See that really sounds more like your friend's router crashed for about an hour. You know, this is embarrassing, but I think you're right, now that I think about it. (I spent most of the summer convinced that Comcast was evil, then I discovered a bad network cable toward the end of the summer. I then conveniently forgot about the network cable and continued to think Comcast was evil.) Man, I need to stop spreading FUD... But I still don't know why this (very physical) problem only seemed to occur when the line was under heavy use.
I think (no hard evidence) that comcast filters differently in different geographic locations. I have observed this--when I stayed with a friend over the summer, comcast sometimes killed the internet entirely for about an hour, when people in the house were using too much bittorrent. I have not experienced this in my parents' house, where we use comcast. (I hope they pay dearly for this, somehow. They have engendered more ill-will in me than any other company.)
Plus wouldn't they want to use something that ohhhhh you know stores and conducts heat well? You know like a giant block of metal instead of salt. Metal actually stores very little heat--water stores much more, for example. Look up "specific heat" for more information.
What if a "fireman" suddenly was someone that started fires, in stead of putting them out? The fact that the press and other idiots uses the wrong term to describe a criminal, does not make it right. After enough time, it does make it right. That's just the way most languages change. We don't have a governing body that decides what is acceptable English. (Such panels exist, but they have no authority--there's no such thing as "official English".) In short, if people started using "fireman" to refer to people who start fires, I wouldn't like it at all, but maybe ten years later I would have to concede that the word had gained a second meaning.
Gaah, will you accept that a word can have two meanings, and that the meaning of a word can change over time? Your post began with the word "Except", so I was looking forward to a counter-argument, but instead you just explained what you believed the word "hacker" to mean. You could have at least started with "By the way" to indicate that your opinion is not actually a part of the discussion thread, but instead of a critique of the parent's choice of words.
Sorry for ranting. But I was really hoping for some discussion about whether some of these students might end up working for the RIAA, and you tricked me.
This solution you mention sounds reasonable, but to really hit the domain squatters, we must convince them to purchase the domains and not just taste them. This means that we need to wget the domains during the tasting period enough to persuade the squatters to buy them. This should make auto-domain-squatting very expensive. Would this work?
That's logical, but it doesn't explain the anecdotes very well. According to that quotation, there is no reason to believe that these drugs would increase the attention span of a person with ADHD to a higher level than they would elevate the attention of a normal person. And presumably, they would have the same effect on each person's level of energy.
I'll open my mind to the fact that this may be true/correct, that it's even likely. But I've heard at least one convincing story about two people taking an amphetamine or amphetamine-like drug, and one was hyper and talked, barely taking a break to breathe, and the other intently listened/payed attention. This doctor's research/interpretation (I don't really know where his data comes from) does not explain this effect.
But don't normal people take speed to help their attentiveness? I don't think they would do it to help their attentiveness. I think they would more likely do it to stay awake. (I have a friend who's into "better living through chemistry", and he has never talked about using this type of drug to help him pay attention--just maintain alertness.)
To answer the other part your question, I believe there is a chemical difference in the brains of those with AD(H)D and those without, and the drug really does have different effects. I'm too lazy to do some real research on this, unfortunately.
You do realize that prepaid credit cards exist, right? You can set any name to it and use it. Since you don't have to have anything physical delivered and it's all online, then you can create fake names and leave out addresses. This seems rather useful. Are these normally gotten through one's bank? If not, where does one get such a service?
The Liger is not a species. It is a hybrid of two other species. Most ligers are sterile and unable to reproduce with either of the parent species or with another liger. Do you meant that some ligers are not sterile? Would their offspring also be fertile? If so, they could become a species, by any definition.
Lol, you do realise it downloads it to/tmp ? You can "rip" them using any file manager or even just "cp". Personally I just run ffmpeg at them with the output directory set to $HOME convertin them to theora in the process. How, indeed? That's pretty funny. Maybe I just don't like flash, so it confounds me. Well, with this problem solved, I guess I'll go back to wondering whether I'll ever be able to script an interaction with an AJAX-based site.
Anyone who thinks having videos as flvs will keep the majority of people from "stealing" content clearly hasn't done a search for "save flv" on google. I'm certain that 90% of youtube users don't even know what a.flv is, let alone that they can be saved. Saving them even gives me trouble, and I've written screen scrapers and a (dysfunctional) web spider. Then again, I don't use flash sites enough to know what the proper ripping tools are, and I use Linux, so the proper tools may not exist for me.
The LISP guy has a point, though that syntax is even uglier. (like being in a sensory deprivation tank) Thank you, that was beautifully put. I have never been able to concisely describe why I hate scheme, but I think I'll be able to, now.
It never, ever ceases to amaze me how some idiots can't understand that people have different preferences. That was well said. Thas aside, small screens would also a problem for coders who absolutely need to multi-task, and whose productivity would be hampered if we couldn't fit multiple windows on the screen at the same time. Well, I guess I should just be writing code on 40 character lines; shame on me for being lazy.
Are you saying there should be criminal background checks and waiting periods for persons who wish to use copyright-infringement devices?
No, I'm saying I don't agree with criminal background checks. Criminals are in prison. Ex-criminals are those who have done their time, and are now free because the system believes they're not criminals. Pretty simple. That's a bit black and white, don't you think? Can't there be "obviously dangerous" people that still don't deserve to be in jail? What about the guy with a pretty violent history who's easily provoked, but hasn't killed anyone yet? I don't want him owning a gun, but he probably shouldn't be locked up, either.
It's the built-in aspect which is the problem... Apple bundle Safari, but it's trivial to remove in it's entirety (or simply not install), different linux distributions bundle different browsers and they can always be removed/replaced easily... What windows distributors (ie OEMs) really need is the ability to remove ie completely and replace it with a third party browser, instead of being forced to install the third party browser alongside the buggy outdated one that's built in. Could you explain why this is a problem? I do see an argument for Microsoft not bundling one and only one browser, but how is the ability to uninstall it relevant? This has no bearing on your ability to unistall and use a different browser, and making IE easy to uninstall would not satisfy any critics of pre-installation.
Oh, and good luck uninstalling Konqueror from Kubuntu.
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I use kwrite. It drives my advisor, who uses vi and grew up on punch cards, batty. I've always liked vim, but you've got a pretty good reason to use kwrite, there...
If I remember correctly a few ISPs were toying with the isea of actually rewriting webpage code, not just inserting a little javascript for flavoring. Maybe I'm just being naive, but is there a reason that that wouldn't be a copyright violation? Creating and distributing a derivative work?
It's that simple... If a company wants you to sign such an agreement, it says alot about the corporate culture of that company. It means management thinks it completely owns the people who work for them. This seems rather naive. Do you think that "every man has a price"? If so, a non-compete prevents a more powerful company from buying your people and your secrets. And don't go telling me that companies don't have a right to attempt to keep trade secrets--you want companies to make money. If they don't make money, you can't buy their nice stuff.
It could also mean some people have already left the company to work for competitors and they're trying to protect themselves from this happening again. That tells me it's probably not a nice place to work at, if people leave to go and do the exact same job somewhere else! You've never seen someone seduced into leaving one company for another to gain a more secure future and more resources. I'm not saying the guy I know shouldn't have left, or that that the smaller company should have prevented him from leaving (it's complicated), but the first company was by no means a shitty place to work!
You might find it odd, but there's a lot of lawyers out there (almost all of them, in my experience) who seriously claim that the Terms of Service linked at the bottom of every commercial website. They say it's binding even if you've never read it, and even if it changes and you haven't read the changes. It's binding even if it's not linked from anywhere obvious. That's true, but I'm interested in whether a computer program has to obey contracts. If I write a program and it breaks contracts, am I immediately responsible, or must someone tell me that the program is breaking contracts. If the program is viewed as a tool or an extension of myself, it's probably the former. But programs are frequently not extensions of myself. For instance, if I downloaded the program, not wrote it, there would be no way I could know it was violating contracts.
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I think (no hard evidence) that comcast filters differently in different geographic locations. I have observed this--when I stayed with a friend over the summer, comcast sometimes killed the internet entirely for about an hour, when people in the house were using too much bittorrent. I have not experienced this in my parents' house, where we use comcast. (I hope they pay dearly for this, somehow. They have engendered more ill-will in me than any other company.)
Thank you, that's good to know.
Do you know if wear-leveling techniques depend on free space? If so, I could see problems with certain usage scenarios.
Gaah, will you accept that a word can have two meanings, and that the meaning of a word can change over time? Your post began with the word "Except", so I was looking forward to a counter-argument, but instead you just explained what you believed the word "hacker" to mean. You could have at least started with "By the way" to indicate that your opinion is not actually a part of the discussion thread, but instead of a critique of the parent's choice of words.
Sorry for ranting. But I was really hoping for some discussion about whether some of these students might end up working for the RIAA, and you tricked me.
This solution you mention sounds reasonable, but to really hit the domain squatters, we must convince them to purchase the domains and not just taste them. This means that we need to wget the domains during the tasting period enough to persuade the squatters to buy them. This should make auto-domain-squatting very expensive. Would this work?
That's logical, but it doesn't explain the anecdotes very well. According to that quotation, there is no reason to believe that these drugs would increase the attention span of a person with ADHD to a higher level than they would elevate the attention of a normal person. And presumably, they would have the same effect on each person's level of energy.
I'll open my mind to the fact that this may be true/correct, that it's even likely. But I've heard at least one convincing story about two people taking an amphetamine or amphetamine-like drug, and one was hyper and talked, barely taking a break to breathe, and the other intently listened/payed attention. This doctor's research/interpretation (I don't really know where his data comes from) does not explain this effect.
To answer the other part your question, I believe there is a chemical difference in the brains of those with AD(H)D and those without, and the drug really does have different effects. I'm too lazy to do some real research on this, unfortunately.
No, I'm saying I don't agree with criminal background checks. Criminals are in prison. Ex-criminals are those who have done their time, and are now free because the system believes they're not criminals. Pretty simple. That's a bit black and white, don't you think? Can't there be "obviously dangerous" people that still don't deserve to be in jail? What about the guy with a pretty violent history who's easily provoked, but hasn't killed anyone yet? I don't want him owning a gun, but he probably shouldn't be locked up, either.
Apple bundle Safari, but it's trivial to remove in it's entirety (or simply not install), different linux distributions bundle different browsers and they can always be removed/replaced easily... What windows distributors (ie OEMs) really need is the ability to remove ie completely and replace it with a third party browser, instead of being forced to install the third party browser alongside the buggy outdated one that's built in. Could you explain why this is a problem? I do see an argument for Microsoft not bundling one and only one browser, but how is the ability to uninstall it relevant? This has no bearing on your ability to unistall and use a different browser, and making IE easy to uninstall would not satisfy any critics of pre-installation.
Oh, and good luck uninstalling Konqueror from Kubuntu.
Nope. It's a spammer, so by definition it's not a nice person. It's a thief. Man, I'd hate to hear your opinion on sharing music.