Yep. I kept passwords on stickies under my monitor. "That's not secure". Reply: "If somebody in the building is looking under my monitor, finding the PW and figuring out what UID and service it belongs to, we've got bigger problems".
The adjustability is there to accomodate all the other proprietary widths that will come down the pike. Once you open that box, and start throwing in metric vs. standard, there's the potential for all kinds of different racks to end up in your cooler. That's especially true if you've got somebody who likes to scoop bargains up from random places. Pennywise and pound foolish to have mixed equipment? You bet; but it happens.
Besides. There's no good reason for a lot of product features. That doesn't stop them from being introduced. The adjustable shim will come with a coupon for elephant repellant.
No way man. Spring-loaded adjustable shims. I'm off to the patent office. Just kidding; but I know somebody else probably IS off to the PO and isn't kidding.
Syncronicity, my friend. Syncronicity. I especially like the geek factor of 32 being a power of 2, and the first paragraph of the Wiki article mentions a 2-month buildup of steam and the eruption being fed by magma at a "shallow depth". You can't make this stuff up.
I live in the US. We don't give a shit either. You might have mistaken multinationals for "the US". That's just branding. Rest assured, if China, India, or some other country becomes the favored brand they'll do their best to make you believe they are Chinese, Indian or whatever.
HTTP is not a replacement for every other protocol. I am sick of the brain dead thinking it is. We have other protocols for a reason
This didn't happen because people are idiots. Admins censored the other ports, and people routed around it. Of course there are network tools that can tell if you are trying to piggyback something else through port 80, so you might as well finagle your exchanges into legitimate HTTP traffic.
Don't allow posts from accounts less than a year old to appear as first post. Hold them in queue until a few dozen posts have been made. You could also slow them down a bit by requiring two mod-ups to raise their score one point.
AFAIK they already don't allow brand spankin' new accounts to moderate. The real challenge is dealing with established accounts that don't 'turf; but moderate up the turfers. It could be a political issue if you simply LART them.
I hypothesize that if a user's up-mods all go towards new accounts, that user is likely a shill. They certainly have a strange bias. There's not much reason to skew your mods towards new accounts. Yeah, sympathy for high ID numbers; wanting to make new users feel good; but that's not really productive. We can do without that.
There's still nothing to stop a determined bunch of 'turfers from gaining access. You should make them work for it though.
When old guys who tend to be "conservative" are doing things like this, the battle is over. I'm picturing an Iwo Jima like flag planted over the smoking, bombed-out corpse-strewn wastelands of the **AA orgs.
The old guys are relaxing and smoking a J when that flag is properly planted too. You google around, you see plenty of people with gray hair smoking pot. Same deal. The DEA and the **AAs just haven't got the memo yet, so watch out; but they are dead, Dead, DEAD. As soon as a Gen-Ys get into power, so fucking DEAD.
Using *any* floating point for anything serious opens Pandora's box.
You beat me to it. Everybody should realize that floating point is "close enough" and not exact. My favorite experience with this was generating a toroid in a graphics program. The last point wouldn't join and there was this subtle yet annoying crease that wouldn't shade properly. Then I had that "Aha!" moment and realized that there was a slight difference between sin (0) and sin (2*pi).
It happened when I was in support. I couldn't clock in. A told the manager about it and she was like, "maybe you got fired". We both had a good laugh about it because we were all on good terms. No mass layoffs were expected, this was the go-go 90s. Next day--still can't clock in. Manager is more serious. "I'll have to look into this". Sure enough, somebody fat-fingered me off the payroll.
It was actually a good thing--I got paid for my accumulated vacation hours. They couldn't figure out how to charge them back to vacation. They "re-hired" me and I got money. The vacation hours started accumulating from zero; but I had just taken a few days so I didn't mind saving up again. The money came in handy.
Any startup where advertising is the stated (or likely will become) the source of revenue, could be replaced. With what? With something like networks (in the old sense, as in TV networks) where "producers" create "shows" that run on the network. In other words, "Facebook, brought to you on NBC Internet by Sudso. Sudso. The soap that cleans your mind".
The current process of angels, VCs, etc makes a lot of money for some people. OTOH, it seems rather inefficient compared to the old network model. If Groupon were a gameshow, it would make money for the network, give away some prizes, and eventually get cancelled when people lose interest. Ditto for myspace. The whole process of taking these shows through early rounds all the way to IPO is just way too cumbersome.
As an added bonus, the "shows" might have a greater incentive to support things such as porting your data to the next "show", whereas in our current realm they have an interest in making their site "sticky".
I don't think privacy would be any better or any worse.
This model faces an uphill battle in terms of recruitment, I think. Producers expect the IPO pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A studio job won't lure the big talent as easily.
I could be waaaay off the mark of course. Just idle speculation on a Friday afternoon...
This is the same way I, as an American, feel about Concorde. I always remember the first time I saw it as a boy. Our school was near Dulles airport so it wasn't a special ceremony or anything. I knew Concorde existed. I knew we were near the flight path. One day I heard a loud jet, looked up, and there it was. It was a bright overcast day so it actually looked dark gray against the clouds. Fantastic. I can close my eyes and see it. That was supposed to be the future too.
The technical definition of the Java language is "the set of all Java programs".
Silly me. If I were looking for a technical definition of the Java language, I would look for the Java language specification
That can be copyrighted and licensed. From there it follows that Oracle can dictate terms for reading the specification and implementing the language. Since it's impossible to write programs in Java without an implemenation, they could require that all programs written using that implementation be copyrighted in a particular way.
Of course they'd be idiots to do that. As others have pointed out, it would make anybody with a lick of sense turn the other way and run from the language. I mean, really. You can write GPL'd code that runs on Windows for cryin' out loud. A language that enforces copyright over programs written in the language? Insanity. Possible yes; but insane.
Now, as for Java specificly, there is a HUGE body of work written with the understanding that there were no restrictions on programs written in the language (which is customary). IANAL, but I doubt they could retroactively enforce such terms over legacy software.
Worst case scenario, you're back to having a pothole. As long as the bag can "bounce back" after being sqeezed it's not so bad. Also, it would feel weird to slowly sink but it wouldn't ruin your suspension and you should be able to drive out of it. The problem with the potholes is when you hit them at speed and ruin your tires and/or suspension.
Thank-you. I had forgotten the name. I used to fold these all the time when I was in jr. high. Mine looked a bit different from the one in the link. The wings had just half an inch folded *up*, not down.
I would also cut out neat control surfaces or use my nails to warp the paper which I think might have made for less drag.
When properly adjusted these were amazing. The stiff leading edge also made them robust outdoors. I had a gust of wind catch one and take it half a block into a tree one time, which it managed to fall out of. No telling how far it would have gone without the trees, although to be fair it was down hill. What's more impressive is that this wasn't just a piece of paper blowing in the wind. It maintained a "plane like bearing" in the gust, and glided normally after that. Beautiful moment from childhood you just don't forget.
Not everybody liked this design. That was probably because you couldn't launch it as fast as dart-based models. It's also harder to make. Precise folding is critical or you'll get something that's permanently warped and can't be tuned. It was better for the "drop from a height and see how far it glides" flight. The throw is also tricky. You need to grab the leading edge in the center and flick your wrist as you release it. Not everybody could get the hang of that.
Some of the contest winners I've seen have made parabolic arcs. Technicly they win, but it's still just a dart. The Barnaby doesn't take a parabolic trajectory. It glides. It's like a real plane.
So you're not in jail. Big deal. They can still take all your money via the civil courts. Then you're homeless. It's like jail except that the cell has poor climate control and the 3 hots and a cot are unreliable. Nothing will change until civil suits are reformed. For starters, guaranteed right to a jury trial with the possibility of nullification required to be informed to the jury from the bench (not the bench lying and saying that it doesn't exist). Also, reasonable doubt, not prepoderance. Also, no civil trial for the same matter already settled in criminal courts.
Wow, it might actually be a free country again if we could pull that off. Oh and look, I expressed it in one paragraph that everybody can understand. Just like back in the 1700s. Imagine that!
We're all on the NSA's list, so what's the point? By building that giant pile of poo, they're just proving to themselves what they already believe. They already have utter contempt for everybody, and a desire to crush us all at will. We already had misanthropes. They simply dealt on their own behalf with disgregard for others. This is actually a step backwards, since the old timey misanthropes were able to state their case without hiring a construction crew or building anything. A mere scowl of contempt would be more efficient than this complex. Oh well, that's government for you. Spending billions of dollars no doubt, when simply standing in front of a mic and shouting "fuck you slaves" would have cost virtually nothing.
The person who you're torturing knows that it "works" if the information can be verified quickly.
That's why any regular (or even ad hoc, diress-inspired) strategy against torture is to give the torturer an answer that's difficult and time consuming to verify.
"Of course I don't have the plans; but I know where they are. They're near the Kerengal Valley, up a steep ravine guarded by about 100 of the Taliban's best fighters".
Yeah, maybe you'll verify that. Maybe you won't. A month later you can torture him again even harder. He won't lie this time./sarc.
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Yep. I kept passwords on stickies under my monitor. "That's not secure". Reply: "If somebody in the building is looking under my monitor, finding the PW and figuring out what UID and service it belongs to, we've got bigger problems".
The adjustability is there to accomodate all the other proprietary widths that will come down the pike. Once you open that box, and start throwing in metric vs. standard, there's the potential for all kinds of different racks to end up in your cooler. That's especially true if you've got somebody who likes to scoop bargains up from random places. Pennywise and pound foolish to have mixed equipment? You bet; but it happens.
Besides. There's no good reason for a lot of product features. That doesn't stop them from being introduced. The adjustable shim will come with a coupon for elephant repellant.
No way man. Spring-loaded adjustable shims. I'm off to the patent office. Just kidding; but I know somebody else probably IS off to the PO and isn't kidding.
What's your point? Do you have one?
Syncronicity, my friend. Syncronicity. I especially like the geek factor of 32 being a power of 2, and the first paragraph of the Wiki article mentions a 2-month buildup of steam and the eruption being fed by magma at a "shallow depth". You can't make this stuff up.
That's 32 years to the day after the Mt. St. Helens eruption.
I live in the US. We don't give a shit either. You might have mistaken multinationals for "the US". That's just branding. Rest assured, if China, India, or some other country becomes the favored brand they'll do their best to make you believe they are Chinese, Indian or whatever.
HTTP is not a replacement for every other protocol. I am sick of the brain dead thinking it is. We have other protocols for a reason
This didn't happen because people are idiots. Admins censored the other ports, and people routed around it. Of course there are network tools that can tell if you are trying to piggyback something else through port 80, so you might as well finagle your exchanges into legitimate HTTP traffic.
Don't allow posts from accounts less than a year old to appear as first post. Hold them in queue until a few dozen posts have been made. You could also slow them down a bit by requiring two mod-ups to raise their score one point.
AFAIK they already don't allow brand spankin' new accounts to moderate. The real challenge is dealing with established accounts that don't 'turf; but moderate up the turfers. It could be a political issue if you simply LART them.
I hypothesize that if a user's up-mods all go towards new accounts, that user is likely a shill. They certainly have a strange bias. There's not much reason to skew your mods towards new accounts. Yeah, sympathy for high ID numbers; wanting to make new users feel good; but that's not really productive. We can do without that.
There's still nothing to stop a determined bunch of 'turfers from gaining access. You should make them work for it though.
When old guys who tend to be "conservative" are doing things like this, the battle is over. I'm picturing an Iwo Jima like flag planted over the smoking, bombed-out corpse-strewn wastelands of the **AA orgs.
The old guys are relaxing and smoking a J when that flag is properly planted too. You google around, you see plenty of people with gray hair smoking pot. Same deal. The DEA and the **AAs just haven't got the memo yet, so watch out; but they are dead, Dead, DEAD. As soon as a Gen-Ys get into power, so fucking DEAD.
Manager: We're building a fancy new cafeteria, just like Google and a lot of other Si Valley companies.
Assistant: Very good sir. Shall I alert the media?
Who Would Jesus Hunt Down? 'nuff said.
Using *any* floating point for anything serious opens Pandora's box.
You beat me to it. Everybody should realize that floating point is "close enough" and not exact. My favorite experience with this was generating a toroid in a graphics program. The last point wouldn't join and there was this subtle yet annoying crease that wouldn't shade properly. Then I had that "Aha!" moment and realized that there was a slight difference between sin (0) and sin (2*pi).
It happened when I was in support. I couldn't clock in. A told the manager about it and she was like, "maybe you got fired". We both had a good laugh about it because we were all on good terms. No mass layoffs were expected, this was the go-go 90s. Next day--still can't clock in. Manager is more serious. "I'll have to look into this". Sure enough, somebody fat-fingered me off the payroll.
It was actually a good thing--I got paid for my accumulated vacation hours. They couldn't figure out how to charge them back to vacation. They "re-hired" me and I got money. The vacation hours started accumulating from zero; but I had just taken a few days so I didn't mind saving up again. The money came in handy.
Any startup where advertising is the stated (or likely will become) the source of revenue, could be replaced. With what? With something like networks (in the old sense, as in TV networks) where "producers" create "shows" that run on the network. In other words, "Facebook, brought to you on NBC Internet by Sudso. Sudso. The soap that cleans your mind".
The current process of angels, VCs, etc makes a lot of money for some people. OTOH, it seems rather inefficient compared to the old network model. If Groupon were a gameshow, it would make money for the network, give away some prizes, and eventually get cancelled when people lose interest. Ditto for myspace. The whole process of taking these shows through early rounds all the way to IPO is just way too cumbersome.
As an added bonus, the "shows" might have a greater incentive to support things such as porting your data to the next "show", whereas in our current realm they have an interest in making their site "sticky".
I don't think privacy would be any better or any worse.
This model faces an uphill battle in terms of recruitment, I think. Producers expect the IPO pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A studio job won't lure the big talent as easily.
I could be waaaay off the mark of course. Just idle speculation on a Friday afternoon...
Who needs to read about technological dystopia anyway? We're too busy living in it.
This is the same way I, as an American, feel about Concorde. I always remember the first time I saw it as a boy. Our school was near Dulles airport so it wasn't a special ceremony or anything. I knew Concorde existed. I knew we were near the flight path. One day I heard a loud jet, looked up, and there it was. It was a bright overcast day so it actually looked dark gray against the clouds. Fantastic. I can close my eyes and see it. That was supposed to be the future too.
I'm working on a programmable chainsaw.
The technical definition of the Java language is "the set of all Java programs".
Silly me. If I were looking for a technical definition of the Java language, I would look for the Java language specification
That can be copyrighted and licensed. From there it follows that Oracle can dictate terms for reading the specification and implementing the language. Since it's impossible to write programs in Java without an implemenation, they could require that all programs written using that implementation be copyrighted in a particular way.
Of course they'd be idiots to do that. As others have pointed out, it would make anybody with a lick of sense turn the other way and run from the language. I mean, really. You can write GPL'd code that runs on Windows for cryin' out loud. A language that enforces copyright over programs written in the language? Insanity. Possible yes; but insane.
Now, as for Java specificly, there is a HUGE body of work written with the understanding that there were no restrictions on programs written in the language (which is customary). IANAL, but I doubt they could retroactively enforce such terms over legacy software.
Worst case scenario, you're back to having a pothole. As long as the bag can "bounce back" after being sqeezed it's not so bad. Also, it would feel weird to slowly sink but it wouldn't ruin your suspension and you should be able to drive out of it. The problem with the potholes is when you hit them at speed and ruin your tires and/or suspension.
Thank-you. I had forgotten the name. I used to fold these all the time when I was in jr. high. Mine looked a bit different from the one in the link. The wings had just half an inch folded *up*, not down.
I would also cut out neat control surfaces or use my nails to warp the paper which I think might have made for less drag.
When properly adjusted these were amazing. The stiff leading edge also made them robust outdoors. I had a gust of wind catch one and take it half a block into a tree one time, which it managed to fall out of. No telling how far it would have gone without the trees, although to be fair it was down hill. What's more impressive is that this wasn't just a piece of paper blowing in the wind. It maintained a "plane like bearing" in the gust, and glided normally after that. Beautiful moment from childhood you just don't forget.
Not everybody liked this design. That was probably because you couldn't launch it as fast as dart-based models. It's also harder to make. Precise folding is critical or you'll get something that's permanently warped and can't be tuned. It was better for the "drop from a height and see how far it glides" flight. The throw is also tricky. You need to grab the leading edge in the center and flick your wrist as you release it. Not everybody could get the hang of that.
Some of the contest winners I've seen have made parabolic arcs. Technicly they win, but it's still just a dart. The Barnaby doesn't take a parabolic trajectory. It glides. It's like a real plane.
So you're not in jail. Big deal. They can still take all your money via the civil courts. Then you're homeless. It's like jail except that the cell has poor climate control and the 3 hots and a cot are unreliable. Nothing will change until civil suits are reformed. For starters, guaranteed right to a jury trial with the possibility of nullification required to be informed to the jury from the bench (not the bench lying and saying that it doesn't exist). Also, reasonable doubt, not prepoderance. Also, no civil trial for the same matter already settled in criminal courts.
Wow, it might actually be a free country again if we could pull that off. Oh and look, I expressed it in one paragraph that everybody can understand. Just like back in the 1700s. Imagine that!
Becasue it's a very nice word.
Oh, you're so getting on the NSA's list for that.
We're all on the NSA's list, so what's the point? By building that giant pile of poo, they're just proving to themselves what they already believe. They already have utter contempt for everybody, and a desire to crush us all at will. We already had misanthropes. They simply dealt on their own behalf with disgregard for others. This is actually a step backwards, since the old timey misanthropes were able to state their case without hiring a construction crew or building anything. A mere scowl of contempt would be more efficient than this complex. Oh well, that's government for you. Spending billions of dollars no doubt, when simply standing in front of a mic and shouting "fuck you slaves" would have cost virtually nothing.
Maybe they'll never find a smoking gun because the colonies collapse when one too many stresses are applied.
The person who you're torturing knows that it "works" if the information can be verified quickly.
That's why any regular (or even ad hoc, diress-inspired) strategy against torture is to give the torturer an answer that's difficult and time consuming to verify.
"Of course I don't have the plans; but I know where they are. They're near the Kerengal Valley, up a steep ravine guarded by about 100 of the Taliban's best fighters".
Yeah, maybe you'll verify that. Maybe you won't. A month later you can torture him again even harder. He won't lie this time. /sarc.