You cannot make an argument against safety even if what you are doing is wasteful.
Sure you can, otherwise every highway would be lined with nerf-covered guard rails twenty feet high. Actuaries assign dollar value to human life all the time.
If this same funding had been applied to highway traffic safety, imagine the REAL number of lives that would have been saved.
If this same funding had been applied to highway traffic safety, then highway speeds would be a maximum of 35 mph, TSA employees would be touching the undercarriage of your car at every on-ramp, and people would want to fly everywhere, even for a downtown commute.
But is [Unity] truly bad for end users? As a default user interface for non-technical people, I think it's pretty good.
I think it's terrible for end users. Making the "start menu" into a search field where you have to know the name of the program you're looking for is stupid, especially for someone first using the computer. It's like they don't want anyone to learn to use any programs other than the web browser.
Fruit that starts glowing when perfectly ripe (or when it's time to be picked before it becomes ripe during shipping) would be awesome. Just like the Firefly Fruit of Macaroon in Duck Tales.
I've been thinking about getting an android. Not to feel a need, but to avoid becoming the old crank who lives slightly out of the loop with everyone else, going on about how he doesn't need email, phones or cars. After all the pony express still delivers letters.
I remember those people from my youth and my vanity will not let me become one of them.
Don't you remember the groovy dads that would keep up with the hip lingo so that they'd be cool talking about radical and crispy stuff like skateboarding and rock and roll and sock hops?
You get to be one or the other. I never felt sorry for the ones set in their ways; they knew what they liked and didn't bother with things they didn't want.
I wouldn't trust a person who's never owned a smartphone to know what they're missing, any more than I would trust a person who refuses to join Facebook to understand what they're missing by refusing to join Facebook.
Yeah, but when a smoker with emphysema tells you that you shouldn't start smoking, listen to them. Yes, I just used smoking as a euphemism for Facebook.
... if I never leave my mom's basement and the glow of my really computer? Hell, without any friends, I only really need a phone to tell my mom to make me more hot pockets.
there are a LOT of people who have to run iTunes for their iPod/iPad/iPhone in order to get updates. Those updates usually try to install Safari along with the rest of the patches.
It actually installed Safari once without asking, IIRC.
Merry had discovered an ancient sword in the barrow-wight's lair (and even completely left out of the movies). It was one of the few weapons that could actually harm the Witch-king, and when Merry stabbed him in the back of the knee with it, it damaged him so badly that anyone could have finished him off.
I'm guessing it loads all its content via javascript anf my noscript is blocking it. I'm glad I'm also using adblock so they didn't get any ad-views for not showing content.
Yes there is. You don't know whether a relative voltage level of 0.01 indicates that this was a 1 overwritten with a zero twice, or a 0 overwritten with a 1 then with two zeros. You cannot know. The voltage level is set by the cumulative (lessening) effect of every write that ever occurred on that spot on the platter, and you do not know how many writes occurred.
But you can guess. And if that guess produces something other than random noise, you're probably right. It's even easier to guess if you know the erasure program wrote all 1's or all 0's instead of randomizing.
these traps are really just that -- traps -- places where the road conditions are such that the posted speed limit is too slow for driving conditions (visibility, road conditions, traffic levels, limited access disruptions) which subtly encourage drivers to speed AND the officers have a secluded place (blind spot) from which to "catch" speeders
The presence of a blind spot that may contain a car is a road condition that merits a lower speed limit for a section of road.
(1) Advances in technology will allow us to trap the kinetic energy generated from walking, jogging, bicycling (making us tired more often) and even from water flowing through pipes (making water pressure seem low).
(2) Biometrics will finally replace the password and thus redefine the word 'hack' into 'hack your hand off.'
(3) Invasion of privacy isn't just external any more.
(4) The digital divide will cease to exist. Mobile phones will make it easy for even the poorest of poor to get connected as long as the poorest of poor have an extra $100/month to pay the phone bill.
(5) Junk mail will become priority mail. "In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is more intrusive than ever; and now it can read your mind!
I've encrypted probably only 7 emails, but I sign almost everything unless I'm sending the email to someone completely pgp illiterate ("Why does this email have random junk at the end?").
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Let me know when they get around to finding the God brick.
You cannot make an argument against safety even if what you are doing is wasteful.
Sure you can, otherwise every highway would be lined with nerf-covered guard rails twenty feet high. Actuaries assign dollar value to human life all the time.
Why anyone would want to prevent law-biding citizens from carrying is beyond me.
It's not beyond me. Tyrants love to make weaponry illegal for the general populace. Look at Feudal Japan or Medieval Europe.
If this same funding had been applied to highway traffic safety, imagine the REAL number of lives that would have been saved.
If this same funding had been applied to highway traffic safety, then highway speeds would be a maximum of 35 mph, TSA employees would be touching the undercarriage of your car at every on-ramp, and people would want to fly everywhere, even for a downtown commute.
But is [Unity] truly bad for end users? As a default user interface for non-technical people, I think it's pretty good.
I think it's terrible for end users. Making the "start menu" into a search field where you have to know the name of the program you're looking for is stupid, especially for someone first using the computer. It's like they don't want anyone to learn to use any programs other than the web browser.
why isn't there an iPhone/iOS-related tag?
Because Apple vowed that it was never installed, and that it was disabled by default when it was installed.
Fruit that starts glowing when perfectly ripe (or when it's time to be picked before it becomes ripe during shipping) would be awesome. Just like the Firefly Fruit of Macaroon in Duck Tales.
I've been thinking about getting an android. Not to feel a need, but to avoid becoming the old crank who lives slightly out of the loop with everyone else, going on about how he doesn't need email, phones or cars. After all the pony express still delivers letters. I remember those people from my youth and my vanity will not let me become one of them.
Don't you remember the groovy dads that would keep up with the hip lingo so that they'd be cool talking about radical and crispy stuff like skateboarding and rock and roll and sock hops?
You get to be one or the other. I never felt sorry for the ones set in their ways; they knew what they liked and didn't bother with things they didn't want.
I wouldn't trust a person who's never owned a smartphone to know what they're missing, any more than I would trust a person who refuses to join Facebook to understand what they're missing by refusing to join Facebook.
Yeah, but when a smoker with emphysema tells you that you shouldn't start smoking, listen to them. Yes, I just used smoking as a euphemism for Facebook.
... if I never leave my mom's basement and the glow of my really computer? Hell, without any friends, I only really need a phone to tell my mom to make me more hot pockets.
Norwegian Deep Blues.
I was totally looking forward to reading about salt, sunlamps, and holy water.
there are a LOT of people who have to run iTunes for their iPod/iPad/iPhone in order to get updates. Those updates usually try to install Safari along with the rest of the patches.
It actually installed Safari once without asking, IIRC.
Merry had discovered an ancient sword in the barrow-wight's lair (and even completely left out of the movies). It was one of the few weapons that could actually harm the Witch-king, and when Merry stabbed him in the back of the knee with it, it damaged him so badly that anyone could have finished him off.
Well, not by the hand of man...
How can they make a DNS server illegal?
By passing a law? That's how anything becomes illegal.
"Allow App 'Foo' to open a browser? Yes/No/Always/Never/Maybe/Sometimes/EverythirdTuesdayoftheMonth"
I'm guessing it loads all its content via javascript anf my noscript is blocking it. I'm glad I'm also using adblock so they didn't get any ad-views for not showing content.
They used GOTO
http://xkcd.com/292/
Yes there is. You don't know whether a relative voltage level of 0.01 indicates that this was a 1 overwritten with a zero twice, or a 0 overwritten with a 1 then with two zeros. You cannot know. The voltage level is set by the cumulative (lessening) effect of every write that ever occurred on that spot on the platter, and you do not know how many writes occurred.
But you can guess. And if that guess produces something other than random noise, you're probably right. It's even easier to guess if you know the erasure program wrote all 1's or all 0's instead of randomizing.
I don't want the man to know how I enlarged my pole with wonder pills!
Mr. President! We have a human-growth-hormone gap with Poland!
these traps are really just that -- traps -- places where the road conditions are such that the posted speed limit is too slow for driving conditions (visibility, road conditions, traffic levels, limited access disruptions) which subtly encourage drivers to speed AND the officers have a secluded place (blind spot) from which to "catch" speeders
The presence of a blind spot that may contain a car is a road condition that merits a lower speed limit for a section of road.
(1) Advances in technology will allow us to trap the kinetic energy generated from walking, jogging, bicycling (making us tired more often) and even from water flowing through pipes (making water pressure seem low).
(2) Biometrics will finally replace the password and thus redefine the word 'hack' into 'hack your hand off.'
(3) Invasion of privacy isn't just external any more.
(4) The digital divide will cease to exist. Mobile phones will make it easy for even the poorest of poor to get connected as long as the poorest of poor have an extra $100/month to pay the phone bill.
(5) Junk mail will become priority mail. "In five years, unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem that spam is more intrusive than ever; and now it can read your mind!
You forward Viagra-spam? Man, that's cold. Someone should set up an anonymous service for that like that "you have bad breath" websites.
I've encrypted probably only 7 emails, but I sign almost everything unless I'm sending the email to someone completely pgp illiterate ("Why does this email have random junk at the end?").
cops don't fly two miles overhead for 36 hours without a break
cops don't have telescopic video-recording eyes that can see fine detail at two miles
cops don't have thermal vision
so ya it is 'just like a cop' if that cop is a flying version of robocop
Makes me wonder why no one ever sued Superman for privacy violation.