really? It "works." Because I'm pretty sure bank impersonating cyber criminals aren't going to say "aww well we better not impersonate this site because it's illegal now to register the word bank." You think they care about it being illegal? You know what else is illegal? Impersonating a bank and stealing money! They're either going to do it anyway or if they literally have a block on that word with the registrar, they'll just register "somebanknamefinancial" as long as the bank name doesn't have the word bank in it. Or maybe to impersonate Anchor Bank (that's mostly in Wisconsin I think but still) they'd register AnchorSecurity or AnchorPassword or AnchorInfoReset. You don't need the word bank.
I'm no astronomer but...
It could have impacted with a moon or other planet recently and became that large not to mention had its orbit altered from the impact energy
It may have formed a lot later than planets typically do
It may have some unusual sized moon(s) with strange orbit(s) that keep it stable at that distance
I mean come on, there are things that could cause this exact condition. It's not "impossible"
Everyone keeps saying they "photoshopped" it. This is Microsoft. Adobe makes Photoshop. Clearly from that quality editing, they used a Microsoft photo editor like Picture It. Actually that's exactly what you'd get if you used Picture It lol.
OMG, you don't seriously believe him, do you?! He's a programmer so he's probably pretty smart. Apparently you're not though because you can't see right through him.
Step 1: steal the code and some open source stuff
Step 2: if you get caught, say it's an accident
Step 3: when they charge you anyway, win in court with that excuse and prove without a doubt that you haven't in fact use the code at your new job
Step 4: win the case
Step 5: double jeopardy laws make it so you can't be tried twice for criminal charges so after the court case, start using the stolen code that you previously hadn't used
amen to that. This isn't TV, judges in real life have a philosophy that when there's a question about a law, you have to determine what the intent of the law was and that's more important than the exact literal wording. Clearly the law was intended for real ISPs so it doesn't really mean what it said. This is the worst possible case that this could have happened in though! What the hell was the judge thinking? That's like making him hand over $100,000 to bank robbers after registering his own fake police precinct. Helloooooooo, spamming is illegal!!! When are the people he tried to sue going to jail and getting massive fines?
They first step is admitting that letting everyone edit everything is a HORRIBLE IDEA! And if you're about to disagree, you're thinking right now "well...99.9% of people" because guess what, there's always some moron or self serving person or vandal out there. This stupid hippie notion that everyone is awesome and we should all get together and hold hands and write articles for the common good is unrealistic and they're finally backing off from that so it might eventually become a remotely respectable source of information.
I think they're basing it on the director (M Night Shyamalan). They clearly determined he can't write so I guess they're trying to see if he can direct. Knowing him, he's not going to be able to keep his hand off the story though and he's going to add some non-actual-storyline twist of his own that will piss people off. Like ooohhh it turns out, Aang is really a fire bender the whole time. Or ohhh this is all actually happening in a dome like the Truman Show. I have no idea why they're plastering his name on this movie after repeated disasters. It's like they're trying not to get people to see it.
Watching that, I can't help but think that the math/programmer behind it is fairly simple with a basic knowledge of physics and the only reason this wasn't around 10 years ago was chips not being fast enough. Now that the technology exists, all the theoretical robot motor function logic can actually be put into practise. If you think about it, the dribbling code must be really simple. Run the numbers while the ball is in the air about precisely where and at what angle the ball impacted the first finger at and position the third finger accordingly and make it swing with the proper force and angle to bounce it back to the first finger. It's like programming pong with a few extra lines of code and raw date from sensors lol. Okay that was a bit too simple as a comparison.
By the way, is it just me or does anyone else think that it failed some of those test on the first fifty takes lol. I think it's not quite as accurate and perfect as the video makes it out to be.
I've always wondered if someone could make a browser just for hacking. Like display POST data in plain text and let you modify javascript commands and change true to false and send invalid form data anyway, etc. That would be so unbelievably valuable but as far as I know, it doesn't exist. Is that isn't feasible and why has nobody ever done it?! Are rendering engines and javascript engines that hard to write from scratch? Wouldn't hackers just copy and modify existing engines?
Factoring in the average people who die from preventable diseases that they mostly caused themselves is just dumb if you ask me. As long as I don't gain 200 pounds, I don't have to worry about dying at the age they did for the reason they did so why factor it into the average person's life expectency? They need a "healthy people" expectancy stat instead. You know what else they count for that stat? EVERYTHING! People getting hit by buses, attacked by bears, blown up by putting propane tanks in their engine compartment, everything! Yeah, they actually count accidents in the official life expectancy stat, making it pretty misleading.
If you're wondering why Molyneux announced it this early and is trying to get it as much attention as possible and make it sound like it's going to change gaming forever (again), you need a little back story on him because this is the kind of BS he always pulls.
Here's the short version: he's the king of all self important douchebags who makes even Steve Jobs looks like the Snapple guys in the cranberry commercial. His douchebaggingly long video of himself talking about how Fable 2 was going to be the best, most awesome game ever that will stomp on everyone else's games and be legendary for years was awfully similar to his douchey video for Fable 1. Neither have come even remotely close to what he builds them up to be. He definitely lives in his own little world. Even the Bethesda team behind Oblivion and Morrowind don't say their games are going to be as good as he does and his products fall waaaaaay the hell behind theirs. Oblivion makes Fable 1 look like Quest64 by comparison and it even stomps on Fable 2, while still magically being released like 3 years prior! It was one of the best games of all time and basically all Bethesda released was "yeah, it's going to be a big improvement compared to previous games and continue to push game quality and design ideas."
And of course Molyneux has a different approach. He goes out there making 20 minute videos telling you how the next game is going to change your life, blow your mind, and be your God. He seriously needs to take it down a notch and I'm not looking forward to the year or more of douchebaggery coming out of his mouth while they make Fable 3.
The probability of it getting all the way there without one single part of the 1 KM sail getting hit by any single piece of space rock or other debris: 0%
Dream on, space sailors. It's an idiotic idea and always will be.
SQL injection? I went to a local 2 year college and I know how to prevent those. Any idiot knows how to prevent those! Filter some damn command words and characters! Parameterize all queries! This is what happens when stupid people hire programmers with 4 year and masters degrees who look good on paper but actually have no idea what they're doing. I hate it when people like that who companies think are sooooo great get a job over me just because of their 4 year degree and going to some fancy private college but I love it when things like this happen and they crash a burn. They damn well better have gotten fired and replaced by someone who's not a moron.
The worst one I've seen is Fable The Lost Chronicles. They spent all that time adding like 20 hours more content to the game with new graphics and voices and quests and towns and yet they still left the entire engine and graphics system in such a non-working form that about 1 in 25 times that you tried to load a new area, the game simply crashed. They released absolutely zero patches for it too!!!! How do you release what's practically a version 1.5 of a game and not support it at all afterwards?! The people responsible for that atrocity should be shot.
I'm pretty sure that's why they did it. The company probably said "we can disrupt all cell phones kept in this pocket" and they said "WE'LL TAKE 1000!" The whole radiation protection is just an excuse.
okay, this is actually really simple. Fatty foods slow down the digestive system and require more blood to be pumped into the stomach's compression muscles and later, the intestines to absorbs and transport it all. So eating fatty foods make your muscles weaker and brain slower because there's less blood flowing to them. The more you eat, the worse it gets. This is the same reason you get cramps while swimming or running after eating. Your stomach and intestines are using up all the blood so your muscles run out of energy and oxygen and cramp up.
Yeah, until the fuel runs out. I'm pretty sure that with solar panels, the sun never runs out. I wonder how much it costs to call up Uranium-R-Us and have them run up some more nuclear fuel. I suppose they'd be smart and bring enough for like 100 years but still, it's a bit more dangerous than solar and results in a radioactive byproduct. I saw with the recent advances in solar energy, why not just put some really efficient solar panels up there instead?
Hey guess what, troll, I wrote some software for the users of a website that allows them to write content offline and there's no way in hell I'm letting them see the source code. It's 100% free with no ads or any way for me to make any money off it. No ways to even donate money to me, UNLIKE MOST OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS. So I guess mine's more free and not open source. There really are people out there who write software and give it away for free with no strings attached without any need to release the source. If you don't have a reason to, why do it? If you don't need anyone else to help with it, why put the source code out there for something you yourself wrote? That's just asking someone to steal code.
Since I know someone's going to ask, nobody's seeing my source because:
The website users are a bunch of copyrighted content stealing jackasses so someone would definitely steal the code and recompile it differently
I have hidden code in it to kill switch the software for users I don't like and more hidden code that detects their username from their internet cache and bans them from ever using my software again if they're already on my bad list. Now before you go all "OMG MALWARE" on me, these people are unbelievable. Why would I let people who send me PMs that are just swear word laden rants use my software? Or people that have been caught stealing content from me on the site and haven't gotten banned for it? Or people who purposely rated all my content lower because they're assholes? Or people that threatened to kill me because I'm a moderator and deleted a bunch of their rule-breaking content? So yeah, if I release the code with the hard wired usernames on the banlist, that'd go over real well.
And most importantly, I don't want anyone else working on it. It's relatively simple and I can finish it myself without anyone else's crappy code having to be used. Unlike projects like Open Office, I don't release my finished product until it's perfect and that wouldn't happen if two people are writing code independently from each other for no reason when one person can do it just fine.
okay, 2 things about this: If their brand new, top of the line processor is only shooting to take out the midrange market because it's still worse than the best intel ones, that's not a real good sign. Also, you might not be overly concerned about power comsumption but in a small apartment or bedroom or home office, that room is going to get really hot really fast. Combine it with my 8800GTS and you've got a nice little space heater, which is great in the winter but not so much in the summer.
actually they did "support" it...they dumped it and released IE7 hehehe. Was there really any other option? I usually consider "not supporting" like a product line that was completely discontinued like...umm...is Netscape still around? IE7 is sort of an update to IE6 in the same way that XP was an update to ME. You can literally buy an upgrade version of XP for windows ME that will alter it into XP so you could consider that the final fix-all support for ME. So saying they "discontinued support" for ME isn't exactly true. If they just made ME and then stopped and had no upgraded version of the product line, then it'd be discontinued support.
but definitely ask how long the position is intended to exist. Sometimes instead of going with a contractor like Tek Systems for a 1 year project, they just hire someone. But since everyone finds out that it's a temporary spot, they stop telling people so they can finally get one hired. Then to make sure you get the job, if they say it's only for the duration of a large project, say that's fine and they'll be shocked and lean towards hiring you. Then do such a good job that at the end of the project, they don't want to lose you and either increase their staff budget or fire someone else.
They'll even let you put full metal airsoft guns in your carry on. I think harpoon guns are allowed too. But SURPRISE, they don't want someone to carry on any form of weaponlike item cuz you could hijack the plane, duh! Maybe not with a plastic pirate gun but hey, who's to be the judge of that?
Slashdot Mirror
really? It "works." Because I'm pretty sure bank impersonating cyber criminals aren't going to say "aww well we better not impersonate this site because it's illegal now to register the word bank." You think they care about it being illegal? You know what else is illegal? Impersonating a bank and stealing money! They're either going to do it anyway or if they literally have a block on that word with the registrar, they'll just register "somebanknamefinancial" as long as the bank name doesn't have the word bank in it. Or maybe to impersonate Anchor Bank (that's mostly in Wisconsin I think but still) they'd register AnchorSecurity or AnchorPassword or AnchorInfoReset. You don't need the word bank.
I'm no astronomer but...
It could have impacted with a moon or other planet recently and became that large not to mention had its orbit altered from the impact energy
It may have formed a lot later than planets typically do
It may have some unusual sized moon(s) with strange orbit(s) that keep it stable at that distance
I mean come on, there are things that could cause this exact condition. It's not "impossible"
Everyone keeps saying they "photoshopped" it. This is Microsoft. Adobe makes Photoshop. Clearly from that quality editing, they used a Microsoft photo editor like Picture It. Actually that's exactly what you'd get if you used Picture It lol.
OMG, you don't seriously believe him, do you?! He's a programmer so he's probably pretty smart. Apparently you're not though because you can't see right through him.
Step 1: steal the code and some open source stuff
Step 2: if you get caught, say it's an accident
Step 3: when they charge you anyway, win in court with that excuse and prove without a doubt that you haven't in fact use the code at your new job Step 4: win the case Step 5: double jeopardy laws make it so you can't be tried twice for criminal charges so after the court case, start using the stolen code that you previously hadn't used
amen to that. This isn't TV, judges in real life have a philosophy that when there's a question about a law, you have to determine what the intent of the law was and that's more important than the exact literal wording. Clearly the law was intended for real ISPs so it doesn't really mean what it said. This is the worst possible case that this could have happened in though! What the hell was the judge thinking? That's like making him hand over $100,000 to bank robbers after registering his own fake police precinct. Helloooooooo, spamming is illegal!!! When are the people he tried to sue going to jail and getting massive fines?
They first step is admitting that letting everyone edit everything is a HORRIBLE IDEA! And if you're about to disagree, you're thinking right now "well...99.9% of people" because guess what, there's always some moron or self serving person or vandal out there. This stupid hippie notion that everyone is awesome and we should all get together and hold hands and write articles for the common good is unrealistic and they're finally backing off from that so it might eventually become a remotely respectable source of information.
I think they're basing it on the director (M Night Shyamalan). They clearly determined he can't write so I guess they're trying to see if he can direct. Knowing him, he's not going to be able to keep his hand off the story though and he's going to add some non-actual-storyline twist of his own that will piss people off. Like ooohhh it turns out, Aang is really a fire bender the whole time. Or ohhh this is all actually happening in a dome like the Truman Show. I have no idea why they're plastering his name on this movie after repeated disasters. It's like they're trying not to get people to see it.
Watching that, I can't help but think that the math/programmer behind it is fairly simple with a basic knowledge of physics and the only reason this wasn't around 10 years ago was chips not being fast enough. Now that the technology exists, all the theoretical robot motor function logic can actually be put into practise. If you think about it, the dribbling code must be really simple. Run the numbers while the ball is in the air about precisely where and at what angle the ball impacted the first finger at and position the third finger accordingly and make it swing with the proper force and angle to bounce it back to the first finger. It's like programming pong with a few extra lines of code and raw date from sensors lol. Okay that was a bit too simple as a comparison.
By the way, is it just me or does anyone else think that it failed some of those test on the first fifty takes lol. I think it's not quite as accurate and perfect as the video makes it out to be.
I've always wondered if someone could make a browser just for hacking. Like display POST data in plain text and let you modify javascript commands and change true to false and send invalid form data anyway, etc. That would be so unbelievably valuable but as far as I know, it doesn't exist. Is that isn't feasible and why has nobody ever done it?! Are rendering engines and javascript engines that hard to write from scratch? Wouldn't hackers just copy and modify existing engines?
what are the consequences if it doesn't break through the sail? (duh) What happens if a 50 pound seagull flies into a sailboat's sail?
Factoring in the average people who die from preventable diseases that they mostly caused themselves is just dumb if you ask me. As long as I don't gain 200 pounds, I don't have to worry about dying at the age they did for the reason they did so why factor it into the average person's life expectency? They need a "healthy people" expectancy stat instead. You know what else they count for that stat? EVERYTHING! People getting hit by buses, attacked by bears, blown up by putting propane tanks in their engine compartment, everything! Yeah, they actually count accidents in the official life expectancy stat, making it pretty misleading.
If you're wondering why Molyneux announced it this early and is trying to get it as much attention as possible and make it sound like it's going to change gaming forever (again), you need a little back story on him because this is the kind of BS he always pulls.
Here's the short version: he's the king of all self important douchebags who makes even Steve Jobs looks like the Snapple guys in the cranberry commercial. His douchebaggingly long video of himself talking about how Fable 2 was going to be the best, most awesome game ever that will stomp on everyone else's games and be legendary for years was awfully similar to his douchey video for Fable 1. Neither have come even remotely close to what he builds them up to be. He definitely lives in his own little world.
Even the Bethesda team behind Oblivion and Morrowind don't say their games are going to be as good as he does and his products fall waaaaaay the hell behind theirs. Oblivion makes Fable 1 look like Quest64 by comparison and it even stomps on Fable 2, while still magically being released like 3 years prior! It was one of the best games of all time and basically all Bethesda released was "yeah, it's going to be a big improvement compared to previous games and continue to push game quality and design ideas."
And of course Molyneux has a different approach. He goes out there making 20 minute videos telling you how the next game is going to change your life, blow your mind, and be your God. He seriously needs to take it down a notch and I'm not looking forward to the year or more of douchebaggery coming out of his mouth while they make Fable 3.
The probability of it getting all the way there without one single part of the 1 KM sail getting hit by any single piece of space rock or other debris: 0%
Dream on, space sailors. It's an idiotic idea and always will be.
SQL injection? I went to a local 2 year college and I know how to prevent those. Any idiot knows how to prevent those! Filter some damn command words and characters! Parameterize all queries! This is what happens when stupid people hire programmers with 4 year and masters degrees who look good on paper but actually have no idea what they're doing. I hate it when people like that who companies think are sooooo great get a job over me just because of their 4 year degree and going to some fancy private college but I love it when things like this happen and they crash a burn. They damn well better have gotten fired and replaced by someone who's not a moron.
The worst one I've seen is Fable The Lost Chronicles. They spent all that time adding like 20 hours more content to the game with new graphics and voices and quests and towns and yet they still left the entire engine and graphics system in such a non-working form that about 1 in 25 times that you tried to load a new area, the game simply crashed. They released absolutely zero patches for it too!!!! How do you release what's practically a version 1.5 of a game and not support it at all afterwards?! The people responsible for that atrocity should be shot.
I'm pretty sure that's why they did it. The company probably said "we can disrupt all cell phones kept in this pocket" and they said "WE'LL TAKE 1000!" The whole radiation protection is just an excuse.
okay, this is actually really simple. Fatty foods slow down the digestive system and require more blood to be pumped into the stomach's compression muscles and later, the intestines to absorbs and transport it all. So eating fatty foods make your muscles weaker and brain slower because there's less blood flowing to them. The more you eat, the worse it gets. This is the same reason you get cramps while swimming or running after eating. Your stomach and intestines are using up all the blood so your muscles run out of energy and oxygen and cramp up.
Yeah, until the fuel runs out. I'm pretty sure that with solar panels, the sun never runs out. I wonder how much it costs to call up Uranium-R-Us and have them run up some more nuclear fuel. I suppose they'd be smart and bring enough for like 100 years but still, it's a bit more dangerous than solar and results in a radioactive byproduct. I saw with the recent advances in solar energy, why not just put some really efficient solar panels up there instead?
What happens when the enemy mirror coats the missile? Like totally chrome it out so it reflects like 99.9999% of light?
Hey guess what, troll, I wrote some software for the users of a website that allows them to write content offline and there's no way in hell I'm letting them see the source code. It's 100% free with no ads or any way for me to make any money off it. No ways to even donate money to me, UNLIKE MOST OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS. So I guess mine's more free and not open source. There really are people out there who write software and give it away for free with no strings attached without any need to release the source. If you don't have a reason to, why do it? If you don't need anyone else to help with it, why put the source code out there for something you yourself wrote? That's just asking someone to steal code.
Since I know someone's going to ask, nobody's seeing my source because:
The website users are a bunch of copyrighted content stealing jackasses so someone would definitely steal the code and recompile it differently
I have hidden code in it to kill switch the software for users I don't like and more hidden code that detects their username from their internet cache and bans them from ever using my software again if they're already on my bad list. Now before you go all "OMG MALWARE" on me, these people are unbelievable. Why would I let people who send me PMs that are just swear word laden rants use my software? Or people that have been caught stealing content from me on the site and haven't gotten banned for it? Or people who purposely rated all my content lower because they're assholes? Or people that threatened to kill me because I'm a moderator and deleted a bunch of their rule-breaking content? So yeah, if I release the code with the hard wired usernames on the banlist, that'd go over real well.
And most importantly, I don't want anyone else working on it. It's relatively simple and I can finish it myself without anyone else's crappy code having to be used. Unlike projects like Open Office, I don't release my finished product until it's perfect and that wouldn't happen if two people are writing code independently from each other for no reason when one person can do it just fine.
That's awfully expensive to "develop" when they stole filtering code from an internet filter company, as reported on slashdot.
okay, 2 things about this: If their brand new, top of the line processor is only shooting to take out the midrange market because it's still worse than the best intel ones, that's not a real good sign. Also, you might not be overly concerned about power comsumption but in a small apartment or bedroom or home office, that room is going to get really hot really fast. Combine it with my 8800GTS and you've got a nice little space heater, which is great in the winter but not so much in the summer.
actually they did "support" it...they dumped it and released IE7 hehehe. Was there really any other option? I usually consider "not supporting" like a product line that was completely discontinued like...umm...is Netscape still around? IE7 is sort of an update to IE6 in the same way that XP was an update to ME. You can literally buy an upgrade version of XP for windows ME that will alter it into XP so you could consider that the final fix-all support for ME. So saying they "discontinued support" for ME isn't exactly true. If they just made ME and then stopped and had no upgraded version of the product line, then it'd be discontinued support.
but definitely ask how long the position is intended to exist. Sometimes instead of going with a contractor like Tek Systems for a 1 year project, they just hire someone. But since everyone finds out that it's a temporary spot, they stop telling people so they can finally get one hired. Then to make sure you get the job, if they say it's only for the duration of a large project, say that's fine and they'll be shocked and lean towards hiring you. Then do such a good job that at the end of the project, they don't want to lose you and either increase their staff budget or fire someone else.
They'll even let you put full metal airsoft guns in your carry on. I think harpoon guns are allowed too. But SURPRISE, they don't want someone to carry on any form of weaponlike item cuz you could hijack the plane, duh! Maybe not with a plastic pirate gun but hey, who's to be the judge of that?