I used to have to do a verbal presentation once a month in school, and I did all my prep at the last minute, the night before. I wouldn't even write it until that final evening. It would take a couple hours tops, so that's where I got the impression it wasn't much of a deal to do. Practice makes perfect, don't roll the camera until the words are coming naturally. But I guess when there are other people involved and having to have their shit together at the same time, it would be a hassle after all.
reader can take things away from it that the author never put *into* it, apply it to situations which the author never even considered
I'm cool with that, but what I'm definitely not cool with is when an English teacher (or some other literary pundit) gets on a soap box and says, "This *IS* what it is about, and your assignment needs to reflect that or you fail."
When I was in high school, I had a theory. If I could build a time-machine, I would try to write a really great literary work and send it back say 50 years, so as to ensure it would have time to work its way into the school curriculum of my native time. The theory went that, if given the novel as an assignment for study and dissection, I would surely fail that unit. Almost guaranteed.
This is the digital age, and people are finding out more and more, how empowering it can be to know a few things. This is not the world of 20 years ago, and the fact as some have pointed out, that what he did was fairly easy to accomplish for many people here, should be a warning bell. So by giving a harsh sentence they may hope to stem the tide of people figuring they can finally get that big heist scheme to work.
I had a ridiculous conversation at a drinking party once, years ago. This guy I knew was blearily insisting that I needed to 'hack' a bank, because he was sure I could do it. I didn't know about that, I'm just a regular geek, scanning x.25 networks for outdials isn't the same as breaking into a bank. He was insisting it would definitely work. We could have it all planned out see, and, "Oh you could totally do it man, we should so do that!" I kept insisting that it was incredibly dangerous, and that I didn't know how ("Oh you can figure it out man, I know you can!"), and he just wasn't having any of my protests. Stealing, or for that matter almost anything that risks jail time, doesn't appeal to me anyway. Now imagine someone with his attitude and also the knowledge to follow buddy from the article. This sort of idea can become more widespread as technology reaches everyone, and is a scary thought for those with things to lose from it. People such as, well, any random person alive, could be you, could be me, could wreck a lot of lives.
The problem is that we are still stuck on presenting the interface on a 2D surface, such as any normal monitor or single-screen projector.
3D interfaces will only become super-useful when you can surround the user in some groovy holographic virtual screen, such that they have to rotate their chair to use all of it. But that isn't enough either, I'll need to be able to abandon mouse and keyboard at that point, and reach out and move things around with my hands, type in the air, and stuff like that. When we have that kind of display and input technology, then 3D interfaces will become extremely practical. Until then, it is merely a curiosity.
Because when some wanker is talking loudly to the person next to them, you can hear the other wanker talking back, and having both sides of the interaction it is much easier to tune them both out. When you are barraged with half a conversation it is much more distracting. "What? (pause) Yeah (pause) Yeah (pause) I know! (pause) Well that's what I said (pause) Oh get out!"
Those of us that truly want to make music will continue to make music, because it is fun for us, and satisfying to know that others have heard it and been moved in some way. Those of us that truly want to write, will write. That's what writers do, they can't help themselves. Perhaps it won't be able to pay the bills. Being supported by your art is a nice dream that a lot of creative people have, but they don't calculate the odds and say, "Oh, I won't make money on this thing I want to share with the world, fuck 'em then, they can do without." I don't think anybody does that, unless they are just about money and not their craft. We can usually tell when a creative work was pumped out just for the money can't we? Do we value those works? No, we value the works we know to have come from a passionate soul.
That's a variation of the usual joke I hear when I tell of my plight, however, that's entirely not the case. Real geeks don't use the web for pr0n or warez anyhow. The spams aren't porn-related most of the time, just the usual fare, but not in english. I suspect it somehow has something to do with my username, which I have used consistantly through the years on the net, and have often been mistaken for someone else as a result. Feanturi, the way I came upon it, is an elvish word, meaning spirit masters, although I have since learned that it is also a common first name in Finland. So some people think I'm Finnish, but I'm not.
For the spanish connection, I don't know but something really really weird happened to me one day on ICQ years ago. I was using the same username, and somebody approached me in random chat, and asked me some question in spanish. I replied that I didn't speak spanish and so, didn't understand them. The person wrote back, something long, with lots of exclamation points in it. I continued to protest that I didn't understand. 'No habla espanol' is about all I know. They switched to a larger font, restated their little rant, I protested again, so they switched to using all caps, and a still-larger font. They seemed to be getting very angry, and once they ran out of font sizes (for this continued for several more lines) they finally broke off the chat. And I was like, WTF??? Maybe Feanturi in spanish means something like baby-raper or somesuch, I have no idea.
You get those ones too? I have absolutely no idea how I attracted those, as nobody I talk to ever seems to get them. Most of my spam is in spanish, and it's all the usual stuff, mortgages, increase your whatsit, whatever. It's been going on for a couple years now, and none of my other email accounts get them.
Unfortunately, one of my closest friends, who I will always answer the phone for, has a blocked number, and I don't know if I'd want to put a message like that in their face every time they phone me. I wish I could just actually be taken off the list when I ask for it, but there isn't just one unfortunately, and my contact info has been sold numerous times and continues to propagate. I don't want a Mastercard for example. Since MC is actually represented by many and varied financial institutions, it's not really one company, so every bloody one of them keeps trying to get me to have theirs. A particular one never ever calls me of course, that's the one I originally had a Mastercard with way back, ran it up and eventually got it forcefully cancelled by them. You'd think that would get the others to leave me alone, but no. The major flood didn't actually begin until years later, very soon after I got a VISA.
I never valued MCSE and others anyway, and never obtained them, for the exact silliness to it that you imply. I make that point known whenever someone brings up certifications in conversation.
but simply saying "Please place me on your 'Do Not Call' list" is always a sufficient way to deal with telemarketers
Nope, it makes me angry, and it's good to express one's anger. And if enough people express it, maybe we can have our phones back at last. The anger comes from not just your call, no. It comes because your call has come as the second or third time that day that I have been pulled away from what I was doing, ran to a phone that I had been waiting for for some other reason, and it's someone presuming to butt into my private time to try to sell me something. Some people tolerate it fine, good for them. Some people just really want someone to talk to (I've done telemarketing at one point actually, so I know this). The rest of us are busy having our lives, and unless you're going to make a contribution to at least my phone bill, stay the hell off my phone. I pay for it to be used for my purposes, you can't reasonably presume that my priorities include salesmen in my own home at any time that is convenient to them. Friends, family, certainly, these are priorities. Others are trespassers.
It intends to uninstall the 'Spyware', but finding none, winds up attempting to uninstall 'No Spyware'. It can't figure out how to get the 'Advanced Spyware Substitute' and besides, forgot to get the spare infinite improbability drive from the engine room before coming to your computer anyway, and crashes miserably with a low score.
I think he meant to say they need to make the means of removal obvious and accessible. Getting the job done properly is certainly important too though.
Avenue Media should be just as pissed off at AdAware, SpyBot Search & Destroy, etc etc and be suing them too shouldn't they? They can't because they don't have a case for that. They're being jealous idiots is all. DirectRevenue (who suck anyway since they practice something like 'gatoring') claims to state in their user license up front that they may be removing competitor's software if it's found. So, they are claiming to remove certain adware. There are high-profile programs like the ones I've mentioned, whose sole mission is to do just that (and they make money doing it too!), and I haven't heard of them getting sued lately. Both companies need to be smacked about with 40-pound salmons.
No, as annoying as it is to see that a lot of people aren't aware of what they are opening, there are big problems they'll have by turning file extension hiding off if they still can't be bothered to learn what the extensions represent. Rename a file, and forget what the three letters were, or forget to include them at all, the dialog that comes up to warn them about this won't be read, they'll click Yes, and now their file is 'broken' as far as they know. And they don't know why. They'll phone you to find out why, and they won't tell you important things like this happened right after they renamed the file, they'll leave that part out. It can never be something they did, it was something Windows did, and please fix it! This is probably going to happen to them a few times a week and they'll still never read the dialog or clue in. That's why it's good to hide them, OR, much better, to come up with a more secure scheme for telling the OS how to open a file. The extension thing sucks, hiding or not hiding them doesn't really help the average user one way or the other.
I've been getting these diploma spam emails for almost as long as there has been spam, and it always struck me as fraud and made me wonder why they weren't being arrested. You're not just cheating yourself, you get cheated as well, and for money. That's fraud, as it devalues the real thing, and fleeces the ignorant. It's about time someone started getting in trouble for it, only took like 11 years or so.
That's what I say also, although one can guess that they were initially figuring that the capacity for speech in an animal represents a more developed brain. So once we got speech we were also smart enough to make tools with that language-connected right hand. I think it's bollocks, lefties probably made tools too, why wouldn't they? This newer study seems to reflect that as well, so all is good.
There are weight sensors in my city at various intersections, but they are only triggered by large things, such as buses. Big trucks aren't allowed in such areas, so it is just the buses that these assist. It's definitely by weight, as normal cars don't set it off, it's just to help keep the buses on schedule.
Slashdot Mirror
Music copying has existed far longer than mp3's, and it was all 1x back then. No biggie.
I used to have to do a verbal presentation once a month in school, and I did all my prep at the last minute, the night before. I wouldn't even write it until that final evening. It would take a couple hours tops, so that's where I got the impression it wasn't much of a deal to do. Practice makes perfect, don't roll the camera until the words are coming naturally. But I guess when there are other people involved and having to have their shit together at the same time, it would be a hassle after all.
Seems to me it could be much faster to drill the info into one's head by rote, than it would be to build such a device for just one use.
That's a totally excellent point, since that's the only reason I ever load IE to begin with. FF does everything else that I need it to do.
reader can take things away from it that the author never put *into* it, apply it to situations which the author never even considered
I'm cool with that, but what I'm definitely not cool with is when an English teacher (or some other literary pundit) gets on a soap box and says, "This *IS* what it is about, and your assignment needs to reflect that or you fail."
When I was in high school, I had a theory. If I could build a time-machine, I would try to write a really great literary work and send it back say 50 years, so as to ensure it would have time to work its way into the school curriculum of my native time. The theory went that, if given the novel as an assignment for study and dissection, I would surely fail that unit. Almost guaranteed.
13 miles in the air
That's hella closer than a satellite, by over 20,000 miles. I think that would let it be a lot faster than what's currently available with sat.
This is the digital age, and people are finding out more and more, how empowering it can be to know a few things. This is not the world of 20 years ago, and the fact as some have pointed out, that what he did was fairly easy to accomplish for many people here, should be a warning bell. So by giving a harsh sentence they may hope to stem the tide of people figuring they can finally get that big heist scheme to work.
I had a ridiculous conversation at a drinking party once, years ago. This guy I knew was blearily insisting that I needed to 'hack' a bank, because he was sure I could do it. I didn't know about that, I'm just a regular geek, scanning x.25 networks for outdials isn't the same as breaking into a bank. He was insisting it would definitely work. We could have it all planned out see, and, "Oh you could totally do it man, we should so do that!" I kept insisting that it was incredibly dangerous, and that I didn't know how ("Oh you can figure it out man, I know you can!"), and he just wasn't having any of my protests. Stealing, or for that matter almost anything that risks jail time, doesn't appeal to me anyway. Now imagine someone with his attitude and also the knowledge to follow buddy from the article. This sort of idea can become more widespread as technology reaches everyone, and is a scary thought for those with things to lose from it. People such as, well, any random person alive, could be you, could be me, could wreck a lot of lives.
The problem is that we are still stuck on presenting the interface on a 2D surface, such as any normal monitor or single-screen projector.
3D interfaces will only become super-useful when you can surround the user in some groovy holographic virtual screen, such that they have to rotate their chair to use all of it. But that isn't enough either, I'll need to be able to abandon mouse and keyboard at that point, and reach out and move things around with my hands, type in the air, and stuff like that. When we have that kind of display and input technology, then 3D interfaces will become extremely practical. Until then, it is merely a curiosity.
Given what I've heard about the Japanese penchant for cell phone use, wouldn't that vestibule get extremely crowded?
Because when some wanker is talking loudly to the person next to them, you can hear the other wanker talking back, and having both sides of the interaction it is much easier to tune them both out. When you are barraged with half a conversation it is much more distracting. "What? (pause) Yeah (pause) Yeah (pause) I know! (pause) Well that's what I said (pause) Oh get out!"
The story says they came in and pointed guns, and that there were four of them. They weren't sneaking into anywhere, it was a home invasion.
Those of us that truly want to make music will continue to make music, because it is fun for us, and satisfying to know that others have heard it and been moved in some way. Those of us that truly want to write, will write. That's what writers do, they can't help themselves. Perhaps it won't be able to pay the bills. Being supported by your art is a nice dream that a lot of creative people have, but they don't calculate the odds and say, "Oh, I won't make money on this thing I want to share with the world, fuck 'em then, they can do without." I don't think anybody does that, unless they are just about money and not their craft. We can usually tell when a creative work was pumped out just for the money can't we? Do we value those works? No, we value the works we know to have come from a passionate soul.
That's a variation of the usual joke I hear when I tell of my plight, however, that's entirely not the case. Real geeks don't use the web for pr0n or warez anyhow. The spams aren't porn-related most of the time, just the usual fare, but not in english. I suspect it somehow has something to do with my username, which I have used consistantly through the years on the net, and have often been mistaken for someone else as a result. Feanturi, the way I came upon it, is an elvish word, meaning spirit masters, although I have since learned that it is also a common first name in Finland. So some people think I'm Finnish, but I'm not.
For the spanish connection, I don't know but something really really weird happened to me one day on ICQ years ago. I was using the same username, and somebody approached me in random chat, and asked me some question in spanish. I replied that I didn't speak spanish and so, didn't understand them. The person wrote back, something long, with lots of exclamation points in it. I continued to protest that I didn't understand. 'No habla espanol' is about all I know. They switched to a larger font, restated their little rant, I protested again, so they switched to using all caps, and a still-larger font. They seemed to be getting very angry, and once they ran out of font sizes (for this continued for several more lines) they finally broke off the chat. And I was like, WTF??? Maybe Feanturi in spanish means something like baby-raper or somesuch, I have no idea.
You get those ones too? I have absolutely no idea how I attracted those, as nobody I talk to ever seems to get them. Most of my spam is in spanish, and it's all the usual stuff, mortgages, increase your whatsit, whatever. It's been going on for a couple years now, and none of my other email accounts get them.
Unfortunately, one of my closest friends, who I will always answer the phone for, has a blocked number, and I don't know if I'd want to put a message like that in their face every time they phone me. I wish I could just actually be taken off the list when I ask for it, but there isn't just one unfortunately, and my contact info has been sold numerous times and continues to propagate. I don't want a Mastercard for example. Since MC is actually represented by many and varied financial institutions, it's not really one company, so every bloody one of them keeps trying to get me to have theirs. A particular one never ever calls me of course, that's the one I originally had a Mastercard with way back, ran it up and eventually got it forcefully cancelled by them. You'd think that would get the others to leave me alone, but no. The major flood didn't actually begin until years later, very soon after I got a VISA.
I never valued MCSE and others anyway, and never obtained them, for the exact silliness to it that you imply. I make that point known whenever someone brings up certifications in conversation.
but simply saying "Please place me on your 'Do Not Call' list" is always a sufficient way to deal with telemarketers
Nope, it makes me angry, and it's good to express one's anger. And if enough people express it, maybe we can have our phones back at last. The anger comes from not just your call, no. It comes because your call has come as the second or third time that day that I have been pulled away from what I was doing, ran to a phone that I had been waiting for for some other reason, and it's someone presuming to butt into my private time to try to sell me something. Some people tolerate it fine, good for them. Some people just really want someone to talk to (I've done telemarketing at one point actually, so I know this). The rest of us are busy having our lives, and unless you're going to make a contribution to at least my phone bill, stay the hell off my phone. I pay for it to be used for my purposes, you can't reasonably presume that my priorities include salesmen in my own home at any time that is convenient to them. Friends, family, certainly, these are priorities. Others are trespassers.
It intends to uninstall the 'Spyware', but finding none, winds up attempting to uninstall 'No Spyware'. It can't figure out how to get the 'Advanced Spyware Substitute' and besides, forgot to get the spare infinite improbability drive from the engine room before coming to your computer anyway, and crashes miserably with a low score.
I think he meant to say they need to make the means of removal obvious and accessible. Getting the job done properly is certainly important too though.
Avenue Media should be just as pissed off at AdAware, SpyBot Search & Destroy, etc etc and be suing them too shouldn't they? They can't because they don't have a case for that. They're being jealous idiots is all. DirectRevenue (who suck anyway since they practice something like 'gatoring') claims to state in their user license up front that they may be removing competitor's software if it's found. So, they are claiming to remove certain adware. There are high-profile programs like the ones I've mentioned, whose sole mission is to do just that (and they make money doing it too!), and I haven't heard of them getting sued lately. Both companies need to be smacked about with 40-pound salmons.
No, as annoying as it is to see that a lot of people aren't aware of what they are opening, there are big problems they'll have by turning file extension hiding off if they still can't be bothered to learn what the extensions represent. Rename a file, and forget what the three letters were, or forget to include them at all, the dialog that comes up to warn them about this won't be read, they'll click Yes, and now their file is 'broken' as far as they know. And they don't know why. They'll phone you to find out why, and they won't tell you important things like this happened right after they renamed the file, they'll leave that part out. It can never be something they did, it was something Windows did, and please fix it! This is probably going to happen to them a few times a week and they'll still never read the dialog or clue in. That's why it's good to hide them, OR, much better, to come up with a more secure scheme for telling the OS how to open a file. The extension thing sucks, hiding or not hiding them doesn't really help the average user one way or the other.
I've been getting these diploma spam emails for almost as long as there has been spam, and it always struck me as fraud and made me wonder why they weren't being arrested. You're not just cheating yourself, you get cheated as well, and for money. That's fraud, as it devalues the real thing, and fleeces the ignorant. It's about time someone started getting in trouble for it, only took like 11 years or so.
That's what I say also, although one can guess that they were initially figuring that the capacity for speech in an animal represents a more developed brain. So once we got speech we were also smart enough to make tools with that language-connected right hand. I think it's bollocks, lefties probably made tools too, why wouldn't they? This newer study seems to reflect that as well, so all is good.
There are weight sensors in my city at various intersections, but they are only triggered by large things, such as buses. Big trucks aren't allowed in such areas, so it is just the buses that these assist. It's definitely by weight, as normal cars don't set it off, it's just to help keep the buses on schedule.