IMHO just as thre's a 7-year stature of limitations on law, so too should employers have a limitation on how far back they can dig. Anything that predates this decade should be irrelevant.
Scraping profiles to find out if people are homosexual, drinkers, have foreign-looking friends, etc. is dumb in most cases.
If you were hiring someone to be a spokesperson for an anti drunk driving group, you would do well to check in on their drinking habits.
If you're hiring a person for a tech position, you would do well to check in on their tech habits.
This guy isn't worried about his unrelated personal life ruining his prospects - he's worried about his prior actions in a related area affecting his chances. (He posts on slashdot, I'm assuming he's looking for tech jobs.)
Yep. Everyone who breaks from the status quo should be punished by everyone with an axe to grind in perpetuity forever and ever.
We have enough "innocent" people that we don't need those "guilty" people to help us.
Convicted Child Murderer: Hi, I'm calling about that ad for a babysitter. Is the position still available? But that was 15 years ago! I had postpartum!
No on has an axe to grind here - they have asses to protect. I'm glad someone is willing to take the risk with people who have fucked up in the past, but a PHB isn't going to hire a malicious script kiddie. A parent isn't gonna hire some lady who drowned her own kids.
The situation presented is not in line with any punishment. It's not like he's forced to register on a cyber crime list for the rest of his life, and have no access to a computer, etc.
What he fears experiencing would not be punishment - it would be a simple, logical consequence.
"I am concerned that future employers may hold my past actions against me should they look for me online as part of their screening process."
As they should. He did a bad thing with computers. He's a slashdot poster. He's likely looking for tech jobs. It is completely reasonable to consider his past actions.
If he had posted that he was a transvestite on the weekends or had a family member with drug problems, then no - employers shouldn't be considering that information.
But you were a script kiddie in college and now you want people to think you've matured? You'll have to prove it - you don't get the benefit of the doubt when there's competition for that job.
Playing SSB on 1 stage with no items is boring and not a measure of skill. Any decent tv will have a total lag FAR less than 60 ms when you turn off the crap.
Both of my TVs have no noticeable lag. 1 was $400 3 years ago, 1 was $700 a year ago.
TV manufacturers offered "game" options and improved the processing speed considerably over the lat 6 years. The driving force was consumer complaints over audio/video sync issues.
Not even the most angsty of nerds could pass a simple ABX test.
Make a simple game that flashes a box in the top, left, bottom, or right side of the screen, have the tester press up down left or right on the keyboard. Record the average reaction speed over a two-minute run.
Repeat on a different display.
Repeat again on one of the two displays to control for fatigue/practice.
The difference in average response time will be the difference in delay between the two displays.
The ratio of that difference to the average response delay on the quicker display is how much the display latency matters.
In the end you'll find out that the delay introduced by the display is nothing compared to the delay introduced by being a meat being, and even more pointless when counted in raw frames (it will be a fraction of a single frame).
Too bad math is merely an approximation of the physical universe and is fundamentally wrong.
The Universe is quantum (yes, it is). Math needs to be reinvented (ALL OF IT) to be quantum.
Physics isn't applied math - math is an approximated model of physics. Now if you believe the Universe is just some simulation or some shit, does that simulation exist in a physical Universe? Or is it turtles all the way down?
Perhaps "excerpts from a few cherry-picked stolen emails, sometimes taken out of context" might be a more accurate description.
No, that would not be a more accurate description.
The emails and SOURCE CODE are authentic and are absolute proof of the bullshit going on.
Go read through it. It's all there in 1s and 0s. No amount of "context" can change "we threw away data and created bogus graphs to get our desired result" into "we're just misunderstood scientists trying to save the world".
Competetive Super Smash Bros. players are the lowest of the low, dude.
I have NEVER met one that was good at the game. All they do is play final destination (a plain, flat stage) with no items.
It's like most competitions that require no actual skill - the people who can play competently are the same people who can play competitively. You end up with a large number of densely grouped (in terms of "skill") players near the top. So what do they do? They pare the game away, add in stupid rules, and become so fucking myopic that the thing they're competing at is completely lost and replaced by a memorization task.
Examples:
Cup stacking Rubik's Cube Solving Super Smash Bros. Perfect circle drawing Memorizing Pi to X digits
The bottom line is that SSB is a great game and should be played with all stages and all items on. The "competitive" players are all assholes, and will blame "lag" for their failing. Hell - many of them will refuse to use wireless controllers because they think they introduce lag, just like many people refuse to wtfpwn at their derivative FPS of choice over a wireless connection. An HDTV with shitty slow processing that you can't turn off can introduce noticeable lag, but to go out and get SDTVs instead of a decent HDTV just shows how stubborn and ignorant the "pros" are.
Absolutely FALSE! The numbers would be closer, but not equal. By definition, you cannot know all the vulnerabilities in "secret source" software, because they are simply not disclosed. This number is surely more than zero. Therefore, all other things being equal. open source will always prevail because the "secret" vulnerabilities will be fixed on OSS, while they still exist in secret source software.
Absolute HOKUM! The numbers would be nearly identical. The protection of software being open source requires that you:
Trust the creator Trust the host (to make sure it is unaltered)
Closed source software requires that you: Trust the creator Trust the host (often the creator)
The fact that you CAN read every line of code does not make the software safer. The fact that SOMEONE MAY does not make the software safer. The fact that someone DID does not make the software safer unless you trust that person for some reason.
The ONLY thing that makes the software safer is YOU reading and understanding every single line of code.
Closed source software is usually PAID for, with specific stipulations on what it can and can't do (feature-wise and security-wise). Money talks louder than "freedom", and unfortunately it always will.
Now, begin the closed source vs open source stability/support/security/update process data point cherry picking!
Here's my data point: Everything sucks and I'm disgusted that people put up with it - paid or not. (No, I'm not gonna do anything to fix it - I can idly bitch all I want!)
1 TV at double the source framerate. 1 Player delivering the interleaved left/right content. 1 User, properly calibrated (via the included setup disc) to blink left and right alternately, in sync, at double the source framerate.
Second, if you RTFA, you'll see it mention that the ps3 has plenty of power to display a 3d blueray movie. PS3 has ALWAYS been the best blue ray player, from the very beginning.
Yes and no. Early models of the PS3 don't physically have the right version HDMI output. I think they're 1.3a or something. While the PS3 also doesn't support many of the fancy dancy things that will never be used (like 4:4:4 or such), those can theoretically be patched in via firmware updates - and Sony has been really good on this front.
As far as I know getting the full uncompressed HD master lossless amazing super 7.1 ex II streams out of your launch PS3 system will never happen though.
All 20 of them got a lot of equipment to get rid of 3:2 Pulldown. So no, they won't buy that Dual-3:2-Pulldown-120-fps crap and wait for the proper 144p equipment.
We'd need the LCM of 48 and 60 to get shit to work right. 240 Hz it is!
Of course 99.9999% of content is either 24 or 30 fps (or your PAL equivalent).
Why can't I drive my display at 24/30 Hz for 2D and 48/60 Hz for 3D?
If your display tech can't physically be driven at multiple timings, then it's shit. You hear me, manufacturers? SHIT.
Your also going to need a new panel if you only have a 60HZ TV.
You're also going to need a new panel if you have a 120 Hz tv. Or a 240 Hz tv. Or a 600 Hz with subfield processing tv.
Existing tvs are dumb shits, mangle video signals for no fucking reason, and they were not built with this specific format and method of 3D in mind - they won't work.
Of course, a firmware upgrade could fix it. Too bad meaningful firmware upgrades are the snipe hunt of the consumer electronic world.
Slashdot Mirror
Start a blog and claim you had sex with Tiger Woods.
Are you a rapidly aging, moderately ugly, white cougar?
It's the only way you'll get away with it.
Tiger found like a dozen women that looked exactly like his wife. I guess he thinks they'rrrre grrrrreat!
IMHO just as thre's a 7-year stature of limitations on law, so too should employers have a limitation on how far back they can dig. Anything that predates this decade should be irrelevant.
- Hi I've got 30 years experience!
- Sorry, we can only look at the last 7.
Scraping profiles to find out if people are homosexual, drinkers, have foreign-looking friends, etc. is dumb in most cases.
If you were hiring someone to be a spokesperson for an anti drunk driving group, you would do well to check in on their drinking habits.
If you're hiring a person for a tech position, you would do well to check in on their tech habits.
This guy isn't worried about his unrelated personal life ruining his prospects - he's worried about his prior actions in a related area affecting his chances. (He posts on slashdot, I'm assuming he's looking for tech jobs.)
Yep. Everyone who breaks from the status quo should be punished by everyone with an axe to grind in perpetuity forever and ever.
We have enough "innocent" people that we don't need those "guilty" people to help us.
Convicted Child Murderer: Hi, I'm calling about that ad for a babysitter. Is the position still available? But that was 15 years ago! I had postpartum!
No on has an axe to grind here - they have asses to protect. I'm glad someone is willing to take the risk with people who have fucked up in the past, but a PHB isn't going to hire a malicious script kiddie. A parent isn't gonna hire some lady who drowned her own kids.
The situation presented is not in line with any punishment. It's not like he's forced to register on a cyber crime list for the rest of his life, and have no access to a computer, etc.
What he fears experiencing would not be punishment - it would be a simple, logical consequence.
Indeed.
"I am concerned that future employers may hold my past actions against me should they look for me online as part of their screening process."
As they should.
He did a bad thing with computers.
He's a slashdot poster.
He's likely looking for tech jobs.
It is completely reasonable to consider his past actions.
If he had posted that he was a transvestite on the weekends or had a family member with drug problems, then no - employers shouldn't be considering that information.
But you were a script kiddie in college and now you want people to think you've matured? You'll have to prove it - you don't get the benefit of the doubt when there's competition for that job.
A lot of typing for a lot of nothing.
Playing SSB on 1 stage with no items is boring and not a measure of skill.
Any decent tv will have a total lag FAR less than 60 ms when you turn off the crap.
Both of my TVs have no noticeable lag.
1 was $400 3 years ago, 1 was $700 a year ago.
TV manufacturers offered "game" options and improved the processing speed considerably over the lat 6 years. The driving force was consumer complaints over audio/video sync issues.
Not even the most angsty of nerds could pass a simple ABX test.
Make a simple game that flashes a box in the top, left, bottom, or right side of the screen, have the tester press up down left or right on the keyboard. Record the average reaction speed over a two-minute run.
Repeat on a different display.
Repeat again on one of the two displays to control for fatigue/practice.
The difference in average response time will be the difference in delay between the two displays.
The ratio of that difference to the average response delay on the quicker display is how much the display latency matters.
In the end you'll find out that the delay introduced by the display is nothing compared to the delay introduced by being a meat being, and even more pointless when counted in raw frames (it will be a fraction of a single frame).
How about you read the comments in the source code?
We don't know what data was used in what reports because they threw away the data.
You NEVER throw away data.
NEVER.
NEVER.
Take some responsibility here folks!
I am an entitled baby boomer and everything is someone else's fault.
I am also a politician.
in this case some funny business was going on and the only way to clean up their image would be to completely open the books.
WOULD be, IF they weren't making it all up.
Opening the books would only be admitting to their bullshit.
Too bad math is merely an approximation of the physical universe and is fundamentally wrong.
The Universe is quantum (yes, it is). Math needs to be reinvented (ALL OF IT) to be quantum.
Physics isn't applied math - math is an approximated model of physics. Now if you believe the Universe is just some simulation or some shit, does that simulation exist in a physical Universe? Or is it turtles all the way down?
Perhaps "excerpts from a few cherry-picked stolen emails, sometimes taken out of context" might be a more accurate description.
No, that would not be a more accurate description.
The emails and SOURCE CODE are authentic and are absolute proof of the bullshit going on.
Go read through it. It's all there in 1s and 0s. No amount of "context" can change "we threw away data and created bogus graphs to get our desired result" into "we're just misunderstood scientists trying to save the world".
Because they're all a different set of idiots who want to sell you their different products that don't actually work.
Their business model is FUD.
Yeah, no.
A plant is a plant, and that includes all of its parts.
I might as well say your post isn't a post because without those delicious digital bits it contains, it wouldn't be anything.
Competetive Super Smash Bros. players are the lowest of the low, dude.
I have NEVER met one that was good at the game.
All they do is play final destination (a plain, flat stage) with no items.
It's like most competitions that require no actual skill - the people who can play competently are the same people who can play competitively. You end up with a large number of densely grouped (in terms of "skill") players near the top. So what do they do? They pare the game away, add in stupid rules, and become so fucking myopic that the thing they're competing at is completely lost and replaced by a memorization task.
Examples:
Cup stacking
Rubik's Cube Solving
Super Smash Bros.
Perfect circle drawing
Memorizing Pi to X digits
The bottom line is that SSB is a great game and should be played with all stages and all items on. The "competitive" players are all assholes, and will blame "lag" for their failing. Hell - many of them will refuse to use wireless controllers because they think they introduce lag, just like many people refuse to wtfpwn at their derivative FPS of choice over a wireless connection. An HDTV with shitty slow processing that you can't turn off can introduce noticeable lag, but to go out and get SDTVs instead of a decent HDTV just shows how stubborn and ignorant the "pros" are.
Zero's a dude, dude.
Roll is MegaMan's (Rock Man's) sister.
Rock and Roll, see?
In theory all updates pushed to repositories are vetted, tested, analyzed, and probed by your friendly, mythical repository manager.
In practice, shit will go down like a Valve launch.
http://www.beefjack.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/valve-launchbox.jpg
There is an easier (read: more elegant) way to get rid of this Linux malware:
sudo rm -rf /
Pussies.
rm -rf /
works fine for me!
Hey malware creators just got wise to the fact that Geeks make more money than the average Joe?
Lies.
The proverbial Linux box is a P4 2.8 GHz with 512 MB of RAM that you're gonna upgrade to 1 GB soon.
The up-and-comer is a Core 2 Duo 2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM.
Surely Joe Tux Hack can afford better hardware!
Absolutely FALSE! The numbers would be closer, but not equal. By definition, you cannot know all the vulnerabilities in "secret source" software, because they are simply not disclosed. This number is surely more than zero. Therefore, all other things being equal. open source will always prevail because the "secret" vulnerabilities will be fixed on OSS, while they still exist in secret source software.
Absolute HOKUM! The numbers would be nearly identical. The protection of software being open source requires that you:
Trust the creator
Trust the host (to make sure it is unaltered)
Closed source software requires that you:
Trust the creator
Trust the host (often the creator)
The fact that you CAN read every line of code does not make the software safer. The fact that SOMEONE MAY does not make the software safer. The fact that someone DID does not make the software safer unless you trust that person for some reason.
The ONLY thing that makes the software safer is YOU reading and understanding every single line of code.
Closed source software is usually PAID for, with specific stipulations on what it can and can't do (feature-wise and security-wise). Money talks louder than "freedom", and unfortunately it always will.
Now, begin the closed source vs open source stability/support/security/update process data point cherry picking!
Here's my data point: Everything sucks and I'm disgusted that people put up with it - paid or not. (No, I'm not gonna do anything to fix it - I can idly bitch all I want!)
Aurora Borealis? At this time of the year, in this part of the country, located entirely in your internets?
Yes.
May I see it?
No.
My proposed 3D system is simple.
1 TV at double the source framerate.
1 Player delivering the interleaved left/right content.
1 User, properly calibrated (via the included setup disc) to blink left and right alternately, in sync, at double the source framerate.
These, yes.
But shutter glasses suck compared to polarized glasses.
Polarized is the best bet you've got outside of some sort of hologram or trickery setup.
Second, if you RTFA, you'll see it mention that the ps3 has plenty of power to display a 3d blueray movie. PS3 has ALWAYS been the best blue ray player, from the very beginning.
Yes and no.
Early models of the PS3 don't physically have the right version HDMI output. I think they're 1.3a or something.
While the PS3 also doesn't support many of the fancy dancy things that will never be used (like 4:4:4 or such), those can theoretically be patched in via firmware updates - and Sony has been really good on this front.
As far as I know getting the full uncompressed HD master lossless amazing super 7.1 ex II streams out of your launch PS3 system will never happen though.
All 20 of them got a lot of equipment to get rid of 3:2 Pulldown. So no, they won't buy that Dual-3:2-Pulldown-120-fps crap and wait for the proper 144p equipment.
We'd need the LCM of 48 and 60 to get shit to work right. 240 Hz it is!
Of course 99.9999% of content is either 24 or 30 fps (or your PAL equivalent).
Why can't I drive my display at 24/30 Hz for 2D and 48/60 Hz for 3D?
If your display tech can't physically be driven at multiple timings, then it's shit. You hear me, manufacturers? SHIT.
My kingdom for an HD 50" CRT.
Your also going to need a new panel if you only have a 60HZ TV.
You're also going to need a new panel if you have a 120 Hz tv. Or a 240 Hz tv. Or a 600 Hz with subfield processing tv.
Existing tvs are dumb shits, mangle video signals for no fucking reason, and they were not built with this specific format and method of 3D in mind - they won't work.
Of course, a firmware upgrade could fix it. Too bad meaningful firmware upgrades are the snipe hunt of the consumer electronic world.