Note his daughter was 11. He saw him on the sex offender list and thought "kiddy fucker" immediately, not "rape" or "mild sexual harassment" But she would have been 30 or 40 eventually... Better safe than sorry !
Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.Except when one can add "think of the children" or "terrorism" anywhere in the accusation (Amendment 8 version 1.pre-1, released 2002). Soon to be ratified.
I've seen all genders write obfuscated code--but it worked. And every single time it was because we were under the gun for a deadline or there was simply no other way to do it. Every time I've seen obfuscated code, it either at the most "more or less worked" or completely failed to work. And when it did work at all, it obviously did so after a lot of trial and error that seemed to have been made at random. The gender of the author had nothing to do with it. On the other hand the fact that he (or she) had no idea what he was doing certainly did.
Um.. I do occasional tech stuff on a farm and not ever have I seen any of the staff carry any kind of firearm.
Just saying, since you make it sound like every one working with animals is armed to the teeth. Since this was KYCD related maybe he meant raptor farms/ranches.
Of course I expect that US cows are so fierce that you need at *least* two rifles *and* a sidearm just to go check on one. It's not like those scruffy pityful excuses for cows we've got in the rest of the world. A lot of ranchers have.50 cals nowadays because some of the cows get so nervous in the presence of KYCD fans.
Bullshit! If child pornography were the real target, they could have simply removed the binary groups. Removing alt.folklore.computers and alt.os.linux in order to avoid kiddie porn just makes no sense. And bad things could happen with alt.sysadmin.recovery gone. Very bad things...
Man, maybe I'm a terrible person, but I absolutely love these kinda scams.
Every time I see something like this, I really wish I'd thought of it.
Shouldn't there be a market for $1000 wooden cables ? Because wood is good at absorbing vibrations, and it's, um, natural, and recyclable, and it's obvious that those people can't hear the difference between one cable and the other anyway.
There are investment bankers who still use Excel 97 to model, because they don't want to learn new menus/break old models. The idea of these people switching to OO is preposterous to anyone who knows them. This is true of pretty much any kind of user. Except that possiby investment bankers have a bit more of a say into what kind of tool they get to use.
I have the same problem at my work. I want to automate and speed up a lot of the reporting my coworkers do by moving the processing over to one of our Linux servers, but Excel is always a problem. Some of our people actually see Excel as a platform in itself. Excel is today's Emacs. It's being used everywhere for a number of insane things thatregularly really don't make much sense.
Currently the move to Linux remains on the server side in most institutions. Maybe when OOo's calc has matured a bit... But a lot of users are so wed with Excel (and so many third party tools are designed to work with Excel) that I'm not sure it'll happen soon.
I use the sledge hammer method myself. Hit it until it sounds like a maraca when you shake it. Seller shipped broken disk that sounded like a maraca when shaken. Would not buy again.
It's about control. Scare everyone to death, make everyone walk around with papers, take away everyone's rights and tell them it has it's for their own protection against the big, bad ugly terrorists.
Anyone know the last time this tactic was used? Oh yeah, Nazi Germany. Not exactly, it's still used efficiently in several places around the globe. China currently uses a variant (minus the terrorist bit). Makes for an efficient production machine too.
Simply use a USB Hard Drive and Ship it to your destination Ship it ??
Encrypt the data, put it anywhere online and recover it when you've arrived. Next you're going to suggest courrier pigeons.
As others have pointed out, now that every place, even the remotest ones are easily internetworked, it makes no sense to search people for data. Border searches for forbidden artefacts does make sense but data flows all over the place and even in places where it is forbidden (uh, pretty much everywhere I guess), I'm fairly sure that pulling kiddy porn off the Net shouldn't be too hard (assuming that's what the big hunt actually is about at the borders). Or are they actually checking for your software licences ? Or what exactly ? Or do they routinely pull disk images to feed some kind of statistical database somewhere ? Where does that data go ?
Ho ho ho, those silly AI researchers. Anyone with a brain (not their AI haha) knows that evolution has produced the pinnacle of intelligence with it's intelligent design. Along with the best flying machines, land traveling machines, ocean going machines, chess players, mining machines, war machines, space faring machines, etc, etc, etc. Will they never stop trying to best evolution only to be shown up time and again? Ok, but ants aren't then end of all, we have to think of us humans too.
There will also be a separate "digital manners enforcement police" set up as this is top priority for the goverment! There's no real need for this. All those devices will contain a small quantity of C4 for this purpose.
Why utterly useless? Bluray disks already show banding in some gradients. 16-bit would eliminate that. Wider gamut for movies would give more room for creativity. I don't think it's quite "utterly" useless. Just mostly useless - today. But films move, and therefore are way less sensitive to this kind of thing than static images are. Higher frame rates would be way more useful IMO (if you've ever seen a 60 FPS demo it does make quite a difference).
I'm pretty sure that you could take any axis and get around 10% difference in fluctuations, it is fairly randomly dispersed after all, this should happen. Quite. Quite wrong, actually.
If you are measuring the cosmic background radiation, you are detecting photons.
If the background radiation is truely random, and you sample 100 photons, the chances of one 'side' being 10% stronger than the other are not that unlikely. Hello ? This is exactly what everybody has been saying all along.
For movies this is utterly useless. For tweaking photos, this *could* be very useful.
The average camera captures 12 bits (per channel) worth of data. If you treat it as JPEG (ignoring the fact that it's compressed) or in an 8 bit per channel environment, you've already discarded 1/3rd of what you've captured.
And you have no idea *which* third is gone.
So in other words, combine this with a program that can manipulate at least as many colours as your image has (that would likely be 16 bpp) and you can *finally* more or less see what you are doing (assuming that it isn't some sort of subtle stuff that's invisible anyway).
I always found that working on 12bpp images in a 16bpp colour space on a 8bpp (if you were lucky) display was kind of weird.
I'm pretty sure that you could take any axis and get around 10% difference in fluctuations, it is fairly randomly dispersed after all, this should happen. Quite.
It's like when you throw pebbles/beans/whatever small object on a surface and observe the results versus when you ask someone to create a pseudo-random repartition by hand. Almost systematically in one case you'll get a ot of clusters (random) whereas in the other you'll get everything very evenly spaced (someone that has no idea how "nature's" randomness works).
Or you can just make a few bitmaps of dots, some evenly dispersed, some randomly scattered (which will inevitably have clusters) and ask people to sort them by randomness.
Lots of laughs to be had by all (but one of course).
Didn't string theory already predict something like this? Um, did string theory predict something that anyone now could verify experimentally ?
Not a flame, just asking...
I've read the Elegant Universe (I think that was the title -- which incidentally has a very good exposition of relativity) and while it's all nice and dandy on paper, I'm waiting for some kind of real life validation.
But how would you possibly enforce that? Once my computer has queried a DNS, it still communicates with a particular IP. How could you possibly distinguish between an IP that was looked up on a DNS and just an IP? Wasn't that one of the purposes of the evil bit ? (tries to find the RFC)
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Except when one can add "think of the children" or "terrorism" anywhere in the accusation (Amendment 8 version 1.pre-1, released 2002).
Soon to be ratified.
Did he at least try reversing the polarity ?
Just saying, since you make it sound like every one working with animals is armed to the teeth. Since this was KYCD related maybe he meant raptor farms/ranches.
Of course I expect that US cows are so fierce that you need at *least* two rifles *and* a sidearm just to go check on one. It's not like those scruffy pityful excuses for cows we've got in the rest of the world.
A lot of ranchers have
Very bad things...
Man, maybe I'm a terrible person, but I absolutely love these kinda scams.
Every time I see something like this, I really wish I'd thought of it.
Shouldn't there be a market for $1000 wooden cables ? Because wood is good at absorbing vibrations, and it's, um, natural, and recyclable, and it's obvious that those people can't hear the difference between one cable and the other anyway.Maybe gold plated wood...
Currently the move to Linux remains on the server side in most institutions. Maybe when OOo's calc has matured a bit... But a lot of users are so wed with Excel (and so many third party tools are designed to work with Excel) that I'm not sure it'll happen soon.
Anyone know the last time this tactic was used? Oh yeah, Nazi Germany. Not exactly, it's still used efficiently in several places around the globe. China currently uses a variant (minus the terrorist bit). Makes for an efficient production machine too.
Encrypt the data, put it anywhere online and recover it when you've arrived.
Next you're going to suggest courrier pigeons.
As others have pointed out, now that every place, even the remotest ones are easily internetworked, it makes no sense to search people for data. Border searches for forbidden artefacts does make sense but data flows all over the place and even in places where it is forbidden (uh, pretty much everywhere I guess), I'm fairly sure that pulling kiddy porn off the Net shouldn't be too hard (assuming that's what the big hunt actually is about at the borders).
Or are they actually checking for your software licences ? Or what exactly ? Or do they routinely pull disk images to feed some kind of statistical database somewhere ? Where does that data go ?
It's just that potential banding is less visible in moving images than it is in stills. Of course everybody prefers more colour depth :)
If you are measuring the cosmic background radiation, you are detecting photons.
If the background radiation is truely random, and you sample 100 photons, the chances of one 'side' being 10% stronger than the other are not that unlikely. Hello ? This is exactly what everybody has been saying all along.
For movies this is utterly useless. For tweaking photos, this *could* be very useful.
The average camera captures 12 bits (per channel) worth of data. If you treat it as JPEG (ignoring the fact that it's compressed) or in an 8 bit per channel environment, you've already discarded 1/3rd of what you've captured.
And you have no idea *which* third is gone.
So in other words, combine this with a program that can manipulate at least as many colours as your image has (that would likely be 16 bpp) and you can *finally* more or less see what you are doing (assuming that it isn't some sort of subtle stuff that's invisible anyway).
I always found that working on 12bpp images in a 16bpp colour space on a 8bpp (if you were lucky) display was kind of weird.
It's like when you throw pebbles/beans/whatever small object on a surface and observe the results versus when you ask someone to create a pseudo-random repartition by hand. Almost systematically in one case you'll get a ot of clusters (random) whereas in the other you'll get everything very evenly spaced (someone that has no idea how "nature's" randomness works).
Or you can just make a few bitmaps of dots, some evenly dispersed, some randomly scattered (which will inevitably have clusters) and ask people to sort them by randomness.
Lots of laughs to be had by all (but one of course).
Not a flame, just asking...
I've read the Elegant Universe (I think that was the title -- which incidentally has a very good exposition of relativity) and while it's all nice and dandy on paper, I'm waiting for some kind of real life validation.