neither this administration nor the previous had any interest in doing what is best for the economy - instead, it's all about making people feel like something useful is being done. If there's a path that involves massive job loss and disruption today but better long-term health, and another path that means even BIGGER disruption and chaos but five or ten years down the road - they can be relied upon to put it off every time. (Even with the best of intentions, as I think is the case with our current starry-eyed president.)
Congress members received overwhelming volume of communincation from their constituents telling them NOT to pass the bailout - which they happily ignored.
And the worst part is that the people in this great country (no sarcasm, I am in an apparent minority who thinks that US /is/ a great country) won't punish them for it. They'll vote them back in at the next mid-term election, because the average voter has the attention span of a gnat, and politicians have whole /teams/ of people dedicated to making themselves look good.
20 or more of the top-level posts on this page are all "Well yeah, but if a computer can test it, then a computer can emulate it." I'd ask if anybody bothered reading other comments before they posted, but I already know the answer (this /is/ slashdot after all).
On to the topic at hand: this is impractical for another, less complex reason. From what I've been seeing, most of the "bot" registrations these days are not bots, they're people. If those who wish to can pay someone a couple dollars a day to spam registrations and comments, there's really not much defense against it.
From a privacy perspective, I can understand - but only to a point. It seems hubris to me when someone presumes to decide what information their doctors "need" access to in order to provide the best treatment for them.
In principle, you could say that it's your right - after all, if you want to die via stupidity, there's nothing anybody should do to stop you. But there's a fine line between dying of stupidity and dying of ignorance. I'm not so sure that the patient is the right person to make that decision.
...in the wild under Linux that gets around much of the security in the system.
Well... kind of. It doesn't get around anything unless you are root - in which case you can do whatever you want anyway. It sounds like a non-issue in that context, to me.
> In the case of a trojan payload, properly patched machines > along with restricted user accounts help quite a bit.
So why does the XP installer first create an Administrator account and then prompts you to create a "user" account, which ALSO has (to have) administrative access??
There's a few million infections right there...
We're not talking about home users, we're talking about sys admins who should know better than to allow this when they configure users in their domains; and when they mass-prepare their workstation images.
The USA thought long and hard about this. They needed to shift data around the world and sniff for it. Huge amounts, everyday, all day. The last thing that would help is a big slow computer up in space. Encrypt, bounce (in space), decrypt You can swap out the ground stations and systems if the Soviets got the info. Swapping out a satellite is a pain. Back in the cold war all the Soviets could do was read encrypted traffic. Anyone can bounce their own 'data' too. US 'training' staff and private 'consultants' will track your position as you are transmitting. Now your "arrested" ie your not up on condortel for the SNI to "find".
Burma-shave.
The beginning ? MMOs have been around for decades.
Oh, you mean graphical big-money MMOs... riiight!
Joking aside, even "modern" MMOs have been around since the 90's. The formula has not changed much since Everquest. Perhaps the MMO producers are just too dense to actually think beyond their quarterly report.
age of human race: millions of years.
age of computers: almost 100 years
age of mmos: about 15 years.
Yeah, I'd say that this qualifies as "the beginning".
Of course it's the same fucking thing you nit, that's the point.
Dude, you're still doing it. Stop.
hile it's wrong that they store the data without telling the users, and while users should have better expectations of privacy, you have to look at this in context
No, back up. Why is it wrong? THey own the network. They are responsible for the health and maintenance of that network; and further they are responsible for the things people /do/ on that network to some extent.
I agree with looking at this in context/with perspective, but I don't see how what they're doing is in any way wrong.