This will turn into an utterly mundane case of the DHS deciding this he was an aspiring singer trying to come to Hollywood to work on a tourist visa (or visa waiver).
Somebody with the same name as the female in the pair did some acting in the UK previously. But I have no other data so don't know if they are the same person: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3960874/
While there are no doubt many interesting uses that this can be put to, the one that should chill slashdotters is the example of preventing "unauthorised" removal of vehicle airbags.
Because the DMCA makes hacking the encrypted communication to the fasteners a crime in its own right, only people who the vehicle manufacturer authorises can undo them. They presumably are their franchised dealer service centres and will not include the owner of the vehicle or their chosen unaffiliated repairer.
But why stop at the airbag? Why not bolt the hood down with the same things so that only the dealer can service the vehicle?
Heck, why not bolt the fuel filler cap shut with the same things. I imagine you could afford to give cars away if for their lifetime, they could only be refuelled at a Ford owned gas station.
If the devices become cheap enough, you might never be able to take the cover off anything you own again.
Space.com has a writeup on an antigravity propulsion system that claims transporting humans an other fragile cargos at more than half the speed of light can be done without crushing them.
It would be awesome if space exploration extended past our nearest neighbours.
So this is what passes for "Score 5: Informative" now?
Invent an imaginary version of postgres to compare to a real version of MySQL, then spout some fictional cons. In that case:
I'm using both, but mainly Postgres. From what I can tell:
Postgres 7.841 Pros: - Supports african dialects such as Kaliharinese - Adds extra features when it detects that the user is a Womble - Compatible with IP/feline Cons: - Runs slowly if you try to quieten your hard drives with banana peels
MySQL 4.841 Pros: - Written entirely by Ooompa Loompas - Discourages the use of Perl Cons: - Supports animal testing. Drips of MySQL are places in the eyes of penguins to check for irritation. - Shows signs of money contamination, which brings hippies out in a rash - Does not support transactions.
So what exactly is the difference between the MySQL-SCO relationship and the PostgreSQL-SCO realtionship that were announced at about the same time?
MySQL has only one commercial vendor, who helpfully call themselves MySQL AB, so even Slashdot readers can understand what they sell. So SCO made a deal with them to compile and test a certified MySQL binary for SCO.
PostgreSQL has had a number of failed commercial vendors over the years, but one current one is EnterpriseDB. Maybe not having the word PostgreSQL in the company name confused slashdot readers who think Walmart sell Wals?
eWeek report it as the same deal. "SCO has added open source database vendors MySQL and EnterpriseDB to its partner list, said SCO President and CEO Darl McBride"
What is the difference?
Oh, I forgot. This is slashdot where MySQL is evil because they charge for some things and where we all sit around and pretend that MySQL does not have transactions and that PostgreSQL vacuum is a good thing.
Yay for Postgres/Perl. Boo for MySQL/PHP. Can I have mod points now?
The article's "Sky is Falling" tone rests on a single factoid. "30 to 55% of users delete cookies" therefore current analytics products are out by "at least 30 percent, maybe more".
That is of course complete nonsense. Let's say we accept the author's assertion that different studies have given cookie deletion rates across that range. I can accept that a significant number of users might delete cookies at some point, but what percentage of normal, non-geek, non-tinfoil-hat-wearing users are deleting cookies between page requests to a single site in a single session? If it is 30%, then I will eat my hat.
Most cookie deletion amoung the general populace will be being done automatically by anti-spyware software and is not done in realtime.
The author clearly knows that even the most primitive of tools also use other metrics to group page requests into sessions, so even if 30% of users were deleting cookies, it would not result in a 30% inaccuracy.
Of course "researchers propose more complex heuristic that looks to be slightly more accurate than current pracice" does not make as good a story as "paradigm shift" blah blah "blows out of the water" blah blah "We've been off by at least 30 percent, maybe more." blah blah.
It has been suggested by an anonymous coward that PHP5 has poor memory usage. If that is the basis that you make technical decisions on for your projects then I have a bridge to sell you.
The AC is nearly as dumb as the guy in this thread who said that linux should require PHP to magically detect and cripple poorly written scripts.... Oh, I'm sorry, that was you.
That is perhaps a small problem with my plan, but I am pretty sure I can attend to it right after resolving the other small problem, the difficulty in finding low cost perpetual motion machines.
I think my way is much more efficient and more environmentally friendly. I just hooked my freezer up to my perpetual motion machine and leave the door open. Infinite cold air, and no puddle of wasted ice water outside my window.
"A session on profiling web apps was poor. Yes, I *would* expect a web-mail app to spend a lot of time in regexs, that's how you look for injected content."
Really? I quite liked that session. The web mail app was only an example piece of relatively complex code to demonstrate profiling on.
I think you may have missed the point of the regex finding. If you were profiling code, you would presumably be looking to speed it up. A quick look at the profiler output for that app showed that 97.8%* of the processing time was being taken up in calls to regex functions. More interestingly, displaying 20* messages from a mail box with 542* messages required 5420* calls to regex, suggesting that all messages or at least headers were being parsed. An obvious optimisation would be to limit detailed parsing to the messages being displyed.
Am I the only one who sees an 18 or 35 foot tall mech being build surrounded by scaffolding and thinks that the whole project would have been 75% easier if he judt built it lying down?
A crane could easily stand it up later, but if it is going to work at all, it would need to be able to stand after a stumble anyway.
Sure, it looks cooler standing, and probably annoys his neighbours more, but it seems like a very poor design decision.
Calling it a partnership is all well and good, but these sorts of things are a very delicate balance.
The goal of creating good ideas is nearly always in conflict with with the goal of creating products that can be commercialised this year or next year.
How much budget and work could you justify devoting to a GUI in the mid 70s if you knew that the technology would be too expensive to sell for 10 years and impossible to patent at that time?
Are you aiming to inspire the geekiest 1% of the students who are already destined to go on to become alpha geeks anyway, or are you trying to foster an interest in technology in a broader section of the students.
If it is the former, a robotics contest sounds great. Set some clear judging criteria, find some cool prizes and sit back and wait to judge. The main thing to think about when writing the rules is ways to keep costs down. Some of the commercially available robot bases and even good motors and batteries are very expensive which might make a team with a big budget unbeatable. Setting a very low maximum weight or specifying some of the main components can level the playing field.
If you are after the latter, some sort of web development clinics could work well. There is no other area of technology where somebody with a few hours instruction (and a little natural flair) can make a project that looks like the commercial offerings they are used to seeing. A student cannot build a professional looking GUI application, electronic device, robot, solar car or whatever else after 10 or 20 hours instruction, but they can probably cutomise a PHP-Nuke install, or build a personal website with some dynamic functionality such as RSS feeds and image uploads.
I don't know if they have improved, but I am not too keen to try again.
Dragon comes in accent variants for particular countries but unfortunately, I have a slightly mixed accent.
This means I once spent an entire evening "training" the software, and repeating specific words over and over. It drives a person over the edge very quickly.
I am sure if I ever need to type something that is all obscenities, it will be really well trained. If I need to use any words with an oo sound in them, then I think I will have to type.
The article mentions dynamism.com, who have a great range but are very expensive.
Another good source is conics.net. Crappy website, but much better prices. If you want something obscure, he is willing to buy it on yahoo auctions and ship it to you with a 10% markup.
I bought both my Sharp Zaurus (linux PDA not available outside Japan) and my Panasonic W2 (ultralight laptop available worldwide, but with lower specs and much higher price than Japan) from conics.
I know it is poor form to like a WinCE device here, but that looks pretty cool.
Looking at the website though it looks like all the processor power is in the controller. The screen is just for a pretty display of servo positions.
I cannot help but think it would be so much cooler if there was some more general (ie programmable) intelligence in the controlled device. I don't expect RC plane fans particularly want autonomous robots, but even processing on the same level as a lego mindstorm would be cool.
Don't get me wrong, a display of servo position and a pretty JPG of your plane is nice, but engine temperature, GPS location and altitude would be so much cooler.
He really should have gotten credit as that was a correct response.
Errrr... No. In what way is a hoe an immoral pleasure seeker?
I assume you mean ho as in whore and maybe you hang out with more whores than I do, but my understanding is that they are not in it for the pleasure. I believe that money has a lot more to do with it. Sorry if you have been lied to.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is my bet.
This will turn into an utterly mundane case of the DHS deciding this he was an aspiring singer trying to come to Hollywood to work on a tourist visa (or visa waiver).
Here is a newspaper article that seems to be about the same guy's singing career: http://www.youghalonline.com/2008/05/05/...
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/leighbryanmusiconline
Youtube: [NSFW]
http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialLeighB/videos
Somebody with the same name as the female in the pair did some acting in the UK previously. But I have no other data so don't know if they are the same person:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3960874/
What possible Netcraft data could you compare it to?
Hitwise is talking about user visits. Netcraft don't attempt to track user visits and never have.
http://www.hitwise.com/products-services/how-we-do -it.php
While there are no doubt many interesting uses that this can be put to, the one that should chill slashdotters is the example of preventing "unauthorised" removal of vehicle airbags.
Because the DMCA makes hacking the encrypted communication to the fasteners a crime in its own right, only people who the vehicle manufacturer authorises can undo them. They presumably are their franchised dealer service centres and will not include the owner of the vehicle or their chosen unaffiliated repairer.
But why stop at the airbag? Why not bolt the hood down with the same things so that only the dealer can service the vehicle?
Heck, why not bolt the fuel filler cap shut with the same things. I imagine you could afford to give cars away if for their lifetime, they could only be refuelled at a Ford owned gas station.
If the devices become cheap enough, you might never be able to take the cover off anything you own again.
Space.com has a writeup on an antigravity propulsion system that claims transporting humans an other fragile cargos at more than half the speed of light can be done without crushing them. It would be awesome if space exploration extended past our nearest neighbours.
How about nerd dating?
http://slashdotdating.ning.com/edit.php
Why does it ask you for your gender?
Your grandad rang. He wants his whiney slashdot post back.
...
In case you missed it, MySQL has supported transactions since version 3.23 a number of years ago.
In other news, you no longer need a horse to pull your carriage around. We have this thing called the internal combustion engine
"Since when is PDF an open standard?" Since 1993, that's when.
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You can download the specification:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/in
or buy it on paper:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/032
So this is what passes for "Score 5: Informative" now?
Invent an imaginary version of postgres to compare to a real version of MySQL, then spout some fictional cons. In that case:
I'm using both, but mainly Postgres. From what I can tell:
Postgres 7.841
Pros:
- Supports african dialects such as Kaliharinese
- Adds extra features when it detects that the user is a Womble
- Compatible with IP/feline
Cons:
- Runs slowly if you try to quieten your hard drives with banana peels
MySQL 4.841
Pros:
- Written entirely by Ooompa Loompas
- Discourages the use of Perl
Cons:
- Supports animal testing. Drips of MySQL are places in the eyes of penguins to check for irritation.
- Shows signs of money contamination, which brings hippies out in a rash
- Does not support transactions.
So what exactly is the difference between the MySQL-SCO relationship and the PostgreSQL-SCO realtionship that were announced at about the same time?
MySQL has only one commercial vendor, who helpfully call themselves MySQL AB, so even Slashdot readers can understand what they sell. So SCO made a deal with them to compile and test a certified MySQL binary for SCO.
PostgreSQL has had a number of failed commercial vendors over the years, but one current one is EnterpriseDB. Maybe not having the word PostgreSQL in the company name confused slashdot readers who think Walmart sell Wals?
eWeek report it as the same deal. "SCO has added open source database vendors MySQL and EnterpriseDB to its partner list, said SCO President and CEO Darl McBride"
What is the difference?
Oh, I forgot. This is slashdot where MySQL is evil because they charge for some things and where we all sit around and pretend that MySQL does not have transactions and that PostgreSQL vacuum is a good thing.
Yay for Postgres/Perl. Boo for MySQL/PHP. Can I have mod points now?
The article's "Sky is Falling" tone rests on a single factoid. "30 to 55% of users delete cookies" therefore current analytics products are out by "at least 30 percent, maybe more".
That is of course complete nonsense. Let's say we accept the author's assertion that different studies have given cookie deletion rates across that range. I can accept that a significant number of users might delete cookies at some point, but what percentage of normal, non-geek, non-tinfoil-hat-wearing users are deleting cookies between page requests to a single site in a single session? If it is 30%, then I will eat my hat.
Most cookie deletion amoung the general populace will be being done automatically by anti-spyware software and is not done in realtime.
The author clearly knows that even the most primitive of tools also use other metrics to group page requests into sessions, so even if 30% of users were deleting cookies, it would not result in a 30% inaccuracy.
Of course "researchers propose more complex heuristic that looks to be slightly more accurate than current pracice" does not make as good a story as "paradigm shift" blah blah "blows out of the water" blah blah "We've been off by at least 30 percent, maybe more." blah blah.
It has been suggested by an anonymous coward that PHP5 has poor memory usage. If that is the basis that you make technical decisions on for your projects then I have a bridge to sell you.
... Oh, I'm sorry, that was you.
The AC is nearly as dumb as the guy in this thread who said that linux should require PHP to magically detect and cripple poorly written scripts.
That is perhaps a small problem with my plan, but I am pretty sure I can attend to it right after resolving the other small problem, the difficulty in finding low cost perpetual motion machines.
I think my way is much more efficient and more environmentally friendly. I just hooked my freezer up to my perpetual motion machine and leave the door open. Infinite cold air, and no puddle of wasted ice water outside my window.
So the only believable part of the story is that the original article is slashdotted.
Oh, no, that would mean that slashdotters RTFA - I call April fool.
Really? I quite liked that session. The web mail app was only an example piece of relatively complex code to demonstrate profiling on.
I think you may have missed the point of the regex finding. If you were profiling code, you would presumably be looking to speed it up. A quick look at the profiler output for that app showed that 97.8%* of the processing time was being taken up in calls to regex functions. More interestingly, displaying 20* messages from a mail box with 542* messages required 5420* calls to regex, suggesting that all messages or at least headers were being parsed. An obvious optimisation would be to limit detailed parsing to the messages being displyed.
* Yes, I made up all the numbers in this post.
Am I the only one who sees an 18 or 35 foot tall mech being build surrounded by scaffolding and thinks that the whole project would have been 75% easier if he judt built it lying down?
A crane could easily stand it up later, but if it is going to work at all, it would need to be able to stand after a stumble anyway.
Sure, it looks cooler standing, and probably annoys his neighbours more, but it seems like a very poor design decision.
Calling it a partnership is all well and good, but these sorts of things are a very delicate balance.
The goal of creating good ideas is nearly always in conflict with with the goal of creating products that can be commercialised this year or next year.
How much budget and work could you justify devoting to a GUI in the mid 70s if you knew that the technology would be too expensive to sell for 10 years and impossible to patent at that time?
Are you aiming to inspire the geekiest 1% of the students who are already destined to go on to become alpha geeks anyway, or are you trying to foster an interest in technology in a broader section of the students.
If it is the former, a robotics contest sounds great. Set some clear judging criteria, find some cool prizes and sit back and wait to judge. The main thing to think about when writing the rules is ways to keep costs down. Some of the commercially available robot bases and even good motors and batteries are very expensive which might make a team with a big budget unbeatable. Setting a very low maximum weight or specifying some of the main components can level the playing field.
If you are after the latter, some sort of web development clinics could work well. There is no other area of technology where somebody with a few hours instruction (and a little natural flair) can make a project that looks like the commercial offerings they are used to seeing. A student cannot build a professional looking GUI application, electronic device, robot, solar car or whatever else after 10 or 20 hours instruction, but they can probably cutomise a PHP-Nuke install, or build a personal website with some dynamic functionality such as RSS feeds and image uploads.
I don't know if they have improved, but I am not too keen to try again.
Dragon comes in accent variants for particular countries but unfortunately, I have a slightly mixed accent.
This means I once spent an entire evening "training" the software, and repeating specific words over and over. It drives a person over the edge very quickly.
I am sure if I ever need to type something that is all obscenities, it will be really well trained. If I need to use any words with an oo sound in them, then I think I will have to type.
The article mentions dynamism.com, who have a great range but are very expensive.
Another good source is conics.net. Crappy website, but much better prices. If you want something obscure, he is willing to buy it on yahoo auctions and ship it to you with a 10% markup.
I bought both my Sharp Zaurus (linux PDA not available outside Japan) and my Panasonic W2 (ultralight laptop available worldwide, but with lower specs and much higher price than Japan) from conics.
I know it is poor form to like a WinCE device here, but that looks pretty cool.
Looking at the website though it looks like all the processor power is in the controller. The screen is just for a pretty display of servo positions.
I cannot help but think it would be so much cooler if there was some more general (ie programmable) intelligence in the controlled device. I don't expect RC plane fans particularly want autonomous robots, but even processing on the same level as a lego mindstorm would be cool.
Don't get me wrong, a display of servo position and a pretty JPG of your plane is nice, but engine temperature, GPS location and altitude would be so much cooler.
I think you might see an increase in sales of those watercooled cpu heatsinks that overclockers love.
A warning though, the first time I see a casemod that includes a scrotum reported on slashdot, I will never read it again.
He really should have gotten credit as that was a correct response.
Errrr... No. In what way is a hoe an immoral pleasure seeker?
I assume you mean ho as in whore and maybe you hang out with more whores than I do, but my understanding is that they are not in it for the pleasure. I believe that money has a lot more to do with it. Sorry if you have been lied to.
Any president who reads the bible for help making presidential decisions cannot be pro-science,