...of personal agendas getting shoehorned into every aspect of life. Quite frankly if I wanted my kids taught creationism in school, I'd enroll them in a parochial school. That's what they're there for. If you want to teach creationism, get a job at a parochial school. Otherwise, keep your petty agenda to yourself.
Being that I work for a call center contracted to do tech support for Frontier I'm not the least bit surprised. There *are* customers who get like 7Mbps connections, but they're like 1 in 100 or worse. The vast majority are 1.344 or 1.5Mbps. The rest are 3Mbps or something ridiculous like 768K which balances out. The buyout of Verizon's copper did not help. VZ had shit running with bubblegum and shoestrings.
Yes it's possible that you are "throwing" your vote away when you vote for someone outside the two parties.
It's only thrown away as long as people blindly keep toeing the party line like good little sheep.
Hell, just think: if all of the folks on/. would (re)register to a different party and then vote for that party, and do their damnedest to get their friends and/or family to do so, we might just be able to shake thing up a bit. Screw with the numbers, send a message, etc. But as long as people continue to vote Dem/Rep out of fear of the "wasted vote" or the illusion that the D's/R's are all that matter, then the scenario perpetuates. These people make their own truth in this fashion, perpetuating their own fear. We "seem" to be smart enough to recognize this, but I'm betting most of us still fall for the same shit, and vote D or R when the moment of truth comes.
Nothing in the summary states this would be the case. Let the other govt agencies and entities pay for these sensors in return for the data. They'd pay the USPS for allowing the devices to be on the vehicles in the first place. The USPS pays nothing, and makes a little extra cash on the side.
I think that's a great idea, at least on the surface. Of course the companies would lobby the govt and instead of spending that money on the spam, it'd go into a few politicians pockets and keep it cheap and leave the USPS no better.
That was my first thought. That is a mediocre password at best. Jumbling, adding a few more case changes, and some special characters would have made that much better.
Except the coyotes we had that actually thought it okay at some to jump our fence to our back yard and try to get our smaller dogs instead of eating out of the trash cans etc.
Coyotes are not harmless at all. They run from you. They don't run from your pets. Your pets are food to them.
Compare that to wild cats who, in general, tend to hunt alone and just use their stealth, strength and speed to sneak up and jump on prey. This requires great skill but not really intelligence.
Clearly someone failed to pay attention to the Discovery Channel when shows about big cats was on. Big cats are not 100% solitary hunters. Many of them *do* hunt in packs, in coordination, and much better than any dogs. Most wild dogs just run the prey down. Big cats set traps and herd prey to other waiting members of the pack. I'd say the win goes pretty solidly to the big cats on who's more intelligent.
1280x1024 (native res) on a Dell 1905FP, I'm not more than 3 feet away, and it looks like crap. I can barely make some of the words out. I do wear glasses, but that would mean I *should* help, one would think. Scaling it up merely makes it look even shittier.
So "about 20%" of Facebook is made up of people who went from "Do no evil" to "Sucks to be you." I guess it's better they aren't at Google anymore, but now I have to wonder how many other people still work at Google that just don't give a fuck.
Yeah. This is pretty much the first thing that came to my mind when they start crowing about crap like this. How fast it can be if you live next door to the CO means fuckall if Joe Internet User on the edges of town is lucky to get 1.5Mbsp/384Kbps. Fuck making it faster, make it reach further out.
What Steve says: 'Android is very fragmented. Many Android [manufacturers], including the two largest, HTC and Motorola, install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience. The user's left to figure it out. Compare this to iPhone, where every handset works the same.'
What Steve means: Android gives manufacturers and users the choice to change the UI to better suit their own experience, instead of forcing the users to do things the way I think they should be doing it. Waaahhhhh!
What Steve says: 'When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. And we also think our developers can be more innovative if they can target a singular platform rather than a hundred variants.'
What Steve means: We believe telling people how to use their product is the proper way to do things. Customization? Who needs it!
What Steve says: 'This is gonna be a mess for both users and developers. Contrast this with Apple's integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use, largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone.'
What Steve means: My hugantic ego does not allow me to recognize that I don't need to have a stranglehold on every aspect of my companies product, or shove my vision of how to do things down my customers throats. And multiple sources for app distribution to create a real market with competing prices? Are you insane? I *must* have control of *everything*!
I would agree with this. Here in Austin, Texas, we have a place called Discount Electronics that does the same thing. They carry a modest selection of components for repairs and upgrades and have a repair dept., but the bread and butter is refurbishing old Dell laptops and desktops and reselling them for very cheap.
To further validate the above, the systems we use at my work (contract call center for a DUN/DSL ISP) are all P4 based, most being 3.2GHz machines. The only thing it bogs down at is when I have it loading multiple apps in the beginning (FF, Notepad++, internal instant messaging program and internal acct look-up tool). After that it's more than responsive enough for doing remote access to customer systems and the basic browsing and such that we do in the course of a day.
I already knew people had a tendency towards stupidly simple and easy to guess passwords. Saw them all the time working as a bench technician, had to deal with family and friends who refused to listen to my ideas on what they could do to make better but still easy to recall passwords. Now that i work in an ISP call center, it's even worse. Lots of people leave their passwords the default, other change it to something that could be guessed in minutes. If I had to guess, maybe 1 in 20 actually uses both letters and numbers, and even then it's not a toughie to figure out. They clamber for security on their wi-fi, and then promptly use a password that could be figured out in minutes, making that security next to pointless.
The only way I see things changing is to make a sort of reward system out of setting passwords. Refuse to allow passwords that are letters only. Use a meter of sorts like I've seen in a few applications where use of greater complexity gets you a bigger line and a ranks it from bad to good to great to excellent, etc. If the system makes them feel smarter or more secure in their password, a lot of folks would probably go for it.
On the other end, a lot of password systems need to change. There are far too many out there that refuse to allow special characters, leaving you only able to use case and numbers as a means of making it difficult. Some of these are online banking system password schemes, and it's laughable when they talk of taking security so seriously, and then you hit that retarded limitation.
Seriously. Start hiring, teachers and "readers" alike. Set an appropriate threshold for level of English language proficiency, both written and spoken. Train. Nothing stimulates the economy like jobs, and this could help speed things upa bit and bring down the backlog.
That and knocking it off with the filing/approval of ridiculous patents.
...but don't mind us as we steal your bandwidth. Oh but we *did* get your explicit permission. It was buried in that wall of text you agreed to that we could.
If we buy something, we own it. We will do with it whatever we please, as is our right. Any and all attempts to tell us what to do with something we own will only ensure that we break whatever controls you try to use.
Yeah, there needs to be a lot of stuff like this, but it will never happen because they all vote for what they want, and pass what they want, and kill anything they don't like. The entirety of the non politician US could tell Congress, the House, and the Senate that there are now to be term limits with caps on how much is earned and any and all bonuses and such, and that now laws shall be passed that do not apply equally to everyone in the US, politician or not, and etc. and etc. and they'll just laugh and shoot it all down. They all stopped being servants of the public a long time ago, and the generations have just let it happen.
This is pretty much what I said commenting on another NN story like a week ago or so. All data is packets, and all packets are created equally. I can see the argument *for* QoS, but QoS does not have anything to do with paid prioritization. It's more of a "DUH" kind of thing. VOIP priority? DUH. Sadly, Bing priority over Google is "DUH" as well, it's just a DUH of a different color (for those slow on the uptake it's a matter of DUH, that's not QoS).
...I can imagine there is plenty that could go wrong here, but at the same time there is plenty that can go right. I think it would take a good bit of time to really do a list comparison to weigh the full pros and cons of such a move.
Or, you know, $deity forbid that things like this are done to Linux to help increase adoption rate. I mean, quite a large portion of computer users only use their PC to check their e-mail, maybe do some banking and a little bit of surfing, with the occasional research, and it's all done on Windows. Make Linux distros look and feel like Windows everywhere the average user is likely to go, and you'd probably be able to bring a lot of folks into the fold. And don't bother mentioning Lindows or Linspire. The people I speak of don't need WINE, as there are perfectly good browsers and e-mail clients available for Linux that work pretty much exactly the same as their windows counterparts, and for the rare site that was written in ASP or something, there are basic workarounds that can be used that work just fine.
Really, all this snobbery needs to stop. Most folks use Windows because it's what comes with the PC, and it's what they learn. No one offers them a choice, and no one offers to help them learn it. It's ridiculous how many customers I talk to (I work for a company that contracts with ISPs to do phone tech sup) that had the computer given to them by their son/daughter, and were expected to just figure it out. Newsflash! Not everyone is a geek, not everyone is as quick at learning things as others. Most people are of average intelligence, and have little experience with highly technical devices like a PC. We sit around an bitch about these people, but I don't seem to know many people willing to take the time to teach them. It's easier to just complain about it and look down your nose at them I guess.
Seriously folks, if you want Linux to *really* succeed, then a simple working solution needs to be made. WINE seems to work for the odd Windows app that "mom and dad" or "gramma and grandpa" might need, such as family tree programs or what have you, and the rest runs native to Linux. Is it *really* that hard?
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...of personal agendas getting shoehorned into every aspect of life. Quite frankly if I wanted my kids taught creationism in school, I'd enroll them in a parochial school. That's what they're there for. If you want to teach creationism, get a job at a parochial school. Otherwise, keep your petty agenda to yourself.
Being that I work for a call center contracted to do tech support for Frontier I'm not the least bit surprised. There *are* customers who get like 7Mbps connections, but they're like 1 in 100 or worse. The vast majority are 1.344 or 1.5Mbps. The rest are 3Mbps or something ridiculous like 768K which balances out. The buyout of Verizon's copper did not help. VZ had shit running with bubblegum and shoestrings.
They're too busy Tea-partying and being herded.
It's only thrown away as long as people blindly keep toeing the party line like good little sheep.
/. would (re)register to a different party and then vote for that party, and do their damnedest to get their friends and/or family to do so, we might just be able to shake thing up a bit. Screw with the numbers, send a message, etc. But as long as people continue to vote Dem/Rep out of fear of the "wasted vote" or the illusion that the D's/R's are all that matter, then the scenario perpetuates. These people make their own truth in this fashion, perpetuating their own fear. We "seem" to be smart enough to recognize this, but I'm betting most of us still fall for the same shit, and vote D or R when the moment of truth comes.
Hell, just think: if all of the folks on
...maybe I'm just ignorant on this but doesn't NoScript do this already by blocking the sites period? (if you choose)
Nothing in the summary states this would be the case. Let the other govt agencies and entities pay for these sensors in return for the data. They'd pay the USPS for allowing the devices to be on the vehicles in the first place. The USPS pays nothing, and makes a little extra cash on the side.
I think that's a great idea, at least on the surface. Of course the companies would lobby the govt and instead of spending that money on the spam, it'd go into a few politicians pockets and keep it cheap and leave the USPS no better.
That was my first thought. That is a mediocre password at best. Jumbling, adding a few more case changes, and some special characters would have made that much better.
I have all of the keen games. 1 thru 6 and dreams.
Except the fact that the shitload of net income they make is plenty of remuneration. They made a giant fucking profit. Cry me a river.
Except the coyotes we had that actually thought it okay at some to jump our fence to our back yard and try to get our smaller dogs instead of eating out of the trash cans etc.
Coyotes are not harmless at all. They run from you. They don't run from your pets. Your pets are food to them.
Oh I don't know, I figure it's my text, and I'm writing it, I'll format it however I damn well please. :p
Clearly someone failed to pay attention to the Discovery Channel when shows about big cats was on. Big cats are not 100% solitary hunters. Many of them *do* hunt in packs, in coordination, and much better than any dogs. Most wild dogs just run the prey down. Big cats set traps and herd prey to other waiting members of the pack. I'd say the win goes pretty solidly to the big cats on who's more intelligent.
1280x1024 (native res) on a Dell 1905FP, I'm not more than 3 feet away, and it looks like crap. I can barely make some of the words out. I do wear glasses, but that would mean I *should* help, one would think. Scaling it up merely makes it look even shittier.
So "about 20%" of Facebook is made up of people who went from "Do no evil" to "Sucks to be you." I guess it's better they aren't at Google anymore, but now I have to wonder how many other people still work at Google that just don't give a fuck.
Yeah. This is pretty much the first thing that came to my mind when they start crowing about crap like this. How fast it can be if you live next door to the CO means fuckall if Joe Internet User on the edges of town is lucky to get 1.5Mbsp/384Kbps. Fuck making it faster, make it reach further out.
What Steve says: 'Android is very fragmented. Many Android [manufacturers], including the two largest, HTC and Motorola, install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves from the commodity Android experience. The user's left to figure it out. Compare this to iPhone, where every handset works the same.'
What Steve means: Android gives manufacturers and users the choice to change the UI to better suit their own experience, instead of forcing the users to do things the way I think they should be doing it. Waaahhhhh!
What Steve says: 'When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. And we also think our developers can be more innovative if they can target a singular platform rather than a hundred variants.'
What Steve means: We believe telling people how to use their product is the proper way to do things. Customization? Who needs it!
What Steve says: 'This is gonna be a mess for both users and developers. Contrast this with Apple's integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use, largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone.'
What Steve means: My hugantic ego does not allow me to recognize that I don't need to have a stranglehold on every aspect of my companies product, or shove my vision of how to do things down my customers throats. And multiple sources for app distribution to create a real market with competing prices? Are you insane? I *must* have control of *everything*!
I would agree with this. Here in Austin, Texas, we have a place called Discount Electronics that does the same thing. They carry a modest selection of components for repairs and upgrades and have a repair dept., but the bread and butter is refurbishing old Dell laptops and desktops and reselling them for very cheap.
To further validate the above, the systems we use at my work (contract call center for a DUN/DSL ISP) are all P4 based, most being 3.2GHz machines. The only thing it bogs down at is when I have it loading multiple apps in the beginning (FF, Notepad++, internal instant messaging program and internal acct look-up tool). After that it's more than responsive enough for doing remote access to customer systems and the basic browsing and such that we do in the course of a day.
I already knew people had a tendency towards stupidly simple and easy to guess passwords. Saw them all the time working as a bench technician, had to deal with family and friends who refused to listen to my ideas on what they could do to make better but still easy to recall passwords. Now that i work in an ISP call center, it's even worse. Lots of people leave their passwords the default, other change it to something that could be guessed in minutes. If I had to guess, maybe 1 in 20 actually uses both letters and numbers, and even then it's not a toughie to figure out. They clamber for security on their wi-fi, and then promptly use a password that could be figured out in minutes, making that security next to pointless.
The only way I see things changing is to make a sort of reward system out of setting passwords. Refuse to allow passwords that are letters only. Use a meter of sorts like I've seen in a few applications where use of greater complexity gets you a bigger line and a ranks it from bad to good to great to excellent, etc. If the system makes them feel smarter or more secure in their password, a lot of folks would probably go for it.
On the other end, a lot of password systems need to change. There are far too many out there that refuse to allow special characters, leaving you only able to use case and numbers as a means of making it difficult. Some of these are online banking system password schemes, and it's laughable when they talk of taking security so seriously, and then you hit that retarded limitation.
Seriously. Start hiring, teachers and "readers" alike. Set an appropriate threshold for level of English language proficiency, both written and spoken. Train. Nothing stimulates the economy like jobs, and this could help speed things upa bit and bring down the backlog.
That and knocking it off with the filing/approval of ridiculous patents.
...but don't mind us as we steal your bandwidth. Oh but we *did* get your explicit permission. It was buried in that wall of text you agreed to that we could.
If we buy something, we own it. We will do with it whatever we please, as is our right. Any and all attempts to tell us what to do with something we own will only ensure that we break whatever controls you try to use.
Yeah, there needs to be a lot of stuff like this, but it will never happen because they all vote for what they want, and pass what they want, and kill anything they don't like. The entirety of the non politician US could tell Congress, the House, and the Senate that there are now to be term limits with caps on how much is earned and any and all bonuses and such, and that now laws shall be passed that do not apply equally to everyone in the US, politician or not, and etc. and etc. and they'll just laugh and shoot it all down. They all stopped being servants of the public a long time ago, and the generations have just let it happen.
This is pretty much what I said commenting on another NN story like a week ago or so. All data is packets, and all packets are created equally. I can see the argument *for* QoS, but QoS does not have anything to do with paid prioritization. It's more of a "DUH" kind of thing. VOIP priority? DUH. Sadly, Bing priority over Google is "DUH" as well, it's just a DUH of a different color (for those slow on the uptake it's a matter of DUH, that's not QoS).
...I can imagine there is plenty that could go wrong here, but at the same time there is plenty that can go right. I think it would take a good bit of time to really do a list comparison to weigh the full pros and cons of such a move.
Or, you know, $deity forbid that things like this are done to Linux to help increase adoption rate. I mean, quite a large portion of computer users only use their PC to check their e-mail, maybe do some banking and a little bit of surfing, with the occasional research, and it's all done on Windows. Make Linux distros look and feel like Windows everywhere the average user is likely to go, and you'd probably be able to bring a lot of folks into the fold. And don't bother mentioning Lindows or Linspire. The people I speak of don't need WINE, as there are perfectly good browsers and e-mail clients available for Linux that work pretty much exactly the same as their windows counterparts, and for the rare site that was written in ASP or something, there are basic workarounds that can be used that work just fine.
Really, all this snobbery needs to stop. Most folks use Windows because it's what comes with the PC, and it's what they learn. No one offers them a choice, and no one offers to help them learn it. It's ridiculous how many customers I talk to (I work for a company that contracts with ISPs to do phone tech sup) that had the computer given to them by their son/daughter, and were expected to just figure it out. Newsflash! Not everyone is a geek, not everyone is as quick at learning things as others. Most people are of average intelligence, and have little experience with highly technical devices like a PC. We sit around an bitch about these people, but I don't seem to know many people willing to take the time to teach them. It's easier to just complain about it and look down your nose at them I guess.
Seriously folks, if you want Linux to *really* succeed, then a simple working solution needs to be made. WINE seems to work for the odd Windows app that "mom and dad" or "gramma and grandpa" might need, such as family tree programs or what have you, and the rest runs native to Linux. Is it *really* that hard?