I am a bit of a privacy nut, but I am all for more transparency in government. This story is somewhat interesting; it's neat this sort of thing is getting off the ground (finally). At some point, though, too much transparency isn't really worthwhile (like knowing when the ruddy green was mown last).
I agree with Realty Master... there is a large placebo effect:0
The fact is there is a very subtle difference between the two. I have never heard anyone try to reproduce vinyl on digital equ. but there may be a difference! (Let's someone do that and we can have a bit more evidence in this debate.) Vinyl's sound is warmer. This is due in some part to a warm noise spectrum being generated by all record players (with or without tubes... tubes make it warmer). I understand that it is an almost inaudible "tv static" that "fills in" the missing bits. There was a very good article in Time (of all places!) that helped explain this phenomenon by use of a picture with missing parts. Fill it in with a similar static (i.e. a static that is within the range of the picture's values) and it becomes recognizable as a Van Gough self portrait.
Part human nature (brain sciency things), part placebo (I can hear all this, but not the difference between a 192 and 512 mp3), and part tech (light vs friction, digital vs analog, scratch vs scratch).
He's just some mother fucker coming in here with his mother fucking ideas, shitting all over the first amendment. What a fucking pussy cock bitch. Fuck! (Sorry dude, I couldn't resist;)
To paraphrase what someone or another said sometime: "My right to offend you is more important than your wish not to be offended."
Very, very educational. It's true that a lot of programmers in.NET do not know what they are doing (from my personal, quasi-limited experience). I am a.NET programmer, to be honest, and the clients I have dealt with (writing apps for their servers) were upset that I was using threads because they "don't always work." That's the senior programmer in a very large government operation. DO* of my state...
The pay matches the game, at least 'round here, but I am very bored at work. I get the feeling the last coder was busy fixing her bugs all day!:(
She just got promoted ARHGHGHGHG
Oh believe me, I don't worry about what people call it anymore. "True hackers" know what the word means. The general populace doesn't. I gave up after 10 years of no one listening:D
What I am saying is that exploits should be important to anyone who wants to follow the hacker way. It's important to look beyond the design of a system - learning about exploits is a perfect way to do this. If one truly is a "computer hacker" one should be able to understand computer exploits. That being said, if you're a code hacker you wouldn't necessarily need to know a ton about security, although it would be somewhat foolish not to. A big part of coding is security, like it or not.
"Cracking" would imply that the author's intent is malicious and that he wants to teach people how to use the information maliciously. The pursuit and understanding of information (especially exploits) is an essential part to hacking. If you can't secure your box, you ain't a (computer) hacker!
Hey, good review.
I don't mean to disrupt the chronological progression of the book review Explaining the chapters in order is rarely the best idea. As in any essay, the order of ideas presented should be geared towards explaining the main idea. In fact, you often don't need to summarize chapters (a common source of redundancy). Eh. It's one of my pet peeves:)
It's accurate to say the far left has some kinda rose-tinted idea of Cuba and Communism in general. Reasonable people on the Left and Right are far different from the extremists on the far Left and far Right. I'm really getting tired of the growing number of extremists the world over:(
I know I go to local coffee houses anytime it's convenient. Where I live we have a lot of great coffee houses and even a local roaster, so I am usually not very far from a locally roasted cappuccino or cuppa organic coffee.
I would like to see more local coffee houses with a drive through, though!
c (~3×10^8 m/s) is the maximum speed of light in a vacuum. See the wiki article for good references about slowing light.
And of course there's also relativity to consider, but that doesn't really have anything to do with this experiment (same frame of reference for observed and observer).
GPL isn't exactly "viral." There's no reason your corporation couldn't have used Linux: if you modify the source for your proprietary hardware in the office, there's no act of distribution and you don't have to release the source (your company would presumably own all the desktops).
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Objective C is a cool language, and is super easy to pick up if you know C++ or Java.
I am a bit of a privacy nut, but I am all for more transparency in government. This story is somewhat interesting; it's neat this sort of thing is getting off the ground (finally). At some point, though, too much transparency isn't really worthwhile (like knowing when the ruddy green was mown last).
I agree with Realty Master... there is a large placebo effect :0
The fact is there is a very subtle difference between the two. I have never heard anyone try to reproduce vinyl on digital equ. but there may be a difference! (Let's someone do that and we can have a bit more evidence in this debate.) Vinyl's sound is warmer. This is due in some part to a warm noise spectrum being generated by all record players (with or without tubes... tubes make it warmer). I understand that it is an almost inaudible "tv static" that "fills in" the missing bits. There was a very good article in Time (of all places!) that helped explain this phenomenon by use of a picture with missing parts. Fill it in with a similar static (i.e. a static that is within the range of the picture's values) and it becomes recognizable as a Van Gough self portrait.
Part human nature (brain sciency things), part placebo (I can hear all this, but not the difference between a 192 and 512 mp3), and part tech (light vs friction, digital vs analog, scratch vs scratch).
It's a bit of a stretch to say that most people posting anonymously are doing it for nefarious purposes.
That's interesting... SSN's on the Driver's in Missouri, at least. But you can ask to have another type of state Driver's ID number for free.
Hey, how about you shutup about thing you don't know about instead? Ganja and guns are not mutually exclusive.
He's just some mother fucker coming in here with his mother fucking ideas, shitting all over the first amendment. What a fucking pussy cock bitch. Fuck! (Sorry dude, I couldn't resist ;)
To paraphrase what someone or another said sometime: "My right to offend you is more important than your wish not to be offended."
Very, very educational. It's true that a lot of programmers in .NET do not know what they are doing (from my personal, quasi-limited experience). I am a .NET programmer, to be honest, and the clients I have dealt with (writing apps for their servers) were upset that I was using threads because they "don't always work." That's the senior programmer in a very large government operation. DO* of my state...
The pay matches the game, at least 'round here, but I am very bored at work. I get the feeling the last coder was busy fixing her bugs all day! :(
She just got promoted ARHGHGHGHG
Good one dude :) I'd love to tell this to some RIAA lawyer's face.
I guess the ISPs are going to have to terminate the BBC's internet access.
Well I'll be damned. Looks tasty ^__^
Dude... you're not supposed to cook kimchi.
You know... I have a big (gallon) jar that I just stick in the fridge for a few weeks. Works fine!
Outlaw swears? Fuck that! Shit. Cock.
Oh believe me, I don't worry about what people call it anymore. "True hackers" know what the word means. The general populace doesn't. I gave up after 10 years of no one listening :D
What I am saying is that exploits should be important to anyone who wants to follow the hacker way. It's important to look beyond the design of a system - learning about exploits is a perfect way to do this. If one truly is a "computer hacker" one should be able to understand computer exploits. That being said, if you're a code hacker you wouldn't necessarily need to know a ton about security, although it would be somewhat foolish not to. A big part of coding is security, like it or not.
"Cracking" would imply that the author's intent is malicious and that he wants to teach people how to use the information maliciously. The pursuit and understanding of information (especially exploits) is an essential part to hacking. If you can't secure your box, you ain't a (computer) hacker!
I definitely wanna check this book out.
Are you coming on to me?
It's accurate to say the far left has some kinda rose-tinted idea of Cuba and Communism in general. Reasonable people on the Left and Right are far different from the extremists on the far Left and far Right. I'm really getting tired of the growing number of extremists the world over :(
OKCupid! has a much better implementation. Users post questions, users answer them, and a percent match is calculated. Wow!
I know I go to local coffee houses anytime it's convenient. Where I live we have a lot of great coffee houses and even a local roaster, so I am usually not very far from a locally roasted cappuccino or cuppa organic coffee.
I would like to see more local coffee houses with a drive through, though!
c (~3×10^8 m/s) is the maximum speed of light in a vacuum. See the wiki article for good references about slowing light. And of course there's also relativity to consider, but that doesn't really have anything to do with this experiment (same frame of reference for observed and observer).
GPL isn't exactly "viral." There's no reason your corporation couldn't have used Linux: if you modify the source for your proprietary hardware in the office, there's no act of distribution and you don't have to release the source (your company would presumably own all the desktops).