I want you to explain this in an easily understandable way, but you can't use a car analogy because it's already about cars! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE!
Custom ECUs (basically the main computing unit in a car) already exist. It used to be that you'd have to remove a manual piece of the car to get rid of pesky things like speed limiters - now that stuff is coded in software.The car enthusiasts decided to go all Wozniak on these bitches and just make their own car computers.
Couldn't you use a laser scanner to get highly detailed 3-D models of, well, anything?
I mean, take a look at modern texture artists. A lot of them will take a photo, edit it (scan, crop, color correction) and make a texture from that. The most realistic looking thing is, ya know, something real.
In Star Trek, they had holocameras. It'd take a picture of something and then you could load it up into the holodeck. Sure it was technobabble nonsense, but I think that's the general direction we'd head. Either that, or EA hires a thousand people to work on one game. Can you imagine? One guy's job would be, like, toes. Nothing but toes, 80-100 hours a week.
Hmm gets worse than that.... in 10 years time whats "politically correct" may have shifted and all those 'Gingers have no soul' posts may come back to roost.
Well, if that ever comes up you can take comfort in the truth being the ultimate defense.
I'm even noticing a more militaristic look among them, at least in my city (Newark, NJ). I see way less dress blues and way more combat boots and vests. Sure, they still have the standard uniform pants and shirt, but it's covered up with gear that makes a cop look like a JV SWAT team member.
You know, I'm seeing more and more of those "power creep" myself. Schools trying to do things like banning X or Y behavior even if it takes place outside of school.
I recall in the later years of my elementary school (in Newark, NJ) that they had apparently banned fighting. Like, everywhere. If a student got into a fight - even if they were a few miles away from the school - and the school found out, they would be punished as if they were fighting on the playground at lunch. I think their logic was something like "You're students at $SCHOOL and when you do something you represent your school and community!" I'm not sure they ever actually used those powers, though. At least not to my knowledge.
I had something similar happen to me in... 6th or 7th grade? Might have been 8th. (So we're talking late 90s, early 00s.)
I was doing arts and crafts at some... library thing. Might have been boy scouts. The point is, it was also an out of school function. We were making our own bookmarks and then laminating them. I made one that said something like "Some people are nice..." on one side and "...and I'm not one of them!" on the back. Just something silly and teenage-y.
I go to school the next day, and I find out that I had left my stupid little bookmark there. The person running the class (who also happened to be my school's art teacher) showed it to my teacher, and my teacher talked to me and stated how it was inappropriate. I replied with it was none of her business at it had taken place outside of school. I suppose she was power tripping or one of those "think of the children" people, but she was really fishing for me to apologize or admit guilt or something. She threatened to escalate it to the principal. I said "Go ahead," sat down, and went back to my schoolwork.
Still have that bookmark somewhere...
Long story short, make sure you teach your kids how to deal with authority figures who are asshats. Teach them to say no to the authority when they make an unreasonable request. Teach them to stand up for themselves like my parents did.
so the old school way of using hacked/insecure ftp's to download/share is actually _safer_?
Yep, there's actually a way to config google to search for MP3s on servers that aren't all that secure. However, a lot of companies now know about this trend and have set up "fake" Apache directories - when you click on the link it takes you to an MP3 purchasing site. (I wonder what their actual rate of follow-through is?)
IANAL, but I think if someone had an FTP or something of the sort and it was unsecured and publicly available, the courts would have a hard time proving that it was "unauthorized access" in the spirit of that law.
If they're downloading anything that bandwidth-intensive, such as HD steraming video from dirtywindowssluts.com, I doubt they'll need 5 minutes anyway.
If that's what happened and he was nagged into going to the police... well, if this all works out, I'm pretty sure he's got a "Free BJs for Life" coupon coming his way from his wife.
Selectively disabling parts of the system to prevent the user from uninstalling the malware. Some may also prevent anti-malware programs from running, disable automatic system software updates and block access to websites of anti-malware vendors.
I'm just picturing a news conference in my head... a man in a white lab coat, Oakley shades, and a big gold chain that says "Biochemists Do It Mitochondrially" struts out into the stage. He pulls out a microphone and shouts, "WHAT UPPPP, MEDIA BITCHES! YO WE MADE THAT BITCH ASS NIGGA CANCER OUR BITCH!"
Then, Snoop Dogg comes out and talks about the growing biomedical field in Compton./p
This seems kinda like a "vampire" thing... you know? You're dying, you can live, but instead you have to live with this thing that's gonna make your life difficult to manage.
Somebody opened a cardboard box on the plane to unload supplies such as napkins, food, etc. They put the box cutter up in the overhead bin for a moment and forgot about it. That's what happened.
A plane is typically cleaned between flights in 10 minutes or less. It's very hectic. Honestly anyone who really wanted to stash a weapon on board would be able to conceal it in a much better place than just sitting on the overhead bin.
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Yeah! All we got was four years of the best multilayer game on the planet!
That's weird, I never received my free copy of Starsiege: TRIBES when I bought the Orange Box.
I want you to explain this in an easily understandable way, but you can't use a car analogy because it's already about cars! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE!
Custom ECUs (basically the main computing unit in a car) already exist. It used to be that you'd have to remove a manual piece of the car to get rid of pesky things like speed limiters - now that stuff is coded in software.The car enthusiasts decided to go all Wozniak on these bitches and just make their own car computers.
An arm capable of throwing a fire-extinguishing grenade will also be capable of throwing a frag grenade.
Couldn't you use a laser scanner to get highly detailed 3-D models of, well, anything?
I mean, take a look at modern texture artists. A lot of them will take a photo, edit it (scan, crop, color correction) and make a texture from that. The most realistic looking thing is, ya know, something real.
In Star Trek, they had holocameras. It'd take a picture of something and then you could load it up into the holodeck. Sure it was technobabble nonsense, but I think that's the general direction we'd head. Either that, or EA hires a thousand people to work on one game. Can you imagine? One guy's job would be, like, toes. Nothing but toes, 80-100 hours a week.
What if it lands in Compton?
Hmm gets worse than that.... in 10 years time whats "politically correct" may have shifted and all those 'Gingers have no soul'
posts may come back to roost.
Well, if that ever comes up you can take comfort in the truth being the ultimate defense.
I'm even noticing a more militaristic look among them, at least in my city (Newark, NJ). I see way less dress blues and way more combat boots and vests. Sure, they still have the standard uniform pants and shirt, but it's covered up with gear that makes a cop look like a JV SWAT team member.
You know, I'm seeing more and more of those "power creep" myself. Schools trying to do things like banning X or Y behavior even if it takes place outside of school.
I recall in the later years of my elementary school (in Newark, NJ) that they had apparently banned fighting. Like, everywhere. If a student got into a fight - even if they were a few miles away from the school - and the school found out, they would be punished as if they were fighting on the playground at lunch. I think their logic was something like "You're students at $SCHOOL and when you do something you represent your school and community!" I'm not sure they ever actually used those powers, though. At least not to my knowledge.
Cue the police union saying "probable cause, probable cause!" like a fucking mantra. The cop will go on, at worst, paid leave.
I had something similar happen to me in... 6th or 7th grade? Might have been 8th. (So we're talking late 90s, early 00s.)
I was doing arts and crafts at some... library thing. Might have been boy scouts. The point is, it was also an out of school function. We were making our own bookmarks and then laminating them. I made one that said something like "Some people are nice..." on one side and "...and I'm not one of them!" on the back. Just something silly and teenage-y.
I go to school the next day, and I find out that I had left my stupid little bookmark there. The person running the class (who also happened to be my school's art teacher) showed it to my teacher, and my teacher talked to me and stated how it was inappropriate. I replied with it was none of her business at it had taken place outside of school. I suppose she was power tripping or one of those "think of the children" people, but she was really fishing for me to apologize or admit guilt or something. She threatened to escalate it to the principal. I said "Go ahead," sat down, and went back to my schoolwork.
Still have that bookmark somewhere...
Long story short, make sure you teach your kids how to deal with authority figures who are asshats. Teach them to say no to the authority when they make an unreasonable request. Teach them to stand up for themselves like my parents did.
What does any of this have to do with a programming language?!!?!!
so the old school way of using hacked/insecure ftp's to download/share is actually _safer_?
Yep, there's actually a way to config google to search for MP3s on servers that aren't all that secure. However, a lot of companies now know about this trend and have set up "fake" Apache directories - when you click on the link it takes you to an MP3 purchasing site. (I wonder what their actual rate of follow-through is?)
IANAL, but I think if someone had an FTP or something of the sort and it was unsecured and publicly available, the courts would have a hard time proving that it was "unauthorized access" in the spirit of that law.
If they're downloading anything that bandwidth-intensive, such as HD steraming video from dirtywindowssluts.com, I doubt they'll need 5 minutes anyway.
I think it's actually spelled "manna" in this context, but hell - there could be something there trading Greater Mana Potions, sure.
Penny Arcade has a good take on this subject.
If that's what happened and he was nagged into going to the police... well, if this all works out, I'm pretty sure he's got a "Free BJs for Life" coupon coming his way from his wife.
Selectively disabling parts of the system to prevent the user from uninstalling the malware. Some may also prevent anti-malware programs from running, disable automatic system software updates and block access to websites of anti-malware vendors.
I dunno, sounds like Norton to me.
What we need to do is figure out how to shoot a particle accelerator like a big gun. Then the US would build one in a heartbeat.
We could use Montana; there's basically nothing out there as it is.
Oh my God, we've turned into the AMARR!
I don't even like lasers!
it works, biatches.
I'm just picturing a news conference in my head... a man in a white lab coat, Oakley shades, and a big gold chain that says "Biochemists Do It Mitochondrially" struts out into the stage. He pulls out a microphone and shouts, "WHAT UPPPP, MEDIA BITCHES! YO WE MADE THAT BITCH ASS NIGGA CANCER OUR BITCH!"
Then, Snoop Dogg comes out and talks about the growing biomedical field in Compton./p
This seems kinda like a "vampire" thing... you know? You're dying, you can live, but instead you have to live with this thing that's gonna make your life difficult to manage.
Honestly, the length of time for patents might be just as bad as copyright.
20 years might have been fine for, say, the 1800s... not so much nowadays. Maybe 3-5 years would be better.
Is there a reason 20 years was picked?
By the way, it might be happening again.
Seriously? Is the media that fucking oblivous?
Somebody opened a cardboard box on the plane to unload supplies such as napkins, food, etc. They put the box cutter up in the overhead bin for a moment and forgot about it. That's what happened.
A plane is typically cleaned between flights in 10 minutes or less. It's very hectic. Honestly anyone who really wanted to stash a weapon on board would be able to conceal it in a much better place than just sitting on the overhead bin.
The terrorist goal is to blow a plane,
Man, they must have like... huge mouths, or be able to dislocate their jaw like a snake, or something...