> also get things done more than 10 times faster, than in C++.
For me, JSP and Java classes get things done more than 10 times faster than PHP. Heck, use struts and hibernate and you have just gained another 10 times and more security with regards to SQL injections and other topics.
Of course, there is a little of overhead in learning how to use the tools that, in my experience, I found most PHP developers are not willing to invest in. But once that overhead covered, it is done, you only have to learn it once..
So most of the time, Java use machine code, no interpretation at all. Go on and learn about sophisticated optimization algorithms that are incorporated inot the JVM, several JITs and the like.
I has become a field where very brilliant people work, they are probably ranking above the average developer !;-)
Very good point, no-brainer optimization is often the best bang for the buck you can get without regards for the language used !
On a funny note, something triggered when I read:
> You could save yourself a lot of carbon
Now I know what it is: I think that nobody should try to save carbon, this would imply that one needs to produce more in the first place in order to save it;-)
Again, not that I am trying to be the grammar police or anything (I hate that), but I swear something really bugged me we I read your sentence.
> a bunch of incompatible framework classes sucks ass
Agreed,
Note that I have never encountered a custom written string framework while using Java, which is good. Let the optimization be taken of by the JVM and the compiler and the JIT.
I wonder if it is still required to use StringBuffer/StringBuilder instead of += while doing several concatenation to the same original string in order to achieve maximum performance or if they have managed to optimize that too by now !;-)
> I've played with the idea of greylisting only at night.
Interesting !;-)
But maybe you would have to publish that fact anyway just in case one of the big bosses stays up all night exchanging emails with somebody in order to finalyze that "very important" contract;-))
I remember one of my bosses using email as a chat client during a very important power grid failure crisis;-))
Every time he drives in front of my house, my TV goes wild, I sometimes can hear alien like sounding voices coming from the TV, my wireless connection drops and my clothes dryer even starts to spin backward !
I sometimes worry about the effects on the driver's health in the long run...;-)
I publish SPF records for all my domains for which I know *for sure* the IPs from which mail might be sent from and I take care of using the -all qualifier which is FAIL ( NOT SOFTFAIL which uses a tilde ). This is telling other mail servers using SPF to refuse the email when not coming from the published list of IPs.
I barely take SPF into account to filter incoming email for basically the same reason you have mentioned.
Oh, I do not use greylisting because having emails delayed by 1 to 6 hours, for the organization I work for, "would be absolutely nuts".
If you asked me I would say resistance is futile unless you are ready to commit illegal actions.
You could always use anonymous services like scroogle fro searching but if I was a intelligence gathering organization, I would run such "anonymous services" myself so there is a risk that you might be followed even more by using such services.
Hacking into 10 machines and forwarding your connections through all of them might be a solution that will get you into trouble but that can be an efficient way to stay anonymous. But then again, intelligence gathering organizations might set up honey pots that you will end up using and you will bring even more attention to yourself this way.
So anyway: > how do I stay anonymous to Google while using their services
is a really hard to answer question: There might be solutions for anonymous services like searching but for gmail and all other services that require you to log in, I would say forget it.
Intelligence gathering organizations have come to fully realize the potential of the Internet to track people, in contrast to the situation in the early 90s. Maybe Google CEO knows all about this and that he was just saying; you will be tracked anyway so you may as well be tracked by us ! He kind of screwed up on this because he is now stuck, unable to further explain his point of view, he would have to admit that Google, Bing and many other track you for business and marketing reasons but that they also "share" information with security oriented intelligence gathering organizations.
So in the end, I would choose who I want to be tracked by for marketing purposes and forget about not being tracked for other purposes unless you want to risk getting into trouble. You may be safer just acting as a normal day to day user thus making the amount of traffic play into your advantage in order to stay anonymous.
Although I think that pretending that only the "initiated" can understand the data is ridiculous, I would be cautious about putting the matter to a public vote in order to make up our minds.
The truth isn't democratic. If it was, we would be doomed into a big standstill defined by what the majority of people believe. The ones that bring progress often discard what the majority of people think and even some of what their predecessors thought. Take Einstein as an example if you need one.
Conventional strictly human intelligence is still done and needed. The pitfall is that an organization could try to cut costs too much by relying too much on computer generated reports. Aside from that pitfall, data mining is efficient to find instances where traditional human methods would have failed as long as you tune the system not to have a ridiculous amount of false positives.
For the time being, human review is still needed;-)
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> I think you probably meant to reply to someone above me
indeed, my mistake, I am sorry about that...
> I guess I normally don't associate "dialing" with time travel.
some Stargate fans might do ! ;-)
> Heuristics of said GPS that learns your typical routs
What's the use of this feature ?
I mean if I already know the route, what is the advantage of teaching it to the GPS ?
I assumed that one typically wanted the GPS to show him the route to follow, not the other way around ;-))
Thinking of it, this may be useful if you are getting old and/or beginning to forget your routes, teach them to the GPS while you still can ;-)
> also get things done more than 10 times faster, than in C++.
For me, JSP and Java classes get things done more than 10 times faster than PHP. Heck, use struts and hibernate and you have just gained another 10 times and more security with regards to SQL injections and other topics.
Of course, there is a little of overhead in learning how to use the tools that, in my experience, I found most PHP developers are not willing to invest in. But once that overhead covered, it is done, you only have to learn it once..
Java saves machine code to recall it next time.
So most of the time, Java use machine code, no interpretation at all. Go on and learn about sophisticated optimization algorithms that are incorporated inot the JVM, several JITs and the like.
I has become a field where very brilliant people work, they are probably ranking above the average developer ! ;-)
Very good point, no-brainer optimization is often the best bang for the buck you can get without regards for the language used !
On a funny note, something triggered when I read:
> You could save yourself a lot of carbon
Now I know what it is: I think that nobody should try to save carbon, this would imply that one needs to produce more in the first place in order to save it ;-)
Again, not that I am trying to be the grammar police or anything (I hate that), but I swear something really bugged me we I read your sentence.
Bah, just use something like Struts and hibernate, problem solved.
> a bunch of incompatible framework classes sucks ass
Agreed,
Note that I have never encountered a custom written string framework while using Java, which is good. Let the optimization be taken of by the JVM and the compiler and the JIT.
I wonder if it is still required to use StringBuffer/StringBuilder instead of += while doing several concatenation to the same original string in order to achieve maximum performance or if they have managed to optimize that too by now ! ;-)
I still use StringBuilders anyway... ;-)
"she" is used a lot in some cases, all big oil rigs are "shes" for example...
> I've played with the idea of greylisting only at night.
Interesting ! ;-)
But maybe you would have to publish that fact anyway just in case one of the big bosses stays up all night exchanging emails with somebody in order to finalyze that "very important" contract ;-))
I remember one of my bosses using email as a chat client during a very important power grid failure crisis ;-))
Looks like you have managed to Slashdot it rather quickly ... ;-)
I assumed it was just WTF, meaning the WTF that you already about... ;-))
Every time he drives in front of my house, my TV goes wild, I sometimes can hear alien like sounding voices coming from the TV, my wireless connection drops and my clothes dryer even starts to spin backward !
I sometimes worry about the effects on the driver's health in the long run... ;-)
> In other news, a ton of bricks actually does weigh more than a ton of feathers.
Nope, it is a pound of feathers *really* weights more than a pound of gold.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_weighs_more_a_pound_of_gold_or_a_pound_of_feathers
Agreed with both your post and the GP !
I publish SPF records for all my domains for which I know *for sure* the IPs from which mail might be sent from and I take care of using the -all qualifier which is FAIL ( NOT SOFTFAIL which uses a tilde ). This is telling other mail servers using SPF to refuse the email when not coming from the published list of IPs.
I barely take SPF into account to filter incoming email for basically the same reason you have mentioned.
Oh, I do not use greylisting because having emails delayed by 1 to 6 hours, for the organization I work for, "would be absolutely nuts".
Nah, eOpen site is simply relying on some office 2003 libraries and they locked themselves out !
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/0111204/Office-2003-Bug-Locks-Owners-Out?art_pos=9
Damn you ! You have just revealed to everybody the true way to stay anonymous !
Now my cover is blown and the trick won't work anymore ;-(
If you asked me I would say resistance is futile unless you are ready to commit illegal actions.
You could always use anonymous services like scroogle fro searching but if I was a intelligence gathering organization, I would run such "anonymous services" myself so there is a risk that you might be followed even more by using such services.
Hacking into 10 machines and forwarding your connections through all of them might be a solution that will get you into trouble but that can be an efficient way to stay anonymous. But then again, intelligence gathering organizations might set up honey pots that you will end up using and you will bring even more attention to yourself this way.
So anyway:
> how do I stay anonymous to Google while using their services
is a really hard to answer question: There might be solutions for anonymous services like searching but for gmail and all other services that require you to log in, I would say forget it.
Intelligence gathering organizations have come to fully realize the potential of the Internet to track people, in contrast to the situation in the early 90s. Maybe Google CEO knows all about this and that he was just saying; you will be tracked anyway so you may as well be tracked by us ! He kind of screwed up on this because he is now stuck, unable to further explain his point of view, he would have to admit that Google, Bing and many other track you for business and marketing reasons but that they also "share" information with security oriented intelligence gathering organizations.
So in the end, I would choose who I want to be tracked by for marketing purposes and forget about not being tracked for other purposes unless you want to risk getting into trouble. You may be safer just acting as a normal day to day user thus making the amount of traffic play into your advantage in order to stay anonymous.
Although I think that pretending that only the "initiated" can understand the data is ridiculous, I would be cautious about putting the matter to a public vote in order to make up our minds.
The truth isn't democratic. If it was, we would be doomed into a big standstill defined by what the majority of people believe. The ones that bring progress often discard what the majority of people think and even some of what their predecessors thought. Take Einstein as an example if you need one.
> still not knowing what a pointer means
Hmm... he must be really confused by a pointer to a pointer then !
Or even worse: a pointer to a pointer to a pointer ;-)
I am very sceptical with regards to a "not named" author claims... ;-)
318x.com zone is now defined in my DNS so I don't have to update host files on each and every one of my computers.
Just kidding, but host files are so 1980 ;-))
> UFOs tend to come from space, not the ground.
How do they take off to get back home then ?
> you probably don't want to post it anywhere it will take more than 3 days to arrive
Assuming that it makes through the postal system and that it is not flagged as some kind of potentially explosive devise ! ;-))
The way it is (should be?) done is as follows:
Data mine to generate reports to human beings.
Conventional strictly human intelligence is still done and needed. The pitfall is that an organization could try to cut costs too much by relying too much on computer generated reports. Aside from that pitfall, data mining is efficient to find instances where traditional human methods would have failed as long as you tune the system not to have a ridiculous amount of false positives.
For the time being, human review is still needed ;-)