See cracking down on piracy has already propelled open source. It was early this morning when microsoft announced anti piracy day. Now, all of a sudden, adroid is open source. HAHA! What's next were all going to switch to linux today? If only we didn't switch sooner, then we could truly savor the moment.
If you wikipedia the word truth you will see the most popular perceptions of what truth is and how it has changed with different governments and civilizations. I think you will find that the Concensus Theory serves as an "abstract" truth in which less ambigious definitions of truth serve as components and tools of concensus. Wikipedia has not redefined the common perception of truth, it merely extended Nicholas Rescher's philosophy and it has been successfull because of its scalability and abstract nature. Concensus theory alone is nothing without derivitive explanations of truth.
I was reffering to a behaviorial study conducted in germany that monitored a group's decisions (one group knew they were being watched, the other didn't). The result demonstrated that even unimportant and "subconscious" behavior was effected when the subject knew they were being watched. I didn't claim "being watched sucks". Maybe I don't care if I am watched? How would you know? Plus, personally identifiable information contained in emails and phone records is way different than my non identifiable slashdot name; however, knowing slashdot is 'monitored' will effect my decsion making, language, etc.
Well that would be most impressive if only you weren't posting to one of the most discerning and widely read international forums in the world. If being watched sucks, then why are you trying so hard to be seen?
You make the claim I am 'trying' to be seen. I deny your claim. Burden of proof is on you. Go investigate and you will realize that posting under an anonymous username is not 'trying' to be seen. Furthermore, I did not state a personal opinion that 'being watched sucks'.
ere's a freekin quarter, call someone in any of a dozen African countries whose daughter is dying because you didn't spend the quarter on the painfully obvious. Ask them how glad they are they didn't get their story on CNN, for fear they might lose their freedom.
Getting a published story out on cnn.com and having your every moved watched are two very different things. I don't see how your analogy even applies. Plus many countries require release waivers for 'special' news stories that contain identifiable information. Finally, you took my last sentence literally, I was talking about freedom from a more psychological perspective that effects actions consciously or subconsciously, not a freedom that appeals to emotion (but my statement was ambiguous I suppose).
If you have an encrypted hardrive, always have a honeypot. Then give away your honeypot keys. Seems like the UK is brewing something with these combination of laws...
My fellow americans: Guess what? This is as much our burden as it is the UK's. There is an american agenda being pushed here. We already know that the USA's biggest survelliance post is the UK (See NSA's menwith hill listening post). We already know a large amount of traffic is routed through the UK. Finally, we already know the US does not spy on its own citizens, it tells the UK to. In return, the US spies on the UK citizens. That way we're not breaking laws right? This is not a UK only thing. The UK is being used as a world wide communications filter. Let's see average person on earth is connected between 6 hops to any other person on earth. 5 more of these setups and that should have enough data to cover every connected individual, on average. Please check my stats and references and correct me if I am wrong (I recalled them from memory). *sigh, The sad thing is just by knowing your being watched you lose a degree of freedom.
I, a self-proclaimed reverse engineer, will make an updated bnet daemon when D3 comes out. I will base it off of http://bnetd.sourceforge.net/ (the existing daemon), then I will release it anonymously on a server in another country that blizzard has no jurisdiction over. Do not fear a lack of lan play!
Hmmmm lets see first they went oil independant somewhere in the mid 70's by making the switch to sugar cane refined ethanol...then they switch to open source technologies for their electronic voting system. This is outragous. What kind of government does such bold public service? I'm betting this is some cheap government scam to get its people to all write missing linux drivers on election day...
They are scared that somone will figure out their great 'checks and balances' system. When a user hosts a game it uses the host as a sync for other players key values, such as health, gold etc. This allows them to keep preformance and not rely on memory scanning techniques to keep the hackers at bay. Sadly, many hackers know this and I doubt anyone is interested in hosting a game then instead of playing, spend the next 20 minutes of the game doing nothing while your machine is scanning connection and memory data. Chances are you will lag out all the other players anyways....sounds like they want to make bnet subscription based then turn around and ban lan games becuase if they allowed lan, then you could host remote games directly without bnet....
If you cant find decent internships or jobs, become a key player in some well-known open source projects so you can throw them on your resume. I've been pretty impressed with some entry level guys who played key roles in open source jobs it shows intiative and and passion.
In the US, T-Mobile allows automated unlocking via their site. If it's not avialable on their site (i.e. a business account) just call in and say your travelling over seas.
I submitted my idea, open source voting. I know theres a foundation out there already, but I was hoping if Google took the lead they could actually make it a reality. Heck, maybe they will bring about a direct democracy system where all issues are first released to public for voting (directly) then if there are not enough public votes it falls into a representative body of voters (congress). Would be cool if they made the server side technology system to supplement something like that and it actually DID improve the democratic system with technology.
This has already been done before by the NSA. In an abandoned NSA base, people found US satellites with smiley faces painted on them. The nsa would time it in sync with russian spy satellites. See http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/2001.01/0188.html which is actually an exert from the book "Chatter".
To all who disagree: please note my title. I agree with all of you that it DEPENDS on the implementation (hence my title). A good developer knows how to balance it out.
Clean code can be high performing, but most of the time, high performing code is not clean. Look at encryption algorithms. Look at Qt's premoc compiler. The nature of performance in code is inherently low-level. Want to maximize a function in C++ to its fullest extent? Great, take it too far and you end up with parts using inline ASM. Most preformance related code makes use of multiple calls in a single function to ensure that the scope usage is as short as possible. I wouldn't call 20 functions in one line of code readable. How do most people make it readable? Separate function return values into variables causing the variable to live in the entirety of its parentâ(TM)s scope. So you end up with less memory optimization. I guess when I think of performance related code, I think more of code optimizations (i.e. const int &var) that end up making a single line of code more complex and hence, less readable. I wanted to imply that many code optimizations result in less readable code due to the low-level nature and extra modifiers required to optimize code.
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Preformance related code and highly efficent code is the opposite of clean code. Clean code is often high level in nature, while efficient and robust code is low level and not pretty. Comments are for readabilty, not the code. Always go for efficiency.
As missing_dc pointed out, it could be either way around. The fact is the attack origin data is pretty much meaningless since many of the attack machines are controlled outside of the originating location (as reported). A better way to look at origin of attack data, is to use it as a source for how secure we are..since most attacks are from compromised machines. The US is probably responsible for majority of the cyber attacks becuase it is a target of interest for most hackers which is probably the result of higher amount of compromised machines in the US.
Many of the attacks originating from China are actually from the US as well. Many US hackers find it easy to compromise chinese machines and use those machines for whatever they need. I'm willing to bet a hand full of Chinese attacks are actually originating from the US as hackers seek to use easily compromised machines that are unlikly to work with the US (politically) if the US asks for connection info from an ISP. As a result, a lot of US originated hack trails stop in china.
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See cracking down on piracy has already propelled open source. It was early this morning when microsoft announced anti piracy day. Now, all of a sudden, adroid is open source. HAHA! What's next were all going to switch to linux today? If only we didn't switch sooner, then we could truly savor the moment.
If you wikipedia the word truth you will see the most popular perceptions of what truth is and how it has changed with different governments and civilizations. I think you will find that the Concensus Theory serves as an "abstract" truth in which less ambigious definitions of truth serve as components and tools of concensus. Wikipedia has not redefined the common perception of truth, it merely extended Nicholas Rescher's philosophy and it has been successfull because of its scalability and abstract nature. Concensus theory alone is nothing without derivitive explanations of truth.
Isnt everyday anti microsoft day hahaha.
Well that would be most impressive if only you weren't posting to one of the most discerning and widely read international forums in the world. If being watched sucks, then why are you trying so hard to be seen?
You make the claim I am 'trying' to be seen. I deny your claim. Burden of proof is on you. Go investigate and you will realize that posting under an anonymous username is not 'trying' to be seen. Furthermore, I did not state a personal opinion that 'being watched sucks'.
ere's a freekin quarter, call someone in any of a dozen African countries whose daughter is dying because you didn't spend the quarter on the painfully obvious. Ask them how glad they are they didn't get their story on CNN, for fear they might lose their freedom.
Getting a published story out on cnn.com and having your every moved watched are two very different things. I don't see how your analogy even applies. Plus many countries require release waivers for 'special' news stories that contain identifiable information. Finally, you took my last sentence literally, I was talking about freedom from a more psychological perspective that effects actions consciously or subconsciously, not a freedom that appeals to emotion (but my statement was ambiguous I suppose).
If you have an encrypted hardrive, always have a honeypot. Then give away your honeypot keys. Seems like the UK is brewing something with these combination of laws...
My fellow americans:
Guess what? This is as much our burden as it is the UK's. There is an american agenda being pushed here. We already know that the USA's biggest survelliance post is the UK (See NSA's menwith hill listening post). We already know a large amount of traffic is routed through the UK. Finally, we already know the US does not spy on its own citizens, it tells the UK to. In return, the US spies on the UK citizens. That way we're not breaking laws right? This is not a UK only thing. The UK is being used as a world wide communications filter. Let's see average person on earth is connected between 6 hops to any other person on earth. 5 more of these setups and that should have enough data to cover every connected individual, on average. Please check my stats and references and correct me if I am wrong (I recalled them from memory). *sigh, The sad thing is just by knowing your being watched you lose a degree of freedom.
I, a self-proclaimed reverse engineer, will make an updated bnet daemon when D3 comes out. I will base it off of http://bnetd.sourceforge.net/ (the existing daemon), then I will release it anonymously on a server in another country that blizzard has no jurisdiction over. Do not fear a lack of lan play!
Hmmmm lets see first they went oil independant somewhere in the mid 70's by making the switch to sugar cane refined ethanol...then they switch to open source technologies for their electronic voting system. This is outragous. What kind of government does such bold public service? I'm betting this is some cheap government scam to get its people to all write missing linux drivers on election day...
They are scared that somone will figure out their great 'checks and balances' system. When a user hosts a game it uses the host as a sync for other players key values, such as health, gold etc. This allows them to keep preformance and not rely on memory scanning techniques to keep the hackers at bay. Sadly, many hackers know this and I doubt anyone is interested in hosting a game then instead of playing, spend the next 20 minutes of the game doing nothing while your machine is scanning connection and memory data. Chances are you will lag out all the other players anyways....sounds like they want to make bnet subscription based then turn around and ban lan games becuase if they allowed lan, then you could host remote games directly without bnet....
If you cant find decent internships or jobs, become a key player in some well-known open source projects so you can throw them on your resume. I've been pretty impressed with some entry level guys who played key roles in open source jobs it shows intiative and and passion.
Comon redundant? I was trying to be overly obvious in true fox style reporting.
You mean Faux news? That's french for 'fake' haha.
ABC wasnt the only oen that reported this story CNN did too. Just an FYI.
In the US, T-Mobile allows automated unlocking via their site. If it's not avialable on their site (i.e. a business account) just call in and say your travelling over seas.
I submitted my idea, open source voting. I know theres a foundation out there already, but I was hoping if Google took the lead they could actually make it a reality. Heck, maybe they will bring about a direct democracy system where all issues are first released to public for voting (directly) then if there are not enough public votes it falls into a representative body of voters (congress). Would be cool if they made the server side technology system to supplement something like that and it actually DID improve the democratic system with technology.
I wonder if this will cause new clauses in gpl terms similar to commercial usage clauses preventing the support of any millitary, etc?
Master chief wants one too
This has already been done before by the NSA. In an abandoned NSA base, people found US satellites with smiley faces painted on them. The nsa would time it in sync with russian spy satellites. See http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/2001.01/0188.html which is actually an exert from the book "Chatter".
What a nice day today...RIAA loses, DOJ opposes DOJ Copyright Oversight. What's next? Bush finally gets impeached?
I use the following equation:
Conspiracy Theory - What Government Says = Close to what's really happening.
Out of curiosity has anyone tried openMoko? If so, how does it compare to Android and iPhone SDK? I like the fact that it supports Qt 3
To all who disagree: please note my title. I agree with all of you that it DEPENDS on the implementation (hence my title). A good developer knows how to balance it out.
Clean code can be high performing, but most of the time, high performing code is not clean. Look at encryption algorithms. Look at Qt's premoc compiler. The nature of performance in code is inherently low-level. Want to maximize a function in C++ to its fullest extent? Great, take it too far and you end up with parts using inline ASM. Most preformance related code makes use of multiple calls in a single function to ensure that the scope usage is as short as possible. I wouldn't call 20 functions in one line of code readable. How do most people make it readable? Separate function return values into variables causing the variable to live in the entirety of its parentâ(TM)s scope. So you end up with less memory optimization. I guess when I think of performance related code, I think more of code optimizations (i.e. const int &var) that end up making a single line of code more complex and hence, less readable. I wanted to imply that many code optimizations result in less readable code due to the low-level nature and extra modifiers required to optimize code.
Preformance related code and highly efficent code is the opposite of clean code. Clean code is often high level in nature, while efficient and robust code is low level and not pretty. Comments are for readabilty, not the code. Always go for efficiency.
As missing_dc pointed out, it could be either way around. The fact is the attack origin data is pretty much meaningless since many of the attack machines are controlled outside of the originating location (as reported). A better way to look at origin of attack data, is to use it as a source for how secure we are..since most attacks are from compromised machines. The US is probably responsible for majority of the cyber attacks becuase it is a target of interest for most hackers which is probably the result of higher amount of compromised machines in the US.
Many of the attacks originating from China are actually from the US as well. Many US hackers find it easy to compromise chinese machines and use those machines for whatever they need. I'm willing to bet a hand full of Chinese attacks are actually originating from the US as hackers seek to use easily compromised machines that are unlikly to work with the US (politically) if the US asks for connection info from an ISP. As a result, a lot of US originated hack trails stop in china.