We could be the slow kids.
Here's a depressing thought for you:
The triumphant day arrives when we finally meet intelligent aliens, only to discover we idiot humans are NOT the ones riding the short bus.
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The closest you came to mentioning any specific codes of behavior should not be lightly discarded was your mention of the Bible. I did the best I could attempting to address your completely non-specific assertion that there was something valuable in archaic religious codes of behavior that was being (improperly) discarded lightly by modern society. I tried to imagine what you had in mind, and I'll admit some of the possibilities I considered led me to a negative expectation. However I was also firmly conscious that it would be invalid to draw any conclusions based on my imagination of what you might mean. So I specifically asked you to identify one or more examples. Like I said I suspect they won't be very good, but I'm listening and I want to fairly consider what you were trying to say.
What did you have in mind?
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These were not arbitrary codes of behavior, these were proven ways of keeping society working over time. That doesn't mean everything is right or that one could improve upon most of it, but there's good solid advice there that should not be lightly discarded.
Seriously?
There is ZERO problem with anything being "lightly discarded". We're talking about crap that is literally taken as "word of god" by a majority of the population. It took fucking SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND dead Americans to get rid of slavery. It countless court battles every year, and countless criminal arrests every year, eternally fighting back Biblical versions of Sharia law. We have a large minority of the population who vote for whatever politician proclaims their adherence to the Bible the loudest, and an overwhelming majority of the population who refuse to vote for any politician who doesn't make at least some statement proclaiming the Bible is the Word Of God. We have people being murdered in Exorcisms.... and before you dismiss that as merely a few rouge extremists let me point out that one of the leading contenders for the next presidential race published a description of his own participation in a partcularly abhorrent violent crime, one which not-uncommonly ends up in a murder. And think deeply on the fact that many voters take that as reason FOR electing him to the presidency, and many are be accepting/neutral about it. If you strip the Biblical/religious angle out of that story, everyone involved should obviously be in fucking PRISON for what was done to that poor woman.
Most people aren't religious fanatics, but for a large majority of the population anything related to the Bible is given at least a passive level of default acceptance... even when it's a State Governor and possible presidential candidate recounting their participation in an abhorrent violent crime, it is passively accepted as a non-story. Even when it's someone actually campaigning for presidential candidate nomination on video participating in a ritual for protection against witchcraft in the name of Jesus, it's a non-story. No reporter cites Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live and asks whether there should be capitol punishment if a witch is caught.
No, there's NOT ONE case of "good solid advice" from the Bible being "lightly discarded". What we have in anything Biblical being deeply entrenched, with literally violent force from fanatics and passive acceptance by "moderates". What we have is an almost impossible series of struggles over endless centuries trying to dislodge the most toxic bits one-by-one.
If you want to argue your case you're going to have to do better than some empty handwave that there exists some sort of "good advice" being "lightly discarded". You're going to have to have to identify one or more examples of supposed "good advice". I rather suspect that any example you try to give will fall into at least one of three categories. Either (1) it was never particularly good advice (2) maybe it was "good advice" for a primitive barbaric society but it's not very good advice today, and/or (3) maybe it is "good advice" but it's a Golden-History fantasy to believe the advice was actually applied more in the past than it is today.
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failure of border protection
Yep.
Indonesia made the mistake of allowing some of our religious loons enter their country...
and then we make the even bigger mistake of letting them come back.
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Terrorists are a sometimes-maybe-sorta threat.
Even that is an overstatement.
Terrorists are a marginally greater threat than getting struck by lightning or killed by a falling vending machine, and less of a threat than bathtubs or death by falling out of bed.
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Failure of Windows 8
Failure of Xbox One
Failure of Vista
Failure of the Kin
Failure of the Zune
Failure of Windows Phone 7
Failure of Windows Phone 8
Ummmm, what the fuck is a Kin?
[Checks Wikipedia Kin]
Kin was a mobile phone from Microsoft, manufactured by Sharp Corporation...
Microsoft invested two years and about US$1 billion developing the Kin platform.
How the fuck do you spend a billion dollars, and and fail so hard that a geek's geek had to google the name?
P.S.
You can add Bing to the list of failures, considering that "google" is now an English language dictionary verb synonym for "search", and "Bing" is just an annoying sound that hasn't earned dollar #1 of profit.
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If Balmer's retirement goes past past schedule like everything else, it could happen right on time for Obama to take the position and snag the Nobel Prize for Economics too.
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I'd be willing to quit his job for half that.
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Even half a Jobs would turn Microsoft around from the stagnating business it has become.
In this economy, good luck finding even a part-time-Jobs.
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It will be interesting to see how this affects Microsoft's stock price.
They'll go flying... like a chair through Windows.
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Oh heavens, it must be happening again. I'm obviously experiencing a relapse of those terrible hallucinations that have plagued me for years.
Oh, wait, she's real after all.
Dude, you posted a photo of a laptop sitting on the armrest of an empty couch
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I found it surprising that it seemed to be saying that most of the devices responded in under a microsecond, while others were over 10ms.
I'm pretty sure it was a single device that was tested 227 times.
The spec actually says the host must send a 20 ms wake up signal, then wait quietly for 10 ms. If we start counting from the beginning of the quiet period (the end of the wake up signal) then you get the odd seeming result that the device is usually ready "instantly <1 ms" and sometimes takes 13 ms. But if we start counting from the beginning of the wake-up signal we get the more reasonable seeming result that the device usually completes waking up in <21 ms and sometimes took up to 33 ms. The device was in violation of the spec in the occasional cases where the it took >30 ms to complete the activation.
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Atleast with the case of xHCI the 10ms is actually a minimum for both -- the specs do not indicate a maximum for the hardware to resume at all.
That's not how specifications work. Both sides are required to obey the spec for things to work. A minimum for one side is a maximum for the other side.
It's like we have a lunch break specification. The specification says that on a lunch break he must wait a minimum 30 minutes before sending the employee more work to do. This means the employee has a maximum 30 minutes to finish lunch.
What is happening here is that the employer (the computer) is obeying the spec. It's waiting the required minimum time, then sending a message "here's some work to do". The employee (the USB device) is late, still lingering out to lunch (in violation og the lunch rules) when he gets the work message. This employee (device) is responding "I'm not ready, I quit" and goes home (device disconnect).
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You're welcome.
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The same things a national security letter could, and almost certainly did, demand from Groklaw.
(A) All emails
(B) All account information for every account
(C) IP-addresses and any other data on hand that can be used to track ever Slashdot user
(D) to install a surveillance box on the network to scan and log every packet of everyone who views Slashdot (regardless of whether they post)
The would probably also demand (E) to copy the entire database of all posts by every user and all other publicly available information. Category E is stuff anyone can get merely by scanning the site over the internet, but doubtless they'd take it because they can and because it saves them a lot of work trying to crawl the entire website themselves.
And based on what happened with TOR recently, and based on the available information on the Lavabit situation, it seems very possible the government has moved beyond "passive listening" and has moved into the realm of forcing active code onto websites to attack/subvert visitors' machines. As I understand it, Lavabit was set up in such a way that the Lavabit servers literally didn't have access to the information the government would need to access the mails... that the only way the government could obtain useful information would be to hijack the Lavasoft servers and use them to actively extract the required information from visitors.
Note that the government has already beenhacking into cellphones and car ONSTAR type systems to turn on the microphones an use them as "roving wiretaps". Those aren't even National Security Letter level stuff, those are court cases of regular law enforcement doing it.
So yeah, no big shocker if they're demanding websites host attack code to trace people who's true IP address is hidden behind TOR or a proxy or otherwise hard to trace.
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Byte your tongue.
