I did. And I watch Bill get bated, and fall for it nearly every time. Creationists have well thought out arguments. They know what to say/ask, they know what the sciency types will say to rebut (they are all too predictable) and then they know exactly what to say to flummox them.
Intelligent design is the idea that "The world or universe" were created by god (that includes us) "Creation" in the bible is all things, everywhere. Read Genesis (yes, I actually have) it's clearly about creating the universe/world. Nothing said there-in denies evolution in the least.
Isn't this the 2nd one they've built? The first one is an office building and only looks like a carrier from above. We never figured that one out either. I couldn't find a link because "Iran aircraft carrier building" only brings up this story now. lol Maybe it was china that did it? I can't remember.
I like the caliper better. But really... the 3D printer folks need to stop printing things that clearly wont work well once they are 3D printed. For example, he's copied an existing tape measure... a device that has existed and has worked very well for well over a century. It's been perfected to the point that you can now buy one for less than a dollar just about anywhere. I'd think he should design an entirely new tool that does the same job but better... taking into account the limitations and advantages of the medium he's working in.
I'm interested in 3D printing but I'm still unimpressed with the quality of the material it prints. When they get better, higher temperature plastics, or even some sort of metal alloy, I'll be a lot more interested. And yes, I'm aware there are $50k+ machines that can do that, but I mean machines for home use.
They share the data with local law enforcement and the FBI. Which makes it a clear violation. The less obvious violation is what they are using the data for... which is to help them prevent a terrorist act. Something they should not be involved in.
Bullshit. Make fun games. Making a fake utopia inside games is about as plausible as doing it in real life. People fucking suck... and to enjoy life you'd can pretend they don't exist. You need to learn how to have fun despite them. The same goes for games. The only thing worse than someone that say insulting things is someone that wont let you speak because they're afraid you'll say something wrong.
Actually, I think there might be merit in your idea. We had a similar thing happen with one of our ticketing systems. Thousands of vanished tickets... They weren't even on the tables anymore! Oh no! Then we found them on some random table (there are thousands in the DB) and apparently, over 10 years ago, someone had conceived of the idea that something could go wrong, and instead of strait up deleting rows the system was throwing the deleted rows onto this "archive" table. The code that broke it was someone on another teams fault, but whomever wrote this way back in the day saved us a hell of a lot of trouble.
Of course, MtGox could just be a bunch of thieves as well.
Well now... I'm not so sure it's as much about corporate greed as everyone on slashdot makes it out to be. Most of the year we have our normal work and what-not... and most of our full-time employees are from the US or were temps that were damn good so we hired them and they may have emigrated here from wherever (usually India/Russia) but they're a part of the team now... But then every 6 months to a year upper management gets their panties in a knot and need "The migration project done in 3 months!!!!" and so we go to a temp agency and they, of course, provide a bunch of H1-B's who are mostly from India... and honest are probably a lot better than a lot of us are at what they do, and we get the project done. They leave and we're all better for it.
If we actually hired for these sprint projects we'd like end up in a constant Hiring and layoff cycle that I would not find comfortable at all. Ok, I don't know what it's like to work at a huge software company like Google/Microsoft or whatever... our IT/IS is under 200 people at its peak. But I can't imagine most of the country is run much differently. The Google type of organization to me is a more of an anomaly than a norm.
Yea, but Bill Bye fell into the same trap all sciency types do. He didn't argue evolution, he argued against the creationists idea of Intelligent design. There is nothing incompatible with Intelligent design and evolution. If there is a God that created the universe then, that God also created evolution and therefor science is simply discovering Gods work. He should have made that point and left it at that. You can't invalidate theology with logic. But you can validate science with it. Evolution is a fact. If you believe in god then evolution is his work, stop denying Gods work you pagan.
This is the problem I've had with this climate change debate all along. It is clearly a very serious thing that we need to address, but there are people that have a ideology that's simply apposed to progress and science period. They're so intense about climate change they think exaggeration and outright lies are acceptable to achieve their goals. If both sides of the argument are tainted, the the general public will just throw up their hands in confusion and get no-where. Despite what many people may think, Jonh-q-public does notice when everyone from one side of an argument ends up being proven wrong eventually while the other side has never done anything but inform him. This is why the majority of the public trusts in science now rather than superstition. If you vehemently believe in climate change, the get the facts... the real facts. Educate and enlighten people. You'll do more for your cause than Al Gore ever did.
The hand crank is an accessory you can get for it if you want one. I don't think they included it because most remote villages in African already have some way to generate power via hand crank, windmill or whatever so people can charge their now ubiquitous cellphones. So it would be an extra cost without much value.
Supposedly Google recently closed that loophole. But I seriously doubt that was the NSA's only way in. If I were running the NSA, half the staff at google would be my agents. If that's truly the case, there's basically nothing google can do to stop them.
They do it the same way the president does it. They don't tell the press secretary anything... then he can say "We aren't aware of anything like that!" and maybe even the president doesn't directly know... but 1 guy knows... the guy in regulatory compliance... or the corporate lawyer. Of course, that person doesn't go out in public to discuss it so they can never actually called out as liars. But we all know the truth.
No, they lied to. When people read this stuff I keep getting the impression they feel like they at the end of the conspiracy movie where everything is revealed. This is a very very long movie... we aren't anywhere near the end. Assume everything you hear is a lie and you'll probably be closer to the truth.
So this is some random scientist doing a thought experiment that's already been done in thousands of scifi books for the past 100 years or so. It's equivalent to saying "Some time in the future, we could fly criminals to another planet and use it as a penal colony!" Ok, yea, I read that book... so why is this news? If we're just making up technology that doesn't exist how about a pill that makes them not want to commit crimes?
Ah... no. If I can type the exploit into the address bar and I need no more than autohotkey to download their entire god damned database then that's not a hack. They made their bathroom walls out of glass and then complained that he was a peeping tom for setting up a webcam from across the street. Scuzzy? yes, but not illegal. The government shouldn't have to protect you from what common sense should.
Jessie Jackson doesn't care about affirmative action. He's a crook and a con-man. If there's anything that's holding African Americans back in this country (I mean besides racism), it's their seeming indifference to Jessie Jacksons and even worse, Al Sharptons (who should be in prison) complete charlatanry. Both of those men are clearly con men and bad ones at that. I don't think Obama's a very good president but at least there's finally a decent black leader that's also a good roll model. My son is black and despite disagreeing with just about all of Obama's politics, I'm still grateful he's president so my son can see someone that's the same color as himself as a not only a leader but a good man. Maybe we should blame the media, I have no idea. But what's been held up as models of the black community over the past 30yrs has been disheartening to say the least.
Right, and that makes it hard to be profitable for a company like Epic. They want to produce the game, then sell it. It's all these other developers that want a never ending revenue stream and that takes constant attention. Those sheep need sheering.
When is this going to stop being the domain of research and when are security companies going to get serious about protecting against attacks at this level?
Oracle is by far and away the worst company I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Yesterday their support told me they didn't know what a "POP Email account" was and they didn't think that was supported in their product. When I forwarded them a link to a search of their support site on "POP Email account" showing dozens of articles they said they'd to escalate my ticket to the "next tier" for further investigation.
Yes, Oracle, who we pay MILLIONS of dollars a year to for our support contract has even worse support than DELL.
Keep in mind that the government already has the data they are requesting. The warrant is simply how they legitimize that data so they can use it in court.
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I did. And I watch Bill get bated, and fall for it nearly every time. Creationists have well thought out arguments. They know what to say/ask, they know what the sciency types will say to rebut (they are all too predictable) and then they know exactly what to say to flummox them.
Intelligent design is the idea that "The world or universe" were created by god (that includes us) "Creation" in the bible is all things, everywhere. Read Genesis (yes, I actually have) it's clearly about creating the universe/world. Nothing said there-in denies evolution in the least.
Isn't this the 2nd one they've built? The first one is an office building and only looks like a carrier from above. We never figured that one out either. I couldn't find a link because "Iran aircraft carrier building" only brings up this story now. lol Maybe it was china that did it? I can't remember.
I like the caliper better. But really... the 3D printer folks need to stop printing things that clearly wont work well once they are 3D printed. For example, he's copied an existing tape measure... a device that has existed and has worked very well for well over a century. It's been perfected to the point that you can now buy one for less than a dollar just about anywhere. I'd think he should design an entirely new tool that does the same job but better... taking into account the limitations and advantages of the medium he's working in.
I'm interested in 3D printing but I'm still unimpressed with the quality of the material it prints. When they get better, higher temperature plastics, or even some sort of metal alloy, I'll be a lot more interested. And yes, I'm aware there are $50k+ machines that can do that, but I mean machines for home use.
That all depends on what you want your government to be doing. You could just as easily argue the Vietnam war was the purpose of the military.
They share the data with local law enforcement and the FBI. Which makes it a clear violation. The less obvious violation is what they are using the data for... which is to help them prevent a terrorist act. Something they should not be involved in.
Bullshit. Make fun games. Making a fake utopia inside games is about as plausible as doing it in real life. People fucking suck... and to enjoy life you'd can pretend they don't exist. You need to learn how to have fun despite them. The same goes for games. The only thing worse than someone that say insulting things is someone that wont let you speak because they're afraid you'll say something wrong.
Actually, I think there might be merit in your idea. We had a similar thing happen with one of our ticketing systems. Thousands of vanished tickets... They weren't even on the tables anymore! Oh no! Then we found them on some random table (there are thousands in the DB) and apparently, over 10 years ago, someone had conceived of the idea that something could go wrong, and instead of strait up deleting rows the system was throwing the deleted rows onto this "archive" table. The code that broke it was someone on another teams fault, but whomever wrote this way back in the day saved us a hell of a lot of trouble.
Of course, MtGox could just be a bunch of thieves as well.
Well now... I'm not so sure it's as much about corporate greed as everyone on slashdot makes it out to be. Most of the year we have our normal work and what-not... and most of our full-time employees are from the US or were temps that were damn good so we hired them and they may have emigrated here from wherever (usually India/Russia) but they're a part of the team now... But then every 6 months to a year upper management gets their panties in a knot and need "The migration project done in 3 months!!!!" and so we go to a temp agency and they, of course, provide a bunch of H1-B's who are mostly from India... and honest are probably a lot better than a lot of us are at what they do, and we get the project done. They leave and we're all better for it.
If we actually hired for these sprint projects we'd like end up in a constant Hiring and layoff cycle that I would not find comfortable at all. Ok, I don't know what it's like to work at a huge software company like Google/Microsoft or whatever... our IT/IS is under 200 people at its peak. But I can't imagine most of the country is run much differently. The Google type of organization to me is a more of an anomaly than a norm.
Yea, but Bill Bye fell into the same trap all sciency types do. He didn't argue evolution, he argued against the creationists idea of Intelligent design. There is nothing incompatible with Intelligent design and evolution. If there is a God that created the universe then, that God also created evolution and therefor science is simply discovering Gods work. He should have made that point and left it at that. You can't invalidate theology with logic. But you can validate science with it. Evolution is a fact. If you believe in god then evolution is his work, stop denying Gods work you pagan.
This is the problem I've had with this climate change debate all along. It is clearly a very serious thing that we need to address, but there are people that have a ideology that's simply apposed to progress and science period. They're so intense about climate change they think exaggeration and outright lies are acceptable to achieve their goals. If both sides of the argument are tainted, the the general public will just throw up their hands in confusion and get no-where. Despite what many people may think, Jonh-q-public does notice when everyone from one side of an argument ends up being proven wrong eventually while the other side has never done anything but inform him. This is why the majority of the public trusts in science now rather than superstition. If you vehemently believe in climate change, the get the facts... the real facts. Educate and enlighten people. You'll do more for your cause than Al Gore ever did.
The hand crank is an accessory you can get for it if you want one. I don't think they included it because most remote villages in African already have some way to generate power via hand crank, windmill or whatever so people can charge their now ubiquitous cellphones. So it would be an extra cost without much value.
Supposedly Google recently closed that loophole. But I seriously doubt that was the NSA's only way in. If I were running the NSA, half the staff at google would be my agents. If that's truly the case, there's basically nothing google can do to stop them.
They do it the same way the president does it. They don't tell the press secretary anything... then he can say "We aren't aware of anything like that!" and maybe even the president doesn't directly know... but 1 guy knows... the guy in regulatory compliance... or the corporate lawyer. Of course, that person doesn't go out in public to discuss it so they can never actually called out as liars. But we all know the truth.
No, they lied to. When people read this stuff I keep getting the impression they feel like they at the end of the conspiracy movie where everything is revealed. This is a very very long movie... we aren't anywhere near the end. Assume everything you hear is a lie and you'll probably be closer to the truth.
So this is some random scientist doing a thought experiment that's already been done in thousands of scifi books for the past 100 years or so. It's equivalent to saying "Some time in the future, we could fly criminals to another planet and use it as a penal colony!" Ok, yea, I read that book... so why is this news? If we're just making up technology that doesn't exist how about a pill that makes them not want to commit crimes?
Ah... no. If I can type the exploit into the address bar and I need no more than autohotkey to download their entire god damned database then that's not a hack. They made their bathroom walls out of glass and then complained that he was a peeping tom for setting up a webcam from across the street. Scuzzy? yes, but not illegal. The government shouldn't have to protect you from what common sense should.
um, no. Actually they have been lying for years.
Jessie Jackson doesn't care about affirmative action. He's a crook and a con-man. If there's anything that's holding African Americans back in this country (I mean besides racism), it's their seeming indifference to Jessie Jacksons and even worse, Al Sharptons (who should be in prison) complete charlatanry. Both of those men are clearly con men and bad ones at that. I don't think Obama's a very good president but at least there's finally a decent black leader that's also a good roll model. My son is black and despite disagreeing with just about all of Obama's politics, I'm still grateful he's president so my son can see someone that's the same color as himself as a not only a leader but a good man. Maybe we should blame the media, I have no idea. But what's been held up as models of the black community over the past 30yrs has been disheartening to say the least.
Right, and that makes it hard to be profitable for a company like Epic. They want to produce the game, then sell it. It's all these other developers that want a never ending revenue stream and that takes constant attention. Those sheep need sheering.
It's not a matter of "how much" it's a matter of "Who lives down river"
I'm going to hazard a guess that in this case it was poor people.
When is this going to stop being the domain of research and when are security companies going to get serious about protecting against attacks at this level?
When the NSA stops paying them to ignore it.
Oracle is by far and away the worst company I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Yesterday their support told me they didn't know what a "POP Email account" was and they didn't think that was supported in their product. When I forwarded them a link to a search of their support site on "POP Email account" showing dozens of articles they said they'd to escalate my ticket to the "next tier" for further investigation.
Yes, Oracle, who we pay MILLIONS of dollars a year to for our support contract has even worse support than DELL.
Keep in mind that the government already has the data they are requesting. The warrant is simply how they legitimize that data so they can use it in court.
Wow... next time I end up in court, I sure hope the judge sits down with me and lets me re-word my plea over and over until I win. That'd be great.