I prefer 2010.09.08 (yyyy.mm.dd) because a simple descending/ascending textual sort preserves the chronological order of the dates this way (esp. in similar filenames containing the dates).
'People come here because we don't offer it. They know they can get their work done and not get distracted.'
This is something that I suspect will be lost on about 95% of the slashdot-reading population -- net access isn't necessarily critical to everyone's ability to do their work.
Some people don't need the coffee shop's wireless Internet because they bring their own Internet connection. Unless they start jamming cellular signals I could care less about their wireless offerings.
It's time to face the facts: Soon the Internet will be accessible everywhere, all the time. Enjoy your semi-Internet-free zones while you can.
High order self aware intelligence as far as we know has only evolved in us. It is exceedingly difficult to say what exactly the odds are for such things.
It could be pretty damn common then, eh?
If puddles could think: Oh my! Just look at how perfectly I fit into this hole in the ground! This must be proof that an intelligent creator created the hole to suit me.
As intelligent beings we frequently imagine other things to have our traits. Personifying the very physics that govern the universe creates a god where none exists or is required.
Just because you have intelligence doesn't mean that plants and rocks and physics do too.
It is true that humans have used evolutionary principals to change wolves into the many breeds of dogs we have today, but using a principal intelligently doesn't mean that it must always have been used intelligently. In fact it proves that unintelligent processes (such as a change in climate or food sources) also affect evolution (as verified by the fossil record).
Having intelligence arise in a system based upon evolution while providing our own substitute for natural selection doesn't prove that an intelligent creator exists; It proves that our own intelligence has likely evolved due to unintelligent phenomena such as evolution due to competition and natural selection.
Ever seen a 1px wide circle? It's a square (or a rectangle depending on your aspect ratio), and squares look like circles from a far enough distance.
Regardless, both squares and circles are fundamental shapes depended on by most known sentient beings (humans that use principals Math and/or Geometry in some way).
Gay marriage is perfectly legal when a Gay man marries a Lesbian woman. Bisexuals frequently also marry other Bisexuals or Heterosexuals... Therefore, the legality of marriage can't be about sexual preference.
Disallowing same sex marriage is a form of sexual discrimination in my book.
We should look at Marriage independently: If person A is legally allowed to marry someone else, and person B is legally allowed to marry someone else, then logically person A and B should be allowed to marry each the other.
I'd argue that when the Pentagon banned military members from viewing the documents they basically authenticated their contents. If nothing else the action has increased the credibility of the documents.
That the Pentagon hasn't released statements suggesting that most if not all of the documents are suspected to be fake also lends credence to the documents' authenticity.
accessing the documents even from a personal computer is "willingly committing a security violation."
Only if they actually contained restricted information...
Yeah, and then they'll just say "Show me what's in it or your fired for misappropriation of company resources".
Then you decrypt the volume and show them it's just some basic personal info and a few family photos (you keep the stuff that you really want secret safely stored in a hidden volume within the original encrypted volume's free space).
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Maybe someone tipped them off that 2020 comes after 2012?
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
In local news: After legally changing his name to "Mr. Nobody" the man formerly known as Joseph Sickspak purchased a new Volvo and drove it off a cliff.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Volvo's revolutionary "Boost Roost" (cock-pit and nitric oxide delivery system) delivers performance on demand while ensuring that no vehicular casualties can be taken seriously.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
A sly admission that Volvo's future is rather bleak and therefore plans to cease car production sometime before 2020.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Perhaps a merger is in the works that will cause Volvo to change their company name.
Re:imaged a waved Real Estate contract
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I believe wave is a solution to many existing problems.
Think about a real estate contract. The brokers, attorneys, and clients all need to sign and approve any changes. So we end up faxing and mailing things all over the place saying "please change paragraph n to read: ____ " and everyone has to sign.
Imagine if all these parties could interact with a single document through a wave. An enormous effort would be saved!
Hmm, that's a problem that Google Docs solved long ago.
Coworker via Google chat: Hey could you help me review the changes made to [the google doc we collaborate on]. Me: Sure, let's do it right now. [we do, and it gets done without wave]
In Google Docs "please change paragraph n to read: ____ " becomes "Please review the changes I made to paragraph n" Notice that there is no duplication of "____ " this way...
Or even just paint the environment like a level and use augmented reality to add the weapons and effects similar to this: http://vimeo.com/6885648
Perhaps a combination of the two where the real world (green screened) acts as the game's "physics", and a few stock physical objects (like Nerf balls / guns) are modified digitally to become various weapons and items?
It's not economically feasible to collect it, but you might like Planetes - an Anime about collecting space junk in exchange for eco-friendly credits (like carbon offsets).
Using a net like that is like trying to catch bullets not butterflies. You'll end up with projectiles at orbital velocities punching holes in your net.
All of the math books for which copyright has expired.
The book makers don't just make books. They screen them, and educate the school boards, so the schools don't waste students' time with crappy, outmoded texts.
New math books simply have "updated", or as I see it "dumbed down", terminology. If I'm not mistaken the English course (esp. vocabulary) is required as well as math, so why dumb down the math books?
I tried helping out my little brother, a high-school sophomore, with his math homework, but I couldn't stand wading through the stupefied terminology soup.
Solving an equation has been the same process since Algebra was invented, yet the textbook referred to combining like terms via adding the coefficients (or multipliers) of like variables as:
Move same lettered variables next to each other then add or subtract the counter numbers of each type of variable.
I also found several typos and mathematical errors in the brand spanking "new and improved" math schoolbook.
There's no reason not to standardize on (reprint) a time tested (proofread) 70 year old Algebra book rather than release new books with different terminology and poor quality control except to make more money for publishers.
A change in curriculum isn't an excuse since you could just provide the appropriate book containing the desired info instead of reprint a new collection of the same old info with new terminology.
Oh, wait, you can't get a copyright on a book made by reprinting the same old info unless you change the info somehow...
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try. -- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
That's a serious approach to potty training!
Spock had many good quotes on stardate 2822.3 AKA "The Galileo Seven". The most memorable to me being: "It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six."
However, I'm afraid you've committed one of the geek sins: "Ye shant confuse Starwars with Star Trek, lest ye be stripped of all geek cred."
And why, exactly do you assume that the persons who photograph other drivers should necessarily be drivers? Ever heard of 'pedestrians'? Or maybe, drivers waiting at a red light?
I use PCs and laptops with touch screens. I have no "mouse cursor" to track.
Since the light-pen was invented I've always felt the mouse is an unnatural, less precise and inefficient pointing device.
I still prefer to navigate my OS & menus via keyboard (for speed).
Good luck with that soon to be obsolete patent as touch devices become cheap and commonplace.
Up Next: A patent on using the front facing camera and/or accelerometer of "touch devices" to track actual eye and/or body movement (to make up for the devices' lack of a cursor).
When someone offers me their hand to shake I simply:
1) Smile 2) Make Eye contact 3) Say, "I appreciate the offer, but that's really not unnecessary; I trust you..." 4) Explain that even if I had my doubts my building's metal detectors have already verified that they are not hiding weapons in their sleeves.
Seriously, handshakes are uncivilized. If I want to touch a human, I'll rent one and touch them however I please ¡
Statements like, "I could break any WiFi in about two hours," are red flags that you should higher a different security researcher...
The terms "any", "ever" or "all" are not in most security researcher's vocabularies when talking about unknowns or speculative situations. We prefer to use terms that imply some degree of uncertainty such as "mostly", "almost never", and "nearly all" since the one thing we know as security researchers is "trust no one", followed closely by "there is almost always an exception to the rule".
I'm certain that there is at least one "WiFi" your researcher could not break in approximately two hours, thus voiding the "any" term they used.
[...]easily fitting entire seasons of popular TV shows like 24.
I can already fit an entire HD season of a TV show on one DVD using x264 or Theora.
On a single layer DVD I've got all 6 episodes of Star Wars... Most people don't mind swapping discs every 12 hours or so.
Hell, I've got a cheap ($30) DVD player that can play Xvid or DivX, and on one 8Gb (dual layer DVD) disc I've got FOUR seasons of a TV show.
Some of the entire seasons I have stored on a single DVD have dual or triple audio streams (multiple languages and/or commentary).
Blu-ray is capable of storing entire runs of most TV shows (except exceptionally long running shows), yet they insist on using crappy compression and dividing up the seasons into multiple discs.
As long as more disks per show == more money per show we'll still have tons of cheesy "special features" and/or half blank disks wasting our digital and shelf storage capacity.
Perhaps that's why I think this way after living in Houston's traffic for 12 years.
I take "alternate off ramps" instead of waiting for 45 min. in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway to get to the next exit whilst the feeder is traveling ~65kph (40mph).
(Oh, and the proper question was: "What color Jeep ya got". Answer: 34052 WWII USMC Lusterless Forrest Green)
I prefer to remember one passphrase that unlocks them all.
I used to use Lastpass. Its secure; your passwords are encrypted & decrypted client side, and you can use a unique terrible to remember password for each site.
The downside is that your master password must be very secure because it becomes the single attack surface, and without web access or your password dictionary file you loose access to your passwords.
I now use HMAC w/ SHA1 using a master passphrase as the 'key' and the domain name as the 'message' for my passphrase (truncated for limited length password fields). I only have to remember one password, and every site gets a different secure password. Since I can do this calculation via my computer, JS bookmarklet, on my phone, or even my TI calculator I'm never without my passwords even when I'm offline.
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I prefer 2010.09.08 (yyyy.mm.dd) because a simple descending/ascending textual sort
preserves the chronological order of the dates this way (esp. in similar filenames containing the dates).
P.S. I'm an "American".
'People come here because we don't offer it. They know they can get their work done and not get distracted.'
This is something that I suspect will be lost on about 95% of the slashdot-reading population -- net access isn't necessarily critical to everyone's ability to do their work.
Some people don't need the coffee shop's wireless Internet because they bring their own Internet connection.
Unless they start jamming cellular signals I could care less about their wireless offerings.
It's time to face the facts: Soon the Internet will be accessible everywhere, all the time.
Enjoy your semi-Internet-free zones while you can.
High order self aware intelligence as far as we know has only evolved in us. It is exceedingly difficult to say what exactly the odds are for such things.
It could be pretty damn common then, eh?
If puddles could think:
Oh my! Just look at how perfectly I fit into this hole in the ground! This must be proof that an intelligent creator created the hole to suit me.
As intelligent beings we frequently imagine other things to have our traits. Personifying the very physics that govern the universe creates a god where none exists or is required.
Just because you have intelligence doesn't mean that plants and rocks and physics do too.
It is true that humans have used evolutionary principals to change wolves into the many breeds of dogs we have today,
but using a principal intelligently doesn't mean that it must always have been used intelligently.
In fact it proves that unintelligent processes (such as a change in climate or food sources) also affect evolution (as verified by the fossil record).
Having intelligence arise in a system based upon evolution while providing our own substitute for natural selection doesn't prove that an intelligent creator exists;
It proves that our own intelligence has likely evolved due to unintelligent phenomena such as evolution due to competition and natural selection.
same sex marriage is like a square circle.
Ever seen a 1px wide circle? It's a square (or a rectangle depending on your aspect ratio), and squares look like circles from a far enough distance.
Regardless, both squares and circles are fundamental shapes depended on by most known sentient beings (humans that use principals Math and/or Geometry in some way).
Gay marriage is perfectly legal when a Gay man marries a Lesbian woman.
Bisexuals frequently also marry other Bisexuals or Heterosexuals...
Therefore, the legality of marriage can't be about sexual preference.
Disallowing same sex marriage is a form of sexual discrimination in my book.
We should look at Marriage independently: If person A is legally allowed to marry someone else, and person B is legally allowed to marry someone else, then logically person A and B should be allowed to marry each the other.
I realized ... I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that ... have guided me throughout my career."
Clearly the principles haven't been "guiding" him to within a tolerable deviance...
I'd argue that when the Pentagon banned military members from viewing the documents they basically authenticated their contents.
If nothing else the action has increased the credibility of the documents.
That the Pentagon hasn't released statements suggesting that most if not all of the documents are suspected to be fake also lends credence to the documents' authenticity.
accessing the documents even from a personal computer is "willingly committing a security violation."
Only if they actually contained restricted information...
Yeah, and then they'll just say "Show me what's in it or your fired for misappropriation of company resources".
Then you decrypt the volume and show them it's just some basic personal info and a few family photos (you keep the
stuff that you really want secret safely stored in a hidden volume within the original encrypted volume's free space).
Plus I hope this isn't a marketing ploy.
Hmm, well let's see...
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Maybe someone tipped them off that 2020 comes after 2012?
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
In local news: After legally changing his name to "Mr. Nobody" the man formerly known as Joseph Sickspak purchased a new Volvo and drove it off a cliff.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Volvo's revolutionary "Boost Roost" (cock-pit and nitric oxide delivery system) delivers performance on demand while ensuring that no vehicular casualties can be taken seriously.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
A sly admission that Volvo's future is rather bleak and therefore plans to cease car production sometime before 2020.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
Perhaps a merger is in the works that will cause Volvo to change their company name.
I believe wave is a solution to many existing problems.
Think about a real estate contract. The brokers, attorneys, and clients all need to sign and approve any changes. So we end up faxing and mailing things all over the place saying "please change paragraph n to read: ____ " and everyone has to sign.
Imagine if all these parties could interact with a single document through a wave. An enormous effort would be saved!
Hmm, that's a problem that Google Docs solved long ago.
Coworker via Google chat: Hey could you help me review the changes made to [the google doc we collaborate on].
Me: Sure, let's do it right now.
[we do, and it gets done without wave]
In Google Docs "please change paragraph n to read: ____ " becomes "Please review the changes I made to paragraph n"
Notice that there is no duplication of "____ " this way...
You could use this technology with a different green screen set.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9anuy_virtualization-gate-siggraph-2009-e_tech
Or even just paint the environment like a level and use augmented reality to add the weapons and effects similar to this:
http://vimeo.com/6885648
Perhaps a combination of the two where the real world (green screened) acts as the game's "physics",
and a few stock physical objects (like Nerf balls / guns) are modified digitally to become various weapons and items?
Why not collect it in space?
It's not economically feasible to collect it, but you might like Planetes - an Anime about collecting space junk in exchange for eco-friendly credits (like carbon offsets).
Using a net like that is like trying to catch bullets not butterflies.
You'll end up with projectiles at orbital velocities punching holes in your net.
Which high-quality public domain books are those?
All of the math books for which copyright has expired.
The book makers don't just make books. They screen them, and educate the school boards, so the schools don't waste students' time with crappy, outmoded texts.
New math books simply have "updated", or as I see it "dumbed down", terminology.
If I'm not mistaken the English course (esp. vocabulary) is required as well as math, so why dumb down the math books?
I tried helping out my little brother, a high-school sophomore, with his math homework,
but I couldn't stand wading through the stupefied terminology soup.
Solving an equation has been the same process since Algebra was invented,
yet the textbook referred to combining like terms via adding the coefficients (or multipliers) of like variables as:
Move same lettered variables next to each other then add or subtract the counter numbers of each type of variable.
I also found several typos and mathematical errors in the brand spanking "new and improved" math schoolbook.
There's no reason not to standardize on (reprint) a time tested (proofread) 70 year old Algebra book rather than release
new books with different terminology and poor quality control except to make more money for publishers.
A change in curriculum isn't an excuse since you could just provide the appropriate book containing the desired
info instead of reprint a new collection of the same old info with new terminology.
Oh, wait, you can't get a copyright on a book made by reprinting the same old info unless you change the info somehow...
That's a serious approach to potty training!
Spock had many good quotes on stardate 2822.3 AKA "The Galileo Seven".
The most memorable to me being: "It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six."
However, I'm afraid you've committed one of the geek sins: "Ye shant confuse Starwars with Star Trek, lest ye be stripped of all geek cred."
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
Or just replace the pellets with cookies and call it Snack-Man.
But it had to be rooted, which is 7331 slang for jailbreaking.
7331 = ... rooted, which is [noob / not elite] slang for jailbreaking.
I think you meant this instead:
But it had to be rooted, which is 1337 slang for jailbreaking.
1337 = ... rooted, which is [leet] slang for jailbreaking.
In which case you've proven yourself to be 7331.
-- 1337 5p34k 6r4mm4/2 ]\[4221?
[...] the Delhi Traffic Police have issued 665 tickets.
They're saving the very next ticket for Zuckerberg.
And why, exactly do you assume that the persons who photograph other drivers should necessarily be drivers? Ever heard of 'pedestrians'? Or maybe, drivers waiting at a red light?
Or perhaps even passengers?
I use PCs and laptops with touch screens.
I have no "mouse cursor" to track.
Since the light-pen was invented I've always felt the mouse is an
unnatural, less precise and inefficient pointing device.
I still prefer to navigate my OS & menus via keyboard (for speed).
Good luck with that soon to be obsolete patent as touch devices become cheap and commonplace.
Up Next: A patent on using the front facing camera and/or accelerometer of "touch devices" to track
actual eye and/or body movement (to make up for the devices' lack of a cursor).
When someone offers me their hand to shake I simply:
1) Smile
2) Make Eye contact
3) Say, "I appreciate the offer, but that's really not unnecessary; I trust you..."
4) Explain that even if I had my doubts my building's metal detectors have already verified that they are not hiding weapons in their sleeves.
Seriously, handshakes are uncivilized.
If I want to touch a human, I'll rent one and touch them however I please ¡
Statements like, "I could break any WiFi in about two hours," are red flags that you should higher a different security researcher...
The terms "any", "ever" or "all" are not in most security researcher's vocabularies when talking about unknowns or speculative situations.
We prefer to use terms that imply some degree of uncertainty such as "mostly", "almost never", and "nearly all" since the one thing we know
as security researchers is "trust no one", followed closely by "there is almost always an exception to the rule".
I'm certain that there is at least one "WiFi" your researcher could not break in approximately two hours, thus voiding the "any" term they used.
When in doubt just say, "Prove It."
...think of the children!
Wait, not like that you sick bastards!
[...]easily fitting entire seasons of popular TV shows like 24.
I can already fit an entire HD season of a TV show on one DVD using x264 or Theora.
On a single layer DVD I've got all 6 episodes of Star Wars... Most people don't mind swapping discs every 12 hours or so.
Hell, I've got a cheap ($30) DVD player that can play Xvid or DivX, and on one 8Gb (dual layer DVD) disc I've got FOUR seasons of a TV show.
Some of the entire seasons I have stored on a single DVD have dual or triple audio streams (multiple languages and/or commentary).
Blu-ray is capable of storing entire runs of most TV shows (except exceptionally long running shows),
yet they insist on using crappy compression and dividing up the seasons into multiple discs.
As long as more disks per show == more money per show we'll still have tons of cheesy
"special features" and/or half blank disks wasting our digital and shelf storage capacity.
Heh, you're right!
Perhaps that's why I think this way after living in Houston's traffic for 12 years.
I take "alternate off ramps" instead of waiting for 45 min. in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway to get to the next exit whilst the feeder is traveling ~65kph (40mph).
(Oh, and the proper question was: "What color Jeep ya got". Answer: 34052 WWII USMC Lusterless Forrest Green)
I prefer to remember one passphrase that unlocks them all.
I used to use Lastpass.
Its secure; your passwords are encrypted & decrypted client side, and you can use a unique terrible to remember password for each site.
The downside is that your master password must be very secure because it becomes the single attack surface, and without web access or your password dictionary file you loose access to your passwords.
I now use HMAC w/ SHA1 using a master passphrase as the 'key' and the domain name as the 'message' for my passphrase (truncated for limited length password fields).
I only have to remember one password, and every site gets a different secure password.
Since I can do this calculation via my computer, JS bookmarklet, on my phone, or even my TI calculator I'm never without my passwords even when I'm offline.