Best one I personally ever did was accidentally include the wrong distribution list in Lotus when I was working for the National Australlia Bank. Somebody kept grabbing our CD marker pens (and they were spensy back in them days), so I sent out a request that they be returned.
The response that made my day was "Ok mate I'll take a look, but you realize I'm in Hong Kong."
One of my final year 'side' projects at Uni was to write a ray-tracer and for extra points it did Diffuse Reflection.
I've seen a Java implementation, of all things, that can ray trace some simple specularly reflective spheres in real time.
The bit they never talk about is how the screen data is supposed to be pumped back to the viewer in time to render a full frame. Another bit they all neglect is "And each node can access the entire world database - for such is required by a ray tracer - how exactly?".
Is it just me or is IT journalism sinking even lower, just when we thought that was physically impossible?
... 3 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
There is nothing inherently good about a democracy, nor anything inherently bad about even a dictatorship. The moral judgment comes from the actual actions of the members of government in either system. The US is absolutely a constitutional republic with representative democracy - an attempt to avoid the common problems of both mob rule and dictatorships.
PLEASE don't troll old boy, its bad for the forum.
Yup, its gone completely out of control. I have trouble with the idea that 1's and 0's on your harddrive can send you off to Anal Sex College (unless they are nuclear launch codes that you magically can hollywood to NORAD somehow). Stateless nations roll on I say......
....that this is patently ridiculous and the school should be kicked repeatedly in the gonads.
I know its obvious, but just in terms of numbers games we are, folks, here finding ourselves up against not only Tools but Trolls, and it is good to add some shout to the voice of reason.
Excellent work! And isn't it true that when any govt project - Evil like this one or Good otherwise - gets to this point of funding fighting, it is doooooomed anyway?
Yes I feel your confusion too. The wear-levelling electronics makes it in theory hard to erase data from SSDs. But this is suggesting 'efficiency' electronics (details) may scramble things anyway.
Do remember, however, that a lot of forensics is "CSI'd up" compared to what is actually achievable. It is very difficult and usually impossible to recover files from a harddrive that has had even a basic multipass erase performed on it. The trick of retrieving data from chilled RAM chips just post shutting off the motherboard is actually very difficult to do usefully under non controlled cirumstances. Tracing network activity.... well we all know about that one and the MAFIAA is really finding out about it too recently.
So - I imagine things will err more in favour of NOT being able to easily recover secrets off SSD's. <usualcopout>Time will tell.</usualcopout>
If I urninate all over this utterly stupid article and the utterly stupid paper it is based on, does my decision making then start out good but deteriorate as my bladder empties? Curious.
Just stop it.
It's cynical, immature and just plain STUPID.
A remake of Barbarella? Are you kidding me?
Let's do a remake of Hollywood! One where all the cocaine dealers have moved out and the current executives have been lined up against the wall and shot!
Yeeeehaaa!
Ok I'll concede the Cohens doing True Grit is fair enough once I discovered it had nothing to do with 'Marian' and was based on the original novel.
Aside: Yes Watchmen was brilliant, I would go as far as to say. I was very surprised and pleasantly so.
Hollywooden: Do more like that. Don't do any more remakes unless they are by the Cohens and go back to the original book.
Come again? Multi tasking? Is this 1965 or something??
Thanks for best thread title ever! :)
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I did laugh. But, I do think its true. Symbian may be getting long in the tooth, but it was one of the Nokia selling points, flexible, plugin-architecture, and couldnt get viruses (easily).
Now I have no choice. Android. Having worked with Apple products for about 5 years at all levels - portable, desktop and server - I have no wish to use them for anything pretty much. M$ and its utter failings is a known quantity. OpenMoko took too long, though it might not Hurd...er, fail, it may actually come to fruition as a useful mobile OS yet. And what a shame about Meego!
I don't want to throw my lot in with the The Gloorius Peoople's Infoormatioon Empire, but there is no choice currently.
I have to admit this is really cool. I only wonder what something that small could have carried in the 70's. I mean with today's near microscopic cameras, mics and storage or transmission devices, it would be able to do some half decent surveillance; but 40 years ago even smallish "bugs" were fairly decent sized items. I have trouble believing even the CIA was THAT far ahead of the technology power curve. Maybe a microfilm camera for a few still shots could be fitted onto it; but there wasn't even hardly a concept of digital audio or video, let alone high density storage to hold the data.
I quite agree, there is a large amount of FUD from the C acronym here. The listening devices they dropped in the 60s during the Vietnam war were a joke, the enemy used to collect them and put them in chosen places to send incorrect accoustic signals back to the US forces. The 'bug' is an impressive piece of engineering but its targeted goals are only just now becoming feasible.
It's one of the few, perhaps the first plausible claim I've heard from the MAFIAA. They've still got a lot of work to do to prove it, but it's at least a plausible claim.
It is almost a plausible claim, yes. And yet.......They can STILL burn in hell for all I care.
Sorry but I just DONT CARE what the Swedish Prosecution bleats now. Robertson never goes out on a limb, he never makes a statement without having done the homework first. The Swedish 'authority' in this case is outside of their bounds.
Aside: Read 'The Justice Game' by Geoffrey Robertson, one of his older journals. A fascinating account of just how dodgy governments really are.
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Borg, borg, borg, borg, borg, borg, borg, borg, assimilation, borg, borg, borg, borg, borg.....
Best one I personally ever did was accidentally include the wrong distribution list in Lotus when I was working for the National Australlia Bank. Somebody kept grabbing our CD marker pens (and they were spensy back in them days), so I sent out a request that they be returned.
The response that made my day was "Ok mate I'll take a look, but you realize I'm in Hong Kong."
One of my final year 'side' projects at Uni was to write a ray-tracer and for extra points it did Diffuse Reflection.
I've seen a Java implementation, of all things, that can ray trace some simple specularly reflective spheres in real time.
The bit they never talk about is how the screen data is supposed to be pumped back to the viewer in time to render a full frame. Another bit they all neglect is "And each node can access the entire world database - for such is required by a ray tracer - how exactly?".
Is it just me or is IT journalism sinking even lower, just when we thought that was physically impossible?
... 3 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. There is nothing inherently good about a democracy, nor anything inherently bad about even a dictatorship. The moral judgment comes from the actual actions of the members of government in either system. The US is absolutely a constitutional republic with representative democracy - an attempt to avoid the common problems of both mob rule and dictatorships.
PLEASE don't troll old boy, its bad for the forum.
Yup, its gone completely out of control. I have trouble with the idea that 1's and 0's on your harddrive can send you off to Anal Sex College (unless they are nuclear launch codes that you magically can hollywood to NORAD somehow). Stateless nations roll on I say......
....that this is patently ridiculous and the school should be kicked repeatedly in the gonads.
I know its obvious, but just in terms of numbers games we are, folks, here finding ourselves up against not only Tools but Trolls, and it is good to add some shout to the voice of reason.
Spammers should all be BRUTALLY kicked to death, they really should. Just on pure, purilety and de-evolutionary grounds.
Wikipedia needs deleting. It is run by complete and utter etards.
Hey! Can we PLEASE have a shipment of that non-corrupt good common sense over here in Oz! PLEEEEZE!
Excellent work! And isn't it true that when any govt project - Evil like this one or Good otherwise - gets to this point of funding fighting, it is doooooomed anyway?
Yes I feel your confusion too. The wear-levelling electronics makes it in theory hard to erase data from SSDs. But this is suggesting 'efficiency' electronics (details) may scramble things anyway.
Do remember, however, that a lot of forensics is "CSI'd up" compared to what is actually achievable. It is very difficult and usually impossible to recover files from a harddrive that has had even a basic multipass erase performed on it. The trick of retrieving data from chilled RAM chips just post shutting off the motherboard is actually very difficult to do usefully under non controlled cirumstances. Tracing network activity.... well we all know about that one and the MAFIAA is really finding out about it too recently.
So - I imagine things will err more in favour of NOT being able to easily recover secrets off SSD's. <usualcopout>Time will tell.</usualcopout>
If I urninate all over this utterly stupid article and the utterly stupid paper it is based on, does my decision making then start out good but deteriorate as my bladder empties? Curious.
Metamaterials.
You just gave the market to everyone else. And about time.
Don't governments get taken down within a few years for starting to pull this type of crap?
Just stop it.
It's cynical, immature and just plain STUPID.
A remake of Barbarella? Are you kidding me?
Let's do a remake of Hollywood! One where all the cocaine dealers have moved out and the current executives have been lined up against the wall and shot!
Yeeeehaaa!
Ok I'll concede the Cohens doing True Grit is fair enough once I discovered it had nothing to do with 'Marian' and was based on the original novel.
Aside: Yes Watchmen was brilliant, I would go as far as to say. I was very surprised and pleasantly so.
Hollywooden: Do more like that. Don't do any more remakes unless they are by the Cohens and go back to the original book.
Come again? Multi tasking? Is this 1965 or something??
I did laugh. But, I do think its true. Symbian may be getting long in the tooth, but it was one of the Nokia selling points, flexible, plugin-architecture, and couldnt get viruses (easily).
Now I have no choice. Android. Having worked with Apple products for about 5 years at all levels - portable, desktop and server - I have no wish to use them for anything pretty much. M$ and its utter failings is a known quantity. OpenMoko took too long, though it might not Hurd...er, fail, it may actually come to fruition as a useful mobile OS yet. And what a shame about Meego!
I don't want to throw my lot in with the The Gloorius Peoople's Infoormatioon Empire, but there is no choice currently.
But yeah thats it for Nokia. CEeya.
Wonder who'll buy them$ ?
I have to admit this is really cool. I only wonder what something that small could have carried in the 70's. I mean with today's near microscopic cameras, mics and storage or transmission devices, it would be able to do some half decent surveillance; but 40 years ago even smallish "bugs" were fairly decent sized items. I have trouble believing even the CIA was THAT far ahead of the technology power curve. Maybe a microfilm camera for a few still shots could be fitted onto it; but there wasn't even hardly a concept of digital audio or video, let alone high density storage to hold the data.
I quite agree, there is a large amount of FUD from the C acronym here. The listening devices they dropped in the 60s during the Vietnam war were a joke, the enemy used to collect them and put them in chosen places to send incorrect accoustic signals back to the US forces. The 'bug' is an impressive piece of engineering but its targeted goals are only just now becoming feasible.
That Google disconnects the MPAA from existence.
Yeah I have to agree. Google would dwarf the MPAA by about a factor of 10 in every respect AND they have the ear of government.
It's one of the few, perhaps the first plausible claim I've heard from the MAFIAA. They've still got a lot of work to do to prove it, but it's at least a plausible claim.
It is almost a plausible claim, yes. And yet.......They can STILL burn in hell for all I care.
It would be fun if a couple of judges decided to act together and ban all the infringing devices...
Immediate ban on XBox, PS3, iPhone, Android Phones, Windows Phones, and so on...
I guess that it'd not take long before all these tech companies start to lobby against flacky patents and the associated lawsuits...
You know something. You're dead right.
Sorry but I just DONT CARE what the Swedish Prosecution bleats now. Robertson never goes out on a limb, he never makes a statement without having done the homework first. The Swedish 'authority' in this case is outside of their bounds.
Aside: Read 'The Justice Game' by Geoffrey Robertson, one of his older journals. A fascinating account of just how dodgy governments really are.
....comments, the simple truth is that autorun was a dumb idea, period.
Also, it can only get user-space access, thats the whole point.
With these things, its just a matter of time before they fail, and this gets quicker and quicker.
So its just a betting race - I shall open this book and give odds that it will be declared useless by the end of next week, at.....