"Seriously.. despite all the controversy it has stirred up.. if you don't have anything to hide.. who cares"
Ah, the old "if you have nothing to hide" argument. So, we don't need any expectations of any privacy.
To the degree that you really believe what you wrote there, you are an idiot.
I really don't get this argument. Who said you don't need an expectation of privacy. If google was peeping in my windows, or displaying the contents of my bank account. Or even collecting information about where I spend my day I would have serious problems with that.
But they are simply targeting ads at me using information I provide to them myself.
If I don't like it, I'll use someone else..... is there something I'm missing here? You guys want to use Google's services, but you don't want Google to do anything you don't like. Well, I hate to inform you of this, but as long as you use their services, you are encouraging both the things you do like about their services as well as the things you *don't*. So once the latter outweighs the former, I would expect you to stop using them. Otherwise you do not have the courage of your convictions and are seen as a spoiled child who wants to eat chocolate all day but never get sick.
Perhaps you should reconsider calling other people idiots.
To suggest the principle is exactly the same is a pretty big strawman. They are nothing alike. One is having you physically stopped, accused and accosted by the police with no recourse other than to go to jail for obstruction of justice.
In the other situation you are voluntarily and actively seeking out services provided which are offered without coercion and without repercussion if you decide to not participate. And if you look above there are those options out there. If you don't want Gmail use Hotmail or Yahoo!, if you don't want your search tracked, try an anonymous search engine. It's not that friggin hard people.
For those of you who think Google is just like a Corrupt police force or government, you are sadly misplacing your outrage. And frankly, if you HONESTLY believe the two are equal, then that is a *good* thing.. because it is obvious you've never dealt with a corrupt police force in your time, and that says good things about the society in which you find yourself.
Exactly what I was about to suggest. People are concerned over their privacy, but honestly, the younger generation is MUCH more careful what they put online than my parent's generation or even my own.
Baby-boomers didn't grow up being told horror stories about child molesters on the internet because the internet didn't exist. Current children are much more wary and savy than their parents and grandparents when it comes to privacy on the internet. Now, if we could just get them to go outside and play every once in a while.
I'm pretty sure the people responsible for hijacking the planes on 9/11 disappeared from the face of the earth when the planes they were on crashed into buildings and the ground. Kind of hard to try those guys. And we did try the one guy who survived... and that we can find. I'm sure Bin Laden will get a nice trial whenever he's caught... alive that is.
If by 'Automatically' you mean 'by default' then I agree. But the wizard lets you change those settings to what you had before, and at the end it tells you specifically that if you want to have more control over the settings you can still make all your changes via the 'privacy' page in your profile.
It seems to me they haven't really changed anything for those who care about it. If it's too much trouble to go change all those settings then privacy isn't that big a concern, and if it is a big concern, you still have the ability to control it.
Sign out of Facebook then sign back in and you should get the wizard and see for yourself.
As far as I've read, the world's population expansion will slow and eventually barely stay above replacement rates and fall below in most places as they become industrialized. There was a good TED talk about this very thing. Here it is
Well, you don't force an abortion, you simply force tubal ligation and vasectomies. Once a man has two children (with whomever) he has a vasectomy. Same for a woman. If marriages dissolve and people remarry, oh well, either they get a single child or none, depending on how many each partner had already.
That way everyone is happy.
Discover Magazine had an article about hypothermia treatment for various injuries, and cited a news story from Japan where a guy got lost in the mountains and fell and hit his head and was out, buried in the snow with head trauma for DAYS unconscious, until he was found. He was warmed up, treated, and released with no ill effects.
FYI, Forza 3 also accounts for tire flex. Forza 2 did as well. Hell, if this kid had played a real simulator like Forza instead of somebody's 7 year old copy of GT he might have.. you know... done even better... than first..... so there.
As for the actual printer, I've learned to buy LASER printers. They have a high initial cost but low-priced ink (~$50 for 5000 pages). The laser printer ends-up being cheaper after you pass 800 pages.
While I am not sure his choice of brands makes GP an idiot. I personally do use a Samsung Laser, and it has been nothing but useful and reliable in the five years I've had it.
I'll bite the trollbait. The WSJ has been embarrassingly lowbrow since Murdoch took over. Constant spewing ridiculous articles about the left and/or the President. And when that doesn't fill enough space, they might as well be friggin TeenScene: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125980303001573939.html
The Wall Street Journal is an example of what happens to a proper and respected news outlet when owned by Rupert Murdoch. No one is suggesting the WSJ is factless other than yourself in your sarcasm. And strawmen such as that is EXACTLY what Fox News is known for.
I can see why this particular situation deserves the treatment Andersen is giving it. This should be decided in a court of law as there really is two sides to this issue. My view of this is similar to having the right to own a firearm, but in the same law giving you that right, there is wording making it illegal to purchase or be given any type of firearm. If it is illegal to procure a firearm, then one does not have the right to own it.. and vice versa.
With two conflicting laws, the court has to decide which supercedes which.
Actually I daresay if laws keep you from exercising your rights, then you do not, in fact, have those rights.
That's like saying we have a right to free speech, but then putting a law on the books saying you must ask a police officer what is alright to say.
Laws restrict very specific instances of rights (cannot yell fire in a movie theater, cannot threaten the life of the president). But no law may completely infringe upon a right totally. Else there is no right.
Anyway, the fact you said 'most likely' means even you agree there were times this would not have happened. Especially if the autistic child showed an early and remarkable ability to draw. This was the age of artists, and an autistic savant would be highly valued indeed if one could be found I'm sure.
I would respond but AC there has said it all. The VAST majority of "Aim-Botting" in FPSs is just you getting your ass handed to you.
In my earlier days I was often accused of using one, never did though. Sadly that doesn't happen much if at all anymore. Even watching the killcams at the end of matches shows how bullets bizarrely curve or shoot at odd angles. Often the match ending shots don't even match what was really happening on the screen.Lag accounts for a lot of that, often I'll fire four or five shots at a guy before I'm killed.. watch the kill cam and you don't see me fire once.
And I do have the game, i just play it on consoles.. I hate aimbotting bastards.
That would be a question for whoever arranges the transport I suppose. Knowing the doctors at this particular hospital, they expected him to die anyway and didn't see the need.
And for what it's worth, I had NO problem at all with the EMTs involved in the transport, they got there ASAP and were extremely helpful getting my mom where she needed to go while I found someplace to park the car we followed in. I have nothing but good things to say about those EMTs and whatever they make it's not enough in my opinion.
Well, I honestly appreciate your cynicism, being an avowed cynic myself. But the fact I was hoping to point out was that these images and records were digital, and were easily copied and handed to my mother. The tech simply had to type '2' instead of '1' in the number of copies field. Copying Xray film or hardcopy cat scan results is onerous when under a time constraint. Digital records are copied in minutes or less compared to paper records where someone has to stand over a copying machine and can do nothing else while they wait.
Plus a CD fit in my mom's purse while xray film and a file full of paperwork most definitely would not. Sure it's not a nationwide database of info based on an RFID tag in your wrist, but I cannot see how paper records are preferable in any circumstance unless you're worried about ID theft. But even so, keep them on a CD or Thumbdrive they are just as safe as any paper record.
It is possible to envision a future, sometime far away, where human-based proteins are an accepted and efficient food source for humans. Hell, people could all someday be eating artificial meat created from a few of their own cells using a cell replicator machine in the pantry. What could be wrong with that? You've probably ingested several billion sloughed-off cells from your tongue and the inside of your mouth in the time you've been alive, all without even trying. Ever accidentally take a bite out of your cheek and swallow it? OMG, you cannibal!
Anyway, I'm sure a dozen or more sci-fi visionaries have been writing about these exact possibilities for the last century or more. There is nothing new under the sun...
Your Cell Replicator the size of a coffee machine was already put forward in exactly the way you describe it in Discover Magazine a few years ago. Therefore you are a plagiarist.
"The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust."
Simple: Add a gene that would make the artificial meat a recognizable color.
Instead of green eggs and ham we'll have green ham and eggs!
It occurs to me the big question is actually if you can't tell the difference, why the hell would you care? How much processing does a fast food hamburger, lunch meat sandwich, or god help us, chicken finger meal go through? Enough to be completely indistinguishable from fake meat NOW.. already, when artificial meat hasn't even reached the market.
Of course steaks and butchers will still be in business, and might even raise their prices to offset a slightly decreased demand. Although the more I think of it, local butcheries might just see an uptick as people do naturally have an aversion to artificial meat, and the butcher will be one place you can go to see for yourself the meat is all-natural. But the VAST majority of meat eaten in today's first world economies is processed to unrecognizability as meat.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I like my burgers and ham and cheese as much as the next guy. But if they get this stuff to taste like the meat most of us consume daily, very few people will have a problem with it. And if it's cheaper and more humane at the same time, I personally don't see a downside.
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"Seriously.. despite all the controversy it has stirred up.. if you don't have anything to hide.. who cares"
Ah, the old "if you have nothing to hide" argument. So, we don't need any expectations of any privacy.
To the degree that you really believe what you wrote there, you are an idiot.
I really don't get this argument. Who said you don't need an expectation of privacy. If google was peeping in my windows, or displaying the contents of my bank account. Or even collecting information about where I spend my day I would have serious problems with that.
But they are simply targeting ads at me using information I provide to them myself.
If I don't like it, I'll use someone else..... is there something I'm missing here? You guys want to use Google's services, but you don't want Google to do anything you don't like. Well, I hate to inform you of this, but as long as you use their services, you are encouraging both the things you do like about their services as well as the things you *don't*. So once the latter outweighs the former, I would expect you to stop using them. Otherwise you do not have the courage of your convictions and are seen as a spoiled child who wants to eat chocolate all day but never get sick.
Perhaps you should reconsider calling other people idiots.
To suggest the principle is exactly the same is a pretty big strawman. They are nothing alike. One is having you physically stopped, accused and accosted by the police with no recourse other than to go to jail for obstruction of justice.
In the other situation you are voluntarily and actively seeking out services provided which are offered without coercion and without repercussion if you decide to not participate. And if you look above there are those options out there. If you don't want Gmail use Hotmail or Yahoo!, if you don't want your search tracked, try an anonymous search engine. It's not that friggin hard people.
For those of you who think Google is just like a Corrupt police force or government, you are sadly misplacing your outrage. And frankly, if you HONESTLY believe the two are equal, then that is a *good* thing.. because it is obvious you've never dealt with a corrupt police force in your time, and that says good things about the society in which you find yourself.
Exactly what I was about to suggest. People are concerned over their privacy, but honestly, the younger generation is MUCH more careful what they put online than my parent's generation or even my own.
Baby-boomers didn't grow up being told horror stories about child molesters on the internet because the internet didn't exist. Current children are much more wary and savy than their parents and grandparents when it comes to privacy on the internet. Now, if we could just get them to go outside and play every once in a while.
I'm pretty sure the people responsible for hijacking the planes on 9/11 disappeared from the face of the earth when the planes they were on crashed into buildings and the ground. Kind of hard to try those guys. And we did try the one guy who survived... and that we can find. I'm sure Bin Laden will get a nice trial whenever he's caught... alive that is.
If by 'Automatically' you mean 'by default' then I agree. But the wizard lets you change those settings to what you had before, and at the end it tells you specifically that if you want to have more control over the settings you can still make all your changes via the 'privacy' page in your profile. It seems to me they haven't really changed anything for those who care about it. If it's too much trouble to go change all those settings then privacy isn't that big a concern, and if it is a big concern, you still have the ability to control it. Sign out of Facebook then sign back in and you should get the wizard and see for yourself.
As far as I've read, the world's population expansion will slow and eventually barely stay above replacement rates and fall below in most places as they become industrialized. There was a good TED talk about this very thing. Here it is
I believe Penny Arcade had something to say about this very topic.
If you weren't AC I'd mod you informative.
So just out of curiosity, and probably to be modded redundant, the Chemical formula for salt is spoken as "Natrium Chloride" there?
Well, you don't force an abortion, you simply force tubal ligation and vasectomies. Once a man has two children (with whomever) he has a vasectomy. Same for a woman. If marriages dissolve and people remarry, oh well, either they get a single child or none, depending on how many each partner had already. That way everyone is happy.
Discover Magazine had an article about hypothermia treatment for various injuries, and cited a news story from Japan where a guy got lost in the mountains and fell and hit his head and was out, buried in the snow with head trauma for DAYS unconscious, until he was found. He was warmed up, treated, and released with no ill effects.
I had no idea a popular anti-virus company had anything to do with this.
FYI, Forza 3 also accounts for tire flex. Forza 2 did as well. Hell, if this kid had played a real simulator like Forza instead of somebody's 7 year old copy of GT he might have.. you know... done even better... than first... .. so there.
As for the actual printer, I've learned to buy LASER printers. They have a high initial cost but low-priced ink (~$50 for 5000 pages). The laser printer ends-up being cheaper after you pass 800 pages.
Are these 70 of our "Earth" dollars?
While I am not sure his choice of brands makes GP an idiot. I personally do use a Samsung Laser, and it has been nothing but useful and reliable in the five years I've had it.
I'll bite the trollbait. The WSJ has been embarrassingly lowbrow since Murdoch took over. Constant spewing ridiculous articles about the left and/or the President. And when that doesn't fill enough space, they might as well be friggin TeenScene: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125980303001573939.html
The Wall Street Journal is an example of what happens to a proper and respected news outlet when owned by Rupert Murdoch. No one is suggesting the WSJ is factless other than yourself in your sarcasm. And strawmen such as that is EXACTLY what Fox News is known for.
I can see why this particular situation deserves the treatment Andersen is giving it. This should be decided in a court of law as there really is two sides to this issue.
My view of this is similar to having the right to own a firearm, but in the same law giving you that right, there is wording making it illegal to purchase or be given any type of firearm. If it is illegal to procure a firearm, then one does not have the right to own it.. and vice versa.
With two conflicting laws, the court has to decide which supercedes which.
What is wrong with you people?
Actually I daresay if laws keep you from exercising your rights, then you do not, in fact, have those rights.
That's like saying we have a right to free speech, but then putting a law on the books saying you must ask a police officer what is alright to say.
Laws restrict very specific instances of rights (cannot yell fire in a movie theater, cannot threaten the life of the president). But no law may completely infringe upon a right totally. Else there is no right.
LOL
wait.. why are we laughing again?
Anyway, the fact you said 'most likely' means even you agree there were times this would not have happened. Especially if the autistic child showed an early and remarkable ability to draw. This was the age of artists, and an autistic savant would be highly valued indeed if one could be found I'm sure.
I would respond but AC there has said it all. The VAST majority of "Aim-Botting" in FPSs is just you getting your ass handed to you.
In my earlier days I was often accused of using one, never did though. Sadly that doesn't happen much if at all anymore. Even watching the killcams at the end of matches shows how bullets bizarrely curve or shoot at odd angles. Often the match ending shots don't even match what was really happening on the screen.Lag accounts for a lot of that, often I'll fire four or five shots at a guy before I'm killed.. watch the kill cam and you don't see me fire once.
And I do have the game, i just play it on consoles.. I hate aimbotting bastards.
That would be a question for whoever arranges the transport I suppose. Knowing the doctors at this particular hospital, they expected him to die anyway and didn't see the need. And for what it's worth, I had NO problem at all with the EMTs involved in the transport, they got there ASAP and were extremely helpful getting my mom where she needed to go while I found someplace to park the car we followed in. I have nothing but good things to say about those EMTs and whatever they make it's not enough in my opinion.
Well, I honestly appreciate your cynicism, being an avowed cynic myself. But the fact I was hoping to point out was that these images and records were digital, and were easily copied and handed to my mother. The tech simply had to type '2' instead of '1' in the number of copies field. Copying Xray film or hardcopy cat scan results is onerous when under a time constraint. Digital records are copied in minutes or less compared to paper records where someone has to stand over a copying machine and can do nothing else while they wait.
Plus a CD fit in my mom's purse while xray film and a file full of paperwork most definitely would not. Sure it's not a nationwide database of info based on an RFID tag in your wrist, but I cannot see how paper records are preferable in any circumstance unless you're worried about ID theft. But even so, keep them on a CD or Thumbdrive they are just as safe as any paper record.
It is possible to envision a future, sometime far away, where human-based proteins are an accepted and efficient food source for humans. Hell, people could all someday be eating artificial meat created from a few of their own cells using a cell replicator machine in the pantry. What could be wrong with that? You've probably ingested several billion sloughed-off cells from your tongue and the inside of your mouth in the time you've been alive, all without even trying. Ever accidentally take a bite out of your cheek and swallow it? OMG, you cannibal!
Anyway, I'm sure a dozen or more sci-fi visionaries have been writing about these exact possibilities for the last century or more. There is nothing new under the sun...
Your Cell Replicator the size of a coffee machine was already put forward in exactly the way you describe it in Discover Magazine a few years ago. Therefore you are a plagiarist.
"The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered. It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust."
Simple: Add a gene that would make the artificial meat a recognizable color.
Instead of green eggs and ham we'll have green ham and eggs!
It occurs to me the big question is actually if you can't tell the difference, why the hell would you care? How much processing does a fast food hamburger, lunch meat sandwich, or god help us, chicken finger meal go through? Enough to be completely indistinguishable from fake meat NOW.. already, when artificial meat hasn't even reached the market.
Of course steaks and butchers will still be in business, and might even raise their prices to offset a slightly decreased demand. Although the more I think of it, local butcheries might just see an uptick as people do naturally have an aversion to artificial meat, and the butcher will be one place you can go to see for yourself the meat is all-natural. But the VAST majority of meat eaten in today's first world economies is processed to unrecognizability as meat.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I like my burgers and ham and cheese as much as the next guy. But if they get this stuff to taste like the meat most of us consume daily, very few people will have a problem with it. And if it's cheaper and more humane at the same time, I personally don't see a downside.