I've given $50 to Wikipedia two years in a row. I won't do that anymore. Holy fucking shit, look, the site's been taken over by five year olds with overly developed vocabularies. Sorry kids, if you want money go ask your parents.
Uhh... V = I*R, so for a given R, if V goes up then I goes down, which means loss goes down. The only reason we use AC at all is because that's how it comes out of the generators and it can be transformed to different voltages easily. Sometimes, the huge efficiency gains of high voltage DC can be made workable and so you see transmission systems involving that.
Neither. To perform these attacks it's necessary to set up a fake GSM "network" -- you can't do it from another phone over a carrier network. Whether this should have been anticipated and handled depends on how likely we all thought it would be that somebody would actually set up their own GSM station.
The problem isn't necessarily crappy code, it's trusting that the bits coming over the GSM network have a certain level of sanity -- this is a reasonable assumption as long as people aren't setting up their own rogue base stations. Until last year that hadn't even been demonstrated before. I think you're being overly harsh.
In other news, if you shoot a phone with a missile it won't function too well after that either.
It's not just prosecutors who think this way. Apparently most of the general population does as well. "If you didn't do the crime you wouldn't have been arrested." Truly frightening.
In Britain there was a case where the jury actually received instruction on Bayes' theorem and the correct statistical techniques for interpreting DNA evidence, instead of relying on gut notions and misunderstandings of how DNA matching works. When the judge discovered the jury had been given this knowledge, he threw the case out the window. Maybe someone else remembers more details. I just read this in a book.
I'm sorry you don't pay attention to your driving. And while VW does need to improve their electrics if what you are reporting is true, running out of fuel on the road was your fault, as are the dead batteries.
After the fuel incident I started looking at my odometer instead of my gas needle. Unless I'm supposed to be clairvoyant, the one time it happened wasn't something I had control over.
Obviously, once I became aware of the problems I learned to deal with them appropriately.
Just curious, if this is an infrared laser then why is there a visible white light when it fires?
I was unable to find the details on exactly what kind of laser this is, but some pulsed lasers are pumped by flash lamps -- in fact the very first laser ever created was flash pumped -- so what you're seeing could just be light from the flash pump.
That's a bunch of fucking bullshit. With the TDI's, the only problem you'll encounter running biodiesel is maybe a dead injection pump due to seal cracking, which is caused by the lack of sulfates in the fuel... Since low-sulfur diesel was introduced about five years ago, all new vehicles have pump seals that work perfectly well with biodiesel -- my injection pump from 2002 went pretty quickly, and I had it rebuilt with modern seals that work properly with biodiesel and I've had no problems in over five years. Biodiesel will not hurt your TDI, it's a load of crap.
Ehhhhh... Sort of. I've had a VW TDI Golf for about five years and I love the mileage I get out of it, but the electrical system is completely fucking weird. Lights come on and go off on the dash constantly, tail lights burn out repeatedly, the buzzer warning you that you've left your headlights on works about 5% of the time (leading to multiple dead batteries per year)... Despite all this I still love the car and I'll drive it until it falls apart, but I'd hardly call it an 'excellent' car with the sorts of problems I've had with it.
Every person I've spoken to who owns a late model VW vehicle has the same complaints. There are gremlins in the electronics. If you can put up with the frustration of that (for me, it's included running out of fueld while at highway speeds because the gas gauge wasn't reading right, among other disasters), then yes, they are really great cars to drive. Mechanically, they work great. Just don't count on anything even remotely electronic to work right all of the time.
I'm not going to make something up, if that's what you mean. I'm just not sure that I can tell him, "Kid, what it boils down to is we're a nation of quitters who are no longer interested in creating the most advanced technology on the planet or doing the most amazing things that humans can do." That would completely fuck him up.
My three year old is fanatical about space, planets, the moon, astronauts, everything. How am I supposed to explain to him that our "great" country doesn't do any of that stuff any more? What sort of answer can I give him that doesn't sound a complete fucking cop-out? I have yet to think of one.
This is true. However, real people aren't as random as they think they are. Years ago I heard of a competition between rock-paper-scissors computer programs and I wondered what the point was, as there's really no skill involved in this game. But that isn't really true. The skill comes in when you start trying to predict what the opponent will do.
A random opponent can't be predicted, but if the opponent is not random and your program fails to take advantage of that fact, then your algorithm isn't the best it could be. If I always play scissors, the computer could beat me 100% of the time by always playing rock. A computer that plays randomly would win only 33% of the time. A random player would also win 33% of the time against another random player. So the program does no better on a completely predictable opponent than on a completely random one -- it's a poor algorithm.
No there isn't, and after he has completed his parole he can apply for a name change in case his current name and reputation makes it hard to find employment.
The man did JAIL TIME for a non-violent offense. Until he proves that he can't resist committing the same crime again, why don't we just accept that spending time behind bars was sufficient punishment and let him get on with his life? If he does it again, I'd be all in favor of decapitation, but for the moment justice has been carried out... No?
If you give people no reasonable way back toward law-abiding behavior, the only thing left for them is to continue committing crimes.
What a scary world where people might have some moral responsibility for the capital they control. How would arms and drug dealers every make money.
I didn't say there's no moral responsibility. But if I put 3% of my salary in a 401(k), and the 401(k) includes BumFuck Corporation, and BumFuck acquires AssRam Corp, and an employee at AssRam decides to make death threats on somebody, fuck you if you think I'm responsible for that. If you're going to hold me responsible then I will not invest in anything. Good luck raising capital when you dangle the Sword of Damocles over everybody. Holy shit, I'm not talking about financing the Nazi Party here.
I don't think it has to do with the employees, it has to do with the investors. If I own stock in McDonald's I don't want to be personally sued when some idiot serves scalding coffee and burns someone. If I could be held to that sort of liability then I'd never bother to invest in anything. I'm willing to take financials risks, not legal risks.
Imagine you have a company 401(k) plan which invests in a mutual fund, and within that mutual fund is a company that is discovered to be committing human rights violations. Imagine that you could be prosecuted and imprisoned for the actions of a company you were not even aware you were investing in. Would you risk it?
If you bother to look back over exactly what I've said here, I've said two things. 1) People don't enjoy working with dickheads. 2) Making connections in industry is not "ass kissing." Based on those two statements you've now called me an arrogant prick. Jeez, if you ever actually obtain an interview anywhere, please make sure to videotape it so we can all witness the hilarity.
Why is it any more likely that life would arise in a comet, asteroid, or other planet than it would be for life to arise on earth?
Why is it more likely that life arises anywhere that isn't point X, versus on point X? Well, maybe because there's trillions of places that aren't point X but only one point X. For starters.
You're completely missing the point. Listen carefully -- it'll affect your future. You will be judged on your talent, this is a given. You will also be judged on your ability not to be an annoying fuckhead. You are demonstrating a propensity for annoying-fuckheadishness right now. In particular, you have just referred to those of us who believe that interconnectedness within the industry as "ass kissers." Believe me, that won't be forgotten.
Most of us like working with people who are not only highly technically competent, but also are not sociopathic assholes. I'm all for meritocratic systems -- what you fail to realize is that there are other types of merit beyond technical merit. The ability to formulate a sentence without foam coming out of your mouth is desirable, for instance.
What are you talking about? The true Slashdot hardcore do not even read the TITLES, much less the summaries. The articles? Those don't actually exist. Ever tried clicking on one? Don't waste your time, there's never anything at the other end of that link.
HIPAA rules allow anyone who becomes aware of a violation to file a complaint, regardless of whether you are involved. The rules also forbid any sort of retaliation against you for doing so. If you are retaliated against they will slam down even harder. Why don't you report some of this stuff you are seeing?
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I've given $50 to Wikipedia two years in a row. I won't do that anymore. Holy fucking shit, look, the site's been taken over by five year olds with overly developed vocabularies. Sorry kids, if you want money go ask your parents.
Uhh... V = I*R, so for a given R, if V goes up then I goes down, which means loss goes down. The only reason we use AC at all is because that's how it comes out of the generators and it can be transformed to different voltages easily. Sometimes, the huge efficiency gains of high voltage DC can be made workable and so you see transmission systems involving that.
Neither. To perform these attacks it's necessary to set up a fake GSM "network" -- you can't do it from another phone over a carrier network. Whether this should have been anticipated and handled depends on how likely we all thought it would be that somebody would actually set up their own GSM station.
The problem isn't necessarily crappy code, it's trusting that the bits coming over the GSM network have a certain level of sanity -- this is a reasonable assumption as long as people aren't setting up their own rogue base stations. Until last year that hadn't even been demonstrated before. I think you're being overly harsh.
In other news, if you shoot a phone with a missile it won't function too well after that either.
It's not just prosecutors who think this way. Apparently most of the general population does as well. "If you didn't do the crime you wouldn't have been arrested." Truly frightening.
In Britain there was a case where the jury actually received instruction on Bayes' theorem and the correct statistical techniques for interpreting DNA evidence, instead of relying on gut notions and misunderstandings of how DNA matching works. When the judge discovered the jury had been given this knowledge, he threw the case out the window. Maybe someone else remembers more details. I just read this in a book.
I'm sorry you don't pay attention to your driving. And while VW does need to improve their electrics if what you are reporting is true, running out of fuel on the road was your fault, as are the dead batteries.
After the fuel incident I started looking at my odometer instead of my gas needle. Unless I'm supposed to be clairvoyant, the one time it happened wasn't something I had control over.
Obviously, once I became aware of the problems I learned to deal with them appropriately.
Just curious, if this is an infrared laser then why is there a visible white light when it fires?
I was unable to find the details on exactly what kind of laser this is, but some pulsed lasers are pumped by flash lamps -- in fact the very first laser ever created was flash pumped -- so what you're seeing could just be light from the flash pump.
That's a bunch of fucking bullshit. With the TDI's, the only problem you'll encounter running biodiesel is maybe a dead injection pump due to seal cracking, which is caused by the lack of sulfates in the fuel... Since low-sulfur diesel was introduced about five years ago, all new vehicles have pump seals that work perfectly well with biodiesel -- my injection pump from 2002 went pretty quickly, and I had it rebuilt with modern seals that work properly with biodiesel and I've had no problems in over five years. Biodiesel will not hurt your TDI, it's a load of crap.
The VW TDI cars are excellent cars
Ehhhhh... Sort of. I've had a VW TDI Golf for about five years and I love the mileage I get out of it, but the electrical system is completely fucking weird. Lights come on and go off on the dash constantly, tail lights burn out repeatedly, the buzzer warning you that you've left your headlights on works about 5% of the time (leading to multiple dead batteries per year)... Despite all this I still love the car and I'll drive it until it falls apart, but I'd hardly call it an 'excellent' car with the sorts of problems I've had with it.
Every person I've spoken to who owns a late model VW vehicle has the same complaints. There are gremlins in the electronics. If you can put up with the frustration of that (for me, it's included running out of fueld while at highway speeds because the gas gauge wasn't reading right, among other disasters), then yes, they are really great cars to drive. Mechanically, they work great. Just don't count on anything even remotely electronic to work right all of the time.
I'm not going to make something up, if that's what you mean. I'm just not sure that I can tell him, "Kid, what it boils down to is we're a nation of quitters who are no longer interested in creating the most advanced technology on the planet or doing the most amazing things that humans can do." That would completely fuck him up.
My three year old is fanatical about space, planets, the moon, astronauts, everything. How am I supposed to explain to him that our "great" country doesn't do any of that stuff any more? What sort of answer can I give him that doesn't sound a complete fucking cop-out? I have yet to think of one.
This is true. However, real people aren't as random as they think they are. Years ago I heard of a competition between rock-paper-scissors computer programs and I wondered what the point was, as there's really no skill involved in this game. But that isn't really true. The skill comes in when you start trying to predict what the opponent will do.
A random opponent can't be predicted, but if the opponent is not random and your program fails to take advantage of that fact, then your algorithm isn't the best it could be. If I always play scissors, the computer could beat me 100% of the time by always playing rock. A computer that plays randomly would win only 33% of the time. A random player would also win 33% of the time against another random player. So the program does no better on a completely predictable opponent than on a completely random one -- it's a poor algorithm.
No there isn't, and after he has completed his parole he can apply for a name change in case his current name and reputation makes it hard to find employment.
The man did JAIL TIME for a non-violent offense. Until he proves that he can't resist committing the same crime again, why don't we just accept that spending time behind bars was sufficient punishment and let him get on with his life? If he does it again, I'd be all in favor of decapitation, but for the moment justice has been carried out... No?
If you give people no reasonable way back toward law-abiding behavior, the only thing left for them is to continue committing crimes.
You've managed to assume at least a dozen things that were not in evidence in any of my statements and aren't true. Wow. End of conversation.
What a scary world where people might have some moral responsibility for the capital they control. How would arms and drug dealers every make money.
I didn't say there's no moral responsibility. But if I put 3% of my salary in a 401(k), and the 401(k) includes BumFuck Corporation, and BumFuck acquires AssRam Corp, and an employee at AssRam decides to make death threats on somebody, fuck you if you think I'm responsible for that. If you're going to hold me responsible then I will not invest in anything. Good luck raising capital when you dangle the Sword of Damocles over everybody. Holy shit, I'm not talking about financing the Nazi Party here.
I don't think it has to do with the employees, it has to do with the investors. If I own stock in McDonald's I don't want to be personally sued when some idiot serves scalding coffee and burns someone. If I could be held to that sort of liability then I'd never bother to invest in anything. I'm willing to take financials risks, not legal risks.
Imagine you have a company 401(k) plan which invests in a mutual fund, and within that mutual fund is a company that is discovered to be committing human rights violations. Imagine that you could be prosecuted and imprisoned for the actions of a company you were not even aware you were investing in. Would you risk it?
If you bother to look back over exactly what I've said here, I've said two things. 1) People don't enjoy working with dickheads. 2) Making connections in industry is not "ass kissing." Based on those two statements you've now called me an arrogant prick. Jeez, if you ever actually obtain an interview anywhere, please make sure to videotape it so we can all witness the hilarity.
Why is it any more likely that life would arise in a comet, asteroid, or other planet than it would be for life to arise on earth?
Why is it more likely that life arises anywhere that isn't point X, versus on point X? Well, maybe because there's trillions of places that aren't point X but only one point X. For starters.
McAfee is second only to Norton in the amount of effort required to remove it
And a good thing, too, otherwise the first thing a virus will do is remove the antivirus software.
You're completely missing the point. Listen carefully -- it'll affect your future. You will be judged on your talent, this is a given. You will also be judged on your ability not to be an annoying fuckhead. You are demonstrating a propensity for annoying-fuckheadishness right now. In particular, you have just referred to those of us who believe that interconnectedness within the industry as "ass kissers." Believe me, that won't be forgotten.
Most of us like working with people who are not only highly technically competent, but also are not sociopathic assholes. I'm all for meritocratic systems -- what you fail to realize is that there are other types of merit beyond technical merit. The ability to formulate a sentence without foam coming out of your mouth is desirable, for instance.
What are you talking about? The true Slashdot hardcore do not even read the TITLES, much less the summaries. The articles? Those don't actually exist. Ever tried clicking on one? Don't waste your time, there's never anything at the other end of that link.
What wouldn't I do for a mod point?
HIPAA rules allow anyone who becomes aware of a violation to file a complaint, regardless of whether you are involved. The rules also forbid any sort of retaliation against you for doing so. If you are retaliated against they will slam down even harder. Why don't you report some of this stuff you are seeing?
Don't be a dumbshit. Planning to commit a crime involves more than just thinking about it.