Really? So that's worse than the one that just really likes feeding people feet first to the woodchipper? That's just Libertarian bullshit used to justify why they don't have to share.
That is true, but at some point you've got to draw a line. It's the business of a games company to make games catchy, I'm not sure how this could possibly be going forward when pretty much everybody knows that to be the case. It's not that much different than tobacco, alcohol, gambling etc., where people have trouble but where it's hardly an unknown risk.
You've got a point, football helmets do a terrible job of protecting the brain. I'm not sure what the numbers are, but there hard and I doubt that they absorb much of the impact. There meant to go helmet to shoulder pads or really helmet to anything other than helmet, as otherwise there isn't enough cushion to absorb the energy involved. Which to be honest is considerable during special teams.
You might want to check my other post out. A relatively typical open field tackle involves 2 180+ players each travelling at 16+ mph. And is a really nasty hit, the protective gear doesn't really do a whole lot to elleviate that kind of energy. Which by the way is typical for high school ball, college and pro ball are probably both worse as the players are both bigger and faster.
I played a bit of DB and tight end and there's a lot more thought to it than the/. nerds really want to acknowledge. DBs in particular have to be really good in watching subtle body language and keeping up with the receivers. Probably 90% of football is cerebral in some fashion. I was both the smallest and the slowest player on my team, but I got the physics and was able to hit harder than guys bigger than me because I wasn't particularly afraid of getting hit. I was also able to get under the bigger guys and consequently able to hold back guys weighing nearly a hundred pounds more than myself.
It really depends upon the school, but the guys I played with were good guys. I don't recall a single bully amongst them.
I used to play and yes we do wear padding, but it's a pretty significant hit. First off the helmets we wear are hard, meaning they don't do a particularly good job of absorbing the impact. Secondly, football players are typically large and travelling quite fast. It's a significant hit that results in 2 180+ lbs., players each running in excess of 16 mph each. That's a pretty significant hit. And that's actually achievable even in high school, the pros can weigh more and run even a bit faster.
A hit like that is a bit like hitting a brick wall going at arterial speeds. Unfortunately, the helmets are fairly thin and hard so it's really easy to get a concussion like that. I seem to recall seeing speculation a while back that the helmets might do more harm than good for that very reason. They don't absorb very much energy and whereas a motorcycle helmet would be thrown out and replaced after just one impact like that, football helmets get reused.
I doubt that there's a reasonable expectation of privacy involved here. So consequently there is a right involved, whether or not he's an asshole, he does have a point. Previously you could take pictures of pretty much everything in public view.
It failed because creating zombies is a lot of work. It's definitely real, and it involves basically poisoning a person and damaging the brain so as to remove most of the thinking part. Basically leaving you with a mindless human to use as a slave. The other problem is that having damaged the brain you're left with something that doesn't really think and is easily out witted by even the dimmest grade school child.
Unlimited connections areultimately a good thing, unlimited anything is really a good thing, that's the primary driver of technology. If you can solve your bandwidth problems by capping and shaping that tends to stifle innovation. For instance look at Backblaze, they wanted to be truly flat rate at $5 a month so they had to design there own storage pods and software back end to keep up with the demand. Admittedly it's not a panacea, but it does go a long way.
Wireless isn't a competitive market, they aren't competing with each other. It's more like an informal cartel. The prices are shockingly similar as are the services. Prices are strikingly similar carrier to carrier and there's a plethora of abusive practices which shockingly enough haven't gone away. What, pray tell, is the point of switching cell phone providers if they pretty much all engage in the same sort of bad behavior?
DNA is really meant as a rule out at present, it's not perfect, but it's more likely that a lab will be able to rule somebody out as a suspect than demonstrate that it was them. For the main reason that we can't yet decode the entire genome efficiently enough to do it each time and there's frequently an imperfect sample at the crime scene to compare it to in the first place.
That's a fallacy of composition. What he's saying is that enough liars use numbers that numbers aren't terribly informative without knowing how they're derived and what they refer to.
I wish I could mod you up for that. Statistics don't mean anything in particular until you interpret them. While it's legitimate to advertise a group of job openings with a mean salary figure, it's not a terribly informative number to use if the position aren't close to each other. Likewise, the median is often times a great choice for survival rates, if not perfect in terms of indicating what sort of a tale the distribution has. None of those uses is wrong per se, but they are somewhat less informative than some of the alternatives, and definitely not to be taken without interpretation and consideration of some sort.
I tend to agree with him, the only way in which a cable could make a difference is shielding. IFthere's a lot of interference AND it's a fairly substantial run THEN there's the slight possibility that the noise on the line would interfere and cover up the signal. It definitely does happen, however, I'm not aware of any reason why those cables would deal better with say cell phone interference than standard ones would. And modern cell phones seem to put off enough interference that it would take a lot of shielding to make a difference.
Some companies just buy anything they can, but I've never had the feeling that Intel was poorly run. Monopolistic and dirty at times yes, but they're not known for being technologically incompetent. Well, with the exception of their graphics chips.
Bad implementations happen, if you've got incompetent management that doesn't allow for the time it takes to properly debug things, then you get crashy software that sucks up resources. Ironically enough that aspect of things is probably the easier bit of things.
The problem with RFID is sort of like the problem with Facebook, it's new and there hasn't yet been an adjustment made to figure out how to properly handle it. But a big problem is that it's getting to the point where the consumer isn't being given the chance to opt out. I don't personally mind having it on my transit pass because I keep that in a solid metal wallet anyways and it's designed to be read from about 3" away. But, there aren't yet rules in place to give me confidence that there's not something lurking around the corner that's unexpected and problematic.
Personally, I'm skeptical that the range is what is sometimes suggested, however even a range of a half foot is enough to cause serious trouble. I think the transit passes around here were designed to be readable from 3" away. The fact that you could potentially skim a card from somebody's pocket without having to take the wallet is something which is worth being deeply concerned about. Rather than needing to have the skill and personnel to pull of pickpocketing, you could just go skimming people. Most major cities have somewhere that you can go and be pressed right up against other people legitimately.
That's a solid point. My credit union has its ATMs designed so that it's a bit of a challenge to slip a skimmer onto them. Basically the slot isn't straight across like they used to be. It's got a curved bit of translucent plastic. Makes it a bit more of a challenge to attach a skimmer without making it really obvious. Now with RFID, they could place the device near the slot, but would likely be able to better camouflage it than at present.
That's true, however it's not anywhere near as strong an effect as it used to be. The web has done wonders for democratizing marketing. While you don't know who it is that's writing anything, it's a lot harder for companies to hide poor quality when anybody can write a review, and you can typically get a pretty decent idea of the general situation from the various subject specific fora out there.
The ad might get them a bit of mindshare, but if they haven't created some brand loyalty amongst owners they can really quickly run out of word of mount advertising.
I'm sorry, but if that's how you talk to cops, you kind of deserve whatever happens to you. You never argue with a police officer, ever. If you disagree there's a venue to handle that, it's called court. And you're even allowed to have an adviser that we like to call a lawyer help you out there. Arguing with cops whether you're ultimately right or not isn't going to do you any favors, LEOs generally have some degree of discretion. It also can very easily come back to bite you on the ass when they start looking more closely at what you're doing, there's no law against them being particularly stringent in writing every applicable ticket or citation that applies to the situation. Just stick to the facts, comply with what you're told to do and if anything happens you can always take it to court.
People don't generally end up being beaten that are complying with the orders they've been given. Sure it happens, but it's hardly a common occurrence.
It's up to 5 years, and he's likely going to be convicted on at least some of those other charges when it goes back for retrial. Despite his characterization as having beaten it, more likely from what I've read the defense just managed to luck out on jury selection and get enough people that were less politically sophisticated and couldn't tell the difference between political talk and corrupt deal making.
Indeed, Florida and Louisiana also seem to make the news all to frequently for it as well. Unfortunately, it's a matter of degrees, from the kind of lying we've come to expect from politicians to bribery and kick backs. I'd be a liar if I suggested that where I'm from is completely clean of it, we've got sunshine laws and have taken steps to take away a lot of the power from the political parties for that very reason, but you're never going to completely eliminate the corruption, just make it difficult enough that it's not a significant concern.
Sony over did it, people wouldn't have been anywhere near as interested in cracking it if they hadn't vastly overstepped there rights. I can understand locking down multiplayer games, but locking down single player games so that you can't do those homebrew was just asinine. And there's no reason why they had to do it, I'm sure they could've just kept homebrew off certain servers. I probably wouldn't have bought mine had I realized that they'd taken out so many of the PS3 components to make money without properly stating it on the box.
I strongly suspect that we'll find out that this was a move by Intel to integrate McAfee's IP into their hardware. With the way malware has been spreading in recent years, integrating some acceleration for heuristics would likely go a long way, and now Intel will have both the IP and the additional access to researchers to do it efficiently.
Possibly, but I suspect that Intel might be after patents. While McAfee is crap software, it wouldn't surprise me if they had some patents that could help Intel with putting better anti-virus protection into their processors or adding acceleration for heuristics.
It really depends, light rail in Seattle, while minuscule is pretty easy to use. The only complication is the ticketing scheme, which to be fair is very similar to what they use for BART. BART itself is also pretty straightforward to use and in my experience quite effective.
Around here the various regional mass transit outfits got together and set up a unified payment system. An RFID card which handles all the transfers and payment splits for the non-cash part of the system. You can still pay with cash if you have to, but you can't transfer between agencies without paying again. Admittedly there are some privacy concerns for people that are getting subsidized fares, but apart from that it works well and is far more convenient than it used to be. Add on to that the access that's been granted to the bus tracking information and it's become quite a bit better than it used to be. There's still some issues that need fixing, but it's definitely headed in the right direction around here.
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Really? So that's worse than the one that just really likes feeding people feet first to the woodchipper? That's just Libertarian bullshit used to justify why they don't have to share.
That is true, but at some point you've got to draw a line. It's the business of a games company to make games catchy, I'm not sure how this could possibly be going forward when pretty much everybody knows that to be the case. It's not that much different than tobacco, alcohol, gambling etc., where people have trouble but where it's hardly an unknown risk.
You've got a point, football helmets do a terrible job of protecting the brain. I'm not sure what the numbers are, but there hard and I doubt that they absorb much of the impact. There meant to go helmet to shoulder pads or really helmet to anything other than helmet, as otherwise there isn't enough cushion to absorb the energy involved. Which to be honest is considerable during special teams.
You might want to check my other post out. A relatively typical open field tackle involves 2 180+ players each travelling at 16+ mph. And is a really nasty hit, the protective gear doesn't really do a whole lot to elleviate that kind of energy. Which by the way is typical for high school ball, college and pro ball are probably both worse as the players are both bigger and faster.
/. nerds really want to acknowledge. DBs in particular have to be really good in watching subtle body language and keeping up with the receivers. Probably 90% of football is cerebral in some fashion. I was both the smallest and the slowest player on my team, but I got the physics and was able to hit harder than guys bigger than me because I wasn't particularly afraid of getting hit. I was also able to get under the bigger guys and consequently able to hold back guys weighing nearly a hundred pounds more than myself.
I played a bit of DB and tight end and there's a lot more thought to it than the
It really depends upon the school, but the guys I played with were good guys. I don't recall a single bully amongst them.
I used to play and yes we do wear padding, but it's a pretty significant hit. First off the helmets we wear are hard, meaning they don't do a particularly good job of absorbing the impact. Secondly, football players are typically large and travelling quite fast. It's a significant hit that results in 2 180+ lbs., players each running in excess of 16 mph each. That's a pretty significant hit. And that's actually achievable even in high school, the pros can weigh more and run even a bit faster.
A hit like that is a bit like hitting a brick wall going at arterial speeds. Unfortunately, the helmets are fairly thin and hard so it's really easy to get a concussion like that. I seem to recall seeing speculation a while back that the helmets might do more harm than good for that very reason. They don't absorb very much energy and whereas a motorcycle helmet would be thrown out and replaced after just one impact like that, football helmets get reused.
I doubt that there's a reasonable expectation of privacy involved here. So consequently there is a right involved, whether or not he's an asshole, he does have a point. Previously you could take pictures of pretty much everything in public view.
It failed because creating zombies is a lot of work. It's definitely real, and it involves basically poisoning a person and damaging the brain so as to remove most of the thinking part. Basically leaving you with a mindless human to use as a slave. The other problem is that having damaged the brain you're left with something that doesn't really think and is easily out witted by even the dimmest grade school child.
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Unlimited connections areultimately a good thing, unlimited anything is really a good thing, that's the primary driver of technology. If you can solve your bandwidth problems by capping and shaping that tends to stifle innovation. For instance look at Backblaze, they wanted to be truly flat rate at $5 a month so they had to design there own storage pods and software back end to keep up with the demand. Admittedly it's not a panacea, but it does go a long way.
Wireless isn't a competitive market, they aren't competing with each other. It's more like an informal cartel. The prices are shockingly similar as are the services. Prices are strikingly similar carrier to carrier and there's a plethora of abusive practices which shockingly enough haven't gone away. What, pray tell, is the point of switching cell phone providers if they pretty much all engage in the same sort of bad behavior?
DNA is really meant as a rule out at present, it's not perfect, but it's more likely that a lab will be able to rule somebody out as a suspect than demonstrate that it was them. For the main reason that we can't yet decode the entire genome efficiently enough to do it each time and there's frequently an imperfect sample at the crime scene to compare it to in the first place.
That's a fallacy of composition. What he's saying is that enough liars use numbers that numbers aren't terribly informative without knowing how they're derived and what they refer to.
I wish I could mod you up for that. Statistics don't mean anything in particular until you interpret them. While it's legitimate to advertise a group of job openings with a mean salary figure, it's not a terribly informative number to use if the position aren't close to each other. Likewise, the median is often times a great choice for survival rates, if not perfect in terms of indicating what sort of a tale the distribution has. None of those uses is wrong per se, but they are somewhat less informative than some of the alternatives, and definitely not to be taken without interpretation and consideration of some sort.
I tend to agree with him, the only way in which a cable could make a difference is shielding. IFthere's a lot of interference AND it's a fairly substantial run THEN there's the slight possibility that the noise on the line would interfere and cover up the signal. It definitely does happen, however, I'm not aware of any reason why those cables would deal better with say cell phone interference than standard ones would. And modern cell phones seem to put off enough interference that it would take a lot of shielding to make a difference.
Some companies just buy anything they can, but I've never had the feeling that Intel was poorly run. Monopolistic and dirty at times yes, but they're not known for being technologically incompetent. Well, with the exception of their graphics chips.
Bad implementations happen, if you've got incompetent management that doesn't allow for the time it takes to properly debug things, then you get crashy software that sucks up resources. Ironically enough that aspect of things is probably the easier bit of things.
The problem with RFID is sort of like the problem with Facebook, it's new and there hasn't yet been an adjustment made to figure out how to properly handle it. But a big problem is that it's getting to the point where the consumer isn't being given the chance to opt out. I don't personally mind having it on my transit pass because I keep that in a solid metal wallet anyways and it's designed to be read from about 3" away. But, there aren't yet rules in place to give me confidence that there's not something lurking around the corner that's unexpected and problematic.
Personally, I'm skeptical that the range is what is sometimes suggested, however even a range of a half foot is enough to cause serious trouble. I think the transit passes around here were designed to be readable from 3" away. The fact that you could potentially skim a card from somebody's pocket without having to take the wallet is something which is worth being deeply concerned about. Rather than needing to have the skill and personnel to pull of pickpocketing, you could just go skimming people. Most major cities have somewhere that you can go and be pressed right up against other people legitimately.
That's a solid point. My credit union has its ATMs designed so that it's a bit of a challenge to slip a skimmer onto them. Basically the slot isn't straight across like they used to be. It's got a curved bit of translucent plastic. Makes it a bit more of a challenge to attach a skimmer without making it really obvious. Now with RFID, they could place the device near the slot, but would likely be able to better camouflage it than at present.
That's true, however it's not anywhere near as strong an effect as it used to be. The web has done wonders for democratizing marketing. While you don't know who it is that's writing anything, it's a lot harder for companies to hide poor quality when anybody can write a review, and you can typically get a pretty decent idea of the general situation from the various subject specific fora out there.
The ad might get them a bit of mindshare, but if they haven't created some brand loyalty amongst owners they can really quickly run out of word of mount advertising.
I'm sorry, but if that's how you talk to cops, you kind of deserve whatever happens to you. You never argue with a police officer, ever. If you disagree there's a venue to handle that, it's called court. And you're even allowed to have an adviser that we like to call a lawyer help you out there. Arguing with cops whether you're ultimately right or not isn't going to do you any favors, LEOs generally have some degree of discretion. It also can very easily come back to bite you on the ass when they start looking more closely at what you're doing, there's no law against them being particularly stringent in writing every applicable ticket or citation that applies to the situation. Just stick to the facts, comply with what you're told to do and if anything happens you can always take it to court.
People don't generally end up being beaten that are complying with the orders they've been given. Sure it happens, but it's hardly a common occurrence.
It's up to 5 years, and he's likely going to be convicted on at least some of those other charges when it goes back for retrial. Despite his characterization as having beaten it, more likely from what I've read the defense just managed to luck out on jury selection and get enough people that were less politically sophisticated and couldn't tell the difference between political talk and corrupt deal making.
Indeed, Florida and Louisiana also seem to make the news all to frequently for it as well. Unfortunately, it's a matter of degrees, from the kind of lying we've come to expect from politicians to bribery and kick backs. I'd be a liar if I suggested that where I'm from is completely clean of it, we've got sunshine laws and have taken steps to take away a lot of the power from the political parties for that very reason, but you're never going to completely eliminate the corruption, just make it difficult enough that it's not a significant concern.
Sony over did it, people wouldn't have been anywhere near as interested in cracking it if they hadn't vastly overstepped there rights. I can understand locking down multiplayer games, but locking down single player games so that you can't do those homebrew was just asinine. And there's no reason why they had to do it, I'm sure they could've just kept homebrew off certain servers. I probably wouldn't have bought mine had I realized that they'd taken out so many of the PS3 components to make money without properly stating it on the box.
I strongly suspect that we'll find out that this was a move by Intel to integrate McAfee's IP into their hardware. With the way malware has been spreading in recent years, integrating some acceleration for heuristics would likely go a long way, and now Intel will have both the IP and the additional access to researchers to do it efficiently.
Possibly, but I suspect that Intel might be after patents. While McAfee is crap software, it wouldn't surprise me if they had some patents that could help Intel with putting better anti-virus protection into their processors or adding acceleration for heuristics.
It really depends, light rail in Seattle, while minuscule is pretty easy to use. The only complication is the ticketing scheme, which to be fair is very similar to what they use for BART. BART itself is also pretty straightforward to use and in my experience quite effective.
Around here the various regional mass transit outfits got together and set up a unified payment system. An RFID card which handles all the transfers and payment splits for the non-cash part of the system. You can still pay with cash if you have to, but you can't transfer between agencies without paying again. Admittedly there are some privacy concerns for people that are getting subsidized fares, but apart from that it works well and is far more convenient than it used to be. Add on to that the access that's been granted to the bus tracking information and it's become quite a bit better than it used to be. There's still some issues that need fixing, but it's definitely headed in the right direction around here.