Comment Re:Dystopia myopia (Score 1) 390
Could be. As I watched the piece on TV about this, it "struck" me that this is the next logical step forward, assuming that current technologies such as seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, etc. are maxed out.
Could be. As I watched the piece on TV about this, it "struck" me that this is the next logical step forward, assuming that current technologies such as seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, etc. are maxed out.
When I saw this reported on The Evening News last night (which evidently also is "News for Nerds", only faster), they said that 30,000 people die in the US every year due to auto accidents. If this technology could prevent just a fraction of those, it's worth doing.
Some dystopia. Those of you who are worried about the NSA using this as a new way to spy on you in the future should be more worried about how airbags and seatbelts are being used to spy on you now. And before that, way back in the 1930s, shortly after Aldous Huxley wrote "A Brave New World", safety glass was introduced. Can that be mere coincidence?
What's the use of having a real identity like "TheloniousToady" if you don't stick your neck out a little every now and then?
I suppose you'll be quoting Pink Floyd's "Bitcoin" next...
If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Exactly. That's why I post here so often as Anonymous Coward.
It would be nice if there was some socially accepted graceful way to either turn down such a promotion, or better still have it reversed when you realize you've been over-promoted.
At a couple of places I've worked at in the past, that was called "staff". Basically, an ex-manager would work for someone high up in the organization, just as he did when he was a manager, he just wouldn't manage anybody. Like all such euphemisms, though, it didn't take long for everyone figure out what "staff" really means.
Sorry to gloat, but now that the Superbowl is over I'd like to point out that I was absolutely right about Wolfram Alpha having a 50/50 chance of predicting the winner. And not only did Wolfram Alpha fail to predict the coin toss, it also failed to predict that the coin would be tossed twice. Clearly, Wolfram needs to develop a new kind of (computer) science.
I think you're being too pessimistic. I give Wolfram Alpha a 50/50 chance of getting the winner right. That said, I give them lesser odds for predicting the coin toss.
Linux users have the option of choosing a different desktop environment or window manager.
I predict that 2014 will be the Year of the Linux Desktops.
unlike on Windows or OS X, where there is only one path forward, at best having some kludge solution that may or may not be reliable.
As a recent victim of Windows 8, I've just tried the"Start 8" add-on, and it looks promising. I hear that "Classic Shell" also is good. So, it looks like we have multiple paths forward. I don't know if the add-on approach is what you mean by "kludge", but that seems to be quite popular in other cases, e.g. Firefox. Since I'm used to the Windows 7 interface nd basically like it, it's nice to have a form of choice that helps me get back to where I once belonged.
OTOH, every time I try out a Linux distro, one of the first questions to think about is "Gnome or KDE"? I've tried both in the past, and I still don't know the answer to that question - even for just me. Sometimes having only one path forward (with some options) ain't all bad.
You can endlessly polish your elegant solutions for decades (see Hurd) while the rest of the world happily uses "technologies that are just barely able to solve the problem".
Which got me thinking...since the Mythbusters recently proved that you can polish a "Hurd", I guess the GNU folks can retire their experiment now.
Good enough is perfect.
That's a concise and interesting twist on the old adage Perfect is the enemy of good. Well done!
It sounds like an external password database was hacked and all the usernames + 'yahoo.com' and the matching passwords were tried against Yahoo Mail.
It doesn't seem like Yahoo could have done anything more about this. It is a case of password reuse, not Yahoo's password storage.
Right. Evidently it's easier to go for knee-jerk Yahoo bashing than to read TFA. I wonder if the folks who do that also save time and energy by reusing passwords?
It was just a joke. Why so nasty?...does somebody need to take his widdle nap?...
That looks like a factor of two, not an order of magnitude. Maybe you should spell it out next time...
Like it or not, pictures are still a more efficient way of communicating data than text. By an order of magnitude.
You've lost me on that...can you show me a graph?
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion
