That was my first reaction too. After reading the article, I came away with a different opinion. Apparently there are lots of cats involved, you must be able to read palms, and counting rings in whale teeth is also involved. I won't get into all of the complexity, but I had no idea we were still thatching heat-shields.
This new, injectable sponge is incredibly useful because not only can it be filled with drugs that then are slowly released, it also has a memory and can be collapsed down to a tiny fraction of its original size.
Makes me wonder what other kind of sponges are out there that can't hold liquid, can't collapse, and don't remember their shape. O_o
A much more likely scenario is that the self driving cars prove statistically to be safer than human driven cars.
At that point expect legislation to ban humans from driving.
Can you explain why you think this is the more likely scenario taking into consideration that modern cars are statistically safer than previous generations (go back far enough and the differences are enormous) yet no US law I'm aware of has ever limited my ability to purchase and drive an older car and drive it legally on the road no matter how unsafe it may be compared to contemporary vehicles and regulations?
I've been working with a pretty vertical resolution saving setup for Firefox for a while now. It is the program title bar, the menu bar, and the tabs (only if you need them). You might give it a try.
They even created an algorithm for the trailer steering so the yolk could be very short but yet stay stable on the highway, and it would stay directly behind the car when reversing which make parking a breeze. (AC Propulsion does the tech for the Tesla products, and other hybrid or full electrics we all know.)
That's right dick-heads. I disabled text messages. All of them. Even the ones from you. It took me three months of calling, but I finally did it. You think I want your spam mail in my mail box?!
While I was going on about not liking my credit card info to be in company databases in a post above, I forgot why I warn parents about adding their credit card to an app store. The kids can ring up huge bills in no time.
Remember the free fish keeping game that charged $99 to revive the fish in the tank if they died?
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-13/news/30510883_1_skewers-valuable-lesson-money-lessons
Not only do I agonize over getting locked into a system, I also would like to limit my fraud liability by limiting who I give my financial information to. There is a very short list of who has my credit card information on file and an even shorter list who has it in an electronic database facing the Internet, and I'll be damned if I'm going to add Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. to that list any time soon.
We're at the point where consoles have achieved parity with personal computers in all ways except freedom. Which begs the question, why not go back to personal computers for gaming?
You meant "raises" the question.
It's ironic, but for most games that come out on consoles a keyboard and mouse are the superior input solution, and you can do a lot more with a computer besides.
I'll disagree with that, but it's easy to plug in a USB "controller" so I'll still agree with you there.
The whole situation brings to mind a discussion I had about information security the other day at the bakery. Ten years ago, who even thought you could play music on a computer?
Seriously? I think I downloaded my fist MP3 in 1997. Before that Midi files were all the rage. Before that, someone programmed the first consumer available computer to play music by controlling the electrical signals sent through the machine and picking it up with an inductive loop.
We need to get to a point where instead of using credit card information for transactions we use tokens instead -- that way, if someone gets into a database, they end up with a whole bunch of tokens instead of credit cards. Good luck using tokens anywhere else, they don't take em.
Now you've just gone off the reservation. *sigh*
Or maybe we should go back to paper for billing.
Anyway, computers are conclusively better if only for the fact that you can play MP3s while you game. That rules.
Oh, you're a troll. Fuck. I didn't read your entire thread until piecing it apart. Shame on me.
I agree that Chess seems lacking, and that poker sounds like it would teach many more things all at once.
However, if I ran across your test question I would be begging for a "maybe" option. I would be so unable to answer the question (as neither true nor false are correct) that I'd likely stroll up to you and ask you to clarify the question.
Next time, may I suggest you word the question differently as "false" is not the correct answer either. Right now I can't think of a re-wording that doesn't "give away" the trick of your trick question though. =/
The first to file system only really works in a very specific context - where you have two inventors who filed an application on almost identical types of inventions within a short period of time.
Why is that even a specific case to consider that needed clarifying? Wouldn't two inventors coming up with almost identical types of inventions within a short period of time necessarily evoke the "obvious/trivial advancement" disqualification?
The difference is that automatically running arbitrary or untrustworthy code is the problem.
Making systems easier to use for the lazy, ignorant masses is not the problem.
The latter is a worthy goal. The former is a security faux pas. They are not necessarily one in the same.
I too am against auto-run as any card carrying geek would and should be. I too feel it was invented for lazy users that do not want to know how to use their computer properly. However, as I age I tend to check that feeling, and look at the opposite angle.
What if ATM designers thought the same way?
What if I slid my ATM card into the machine, and instead of automatically detecting the account number and pertinent info, loading up a screen asking for my PIN, and facilitating the transaction; what if I had to use a terminal/command prompt to get the machine to read the magnetic strip on the card, load the account number, send the account number off for look-up, then enter my PIN, then request account authorization, all just to get to the point where I can see my balance, make a deposit or transfer?
Is security not important for ATM's?
What if the ATM designers were smug Linux admins?
Another reason might be that the handler is higher up and has the best vantage point to see when to detonate (to do the most harm). That's what the summary made me believe anyway.
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The browser.tabs.autoHide functionality has been stripped. I've read all the history on this. I'm fucking livid.
I hope they reverse this decision.
That was my first reaction too. After reading the article, I came away with a different opinion. Apparently there are lots of cats involved, you must be able to read palms, and counting rings in whale teeth is also involved. I won't get into all of the complexity, but I had no idea we were still thatching heat-shields.
This year the expo had more booth babes than last year, which raises the question "Are Booth Babes going away?".
Say what now?
It was probably before your time. I was quite good at it in my day.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Baseball_NES_box_art.jpg
This new, injectable sponge is incredibly useful because not only can it be filled with drugs that then are slowly released, it also has a memory and can be collapsed down to a tiny fraction of its original size.
Makes me wonder what other kind of sponges are out there that can't hold liquid, can't collapse, and don't remember their shape. O_o
What "Earth-shaking" discovery has curiosity made on Mars?
No.
A much more likely scenario is that the self driving cars prove statistically to be safer than human driven cars. At that point expect legislation to ban humans from driving.
Can you explain why you think this is the more likely scenario taking into consideration that modern cars are statistically safer than previous generations (go back far enough and the differences are enormous) yet no US law I'm aware of has ever limited my ability to purchase and drive an older car and drive it legally on the road no matter how unsafe it may be compared to contemporary vehicles and regulations?
Here's a video of the propulsion in action for those like me who just had to see how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATawqVOXWI
making it a mute point
I see what you did there.
I've been working with a pretty vertical resolution saving setup for Firefox for a while now. It is the program title bar, the menu bar, and the tabs (only if you need them). You might give it a try.
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/132464/1542/922256.jpg
Welcome to 1997 and the AC Propulsion T-Zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero
They even created an algorithm for the trailer steering so the yolk could be very short but yet stay stable on the highway, and it would stay directly behind the car when reversing which make parking a breeze. (AC Propulsion does the tech for the Tesla products, and other hybrid or full electrics we all know.)
I wouls say you could simply disable text messages (entirely!) at the provider level.
But then you get this shit in the mail:
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/132464/1542/873030.jpg
That's right dick-heads. I disabled text messages. All of them. Even the ones from you. It took me three months of calling, but I finally did it. You think I want your spam mail in my mail box?!
Hence the "reverse" in my original post.
I assume all those reverse peace signs are offensive to the English and we'll see them all taken down too?
While I was going on about not liking my credit card info to be in company databases in a post above, I forgot why I warn parents about adding their credit card to an app store. The kids can ring up huge bills in no time. Remember the free fish keeping game that charged $99 to revive the fish in the tank if they died? http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-13/news/30510883_1_skewers-valuable-lesson-money-lessons
Not only do I agonize over getting locked into a system, I also would like to limit my fraud liability by limiting who I give my financial information to. There is a very short list of who has my credit card information on file and an even shorter list who has it in an electronic database facing the Internet, and I'll be damned if I'm going to add Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. to that list any time soon.
I have Firefox 5.0 on this machine. Pressing F6 brings the focus to, and highlights the text in the location bar.
As does Ctrl+L
Note that images you upload and image URLs that you search with will be treated and stored in accordance with Google's privacy policy.
I can't say I'm surprised.
We're at the point where consoles have achieved parity with personal computers in all ways except freedom. Which begs the question, why not go back to personal computers for gaming?
You meant "raises" the question.
It's ironic, but for most games that come out on consoles a keyboard and mouse are the superior input solution, and you can do a lot more with a computer besides.
I'll disagree with that, but it's easy to plug in a USB "controller" so I'll still agree with you there.
The whole situation brings to mind a discussion I had about information security the other day at the bakery. Ten years ago, who even thought you could play music on a computer?
Seriously? I think I downloaded my fist MP3 in 1997. Before that Midi files were all the rage. Before that, someone programmed the first consumer available computer to play music by controlling the electrical signals sent through the machine and picking it up with an inductive loop.
We need to get to a point where instead of using credit card information for transactions we use tokens instead -- that way, if someone gets into a database, they end up with a whole bunch of tokens instead of credit cards. Good luck using tokens anywhere else, they don't take em.
Now you've just gone off the reservation. *sigh*
Or maybe we should go back to paper for billing.
Anyway, computers are conclusively better if only for the fact that you can play MP3s while you game. That rules.
Oh, you're a troll. Fuck. I didn't read your entire thread until piecing it apart. Shame on me.
I agree that Chess seems lacking, and that poker sounds like it would teach many more things all at once.
However, if I ran across your test question I would be begging for a "maybe" option. I would be so unable to answer the question (as neither true nor false are correct) that I'd likely stroll up to you and ask you to clarify the question.
Next time, may I suggest you word the question differently as "false" is not the correct answer either. Right now I can't think of a re-wording that doesn't "give away" the trick of your trick question though. =/
The first to file system only really works in a very specific context - where you have two inventors who filed an application on almost identical types of inventions within a short period of time.
Why is that even a specific case to consider that needed clarifying? Wouldn't two inventors coming up with almost identical types of inventions within a short period of time necessarily evoke the "obvious/trivial advancement" disqualification?
Replying to myself.
The difference is that automatically running arbitrary or untrustworthy code is the problem.
Making systems easier to use for the lazy, ignorant masses is not the problem.
The latter is a worthy goal. The former is a security faux pas. They are not necessarily one in the same.
I too am against auto-run as any card carrying geek would and should be. I too feel it was invented for lazy users that do not want to know how to use their computer properly. However, as I age I tend to check that feeling, and look at the opposite angle.
What if ATM designers thought the same way?
What if I slid my ATM card into the machine, and instead of automatically detecting the account number and pertinent info, loading up a screen asking for my PIN, and facilitating the transaction; what if I had to use a terminal/command prompt to get the machine to read the magnetic strip on the card, load the account number, send the account number off for look-up, then enter my PIN, then request account authorization, all just to get to the point where I can see my balance, make a deposit or transfer?
Is security not important for ATM's?
What if the ATM designers were smug Linux admins?
Another reason might be that the handler is higher up and has the best vantage point to see when to detonate (to do the most harm). That's what the summary made me believe anyway.
What happens if you've blocked all incoming text messages (even from the provider)?
(Which subsequently produces meat-space spam to arrive I've found.)
http://www.supercars.net/gallery/132464/1542/873030.jpg