I don't know if your question was serious or not, but compilation involves tokenizing everything, etc., while translation would probably involve only some kind of string replacement. It all depends on the terminology you choose, I guess.
One of the handful of names responsible for the modern age and you've never heard of him. God, this entire planet is heading for another dark age. It's the decline of Rome all over again. Go read a fucking book.
Said the guy who uses the word 'God' as an intensifier/interjection.
Hmm... I guess I reacted to a different meaning of the word spanking than you have. I was not aware that there are non-physical uses of the word spanking. My mistake.
I'm consufed, you took everything from my post and twisted it beyond recognition.
Where did I mention time-outs? Where did I mention anything about me being responsible or not? Or whether my parents beat me or not?
I was refering to what you called spanking. Do you think a 250 lbs gorilla of a man should be able to beat a helpless 4-year old kid (even with an open hand, whatever) and walk free? I'm not saying that kids should run free uncontrolled, but I'm not exactly for beating your kids to train them like circus animals.
Add to that the fact that half of the people alive are on the other side of the Bell curve, and that statistically more kids are born to such parents.
This is quite a broad topic though, generalizing it doesn't really acomplish anything.
I was more refering to the law, rather than the cited suicide case.
Why should it be my problem that someone I am (theoritically, I don't "chat" with random people) chatting with might be a poor, helpless child who might cut itself for just about anything I say?
Unfortunately, the irresponsible parents who let their kids run around and kill themselves are the ones who are in the majority here -- they vote in the people who make such inane legislation happen. They prefer to, rather than do some, I don't know, parenting, entrust their kids to an endless game of 'think of the children' laws. I sometimes wonder why they are called parents...
A potential hint as to the featured country might be the name of the author of the project:
âoeSlices of our behavior are preserved in these electronic data sets,â said Albert-LÃszlà BarabÃsi, an author of the project and the director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University in Boston. âoeThis is creating huge opportunities for science.â
As if the obvious Hungarian name wasn't enough, his wikipedia entry states he's lived in Hungary and Transylvania. Of course, this might be (and probably is) purely coincidental.
In any case, I, for one, welcome our new PhD vampiric overlords.
Any guesses which European country requires cell phone providers to record where their customers make calls, and then allows them to give that data away without disclosing that they have done so?
This is not necessarily the type of data they collected.
Here in Europe, in some countries, cell phone companies offer a service that can reveal a phone's location (with the precision of a fraction of a kilometer/mile) at any given time from any place actually. It's useful for tracking your phone when it gets stolen, or spying on your spouses.
However, the owner of the phone must consent to this service. Any tracking (except maybe for aid in criminal investigations?) without the owner's consent would be very illegal. And I suspect what happened here, is the company collected data of such consenting owners.
Whether they consented to having their data used in research, well, that's another matter.
I personally installed a keylogger on a friend's PC to catch her then, 12 year old son, looking at porn. I hope it was to check whether he was looking at proper porn, i.e. Natalie Portman!
Funny this thread should be posted now. I've been thinking about this very thing recently. Your post is informative, and I think I have a (admittedly, security-by-obscurity) solution for hardware keyloggers.
Learn Dvorak, enough to type without looking at the keyboard, set up an SSH account with one-time passes, and dvorak support. On a Qwerty keyboard, there will be enough confusion even to confuse a hardware keylogger.
Disclaimer: I don't use Dvorak. Oh and yes, this was posted from a public terminal;)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/04/icann-pwned.html
Anyone else think the URL is hilarious?
Offtopic, I know, but I prefer Metylowy, myself. Sure, I can't see a thing but it's a great ride.
Whoosh.
I don't know if your question was serious or not, but compilation involves tokenizing everything, etc., while translation would probably involve only some kind of string replacement. It all depends on the terminology you choose, I guess.
915,103,765. You should have followed the link he gave :P
This is true.
There are many fair reasons to bash/hate corporations, seven digit salaries aren't one of them (IMO, of course, YMMV)
One of the handful of names responsible for the modern age and you've never heard of him. God, this entire planet is heading for another dark age. It's the decline of Rome all over again. Go read a fucking book.
Said the guy who uses the word 'God' as an intensifier/interjection.
I got my spelling of time as "tyme" from the full edition.
:(
Another mystery solved. You take away all the magic from me
Oh no, the equivocation rays!
Hmm... I guess I reacted to a different meaning of the word spanking than you have. I was not aware that there are non-physical uses of the word spanking. My mistake.
Blogs are good for you? What about those people who died in a blog accident, you insensitive clod?
I'm consufed, you took everything from my post and twisted it beyond recognition.
Where did I mention time-outs? Where did I mention anything about me being responsible or not? Or whether my parents beat me or not?
I was refering to what you called spanking. Do you think a 250 lbs gorilla of a man should be able to beat a helpless 4-year old kid (even with an open hand, whatever) and walk free? I'm not saying that kids should run free uncontrolled, but I'm not exactly for beating your kids to train them like circus animals.
Add to that the fact that half of the people alive are on the other side of the Bell curve, and that statistically more kids are born to such parents.
This is quite a broad topic though, generalizing it doesn't really acomplish anything.
Excuse me, but how exactly is child beating related in any way to responsibility?
If anything, it's an example of gross irresponsibility.
I was more refering to the law, rather than the cited suicide case.
Why should it be my problem that someone I am (theoritically, I don't "chat" with random people) chatting with might be a poor, helpless child who might cut itself for just about anything I say?
Unfortunately, the irresponsible parents who let their kids run around and kill themselves are the ones who are in the majority here -- they vote in the people who make such inane legislation happen. They prefer to, rather than do some, I don't know, parenting, entrust their kids to an endless game of 'think of the children' laws. I sometimes wonder why they are called parents...
Then again, I'm not saying anything new.
Whatever happened to parents' responsibility for what their kids do (including online activities?)
A potential hint as to the featured country might be the name of the author of the project:
âoeSlices of our behavior are preserved in these electronic data sets,â said Albert-LÃszlà BarabÃsi, an author of the project and the director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University in Boston. âoeThis is creating huge opportunities for science.â
As if the obvious Hungarian name wasn't enough, his wikipedia entry states he's lived in Hungary and Transylvania. Of course, this might be (and probably is) purely coincidental.
In any case, I, for one, welcome our new PhD vampiric overlords.
Any guesses which European country requires cell phone providers to record where their customers make calls, and then allows them to give that data away without disclosing that they have done so?
This is not necessarily the type of data they collected.
Here in Europe, in some countries, cell phone companies offer a service that can reveal a phone's location (with the precision of a fraction of a kilometer/mile) at any given time from any place actually. It's useful for tracking your phone when it gets stolen, or spying on your spouses.
However, the owner of the phone must consent to this service. Any tracking (except maybe for aid in criminal investigations?) without the owner's consent would be very illegal. And I suspect what happened here, is the company collected data of such consenting owners.
Whether they consented to having their data used in research, well, that's another matter.
Get your botnets ready :)
This made me chuckle; I'm sure if I was eating anything at the moment it would be all over my monitor.
Or, looking from a different perspective, he only has 28 comments to reach 17777. That's one less than 20000 man!
Incredible discovery. This might to so many similar discoveries. I have waited a long time for something like this to happen.
I, for one, welcome our new superheavy overlords!
I'm waiting for that day =D
Funny this thread should be posted now. I've been thinking about this very thing recently. Your post is informative, and I think I have a (admittedly, security-by-obscurity) solution for hardware keyloggers.
;)
Learn Dvorak, enough to type without looking at the keyboard, set up an SSH account with one-time passes, and dvorak support. On a Qwerty keyboard, there will be enough confusion even to confuse a hardware keylogger.
Disclaimer: I don't use Dvorak. Oh and yes, this was posted from a public terminal
What is your Erdos-Bacon number?