I should have known that it wouldn't be long before someone found a way to monitize the Forever Alone crowd. Fat neckbeards all over the world may now rejoice and cheer from the depths of their stepmother's basements. *facepalm*
What made you think I don't know that? I have an entire separate drive mainly for holding media files. I wasn't talking about data space on mass storage devices at all.
Yes, please, let's punish the lazy fat people who are making things more inconvenient and expensive for the rest of us. But with at least one provision: You may NOT use BMI tables, you MUST use actual bodyfat percentage. Why? BMI tables are hopelessly outdated. I have between 10 and 20% bodyfat, but I have denser bones and more lean muscle tissue by far than the average person, and while I look lean, BMI tables still claim I'm overweight.
Sure, for those of you out there who weren't around to own and program computers with an 8-bit processor like a Z80, it sounds like a joke, but back in the day these were the cutting-edge of computing technology, and businesses and scientists and engineers used them just like modern machines are used today, except without most of the bells and whistles. Why is 512MB considered unacceptably small now? Because the software we write is utterly bloated. Back in the day, you generally didn't write serious software in BASIC, but today we have entire professional-level software suites written in Visual BASIC -- and believe me, the first time I heard that, I practically fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard. In the days when 8-bit processors were king, assembly language was ubiquitous; C was the new kid on the block, really, unless you lived in the world of UNIX, and BASIC was something that kids used to get their feet wet with programming. There were no graphics to speak of, not until later on, everything was text, and with tight memory constraints you learned to code as small and efficiently as possible. Today, when 4GB of memory (not counting virtual memory space, naturally) is commonplace and cheap, and a 1GHz processor is now something you find in your phone or in a toy, you can get away with being sloppy and wasteful and still get the job done.
I don't think they're making any estimate of the number of trolling accounts there are on Facebook, and eliminating them from their statistics. I'd say they're off by at least 50%.
..aaaaaand organized religion, like any other authoritarian form of governance would do, is (still) seeking to control people via controlling knowledge. NEWSFLASH TO VATICAN: The Genie has already left the bottle. Give up already.
Maybe not Gitmo, but he might be the guest of Homeland Security for a while, and even if that doesn't happen he's going to be on at least a couple watch lists for the rest of his life, now.
I'll wager that most of the people who are against nuclear power also think that microwave ovens produce the same sort of 'radiation' than nuclear fission produces. We need nuclear power; other non-fossil fuel sources aren't going to cut it. That being said nuclear power plants need to be expensive and need to have safety taken deadly seriously; they cannot be managed by the typical bean counters that manage everything else because the consequences are just too damned high to leave to chance. But we need this technology, at least to tide us over until we develop something at least comparable in efficiency, and definitely with fewer potential consequences.
I don't know about anybody else, but I have an electronics/engineering background, and while many things (jumping out of an airplane, being on stage, etc) don't bother me, the mere thought of being in the immediate vicinty of apparatus capable of delivering that much power in that short a period of time makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck in a fashion similar to being caught out in the open in the middle of a thunderstorm.
I have a better idea: Let's build a 12-foot high wall around Texas, with electrified razor wire on the top, and armed patrols with orders to shoot on sight anyone attempting to leave.
The recording industry still doesn't want you downloading anything, even if you pay for it; they want you to buy a CD. Therefore while they grudgingly allow paid downloads, they don't want you to have full fidelity from those downloads. Note that I think it's utterly rediculous, too, and the recording industry is run by dinosaurs, but I do understand it, I think.
If this sort of activity were truly illegal, then every single search engine on the internet (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) would also have to be seized and their employees arrested. It's bullshit and it needs to STOP, NOW.
In reality, the man in TFA has been participating in a covert intelligence test using a new innovative testing method. The cost for this testing is $200,000. I don't think I need to go into what the results of the testing.
See, I'm with you on that up to a point; I too don't really give a damn what people think of me or the way I live my life, but at the same time I'm not willing to have the majority of my life be a matter of public record; even celebrities manage to keep part of their lives private. The point where you lose me is when you don't get a job or get fired from your job because nosy employers go poking into your social networking pages and find something that they don't like. Even if you're careful about who you allow into your online presence you still have nosy employers that ask for access, and then get nasty with you when you tell them it's private. In this day and age many people call someone like me paranoid and give me strange looks, but from my perspective people are not being smart and not thinking ahead at who might be out there reading up on what they've put out for public viewing.
If this sort of thing were an isolated incident, it wouldn't receive any press at all, and there'd be one or two ruffled feathers over it, but no big deal. But the whole copyright/patent situation is one big raw festering sore, and because of that every time something like this happens it's like someone sprinkling salt into the wound. Things need to change.
I LOLed at the article. I used to fix arcade games (back in the dark days of my life). I never worked on Whac-a-mole, but I'm pretty sure something as simple as that has software in EPROMs, not a HDD like a desktop computer would; it can't get a "virus", it's read-only. He just wrote rigged code. Not sure I'd even call that a "logic bomb". At any rate -- no points to the guy. His rigged code was too obvious. He should have done something more subtle/less dramatic than shutting them down completely.
Sure, and if their bastard governor hadn't threatened them all with the National Guard if they went on strike, it might have gone unnoticed and uncommented-on.
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I should have known that it wouldn't be long before someone found a way to monitize the Forever Alone crowd. Fat neckbeards all over the world may now rejoice and cheer from the depths of their stepmother's basements.
*facepalm*
SPDY also allows the server to communicate with a client without a client request
Could this possibly be used to attack client computers?
What made you think I don't know that? I have an entire separate drive mainly for holding media files. I wasn't talking about data space on mass storage devices at all.
Yes, please, let's punish the lazy fat people who are making things more inconvenient and expensive for the rest of us. But with at least one provision: You may NOT use BMI tables, you MUST use actual bodyfat percentage. Why? BMI tables are hopelessly outdated. I have between 10 and 20% bodyfat, but I have denser bones and more lean muscle tissue by far than the average person, and while I look lean, BMI tables still claim I'm overweight.
..whopping 64KB
..4MHz
Sure, for those of you out there who weren't around to own and program computers with an 8-bit processor like a Z80, it sounds like a joke, but back in the day these were the cutting-edge of computing technology, and businesses and scientists and engineers used them just like modern machines are used today, except without most of the bells and whistles. Why is 512MB considered unacceptably small now? Because the software we write is utterly bloated. Back in the day, you generally didn't write serious software in BASIC, but today we have entire professional-level software suites written in Visual BASIC -- and believe me, the first time I heard that, I practically fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard. In the days when 8-bit processors were king, assembly language was ubiquitous; C was the new kid on the block, really, unless you lived in the world of UNIX, and BASIC was something that kids used to get their feet wet with programming. There were no graphics to speak of, not until later on, everything was text, and with tight memory constraints you learned to code as small and efficiently as possible. Today, when 4GB of memory (not counting virtual memory space, naturally) is commonplace and cheap, and a 1GHz processor is now something you find in your phone or in a toy, you can get away with being sloppy and wasteful and still get the job done.
I don't think they're making any estimate of the number of trolling accounts there are on Facebook, and eliminating them from their statistics. I'd say they're off by at least 50%.
..aaaaaand organized religion, like any other authoritarian form of governance would do, is (still) seeking to control people via controlling knowledge.
NEWSFLASH TO VATICAN: The Genie has already left the bottle. Give up already.
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If you still see banner ads, you don't know SHIT about computers. XD
Maybe not Gitmo, but he might be the guest of Homeland Security for a while, and even if that doesn't happen he's going to be on at least a couple watch lists for the rest of his life, now.
I'll wager that most of the people who are against nuclear power also think that microwave ovens produce the same sort of 'radiation' than nuclear fission produces. We need nuclear power; other non-fossil fuel sources aren't going to cut it. That being said nuclear power plants need to be expensive and need to have safety taken deadly seriously; they cannot be managed by the typical bean counters that manage everything else because the consequences are just too damned high to leave to chance. But we need this technology, at least to tide us over until we develop something at least comparable in efficiency, and definitely with fewer potential consequences.
Please allow me to inject some sane, rational, and most importantly, qualitative data into this: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/radnet-sacramento-bg.html
I don't know about anybody else, but I have an electronics/engineering background, and while many things (jumping out of an airplane, being on stage, etc) don't bother me, the mere thought of being in the immediate vicinty of apparatus capable of delivering that much power in that short a period of time makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck in a fashion similar to being caught out in the open in the middle of a thunderstorm.
We're socked in with a huge rainstorm; we won't see the Moon for at least a week and a half, damnit.
I have a better idea: Let's build a 12-foot high wall around Texas, with electrified razor wire on the top, and armed patrols with orders to shoot on sight anyone attempting to leave.
Step 1: Contain the infection.
Hear, hear. I'm a semi-pro cyclist and I'd prefer more daylight in the late afternoon/early evening for training.
The recording industry still doesn't want you downloading anything, even if you pay for it; they want you to buy a CD. Therefore while they grudgingly allow paid downloads, they don't want you to have full fidelity from those downloads. Note that I think it's utterly rediculous, too, and the recording industry is run by dinosaurs, but I do understand it, I think.
If this sort of activity were truly illegal, then every single search engine on the internet (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) would also have to be seized and their employees arrested. It's bullshit and it needs to STOP, NOW.
..in addition to MPEG-LA (Los Angeles).
In reality, the man in TFA has been participating in a covert intelligence test using a new innovative testing method. The cost for this testing is $200,000. I don't think I need to go into what the results of the testing.
See, I'm with you on that up to a point; I too don't really give a damn what people think of me or the way I live my life, but at the same time I'm not willing to have the majority of my life be a matter of public record; even celebrities manage to keep part of their lives private. The point where you lose me is when you don't get a job or get fired from your job because nosy employers go poking into your social networking pages and find something that they don't like. Even if you're careful about who you allow into your online presence you still have nosy employers that ask for access, and then get nasty with you when you tell them it's private. In this day and age many people call someone like me paranoid and give me strange looks, but from my perspective people are not being smart and not thinking ahead at who might be out there reading up on what they've put out for public viewing.
If this sort of thing were an isolated incident, it wouldn't receive any press at all, and there'd be one or two ruffled feathers over it, but no big deal. But the whole copyright/patent situation is one big raw festering sore, and because of that every time something like this happens it's like someone sprinkling salt into the wound. Things need to change.
I LOLed at the article. I used to fix arcade games (back in the dark days of my life). I never worked on Whac-a-mole, but I'm pretty sure something as simple as that has software in EPROMs, not a HDD like a desktop computer would; it can't get a "virus", it's read-only. He just wrote rigged code. Not sure I'd even call that a "logic bomb". At any rate -- no points to the guy. His rigged code was too obvious. He should have done something more subtle/less dramatic than shutting them down completely.
Sure, and if their bastard governor hadn't threatened them all with the National Guard if they went on strike, it might have gone unnoticed and uncommented-on.
Things like this are all the more reason to never use your real name on social networking sites, ever .
Say all you want, but I know this: When the AI in satellites start browsing 4chan, then the world will end as we know it.