One thing I will agree with her on (if true) is that if the kid was stupid enough to leave his account logged in on her computer then he got what he deserved. I don't know too many people that haven't been the victim of leaving their account logged in only to find someone else "updated" their status for them.
To one of my friends, or maybe my brother or sister, sure. To one of my kids? No, or at least nothing beyond some light teasing. And I'd never change someone's password.
You have to enter your current password when attempting to change your password on facebook. If she changed his password, she wasn't just using the account after he left it logged in.
All these stories about wikileaks every day. Wikileaks announces it has secret video. Wikileaks being investigated. Wikileaks releases video, Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video. Why can't we have more fluff pieces designed to hawk wares? I want my iPad articles!
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car sells more than the carriage, or the laptop sells more than the desktop, or that the ice box has been replaced by the refrigerator. All of these went from simple open designs to more complex closed designs.
I don't know about that. With enough time, I could design and build an automobile of my own, but without the help of a horse breeder, I'd never build a horse for my carriage. Of course, the funny thing about that is that a horse spreads it source code everywhere it goes.
Nobody uses the root account in Linux for everyday activity. In Ubuntu, root login is even disabled by default (you have to sudo).
And since sudo usually caches creds, you might still be vulnerable; or you will be when the sleep-loop malware script sees a sudo in ps and sudos right in itself.
This is perfect! We can all play this with our children to help build their self esteem, and promote their understanding that everyone is just as smart as everyone else.
I zagreef mylliwig zoporeqlhegnu flartleflarg Hunj completely. Mod parent pocginnssirndokssneekfbk!
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It's sponge cake filled with creme frosting. They have a longer shelf life then damn near anything else in the grocery store.
Not everything you see on Family Guy is true.
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Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?
We're talking about CmdrTaco here, not a regular guy. 1.5 lbs? Get to the gym.
But it's 1.5 pounds spread across a large plane; it's not like a tiny dumbbell. So, you've got some torque built up from the lever-action, and you have to use a couple of your fingers to do half of the lifting. Do you regularly manipulate 0.75 pounds with a couple fingers for hours on-end? Wait, don't answer that.
It's slashdotted, but reading people's descriptions, it sounds like this thing is just the Japanese "sunflower" fiber optic sunlight pipe from 20 years ago. I remember seeing it on a "new technology" show back in the early 90's. IIRC, it was the same episode where I learned that Brits spell aluminum differently.
This message has been brought to you by the Surgeon General's campaign against heart and lung disease, and is intended for viewers with lower IQs. If your IQ is above 95, this was not intended to be condescending in any way.
There is nothing to suggest Apple are moving "us" towards closed environments.
Other than the fact that they deployed the iPhone OS on a device that could(should) have used a better, generically useful OS. Other than the fact that Jobs thinks this type of computer will be the future of computing? Other than the fact that with the iTunes store being the sole provider of software for the iPhone OS, Apple gets a slice of every pie? No, check that, they already got a slice with the OS being locked to special hardware; now they get a sliver of every other slice by becoming the sole software distributer. Where do you get MS Office for the iPad? iTunes. Where do you get Microsoft's free RDP client for iPad? Well, there's already a fully functional pay version from another third party, and Apple won't make money from a free App with better functionality. Denied; no reason given.
Comment by Xeno 03/31/10 @ http://gizmodo.com/5506776/what-tech-nerds-think-about-the-ipad
I really hope that this is not the future of computing. It's kinda like how most of our economy went away from inventing and producing to consuming. The iPad takes away the making and doing from computers and makes consuming the whole point. I'm not saying that consuming is bad just that I hope it's doesn't become the whole picture.
I assume you mean turn off the spell-corrector, not the auto-orientation (my bigger gripe), since there's no way to turn off the auto-orientation. Also, there's no way to turn off the spell-corrector and just have it passively spell-check like I would want any program to do.
A utility (government owned corp) provides your drinking water.
No, it doesn't. A For Profit Corporation provides my drinking water. No Utility involved.
Your toll roads are alternatives to government funded roads, which you can drive on based on your tax payments, whereas the toll road charges you every time you use it (it isn't that roads don't exist, its that you aren't willing to sit in traffic to use them).
So you're admitting Government doesn't build and maintain all roads?
Thanks to the most recently passed health care bill, every ambulance will be paid for through government mandated health care insurance (not through personal choice or obligation), whether individuals who can pay for them or not will do so.
But those ambulance companies are still corporations unless I missed the section in the bill where all health care workers are now Federal Employees.
Governmental organizations respond to large disasters as much as they are legally obligated to, and nothing more, nor should they. Individuals and non-governmental organizations in the US pay for environmental disasters when people who live in hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami prone areas suffer such effects, regardless of whether or not these events occur in the US. This is absurd.
What is absurd? That we agree that corporations help more in crisis than government often does?
Religious people tend to define their world based on beliefs. The word "believe" has a different, special meaning to them. Nothing is more natural to religious people than to think we "believe" in Science the way they "believe" in religion. Their belief is based on faith, which ultimately comes from authority - the Pope, bishop, shaman as interpreters of some ultimate authority that emanates from the divine - a book or the stars or whatever. They find it natural to transfer that to us and they think we take our beliefs from the authority of some fuzzy hierarchy revolving around Academia.
And yet there is a growing amount of religious people for whom Science (big S) is a religion. They call themselves atheists, but they aren't like rational philosopher atheists, instead they're "dig my heels in the sand, I'll believe what this scientist says even though I don't understand it because I don't like the religion I grew up with" type of atheists. There's no skepticism, no logic. The rational folk on both sides of the theist/atheist fence have to come to a point where we recognize that a certain portion of the population is mostly irrational, and that they'll blindly accept whatever view seems to be predominant.
I was in a very serious car accident and went... well, not to Hell maybe, but somewhere quite unpleasant. I am an atheist so I don't think the experience was particularly significant, although it is just about the strangest thing I have ever experienced. I very much felt like I had spent a timeless eternity "somewhere else", but there was no bright light and all that, it was a dark and nasty place.
Hell is described often as "the outer darkness where men weep" or "outside". A place where God is not; the place where He allows souls to go if they truly do not want to be with Him.
There is even clear evidence that the Bible is fabricated. Even its followe[rs] accept that the New Testament was created from seperate books, edited with some parts and books left out completely. So we know that it is edited. No truly religious person would dare to edit the word of god, so what made the person who edited the new testament decide to think he could do this?
The Bible isn't a book. It is a compilation. None of the individual books or letters are edited (unless by editing you mean current translations). Yes, there were councils held to determine canon, largely because they had a lot of chaff to winnow through. If I might be allowed a little inflammatory metaphor for comparison's sake: it would be like Scientologists 200 years from now having to determine which works of fiction were _really_ L Ron Hubbard inspired, and which weren't. Should the Battlefield Earth movie be included in their compilation? Should the text from wikileaks? Should the rantings of some guy on/.? Should a letter written to the IRS threatening that Scientology be included as a religion? Should a similar letter (written to the IRS threatening that Scientology be included as a religion or mass auditing process R2-45 will begin in the IRS building but found on a site negative to Scifientology)?
In short, the "editing" was about determining which books and letters to determine as real, and which were of undetermined origin or worse: fakes. If one thing would have to have been changed in a book to make it worthy of inclusion, they just threw out the book. That's a far cry better than falsely making the change and including it.
I mean, if life is hard here because God gave us Free Will, but Heaven is Perfect with no pain. Doesn't that mean there's no free will there?
And wouldn't that be way worse than life here? Are you really YOU without the ability to make your own choices?
I think there are a few people who would be comforted to know that they would no longer be capable of bad decisions. To view it another way; everyone finally knows _why_ all the bad decisions are bad, and thus do not choose them.
If he lets us keep our freewill, and only lets people in who won't make things bad, than wouldn't that mean a pleasant personality trumps true acts of good? Would you rather have an asshole cop who saves lives every day, or a guy who makes witty comments and makes everyone laugh?
Acts of good are just that; actions; singular events. If Heaven is eternal, I'd rather have a mousy guy who makes everyone laugh than an asshole who saves lives. To be eternally annoyed by an asshole sounds like hell. Oh, and saving lives isn't much use somewhere where everyone's dead (or living forever).
cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you. Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.
A corporation supplies my drinking water. A corporation maintains a local toll road. Corporate ambulances respond in the event of minor disasters. Non-governmental organizations respond in the event of large disasters more often than government.
Joke's on you; I don't pay any taxes. They're all withheld by my employer. And Exxon doesn't pay any taxes; they raise their prices to offset the expense.
Now, which one am I joking about?
I had a laptop but when in class or lying on the couch I found the iPod touch much more convenient
I've found my iphone to be very INconvenient when I'm lying down. If I lay on my side, the screen orientation changed, and I can't read it. I wish they didn't use gravity for the orientation. Dumbest design feature, with the auto-spell-worsener as a close second.
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Who hasn't hearsd of Scientific Notation?
I haven't hearsd of it.
Don't worry, you have a large selection of hearsding aids to choose from.
As long as you have good sighst...
And if you don't have good sighst, I hearsd that there's a way to fix that as long as you can tatse well.
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Seems like the logical next steps would be prefixes starting with x, then w, etc. So:
xocto
wupto
vecto
etc.
I doubt that the measurement of forces will go that many more orders of magnitude beyond where they're already measuring things.
Yeah, but what are the base2 derived prefixes? zebti, yobti, xobti, wubti, vebti, etc?
One thing I will agree with her on (if true) is that if the kid was stupid enough to leave his account logged in on her computer then he got what he deserved. I don't know too many people that haven't been the victim of leaving their account logged in only to find someone else "updated" their status for them.
To one of my friends, or maybe my brother or sister, sure. To one of my kids? No, or at least nothing beyond some light teasing. And I'd never change someone's password.
You have to enter your current password when attempting to change your password on facebook. If she changed his password, she wasn't just using the account after he left it logged in.
All these stories about wikileaks every day. Wikileaks announces it has secret video. Wikileaks being investigated. Wikileaks releases video, Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video. Why can't we have more fluff pieces designed to hawk wares? I want my iPad articles!
car sells more than the carriage, or the laptop sells more than the desktop, or that the ice box has been replaced by the refrigerator. All of these went from simple open designs to more complex closed designs.
I don't know about that. With enough time, I could design and build an automobile of my own, but without the help of a horse breeder, I'd never build a horse for my carriage. Of course, the funny thing about that is that a horse spreads it source code everywhere it goes.
The first solar powered aircraft took wing in the 1600's. As told in The Mysterious Cities of Gold!
How can you have an article, post or even sentence without mentioning iPad? It's iPad unthinkable! iPad.
And nothing more nightmarish than bad assembly.
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Nobody uses the root account in Linux for everyday activity. In Ubuntu, root login is even disabled by default (you have to sudo).
And since sudo usually caches creds, you might still be vulnerable; or you will be when the sleep-loop malware script sees a sudo in ps and sudos right in itself.
This is perfect! We can all play this with our children to help build their self esteem, and promote their understanding that everyone is just as smart as everyone else.
I zagreef mylliwig zoporeqlhegnu flartleflarg Hunj completely. Mod parent pocginnssirndokssneekfbk!
I agree with it.
I'll buy that for a dollar!
It's sponge cake filled with creme frosting. They have a longer shelf life then damn near anything else in the grocery store.
Not everything you see on Family Guy is true.
Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?
We're talking about CmdrTaco here, not a regular guy. 1.5 lbs? Get to the gym.
But it's 1.5 pounds spread across a large plane; it's not like a tiny dumbbell. So, you've got some torque built up from the lever-action, and you have to use a couple of your fingers to do half of the lifting. Do you regularly manipulate 0.75 pounds with a couple fingers for hours on-end? Wait, don't answer that.
It's slashdotted, but reading people's descriptions, it sounds like this thing is just the Japanese "sunflower" fiber optic sunlight pipe from 20 years ago. I remember seeing it on a "new technology" show back in the early 90's. IIRC, it was the same episode where I learned that Brits spell aluminum differently.
SMOKING BAD!
BAD SMOKING!
This message has been brought to you by the Surgeon General's campaign against heart and lung disease, and is intended for viewers with lower IQs. If your IQ is above 95, this was not intended to be condescending in any way.
There is nothing to suggest Apple are moving "us" towards closed environments.
Other than the fact that they deployed the iPhone OS on a device that could(should) have used a better, generically useful OS. Other than the fact that Jobs thinks this type of computer will be the future of computing? Other than the fact that with the iTunes store being the sole provider of software for the iPhone OS, Apple gets a slice of every pie? No, check that, they already got a slice with the OS being locked to special hardware; now they get a sliver of every other slice by becoming the sole software distributer. Where do you get MS Office for the iPad? iTunes. Where do you get Microsoft's free RDP client for iPad? Well, there's already a fully functional pay version from another third party, and Apple won't make money from a free App with better functionality. Denied; no reason given.
Comment by Xeno 03/31/10 @ http://gizmodo.com/5506776/what-tech-nerds-think-about-the-ipad
I really hope that this is not the future of computing. It's kinda like how most of our economy went away from inventing and producing to consuming. The iPad takes away the making and doing from computers and makes consuming the whole point. I'm not saying that consuming is bad just that I hope it's doesn't become the whole picture.
I assume you mean turn off the spell-corrector, not the auto-orientation (my bigger gripe), since there's no way to turn off the auto-orientation. Also, there's no way to turn off the spell-corrector and just have it passively spell-check like I would want any program to do.
A utility (government owned corp) provides your drinking water.
No, it doesn't. A For Profit Corporation provides my drinking water. No Utility involved.
Your toll roads are alternatives to government funded roads, which you can drive on based on your tax payments, whereas the toll road charges you every time you use it (it isn't that roads don't exist, its that you aren't willing to sit in traffic to use them).
So you're admitting Government doesn't build and maintain all roads?
Thanks to the most recently passed health care bill, every ambulance will be paid for through government mandated health care insurance (not through personal choice or obligation), whether individuals who can pay for them or not will do so.
But those ambulance companies are still corporations unless I missed the section in the bill where all health care workers are now Federal Employees.
Governmental organizations respond to large disasters as much as they are legally obligated to, and nothing more, nor should they. Individuals and non-governmental organizations in the US pay for environmental disasters when people who live in hurricane, earthquake, or tsunami prone areas suffer such effects, regardless of whether or not these events occur in the US. This is absurd.
What is absurd? That we agree that corporations help more in crisis than government often does?
There, FTFY, dumbass.
I think I love you. Will you have my babies?
Religious people tend to define their world based on beliefs. The word "believe" has a different, special meaning to them. Nothing is more natural to religious people than to think we "believe" in Science the way they "believe" in religion. Their belief is based on faith, which ultimately comes from authority - the Pope, bishop, shaman as interpreters of some ultimate authority that emanates from the divine - a book or the stars or whatever. They find it natural to transfer that to us and they think we take our beliefs from the authority of some fuzzy hierarchy revolving around Academia.
And yet there is a growing amount of religious people for whom Science (big S) is a religion. They call themselves atheists, but they aren't like rational philosopher atheists, instead they're "dig my heels in the sand, I'll believe what this scientist says even though I don't understand it because I don't like the religion I grew up with" type of atheists. There's no skepticism, no logic. The rational folk on both sides of the theist/atheist fence have to come to a point where we recognize that a certain portion of the population is mostly irrational, and that they'll blindly accept whatever view seems to be predominant.
I was in a very serious car accident and went... well, not to Hell maybe, but somewhere quite unpleasant. I am an atheist so I don't think the experience was particularly significant, although it is just about the strangest thing I have ever experienced. I very much felt like I had spent a timeless eternity "somewhere else", but there was no bright light and all that, it was a dark and nasty place.
Hell is described often as "the outer darkness where men weep" or "outside". A place where God is not; the place where He allows souls to go if they truly do not want to be with Him.
There is even clear evidence that the Bible is fabricated. Even its followe[rs] accept that the New Testament was created from seperate books, edited with some parts and books left out completely. So we know that it is edited. No truly religious person would dare to edit the word of god, so what made the person who edited the new testament decide to think he could do this?
The Bible isn't a book. It is a compilation. None of the individual books or letters are edited (unless by editing you mean current translations). Yes, there were councils held to determine canon, largely because they had a lot of chaff to winnow through. If I might be allowed a little inflammatory metaphor for comparison's sake: it would be like Scientologists 200 years from now having to determine which works of fiction were _really_ L Ron Hubbard inspired, and which weren't. Should the Battlefield Earth movie be included in their compilation? Should the text from wikileaks? Should the rantings of some guy on /.? Should a letter written to the IRS threatening that Scientology be included as a religion? Should a similar letter (written to the IRS threatening that Scientology be included as a religion or mass auditing process R2-45 will begin in the IRS building but found on a site negative to Scifientology)?
In short, the "editing" was about determining which books and letters to determine as real, and which were of undetermined origin or worse: fakes. If one thing would have to have been changed in a book to make it worthy of inclusion, they just threw out the book. That's a far cry better than falsely making the change and including it.
I mean, if life is hard here because God gave us Free Will, but Heaven is Perfect with no pain. Doesn't that mean there's no free will there? And wouldn't that be way worse than life here? Are you really YOU without the ability to make your own choices?
I think there are a few people who would be comforted to know that they would no longer be capable of bad decisions. To view it another way; everyone finally knows _why_ all the bad decisions are bad, and thus do not choose them.
If he lets us keep our freewill, and only lets people in who won't make things bad, than wouldn't that mean a pleasant personality trumps true acts of good? Would you rather have an asshole cop who saves lives every day, or a guy who makes witty comments and makes everyone laugh?
Acts of good are just that; actions; singular events. If Heaven is eternal, I'd rather have a mousy guy who makes everyone laugh than an asshole who saves lives. To be eternally annoyed by an asshole sounds like hell. Oh, and saving lives isn't much use somewhere where everyone's dead (or living forever).
cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you. Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.
A corporation supplies my drinking water. A corporation maintains a local toll road. Corporate ambulances respond in the event of minor disasters. Non-governmental organizations respond in the event of large disasters more often than government.
Joke's on you; I don't pay any taxes. They're all withheld by my employer. And Exxon doesn't pay any taxes; they raise their prices to offset the expense.
Now, which one am I joking about?
I had a laptop but when in class or lying on the couch I found the iPod touch much more convenient
I've found my iphone to be very INconvenient when I'm lying down. If I lay on my side, the screen orientation changed, and I can't read it. I wish they didn't use gravity for the orientation. Dumbest design feature, with the auto-spell-worsener as a close second.