Yes, the "quote of the day" comments are taken from a default set that has a lot of really stupid stuff. Even without being stupid, they're still completely out of place. I've never liked them. They were part of the original Slashcode that nobody ever cared enough to remove.
Right now, you show percentages that often don't add up to 100%
It only shows the top three types of moderation, and it also rounds them to the nearest 10%. That was probably a result of when a single post would get 10 or 20 mods, which made it too obvious that it was controversial and would attract more moderation wars. In other words, it was to de-gamify the moderation process.
I came to post just that, you can get an ESP8266 module for around ten dollars. With the right circuitry (I wouldn't expect it to have enough current to drive a big LED display, so you would need some transistors) you could use a common 16x2-ish matrix LED clock display. Just keep in mind that most of the junk clock LED displays in the US will not have the extra segments for 24-hour mode.
Also, a Raspberry Pi 3 has built-in WiFi and you could probably find a nice LCD screen hat board for it. Or you could rig up GPIOs to an LED matrix display. It runs Linux, so NTP is already there. There are even more options if you go with wired Ethernet, such as a BeagleBone.
It doesn't matter which adblocker you use or which browser you use. I've been following this story closely, and this is what I've learned:
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error. If you switch to a Google (or YouTube) account that you haven't used in a while, you won't get the error. And if a couple of days later you log back in with the original account, you won't get the error. But if you watch a bunch of videos with ads that get blocked, the error will start again.
And yes, it doesn't matter which adblocking software you use. uBlock users are reporting the error as well. YouTube support has basically said, "This is happening because of something we did, but it wasn't intentional. And since it wasn't intentional, we're not going to do anything about it, so you'll have to contact your adblocker's support."
For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error.
Well that might explain why I haven't been seeing this. I stopped logging into my account years ago when Google bought them out and started trying to link everything to G+, and then the real names policy sealed the deal.
I strictly use a custom blocking list with "allow ads that are nice enough bribe us" disabled. And I will just as happily block a single.js file as I will entire domains that clearly have no other purpose in life than to serve ads or track people. (And also stuff like that stupid Sharethis or whatever has roll-over pop-ups for dozens of social media sites, since it's something I would never use and it's annoying too.) Whenever I start with a new computer, one of the first places I go is Drudge Report, because that uses 20 or so of the worst offenders that I can quickly block right away.
If I'm really serious about blocking something at the HTML element level, I may add custom CSS rules to my web browser for a site (see sig for example), but that's usually done to override bad color and contrast choices (my view of Hackaday has black text on a gray background).
Interstitials in the main stream is probably the endgame of this. Then you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. The problem is that it's hard to do that in a sane way over a live stream of content that has no natural breaks.
For what it's worth, Ustream's interstitial ads via their Flash player (they still won't offer me an HTML5 player with the current version of Seamonkey, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and is usually the current FF version of Gecko) are done via a separate.swf served from an ads-only domain. Block that domain and even the ad warning doesn't show.
Except that from TFA you can tell that it used a wired Ethernet setup. Wireless is a dumb idea because hotels are infamous for crappy wireless internet, especially when full for a convention full of nerds. And if somehow the wireless encryption did get hacked, he could passively see everything. At least with Ethernet connected via switches, he couldn't passively monitor any other room's traffic.
Modbus over TCP may be the "standard" for "industrial controls systems", but it's not anywhere near the standard for commercial lighting control. BACnet is probably the most common standard, or at least the "lingua Franca" that most proprietary systems have a gateway for. There are also DALI, LonWorks, and DMX512 (mostly used for stage lighting)
Room key on thick plastic block, block goes in a cradle inside the door, activating power to the room. Pull the key to leave and everything goes off.
Do you know that most hotels in the US (I know TFA was London) use cheap magnetic credit cards (with a different encoding) as keys? I haven't seen an actual room key since at least a decade ago. I don't think attaching a brick to the key card will go over well with hotel guests or even the hotels themselves. Also, you can't use the key to tell when the room is occupied. If there are two guests in the room, and one goes out with the key, are you going to shut off TV and lights for the one staying behind?
In fact, there's an easier way to do it: when the housekeeping maid comes by for the daily room cleaning and finds it unoccupied, she can turn off the TV and lights!
I've done development work on commercial lighting systems, and the system as described in TFA sounds like a total and complete toy. Unencrypted Modbus over TCP? Android tablets? IP addresses that clearly indicate which room is which? Sheesh. But again, that was in London, and the systems I worked on were for the US market with no effort toward international sales other than a nod to Canada (California's energy regulations drive a of the designs in the US lighting control business), so they probably just don't have as many options available.
At precisely 10:08 am on the morning of June 30, the four twin-spool Olympus 593 engines under the Concorde’s sweeping white wings powered up to full afterburner and launched “001” down the runway of Tenerife’s Las Palmas airport. Thousands of miles to the east, the shadow of the moon was already racing across the Atlantic at over 1,200 mph, as the eclipse shadow sped westward from South America toward the African coast.
I didn't realize that Africa was westward from South America. I mean, I guess it is if you go the long way, but I don't think that's what happened here.
They could expand upon the principles of winning at Rock-Scissors-Paper to win at Tag. And as another poster has pointed out, they're already pretty good when drones are involved. Or laser turrets.
A few months ago the motherboard in my living room PC died. I went to the extra effort and expense to get a copy of W7OEM when I got the new MB/CPU at Fry's. And since Microsoft can no longer be trusted with their automatic updates, either you get 6 gigabytes of W10 silently dumped on your hard drive, or your computer gets bricked now, so I have updates completely turned off. I don't use the computer for internets and it's the token Windows box (AVI/MP4 videos and a couple of specific games) in my inside LAN full of OS X and Linux, so I'm more worried about a bad MS update than I am about getting hacked.
You also would need a properly formatted MPEG stream before you even got a "modulated signal", which would add a second or two of delay if you started with analog or uncompressed video content. There are good reasons why an "ATSC modulator" is not a consumer product. One of them is the lack of reasons why NTSC modulators are a consumer product: ancient TV sets that had no other input. A TV set that can decode ATSC also has multiple other uncompressed video inputs, both analog and digital.
An NTSC modulator is a passive device that converts a NTSC baseband signal to RF. An ATSC modulator would need to include an MPEG encoder or transcoder to generate the transport stream, as well as a sophisticated digital modulation technique, because nobody uses naked ATSC baseband signals for anything.
It also isn't much of an "intentional radiator" if the signal is confined to a properly shielded cable. I didn't see any details of how he connected the RF signal. And you can certainly buy RF modulators that generate an analog NTSC signal on channel 3 that you could theoretically hook up to an antenna. The FCC really doesn't care unless it transmits with significant power or it's a mass-produced device that causes interference.
The question is more whether this O2 is better to keep around than the O2 that is a by-product of making liquid nitrogen. And that O2 starts out as a liquid, so it is much easier to keep pure until it can be put into canisters.
4. File a bug report with enough information about what needs to be fixed and how, and let someone else fix it. Finding and characterizing a bug is usually the hardest part.
Even on the 2600, there were worse games. This might be the worst of the first-party titles, but in no way is it the worst 2600 game of all time, or even "the Worst Computer Game In History". But it might be the most over-published bad game in history, if you don't count 2600 Pac-Man (Atari supposedly manufactured more copies of Pac-Man than consoles to play them on!), which was at least playable. And ET's badness was mostly due to the two-month schedule imposed to get it out for a Christmas release. Most 2600 games took about six months for a single developer (no artists; the developer usually had to make the graphics too!).
Star Fox by Mythicon was arguably the worst, and their other two games, Sorcerer and Firefly were basically the same game with different graphics.
The current trend? I remember ten-ish years ago, way too many web sites were setting body text to 85% text size, 85% gray. And some would put that over a 15% gray background. Fuck that shit.
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Yes, the "quote of the day" comments are taken from a default set that has a lot of really stupid stuff. Even without being stupid, they're still completely out of place. I've never liked them. They were part of the original Slashcode that nobody ever cared enough to remove.
Right now, you show percentages that often don't add up to 100%
It only shows the top three types of moderation, and it also rounds them to the nearest 10%. That was probably a result of when a single post would get 10 or 20 mods, which made it too obvious that it was controversial and would attract more moderation wars. In other words, it was to de-gamify the moderation process.
I came to post just that, you can get an ESP8266 module for around ten dollars. With the right circuitry (I wouldn't expect it to have enough current to drive a big LED display, so you would need some transistors) you could use a common 16x2-ish matrix LED clock display. Just keep in mind that most of the junk clock LED displays in the US will not have the extra segments for 24-hour mode.
Also, a Raspberry Pi 3 has built-in WiFi and you could probably find a nice LCD screen hat board for it. Or you could rig up GPIOs to an LED matrix display. It runs Linux, so NTP is already there. There are even more options if you go with wired Ethernet, such as a BeagleBone.
Your subject line is offensive to lunar-fluid missions.
It doesn't matter which adblocker you use or which browser you use. I've been following this story closely, and this is what I've learned:
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error. If you switch to a Google (or YouTube) account that you haven't used in a while, you won't get the error. And if a couple of days later you log back in with the original account, you won't get the error. But if you watch a bunch of videos with ads that get blocked, the error will start again.
And yes, it doesn't matter which adblocking software you use. uBlock users are reporting the error as well. YouTube support has basically said, "This is happening because of something we did, but it wasn't intentional. And since it wasn't intentional, we're not going to do anything about it, so you'll have to contact your adblocker's support."
For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error.
Well that might explain why I haven't been seeing this. I stopped logging into my account years ago when Google bought them out and started trying to link everything to G+, and then the real names policy sealed the deal.
I strictly use a custom blocking list with "allow ads that are nice enough bribe us" disabled. And I will just as happily block a single .js file as I will entire domains that clearly have no other purpose in life than to serve ads or track people. (And also stuff like that stupid Sharethis or whatever has roll-over pop-ups for dozens of social media sites, since it's something I would never use and it's annoying too.) Whenever I start with a new computer, one of the first places I go is Drudge Report, because that uses 20 or so of the worst offenders that I can quickly block right away.
If I'm really serious about blocking something at the HTML element level, I may add custom CSS rules to my web browser for a site (see sig for example), but that's usually done to override bad color and contrast choices (my view of Hackaday has black text on a gray background).
Interstitials in the main stream is probably the endgame of this. Then you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. The problem is that it's hard to do that in a sane way over a live stream of content that has no natural breaks.
For what it's worth, Ustream's interstitial ads via their Flash player (they still won't offer me an HTML5 player with the current version of Seamonkey, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and is usually the current FF version of Gecko) are done via a separate .swf served from an ads-only domain. Block that domain and even the ad warning doesn't show.
Except that from TFA you can tell that it used a wired Ethernet setup. Wireless is a dumb idea because hotels are infamous for crappy wireless internet, especially when full for a convention full of nerds. And if somehow the wireless encryption did get hacked, he could passively see everything. At least with Ethernet connected via switches, he couldn't passively monitor any other room's traffic.
Modbus over TCP may be the "standard" for "industrial controls systems", but it's not anywhere near the standard for commercial lighting control. BACnet is probably the most common standard, or at least the "lingua Franca" that most proprietary systems have a gateway for. There are also DALI, LonWorks, and DMX512 (mostly used for stage lighting)
Room key on thick plastic block, block goes in a cradle inside the door, activating power to the room. Pull the key to leave and everything goes off.
Do you know that most hotels in the US (I know TFA was London) use cheap magnetic credit cards (with a different encoding) as keys? I haven't seen an actual room key since at least a decade ago. I don't think attaching a brick to the key card will go over well with hotel guests or even the hotels themselves. Also, you can't use the key to tell when the room is occupied. If there are two guests in the room, and one goes out with the key, are you going to shut off TV and lights for the one staying behind?
In fact, there's an easier way to do it: when the housekeeping maid comes by for the daily room cleaning and finds it unoccupied, she can turn off the TV and lights!
I've done development work on commercial lighting systems, and the system as described in TFA sounds like a total and complete toy. Unencrypted Modbus over TCP? Android tablets? IP addresses that clearly indicate which room is which? Sheesh. But again, that was in London, and the systems I worked on were for the US market with no effort toward international sales other than a nod to Canada (California's energy regulations drive a of the designs in the US lighting control business), so they probably just don't have as many options available.
So it was a 3D shooter version of a "Bullet Hell" 2D shooter game?
At precisely 10:08 am on the morning of June 30, the four twin-spool Olympus 593 engines under the Concorde’s sweeping white wings powered up to full afterburner and launched “001” down the runway of Tenerife’s Las Palmas airport. Thousands of miles to the east, the shadow of the moon was already racing across the Atlantic at over 1,200 mph, as the eclipse shadow sped westward from South America toward the African coast.
I didn't realize that Africa was westward from South America. I mean, I guess it is if you go the long way, but I don't think that's what happened here.
They could expand upon the principles of winning at Rock-Scissors-Paper to win at Tag. And as another poster has pointed out, they're already pretty good when drones are involved. Or laser turrets.
A few months ago the motherboard in my living room PC died. I went to the extra effort and expense to get a copy of W7OEM when I got the new MB/CPU at Fry's. And since Microsoft can no longer be trusted with their automatic updates, either you get 6 gigabytes of W10 silently dumped on your hard drive, or your computer gets bricked now, so I have updates completely turned off. I don't use the computer for internets and it's the token Windows box (AVI/MP4 videos and a couple of specific games) in my inside LAN full of OS X and Linux, so I'm more worried about a bad MS update than I am about getting hacked.
You also would need a properly formatted MPEG stream before you even got a "modulated signal", which would add a second or two of delay if you started with analog or uncompressed video content. There are good reasons why an "ATSC modulator" is not a consumer product. One of them is the lack of reasons why NTSC modulators are a consumer product: ancient TV sets that had no other input. A TV set that can decode ATSC also has multiple other uncompressed video inputs, both analog and digital.
An NTSC modulator is a passive device that converts a NTSC baseband signal to RF. An ATSC modulator would need to include an MPEG encoder or transcoder to generate the transport stream, as well as a sophisticated digital modulation technique, because nobody uses naked ATSC baseband signals for anything.
It also isn't much of an "intentional radiator" if the signal is confined to a properly shielded cable. I didn't see any details of how he connected the RF signal. And you can certainly buy RF modulators that generate an analog NTSC signal on channel 3 that you could theoretically hook up to an antenna. The FCC really doesn't care unless it transmits with significant power or it's a mass-produced device that causes interference.
He does it using a Revolutionary process.
The question is more whether this O2 is better to keep around than the O2 that is a by-product of making liquid nitrogen. And that O2 starts out as a liquid, so it is much easier to keep pure until it can be put into canisters.
4. File a bug report with enough information about what needs to be fixed and how, and let someone else fix it. Finding and characterizing a bug is usually the hardest part.
2600 games usually took 6 months (still usually by only a single programmer), so this was a very rushed schedule.
Yes, but it's from the BBC, so it must be important!
Even on the 2600, there were worse games. This might be the worst of the first-party titles, but in no way is it the worst 2600 game of all time, or even "the Worst Computer Game In History". But it might be the most over-published bad game in history, if you don't count 2600 Pac-Man (Atari supposedly manufactured more copies of Pac-Man than consoles to play them on!), which was at least playable. And ET's badness was mostly due to the two-month schedule imposed to get it out for a Christmas release. Most 2600 games took about six months for a single developer (no artists; the developer usually had to make the graphics too!).
Star Fox by Mythicon was arguably the worst, and their other two games, Sorcerer and Firefly were basically the same game with different graphics.
So you could say it's like... a gripping hand?
The current trend? I remember ten-ish years ago, way too many web sites were setting body text to 85% text size, 85% gray. And some would put that over a 15% gray background. Fuck that shit.