AdBlock downloads the ads? Gah, what a huge waste of bandwidth that is when you're on dialup and paying per minute. Surely this should be configurable?
If people drive this like a car (even if they're qualified pilots) they may start to treat it like a car rather than like an aircraft and skip on servicing. The rest you can guess.
That's called evolution, baby! If you're the kind of person who's going to think "hey, that corrosion on the wing supports can wait 'till next year", and your still going to fly the thing, then you deserve what you get.
My theory is that filling the drive repeatedly with porn videos will sufficiently destroy any personal data by overwriting. Therefore all drives should be relegated to porn storage duties for at least one year before disposal. That's not a server full of porn in the corner, it's a data security device!
However, on a more serious note, it's just a matter of time before the keyboard and mouse go away. Perhaps it isn't going to happen quite as soon as some people predict, but eventually with gestural control and the ever-improving implication of voice recognition technology, there just won't be a need for direct, physical input.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm sure I'm not alone in not looking forward to being surrounded by an office full people jabbering at their computers, so speech recognition, even if it ever gets to a level of accuracy that makes is speed-competitive with a keyboard, will still not be suitable for a lot of working environments. And I'm not all that convinced that is is improving very quickly - current products seem to need a lot less training than those of 10 years ago, but the best you can get out of them doesn't seem much better than what could be achieved back then. Gesture recognition won't stand on it's own as an input medium, although I can see it being more useful in the forseeable future than speech recognition. Personally I see direct physical interfaces persisting right up until we can have a wireless brain interface to take over.
In this case it sounds like we're talking about commercially-pirated-and-passed-off-as-genuine software, rather than end-user-pirated software.
FTA: The counterfeit software was found in 36 countries and 11 different languages. It was so sophisticated that it contained legitimate computer code written by Microsoft for programs such as Windows XP and Vista and Microsoft Office, but also had touches of the criminals' own coding as well. That was allegedly added to mimic security programs and fool users into believing the product was authentic.
So it may actually be the case that some of the end users actually thought they had authentic products, and were alerted by WGA. I doubt this happens often, but Microsoft is bound to mention it if it does happen.
We're not talking about copying laws, we're talking about filing lawsuits, do try to pay attention. Obviously it makes sense for the studios to file such suits in the countries where they are most likely to succeed first, before filing in other countries.
It's only a matter of time. It will happen first in the countries who's current laws and governments make it most likely to succeed. The rest of the world will follow in due course.
Exactly. Whatever the social factors are that determine one's interests as one grows up, the fact is that those factors don't seem to predispose many women to be interested in computing or science and technology.
I'd guess that unless you plan on changing the toys kids play with, the tv shows they watch etc, from an early age, you aren't going to change this much.
What about people from other countries (other than the US) that have even less than Comcast limits?
I confidently predict that it won't be available for us, so that part is a non-issue.
However a lot of ISPs here in the UK are bitching and moaning about the BBC's iPlayer (online TV catchup service), which they reckon has significantly increased their bandwidth usage. Of course they would like the BBC to pay them as well as the end user paying for their broadband (less enlightened debate over net neutrality in this country, but the same old issues). I can only see increased capping/tiering on broadband if this sort of service becomes more common.
Rubbish. How many 10year old devices are you using? Even if the real lifespan of the device is actually accurate, the real world lifespan is much shorter. Technology moves on, different devices with different requirements come into vogue etc. For the type of portable devices in TFA, the chances of them being still in use in 10 years is minimal. Moreover, they are in many cases going to be occasional-use (the odd hike or trip) rather than daily use. It's not even worth doing any finger-in-the-air math to refute your claim, it's so obvious. You might possibly have a case for permanent photovoltaic panels on houses/buildings etc.
We don't know for sure the effects of anything we do to try and combat climate change. Even just reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses to what they were at some arbitrary time in the past does not guarantee that the climate will just go directly back to how it was, it's a lot more complicated than that.
Taking the attitude you express would therefore lead to simply doing nothing, which seems to be a pretty close-minded view. You do what you can via modelling etc to try and predict the effects of any potential intervention. Then you try it on a limited scale, and try to confirm your models. If it seems good, you scale it up. Sure you can't 100% guarantee that you won't cause a disaster, but doing nothing is even more likely to cause a disaster, so the "do nothing" approach is pretty obviously silly.
The sad thing is they won't. Here they have clear and direct personal experience of the DMCA as currently implemented preventing legitimate content from being posted. You'd think that would do it. But they're* pleading special case for politicians, rather than calling for reform of the DMCA as a whole. And if they're taking that stance now, while the issue is hot and they might win a few votes for challenging an unpopular law, there's little chance of them turning around and calling for reform later.
*I say they, I'll pretty much bet the Obama camp takes a similar stance to the McCain camp, I guess we'll see.
Hate replying to my myself, but went to find one of these full-length Trek episodes, clicked on it: "This video is not available in your country". So much for that.
...Hulu sucks, since it won't stream outside the USA. No mention in the article as to whether YouTube will add regional restrictions on these full-length shows, but let's hope they can convince the studios otherwise. If not, well, bittorrent works just fine.
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Just because the best-scoring programs to date on the Turing test are crap does not necessarily mean the test itself is not useful. Yes, it tests for one particular form of AI, but that form would be extremely useful to have if achieved. You may consider your dog highly intelligent, but I'm not likely to want to call it up and ask for advice on any given issue, am I?
"Captcha is a joke. They're become so difficult to read that I can't even decipher what it means!"
I hear that. I was trying to complete one the other day, and honestly, I was only making educated guesses as to what the characters were, it took me three or four attempts. If they get any tougher, the only people who'll be able to do them will be the spammers using this kind of software!
In Photoshop CS3 you have the best of both worlds, you can undock the various elements and have them independently anywhere on the screen, or you can dock them in the main application window. That's always been the problem with the GIMP UI, those of us that don't like the default behaviour don't have the option of changing it (short of becoming a GIMP developer and forking the code, anyway). It doesn't look from the screenshots as if the old GIMP UI behaviour has really changed in the way implied anyway, but maybe I'm missing something.
Do you filter their web access as well? Otherwise just face the fact that once they're online, they're probably going to see some shit you'd rather they didn't see once in a while, live with it.
Best you can do is sign up to something like FastMail, jack up the spam filtering to aggressive or whitelist-only (bit nazi, but if you really want control...).
Datacenter break-ins are becoming more and more commonplace, and it costs so much to replace the reinforced doors etc that the thieves bust up on their way in. Now with this innovation, they can just walk in and take the servers without doing any infrastructure damage. I think I'll pitch (groan) this idea to the boss right now!
That's why it would be an encrypted and password-protected list. If you're looking at child porn, that might not be good enough, but for most folks I think it would work.
What I would personally like is to be able to add certain sites to a password-protected "privacy list", so that visits to those sites would be stealthed, while visits to other sites would not. I don't want to have to start a special private session, which seems like a pretty lame way to do it. Mozilla should have looked at how to improve this feature by adding something like that, for example. Unfortunately it looks like Mozilla are just implementing the same thing as IE and Chrome, instead of looking to improve on it.
how often would you have to supply fissile material to a fusion reactor?
Not very often, we'll probably be mining the moon for Helium-3 for our fusion reactors on earth in the future. But for now, we're talking about fission;).
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AdBlock downloads the ads? Gah, what a huge waste of bandwidth that is when you're on dialup and paying per minute. Surely this should be configurable?
It is.
If people drive this like a car (even if they're qualified pilots) they may start to treat it like a car rather than like an aircraft and skip on servicing. The rest you can guess.
That's called evolution, baby! If you're the kind of person who's going to think "hey, that corrosion on the wing supports can wait 'till next year", and your still going to fly the thing, then you deserve what you get.
My theory is that filling the drive repeatedly with porn videos will sufficiently destroy any personal data by overwriting. Therefore all drives should be relegated to porn storage duties for at least one year before disposal. That's not a server full of porn in the corner, it's a data security device!
However, on a more serious note, it's just a matter of time before the keyboard and mouse go away. Perhaps it isn't going to happen quite as soon as some people predict, but eventually with gestural control and the ever-improving implication of voice recognition technology, there just won't be a need for direct, physical input.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm sure I'm not alone in not looking forward to being surrounded by an office full people jabbering at their computers, so speech recognition, even if it ever gets to a level of accuracy that makes is speed-competitive with a keyboard, will still not be suitable for a lot of working environments. And I'm not all that convinced that is is improving very quickly - current products seem to need a lot less training than those of 10 years ago, but the best you can get out of them doesn't seem much better than what could be achieved back then. Gesture recognition won't stand on it's own as an input medium, although I can see it being more useful in the forseeable future than speech recognition. Personally I see direct physical interfaces persisting right up until we can have a wireless brain interface to take over.
In this case it sounds like we're talking about commercially-pirated-and-passed-off-as-genuine software, rather than end-user-pirated software.
FTA: The counterfeit software was found in 36 countries and 11 different languages. It was so sophisticated that it contained legitimate computer code written by Microsoft for programs such as Windows XP and Vista and Microsoft Office, but also had touches of the criminals' own coding as well. That was allegedly added to mimic security programs and fool users into believing the product was authentic.
So it may actually be the case that some of the end users actually thought they had authentic products, and were alerted by WGA. I doubt this happens often, but Microsoft is bound to mention it if it does happen.
No. "Ireland's low corporate tax rate of 12.5% on trading profits has been a magnet for multinational companies..."
The moral of the story is "Lower your taxes, and they shall come."
"Light echoes?" Is there something wrong with the word "reflections" now? Hmm, let me just check my light echo in the mirror..yep, still pretty.
Amazing work though, from my laymans perspective it seems incredible that they can get usable data in this way.
We're not talking about copying laws, we're talking about filing lawsuits, do try to pay attention. Obviously it makes sense for the studios to file such suits in the countries where they are most likely to succeed first, before filing in other countries.
It's only a matter of time. It will happen first in the countries who's current laws and governments make it most likely to succeed. The rest of the world will follow in due course.
Exactly. Whatever the social factors are that determine one's interests as one grows up, the fact is that those factors don't seem to predispose many women to be interested in computing or science and technology.
I'd guess that unless you plan on changing the toys kids play with, the tv shows they watch etc, from an early age, you aren't going to change this much.
What about people from other countries (other than the US) that have even less than Comcast limits?
I confidently predict that it won't be available for us, so that part is a non-issue.
However a lot of ISPs here in the UK are bitching and moaning about the BBC's iPlayer (online TV catchup service), which they reckon has significantly increased their bandwidth usage. Of course they would like the BBC to pay them as well as the end user paying for their broadband (less enlightened debate over net neutrality in this country, but the same old issues). I can only see increased capping/tiering on broadband if this sort of service becomes more common.
Rubbish. How many 10year old devices are you using? Even if the real lifespan of the device is actually accurate, the real world lifespan is much shorter. Technology moves on, different devices with different requirements come into vogue etc. For the type of portable devices in TFA, the chances of them being still in use in 10 years is minimal. Moreover, they are in many cases going to be occasional-use (the odd hike or trip) rather than daily use. It's not even worth doing any finger-in-the-air math to refute your claim, it's so obvious. You might possibly have a case for permanent photovoltaic panels on houses/buildings etc.
We don't know for sure the effects of anything we do to try and combat climate change. Even just reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses to what they were at some arbitrary time in the past does not guarantee that the climate will just go directly back to how it was, it's a lot more complicated than that.
Taking the attitude you express would therefore lead to simply doing nothing, which seems to be a pretty close-minded view. You do what you can via modelling etc to try and predict the effects of any potential intervention. Then you try it on a limited scale, and try to confirm your models. If it seems good, you scale it up. Sure you can't 100% guarantee that you won't cause a disaster, but doing nothing is even more likely to cause a disaster, so the "do nothing" approach is pretty obviously silly.
cookiej: Honey, can we buy a new home theater setup?
wife: No, too expensive.
[some months later]
cookiej: Honey, can we buy a new home theater setup?
wife: I thought we were saving up for our kids to go to college.
[some months later]
cookiej: Honey, can we buy a new home theater setup?
wife: No, I need a new car. And some shoes.
[some months and a flash flood later]
wife: cookiej, the home theater setup is wrecked, I guess we'll have to buy some new gear.
cookiej: (if he has any sense) Halleluja, upgrades!
The sad thing is they won't. Here they have clear and direct personal experience of the DMCA as currently implemented preventing legitimate content from being posted. You'd think that would do it. But they're* pleading special case for politicians, rather than calling for reform of the DMCA as a whole. And if they're taking that stance now, while the issue is hot and they might win a few votes for challenging an unpopular law, there's little chance of them turning around and calling for reform later.
*I say they, I'll pretty much bet the Obama camp takes a similar stance to the McCain camp, I guess we'll see.
Hate replying to my myself, but went to find one of these full-length Trek episodes, clicked on it: "This video is not available in your country". So much for that.
...Hulu sucks, since it won't stream outside the USA. No mention in the article as to whether YouTube will add regional restrictions on these full-length shows, but let's hope they can convince the studios otherwise. If not, well, bittorrent works just fine.
Just because the best-scoring programs to date on the Turing test are crap does not necessarily mean the test itself is not useful. Yes, it tests for one particular form of AI, but that form would be extremely useful to have if achieved. You may consider your dog highly intelligent, but I'm not likely to want to call it up and ask for advice on any given issue, am I?
"Captcha is a joke. They're become so difficult to read that I can't even decipher what it means!"
I hear that. I was trying to complete one the other day, and honestly, I was only making educated guesses as to what the characters were, it took me three or four attempts. If they get any tougher, the only people who'll be able to do them will be the spammers using this kind of software!
In Photoshop CS3 you have the best of both worlds, you can undock the various elements and have them independently anywhere on the screen, or you can dock them in the main application window. That's always been the problem with the GIMP UI, those of us that don't like the default behaviour don't have the option of changing it (short of becoming a GIMP developer and forking the code, anyway). It doesn't look from the screenshots as if the old GIMP UI behaviour has really changed in the way implied anyway, but maybe I'm missing something.
Do you filter their web access as well? Otherwise just face the fact that once they're online, they're probably going to see some shit you'd rather they didn't see once in a while, live with it.
Best you can do is sign up to something like FastMail, jack up the spam filtering to aggressive or whitelist-only (bit nazi, but if you really want control...).
Datacenter break-ins are becoming more and more commonplace, and it costs so much to replace the reinforced doors etc that the thieves bust up on their way in. Now with this innovation, they can just walk in and take the servers without doing any infrastructure damage. I think I'll pitch (groan) this idea to the boss right now!
That's why it would be an encrypted and password-protected list. If you're looking at child porn, that might not be good enough, but for most folks I think it would work.
What I would personally like is to be able to add certain sites to a password-protected "privacy list", so that visits to those sites would be stealthed, while visits to other sites would not. I don't want to have to start a special private session, which seems like a pretty lame way to do it. Mozilla should have looked at how to improve this feature by adding something like that, for example. Unfortunately it looks like Mozilla are just implementing the same thing as IE and Chrome, instead of looking to improve on it.
how often would you have to supply fissile material to a fusion reactor?
Not very often, we'll probably be mining the moon for Helium-3 for our fusion reactors on earth in the future. But for now, we're talking about fission ;).