And what happens if I own the exact same model of car, same color, same look and feel, and somebody drives through that light with a well done forgery of the innocent persons plates, landing them a ticket, with the picture as 'proof' and all.
Oh but the picture shows them guilty. They must have done it. Don't be so willing to throw away the "Innocent until proven guilty" clause to the heralding of new technology. Because that just means you will see ten-fold increase in convictions by 'no presumption of innocence', as you have happily given away your right to fight by not voting the county-city-state 'tards out who made it all possible.
If the light is red and you drive past it, how can you in any way claim to be innocent?
Many ways. It could have been wild kids putting printouts of my plate on theirs, and then blowing threw the lights so that I could be mailed the ticket, it could be a computer error (those never happen), it could be foul play, maybe a database problem. The prevailing assumption from this line of rationale is that even though technology progresses, nothing is absolute. And if you are willing to risk your criminal history, driving record, insurance cost, etc against an electronic system sold to people who haven't been known to be the most honest with matters of money and law, well good sir, keep pissing it away.
Of course some old school techniques are faster. We don't drop old school because we want better performance, we drop it because we're lazy, and want easier ways to get the job done!
Minor addition to your comment, for some may get the wrong impression if it gets modded up the chain.
That is a bit of a generalization, and not necessarily accurate. I would say that heavily tested, tried and true techniques are faster. Libraries that fall into the aforementioned realm tend to be older, and hence more time for testing and refinement, but being old doesn't necessarily guarantee it will always be faster all of the time, as your comment implies.
but someone is going to throw the privacy flag up on this one. Let's be real here: it's a bird's eye view directly into A LOT of homes.
Are you kidding me? Its a bird's eye view into your home if and only if you do not control the happenings in your home. It is not Chat-roulettes responsibility to nanny everybody so that somebody doesn't see the wrong thing and become psychologically damaged. I am not condoning that, I am just saying place responsibility where it belongs. If you go to chat roulette and see some guy doing the naked-dance, well, congratulations, welcome to the internet. If your kids get on your computer and see some guys junk, does that make that guy a sex offender? Or are you responsibility for not securing your computer from accessing 'illicit' sites in the first place, and properly administering your network.
The internet provides access to the vast majority of mankind's output, be it good, bad, illegal, disturbing, morally reprehensible, strange, intelligent, pointless, or just plain sexual. It is everything. It is information. Content. Everything. It is our modern day 'tree-of-knowledge', exposing you to the good and bad in the world. Some folks can't handle the power of the tree, and decide to monitor, filter, and penalize anything of questionable content.
So the folks out there who want the guy flopping his junk around sued for [insert frivo suit here], nobody is forcing you to sit down on your computer, browse to chatroulette, and click that damn next button.
People who trade personal responsibility for bitching and moaning will have, well, will slowly deteriorate many of the sweet things we enjoy today, all to be traded in for a nanny-net.
Linux is still a large OpenGL platform, and although you can use wine to get DirectX functionality, I would say OpenGL is still relevant, especially in the OSS side of things.
I forgot about that issue. You raise a valid point in that the seeming majority of trackball users (citation needed) go that route for medical reasons, at least this seems true with the folks I have spoken with.
"...see if your device supports keyboard and mouse through USB and then relearn the game. It took a while but it got to the point of not being fun anymore. "
So true with FPS's, on a console controller you are using the relatively few muscles that do the mechanics of thumb movement, versus the mouse you have the advantage of all the degrees of freedom that your carpal joints provide, not to mention the extra muscle control. Serious basement dwellers especially benefit from the full motion wrist control, many have it fine tuned to an art after many *sessions*.
Except folks who use those mice(?) with the trackballs. You guys are just weird. If your going to go for niche, play counter-strike with the red keyboard clitoris like on the IBM ThinkPads. Thats 3-Freaking-1337.
This. Best answerer had good intentions, but everything after the first two words was pretty like throwing a plasma grenade straight up and then deciding to snipe.
I agree with you, partly. Hardware that is literally the only thing keeping you alive should be subject to some regulation. I don't think code-reviews by bureaucrats is a good option, but perhaps independent third parties would be a start. If your heart stopped tomorrow, would you feel comfortable with your pulse being driven by some opcodes a small team put together with no oversight? Other examples of this are like the FDA, the FAA, and other agencies that monitor products / services that have the potential to end life. I am not saying they are perfect, but taking in cases of life and death, you need a bit of regulation sometimes to keep big business from getting greedy and disregarding human life.
Yes, agencies like the FDA have become bureaucratic clusterfucks of non-progression and end up doing more damage than good. This is relatively true. But this can be fixed, by voting looking at representatives voting records, voicing your opinion to congressmen, and spreading the word to everybody you know, kicking these moneysuckling asshats out. If we all take a lackadaisical position towards government participation, you cannot expect it to get any better.
This seems similar to other highly proprietary hardware platforms that vendors keep locked down, either for market dominance, or for *security*. Breathalyzers, police radar guns, ATMs, hearing aids, etc, etc.
On the other side of things, imagine the scandal of somebody with a pacemaker installed for the purpose of athletic advantage, perhaps at the Olympics. Can you say heart hack? The winning line-up of the hacked-pacemaker 500, by embedded OS of choice:
1. DSL (Damn Small Linux), lightweight, fast, and simple
2. OSX, clean, stable, and reliable
3. Windows, DNF (H_RESULT 0x41414141 HEART_EXPLODED)
Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?
You must not be an alcoholic. When I see 110 proof on the label, my mind doesn't go blank, it screams "OPPORTUNITY ABOUND MATEY". Only after a couple, does it become meaningless. Not to mention most of the English language, as well.
Meaningless is in the eye of the beholder, you obviously knew that the 'proof' rating divided by 2 gives the percentage of alcohol by volume, so in essence it has meaning. Not to mention, from a marketing standpoint, large numbers sound better, not to mention, average Joe shuts down when they even hear the word percent. What sounds better:
"GhettoSip, the 65 proof thug companion."
or
"GhettoSip, the 32.5% alcohol by volume thug companion."
Progress comes in little steps. I would say this is better than nothing, baby steps towards holding these megacorps feet to the vulnerability fire is incentivizing the disclosure of the bugs, instead of the cover ups and cease and desist letters who just want their shit fixed for the betterment of the world (or the glory of being 1337).
I'm a medical equipment technician at a California corrections facility. My boss routinely asks me to kill people in cold blood, and I've been doing it for a few years now... there's a lot of paperwork and everything, but I'm not entirely sure it's legal.
I can't tell if your're trolling or serious. Are you responsible for the lethal injection equipment? Or are you Therac-25ing cons to oblivion during simple 'treatment' procedures? I guess the key piece of missing information is the 'medical equipment' in question.
(143,000, photons/second) x (h, Planck's constant in j-s) x (c, speed of light (in m/s)) / (avg wavelength of x-ray) = (6.63E-32)(3E8)(143,000)/(5E-9) = ~5.68E-10 J/S
Your statement has serious implications for the stork and his associates, as it discredits their business of bringing innocent babbys in eggs across the hemispheres. Due to your inflammatory and libelous allegations, Storks, LLC, will see you in court.
Storks Inc, is a family owned limited liability corporations, specializing in brining babbys to homes, and selling the new EggAborter Eggbeater. For $19.95 you can get this fabulous...oh wait, wrong reality.
Perhaps I am not up to speed on semantics or molecular biology, but the summary did not convince me in a clear an concise manner, and the abstract, was well, pretty abstract.
This gives tremendous insight for developing methods of nano-scale self-assembly based on natural processes, as well as settling heated cocktail party arguments everywhere.
Could somebody of more intellectual firepower exactly how this insight reaches the papers conclusion, based on this statement, or the researches implications, for the rest of us less biologically inclined?
Many schools here in the United States offer drivers-ed classes, on a per-semester basis. One part of the class is in a desk, memorizing "Rules of the Road", the other is a series of driving sessions and eventually a test with the instructor. This is how it worked when I lived in Illinois, you received your permit from the high-school, and once you turned 16 you could go to the DMV and apply/test (again) for a license.
So the moral of this story is as follows: those too ignorant and lazy to secure the networks they provide will suffer, and those who subscribe / utilize those networks will suffer even more. Those who point out the errors and vulnerabilities in said networks will be labeled 'teh evil haxors' and face prosecution. Those who secure their networks will receive taxpayer dollars.
So now the assbag super-telcos that have been to lazy to adequately secure their infrastructure have a legitimate reason to upgrade. The taxpayers are funding it!
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And what happens if I own the exact same model of car, same color, same look and feel, and somebody drives through that light with a well done forgery of the innocent persons plates, landing them a ticket, with the picture as 'proof' and all.
Oh but the picture shows them guilty. They must have done it. Don't be so willing to throw away the "Innocent until proven guilty" clause to the heralding of new technology. Because that just means you will see ten-fold increase in convictions by 'no presumption of innocence', as you have happily given away your right to fight by not voting the county-city-state 'tards out who made it all possible.
If the light is red and you drive past it, how can you in any way claim to be innocent?
Many ways. It could have been wild kids putting printouts of my plate on theirs, and then blowing threw the lights so that I could be mailed the ticket, it could be a computer error (those never happen), it could be foul play, maybe a database problem. The prevailing assumption from this line of rationale is that even though technology progresses, nothing is absolute. And if you are willing to risk your criminal history, driving record, insurance cost, etc against an electronic system sold to people who haven't been known to be the most honest with matters of money and law, well good sir, keep pissing it away.
Innocent until proven guilty.
Of course some old school techniques are faster. We don't drop old school because we want better performance, we drop it because we're lazy, and want easier ways to get the job done!
Minor addition to your comment, for some may get the wrong impression if it gets modded up the chain.
That is a bit of a generalization, and not necessarily accurate. I would say that heavily tested, tried and true techniques are faster. Libraries that fall into the aforementioned realm tend to be older, and hence more time for testing and refinement, but being old doesn't necessarily guarantee it will always be faster all of the time, as your comment implies.
but someone is going to throw the privacy flag up on this one. Let's be real here: it's a bird's eye view directly into A LOT of homes.
Are you kidding me? Its a bird's eye view into your home if and only if you do not control the happenings in your home. It is not Chat-roulettes responsibility to nanny everybody so that somebody doesn't see the wrong thing and become psychologically damaged. I am not condoning that, I am just saying place responsibility where it belongs. If you go to chat roulette and see some guy doing the naked-dance, well, congratulations, welcome to the internet. If your kids get on your computer and see some guys junk, does that make that guy a sex offender? Or are you responsibility for not securing your computer from accessing 'illicit' sites in the first place, and properly administering your network.
The internet provides access to the vast majority of mankind's output, be it good, bad, illegal, disturbing, morally reprehensible, strange, intelligent, pointless, or just plain sexual. It is everything. It is information. Content. Everything. It is our modern day 'tree-of-knowledge', exposing you to the good and bad in the world. Some folks can't handle the power of the tree, and decide to monitor, filter, and penalize anything of questionable content.
So the folks out there who want the guy flopping his junk around sued for [insert frivo suit here], nobody is forcing you to sit down on your computer, browse to chatroulette, and click that damn next button. People who trade personal responsibility for bitching and moaning will have, well, will slowly deteriorate many of the sweet things we enjoy today, all to be traded in for a nanny-net.
Linux is still a large OpenGL platform, and although you can use wine to get DirectX functionality, I would say OpenGL is still relevant, especially in the OSS side of things.
I forgot about that issue. You raise a valid point in that the seeming majority of trackball users (citation needed) go that route for medical reasons, at least this seems true with the folks I have spoken with.
"...see if your device supports keyboard and mouse through USB and then relearn the game. It took a while but it got to the point of not being fun anymore. "
So true with FPS's, on a console controller you are using the relatively few muscles that do the mechanics of thumb movement, versus the mouse you have the advantage of all the degrees of freedom that your carpal joints provide, not to mention the extra muscle control. Serious basement dwellers especially benefit from the full motion wrist control, many have it fine tuned to an art after many *sessions*.
Except folks who use those mice(?) with the trackballs. You guys are just weird. If your going to go for niche, play counter-strike with the red keyboard clitoris like on the IBM ThinkPads. Thats 3-Freaking-1337.
This. Best answerer had good intentions, but everything after the first two words was pretty like throwing a plasma grenade straight up and then deciding to snipe.
I agree with you, partly. Hardware that is literally the only thing keeping you alive should be subject to some regulation. I don't think code-reviews by bureaucrats is a good option, but perhaps independent third parties would be a start. If your heart stopped tomorrow, would you feel comfortable with your pulse being driven by some opcodes a small team put together with no oversight? Other examples of this are like the FDA, the FAA, and other agencies that monitor products / services that have the potential to end life. I am not saying they are perfect, but taking in cases of life and death, you need a bit of regulation sometimes to keep big business from getting greedy and disregarding human life.
Yes, agencies like the FDA have become bureaucratic clusterfucks of non-progression and end up doing more damage than good. This is relatively true. But this can be fixed, by voting looking at representatives voting records, voicing your opinion to congressmen, and spreading the word to everybody you know, kicking these moneysuckling asshats out. If we all take a lackadaisical position towards government participation, you cannot expect it to get any better.
This seems similar to other highly proprietary hardware platforms that vendors keep locked down, either for market dominance, or for *security*. Breathalyzers, police radar guns, ATMs, hearing aids, etc, etc.
On the other side of things, imagine the scandal of somebody with a pacemaker installed for the purpose of athletic advantage, perhaps at the Olympics. Can you say heart hack? The winning line-up of the hacked-pacemaker 500, by embedded OS of choice:
1. DSL (Damn Small Linux), lightweight, fast, and simple
2. OSX, clean, stable, and reliable
3. Windows, DNF (H_RESULT 0x41414141 HEART_EXPLODED)
Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?
You must not be an alcoholic. When I see 110 proof on the label, my mind doesn't go blank, it screams "OPPORTUNITY ABOUND MATEY". Only after a couple, does it become meaningless. Not to mention most of the English language, as well.
Meaningless is in the eye of the beholder, you obviously knew that the 'proof' rating divided by 2 gives the percentage of alcohol by volume, so in essence it has meaning. Not to mention, from a marketing standpoint, large numbers sound better, not to mention, average Joe shuts down when they even hear the word percent. What sounds better:
"GhettoSip, the 65 proof thug companion."
or
"GhettoSip, the 32.5% alcohol by volume thug companion."
Progress comes in little steps. I would say this is better than nothing, baby steps towards holding these megacorps feet to the vulnerability fire is incentivizing the disclosure of the bugs, instead of the cover ups and cease and desist letters who just want their shit fixed for the betterment of the world (or the glory of being 1337).
Dear Chinese Hacker,
I just found a bug in your government. We should square up.
Sincerely,
Google
Google also announced they are raising the security reward for Chrome vulnerabilities to $3133.7
That's quite the elite sum of money to use as a reward.
Pre-WHOOSH, because I know they are coming.
I'm a medical equipment technician at a California corrections facility. My boss routinely asks me to kill people in cold blood, and I've been doing it for a few years now... there's a lot of paperwork and everything, but I'm not entirely sure it's legal.
I can't tell if your're trolling or serious. Are you responsible for the lethal injection equipment? Or are you Therac-25ing cons to oblivion during simple 'treatment' procedures? I guess the key piece of missing information is the 'medical equipment' in question.
What about the other 853,146.001? Is .001 a fetus? Or a midget?
(143,000, photons /second) x (h, Planck's constant in j-s) x (c, speed of light (in m/s)) / (avg wavelength of x-ray) = (6.63E-32)(3E8)(143,000)/(5E-9) = ~5.68E-10 J/S
Amirite?
Thank you, that was very insightful. MOD PARENT UP.
specializing in brining babbys
Not a typo, they are hard boiled in salt water and cooked to perfection.
FTFM
Your statement has serious implications for the stork and his associates, as it discredits their business of bringing innocent babbys in eggs across the hemispheres. Due to your inflammatory and libelous allegations, Storks, LLC, will see you in court.
Storks Inc, is a family owned limited liability corporations, specializing in brining babbys to homes, and selling the new EggAborter Eggbeater. For $19.95 you can get this fabulous...oh wait, wrong reality.
This gives tremendous insight for developing methods of nano-scale self-assembly based on natural processes, as well as settling heated cocktail party arguments everywhere.
Could somebody of more intellectual firepower exactly how this insight reaches the papers conclusion, based on this statement, or the researches implications, for the rest of us less biologically inclined?
Many schools here in the United States offer drivers-ed classes, on a per-semester basis. One part of the class is in a desk, memorizing "Rules of the Road", the other is a series of driving sessions and eventually a test with the instructor. This is how it worked when I lived in Illinois, you received your permit from the high-school, and once you turned 16 you could go to the DMV and apply/test (again) for a license.
So the moral of this story is as follows: those too ignorant and lazy to secure the networks they provide will suffer, and those who subscribe / utilize those networks will suffer even more. Those who point out the errors and vulnerabilities in said networks will be labeled 'teh evil haxors' and face prosecution. Those who secure their networks will receive taxpayer dollars.
So now the assbag super-telcos that have been to lazy to adequately secure their infrastructure have a legitimate reason to upgrade. The taxpayers are funding it!
No doubt the FBI, CIA and DHS log far more hours in Farmville than just regular folk. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!
I would say citation needed, but the current state of affairs speaks for itself.