Comment Re:How do you know the MAC addresses are random? (Score 1) 323
Exactly! And the black helicopters could be invisible and inaudible and circling above us right now!
Exactly! And the black helicopters could be invisible and inaudible and circling above us right now!
This is one more step in pushing their own schemes.
Sure, on the face of it there's benefit from being able to avoid being tracked by 3rd parties.
But what do you want to be you'll be unable to change your device's iBeacon ID in the same manner?
What's an iBeacon ID? The iBeacon is the device that is installed in the store. iBeacons send data. iPhones receive that data. Never is anything sent from an iPhone to an iBeacon. And while the app on the phone is able to process the data from the beacon, that is completely opt-in. As in you need to use the app in the first place.
(Sorry for disturbing your completely irrational Apple hate. You may now continue.)
What if I don't want to save my changes?
"You can use the 'undo' command they say..."
Yes but the undo command isn't persistent between applications, much less a power failure.
On OS X auto save is combined with versioning. So, yes, you can undo changes. Even after reboots.
Could just be that we are the first (somewhat) intelligent life around.
Of course it could be. It just seems very unlikely.
I've read a bit about the topic before and everything you said has already been considered; there should have been conditions favorable to life billions of years ago.
We could be the first. The question is still: why?
I'm starting to become convinced there is simply no way to travel in a meaningful way among the stars. No species has figured out how to do anything like FTL or even slow boating.
That doesn't matter. Even if you don't have FTL you could still build Von Neumann probes which would be able to colonize the galaxy - even with fractions of the speed of light.
http://www.nickbostrom.com/ext...
"If a probe were capable of travelling at onetenth of the speed of light, every planet in the galaxy could thus be colonized within a couple of million years [...]. If travel speed were limited to 1% of light speed, colonization might take twenty million years instead. The exact numbers do not matter much because they are at any rate very short compared to the astronomical time scales involved in the evolution of intelligent life from scratch (billions of years)."
That's not a valid explanation because there are many planets that were able to harbor life millions of years ago. If intelligent life emerged as fast as possible, life from those planets would already have colonized the galaxy.
it stands to reason that the "filter" could in fact be very close at hand, either through some social thing like nuclear war, or something else like a nearby exploding supernova.
It can't be something like a supernova. That would be random and some civilization wouldn't have encountered any and would be ruling the galaxy right now.
No, the Great Filter must have something to do with biological or technical progress itself. Either it's very unlikely that intelligent life evolves at all or it is very unlikely that a civilization reaches the level where they would be able to colonize the galaxy.
So if we find life elsewhere, that would make it less likely that the Great Filter is located in the earlier stages.
OSX is unfortunately bitmap based
What is that supposed to mean? A lot of artwork comes in bitmap format. But there are also quite a few PDFs and the OS doesn't really care either way.
The graphics system is point based. Where a standard display features one pixel per point and a high dpi display has two (by two) pixels per point.
Apple tried to make the UI scale arbitrarily, (the feature was available for development purposes for years) but it didn't really work all that great, because there are too many cases where you get off-by-one errors that look quite bad. They eventually decided that it wasn't worth the effort and instead opted simply for displays with a 'high enough' resolution (i.e 'retina' displays) and integer scale factors.
It's trademark, intellectual property, that allows you to tell the difference between Coke, Pepsi, and RC cola.
No, it is not.
It is my nose and taste buds that tell me the difference.
Lipstick(trademark) on a pig doesn' change the fact your still dealing with a pig.
Yes it is. Because you can't taste every bottle of Cola before you buy it.
A thought experiment: Replace 'Apple' with 'Chinese phone manufacturer' and 'NSA spying scandal' with 'Chinese spy scandal'. Would you still trust them?
Actually, that would worry me less, since I can't think of anything the Chinese would want to do with that information. The US on the other hand has already proven, that they think they are the world police.
In Safari, Command Shift T, simply toggles the displayed tabs or does nothing.
Yup. But, of course, if you accidentally closed a tab, cmd-z will undo that. Like it should.
The funny thing is everyone got guns to protect themself from this..
So, guns protect you from drone strikes?
Yeah, right
Grids of icons have been a blight upon GUIs for decades. Why do they persist?
Seriously?
Because you can put more square icons in a grid of a certain area than you can in list form. Duh.
Maybe, but I think an ASCII art is quite a bit more difficult to break, even if directly targeted.
It's not. It's essentially just adding a bit of noise to the image.
The ASCII art CAPTCHA is also much easier to read then weird image CAPTCHAs.
ASCII art should be rather easy to beat. Just blur the image and increase contrast.
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