Did you know that the first Sims was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost.
I had the little system tray that would tell me when updates were available. I would click and tell it to download. Then after reviewing the list I would tell is to install. The problem is, it never tells you if the install fails. I went directly to windows update at one point because my non MS certified sound driver was causing me problems so I wanted to get a certified one. It was only then that I saw in my status that my updates had been failing for months. The automatic update feature gave no indication of failure.
Do the study participants steal the things? Do they damage them beyond the point of re-use? Is the hardware failing from excess usage? It's not like you need new features every year. Why do you need to keep buying new ones? Does your study not have a plan for exactly how much data you need to collect from how many subjects? If so, buy all the recorders you need at once. You can probably save money with a bulk discount.
I can't imagine someone would want to steal something that they know may start randomly start recording on its own. As for damage I would choose your participants more wisely. If it is usage, find out what models a few local lawyers use to do all their dictation. They can't afford frequent breakage as it cuts into billable hours:)
And as others have mentioned, collecting all the extra data is too invasive and can lead to easily to abuse.
Have you ever been in a supermarket check out line? The pictures on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour etc. are just as provocative. Does that means that all those women's magazines are misogynist?
I am also suspect of calling it misogynist. There is a huge difference between hatred and ignorance.
So that means you are stuck with the standard software for the phone? What if you want an address book with more features or fields than the default? What if you want something that can do macros or something for 3-way calling? Maybe someone writes a little piece of software to put you in "stealth mode" so that all calls dialed are prefaced with *67. There are legitimate reasons for non-factory software to have access to phone functions. Freedom of choice in software is a good thing.
Yes the need for flowback prevention is removed. But those mechanisms are still there. So what happens when pieces of the valve are kept open continuously? You are going to be putting a lot more stress on certain parts of the valve then they are used to. So could the valve rip? Or could a flap of the valve break off and cause a stroke?
You know that chlorine gas is highly toxic right? And sodium is highly explosive when exposed to water. And NaCL is found in nature as well as on dinner tables everywhere. OMG! PANIC!
A weapon that takes 5-10 years to work isn't very useful to anybody. As far as it being lifeless and impossible to kill, there are any number of poisonous substances that occur in nature that aren't regulated by biowarfare treaties that would be much more convenient to produce and much easier to deliver effectively.
No, I think this is totally different. In open source software, it doesn't really matter where the dependability comes from as long as it is there. That dependability can be tested and independently confirmed by seeing if the software performs its function correctly (e.g. Did Apache serve the page? Did OO.org open your document?) The developer could be clinically insane and that the code was dictated to him by blue winged monkeys, but it doesn't matter as long as the software works.
However, with a wiki, the function is to inform, but there is no way, without other outside sources, to confirm if that function has been performed correctly. For instance, the Wikipedia has no entry for "Ham the Weather Wizard". I could put in an entry saying he is an evil druid who made his millions by magically manipulating a McDonalds contest. Or I could say that he was an ancient Celt who was reputed to bring rain to crops and fierce storms upon his enemies. Very few people in the world would know which of those entries would be true. And upon using the wiki, you have no idea if you have been informed, or misinformed. And if someone puts information in the wiki that they got from blue flying monkeys, that is probaly a bad thing.
You are also falling for the fallacy of many eyes. The number of people qualified to review any given wiki entry is very likely to be very low compared to the number of people who can review code. And even code does not get examined by most of the people who use it and are in a position to properly evaluate it.
But as shares of a positive stock approach infinity you are also less likely to make money because you aren't going to find many buyers at infinity per share. The talent in investing is properly identifying those positive companies. But any investor who turns up his nose at something with such a good risk/reward ratio as shorting SCOX just because it involves shorting is only limiting their possible gains.
What I think is goofy is all the sub-classification. If you like a band then just say you like the band. It's like people make up these new classifications just in case their favorite band "sells out" and then they can just claim allegiance to the micro-genre and not the band.
I haven't met anyone who can tell me how to differentiate all these micro-genres musically. For instance, one of the defining characteristics of Rock is the "back beat". If most people "mistake" that style for Industrial then it probably isn't significantly musically different for it to be considered its own style.
There a can be no indentity standard, because there can be no indentity.
Maybe you are trolling or maybe you are just pandering to the tin-foil hat crowd who would love to believe that they can be without identity.
You seem to be forgetting public key cryptogrpahy. And the forced timeout is not an issue. A SAML assertion says when the user was authenticated and when the assertion itself was created. True it may not be forced timeout, but every site that I visit that has important personal info of mine has a timeout.
At least that is better than Batman. Like you said, in Spider-Man they don't show you the web anchor point. Every time Batman uses a grappling hook they actually zoom in on the hook slowing at the top of its arc and then magically gaining enough horizontal momentum to wrap around the anchor object several times.
And what about the fact that the webbing doesn't stick around? When it was a special chemical formula whipped up by Peter he made it so it dissolves. Natural webbing would stick around.
Remember that witches BROKE THE LAW by beeing witches.
Gallileo BROKE THE LAW asserting the world isn't flat. Some centries ago any black guy BROKE THE LAW asserting he isn't an inferior beeing. America BROKE THE LAW by declaring independency to britain.
Do you think all of them should be man enough to face the penalities?
If it is an act of civil disobedience, then yes, they should. That is one of the tenets of civil disobedience.
MLK Jr. spent plenty of time in jail for breaking unjust laws. America fought a war over its claim of independence.
If you question the law by breaking it, take the consequences. Otherwise you should question the law by voting, writing your representatives etc.
Dropping $20 into a nice, juicy retirement savings plan every two weeks is guaranteed to change your life
No it's really not. Over 30 years at an average 4% return gives you about $30000. I sincerely hope when I am ready to retire that 30k isn't a life changing amount of money. And of course inflation will probably average at least 3%, so that money will be worth a lot less.
Or you could put it into a 401k or IRA. And if the funds contain things like MCI or Enron, you could lose that money competely.
There are no guarantees in retirement planning.
Gambling on the other hand is lots of fun. And it has the potential to pay off well.
-- Brought to you by someone who has been writing retirement software for the last three years and who has made more than the aforementioned 30k at the craps tables so far this year.
Ah, but what about all your fractional sick time? If you are going to make a comparison you have to use the same methodology.
15 extra minutes on the throne from the bad guacamole at lunch. (lets say 6/year)
15 minute trip (x4) to the medicine cabinet to get aspirin the last Friday before quarter end when everyone is rushing to get the numbers right.
2 seconds per sneeze (x100/year)
5 minute trip (x8) to the bathroom to rewet your contacts after some dust got in them.
etc.
You may have only called in sick 2 days, but your physical condition has been responsible many times for less than 100% productivity during those 7 hour days. And if you took any vacation why shouldn't that count against the human total downtime?
Or in the other direction, when the server dies, that isn't sick time for your PC, it berievement leave.
Basically you should consider what your productivity is with the PC and what it would be without it. If you get more than 9 more days of work done with the PC than without then its a net gain.
Not all places that take your e-mail address send their marketing from their own domain. I get surveys and other items for companies I have a relationship with from third-party markting firms who conduct the online campaign for them.
And all those same things were getting on planes before the TSA existed, but didn't seem to be enough of a problem that anyone was worried about it.
If some guy sitting next to me on a plane has a kilo of cocaine taped to his stomach, it doesn't negatively impact my security unless he opens it up and forces me to partake.
Your gun case is bogus. Obviously if the 9/11 terrorists brought no guns they must have felt that gun screening was effective enough that it would have stopped them.
If the TSA were truly effective, then maybe it would "make us secure". But it's not.
Because it makes it relatable to more people. If you are going to mention Neil Armstrong you would probably say "Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon" and not "Neil Armstrong, former professor at U of Cincinnati".
If/. is about "Stuff that matters" then it makes sense for the blurb to mention stuff that matters to the greatest number of people.
I am usually the civil libertarian type myself but I don't see any valid reason you would have to refuse to tell somebody (law enforcement or not) what your name is.
And what if you were attending a local meeting of the Communist party during the McCarthy era? Would you be fine giving out your name to a government agent?
The US government is getting big into collecting lists of undesirables again. Do you want to be on one of those lists?
There are patches that "work", even before a full explanation is available. Now, thousands of people are actively working on a solution, if they so choose.
So who is serious enough about security to want this patched, but stupid enough to just accept a patch from any of thousands of developers? Yes you could evaluate the source of each patch and recompile using th new code, but who has time for that? Open Source and proprietary software are no different in terms of patches. If you don't get it straight from the horse's mouth then you are not following very good security procedure.
After all, doesn't anyone remember this? You can find open source patches for proprietary software every once in a while too, but you would be nuts to trust them.
Yes, but I have heard that for some companies this is actually forcing improvements in the development process. When your development team is a black box on the other side of the world you are forced to be more accurate and specific in your requirements. The constant iteration between business users and development is expensive in terms of time wasted by both sides. So the same management looking to cut costs in terms of dollars per development hour is just as happy to cut in hours per project.
I think OP was trying to make a point about the government not being productive despite being chock full of PhDs. You respond with the government being responsible for incredible feats in the space program.
I don't know about the Soviet space program, but the US space program uses a lot of contractors that come up with loads of that stuff. So can you really credit the PhDs directly employed by the government? After all it seems that those same contractors get the blame when it doesn't work.(like Morton Thiokol for faulty O-rings, Perkin Elmer's flawed Hubble mirror, and was it Lockheed that had the metric/imperial snafu?)
As for world changing science, another poster mentioned the wheel, but I wouldn't be surprised if that did require research and development. But the concept of zero, which I think most would consider fairly important to science, is one of those things someone just realizes one day.
why aren't we going after them for using a false identity?
Posted by someone claiming to be named "Anonymous Coward".
But anyway, most laws against claiming to be someone else are more specific. You can't impersonate a police officer, or you can't practice law without a license. I have never heard of any place where it is illegal to give someone a false name (except to a government official). Besides, if they can actually track the guy down, why go for that instead of fraud which would almost certainly have a higher penalty?
And BTW, 419ers are getting more sophisticated. I got one the other day that used my last name. It claimed that someone with that name died and his lawyer could not find any next of kin. So if I came forward and pretend to be kin we could split the money. More plausible at least than some guy in Africa picking you at random from millions of Internet users.
um. Who said that it would be written in stone, mandated by law and enforced by GIANT KILLER ROBOTS
That would be Klaatu. Do you think it is merely coincidence that a google search for Gort and Toyota yields almost 500 results? It's all the logical conclusion man. Honda develops all these small friendly robots that dance and fetch your newspaper. Toyota's only feasible response is to build GIANT KILLER GUARDIAN ROBOTS to maintain market dominance.
Actually most of the porn spam I have seen seems to be from "affiliates". Someone sets up a redirector page and fires up several windows and collects their penny or whatever referral fee from the sites that actually sell the product. So the company that sells the product has no idea and has not asked anyone to spam for them. All they know is they get tons of referrals from some site in the.to TLD.
I don't think it is the site itself sending the spam because using a redirector dilutes brand. And considering lots of those sites all buy their content from the same places, brand and URL recognizition are important. Without it the next time you go looking for your particular flavor of debauchery you may end up at a competitor's site.
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Did you know that the first Sims was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost.
I had the little system tray that would tell me when updates were available. I would click and tell it to download. Then after reviewing the list I would tell is to install. The problem is, it never tells you if the install fails. I went directly to windows update at one point because my non MS certified sound driver was causing me problems so I wanted to get a certified one. It was only then that I saw in my status that my updates had been failing for months. The automatic update feature gave no indication of failure.
Why should model turnover matter?
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Do the study participants steal the things? Do they damage them beyond the point of re-use? Is the hardware failing from excess usage? It's not like you need new features every year. Why do you need to keep buying new ones? Does your study not have a plan for exactly how much data you need to collect from how many subjects? If so, buy all the recorders you need at once. You can probably save money with a bulk discount.
I can't imagine someone would want to steal something that they know may start randomly start recording on its own. As for damage I would choose your participants more wisely. If it is usage, find out what models a few local lawyers use to do all their dictation. They can't afford frequent breakage as it cuts into billable hours
And as others have mentioned, collecting all the extra data is too invasive and can lead to easily to abuse.
Have you ever been in a supermarket check out line? The pictures on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour etc. are just as provocative. Does that means that all those women's magazines are misogynist?
I am also suspect of calling it misogynist. There is a huge difference between hatred and ignorance.
So that means you are stuck with the standard software for the phone? What if you want an address book with more features or fields than the default? What if you want something that can do macros or something for 3-way calling? Maybe someone writes a little piece of software to put you in "stealth mode" so that all calls dialed are prefaced with *67. There are legitimate reasons for non-factory software to have access to phone functions. Freedom of choice in software is a good thing.
Yes the need for flowback prevention is removed. But those mechanisms are still there. So what happens when pieces of the valve are kept open continuously? You are going to be putting a lot more stress on certain parts of the valve then they are used to. So could the valve rip? Or could a flap of the valve break off and cause a stroke?
You know that chlorine gas is highly toxic right? And sodium is highly explosive when exposed to water. And NaCL is found in nature as well as on dinner tables everywhere. OMG! PANIC!
A weapon that takes 5-10 years to work isn't very useful to anybody. As far as it being lifeless and impossible to kill, there are any number of poisonous substances that occur in nature that aren't regulated by biowarfare treaties that would be much more convenient to produce and much easier to deliver effectively.
No, I think this is totally different. In open source software, it doesn't really matter where the dependability comes from as long as it is there. That dependability can be tested and independently confirmed by seeing if the software performs its function correctly (e.g. Did Apache serve the page? Did OO.org open your document?) The developer could be clinically insane and that the code was dictated to him by blue winged monkeys, but it doesn't matter as long as the software works.
However, with a wiki, the function is to inform, but there is no way, without other outside sources, to confirm if that function has been performed correctly. For instance, the Wikipedia has no entry for "Ham the Weather Wizard". I could put in an entry saying he is an evil druid who made his millions by magically manipulating a McDonalds contest. Or I could say that he was an ancient Celt who was reputed to bring rain to crops and fierce storms upon his enemies. Very few people in the world would know which of those entries would be true. And upon using the wiki, you have no idea if you have been informed, or misinformed. And if someone puts information in the wiki that they got from blue flying monkeys, that is probaly a bad thing.
You are also falling for the fallacy of many eyes. The number of people qualified to review any given wiki entry is very likely to be very low compared to the number of people who can review code. And even code does not get examined by most of the people who use it and are in a position to properly evaluate it.
But as shares of a positive stock approach infinity you are also less likely to make money because you aren't going to find many buyers at infinity per share. The talent in investing is properly identifying those positive companies. But any investor who turns up his nose at something with such a good risk/reward ratio as shorting SCOX just because it involves shorting is only limiting their possible gains.
And perhaps you meant "Warren Buffett"?
What I think is goofy is all the sub-classification. If you like a band then just say you like the band. It's like people make up these new classifications just in case their favorite band "sells out" and then they can just claim allegiance to the micro-genre and not the band.
I haven't met anyone who can tell me how to differentiate all these micro-genres musically. For instance, one of the defining characteristics of Rock is the "back beat". If most people "mistake" that style for Industrial then it probably isn't significantly musically different for it to be considered its own style.
Maybe you are trolling or maybe you are just pandering to the tin-foil hat crowd who would love to believe that they can be without identity.
You seem to be forgetting public key cryptogrpahy. And the forced timeout is not an issue. A SAML assertion says when the user was authenticated and when the assertion itself was created. True it may not be forced timeout, but every site that I visit that has important personal info of mine has a timeout.
At least that is better than Batman. Like you said, in Spider-Man they don't show you the web anchor point. Every time Batman uses a grappling hook they actually zoom in on the hook slowing at the top of its arc and then magically gaining enough horizontal momentum to wrap around the anchor object several times.
And what about the fact that the webbing doesn't stick around? When it was a special chemical formula whipped up by Peter he made it so it dissolves. Natural webbing would stick around.
If it is an act of civil disobedience, then yes, they should. That is one of the tenets of civil disobedience.
MLK Jr. spent plenty of time in jail for breaking unjust laws. America fought a war over its claim of independence.
If you question the law by breaking it, take the consequences. Otherwise you should question the law by voting, writing your representatives etc.
No it's really not. Over 30 years at an average 4% return gives you about $30000. I sincerely hope when I am ready to retire that 30k isn't a life changing amount of money. And of course inflation will probably average at least 3%, so that money will be worth a lot less.
Or you could put it into a 401k or IRA. And if the funds contain things like MCI or Enron, you could lose that money competely.
There are no guarantees in retirement planning.
Gambling on the other hand is lots of fun. And it has the potential to pay off well.
-- Brought to you by someone who has been writing retirement software for the last three years and who has made more than the aforementioned 30k at the craps tables so far this year.
Ah, but what about all your fractional sick time? If you are going to make a comparison you have to use the same methodology.
15 extra minutes on the throne from the bad guacamole at lunch. (lets say 6/year)
15 minute trip (x4) to the medicine cabinet to get aspirin the last Friday before quarter end when everyone is rushing to get the numbers right.
2 seconds per sneeze (x100/year)
5 minute trip (x8) to the bathroom to rewet your contacts after some dust got in them.
etc.
You may have only called in sick 2 days, but your physical condition has been responsible many times for less than 100% productivity during those 7 hour days. And if you took any vacation why shouldn't that count against the human total downtime?
Or in the other direction, when the server dies, that isn't sick time for your PC, it berievement leave.
Basically you should consider what your productivity is with the PC and what it would be without it. If you get more than 9 more days of work done with the PC than without then its a net gain.
Not all places that take your e-mail address send their marketing from their own domain. I get surveys and other items for companies I have a relationship with from third-party markting firms who conduct the online campaign for them.
And all those same things were getting on planes before the TSA existed, but didn't seem to be enough of a problem that anyone was worried about it.
If some guy sitting next to me on a plane has a kilo of cocaine taped to his stomach, it doesn't negatively impact my security unless he opens it up and forces me to partake.
Your gun case is bogus. Obviously if the 9/11 terrorists brought no guns they must have felt that gun screening was effective enough that it would have stopped them.
If the TSA were truly effective, then maybe it would "make us secure". But it's not.
Because it makes it relatable to more people. If you are going to mention Neil Armstrong you would probably say "Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon" and not "Neil Armstrong, former professor at U of Cincinnati".
/. is about "Stuff that matters" then it makes sense for the blurb to mention stuff that matters to the greatest number of people.
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And what if you were attending a local meeting of the Communist party during the McCarthy era? Would you be fine giving out your name to a government agent?
The US government is getting big into collecting lists of undesirables again. Do you want to be on one of those lists?
So who is serious enough about security to want this patched, but stupid enough to just accept a patch from any of thousands of developers? Yes you could evaluate the source of each patch and recompile using th new code, but who has time for that? Open Source and proprietary software are no different in terms of patches. If you don't get it straight from the horse's mouth then you are not following very good security procedure.
After all, doesn't anyone remember this? You can find open source patches for proprietary software every once in a while too, but you would be nuts to trust them.
Yes, but I have heard that for some companies this is actually forcing improvements in the development process. When your development team is a black box on the other side of the world you are forced to be more accurate and specific in your requirements. The constant iteration between business users and development is expensive in terms of time wasted by both sides. So the same management looking to cut costs in terms of dollars per development hour is just as happy to cut in hours per project.
I think OP was trying to make a point about the government not being productive despite being chock full of PhDs. You respond with the government being responsible for incredible feats in the space program.
I don't know about the Soviet space program, but the US space program uses a lot of contractors that come up with loads of that stuff. So can you really credit the PhDs directly employed by the government? After all it seems that those same contractors get the blame when it doesn't work.(like Morton Thiokol for faulty O-rings, Perkin Elmer's flawed Hubble mirror, and was it Lockheed that had the metric/imperial snafu?)
As for world changing science, another poster mentioned the wheel, but I wouldn't be surprised if that did require research and development. But the concept of zero, which I think most would consider fairly important to science, is one of those things someone just realizes one day.
Posted by someone claiming to be named "Anonymous Coward".
But anyway, most laws against claiming to be someone else are more specific. You can't impersonate a police officer, or you can't practice law without a license. I have never heard of any place where it is illegal to give someone a false name (except to a government official). Besides, if they can actually track the guy down, why go for that instead of fraud which would almost certainly have a higher penalty?
And BTW, 419ers are getting more sophisticated. I got one the other day that used my last name. It claimed that someone with that name died and his lawyer could not find any next of kin. So if I came forward and pretend to be kin we could split the money. More plausible at least than some guy in Africa picking you at random from millions of Internet users.
That would be Klaatu. Do you think it is merely coincidence that a google search for Gort and Toyota yields almost 500 results? It's all the logical conclusion man. Honda develops all these small friendly robots that dance and fetch your newspaper. Toyota's only feasible response is to build GIANT KILLER GUARDIAN ROBOTS to maintain market dominance.
Actually most of the porn spam I have seen seems to be from "affiliates". Someone sets up a redirector page and fires up several windows and collects their penny or whatever referral fee from the sites that actually sell the product. So the company that sells the product has no idea and has not asked anyone to spam for them. All they know is they get tons of referrals from some site in the .to TLD.
I don't think it is the site itself sending the spam because using a redirector dilutes brand. And considering lots of those sites all buy their content from the same places, brand and URL recognizition are important. Without it the next time you go looking for your particular flavor of debauchery you may end up at a competitor's site.