Comment Re:well, why wouldn't they? (Score 2) 198
Why can't the computer sciences folks ALSO include the study of humans and how they interact with computers? Seems you don't need separate studies with funding for that...?
It is a job. Like most people..you get one, you will get fired from one.
Life goes on.
remix, fired, laid off...WTF difference does it make? Drop the sensitivity, and just start looking for the next gig. This is life.
Get the govt OUT of the behavior modification business....I'm still trying to find where in the constitutions of the fed and states it is supposed to have this as a mandate.
Myself? I've never owned anything other than 2x seat sports cars (ok, the 1986 911 Turbo Porsche technically had 4 seats, but you couldn't fit a human back there). I prefer fun/performance cars. I can afford them, they make me happy every time I jump in the car and turn the key.
It should be up to you or the govt to tell us what to do with our lives to make them happy and what to buy that is useful to us.
If everyone starts to want EV and other vehicles, the market will ask for them. When gas does finally start going through the roof...people will once again start migrating that way.
But where in the constitution of the US does it tell the feds they can mandate what vehicles we can make...or better than that, where does it charge the Federal Govt with trying to alter and mold citizen behavior?!!?
car is being repaired. Ridiculous! 20 MPG and every time I step on the brakes or the gas it rocks back and forth like a rocking chair. It seats about as many people as a sedan and can carry only slightly more junk than a sedan. Why do people want to drive these things? They aren't attractive, they don't stop/go fast, they can't carry much stuff. I don't get it.
I don't understand why so many people want to drive pickups either. In a pickup you can only haul stuff you care about in decent weather. I get it if you're a farmer or ranch hand and need to haul messy stuff year round, but why would anyone else want to drive a truck? And why is it that the bigger the pickup, the greater the odds that they will back into parking spaces?
I have a crossover SUV that gets about the same gas mileage as a Nissan Altima (3.6L though, which means a lot more kick). I can fit every single piece of furniture I own in that thing (not all at one time, obviously), except for my bed. It seats 5 people more comfortably than a sedan of that size. I bought it to haul around gear that I was using on a weekly basis - though I no longer need that capability. I ended up getting an inexpensive scooter to save on gas.
Would you feel as coldly towards a person suffering diabetes? A person who needs daily finger-prick blood testing and may even require insulin injections?
We didn't get to choose our brains or our bodies, just like you didn't get to choose yours.
Besides, if I had a choice I'd naturally rather be a unicorn, just like every other sane person out there.
I know someone who has diabetes who does not (and should not drive). They have historically had trouble controlling their blood sugar properly and, as such, have had trouble remaining consciousness from time to time. No one mandated that this person not drive, but they felt like it was in the interest of safety that they not drive.
... and anything from iPhone 4 upwards can use iOS 7. There is practically no reason not to write for IOS 7 exclusively, since nobody with iOS 6 is going to buy any apps anymore.
As of February of this year, all new app releases MUST target iOS 7 or higher as well as support 64 bit
A police chief that clearly stands for the police state, where public and private partnerships arbitrarily decide who is guilty and who is not and deny access to those them deem to be what ever they deem them to be for what ever reason they deem ie guilt upon accusation without proof. So how do you keep terrorists from attacking your customers without securing your services. How do you adhere to principles of a countries constitutions when you start ignoring them to convenience the police state.
So Mr Police Chief, why are convicted terrorists allowed full access to the internet because until you prove you case, they are not terrorists they are suspects. So the headline should be "Too many corporations allow secure access to the Internet for potential suspects of crime". As for suspect being less informed about police tactics, hey shit for brains Police chief, all of your tactics are by law required to be subject to public review and be taken into account at the next election as a measure of how well that government is handling the justice system. A citizen has a right to review all the actions of a government and then they get to choose whether they approve and vote for them again or whether they disapprove and vote for someone else.
Oh I thought he was making the statement that too many tech companies were helping terrorist police states in domestic and foreign spying.
"Call your doctor immediately if you experience a coding session lasting more than four hours, as this may indicate a serious side effect."
It is through the Dew of Mountains that thoughts acquire speed.
They could maintain a list of third party library versions and identify versions of apps that link with them. But then what? As a user, I might not want Apple to shut off some random app I depend on -- just because they think it might be hackable doesn't mean my device is actually being hacked; and I might really need that app today for some important client presentation.
They could contact impacted developers and request they repair the damage, but what can they do if nobody responds?
Apple focuses on end user experience first. They won't want to inconvenience their users that much.
Well, somebody needs to play Devil's Advocate here, so I will. What if onboard vehicle computers truthfully are (or soon will become) so complicated - and so integral to the functioning of the vehicle - that an untrained hobbyist screwing with it could cause injury or death?
Fuck, man, brakes have been like that for a hundred goddamn years!
Stop letting "buh-buh-buh-computers!" be an excuse for corporate sociopaths and nanny-state asswipes to destroy your rights. Seriously.
We have two choices: we can be free, or we can be safe. These are mutually exclusive. And in the United States of America, the only correct choice is to be free. Sniveling infantile cowards who think otherwise can fuck off and die.
Who says you're that much safer when you're not free? There can still be terrorist attacks, manufacturing problems, murder and other problems without freedom. The Soviet Union had serious problems with medications such as antibiotics not being manufactured properly. People died because of it. They weren't very free there. And what about the millions of Soviet citizens that were murdered by the hand of Stalin himself?
My roommate in college had a chain he'd made of them, it would run from the roof of the dorm to and out into the parking lot a good ways.
I think our dorm was at least 15 floor or so....
The amount of money we waste scuttling U.S. Naval vessels is shocking. We sink multi-billion dollar aircraft carriers as part of "live fire testing." Here's the USS America (CV-66) sunk off the East Coast after only 40 years of service. Why? The Navy chose to install diesel engines on it even after nuclear powered CVs had been launched. So, they decided the cost to replace the USS America's power plant with a nuclear reactor was just too expensive. Should be recycle thousands of tons of steel? Nah. There goes another $4.5 billion in taxpayer money.
Well the point of this particular test was to see how an aircraft carrier could withstand a nuclear bomb detonation, and was not just because we had nothing better to do with the ship.
By activist you mean corporate lobbyists. They are the ones pushing this computer programming b.s.
Hmm...I wonder if they're pushing for more women in IT, because they can pay women less?
This way they get more cheap workers into the workforce, without having to increase HB-1 foreign workers?
Sounds like an interesting conspiracy theory.
But on the issue of separate (but equal) education. Why stop at boys/girls only schools. I would think ALL groups would do better in similar group schools no? Whites and blacks and latinos and orientals all in separate but equal schools. Separate out of those, the boys and girls...and from those the separate out the straights and gays.
At this point, I'd guess they would show stats that all groups do much better at whatever....right?
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
