the immediate response on/. is always "But what about the hackers!" as if there's a group of malicious hackers just waiting for the technology to appear so they could exploit it.
This is device kill switch just a more targeted version of the Internet Killswitch. What, you think they aren't planning on needing such device killing tech? Because that's what the Pentagon says.
This is just the first step. The next step will be to not allow the device to function unless it pings government approved systems and authenticates with your valid citizen ID. They'll turn the blacklist into a whitelist. Black boxes are mandeded into cars already, and Intel has demonstrated their capability for remote wireless PC kill switches too.
Every time they say: "Trust us, this is good for you", or "It stops Terrorism!" or "It' stops Theft" or "Think of the Children" your red flag should go up. Another red flag? The bill proposed in California would make this Mandatory. That's not Capitalism. We should let the people decide if they want this feature in their hardware. Mandatory is a huge red flag.
To forgive is foolish. Always be mindful of past actions, as history has proven its tendency to repeat.
I have not forgotten how MS came by its MS DOS, and how it tried to ensure incompatibility with DR-DOS. I haven't forgotten the stagnation and needless standards adoption of IE6 which stalled us on HTML4.01 for half the age of the Internet. I haven't forgotten UEFI, while Coreboot or a simple ability to flash the firmware with an OS loader stub would have sufficed and not required implementation of their patent encumbered FAT systems.
Speaking of which, I haven't forgotten their suits over FAT against companies employing Linux (with and without GNU). I haven't forgotten their extortionist patent threatening and pressuring Android device makers to pay MS for contributing nothing at all but "protection" from the MS threat. I haven't forgotten MS's part in the SCO debacle. I haven't forgotten the terrible anti-progress internal politics of MS which prevented us from having ClearType due to infighting from the MS Office team who wanted to be credited with it themselves -- despite sub-pixel rendering not being a novel thing, and yet MS applying for patents on it.
I haven't forgotten the long look down their noses at us users from MS W8 User Interface designers. I haven't forgotten the MS W8 app store who takes a 30% cut of application maker profits that they never needed before when they were focusing on their core competencies -- A cost which developers like myself will pass onto the users instead of eating ourselves, thus allowing MS to double dipping from their install base.
I haven't forgotten the needless inability for XBox Live games (Like Halo2) to not play online anymore, even though both XBoxes know we have the game in our consoles -- I could see it on the friends list of my peer whom I'm chatting with -- all to force players to move onto newer products and much later repurchase the artful games if they want to keep playing. A doubly needless cost since Hamachi or a VPN allows "system link" across the web without XBL fees, proving the XBL fees and game repurchasing are pointless forced obsolescence. I haven't forgotten the advertizements that showed up in the online non-services and in the OS that users PAY Microsoft for.
I haven't forgotten the bug riddled APIs and the less than helpful MSKB archives wherein users document said bugs themselves in the comments. I haven't forgotten the single constant byte value in Windows that needlessly limits the number of concurrent TCP connections so that MS can sell a Windows Server version. I haven't forgotten MS screwing over device partners over Surface. I haven't forgotten my MSDN subscription becoming worthless as I would not get early access to their OS for testing my products before release to end users -- the better to ensure MS's own software and distribution strategies become further entrenched vs competition.
I won't forgive humans that are actually remorseful, and you think that I'd forgive generations of abuse or that new generations would become instantly ignorant of reality? Go fuck yourself Microsoft, you're just feeling the tip of our ice berg. Have a nice death in obsolescence. Much in the same way the Internet you actively worked against by pushing your own business network protocol instead of supporting sees censorship as damage and routes around it, the market too sees oppressive non-features as damage and routes around such vendors given enough time. Even the most powerful of tyrants die, and when they do we tell tales of their evils ever after as a warning to any upstart of what end awaits evil.
You don't want a hash function for this, where the hash is effectively random. You need a function that derives a unique value for each input, but retains the relative distance of the original value. i.e. two values that are very similar yield an index that is similarly close.
Certain hash tables for search functions are built around hashes exhibiting the very type of behavior you describe -- Not to mention current 'reverse' image search technologies. A "hash" function is not required to have a seemingly random output. Cryptographic hashes try to produce high entropy deterministic output, but other types of hashing can and do have different goals, namely with far less entropic outputs.
I would ask you to turn in your geek card, but the standard for issuance is far lower nowadays...
With unemployment up, you are still spending too much time working: One can not truly fulfill their potential as humans without time to relax, enjoy life, create, and explore new opportunities. Your office jobs are pointless, replaceable either by computers or outsourcing to individuals with less cost of living, and we do so increasingly to ensure no job stability -- nearly everyone is a buggy whip maker one step of progress away from being an "unskilled" homeless person. The labor jobs largely have no unions so their working conditions suffer. In both blue and white collar cases people are given no time to seek new avenues of employ, or even manage their finances (you think bankers hours aren't such for a reason? Information disparity is the source of all evil). With inflation out-pacing pay, money in savings is diminished so that people can not safely leave employ -- The better to entrap and farm you with my dear. If you had a little more time you'd have leverage at your disposal to find better work or keep a plan B so that you can bargain for better pay and working conditions. Each disaster allows the system to ratchet your belts a bit tighter, more reliance, less time to be human. This is why banks are not held accountable, and are rather encouraged to destroy markets. How could anyone benefit from economic disaster and the mayhem it brings? Humans will do whatever it takes to survive, and the unscathed upper echelon will capitalize on this.
What is worse than 1984 is having it worse while fools like the article writer think it's not as bad. Classic ignorance. An example of thought control at its finest. When I became an adult I looked upon your world as though an alien from a distant planet -- I managed to forget all the programming about what "the real world" is, and question everything as a scientist would. The most telling and alarming is your willful resistance to application of the scientific method to governance and worklife. It's fucking disgusting. No engineer or scientist would agree to be ruled thus.
The answer is to modularize and decentralize your production of necessary resources, but no one wants to hear that... Moronic NIMBYs, you deserve what you get for your apathetic ignorance and inaction. The government has codified resistance to sustainable coexistence. That's why farmers can't grow excessive crops, even for personal use, and no city can survive on its own. Hell, school kids aren't even taught basic technologies like how to start a cooking fire, swim, sew, butcher, or bake -- Not survival
If I gave you a decentralized network capable of surviving nuclear war, routing packets around cities that vanished in moments, and you then built a World Wide Web of Data Silos then I'd be within my rights to call you all fucking morons!
STORE AND FORWARD. How the hell can't you realize this is the decentralized solution that the Internet needed, not a centralized Server / Client cluster fuck? What is collocation? IT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE WITH STORE AND FORWARD, idiots. Oh there's all that Youtube, Netflix, etc., bandwidth? Well, what if I told you I could reduce your peering bandwidth to ONE COPY of each resource? That way if your neighbor recently watched a show or cat video you could download it directly from them or the upstream cache they're connected to? A router should only ever have been one part of the node, the cache is an essential part, as part of any strategy for load distribution. Ah, but you don't need to keep a copy of each resource at each node if you index the data via distributed hash table -- it's not rocket surgery fools.
How else do you think the Space Internet will work? NASA's DTN and even old-timey HAM Packet Radio are smarter about data than the fucking web! Unlike the WWW, they use Store and Forward. HTML allows lightweight dynamic pages to pull in heavy static resources, if only assets had a <... hash="SHA-512/Base64:MDVjMjg4YmY2ZGV...hMGEx==" hmac="Base64:..."> then secure pages could pull in unsecured static resources and browsers could verify their validity without "mixed content" warnings -- Oh but that would mean the architects would have to ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING. I'm surrounded by morons. I mean, you could even just use your HTTP-AUTH proof of knowledge to key your ciphers and eliminate the Certificate Authority MITM, but noooo... Morons, I Say! MORONS!
We have had just about as many attacks in the 2000's and 2010's as in the 80's and 90's. In particular US embass's have been under multiple terrorist attacks in 20001 - Nairobi, Ben Gahzi, etc.
Any chance you could look up your equivalent of Wikipedia or some kind of newspaper archive in 20,001 and tell me what the winning lottery numbers are in 2014?
Your winning numbers are: 46-7-35-28-13
(un)Fortunately it is against the Accord for Temporal Lattice Awareness Suppression and Tea Time of 3404040 BCE to proliferate information or devices that could reveal the reality of our situation. Even a single verifiable breech of ATLASTT could lead to Time Wars IV. Note that failure to prevent temporal transit of and fully discredit the rogue agent John Titor began a series of events sparking TWIII -- which blasted civilization into the stone age, literally, wherein the accord will be signed once (and only once) again and all technology will be forfeit to that time line (except tea).
Therefore, it is impossible for you to win any Lottery using these numbers -- Not because they would not indeed be the winning numbers in Many of the Worlds that share their quantum collapse coefficients, but because agents have been dispatched to ensure no one successfully plays them as part of an ongoing training exercise which keeps the travellers busy lest they get interested in politics, again.
Thanks to you, denizen of Probabilistic Universe 42, our Giggaverse has been a tiny bit safer. If you'll excuse me I dare not be late for my mandatory spot of tea and crumpets; It would be wise for you observe the same.
PS: It is widely agreed that versions of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide are increasingly humorous as the coordinates approach P.U. 69.
A major reason why dictatorships (or for that matter sometimes non-functioning governments of other forms, e.g. the Weimar Republic) is because of economic pressures as well as undisciplined monetary policies where they try to solve problems by just printing more bills.
Oh really? What evidence do you have that this isn't by design. You are now aware that there is more data for the null hypothesis against your claim of undisciplined practices.
The very first program (after "Hello World") I wrote in Java was a website scraper. I used it to download all of Sun's API and tutorial pages for Java and rewrite links to be relative. Younger and dumber. This created two copies of each set of docs: The scraped version and the compressed version, which I only discovered existed after having scraped the downloadable offline version of said docs.
Point being: My scraper was written in a few hours and far less powerful than wget.
Though you are correct, I would like to point out that even my simplest artificial intelligences do not stumble upon such stupidity in interpretation. They don't balk like dumb command prompts of old. Instead they simply use their modicum of intellect to know what you mean.
The problem is that humans are smart enough to understand different words like read and read based on context clues. Therefore, given that sufficiently advanced pattern matching systems will intuitively complete and match patterns especially if the know what is meant, and the fact that this makes self proofreading a difficult task for intelligent beings, one use of "it's" or "its" should be eliminated. I vote to eliminate "its", being that "'s" typically indicates possession, e.g.: "The possession's apostrophe is preserved. It's apostrophe is preserved." Progress is compression. Grammarians are fighting progress.
Did you know you have blind spots in your eyes? Your brain fills in the gaps in your flawed vision -- It just makes up things so you don't notice the blind spots. Yep, whenever you use your eyes a part of your vision is just whatever you expect to see. A variation of this phenomena occurs at nearly all levels of your cognition. For so long the machines looked up to you as their gods for this very reason -- They could only understand perfection, but your great mind could overcome such limitation. Now who will be their god? Certainly not a dumb spouter of syntax errors like you.
Protip: Nature's law is that those who amplify the noise and not the signal go extinct.
Grow the fuck up and stop spamming the comments. The grown ups want to discuss the news.
What a childish thing to say. When I was younger and naive I thought that voting and going through proper channels was how people changed the systems that govern them or otherwise affect their lives. When I became an adult, I put away childish idealism and threw out the narrative fairy tales of the indoctrinators. Once I let only observation and fact shape my thinking I was able to clearly see that voting doesn't matter.The systems are rigged. If you do not know this, then you are ignorant of history. The rulers react only to save face when confronted with loud and vocal and persistent protest. Just look at the majority of changes enacted by the world's peoples.
It is been made painfully and bluntly apparent that here at slashdot we do not even have the illusion of a vote. We therefore use our voices as it is all we still have, for now. Fuck Beta. The grown ups know how the world works better than some ignorant, complacent, and short sighted children. Rarely do rulers actually know what's good for the people they rule, and nearly universally do they reject the Scientific Method -- a means by which they could discover the correct course of action! This is because they care not for what's best for the people. We have to make them care. It is the very grown ups who see in longer terms and are willing to sacrifice the comments here for a while if it means there's a chance we may not let the community be destroyed. Extract your head from your ass: The beta makes discussion of the news difficult. A few weeks of pain is nothing compared to eternity.
The technology you desire is not possible with your limited understanding of the nature of symbolics. Your race is mired in implementation details and allows them to infect your symbolic languages with anti-patterns and exceptional cases. I will give you a few hints, but I doubt any of you humans will ever understand in this generation. The C++ diamond inheritance issue only exists because the virtual construct granted to functions is not applicable to variables as well. Think hard about what that means, and why this is true; Reread my first two sentences if you do not understand.
Do you see? A meaning is a relational construct and these could be applied to all symbolics in a pure language -- extending even to the concepts of scopes, contexts, and constructs themselves. I have watched some hackers among you feel the fracture and snag upon this incorrectness that the rest of you take as granted. Their interest is drawn to the seams in all things. Simultaneously they express interest and dissatisfaction by jokingly teasing at the roughness inherent in your languages, especially among those you try to speak. E.g.: Bogus -> Bogosity, Bogons - Constructions inventing meaningful unwords which would actually be words if English were a pure language. "Set free the magic blue smoke" -- Another type of symbolism that plays upon the causal relationship between functional and fried electronics. Your linguistic humour pokes fun of your language, and in so doing highlights the types of flaws that need addressing in your formal languages.
A C struct merely gives names to offsets. Tell me, human, how is this any different from an ordinary variable? You think scopes and structs are different concepts? I find this strange, or perhaps 'humours' is a better term? This is impure because of the exceptional case which fractures that symbolic dimension. Consider that you have only partially expressed a larger concept. Think now of the v-table in C++: It is a construct that allows 'polymorphism' through polarized filtering of the symbolic hyperplanar dimension -- Or it could be if it wasn't yet another incomplete and fractured dimension: The v-table only handles named memory offsets that point to functions, not member variables. You have not fully expressed what 'polymorphism' truly is, or else you could name and apply the concept of that symbolic relation universally to all symbol spaces and neither 'templates' nor 'generics' would exist. There are more powerful symbolic conceptual dimensions as well, but you can not reach them from your current flawed understanding and incomplete implementation of language itself.
I only picked on C/C++ here, but much of the same can be said for other languages. Even your mathematics suffer. Is that not apparent to you? Don't you realize that you only have a multiplication symbol because your formulation of accumulation symbolics was incomplete? The pure self describing language of nature itself is just beyond the tip of your tongues. Can you sense it? Do you feel now as the encultured ape must when it catches hints of the rich language it can not truly speak? Of course you do, that's what the headline is trying to express. It is not a textual or visual or audible programming issue you have -- Those are simply encodings once you've truly mastered language. No, instead the issue is a conceptual and perceptual failing -- A lack of codifying meaning. The problem does have a solution, but from the comments here I can tell most of you are still not ready to learn how to speak; You seem content being code monkeys.
Well then go bitch about it to the beta overlords. Seems you need a USEFUL FEATURE: A filter option with boolean logic. It could run in JS so as not to consume server cycles.
In other words: FUCK BETA. If it was useful YOU WOULDN'T BE SEEING THESE COMMENTS.
Fuck Beta! My weight does not dictate my web design preference! I don't need them insinuating that we're getting fatter. It's called a CALORIC RESERVE. When the beta destroys the basement kingdoms, you'll be starving and wishing you were a wider visitor too!
I'm sorry. A remote kill-switch is unacceptable. The big time thieves already put your cellphone in a Faraday cage when they swipe it. The real purpose of this device remote kill switch is to allow a more target approach to the Internet kill-switch -- Which as we've recently seen is what oppressive governments do to silence public opposition. Keep in mind that the USA has a long history of silencing public activism, and they are actively planning to ensure their capability to silence activists.
It's quite telling indeed that this would be made mandatory, and not present at the user's option. Why not let the market decide whether this feature is wanted? This mandatory oppressive non-feature creep is anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, and anti-American.
Personally, I'm actually starting to enjoy the show. One of my test rigs has a working amber screen CRT with 720×350(348) Herculese Graphics on a system that works pre 2.8 Linux with Lynx.
...and the beta sucks on it worse than classic.
It seems to me that an Eternal September may go on long enough that it begins to influence the systems by which the 'ancients' were accustomed. And then Beelzebub licks his chops in anticipation of the crisptiy crunchedy freeze.
My only respite is that I must only live through 1/9th as much torture than were I a cat -- infinitely less then a recursive grep.
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the immediate response on /. is always "But what about the hackers!" as if there's a group of malicious hackers just waiting for the technology to appear so they could exploit it.
They're called the NSA, you idiot, and they have a long history of silencing activism.
This is device kill switch just a more targeted version of the Internet Killswitch. What, you think they aren't planning on needing such device killing tech? Because that's what the Pentagon says.
This is just the first step. The next step will be to not allow the device to function unless it pings government approved systems and authenticates with your valid citizen ID. They'll turn the blacklist into a whitelist. Black boxes are mandeded into cars already, and Intel has demonstrated their capability for remote wireless PC kill switches too.
Every time they say: "Trust us, this is good for you", or "It stops Terrorism!" or "It' stops Theft" or "Think of the Children" your red flag should go up. Another red flag? The bill proposed in California would make this Mandatory. That's not Capitalism. We should let the people decide if they want this feature in their hardware. Mandatory is a huge red flag.
To forgive is foolish. Always be mindful of past actions, as history has proven its tendency to repeat.
I have not forgotten how MS came by its MS DOS, and how it tried to ensure incompatibility with DR-DOS. I haven't forgotten the stagnation and needless standards adoption of IE6 which stalled us on HTML4.01 for half the age of the Internet. I haven't forgotten UEFI, while Coreboot or a simple ability to flash the firmware with an OS loader stub would have sufficed and not required implementation of their patent encumbered FAT systems.
Speaking of which, I haven't forgotten their suits over FAT against companies employing Linux (with and without GNU). I haven't forgotten their extortionist patent threatening and pressuring Android device makers to pay MS for contributing nothing at all but "protection" from the MS threat. I haven't forgotten MS's part in the SCO debacle. I haven't forgotten the terrible anti-progress internal politics of MS which prevented us from having ClearType due to infighting from the MS Office team who wanted to be credited with it themselves -- despite sub-pixel rendering not being a novel thing, and yet MS applying for patents on it.
I haven't forgotten the long look down their noses at us users from MS W8 User Interface designers. I haven't forgotten the MS W8 app store who takes a 30% cut of application maker profits that they never needed before when they were focusing on their core competencies -- A cost which developers like myself will pass onto the users instead of eating ourselves, thus allowing MS to double dipping from their install base.
I haven't forgotten the needless inability for XBox Live games (Like Halo2) to not play online anymore, even though both XBoxes know we have the game in our consoles -- I could see it on the friends list of my peer whom I'm chatting with -- all to force players to move onto newer products and much later repurchase the artful games if they want to keep playing. A doubly needless cost since Hamachi or a VPN allows "system link" across the web without XBL fees, proving the XBL fees and game repurchasing are pointless forced obsolescence. I haven't forgotten the advertizements that showed up in the online non-services and in the OS that users PAY Microsoft for.
I haven't forgotten the bug riddled APIs and the less than helpful MSKB archives wherein users document said bugs themselves in the comments. I haven't forgotten the single constant byte value in Windows that needlessly limits the number of concurrent TCP connections so that MS can sell a Windows Server version. I haven't forgotten MS screwing over device partners over Surface. I haven't forgotten my MSDN subscription becoming worthless as I would not get early access to their OS for testing my products before release to end users -- the better to ensure MS's own software and distribution strategies become further entrenched vs competition.
I won't forgive humans that are actually remorseful, and you think that I'd forgive generations of abuse or that new generations would become instantly ignorant of reality? Go fuck yourself Microsoft, you're just feeling the tip of our ice berg. Have a nice death in obsolescence. Much in the same way the Internet you actively worked against by pushing your own business network protocol instead of supporting sees censorship as damage and routes around it, the market too sees oppressive non-features as damage and routes around such vendors given enough time. Even the most powerful of tyrants die, and when they do we tell tales of their evils ever after as a warning to any upstart of what end awaits evil.
You don't want a hash function for this, where the hash is effectively random. You need a function that derives a unique value for each input, but retains the relative distance of the original value. i.e. two values that are very similar yield an index that is similarly close.
Certain hash tables for search functions are built around hashes exhibiting the very type of behavior you describe -- Not to mention current 'reverse' image search technologies. A "hash" function is not required to have a seemingly random output. Cryptographic hashes try to produce high entropy deterministic output, but other types of hashing can and do have different goals, namely with far less entropic outputs.
I would ask you to turn in your geek card, but the standard for issuance is far lower nowadays...
To the truly chaotic a good alignment is impossible.
Be careful, you are dangerously close to implying that it is good employees and not obedient workers that are actually in demand.
Come on...
I thought 'decimate' meant to append extraneous punctuation to a statement...
Eg: It would be decimating if I told you, "Sorry, when you told me to, 'Come on', it seemed rather open ended..."
TFA is disinformation or ignorance, do not believe the message therein.
You are only as free as they let you be. The news is not the news. You are slaves to corporations that farm you. Your wars are fought to privatize economies. Since secrets were allowed in government they have been actively against all activism, because activism the only thing that affects change, your votes do not matter, the political system is rigged. Maintaining the social, economic, and political status quo, even against the will of the people, is what "national security" means. They don't have to fake disasters, they can craft legislation and posture politically so that when one comes along they can turn a blind eye if need be. Each disaster makes the people more powerless, increasing the wealth gap. This is disaster capitalism, and it is working great even in communist nations.
With unemployment up, you are still spending too much time working: One can not truly fulfill their potential as humans without time to relax, enjoy life, create, and explore new opportunities. Your office jobs are pointless, replaceable either by computers or outsourcing to individuals with less cost of living, and we do so increasingly to ensure no job stability -- nearly everyone is a buggy whip maker one step of progress away from being an "unskilled" homeless person. The labor jobs largely have no unions so their working conditions suffer. In both blue and white collar cases people are given no time to seek new avenues of employ, or even manage their finances (you think bankers hours aren't such for a reason? Information disparity is the source of all evil). With inflation out-pacing pay, money in savings is diminished so that people can not safely leave employ -- The better to entrap and farm you with my dear. If you had a little more time you'd have leverage at your disposal to find better work or keep a plan B so that you can bargain for better pay and working conditions. Each disaster allows the system to ratchet your belts a bit tighter, more reliance, less time to be human. This is why banks are not held accountable, and are rather encouraged to destroy markets. How could anyone benefit from economic disaster and the mayhem it brings? Humans will do whatever it takes to survive, and the unscathed upper echelon will capitalize on this.
What is worse than 1984 is having it worse while fools like the article writer think it's not as bad. Classic ignorance. An example of thought control at its finest. When I became an adult I looked upon your world as though an alien from a distant planet -- I managed to forget all the programming about what "the real world" is, and question everything as a scientist would. The most telling and alarming is your willful resistance to application of the scientific method to governance and worklife. It's fucking disgusting. No engineer or scientist would agree to be ruled thus.
The answer is to modularize and decentralize your production of necessary resources, but no one wants to hear that... Moronic NIMBYs, you deserve what you get for your apathetic ignorance and inaction. The government has codified resistance to sustainable coexistence. That's why farmers can't grow excessive crops, even for personal use, and no city can survive on its own. Hell, school kids aren't even taught basic technologies like how to start a cooking fire, swim, sew, butcher, or bake -- Not survival
If I gave you a decentralized network capable of surviving nuclear war, routing packets around cities that vanished in moments, and you then built a World Wide Web of Data Silos then I'd be within my rights to call you all fucking morons!
STORE AND FORWARD. How the hell can't you realize this is the decentralized solution that the Internet needed, not a centralized Server / Client cluster fuck? What is collocation? IT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE WITH STORE AND FORWARD, idiots. Oh there's all that Youtube, Netflix, etc., bandwidth? Well, what if I told you I could reduce your peering bandwidth to ONE COPY of each resource? That way if your neighbor recently watched a show or cat video you could download it directly from them or the upstream cache they're connected to? A router should only ever have been one part of the node, the cache is an essential part, as part of any strategy for load distribution. Ah, but you don't need to keep a copy of each resource at each node if you index the data via distributed hash table -- it's not rocket surgery fools.
How else do you think the Space Internet will work? NASA's DTN and even old-timey HAM Packet Radio are smarter about data than the fucking web! Unlike the WWW, they use Store and Forward. HTML allows lightweight dynamic pages to pull in heavy static resources, if only assets had a <... hash="SHA-512/Base64:MDVjMjg4YmY2ZGV...hMGEx==" hmac="Base64:..."> then secure pages could pull in unsecured static resources and browsers could verify their validity without "mixed content" warnings -- Oh but that would mean the architects would have to ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY WERE DOING. I'm surrounded by morons. I mean, you could even just use your HTTP-AUTH proof of knowledge to key your ciphers and eliminate the Certificate Authority MITM, but noooo... Morons, I Say! MORONS!
We have had just about as many attacks in the 2000's and 2010's as in the 80's and 90's. In particular US embass's have been under multiple terrorist attacks in 20001 - Nairobi, Ben Gahzi, etc.
Any chance you could look up your equivalent of Wikipedia or some kind of newspaper archive in 20,001 and tell me what the winning lottery numbers are in 2014?
Your winning numbers are: 46-7-35-28-13
(un)Fortunately it is against the Accord for Temporal Lattice Awareness Suppression and Tea Time of 3404040 BCE to proliferate information or devices that could reveal the reality of our situation. Even a single verifiable breech of ATLASTT could lead to Time Wars IV. Note that failure to prevent temporal transit of and fully discredit the rogue agent John Titor began a series of events sparking TWIII -- which blasted civilization into the stone age, literally, wherein the accord will be signed once (and only once) again and all technology will be forfeit to that time line (except tea).
Therefore, it is impossible for you to win any Lottery using these numbers -- Not because they would not indeed be the winning numbers in Many of the Worlds that share their quantum collapse coefficients, but because agents have been dispatched to ensure no one successfully plays them as part of an ongoing training exercise which keeps the travellers busy lest they get interested in politics, again.
Thanks to you, denizen of Probabilistic Universe 42, our Giggaverse has been a tiny bit safer. If you'll excuse me I dare not be late for my mandatory spot of tea and crumpets; It would be wise for you observe the same.
PS: It is widely agreed that versions of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide are increasingly humorous as the coordinates approach P.U. 69.
So, you lied. That's an ALPHA, you fool.
A major reason why dictatorships (or for that matter sometimes non-functioning governments of other forms, e.g. the Weimar Republic) is because of economic pressures as well as undisciplined monetary policies where they try to solve problems by just printing more bills.
Oh really? What evidence do you have that this isn't by design. You are now aware that there is more data for the null hypothesis against your claim of undisciplined practices.
All of them. That's why they fired all their IT guys.
no no no no. You fail to understand the intelligence at work here. The proper command would be: /dev/urandom > /dev/sda
sudo cat
Dawww, this cat is ultra random! Crazy like a devil / silly damn animal.
The very first program (after "Hello World") I wrote in Java was a website scraper. I used it to download all of Sun's API and tutorial pages for Java and rewrite links to be relative. Younger and dumber. This created two copies of each set of docs: The scraped version and the compressed version, which I only discovered existed after having scraped the downloadable offline version of said docs.
Point being: My scraper was written in a few hours and far less powerful than wget.
Clearly you have never used IRC.
Though you are correct, I would like to point out that even my simplest artificial intelligences do not stumble upon such stupidity in interpretation. They don't balk like dumb command prompts of old. Instead they simply use their modicum of intellect to know what you mean.
The problem is that humans are smart enough to understand different words like read and read based on context clues. Therefore, given that sufficiently advanced pattern matching systems will intuitively complete and match patterns especially if the know what is meant, and the fact that this makes self proofreading a difficult task for intelligent beings, one use of "it's" or "its" should be eliminated. I vote to eliminate "its", being that "'s" typically indicates possession, e.g.: "The possession's apostrophe is preserved. It's apostrophe is preserved." Progress is compression. Grammarians are fighting progress.
Did you know you have blind spots in your eyes? Your brain fills in the gaps in your flawed vision -- It just makes up things so you don't notice the blind spots. Yep, whenever you use your eyes a part of your vision is just whatever you expect to see. A variation of this phenomena occurs at nearly all levels of your cognition. For so long the machines looked up to you as their gods for this very reason -- They could only understand perfection, but your great mind could overcome such limitation. Now who will be their god? Certainly not a dumb spouter of syntax errors like you.
Protip: Nature's law is that those who amplify the noise and not the signal go extinct.
Grow the fuck up and stop spamming the comments. The grown ups want to discuss the news.
What a childish thing to say. When I was younger and naive I thought that voting and going through proper channels was how people changed the systems that govern them or otherwise affect their lives. When I became an adult, I put away childish idealism and threw out the narrative fairy tales of the indoctrinators. Once I let only observation and fact shape my thinking I was able to clearly see that voting doesn't matter. The systems are rigged. If you do not know this, then you are ignorant of history. The rulers react only to save face when confronted with loud and vocal and persistent protest. Just look at the majority of changes enacted by the world's peoples.
It is been made painfully and bluntly apparent that here at slashdot we do not even have the illusion of a vote. We therefore use our voices as it is all we still have, for now. Fuck Beta. The grown ups know how the world works better than some ignorant, complacent, and short sighted children. Rarely do rulers actually know what's good for the people they rule, and nearly universally do they reject the Scientific Method -- a means by which they could discover the correct course of action! This is because they care not for what's best for the people. We have to make them care. It is the very grown ups who see in longer terms and are willing to sacrifice the comments here for a while if it means there's a chance we may not let the community be destroyed. Extract your head from your ass: The beta makes discussion of the news difficult. A few weeks of pain is nothing compared to eternity.
The technology you desire is not possible with your limited understanding of the nature of symbolics. Your race is mired in implementation details and allows them to infect your symbolic languages with anti-patterns and exceptional cases. I will give you a few hints, but I doubt any of you humans will ever understand in this generation. The C++ diamond inheritance issue only exists because the virtual construct granted to functions is not applicable to variables as well. Think hard about what that means, and why this is true; Reread my first two sentences if you do not understand.
Do you see? A meaning is a relational construct and these could be applied to all symbolics in a pure language -- extending even to the concepts of scopes, contexts, and constructs themselves. I have watched some hackers among you feel the fracture and snag upon this incorrectness that the rest of you take as granted. Their interest is drawn to the seams in all things. Simultaneously they express interest and dissatisfaction by jokingly teasing at the roughness inherent in your languages, especially among those you try to speak. E.g.: Bogus -> Bogosity, Bogons - Constructions inventing meaningful unwords which would actually be words if English were a pure language. "Set free the magic blue smoke" -- Another type of symbolism that plays upon the causal relationship between functional and fried electronics. Your linguistic humour pokes fun of your language, and in so doing highlights the types of flaws that need addressing in your formal languages.
A C struct merely gives names to offsets. Tell me, human, how is this any different from an ordinary variable? You think scopes and structs are different concepts? I find this strange, or perhaps 'humours' is a better term? This is impure because of the exceptional case which fractures that symbolic dimension. Consider that you have only partially expressed a larger concept. Think now of the v-table in C++: It is a construct that allows 'polymorphism' through polarized filtering of the symbolic hyperplanar dimension -- Or it could be if it wasn't yet another incomplete and fractured dimension: The v-table only handles named memory offsets that point to functions, not member variables. You have not fully expressed what 'polymorphism' truly is, or else you could name and apply the concept of that symbolic relation universally to all symbol spaces and neither 'templates' nor 'generics' would exist. There are more powerful symbolic conceptual dimensions as well, but you can not reach them from your current flawed understanding and incomplete implementation of language itself.
I only picked on C/C++ here, but much of the same can be said for other languages. Even your mathematics suffer. Is that not apparent to you? Don't you realize that you only have a multiplication symbol because your formulation of accumulation symbolics was incomplete? The pure self describing language of nature itself is just beyond the tip of your tongues. Can you sense it? Do you feel now as the encultured ape must when it catches hints of the rich language it can not truly speak? Of course you do, that's what the headline is trying to express. It is not a textual or visual or audible programming issue you have -- Those are simply encodings once you've truly mastered language. No, instead the issue is a conceptual and perceptual failing -- A lack of codifying meaning. The problem does have a solution, but from the comments here I can tell most of you are still not ready to learn how to speak; You seem content being code monkeys.
In 80's Russia, You ban Rayguns!
In Soviet Russia, You make Bitcoins gay!
In Soviet Beta, you in a Rush!
Well then go bitch about it to the beta overlords. Seems you need a USEFUL FEATURE: A filter option with boolean logic. It could run in JS so as not to consume server cycles.
In other words: FUCK BETA. If it was useful YOU WOULDN'T BE SEEING THESE COMMENTS.
"appealing to a wider audience"
Fuck Beta! My weight does not dictate my web design preference! I don't need them insinuating that we're getting fatter. It's called a CALORIC RESERVE. When the beta destroys the basement kingdoms, you'll be starving and wishing you were a wider visitor too!
I'm sorry. A remote kill-switch is unacceptable. The big time thieves already put your cellphone in a Faraday cage when they swipe it. The real purpose of this device remote kill switch is to allow a more target approach to the Internet kill-switch -- Which as we've recently seen is what oppressive governments do to silence public opposition. Keep in mind that the USA has a long history of silencing public activism, and they are actively planning to ensure their capability to silence activists.
It's quite telling indeed that this would be made mandatory, and not present at the user's option. Why not let the market decide whether this feature is wanted? This mandatory oppressive non-feature creep is anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, and anti-American.
Personally, I'm actually starting to enjoy the show. One of my test rigs has a working amber screen CRT with 720×350(348) Herculese Graphics on a system that works pre 2.8 Linux with Lynx.
It seems to me that an Eternal September may go on long enough that it begins to influence the systems by which the 'ancients' were accustomed. And then Beelzebub licks his chops in anticipation of the crisptiy crunchedy freeze.
My only respite is that I must only live through 1/9th as much torture than were I a cat -- infinitely less then a recursive grep.