Why should there ever be a law? Facebook is doing nothing wrong.
Facebook is doing nothing wrong exactly because we don't have a law against it, which is why we maybe should have a law against it.
I mean seriously, sure users should be educated, but just because users aren't clever enough to avoid Facebook, doesn't make what Facebook is doing acceptable.
wrong and illegal are two separate things, and neither is an absolute subset of the other.
Hmmm... that explains the conservative, (actually, downright selfish and power hungry, which "conservative" is a euphemism for) bent you see at slashdot so often.
While liberals might use "conservative" as an epithet meaning "selfish and power hungry", true conservatives know that they're happiest when content and helping their family and neighbors. The libs I know tend to be users and abusers (selfish and power hungry). When one is more likely to ignore society's traditions and values in preference to one's own, one is essentially more inwardly focused.
From the discussion section at the end (emphasis mine):
For most traits, the effects of individual genes are too
small to stand out against the combined influence of
all other genes and environmental factors. Thus, our
p-value of 0.02 on a sample of 2,000 individuals
should be treated cautiously. The expectation in
genetics is that only repeated efforts to replicate
associations on independent samples by several research
teams will verify initial findings like these.
Thus, perhaps the most valuable contribution of this
study is not to declare that ‘‘a gene was found’’ for
anything, but rather, to provide the first evidence for
a possible gene-environment interaction for political
ideology.
Contrast this with TFA:
The study's authors say this is the first research to identify a specific gene that predisposes people to certain political views.
I hate it when this happens, makes people dumb.
Frankly, his statement does not discount that "a gene has been found" (essentially the same as a genetic pairing/grouping/environment in the layman's viewpoint), just that if it were found, announcing that fact isn't the reason for the research: the research was done to further research.
At this rate, is the nuclear arsenal even serving as an effective deterrent?
I'm starting to think it's like a revolver being waved around by a drunk guy. There's a stark realization that he really could pull the trigger, but the gun might not be loaded. So you think to yourself "Do I feel lucky?"
I was all: "Awesome!", Then I saw that it's $0.99. I could compile it myself, but that would cost me $99. Every time I think I've decided to stick with iPhone4 for my next phone, I see a reason to buy an n900 instead.
yes I'm aware that the phrase "app" has been used for a long time, but again, it wasn't in widespread common usage, applied to almost every piece of software, until the App Store.
I disagree. "Application" was in widespread use, and geeks (and their acquaintances) used "app" forever. I know that Apple wants to own "App" in trademark and copyright, but they shouldn't be able to.
When my local news reported this (via a medical doctor), the talking heads cut him off and suggested that inhaling food might be a good idea. They didn't give the doctor a chance to respond to their idiocy before continuing on to the next story.
The point of his post is invalid these days. IE is below 50% market share. There is no monopoly in the browser market any more, and even if you got rid of Firefox there'd still be Chromium and Webkit (both open-source) to fill the gap and continue innovating.
Cold War's over, boys. Dismantle all the missiles! Anyway, even if Russia fires at us, China will shoot at Russia.
You're making IE and Safari teams dance too quickly. Turn down the bellows on the coals and let them rest, stagnate. The current state of browsers will be good for the next 50 years. Mozilla should make a kitchen recipe sorter instead.
Yeah, that's all well and good until you have a problem with running Random Program 10.4 on Mac OS 10.6 and all the search engines give you is advice on how to run Random Program 10.6 on Mac OS 10.4. That's when the names are useful.
And you can still use the version numbers if you prefer.
"Random Program 10.4" on "Mac OS 10.6"
The biggest problem I have is with Google thinking punctuation is white space.
As for why Marty's parents don't recognize him, I would say they've had years to forget the details of what Calvin Klein looked like, and years of seeing their son every day as he grew up to look like someone they haven't seen in 30 years. Think of someone you know and see often. Now look at a picture of them from a long time ago. In your mind, they may seem like they haven't changed, but they have. It's like how I still picture my dad looking like he did a while back, when I saw him more often, and am now shocked to see that he has turned into Rush Limbaugh (not literally, but eerily similar-looking).
You could save a lot of Democrats a lot of heartache by preventing your father from buying a delorean in the near future.
I thought about this a long time ago, actually. It always bugged the crap out of me that they spent much of the third movie driving to the point that the time machine is a terrible thing and must be destroyed before it tears the universe a new one. At the end of the movie this is accomplished splendidly, only to immediately find that Doc Brown has created a new one.
Instead of a fourth movie, I propose a short series. The story is that Marty realizes that Doc Brown must be stopped, so he teams up with the other paradox Martys and they use the various paradox leftover Deloreans to hunt Doc Brown through time. More paradoxes create more people and equipment to replenish what will inevitably be terrible losses in this war.
The series would be terrible, and I would _love_ it.
Why is it anyone's "fault?" Who cares? It's Facebook for science's sake! It's all just pictures of people's kids and crap*, it doesn't matter at all if someone logs on as me and posts nonsense!
[/perspective]
* that people have a general sense of being true. Great mischief can be done with data gathered, or accounts used/people impersonated.
md5 is a hash algorithm. How would that help? If someone can snoop your md5 hash they can replay it to gain access to the server, and then change your password (provided the server doesn't provide a challenge to perform this action). All md5 does is protect your actual password, which is small protection if your account can be illicitly accessed anyway. None of these services send a password in plaintext (hopefully). That isn't the issue. The issue is that they use replayable tokens and don't use encryption to send them on the wire.
Well, then md5 the hash. It's just like using triple-DES or double rot-13 (one of the two, or maybe a happy middle-ground).;)
I think that it is a lot like emphasis, in that it slows you down, without confusing you [e.g. foobar]. I think that this is good news. I will start using more fonts to help readers glide over useful but unnecessary material, and then slow them down, when they get to the meatier parts of the text that they came for.
I bet there's got to be a sweet-spot, otherwise it would make sense to publish history books with different languages per page. Just different enough to make you re-read some things (and think about whether you read something correctly), but not bad enough to cause someone to read one word at a time, ignoring sentence meanings.
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Why should there ever be a law? Facebook is doing nothing wrong.
Facebook is doing nothing wrong exactly because we don't have a law against it, which is why we maybe should have a law against it.
I mean seriously, sure users should be educated, but just because users aren't clever enough to avoid Facebook, doesn't make what Facebook is doing acceptable.
wrong and illegal are two separate things, and neither is an absolute subset of the other.
If you created the post, you can delete it. This tool can help you find the post faster.
Please tell me, what perfectly innocuous things might your friends take pictures of that would ruin your job/life/whatever.
If you drive a Pepsi truck, and your friend takes a photo of you drinking Coke Zero. (Or the other way around)
Hmmm... that explains the conservative, (actually, downright selfish and power hungry, which "conservative" is a euphemism for) bent you see at slashdot so often.
While liberals might use "conservative" as an epithet meaning "selfish and power hungry", true conservatives know that they're happiest when content and helping their family and neighbors. The libs I know tend to be users and abusers (selfish and power hungry). When one is more likely to ignore society's traditions and values in preference to one's own, one is essentially more inwardly focused.
Here is one of the authors' home page. Here is the actual paper.
From the discussion section at the end (emphasis mine):
For most traits, the effects of individual genes are too small to stand out against the combined influence of all other genes and environmental factors. Thus, our p-value of 0.02 on a sample of 2,000 individuals should be treated cautiously. The expectation in genetics is that only repeated efforts to replicate associations on independent samples by several research teams will verify initial findings like these. Thus, perhaps the most valuable contribution of this study is not to declare that ‘‘a gene was found’’ for anything, but rather, to provide the first evidence for a possible gene-environment interaction for political ideology.
Contrast this with TFA:
The study's authors say this is the first research to identify a specific gene that predisposes people to certain political views.
I hate it when this happens, makes people dumb.
Frankly, his statement does not discount that "a gene has been found" (essentially the same as a genetic pairing/grouping/environment in the layman's viewpoint), just that if it were found, announcing that fact isn't the reason for the research: the research was done to further research.
At this rate, is the nuclear arsenal even serving as an effective deterrent?
I'm starting to think it's like a revolver being waved around by a drunk guy. There's a stark realization that he really could pull the trigger, but the gun might not be loaded. So you think to yourself "Do I feel lucky?"
Which of course explains why Reagan, Nixon, Wilson, and Schwarzenegger came from there.
California being the most liberal state doesn't mean that there are NO conservatives there. Not that Arnie is a real conservative anyway...
Or a real Californian.
Didn't you read the lameness filter? Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Bastards! I was getting stoked for some Microsoft Decathlon action...I used to be the fastest "greater than" symbol in the 400 meter dash.
I consistently broke the shot-put guy's arm. It's not supposed to bend that way!
I was all: "Awesome!", Then I saw that it's $0.99. I could compile it myself, but that would cost me $99. Every time I think I've decided to stick with iPhone4 for my next phone, I see a reason to buy an n900 instead.
yes I'm aware that the phrase "app" has been used for a long time, but again, it wasn't in widespread common usage, applied to almost every piece of software, until the App Store.
I disagree. "Application" was in widespread use, and geeks (and their acquaintances) used "app" forever. I know that Apple wants to own "App" in trademark and copyright, but they shouldn't be able to.
When my local news reported this (via a medical doctor), the talking heads cut him off and suggested that inhaling food might be a good idea. They didn't give the doctor a chance to respond to their idiocy before continuing on to the next story.
The point of his post is invalid these days. IE is below 50% market share. There is no monopoly in the browser market any more, and even if you got rid of Firefox there'd still be Chromium and Webkit (both open-source) to fill the gap and continue innovating.
Cold War's over, boys. Dismantle all the missiles! Anyway, even if Russia fires at us, China will shoot at Russia.
It's a Mozilla branding/ice weasel joke. "you can use our familiar name"
But then debian will have to call it something different.
You're making IE and Safari teams dance too quickly. Turn down the bellows on the coals and let them rest, stagnate. The current state of browsers will be good for the next 50 years. Mozilla should make a kitchen recipe sorter instead.
Yeah, that's all well and good until you have a problem with running Random Program 10.4 on Mac OS 10.6 and all the search engines give you is advice on how to run Random Program 10.6 on Mac OS 10.4. That's when the names are useful.
And you can still use the version numbers if you prefer.
"Random Program 10.4" on "Mac OS 10.6"
The biggest problem I have is with Google thinking punctuation is white space.
As for why Marty's parents don't recognize him, I would say they've had years to forget the details of what Calvin Klein looked like, and years of seeing their son every day as he grew up to look like someone they haven't seen in 30 years. Think of someone you know and see often. Now look at a picture of them from a long time ago. In your mind, they may seem like they haven't changed, but they have. It's like how I still picture my dad looking like he did a while back, when I saw him more often, and am now shocked to see that he has turned into Rush Limbaugh (not literally, but eerily similar-looking).
You could save a lot of Democrats a lot of heartache by preventing your father from buying a delorean in the near future.
I thought about this a long time ago, actually. It always bugged the crap out of me that they spent much of the third movie driving to the point that the time machine is a terrible thing and must be destroyed before it tears the universe a new one. At the end of the movie this is accomplished splendidly, only to immediately find that Doc Brown has created a new one. Instead of a fourth movie, I propose a short series. The story is that Marty realizes that Doc Brown must be stopped, so he teams up with the other paradox Martys and they use the various paradox leftover Deloreans to hunt Doc Brown through time. More paradoxes create more people and equipment to replenish what will inevitably be terrible losses in this war. The series would be terrible, and I would _love_ it.
Hopefully you can still find it somewhere:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future:_The_Animated_Series
Why is it anyone's "fault?" Who cares? It's Facebook for science's sake! It's all just pictures of people's kids and crap*, it doesn't matter at all if someone logs on as me and posts nonsense!
[/perspective]
* that people have a general sense of being true. Great mischief can be done with data gathered, or accounts used/people impersonated.
Woosh. The double-rot13 wasn't a clue?
md5 is a hash algorithm. How would that help? If someone can snoop your md5 hash they can replay it to gain access to the server, and then change your password (provided the server doesn't provide a challenge to perform this action). All md5 does is protect your actual password, which is small protection if your account can be illicitly accessed anyway. None of these services send a password in plaintext (hopefully). That isn't the issue. The issue is that they use replayable tokens and don't use encryption to send them on the wire.
Well, then md5 the hash. It's just like using triple-DES or double rot-13 (one of the two, or maybe a happy middle-ground). ;)
I think that it is a lot like emphasis, in that it slows you down, without confusing you [e.g. foo bar]. I think that this is good news. I will start using more fonts to help readers glide over useful but unnecessary material, and then slow them down, when they get to the meatier parts of the text that they came for.
All I remember is foo bar.
I think it's more than that. For example, Nokia is Europe based
More than that; they're from Linus' country. Linux is like the national operating system kernel.
I bet there's got to be a sweet-spot, otherwise it would make sense to publish history books with different languages per page. Just different enough to make you re-read some things (and think about whether you read something correctly), but not bad enough to cause someone to read one word at a time, ignoring sentence meanings.