So apparently, the amazing results this guy is getting is that people self-report that they have exercised more when he checks in with them... a week later! That's totally as good as the five year follow up necessary for any weight-loss study to be taken seriously. Clearly, this is the answer to all our problems.
I like the part where they say... "enough to devastate an entire state, such as Maryland"
"Oh, not that we'd WANT anything to happen to Maryland, Congress. No. But, you know, sometimes things go wrong. Especially when NASA doesn't get funding. It makes NASA so disappointed when it doesn't get funding, and when you're disappointed, you sometimes don't look so hard for killer asteroids. You know how it is."
suggests that every family in America would have to plant a tree to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by one billion pounds. If there are 2000 pounds in a ton, that would mean each family in America would have to plant 2000 trees. And not cut any down. Every year for ten years.
There's always Internet Relay -- you don't need a TTY machine for that. I guarantee you they would be delighted to help someone with a legitimate hearing problem, since 90% of what they're used for is Nigerian scams.
Not that I think anyone should have to call Microsoft. I had to call them when I upgraded my PC also -- I guess I added one too many new pieces of hardware. It was a pain in the neck, but it wasn't insurmountable. All they need to hear is that there is only one machine running that copy of Windows.
A friend of mine in the computer security industry is on a discussion group with a bunch of hackers who are exploring the exploitation of the voice command feature, which is on by default, as a shiny new way to cause havoc. For example, sending a malicious audio file with rapid-fire commands to turn off firewall, create a new user account, transfer files, etc. Or even just walking behind someone in a computer lab and saying "shutdown confirm" or "close window don't save".
This is all speculative at this point, but I found it interesting!
I'd also like to point out that "the music" is whatever the owner of the land you're currently on has set as their web stream, and you can set it to be turned off by default. If you never got off Help Island, you were probably listening to some cheesy resident-created jazz on the official Linden stream, but that is by no means "the music".
Actually, the thing that first drew me to SL was the live music concerts by real people singing to you over a stream. I signed up for SL so I could go to a concert by Jonathan Coulton, but I've since found all sorts of cool concerts to attend by people like NANCE Brody and Lyndon Heart. Lots of fun, especially on a weeknight when there are no good real-life concerts in your area, or when you're too broke to afford RL tickets for that matter.
"The attacker had registered a MySpace account named login_home_index_html, meaning that the MySpace page hosting the fake login, looked like a legitimate place where users would sign on to the service."
So it was just a user page but it DID have myspace.com in the URL. The URL was:
What we need is a gadget running this software that fits on a pendant, so people with prosopagnosia can figure out who just came up to them and hugged them.
"Shrek! So nice to see you again!"
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In the words of the great Julia Sweeney, "Deepak Chopra is full of sh(t!"
So apparently, the amazing results this guy is getting is that people self-report that they have exercised more when he checks in with them... a week later! That's totally as good as the five year follow up necessary for any weight-loss study to be taken seriously. Clearly, this is the answer to all our problems.
Thanks, and what might explain why they picked a charity for diabetes?
I like the part where they say... "enough to devastate an entire state, such as Maryland"
"Oh, not that we'd WANT anything to happen to Maryland, Congress. No. But, you know, sometimes things go wrong. Especially when NASA doesn't get funding. It makes NASA so disappointed when it doesn't get funding, and when you're disappointed, you sometimes don't look so hard for killer asteroids. You know how it is."
This page:
http://www.coloradotrees.org/benefits.htm
suggests that every family in America would have to plant a tree to reduce carbon dioxide in the air by one billion pounds. If there are 2000 pounds in a ton, that would mean each family in America would have to plant 2000 trees. And not cut any down. Every year for ten years.
There's always Internet Relay -- you don't need a TTY machine for that. I guarantee you they would be delighted to help someone with a legitimate hearing problem, since 90% of what they're used for is Nigerian scams.
Not that I think anyone should have to call Microsoft. I had to call them when I upgraded my PC also -- I guess I added one too many new pieces of hardware. It was a pain in the neck, but it wasn't insurmountable. All they need to hear is that there is only one machine running that copy of Windows.
http://technobabylon.typepad.com/tb/2007/01/can_mi crosoft_g.html
I agree, the punching issue is a pretty serious concern...
This is all speculative at this point, but I found it interesting!
Actually, the thing that first drew me to SL was the live music concerts by real people singing to you over a stream. I signed up for SL so I could go to a concert by Jonathan Coulton, but I've since found all sorts of cool concerts to attend by people like NANCE Brody and Lyndon Heart. Lots of fun, especially on a weeknight when there are no good real-life concerts in your area, or when you're too broke to afford RL tickets for that matter.
From a link in the article:
"The attacker had registered a MySpace account named login_home_index_html, meaning that the MySpace page hosting the fake login, looked like a legitimate place where users would sign on to the service."
So it was just a user page but it DID have myspace.com in the URL. The URL was:
http://www.myspace.com/login_home_index_html
What we need is a gadget running this software that fits on a pendant, so people with prosopagnosia can figure out who just came up to them and hugged them. "Shrek! So nice to see you again!"