I use Facebook, but there's a very simple rule for it. Assume anything there is public information. Don't want something public? Don't put it on Facebook (or anywhere else online).
Do you really subscribe to the theory that we should just kick back and relax, and that everything will work itself out? That sort of thinking seems incredibly insular to me.
I don't think that's what anyone is saying. What's being said is that the solution to the problem (be it horse manure or anything else) is going to come from someplace that cannot be anticipated. Someone, somewhere, is going to have an idea that's better.
Being better is what will get the idea widely adopted, not legislation.
The legislators didn't solve the horse manure problem. Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Benz, and Mr. Ford did. And they weren't even trying to solve the manure problem, at least not directly. They were just trying to come up with something better, cheaper, etc. than a horse. It just so happened that it had the benefit of not pooping in the street.
There's nothing like a visit from a cop to put some healthy fear into kids. My brother was being bothered by some bullies in our neighborhood. Our uncle was visiting and hear about this, so he went and talked to the kids. It sarted as the usual, "quit messing with my nephew" type of thing that probably had the bullies rolling their eyes.
Then he asked them, "Have you ever seen one of these?" He flashed his police badge.
Never mind that we were in California and his badge was from Utah. Those bullies never bothered my brother again.
It's pretty easy to get a mix with Pandora. Either seed a "station" with songs representing different styles, or create multiple stations and then listen to the "QuickMix".
The Music Genome Project is definitely tracking things that (at this point) take a human to notice. Features like "great trumpet solo" or "ambiguous lyrics" are quite a bit beyond the sorts of musical features being extracted by the tools described in the papers at the conference, based on the few I looked at.
Humans are fantastic musical processors. Computers not so much. Which is what makes the problem so fascinating, I think.
Several years ago, I was working on tightening up our password system in a university department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (i.e. people who should definitely know better).
I was running crack on our userbase, to identify users with weak passwords so we could require them to change their password. One of the options was to look for passwords in.signature files. It seemed really silly to me. Who would be foolish enough to put his/her password in his/her email signature?
One of the first hits (right after someone with "password", I think) was a signature hit. It turns out, it was indeed one of our Ph.D. professors who did indeed have his password in his.signature file.
How? The password was his ham radio call sign, which, of course, he proudly listed in his email signature.....
Twenty-four percent of rural dial-up users say they would get broadband if it becomes available, compared with 11 percent for suburbanites and 3 percent for city dwellers.
Kind of obvious, but it pretty clearly shows that there are groups for whom availability is an issue, and among those groups, the adoption rate would be higher.
Absolutely. If I'm on the go, what do I want to know about the weather? "What's the temperature?" and "Will I get wet?" That's about it. Give me that information (in a nice easily readable format like the iPhone provides). Don't clutter the display and put the temperature (the main thing I want to know) in a tiny font so that I now have to hunt for it on the screen.
The logic would be, if you have records to show that you verified all alcohol sales, and no recorded sales were to anyone under 21, you have just proved you didn't sell to a 19 year old.
People who are anti-social, who attempt to game the system for their own gain at our expense, are known to engage in other anti-social acts to bring about their own gain at others expense.
I was going to say something like that. But you said it much better than I was going to, so I'll just say "Bravo" and "Ditto."
The coverage of the Current US Election(Iowa etc) is quite widespread on UK Broadcast Media (TV & Radio). We are aware of the implications that a change in the occupant of the White House can have on Global stability etc. I wonder how many US citizens are equally aware given the predominance of coverage of 'Celebrity' has on US TV.
Of course we're aware! And now that Oprah has endorsed Obama, we know how to vote, too!
Pure and simple. Once I percieve it to be worth my while to move to HD, I will. In the meantime, it's expensive, and there's the risk of picking the "wrong" format.
Infrastructure is needed for big trips, but daily commutes, trips to the grocery store, etc. could be done with one or two good local sources of whatever fuel your vehicle uses.
You'll still need the gas guzzler for that cross-country trip, but you could conceivably use something else to pick up milk.
RAM usage is way down (or, rather, the new VM subsystem handles swapping a lot better). Leopard works okay in 512MB of RAM on an Intel system. Tiger felt a bit cramped in 1GB.
This is interesting. Are you saying that overall memory usage is actually down in Leopard, or just that paging isn't as huge a penalty? I'm curious because it kills me when my Tiger system with 1.5GB starts paging. This alone could be enough reason to jump on the Leopard train.
Agreed. The principle is pretty much a truism for any technology out there. I'm more than happy to be the second or third person on the block, for just these reasons.
I didn't post the parent, but at the University where I work, we use Barracuda Spam Firewalls, and block over 95% of all incoming messages. About 1% is quarantined for user review, and about 3% is actually delievered to the intended destination.
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I use Facebook, but there's a very simple rule for it. Assume anything there is public information. Don't want something public? Don't put it on Facebook (or anywhere else online).
Hmm.... I thought LOL meant "wow, that cat sure is cute"
Do you really subscribe to the theory that we should just kick back and relax, and that everything will work itself out? That sort of thinking seems incredibly insular to me.
I don't think that's what anyone is saying. What's being said is that the solution to the problem (be it horse manure or anything else) is going to come from someplace that cannot be anticipated. Someone, somewhere, is going to have an idea that's better.
Being better is what will get the idea widely adopted, not legislation.
The legislators didn't solve the horse manure problem. Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Benz, and Mr. Ford did. And they weren't even trying to solve the manure problem, at least not directly. They were just trying to come up with something better, cheaper, etc. than a horse. It just so happened that it had the benefit of not pooping in the street.
Rats. I was going to chime in and deride all these young'ns with their supposedly low ID numbers, and clustersnarf has gone and ruined it all.
sniff...
There's nothing like a visit from a cop to put some healthy fear into kids. My brother was being bothered by some bullies in our neighborhood. Our uncle was visiting and hear about this, so he went and talked to the kids. It sarted as the usual, "quit messing with my nephew" type of thing that probably had the bullies rolling their eyes.
Then he asked them, "Have you ever seen one of these?" He flashed his police badge.
Never mind that we were in California and his badge was from Utah. Those bullies never bothered my brother again.
After all, it says right on the top of the page that it's "stuff that matters"!
It's pretty easy to get a mix with Pandora. Either seed a "station" with songs representing different styles, or create multiple stations and then listen to the "QuickMix".
The Music Genome Project is definitely tracking things that (at this point) take a human to notice. Features like "great trumpet solo" or "ambiguous lyrics" are quite a bit beyond the sorts of musical features being extracted by the tools described in the papers at the conference, based on the few I looked at.
Humans are fantastic musical processors. Computers not so much. Which is what makes the problem so fascinating, I think.
Don't you know it.
Several years ago, I was working on tightening up our password system in a university department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (i.e. people who should definitely know better).
I was running crack on our userbase, to identify users with weak passwords so we could require them to change their password. One of the options was to look for passwords in .signature files. It seemed really silly to me. Who would be foolish enough to put his/her password in his/her email signature?
One of the first hits (right after someone with "password", I think) was a signature hit. It turns out, it was indeed one of our Ph.D. professors who did indeed have his password in his .signature file.
How? The password was his ham radio call sign, which, of course, he proudly listed in his email signature.....
Note this quote from the CNN article:
Twenty-four percent of rural dial-up users say they would get broadband if it becomes available, compared with 11 percent for suburbanites and 3 percent for city dwellers.
Kind of obvious, but it pretty clearly shows that there are groups for whom availability is an issue, and among those groups, the adoption rate would be higher.
Inland Cellular (a regional carrier in eastern WA and northern ID) has free incoming text messages. They also advertise it as a feature.
So you're saying Microsoft wouldn't put out a product on a competitor platform, like, say, Microsoft Office on Mac OS X?
Cats sit on your lap? Man, someone needs to explain this to my cat!
Absolutely. If I'm on the go, what do I want to know about the weather? "What's the temperature?" and "Will I get wet?" That's about it. Give me that information (in a nice easily readable format like the iPhone provides). Don't clutter the display and put the temperature (the main thing I want to know) in a tiny font so that I now have to hunt for it on the screen.
The logic would be, if you have records to show that you verified all alcohol sales, and no recorded sales were to anyone under 21, you have just proved you didn't sell to a 19 year old.
People who are anti-social, who attempt to game the system for their own gain at our expense, are known to engage in other anti-social acts to bring about their own gain at others expense.
I was going to say something like that. But you said it much better than I was going to, so I'll just say "Bravo" and "Ditto."
The coverage of the Current US Election(Iowa etc) is quite widespread on UK Broadcast Media (TV & Radio). We are aware of the implications that a change in the occupant of the White House can have on Global stability etc. I wonder how many US citizens are equally aware given the predominance of coverage of 'Celebrity' has on US TV.
Of course we're aware! And now that Oprah has endorsed Obama, we know how to vote, too!
How many people bought a PS3 to watch a Blu-Ray movie? Very, very few, I'd imagine.
You betcha. I'm waiting for:
1. One format to "win".
2. Prices to come down.
Pure and simple. Once I percieve it to be worth my while to move to HD, I will. In the meantime, it's expensive, and there's the risk of picking the "wrong" format.
We're still here, though getting on in years. We check in occasionaly to mumble something about "kids these days"...
Infrastructure is needed for big trips, but daily commutes, trips to the grocery store, etc. could be done with one or two good local sources of whatever fuel your vehicle uses.
You'll still need the gas guzzler for that cross-country trip, but you could conceivably use something else to pick up milk.
That's awesome! Thanks.
RAM usage is way down (or, rather, the new VM subsystem handles swapping a lot better). Leopard works okay in 512MB of RAM on an Intel system. Tiger felt a bit cramped in 1GB.
This is interesting. Are you saying that overall memory usage is actually down in Leopard, or just that paging isn't as huge a penalty? I'm curious because it kills me when my Tiger system with 1.5GB starts paging. This alone could be enough reason to jump on the Leopard train.
Agreed. The principle is pretty much a truism for any technology out there. I'm more than happy to be the second or third person on the block, for just these reasons.
I didn't post the parent, but at the University where I work, we use Barracuda Spam Firewalls, and block over 95% of all incoming messages. About 1% is quarantined for user review, and about 3% is actually delievered to the intended destination.