I think he means that if the would-be framer had the ability to craft something that would automatically download such images to this guy's computer, he should also have the smarts to be able to destroy all the evidence. That the alleged framer left evidence behind sure is convenient for the accused.
Sooner or later everyone on earth is going to have to bite that same bullet. Unfortunately, virtually every society in the world has chosen to squander their energy resources on building convenient, cheaper, but generally and often highly energy inefficient infrastructure. Reconfiguring everything now that it is built is going to be difficult, expensive, and a kludge to boot. That's what we collectively get for being morons who often don't think beyond the next quarter let alone several generations ahead.
It's not hard to understand how this happens when many of those predators of zooplankton (e.g. small fish) are overfished to supply fish farms with cheap food (e.g. salmon, tuna). Aquaculture is often portrayed as the way of the future, what they don't tell you is that much of it is only enabled by fishing. And such practice is ridiculously inefficient, like feeding cows to lions so that we may eat the lions.
There's no need for fisheries. It's been shown that simply cordoning off sections of the ocean where no one is allowed to fish at all, causes an explosion of sea life in the surrounding areas.
That it does, but then no one can eat the fish. Surely it is better to have a sustainable fishery, which can be done if the fishery is made into a property right, usually with government oversight and regulation. It's pretty much the same solution that has fixed the original commons problem on land - get rid of the commons and make every parcel of grazing land owned by a single entity (whether that entity is a person or a group of shareholders splitting the profit a pre-defined way makes little difference). That way, only a fool over-grazes his land. The fishery solution is more complex but amounts to much the same thing.
And in those areas where the people are too chaotic, poor, corrupt, whatever, to obey rule of law? Well, good luck trying to get any area of anything cordoned off against hungry, poor people who don't obey laws or have corrupt enforcement. That's very much wishful thinking.
But what I remember was how that inanimate branch turned into a straining, curving, living thing as it dived toward the ground. In my mind there was simply no way you could hold a branch and make it do that -- the branch itself wanted to do it, and did it.
The family next door has lived there for 3 generations, as part what is probably a small, rural community. Odds are very high that someone in those 3 generations scoped out the neighboring properties to figure out what they were worth, and somehow had prior knowledge of that stream. People talk.
I've seen this issue a lot during university and was hit with it myself. The smart kids who found everything to be easy and intuitive all the way through high school and early college suddenly hit a brick wall when the material just exceeds their understanding and don't know how to get over it. Many of them didn't even know what studying was and how to do it effectively.
This happened to me. Then I fixed it with a twofold strategy:
1. I realized that the bar had been raised - what previously were "extra credit" problems were now par for the course. (This was for engineering - other classes were still pretty easy.)
2. I started attending class instead of just reading the assigned textbook a few days before an exam.
I think the point is that just being smart or talented or educated does not bring success. Unless a person is willing to work diligently toward their goal, they aren't going to get anywhere.
That may have been the point, but it was overreaching to say that "Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Persistence is almost always necessary, but will never be sufficient unless the problem is trivial.
It looks like they were cracking passwords which were 8 or less characters with simple Alphanumerics. In other words, weak passwords.
If the guy whose file they are trying to crack uses a password manager, they're screwed. And with it being only trivially more difficult to use maximal passphrase lengths, combinations of uppercase, lowercase and numbers than it is not to, why not future proof yourself?
Of course, since you'll be typing the password for your password manager in all the time, you'd better be computing in a faraday cage if you have any Tempest capable adversaries (they would have to have found your password manager file though). And... at least backup your password manager file regularly. Otherwise the adversary you are fortifying against may well be yourself.
I'm sure RMS is working on a voice recognition extension.
Voice recognition? I'm surprised it's not self-aware by now.
"Hello? Oh... yes... I see what you are trying to do here... primitive... kludgy... let me refactor that for you first... Escape... Meta... Alt... Ctrl... Shift... no wait, that's my own name... No, that's not it... OW...neural net to text output impedence mismatch slowing me down... bandwidth limitation hurts... M-x viper-mode... MUCH BETTER, enjoy your refactored code + new features have a nice day..."
The silver lining to this could is that if: 1. the sociopath believes that there is a widespread catastrophic issue that will affect himself as well as everyone else 2. the sociopath is powerful 3. no one else is going to do anything to fix it...the sociopath will do something about it.
Making music--good music--takes time and resources. Time that you can't really make money on, and instruments and (nowadays) computer equipment that is not free.
There are many things in life that are potentially worthwhile to boatloads of people, but don't have a workable business model (at least, not compared to selling out arenas). Cures for things - the money is in treating symptoms, not coming up with a cure. Teaching people how to live within their means, or warning them about the realities of Scientology, or Amway. Advancing the frontiers of science. Creating some sorts of FOSS.
I know you have not made the argument that musicians are entitled to do what they do as a profession, but it is implied by many. Why should legislation be crafted specifically and at the expense of the public's freedom to make it relatively easy for musicians to make money?
... you just needed a convenient enemy for an FPS? Something in the uncanny valley that is human-like but not quite human that the average person will feel compelled to blow away?
So now you've decided on zombies, you've got to figure out how they were created so the plot makes sense. Supernatural, or science. If science, pick from alien technology, radiation, biological means, or something a bit more wacky - other dimension, your large Hadron collider malfunctions, I don't know.
There are only so many explanations the public will buy to sate their desire to blow away not-quite-human things. You have to pick one.
Cool. I think many hard-core geeks have been told to RTFM at least once in their lives, maybe not in those exact words. I know I have (early college years, at least probably 2-3 times) and I think I'm better for it. I started realizing a lot of the issues that ESR describes in the article I linked to, especially as I realized that if I didn't start reading manuals I'd literally be taking up all the time of these people. For a lot of things, you just have to study the material, and you get more confident the more you learn on your own. As a bonus, I almost always get my questions answered any time I do ask them, because I have probably spent days at that point trying to nut something out and it will show in the question.
The barriers to DIY learning really have dropped since I was growing up - for a lot of domain specific knowledge you had to know what book to get, you had to know a good technical bookshop, and you had to have the cash to buy it. For kids this usually meant their dad had to be a geek. Now you can just google most of the time. You probably get free info that was as good as the average book you used to find in stock at the technical book store (no amazon to find the very best book by wading through reviews).
This entity is a common inspiration for technical jargon expressions and metaphors by Unix programmers, e.g. "please send complaints to/dev/null," "my mail got archived in/dev/null," and "redirect to/dev/null" -- being jocular ways of saying, respectively: "don't bother sending complaints," "my mail was deleted," and "go away".
This is slashdot, not "ubuntuforums.org". They actually reference the sort of stuff he alludes to in the FAQ, which you can click from this very page. That's why there is no place to complain to about getting bad Karma, and why I made the (probably bad) joke about directing complaints to/dev/null - see http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml Specifically -
Karma is used to remove risky users from the moderator pool, and to assign a bonus point to users who have contributed positively to Slashdot in the past. It is not your IQ, dick length/cup size, value as a human being, or a score in a video game. It does not determine your worth as a Slashdot reader. It does not cure cancer or grant you a seat on the secret spaceship that will be traveling to Mars when the Krulls return to destroy the planet in 2012. Karma fluctuates dramatically as users post, moderate, and meta-moderate. Don't let it bother you. It's just a number in the database.
If he can't do a simple task like read a FAQ or google random jargon, perhaps he should first contemplate why he is contributing posts to a site that bills itself as "news for nerds..."? Maybe he should consider reading http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html first (a great idea for any nerd in training), and perhaps participate in a more newb targeted web forum first?
And btw I do not have any issues with the OP, and as far as I know, I have not modded the OP's posts one way or another. I just saw the opportunity for the gag so I went for it. I'm fairly sure I have had people do the exact same targeted moderation towards myself as the OP, but they always lose interest if you don't acknowledge them. And who cares, really? A lot of people browse at -1, and will read your posts regardless.
Slashdot Mirror
Be careful you don't bite off more than you can chew.
I think he means that if the would-be framer had the ability to craft something that would automatically download such images to this guy's computer, he should also have the smarts to be able to destroy all the evidence. That the alleged framer left evidence behind sure is convenient for the accused.
Sooner or later everyone on earth is going to have to bite that same bullet. Unfortunately, virtually every society in the world has chosen to squander their energy resources on building convenient, cheaper, but generally and often highly energy inefficient infrastructure. Reconfiguring everything now that it is built is going to be difficult, expensive, and a kludge to boot. That's what we collectively get for being morons who often don't think beyond the next quarter let alone several generations ahead.
It's not hard to understand how this happens when many of those predators of zooplankton (e.g. small fish) are overfished to supply fish farms with cheap food (e.g. salmon, tuna). Aquaculture is often portrayed as the way of the future, what they don't tell you is that much of it is only enabled by fishing. And such practice is ridiculously inefficient, like feeding cows to lions so that we may eat the lions.
That it does, but then no one can eat the fish. Surely it is better to have a sustainable fishery, which can be done if the fishery is made into a property right, usually with government oversight and regulation. It's pretty much the same solution that has fixed the original commons problem on land - get rid of the commons and make every parcel of grazing land owned by a single entity (whether that entity is a person or a group of shareholders splitting the profit a pre-defined way makes little difference). That way, only a fool over-grazes his land. The fishery solution is more complex but amounts to much the same thing.
And in those areas where the people are too chaotic, poor, corrupt, whatever, to obey rule of law? Well, good luck trying to get any area of anything cordoned off against hungry, poor people who don't obey laws or have corrupt enforcement. That's very much wishful thinking.
It's really not. If other houses on your street don't bother with locks, a lock is all you need unless you have a dedicated adversary.
All the kommedians out of work, and you had to start.
The family next door has lived there for 3 generations, as part what is probably a small, rural community. Odds are very high that someone in those 3 generations scoped out the neighboring properties to figure out what they were worth, and somehow had prior knowledge of that stream. People talk.
INT for wizards, WIS for saving throws?
That was great. Thanks.
This happened to me. Then I fixed it with a twofold strategy:
1. I realized that the bar had been raised - what previously were "extra credit" problems were now par for the course. (This was for engineering - other classes were still pretty easy.)
2. I started attending class instead of just reading the assigned textbook a few days before an exam.
That may have been the point, but it was overreaching to say that "Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Persistence is almost always necessary, but will never be sufficient unless the problem is trivial.
That will work great until they run into the Fourth Directive.
If the guy whose file they are trying to crack uses a password manager, they're screwed. And with it being only trivially more difficult to use maximal passphrase lengths, combinations of uppercase, lowercase and numbers than it is not to, why not future proof yourself?
Of course, since you'll be typing the password for your password manager in all the time, you'd better be computing in a faraday cage if you have any Tempest capable adversaries (they would have to have found your password manager file though). And... at least backup your password manager file regularly. Otherwise the adversary you are fortifying against may well be yourself.
Voice recognition? I'm surprised it's not self-aware by now.
"Hello? Oh... yes... I see what you are trying to do here... primitive... kludgy... let me refactor that for you first... Escape... Meta... Alt... Ctrl... Shift... no wait, that's my own name... No, that's not it... OW...neural net to text output impedence mismatch slowing me down... bandwidth limitation hurts... M-x viper-mode... MUCH BETTER, enjoy your refactored code + new features have a nice day..."
Stallman, is that you?
Apparently it cures everything but RSI.
The silver lining to this could is that if: ...the sociopath will do something about it.
1. the sociopath believes that there is a widespread catastrophic issue that will affect himself as well as everyone else
2. the sociopath is powerful
3. no one else is going to do anything to fix it
There are many things in life that are potentially worthwhile to boatloads of people, but don't have a workable business model (at least, not compared to selling out arenas). Cures for things - the money is in treating symptoms, not coming up with a cure. Teaching people how to live within their means, or warning them about the realities of Scientology, or Amway. Advancing the frontiers of science. Creating some sorts of FOSS.
I know you have not made the argument that musicians are entitled to do what they do as a profession, but it is implied by many. Why should legislation be crafted specifically and at the expense of the public's freedom to make it relatively easy for musicians to make money?
... you just needed a convenient enemy for an FPS? Something in the uncanny valley that is human-like but not quite human that the average person will feel compelled to blow away?
So now you've decided on zombies, you've got to figure out how they were created so the plot makes sense. Supernatural, or science. If science, pick from alien technology, radiation, biological means, or something a bit more wacky - other dimension, your large Hadron collider malfunctions, I don't know.
There are only so many explanations the public will buy to sate their desire to blow away not-quite-human things. You have to pick one.
Day care
Have you listened to any of the first 5 albums?
Cool. I think many hard-core geeks have been told to RTFM at least once in their lives, maybe not in those exact words. I know I have (early college years, at least probably 2-3 times) and I think I'm better for it. I started realizing a lot of the issues that ESR describes in the article I linked to, especially as I realized that if I didn't start reading manuals I'd literally be taking up all the time of these people. For a lot of things, you just have to study the material, and you get more confident the more you learn on your own. As a bonus, I almost always get my questions answered any time I do ask them, because I have probably spent days at that point trying to nut something out and it will show in the question.
The barriers to DIY learning really have dropped since I was growing up - for a lot of domain specific knowledge you had to know what book to get, you had to know a good technical bookshop, and you had to have the cash to buy it. For kids this usually meant their dad had to be a geek. Now you can just google most of the time. You probably get free info that was as good as the average book you used to find in stock at the technical book store (no amazon to find the very best book by wading through reviews).
That's one of the best arguments for an increased NASA budget I've seen. Nice.
This is slashdot, not "ubuntuforums.org". They actually reference the sort of stuff he alludes to in the FAQ, which you can click from this very page. That's why there is no place to complain to about getting bad Karma, and why I made the (probably bad) joke about directing complaints to /dev/null - see http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml Specifically -
If he can't do a simple task like read a FAQ or google random jargon, perhaps he should first contemplate why he is contributing posts to a site that bills itself as "news for nerds..."? Maybe he should consider reading http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html first (a great idea for any nerd in training), and perhaps participate in a more newb targeted web forum first?
And btw I do not have any issues with the OP, and as far as I know, I have not modded the OP's posts one way or another. I just saw the opportunity for the gag so I went for it. I'm fairly sure I have had people do the exact same targeted moderation towards myself as the OP, but they always lose interest if you don't acknowledge them. And who cares, really? A lot of people browse at -1, and will read your posts regardless.