yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
No, not everyone's phones, just phones of people they suspect of something.
It's the same deal with inspecting the contents of suitcases. They don't inspect everyone's suitcases, just some of them.
They must suspect everyone, because every suitcase gets X-Rayed.
I trust the file name implicitly... as the name of the file. Like Shakespeare said: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell...". Rose.jpg is an entirely trustworthy name for a batch file; and it should be designated as a batch file by a file type field, not by hacking the filename.
I disagree. We don't need extensions. We need an entirely separate file-type field. We don't store the creation date in the name, or the security bits in the name, or the archive bit in the name, so why store the file type in the name? Extensions are a hack that should have been dealt with decades ago.
I agree. The file type should not be a function of the filename, but its own field, like the date. Hiding the extension gives the illusion of a separate file type field, but it's a hack. It's a hack masking another hack, and like most other such cruft, we owe its continued existence to Microsoft.
Instead of insisting that modern OS design carry forward an old and archaic standard set of digits describing the type of file, show users visual information about the file type/associations in way that is meaningful to them.
That's an issue of he UI, not how the attribute is atached to the file. Processors still prefer 'digits' to dancing icons. Its up to the O/S to map one to the other consistently and in a manner the user will still understand.
Impossible. The "extension" isn't a separate field. The file name field was repurposed into a combined file name/file type field. As long as users have access to the whole field, there will be problems.
Extensions should be eliminated, and a separate file type field, uneditable by the user except by special program (like the date fields, ownership/permission flags, and backup status indicator) should be created.
I switched my laptop from a HDD to a SSD. Before the changeover, it used to be that once the login screen came up, I could log in. Now it boots much faster, but now when the login screen comes up, I have to wait for 30 seconds or so until the keyboard becomes responsive. (And before you suggest it, I have updated the bios to the latest version with no effect.)
You can already buy identity concealing glasses. They work by projecting a false set of the facial landmarks used by facial recognition software while obscuring your own.
Banks are regulated (at least, they are around here), so take it to the regulatory commission if the bank themselves don't do anything. Also, for most companies, unless it is in writing, it didn't happen. Don't call. Snail-mail.
I considered Pluto to be a planet up until about five minutes ago. I came upon this picture showing the major bodies that could also be considered planets. Being unfamiliar with Orcus, I decided to read its Wikipedia entry, and I came across this:
Orcus is a plutino, locked in a 2:3 resonance with Neptune, making two revolutions around the Sun to every three of Neptune's. This is much like Pluto, except that it is constrained to always be in the opposite phase of its orbit from Pluto: Orcus is at aphelion when Pluto is at perihelion and vice versa. Because of this, along with its large moon Vanth that recalls Pluto's large moon Charon, Orcus has been seen as the anti-Pluto.
Orcus and Pluto have "mirror image" orbits, and are both tied to Neptune's orbit. Then it struck me that that makes them like Jupiter's trojan satellites, or the asteroid that is in a horseshoe orbit around Earth.
Pluto just happens to be in a gravitational "sweet spot" with respect to Neptune. Orcus is at another. That gravitational sweet spot also explains why Pluto has five moons, and maybe even rings. Pluto is just a piece of dirty ice that got caught in a gravity divot. Same with its moons. Apparently, all of the other Kuiper belt "planet candidates" are also in gravitational resonance with Neptune.
Charon is a Pluto-class planet? It is "orbiting the sun at that location and with that direction or motion". What do we do about Eris, Makemake, Houmea, Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, and 2007-OR-10?
In the Naked Time - after a swashbuckling, sword wielding Sulu is subdued: "Take D’Artagnan here to Sick Bay"
Mudd's Women
McCoy: Well, we found a whole world of minds that work just like yours - logical, unemotional, completely pragmatic - and we poor, irrational humans whipped them in a fair fight. Now you'll find yourself back among us illogical humans again.
Spock: Which I find eminently satisfactory, Doctor, for NOWHERE am I so DESPERATELY needed as among a shipload of illogical humans.
McCoy: Besides, he has avoided two appointments that I've made for his physical exam without reason.
Spock: It's not at all surprising, Doctor. He's probably terrified of your beads and rattles.
Mirror, Mirror: Indeed, gentlemen. May I point out that I had an opportunity to observe your counterparts here quite closely. They were brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous - in every way splendid examples of homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity. I found them quite refreshing.
Friday's Child:
Spock: The child was named Leonard James Akaar?
McCoy: Has a kind of a ring to it, don't you think, James?
Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, I think it's a name destined to go down in galactic history, Leonard. What do you think, Spock?
Spock: I think you're both gonna be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month... sir.
A piece of the Action:
Spock: [balking at the prospect of another ride in a car with Kirk at the wheel] Captain, must we?
Capt. Kirk: It's faster than walking.
Spock: But not as safe.
Capt. Kirk: Are you afraid of cars?
Spock: Not at all, Captain. It's your DRIVING that alarms me.
The Changeling - After Kirk argues the Nomad/Tan-Ru probe into self destriction:
Spock: Your logic was impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger.
Slashdot Mirror
Border guards should be restricted to searching for physical contraband.
yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
No, not everyone's phones, just phones of people they suspect of something. It's the same deal with inspecting the contents of suitcases. They don't inspect everyone's suitcases, just some of them.
They must suspect everyone, because every suitcase gets X-Rayed.
... (ala Starship Troopers *spit* ...)
Are you a Corner Gas fan, by any chance.
I really enjoyed Predestination.
You were meant to.
As I said, I upgraded the HDD to an SSD. Obviously, the extra time needed to boot via the hard drive masked the keyboard lockout.
Obviously the file type would need to be embedded within the file itself.
I trust the file name implicitly... as the name of the file. Like Shakespeare said: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell...". Rose.jpg is an entirely trustworthy name for a batch file; and it should be designated as a batch file by a file type field, not by hacking the filename.
I disagree. We don't need extensions. We need an entirely separate file-type field. We don't store the creation date in the name, or the security bits in the name, or the archive bit in the name, so why store the file type in the name? Extensions are a hack that should have been dealt with decades ago.
Enabled? Disabled? No. It shouldn't exist at all. The file type should be a separate field, not mingled into the file name.
I agree. The file type should not be a function of the filename, but its own field, like the date. Hiding the extension gives the illusion of a separate file type field, but it's a hack. It's a hack masking another hack, and like most other such cruft, we owe its continued existence to Microsoft.
Instead of insisting that modern OS design carry forward an old and archaic standard set of digits describing the type of file, show users visual information about the file type/associations in way that is meaningful to them.
That's an issue of he UI, not how the attribute is atached to the file. Processors still prefer 'digits' to dancing icons. Its up to the O/S to map one to the other consistently and in a manner the user will still understand.
Impossible. The "extension" isn't a separate field. The file name field was repurposed into a combined file name/file type field. As long as users have access to the whole field, there will be problems.
Extensions should be eliminated, and a separate file type field, uneditable by the user except by special program (like the date fields, ownership/permission flags, and backup status indicator) should be created.
Those poor harness racers, all put out of work because nobody makes buggy whips anymore.
I switched my laptop from a HDD to a SSD. Before the changeover, it used to be that once the login screen came up, I could log in. Now it boots much faster, but now when the login screen comes up, I have to wait for 30 seconds or so until the keyboard becomes responsive. (And before you suggest it, I have updated the bios to the latest version with no effect.)
You can already buy identity concealing glasses. They work by projecting a false set of the facial landmarks used by facial recognition software while obscuring your own.
Best of all, you can get them at the dollar store.
You should go everywhere accompanied by a young, nubile swimsuit model in a revealing costume.
No matter how many cameras there are, any cameras directed by a male surveillance team won't be looking at you....
[Cough]Ron Jeremy[/cough]
Yeah, yer right, why would the Air Force and Navy need weather satellites.
For target practice?
All the conic-section fuels are unstable.
Except for the circle of course.
Now! Now! Let's not go off on a tangent.
Yes. If nobody was watching the weather channel, none of this would have happened.
Having sex with a spy is on my bucket list.
"Never mind why. Just clip this lapel mic to your blouse."
Banks are regulated (at least, they are around here), so take it to the regulatory commission if the bank themselves don't do anything. Also, for most companies, unless it is in writing, it didn't happen. Don't call. Snail-mail.
Orcus and Pluto have "mirror image" orbits, and are both tied to Neptune's orbit. Then it struck me that that makes them like Jupiter's trojan satellites, or the asteroid that is in a horseshoe orbit around Earth.
Pluto just happens to be in a gravitational "sweet spot" with respect to Neptune. Orcus is at another. That gravitational sweet spot also explains why Pluto has five moons, and maybe even rings. Pluto is just a piece of dirty ice that got caught in a gravity divot. Same with its moons. Apparently, all of the other Kuiper belt "planet candidates" are also in gravitational resonance with Neptune.
Charon is a Pluto-class planet? It is "orbiting the sun at that location and with that direction or motion". What do we do about Eris, Makemake, Houmea, Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, and 2007-OR-10?
Spock was always one for a joke, though.
In the Naked Time - after a swashbuckling, sword wielding Sulu is subdued: "Take D’Artagnan here to Sick Bay"
Mudd's Women
McCoy: Well, we found a whole world of minds that work just like yours - logical, unemotional, completely pragmatic - and we poor, irrational humans whipped them in a fair fight. Now you'll find yourself back among us illogical humans again.
Spock: Which I find eminently satisfactory, Doctor, for NOWHERE am I so DESPERATELY needed as among a shipload of illogical humans.
McCoy: Besides, he has avoided two appointments that I've made for his physical exam without reason.
Spock: It's not at all surprising, Doctor. He's probably terrified of your beads and rattles.
Mirror, Mirror:
Indeed, gentlemen. May I point out that I had an opportunity to observe your counterparts here quite closely. They were brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous - in every way splendid examples of homo sapiens, the very flower of humanity. I found them quite refreshing.
Friday's Child:
Spock: The child was named Leonard James Akaar?
McCoy: Has a kind of a ring to it, don't you think, James?
Captain James T. Kirk: Yes, I think it's a name destined to go down in galactic history, Leonard. What do you think, Spock?
Spock: I think you're both gonna be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month... sir.
A piece of the Action:
Spock: [balking at the prospect of another ride in a car with Kirk at the wheel] Captain, must we?
Capt. Kirk: It's faster than walking.
Spock: But not as safe.
Capt. Kirk: Are you afraid of cars?
Spock: Not at all, Captain. It's your DRIVING that alarms me.
The Changeling - After Kirk argues the Nomad/Tan-Ru probe into self destriction:
Spock: Your logic was impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger.
The only job listed that requires robots (Automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose, manipulator programmable in three or more axes http://web.archive.org/web/20070628064010/http://www.dira.dk/pdf/robotdef.pdf) is the surgeon. The rest can be done by AIs.
It's not in the privacy of your home. It is being broadcast all over the internet. Didn't you read the privacy policy?