I love their definition of the 'hacker'. It could be basically any tech-savvy young person with these qualifiers:
Can code in C#: Easiest language ever. With the MS version it basically codes for you, and you just make sure it doesn't do anything stupid. Uses a Syberian Post Office: No idea what this is, but assuming some software, I'm sure it's downloadable with some searching. Knows how to surf without leaving digital tracks: Clearly, they never heard of TOR and secure anonymous browsers. Easy as pie.
Not sure how they expect to find a guy whose only unique description is 'Uses a Syberian Post office'. As far as I can gather, it has something to do with exploiting and forging trusted cross-site requests.
My high school physics teacher would like me to point out: There is no such thing as 'decelerating'.
There is accelerating in a positive direction on some respective axis, and accelerating in a negative direction on an axis, but none can be logically called decelerating as it is not somehow un-accelerating, just changing direction.
Never going to happen. I have a copy of XP that I have been using for nigh a decade, and I don't plan to stop over some bogus 'gotcha' bug. I might be one of the few people who actually reads the hotfix and patch/upgrade notes before just blindly accepting Windows Updates suggestions, but I can tell when it's a nonsense update and I have rejected quite a few in the last 8-10 years because they didn't seem necessary.
Set it to 512MB minimum and a plenty high max. Fire it up, watch it drop to 512MB used.
I did try Win8 on a VM. The simple fact is, it's slow as shit. I did as you said, and tried setting it to a 512MB minimum. The only time it ran at 512MB was when I wasn't using it, when I had switched to something outside the VM with nothing running under 8. As soon as I even moused over something in the Win 8 VM the RAM usage skyrocketed to about 800MB. Then, when I launched Notepad, it went over a gig.
Not sure how that is as efficient, considering on XP I can open a web browser and still sit under 400MB while using it.
That's not even true with Windows. Many many users, particularly gamers, update their OS regularly. You need to do so to keep up with the newest cutting-edge games and their frilly-but-unnecessary features(ahem, DX11). It also helps with things like hardware management(a-la >2-3 GB ram requiring a 64-bit capable OS, disk size, etc).
Windows 8 might be the exception, though. It really offers nothing over Windows 7 besides the Metro UI, which many capable users are going to find is more of a hindrance than a help. Having to navigate between these modes is a nightmare for me thus far, and software/hardware compatibility is WTF lacking compared to Windows 7. Why would you make a touchscreen-capable OS that doesn't support a great many touchscreens? Why would you require a resolution above the current average resolution? I get that we need to start upping the resolutions on computers in general(1024x768 max res, seriously?) but this is just driving customers and potential customers away.
It's also fair to point out that what passes for an 'upgrade' with OSX is actually what MS called a Service Pack for ages. Apple just loves to charge you every chance it gets instead of helping you be productive with what you have. Lion is a bit of an exception, in that they did a major UI overhaul, but it's still not as extreme as XP vs Win 7 or Win 7 vs Win 8.
Are you saying that distributing a copy of your item would somehow deprive you of the original item? Copying doesn't "take it away" - it just lets more people enjoy it.
In other news, Mojang's Notch was arrested today on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorism. Reportedly, he used augmented reality to design a 6' green creature containing an undetermined amount of explosives. The designs explained that when a student got near the creature, it would release a hiss. If the student was unaware and did not then leave, the creature would detonate leaving a crater full of loose brick, stone, and dirt.
Police are currently investigating this claim, as well as claims that tripwire-launched arrows and various other TNT-based traps were also designed and disseminated to the students via YouTube. At the time of publication, we have heard rumors of an other-worldly creature wandering the halls of the Mojang studio. It appears to be a sort of zombie, clad only in a pair of tight jeans and a dark turtleneck growling and murmuring something about a 'walled garden'.
Around here they have shredder trucks that drive around the office buildings once every so often. They have a big bin that pops out on the side, and they have you dump your own documents/items in so they don't have to touch them. Then, there is a viewing window on the back so you can see the piles of ~1cm x ~1cm bits that come out from whatever you just threw in. Unless they're using misdirection and mirrors, I think that's pretty secure.
I honestly don't know what they do with the bits, but several buildings worth of stuff all mixed together lends itself to one hell of a jigsaw puzzle.
As long as the actual rendering of the page takes place on my computer - on MY property by MY terms - I have the right to modify the content shown on MY computer loaded from MY RAM. As long as I don't modify the original content on THEIR server, which would be shown to everyone else as well, I have done nothing wrong.
This makes me steaming mad because it is basically advertisers saying "We are too stupid/lazy to come up with a new, less outdated business model, so make them conform to our decade-old adfarm server methods."
If a page hosts their own ads, locally, and they aren't from some servenet adfarm bullshit, they will probably show up even with something like AdBlockPlus installed. You can manually block them, but you can do mostly the same thing with any element, of any page, anywhere, using a plugin like FireBug.
You could try to observe the MAC address(though equally possible to spoof) if the network topology is sufficiently shallow and the routing sufficiently transparent.
Also, all traffic from an IP address doesn't necessarily come from a single computer. It just means it comes from a certain network.
Good engineers are never unemployed and never seeking jobs.
Biggest falsehood ever. I bet this is the reason most unemployed coders are still unemployed, and these companies have announced a false 'shortage' of engineers.
FWIW, if anyone's hiring, I am a coder that would like a better job...
I'm assuming he didn't just hook it up raw, and that there was some sort of protection hardware/software you couldn't easily see that Silva's computer was able to get around. I think the incident was supposed to be more indicative of Silva's competence than Q's.
What I found far less believable was that the key for this brilliant hacker's "polymorphic encryption" (the tangled web of lines, shapes, and scrolling hex code) had the cipher key stored in plaintext, which was also easily visible to a virtually computer-illiterate old man in a stream of hex values.
As engineers age, they may gain experience, but productivity does often drop. We also have those pesky families and/or work-life balance goals. And an unfortunately repeating pattern for engineers is reaching a point where they now think they know everything they need to, and learning grinds down, sometimes to nothing.
I think degrading performance can increase and percent of time spent on the job can decline a little with age, but it shouldn't be as much of an issue if you find people with the appropriate mindset. There are people who truly like their work - to the point where it is not just a job, but a hobby and something they love as well.
For example, I am not a young man - I am 30-ish. I would rather go online and learn some new concept/pattern or a new language, or look up something to advance my coding abilities, than I would like to watch a TV show. I don't plan to become jaded and assume the "I Know Everything" position anytime soon. Hell, most of the code I write I spend at least HALF the time I'm writing it looking up function definitions and API calls. I am currently at the "I know very little, but I know how to find what I don't know" stage - which I find is the best place for coders to work from.
In my experience, it is usually the YOUNGER coders who think they know more than they do, and that they are somehow infallible at coding. The "I just graduated and they taught me ALL of the useful, newest information, that you've probably never heard of" mentality is what comes into play there. Faster is not better. More is not better. Better is better.
I would be fine with this. It would at least save me the trouble of announcing all the pirated software I'm using as I usually do. All apps should have this.
I still haven't even got software that requires DX10. Why do I care what some future version of DX that I don't and probably never will use only runs on a shitty gimmick OS?
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I love their definition of the 'hacker'.
It could be basically any tech-savvy young person with these qualifiers:
Can code in C#: Easiest language ever. With the MS version it basically codes for you, and you just make sure it doesn't do anything stupid.
Uses a Syberian Post Office: No idea what this is, but assuming some software, I'm sure it's downloadable with some searching.
Knows how to surf without leaving digital tracks: Clearly, they never heard of TOR and secure anonymous browsers. Easy as pie.
Not sure how they expect to find a guy whose only unique description is 'Uses a Syberian Post office'. As far as I can gather, it has something to do with exploiting and forging trusted cross-site requests.
I prefer to use the term "Freedom Vectors" rather than "Attack Vectors". It's more honest to what you're actually doing.
Walking what and Boardwalk who?
Fuck that shit, it's Dexter time.
Skip Asteroid, Go To the Moon
Do not pass the LaGrange point, do not collect $2bn.
My high school physics teacher would like me to point out: There is no such thing as 'decelerating'.
There is accelerating in a positive direction on some respective axis, and accelerating in a negative direction on an axis, but none can be logically called decelerating as it is not somehow un-accelerating, just changing direction.
Never going to happen. I have a copy of XP that I have been using for nigh a decade, and I don't plan to stop over some bogus 'gotcha' bug. I might be one of the few people who actually reads the hotfix and patch/upgrade notes before just blindly accepting Windows Updates suggestions, but I can tell when it's a nonsense update and I have rejected quite a few in the last 8-10 years because they didn't seem necessary.
And RAM vendors, and Intel/AMD...though not as much AMD lately.
Set it to 512MB minimum and a plenty high max. Fire it up, watch it drop to 512MB used.
I did try Win8 on a VM. The simple fact is, it's slow as shit. I did as you said, and tried setting it to a 512MB minimum. The only time it ran at 512MB was when I wasn't using it, when I had switched to something outside the VM with nothing running under 8. As soon as I even moused over something in the Win 8 VM the RAM usage skyrocketed to about 800MB. Then, when I launched Notepad, it went over a gig.
Not sure how that is as efficient, considering on XP I can open a web browser and still sit under 400MB while using it.
10 minutes, msconfig, and task manager, and you will be back to a non-bloated 12-year-old powerhouse.
No, not quite.
A turd implies some sort of cohesion. This is more like pure liquid diarrhea.
That's not even true with Windows. Many many users, particularly gamers, update their OS regularly. You need to do so to keep up with the newest cutting-edge games and their frilly-but-unnecessary features(ahem, DX11). It also helps with things like hardware management(a-la >2-3 GB ram requiring a 64-bit capable OS, disk size, etc).
Windows 8 might be the exception, though. It really offers nothing over Windows 7 besides the Metro UI, which many capable users are going to find is more of a hindrance than a help. Having to navigate between these modes is a nightmare for me thus far, and software/hardware compatibility is WTF lacking compared to Windows 7. Why would you make a touchscreen-capable OS that doesn't support a great many touchscreens? Why would you require a resolution above the current average resolution? I get that we need to start upping the resolutions on computers in general(1024x768 max res, seriously?) but this is just driving customers and potential customers away.
It's also fair to point out that what passes for an 'upgrade' with OSX is actually what MS called a Service Pack for ages. Apple just loves to charge you every chance it gets instead of helping you be productive with what you have. Lion is a bit of an exception, in that they did a major UI overhaul, but it's still not as extreme as XP vs Win 7 or Win 7 vs Win 8.
Are you saying that distributing a copy of your item would somehow deprive you of the original item? Copying doesn't "take it away" - it just lets more people enjoy it.
You could put an exploding creeper in your school
In other news, Mojang's Notch was arrested today on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorism. Reportedly, he used augmented reality to design a 6' green creature containing an undetermined amount of explosives. The designs explained that when a student got near the creature, it would release a hiss. If the student was unaware and did not then leave, the creature would detonate leaving a crater full of loose brick, stone, and dirt.
Police are currently investigating this claim, as well as claims that tripwire-launched arrows and various other TNT-based traps were also designed and disseminated to the students via YouTube. At the time of publication, we have heard rumors of an other-worldly creature wandering the halls of the Mojang studio. It appears to be a sort of zombie, clad only in a pair of tight jeans and a dark turtleneck growling and murmuring something about a 'walled garden'.
Around here they have shredder trucks that drive around the office buildings once every so often. They have a big bin that pops out on the side, and they have you dump your own documents/items in so they don't have to touch them. Then, there is a viewing window on the back so you can see the piles of ~1cm x ~1cm bits that come out from whatever you just threw in. Unless they're using misdirection and mirrors, I think that's pretty secure.
I honestly don't know what they do with the bits, but several buildings worth of stuff all mixed together lends itself to one hell of a jigsaw puzzle.
As long as the actual rendering of the page takes place on my computer - on MY property by MY terms - I have the right to modify the content shown on MY computer loaded from MY RAM. As long as I don't modify the original content on THEIR server, which would be shown to everyone else as well, I have done nothing wrong.
This makes me steaming mad because it is basically advertisers saying "We are too stupid/lazy to come up with a new, less outdated business model, so make them conform to our decade-old adfarm server methods."
If a page hosts their own ads, locally, and they aren't from some servenet adfarm bullshit, they will probably show up even with something like AdBlockPlus installed. You can manually block them, but you can do mostly the same thing with any element, of any page, anywhere, using a plugin like FireBug.
You could try to observe the MAC address(though equally possible to spoof) if the network topology is sufficiently shallow and the routing sufficiently transparent.
Also, all traffic from an IP address doesn't necessarily come from a single computer. It just means it comes from a certain network.
Just because I'm a male within 5km of a rape does not mean I should be required to give up my DNA.
Nobody 'required' him to give his DNA. It was simply requested.
Good engineers are never unemployed and never seeking jobs.
Biggest falsehood ever. I bet this is the reason most unemployed coders are still unemployed, and these companies have announced a false 'shortage' of engineers.
FWIW, if anyone's hiring, I am a coder that would like a better job...
I'm assuming he didn't just hook it up raw, and that there was some sort of protection hardware/software you couldn't easily see that Silva's computer was able to get around. I think the incident was supposed to be more indicative of Silva's competence than Q's.
What I found far less believable was that the key for this brilliant hacker's "polymorphic encryption" (the tangled web of lines, shapes, and scrolling hex code) had the cipher key stored in plaintext, which was also easily visible to a virtually computer-illiterate old man in a stream of hex values.
As engineers age, they may gain experience, but productivity does often drop. We also have those pesky families and/or work-life balance goals. And an unfortunately repeating pattern for engineers is reaching a point where they now think they know everything they need to, and learning grinds down, sometimes to nothing.
I think degrading performance can increase and percent of time spent on the job can decline a little with age, but it shouldn't be as much of an issue if you find people with the appropriate mindset. There are people who truly like their work - to the point where it is not just a job, but a hobby and something they love as well.
For example, I am not a young man - I am 30-ish. I would rather go online and learn some new concept/pattern or a new language, or look up something to advance my coding abilities, than I would like to watch a TV show. I don't plan to become jaded and assume the "I Know Everything" position anytime soon. Hell, most of the code I write I spend at least HALF the time I'm writing it looking up function definitions and API calls. I am currently at the "I know very little, but I know how to find what I don't know" stage - which I find is the best place for coders to work from.
In my experience, it is usually the YOUNGER coders who think they know more than they do, and that they are somehow infallible at coding. The "I just graduated and they taught me ALL of the useful, newest information, that you've probably never heard of" mentality is what comes into play there. Faster is not better. More is not better. Better is better.
and I'm sure you get a lot of hassle from the kids who come to you to ask how various things are done.
Or re-doing the work when they didn't bother to ask first, and inevitably did something horribly wrong in their moment of youthful zeal.
Frankly, I find it confusing when the word 'biographies' is shortened to 'bios' - especially when dealing with a CS subject.
I am having great laughs at this comment on the internets you guy. Thanks you greatly for the humors and insightful!
Thank you, come again!
I would be fine with this. It would at least save me the trouble of announcing all the pirated software I'm using as I usually do. All apps should have this.
Pirate and Proud.
I still haven't even got software that requires DX10. Why do I care what some future version of DX that I don't and probably never will use only runs on a shitty gimmick OS?