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Obligatory Futurama.... http://vimeo.com/12915013

Every time, again and again, this video becomes more and more of a reality. It's a good thing that as a matter of happenstance the creators used the UK as the operating theater. The rest of Europe will be moving the other way.

from Pixar-sponsored scene.org, check out (2011) Numb Res by Fairlight (yes, that one) and CNCD; requires DX10 (or check out 2010's Agenda Circling Forth without the GPU-crushing endbit)... Epsilon (2011, 64k) for tasty ray tracying (or google "pouet photon race 2") ... (2010, best effects) FR-063 also has GPU physics. and (2009, 4k) Elevated has an insane amount of content for 4k.

off-scene/pouet, there's Separable Subsurface Scattering (Real Time). semi-raytracingish, there's Rigid Gems

I already travel through time. A way to stop, or at least pause for a bit, would be more impressive.

Maybe a kind of stopwatch like this? What could possibly go wrong?

Well, there is Vimeo....

Or you could Rule 34 it.

Some respected members of our community dismiss DNSSEC. This video of DJB presents an opinion: DJB at 27C3

Steven Hassan on the lack of any mention about undue influence in Scientology
As for this:

The book observes that compared with other religions, the published literature on Scientology is improvised and clouded by bogus assertions.

It's quite evident that Larry didn't actually read all the literature.

I don't know why I even bother since Slashdot seems to have utterly descended into a pseudonymous Anonymous. But on the off chance that you are not a troll, and are actually open minded, here goes.

Most climate models are historical models first and foremost. They try to explain the data we have about the climate that has been. Once you know that, it is obvious why most models don't contain any heat island modeling: 4 billion years vs. at most 2000 years, but really closer to 50 years. If you want to know more about the historic models, take a look at a lecture by Richard Alley, who explains that CO2 (not "greenhouse-gas") is the largest contributor to climate-change. Not the only, but the most important. You can explain all known data using CO2.

If you want to know more about the coming climate change and the climate conspiracy, take a look at a lecture by Kevin Anderson, who explains why all the climate emissions reports underrepresent the known data. It is so much worse than our leaders (and scientists) lead us to believe. There is still time, but we must act now, or doom our children and grandchildren (I'm 43, I'll be gone before the worst hits us).

> Criminals do not care about laws so outlawing guns will not take the guns from the criminals.

I would be interested to see if that is true. How does that statment work with countries other than the U.S.?

Brazil has a very restrictive gun ownership policy.

Now that it isn't there, I've had to rethink some pretty basic things, like why I get up in the morning, and why I bother to do my job, given that I can't get what I really want any more.

Futurama made this point as well. I'd think you have to reconsider:

• whether its presence was always simply masking the absence of other motivations, and that the issue was always there, just hidden
• how the presence or absence of involuntary physiologically-based wants/needs fundamentally advises your life choices, which you're already coming to grips with
• if, in the absence of that want, you now have the freedom to choose your own motivations/wants based on other criteria -- e.g., longer-term goals, personal principles, developing different or deeper skillsets, or anything else.

Your statement made me wonder if there's a parallel to be drawn with people who experienced actual chronic hunger due to physiology, emotional state, or environment, and at some point had that hunger quenched.

Good luck, and I hope you figure something out that gets you and your motivations back in sync.

I've been in the industry nearly 15 years now. I think not having a degree has only come up maybe one or two times. Sure didn't stop me from getting recruited by Microsoft.

What I would focus on is a couple of things:

1. Expand your horizon - learn the basics (See Michael Feathers Self-Education and the Craftsman talk from SCNA 2009). Then learn things like Functional Programming, Dynamic Typing and other languages.
2. Do other things - Make programming a hobby and a career. Start an open source project. Contribute to others. Scratch itches that bug you, but do them with software
3. Play Both Ends - Learn back end development. Learn front end development (CSS/Javascript). Do some hardware development (SparkFun's Arduino kit is fun, as well as the Roomba robot kits).
4. Read, Read, Read - Find books on software engineering. Reverse Engineering of Viruses. Design Patterns. Project Management. And go outside - books on Business topics are especially good, because you get to understand the tradeoff that often gets made.
5. Practice, Practice, Practice - Do Katas. Create projects. Explore ideas. Do things like Ludum Dare and hackathons. Build an iPhone app, then build an Android version.

I'm not trying to knock a college education - if you want it for the education. If you want it just for the advancement, the things above are going to have a much bigger impact on your career and your ability to find employment in many cases.

The method and apparatus for implementing translucent images, and many more advanced image processing techniques

No need to read that link, let's think back to 40 years ago, in 1972, when we had 3D shaded rendered graphics.

Now, just keep that in mind alone and consider any 2D graphics tricks patented ~20 years after we already were working with 3D graphics, Z-buffers, etc... 2D image convolutions? On a Computer you say? In the fucking 1990's no less? You know, around when Realtime 3D Virtual Reality Games like Dactyl Nightmare and Exorex could be played at the mall? When the Genesis and Super Nintendo were available? When I was using CorelDRAW? When Morphing graphics were so popular (the next-gen step AFTER fade transitions) that it spawned ridiculous movies and even shows like the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers?!?! And pixel color Modulation wasn't obvious to us then regardless of "apparatus"? Sorry, no dice Apple, get bent.

block or restrict access to specific websites involved either in gambling, child pornography or copyright infringement.

It used to be a joke when "copyright infringement" was put in the same category as serious offences, see this wonderful video. Are these politicians out of their mind, or are these people bought and paid for as the video suggests?

This lady figured out how to make your own apple cables, apparently it's pretty simple:

"Reverse-engineering Apple's secret charging methods"
http://vimeo.com/13835359

But even if you can make your own, I think the licensing issues prevent the possibility of selling them.

If your contract doesn't cover this already, then you need to get a lawyer asap to fix the contract, and then try to get them to pay up and renegotiate the new contract.

See this video for examples on how your contract should be protecting you from this already:
http://vimeo.com/22053820

When I first read the summary of TFA, I quietly said to myself, "Good. I am glad we have solved all the big problems on our planet."

There are two things that immediately come to mind:

1. First world "problems" aren't problems: http://youtu.be/fxyhfiCO_XQ

2. Our perspectives and focus in life are highly myopic. For our species to survive, we must think broadly and deliberately. We need to have awe at the world around us. We need to take time to be still and listen. The latest gadgets and toys are great, but what we do with the gadgets and how we use them is far more important. The short time we are given on this earth is more important than most of us can conceive.

What I am trying to say is that there is so much more to life than the volume of television commercials. During this time of year, take time to turn off the tap of the media giants and spend some time with your loved ones...the people who helped shape you, and the people you are helping to shape.

Mr Rogers says it better than I can during his lifetime achievement award acceptance speech. You need to hear it if you haven't: http://youtu.be/Upm9LnuCBUM

Here's a video to help explain this broad overview perspective that I speak of: http://vimeo.com/55073825

Now, what was that about some new FCC legislation taking effect today?

http://vimeo.com/46304267

get people like beavis and butthead to fly them but give them some training first.

http://vimeo.com/44875392

Ahh, Vimeo isn't blocked. Here's the link http://vimeo.com/21216091

I tracked the video down to ReVuln - SCADA 0-day vulnerabilities

Now can someone tell me what I saw? All I can see is video of some commands being typed into a command window in a older version of Windows, and lots of graphics (and funky music) saying exploit this and exploit that. How do I know that what they are claiming is what is shown on that video?

Note that I am not doubting that SCADA systems are not secure, the've been my bread and butter for a long long time. I just want cold hard facts., not a presentation that looks like it is a sales pitch aimed at scaring SCADA manufacturers.

Just trying to understand how others experience the world, so please forgive me if I ask an obtuse question. I watched a video the other day which had been described by some with Asperger's as a very accurate depiction of their experience of a meltdown. What I noticed from the video, above all, was the way things that would have blended together as white noise for me demanded constant attention, as much as I wanted to ignore them.

So my question is this: if what I took from the video was in anyway accurate (if not, just let me know), does anything analogous happen with smells as well? I.e. as individual sights and sounds do not equalize to manageable or meaningful levels, do smells also each cry out for individual attention?

No. Because Libertarians believe they can do what they want so long as it doesn't impact someone else or cost someone else (who isn't willing to foot the bill) money.

People who smoke pot in the privacy of their own homes? Problem.

Drunk drivers who crash and kill people? Problem.

Jeremy Hammond talks about equality. Always with the notion that special, gifted him is somehow "more equal".

This is the guy who went into a 0-Day security group and was trying to tell the regulars they should "hold the best stuff back for themselves" so they "look like gods to the up-and-coming hackers".

This is the guy who was teaching people to hack live servers at his day job, in an open IRC channel. And the servers he was using? Contained live customer data. Doing so without the consent of his employer.

This is the guy who, because he didn't believe in property, was stealing every scrap of food his roomate brought home for herself and then advising for a freegan lifestyle.

This is the guy who's breaking into servers of people who've done him no wrong. He does it, and causes damage, simply because he disagrees with them politically. Or is trying to get them to shut up.

This is a guy whose first instinct on being heckled is to attack, tossing a bottle into a crowd.

Here's a Vimeo copy of a DefCon 2004 talk he did. http://vimeo.com/38329327

Playing "Spot the Fed" was REALLY easy that year. And Hammond himself was quite nearly lynched by some of the people at his talk.

This is a guy who thinks it's okay to simply break the stuff and vandalize the property (real or electronic) of people who don't agree with you (and anyone else in the vicinity as well).

So PLEASE don't try to paint a general political ideology as "the same" as him.

Fair enough. I still do think you were extremely unlucky. You hit a nerve because Catalans are getting tons of hate from Spaniards lately, since we are getting very serious about seceding from Spain. If anyone is curious, here's a couple vids explaining what's going on from the perspective of an American.

Fair enough. I still do think you were extremely unlucky. You hit a nerve because Catalans are getting tons of hate from Spaniards lately, since we are getting very serious about seceding from Spain. If anyone is curious, here's a couple vids explaining what's going on from the perspective of an American.

They were given that land, legally.

Oh really?? By whom? Some bald headed old white men who didn't own it? If you mean, by legal, with a big gun, you would be right. And please, don't try to tell me they moved in peacefully. That kind of fabrication goes beyond the pale.

I have no need for VM, but I think the opinion of those using it, in many different settings, is much more valuable that any wiki entry or manual.

His post is spot on. The question isn't profound and has been asked and answered many times over the years. There is more to the internet than wiki entries and manuals. Most of these software packages have forums and guides specifically about setting up, configuring, and using these packages. Failing that there are oodles of video tutorials on sites like Youtube and Vimeo. To top it off basic questions about "Recommented free VM software" have been asked (and answered). If you have technical questions those are best found where users of the software congregate, if you can't fathom where that would be, first try the vendors website.

Perhaps your time would have better spent giving us some information instead of a rant?

So your solution is to rant about a rant? Maybe you can make an ask slashdot question about this very topic!

Obviously, they put it right next to the 30,000 pounds of bananas:

http://vimeo.com/16809690

"....and watching how that movie director Robert Rodriguez successfully preaches low-budget artistic control vs. bigger-budget studio-control has taught me how raw talent, motivation, and perseverance can still succeed against 'the odds'."

That dude hasn't made a worthwhile movie since Sin City. He uses low budgets as an excuse for making crappy movies. There was no reason Predators had to suck with that budget. It was all him. He's infatuated by Hollywood's adoration of him. Crammed so many celebrities into Machete, he bloated out the story to fit them all in. Should have turned the camera off when Booth was killed. That was the end of the story that mattered. Same with his career.

Here's a wonderful music video Robert Rodriguez shot that may-or-may-not be self-aware that it's the story of Rodriguez banging a Hollywood Starlet (Rose McGowan) and then stressing over whether or not his kids from his divorce will accept the younger woman. Bob Schneider plays the Robert Rodriguez role while Kat Demming fills in for Rose McGowan. His kid plays himself in the video. I can't tell if he's tipping his hat to Nena with the release of the red balloons at the end or is just outright ripping the ending off.

Seth

Hey, I remember when gas went past 50 cents. A lot of gas stations had pumps with electro-mechanical meters that couldn't handle those prices, so they posted signs saying telling people that the pump displayed 1/2 the actual sales prices.

At the time I lived in the GTE service area. They were notorious for the sheer unreliability of their network. Dropped calls, bad sound quality.

People in AT&T service areas got better service, but paid through the nose for it. If you lived in an area with "zoned calling" you could bankrupt yourself just dialing across town. Hooking up non-Western Electric hardware to your phone line was illegal. To hook up your computer, you had to lease (it wasn't for sale) a "data set" from the local phone company. The thing was huge and expensive. accoustic couplers were invented to get around this,.

Not feeling nostalgic at all.

I live in Portland. We don't have lawns, we have rain gardens.

This animation was created for an animation show in London by the very talented Chavdar Yordanov https://vimeo.com/chavdaryordanov

Not my Work! - HEX

On that note: http://vimeo.com/21148965

The real tl:dr, in line with the anniversary mo(o)d... ;-)

Great idea BTW. Now just think of the kind of footage (including audio) we'll get when everyone is wearing/wielding their Google Glasses (or Sights for that matter ;-)) in just a few years (actually, everyone minus the millions who'll get jailed for accidently looking at or listening to anything copyrighted for more than 30 milliseconds while on).

We're sorry... http://vimeo.com/16337587

You're not exceptional, you're an egomaniac.

Ah. I see what the problem is. Above, you said this:

"When I was young, I thought myself exceptional as well. I chalk that up to youthful arrogance. I got over it. My self-worth is no longer defined by what I fancy myself as "good at"."

Ok, so apparently at one point in time you were Nick Burns. Fine. But now you've seen the light and you think that we - just like you did - need to get over ourselves, it's nothing special, and so on. What you're doing is projecting your life's experience onto an entire industry and everyone in it. I'm very glad you "got over it", but please don't apply your experiences to everyone else. Please read item #2, Fundamental Attribution Error for clarification.

And also, please pay attention to the AC below about the Gaussian distribution of intelligence.

Yup. Try this:

http://vimeo.com/18279777

Sadly, the San Joaquin Valley faces continuing pressure due to salinization. Every drop of water that irrigates the SJ desert contains a bit of salt, and when those drops evaporate, that salt is left behind, slowly increasing the toxicity of the soil. Worse, as the richness of the soil degrades due to the farming, its ability to handle saline conditions further declines.

This valley will work for now, but it's really only a short-term solution unless we work out. The only way we could go longer term would be to introduce the permaculture concepts put forward by the likes of Geoff Lawton which emphasizes long term sustainability and enhancing biodiversity alongside your crops.

BTW, this technology is gaining traction in India where the already-poor soil was boosted by fertilizers only for a short time. Now, the cost of the fertilizers has grown sky high since more is needed every year to achieve similar performance, permaculture offers similar yield performance without any of the costs of various chemicals.

is slightly less powerful than a single queef

Clearly, you have never been exposed to the Road Warrior Queef.

There is a fantastic TED talk by Kirby Ferguson that expands on this theme (loss aversion in behavioral economics) and discusses some of these exact quotes/points. In short: "great artists steal, but not from me."

I guess you get what you pay for. If you have a turn-of-the-century fab, then sure you can make flat nanolenses. If all you have is a late-70s CNC, you can make any other lens. CNC is a somewhat more widely available technology, but then if Jeri Ellsworth has her way, it may be nanolenses all the way down soon enough :) It's good work that you're doing, don't get me wrong. Kudos.

> It seems that India is having troubles keeping the
> electricity flowing these days, so how do they propose
> to power the compressor plants?

http://vimeo.com/34504342

I was going to say they knew how to parallel park quite well. But you said they can't back up, which is I guess why these Chinese parallel park the fast way instead...

I'd argue if that's the case, you're doing it wrong. Java was designed to be ubiquitous and to provide that write-once-run-everywhere capability that we needed, but hasn't succeeded arguably one of the worst languages ever created (weak typing, too!). Surely there's something bigger here than you or others are willing to admit.

You mention tool-chains, but it appears implicit that you haven't noticed that same trend web development. It's moving away from manually using HTML5 APIs, DOM manipulation (because the DOM API can fuck itself, for all we care), etc, and more towards the development of widely used, open, stable, and mature libraries and frameworks that provide incredible speed and agility in authoring. Look at AngularJS. It has the potential to replace GWT at Google as a platform*. Wow. It was designed to make development of web interfaces faster than GWT, and in fact, that's the very story of its birth.

No offense meant towards you or anyone else who finds themselves in a similar boat, but in my experience, the case is in general that it's a simple case of doin'-it-wrong. I typically hear this from people who WANT the web as a platform to fail or to be bad, and so they create this huge barrier akin to noticing that C lets you use inline ASM and then taking that as "C is basically just writing ASM, how can anyone get anything done with this?". The web has within it a beautiful and rapid basis for application development. Try to get in touch with it, your life will be simpler.

And towards the future: we have potential prospects like Dart that could succeed Javascript in a few years, we can hope. It's substantially better as a language fundamentally than JS but remains quite simple to use, especially for JS veterans, and for anyone familiar with C or Java. Right now, it has terrible performance, so when V8-level JIT-fu is applied, I suspect Dart will be the fastest web-borne language in existence (strong typing means the JITC can do a much better job without needing to rely on deoptimizations due to type inference failures, which are essentially the cache-misses of JS). The future is full of possibilities for web development. Embrace it, and encourage sanity. It's easy to belittle something, it's harder to improve it.

* I tried to find this reference, I believe it's in one of the I/O 2012 videos, if you care to find it.

Yeah because Yahoo isn't building a profile on you right? Right? Oh and protip: your Youtube alternative is called http://www.vimeo.com/ . You can tip your tin-foil hat to me later.

My guess is the DDOS was to prevent users from updating their details while **RIA via some (government) agency went about shutting the site down.

Email addresses could identify users. Demonoid does keep a history of upload & download stats, but I'm not sure if they maintain a list of torrents downloaded.

yikes, I hope not. I can't remember which (if any) email address I used to register.

Good thing I never registered for an account there, eh? But I did search for a torrent within the last 2 years...

Cue jackboots in 3... 2... 1...

What's strange about this is that the ASB are a self-regulated *COUGH* *COUGH* group from the advertisers which are infamous for dismissing complaints by the public. The scuttlebutt with self-regulation of advertisers, medical professionals, lawyers, anybody, is the hope that if you pretend to do the job yourself the government won't do it for you. Their investigations inevitably end with: "Further finding that the advertisement did not breach the Code on any other grounds, the Board dismissed the complaint."

But don't take my word for it. Their determinations are online here:
http://www.adstandards.com.au/casereports/determinations/standards?browse

There have been many stories published accusing the ASB of being biased towards advertisers:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-04-29/advertisers-blamed-for-increasing-child/2701322
http://vimeo.com/2788853
http://mumbrella.com.au/asb-investigates-lynx-dry-ads-featuring-women-who-look-hot-wet-27383
http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2287201.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3029145.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2598826.htm
https://www.google.com/search?q="media+watch"+"advertising+standards"&site:abc.net.au

The crazy thing is the standards are voluntary so there is no penalty even if they do catch you out. Here they did catch Subway for passing off manufactured meat as fillet, but the penalty was, ummm... nothing. Subway said they would change the menus. That was it. (This article says it could be referred to the ACCC, but they are a statutory body and can do that anyway without the ASB. You can complain directly to the ACCC anyway. The ASB has the same legal status that you and your footie mates head out to a game.) http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2012/06/27/food-companies-asked-to-apply-for-government-money-2.html

Advertisers take advantage of the weak penalties by doing such bad taste ads they're bound to get reported and get a 6:30PM news story asking "Has XYZ gone too far with this sexy ad? stay tuned and we'll show you after the break." Most infamous was the blow jobs for shoes ads: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/240602_s4.htm

So why on Earth has the ASB come down hard on Facebook? For a fervently pro-advertiser organisation this is quite weird. I doubt it's because they're suddenly "siding with the consumer". I think there is something more going on here. Perhaps it's because advertisers hate losing ad revenue while firms start advertising directly on the Internet? Perhaps this is an chance to scare wayward customers back into their arms?

And there is the punchline: The ASB has no power anyway, so despite the buzz this news story has created Carlton Breweries can flip them the bird and keep using Facebook. Must suck when Self-regulation comes back to bite you, eh, ASB? ;-)

And therein lies the problem. Instead of the user learning one interface, he has to learn a dozen different ones, and quickly adapt between them.

I think its an advantage not a problem. But regardless my argument with GP was that it is a huge shift from static menus. The reason I think it is an advantage is because it allows them to add so many context specific menu items that you'll never see unless you work in those contexts.

For example there are all sorts of complexities of handling hindi or arabic glyphs (the symbol that represents a character) that don't exist in English. If you are entering text in those languages they need those menu items, I don't. Mixing right to left alphabets like hebrew or arabic with left to right create complexities, that deserves menu items. Complex bibliography handling deserves menu items when you are doing a formal bibliography. Etc....

(The most irritating thing is how much screen real estate is wasted, making the most important thing - the actual e-mails or meeting requests - get only a fraction of the space on a laptop with limited resolution

Well that's kinda central to the design of Outlook. If you don't like the task plane approach why use Outlook as your mail client? Google just bought a company that makes a minimal mail client (so I'm assuming they are going to bring this out). Tell me if this is more like what you would want?

http://vimeo.com/32852176

GRACE measures the accelerating mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica, and tracks global water storage.

GRACE measures the accelerating mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica, and tracks global water storage.

There's also the short film Sight.

http://vimeo.com/46304267