Because they'd get caught, or because they wouldn't actually want to take a human life?
Most people in the West have too much to lose from getting caught. It is part of the reason why you don't see violent uprisings against government agents very often. I think it would be very difficult to separate that motivation (or demotivation) from the part that doesn't want to take a human life. Unless you look at all those Westerners who join the military. It doesn't take a whole lot of particularly subtle indoctrination to get them to kill, once you remove the legal consequences of doing it.
And in places where people have little to nothing to lose it doesn't take a lot of prodding either. Hand out machetes and tell your Hutu friends that it is time to pay back the Tutsis for centuries of oppression, and the slaughter is on.
Are you sure you remember the incident correctly? All I remember is that the OT3 post was deleted, only to be followed by hundreds of others in the comments section of the announcement and dozens of links to it elsewhere.
The airline industry pays for the security theater
The traveling public pays for it, as that is where the airlines get their money. You'd think then that the TSA would not be able to take action without concern of the traveling public, but they seem to be able to do so.
Well, it is free, so it doesn't need much in the way of value to justify getting it.
I use it when I am somewhere I can't get a cell signal on my iphone, or where I get the 'visual voicemail is not available' message. Wading through ATT's prompt based voice mail menu system is not something I have the patience for any longer. So I read the GV messages via wifi or the like.
I have had Google Voice for about a year, and an visual voice mail for two, and I don't know that I'd say one is necessarily 'better' than the other because, as you point out, they are two different things. Like asking if a hamburger is better than a fishing pole.
I use visual voice mail most all the time, and only read GV's voice-to-text when I'm somewhere I don't have a cell signal. But it is nice to have both.
Those days are still with us. I was recently shown what I was assured was a 'state of the art' lighting controller from Square D that was little more than an HTTP server and a java applet. Luckily Square D also offers a (proprietary) client app.
If you own your house (or the bank does but lets you live there) and know electrical wiring then, yes, there are much better solutions.
I know industrial automation, so I bought a SLC5/05 in a chassis full of IO off of ebay for less than $200. That, some relatively cheap electrical hardware, and a few years of designing control systems nets me what is probably the most reliable way to automate a house that can be had.
But that isn't remotely within the reach of the average home occupant. I think X10 and their peers are offering a turnkey approximation of what I have, but that is very difficult to do.
Industrial and large scale building automation has been getting along quite well on proprietary solutions since the beginning. Attempts to bring FOSS into it have died, last I checked.
These systems are not inexpensive up front, but they certainly don't fall apart once a vendor drops support. I know of many industrial applications still chugging along with PLCs made in the 80s. All the top tier HMI packages can interface with them, so even if your front end is exposed enough to be worried about your computer's OS needing to be patched, you need only upgrade some minor parts.
I sold my 3 digit account on ebay for about $50 if I remember correctly. This was back when karma was unlimited and properly quantified and I'd built up some astronomical amount.
Toro has built a ton of joystick controlled lawnmowers, most of them of the zero turning radius type.
People either love them or hate them, with the majority tending toward hate. You'd think it would lessen the strain for a person who cuts for a living, but they overwhelming prefer the two lever controls you see on most other zero turns.
How does the availability of dedicated ebook readers prevent you from using your iPhone? If it does it must be you, because Stanza has worked for me for more than a year and delivered several books without my opening my wallet.
If I read ebooks anywhere other than on planes I might spring for something else, as the iPhone is a marginal substitute.
I travel a whole lot in America, and in Africa as well. Been around Appalachia. If you want to see people who have extremely limited access to a whole host of shit you've never even imagined could be limited, go to Africa.
Once you've found the time to RTFA you might also want to read up on the differences between legal rights and natural rights. Also might want to throw social rights in there as well, if you believe in those sorts of things.
It really is good to know from where your various rights descend.
I think title bars are unnatural. If you can't identify the window from its contents I am not sure how a title will help.
I think it is a vestige of an application-centric OS. THIS MICROSOFT WORD YOU ARE WORKING WITH HERE. I don't really care about what program I'm using, at least not on an ongoing basis after I've picked it. I care that I'm writing a letter or browing Slashdot or the like. More document-centric.
We seem to have some marginal readers among us. I mentioned the long transfer times as having been present at release, which all of you apologists admit is true. Then, later in my post, I mention traversing directories. I don't know how much you know about computers, but those are two different things mentioned at two different points in my post. Kind of like when you read a book where a guy is alive at the beginning and dead at the end. Do you wonder how he did all the things in between if he was dead?
Regardless, you are right about gettings UAC prompts when you install software. You'd think one would be enough but it usually isn't. You also have a toss up as to whether you'll need to right click and Run as Administrator or not. Confusing at best to be told to install something as an admin when you are an admin and the last install you just did asked you to confirm your admin credentials. And the app you are installing is still given the freedom to install itself and its settings almost wherever it pleases on your disk.
The overwhelming majority of computer users don't really care about the technical details of why things are done the way they are, so explanations do little to mitigate the problems. Even considering those, Microsoft fostered an environment where applications could do anything they liked at install. If they want to correct that I'd prefer they do it in a way that doesn't make me suffer for their oversight. Like many other users who can exercise the choice I intend to sit it out until they do.
I don't fault the idea behind UAC, it is absolutely needed. But with decent implementations of the same thing having been in the field for years, why did they screw up theirs so badly?
My desktops have been Unix lineage for most of my life, so I'm used to having to provide admin credentials to admin things. But I still found Microsoft's UAC immediately annoying. A lot of that has to do with poorly written software, but that is the reality of using Windows and Microsoft should have been able to accomodate it.
And they still haven't solved most of the problems associated with bad software as even Win 7 lets it fiddle with the OS too much. It can still slap icons all over the place without asking. It can add to the right click context menu (and try getting rid of that crap). It can start itself at boot in any of the many ways Windows allows, without asking you.
The post I replied to suggested that the only problem Vista had at release was needing more memory than was 'standard'. The file transfer issue was present at release, but as you point out it has been fixed. My complaint is that even with modern hardware opening a directory with 50 video files excessively slows the Explorer window. It might be that I don't care to see previews, maybe I'm just passing through, but the OS sacrifices far too much in order to display previews.
Backward compatibility is an issue beyond drivers. I don't know that I fault Microsoft for making hard decisions in order to move forward, but that doesn't make the problem go away. My friend is a shooter and needed Quickload, but his Quickload install package that worked fine in XP won't install on Vista. That is likely Quickload's fault, but it doesn't matter to my friend. At least MS made concessions to this by releasing a simple (and very good, it seems) XP virtual machine as an add on to Win 7.
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Because they'd get caught, or because they wouldn't actually want to take a human life?
Most people in the West have too much to lose from getting caught. It is part of the reason why you don't see violent uprisings against government agents very often. I think it would be very difficult to separate that motivation (or demotivation) from the part that doesn't want to take a human life. Unless you look at all those Westerners who join the military. It doesn't take a whole lot of particularly subtle indoctrination to get them to kill, once you remove the legal consequences of doing it.
And in places where people have little to nothing to lose it doesn't take a lot of prodding either. Hand out machetes and tell your Hutu friends that it is time to pay back the Tutsis for centuries of oppression, and the slaughter is on.
How much combat have you been in?
Are you sure you remember the incident correctly? All I remember is that the OT3 post was deleted, only to be followed by hundreds of others in the comments section of the announcement and dozens of links to it elsewhere.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/16/1256226
The airline industry pays for the security theater
The traveling public pays for it, as that is where the airlines get their money. You'd think then that the TSA would not be able to take action without concern of the traveling public, but they seem to be able to do so.
Well, it is free, so it doesn't need much in the way of value to justify getting it.
I use it when I am somewhere I can't get a cell signal on my iphone, or where I get the 'visual voicemail is not available' message. Wading through ATT's prompt based voice mail menu system is not something I have the patience for any longer. So I read the GV messages via wifi or the like.
I have had Google Voice for about a year, and an visual voice mail for two, and I don't know that I'd say one is necessarily 'better' than the other because, as you point out, they are two different things. Like asking if a hamburger is better than a fishing pole.
I use visual voice mail most all the time, and only read GV's voice-to-text when I'm somewhere I don't have a cell signal. But it is nice to have both.
Where is the raw data for Michael Moore's numbers you quote above?
Those days are still with us. I was recently shown what I was assured was a 'state of the art' lighting controller from Square D that was little more than an HTTP server and a java applet. Luckily Square D also offers a (proprietary) client app.
If you own your house (or the bank does but lets you live there) and know electrical wiring then, yes, there are much better solutions.
I know industrial automation, so I bought a SLC5/05 in a chassis full of IO off of ebay for less than $200. That, some relatively cheap electrical hardware, and a few years of designing control systems nets me what is probably the most reliable way to automate a house that can be had.
But that isn't remotely within the reach of the average home occupant. I think X10 and their peers are offering a turnkey approximation of what I have, but that is very difficult to do.
Industrial and large scale building automation has been getting along quite well on proprietary solutions since the beginning. Attempts to bring FOSS into it have died, last I checked.
These systems are not inexpensive up front, but they certainly don't fall apart once a vendor drops support. I know of many industrial applications still chugging along with PLCs made in the 80s. All the top tier HMI packages can interface with them, so even if your front end is exposed enough to be worried about your computer's OS needing to be patched, you need only upgrade some minor parts.
I sold my 3 digit account on ebay for about $50 if I remember correctly. This was back when karma was unlimited and properly quantified and I'd built up some astronomical amount.
Yes.
Also OSX if you are so inclined.
And iphone.
And probably some others I'm not aware of because I don't use them regularly enough.
Toro has built a ton of joystick controlled lawnmowers, most of them of the zero turning radius type.
People either love them or hate them, with the majority tending toward hate. You'd think it would lessen the strain for a person who cuts for a living, but they overwhelming prefer the two lever controls you see on most other zero turns.
How does the availability of dedicated ebook readers prevent you from using your iPhone? If it does it must be you, because Stanza has worked for me for more than a year and delivered several books without my opening my wallet.
If I read ebooks anywhere other than on planes I might spring for something else, as the iPhone is a marginal substitute.
We put a zygote in ours and got almost as high as these guys, but you didn't hear about it because only the fundie news sources did stories.
Do you know what 'on hiatus' means?
Neither can he afford to heat his swimming pool.
I travel a whole lot in America, and in Africa as well. Been around Appalachia. If you want to see people who have extremely limited access to a whole host of shit you've never even imagined could be limited, go to Africa.
Which is kind of the point.
Expensive may be relative but it doesn't constitute 'stuck'. Plenty of people could be lined up to claim dial up is expensive.
Once you've found the time to RTFA you might also want to read up on the differences between legal rights and natural rights. Also might want to throw social rights in there as well, if you believe in those sorts of things.
It really is good to know from where your various rights descend.
No one in America is 'stuck' with dial up.
I think title bars are unnatural. If you can't identify the window from its contents I am not sure how a title will help.
I think it is a vestige of an application-centric OS. THIS MICROSOFT WORD YOU ARE WORKING WITH HERE. I don't really care about what program I'm using, at least not on an ongoing basis after I've picked it. I care that I'm writing a letter or browing Slashdot or the like. More document-centric.
Valid complaints have a way of sticking around.
We seem to have some marginal readers among us. I mentioned the long transfer times as having been present at release, which all of you apologists admit is true. Then, later in my post, I mention traversing directories. I don't know how much you know about computers, but those are two different things mentioned at two different points in my post. Kind of like when you read a book where a guy is alive at the beginning and dead at the end. Do you wonder how he did all the things in between if he was dead?
Regardless, you are right about gettings UAC prompts when you install software. You'd think one would be enough but it usually isn't. You also have a toss up as to whether you'll need to right click and Run as Administrator or not. Confusing at best to be told to install something as an admin when you are an admin and the last install you just did asked you to confirm your admin credentials. And the app you are installing is still given the freedom to install itself and its settings almost wherever it pleases on your disk.
The overwhelming majority of computer users don't really care about the technical details of why things are done the way they are, so explanations do little to mitigate the problems. Even considering those, Microsoft fostered an environment where applications could do anything they liked at install. If they want to correct that I'd prefer they do it in a way that doesn't make me suffer for their oversight. Like many other users who can exercise the choice I intend to sit it out until they do.
I don't fault the idea behind UAC, it is absolutely needed. But with decent implementations of the same thing having been in the field for years, why did they screw up theirs so badly?
My desktops have been Unix lineage for most of my life, so I'm used to having to provide admin credentials to admin things. But I still found Microsoft's UAC immediately annoying. A lot of that has to do with poorly written software, but that is the reality of using Windows and Microsoft should have been able to accomodate it.
And they still haven't solved most of the problems associated with bad software as even Win 7 lets it fiddle with the OS too much. It can still slap icons all over the place without asking. It can add to the right click context menu (and try getting rid of that crap). It can start itself at boot in any of the many ways Windows allows, without asking you.
The post I replied to suggested that the only problem Vista had at release was needing more memory than was 'standard'. The file transfer issue was present at release, but as you point out it has been fixed. My complaint is that even with modern hardware opening a directory with 50 video files excessively slows the Explorer window. It might be that I don't care to see previews, maybe I'm just passing through, but the OS sacrifices far too much in order to display previews.
Backward compatibility is an issue beyond drivers. I don't know that I fault Microsoft for making hard decisions in order to move forward, but that doesn't make the problem go away. My friend is a shooter and needed Quickload, but his Quickload install package that worked fine in XP won't install on Vista. That is likely Quickload's fault, but it doesn't matter to my friend. At least MS made concessions to this by releasing a simple (and very good, it seems) XP virtual machine as an add on to Win 7.