So... What's mysterious here? Legally controversial, maybe. And poorly documented, thus potentially fraudulent. But something billed as "The Mystery of the 'Only Camera To Come Back From The Moon'" ought to involve conspiracy or spies or something, not just an incomplete chain of custody.
the last list I saw had titles like "bareback trannies" and "I buttfucked the babysitter" so its pretty damned obvious the ONLY reason to list a bunch of titles that they don't own is to intimidate the person into paying...classic extortion
But if X-Art doesn't own those, who does? I'm... um... asking for a friend, you see...
The problem is that a good idea challenged by a bad idea, a discussion occurs, evidence is presented, bad idea is shown to be a bad idea, and good idea is vindicated. And then 5 minutes later the same bad idea is presented. And then 5 minutes after that, the same bad idea is trotted out. And then five minutes after that, again. And again. And again. And again.
That's the trouble with you so-called skeptics. You refuse to listen to the alternatives after only debunking them 100 times. What if the 101st minor variant is irrefutable? You're simply sticking to your biases and not even considering it. Evidence-based, my ass.
I get the idea of keeping records in a mine. Mines are great places. There are just a lot of things in the article that don't make any sense to me. Let me stick to the sob story of what a bad work environment it is...
In the winter, employees enter the mine in the dark and leave in the dark. [...] "People are crabby. They're miserable. I mean, you can't blame them. They never see any sunlight," Armagost said.
Just like when I worked at a large electronics firm in Illinois. In the winter I'd go in before the sun was up, be in a sea of cubicles in an interior room until evening, leave after the sun went down. There are lots of jobs where you're indoors all day with no windows.
It doesn't say anything about going outside for lunch or breaks. Are the employees locked in or something? I've been in mines, I can believe that the ride up and down the elevator might take more than the time allotted for lunch. Then again, it's "230 feet below the surface". That's about 23 stories. Lots of office buildings are taller than that, and people manage to get up and down without undue stress.
Food must be brought in from outside, because you can't have an open flame in a mine. So there is a pizza guy, with a security clearance, who arrives every day at 11:30 a.m. Another vendor, Randy Armagost, trucks in hot lunches and an assortment of at least four deep-fried items every day.
They have these new things now, called microwave ovens. You don't have to stoke the ol' Franklin stove anymore to heat your food. I have never worked in a place which had flame-cooked food. Even the places with cafeterias used electric heat. At least this place has pizza delivery and a food truck. Lots of people brown-bag it every day around here. Maybe these paper-mine workers should consider it.
And if the food prospects are really so bad I see a great private-sector opportunity for some other food delivery service. Jimmy John, you're up!
It's still a major WTF that the whole thing is still literally shuffling paper around, but the article loses all credibility for me when they try to make it sound like hell on earth for the workers.
Undoubtedly it could be safe. Hydrogen by itself is not flammable. You need to add oxygen or some other oxidizer. Try filling a dumpster-sized plastic bag with hydrogen. Shoot bottle rockets into it. They tend to puncture the plastic and explode inside -- without igniting the hydrogen. In fact it's quite difficult to get the hydrogen to ignite this way. It's only if you get lucky and get a bottle rocket tangled in the plastic and it explodes right at the hydrogen/air boundary that you get the satisfying whumph! of an explosion. And that's only because the flame melts the plastic and enlarges the hole, letting more hydrogen contact the air and creating more heat to melt more plastic... If the skin was made of a tough, non-flammable material the worst you'd get is a jet of flame, not much worse than a simple puncture of the same size.
The lesson of the Hindenburg shouldn't have been that hydrogen is particularly dangerous. It should have been that coating the skin of your airship with a highly flammable lacquer is a really bad idea.
Your homework assignment for tonight is to write 5000 words comparing and contrasting the requirement that developers allow rollback of buggy releases with the requirement that developers keep their customers up-to-date with security fixes. For extra credit, discuss the consumer benefits of being able to apply individual patches a la carte versus the engineering cost of creating and maintaining a library of patches that can be applied independent of each other.
tl'dr? Anyone who'll sell you homeopathic crap is a liar and should be treated as such.
You are aware that most regular grocery stores and pharmacies regularly stock homeopathic remedies, right? Boiron USA, maker of many homeopathic products, proudly advertises that their retailers include groceries Publix, Albertson's, and Safeway in addition to Whole Foods; also pharmacies CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens.
Your own grocery and pharmacy probably carry homeopathic products as well. Look especially at the "natural" cold and flu remedies, children's medicines, anti-itch and poison ivy relief, that sort of thing. They'll either say "homeopathic" on the label or have ingredients with suspicious-sounding Latin names followed by a number and letter -- "Spongia tosta 3C", "Aesculus hippocastanum 1X", etc. Here's your handy guide to the dilution scale. It's worth keeping in mind how homeopathic ingredients are labelled since not every product actually says "homeopathic". At least not in print large enough to read without a magnifying glass.
tl;dr? Yes, homeopathy is bullshit, but if you shun all stores that sell it you're going to have a rough time doing your weekly shopping.
Talk about a content-free article. The TSA wants industry to produce a scanner that can detect explosives unobtrusively without slowing down traffic. Well, duh. Of course they want that. And if anyone knew how to make one they would have already. The headline may as well read, "Gold Coin Giveaways May Be Coming To An Airport Near Your" based on the TSA asking for a leprechaun to produce his pot-o-gold. It's about as realistic.
Thanks for mentioning that. I'd heard of that vulnerability before. I actually have a Python implementation of the algorithm which I normally use from the command line rather than in the browser. That pretty effectively nullifies spying on the DOM.:-)
This much is true. That's why I normally use a locally-stored script, either Javascript in the form of a bookmarklet or a Python implementation of the algorithm.
For the most part I don't save or memorize passwords. I regenerate them as needed with SuperGenPass. SuperGenPass algorithmically generates passwords by hashing the site's domain name together with a single memorized password. This always generates the same password for any given site. So, I don't have to remember them or store them anywhere, I just need to know how they're generated.
But what if I'm at someone else's computer without SGP installed? The SGP website has a "mobile" version, which is just javascript that runs entirely within the browser. Go there, type in the domain and password, and generate it. (Yes, I've checked the javascript. It's not sending your password out to the mothership or saving anything locally.)
I do keep a notebook in a plaintext file with all the sites I use. This contains the domain name that the site had when I first signed up. Domain names sometimes change, or are ambiguous (ie., the same site is available via both foobar.org and foobar.com). The text file lets me keep track of what I need in order to regenerate the password.
What about sites that require periodic password changes? I use the domain and just suffix my memorized password with a sequence number. And I write the sequence number in my notebook.
What's that? Security questions? I generate the answer by hashing the question itself rather than the domain with my memorized password. And of course, I copy the question verbatim into my text file so I can regenerate the answer when I need to.
The only failing is when I hit a site that doesn't allow certain punctuation, or has length limits, or something of that nature. Then I modify the parameters that I give to SGP and write down the specific parameters that I used.
The notebook is stored on my home fileserver in an svn repository which gets backed up every night. I'm completely screwed if I ever forget my one secret, but it's one I've been using for literally decades now. It's going to be one of the last things to go when my brain develops bit rot.
I've been saying for a decade now that the very fact that there hasn't been a bombing of a security checkpoint line demonstrates that there certainly isn't a legion of crazed bombers trying to take down the country. Hit one security line and you'll bring American passenger travel to a screaming halt for a few days. Hit two lines and you'll shut it down for weeks. We'll piss ourselves trying to figure out how to check people for bombs before getting to the checkpoint. Don't just hit big, juicy targets like LAX and JFK -- hit a few random podunk airports too, places that no one would bother to bomb. Do that enough times so that the TSA can't effectively concentrate their defenses around the next likely target. The goal of terrorism isn't bodies, it's terror. A lower body count can be more effective if you're showing people that they can't expect to be safe anywhere.
And until this starts happening, let's just admit that the TSA is a bunch of hokum and get back to some semblance of sanity.
For me, the killer app would be if it would identify the face of who I'm talking to and overlay the name. I'm horrible at remembering names and would gladly pay $1500 for an unobtrusive real-time lookup. Even if it was limited to names already in my address book, even if it could only identify people I'd personally photographed, it would be worth it to me.
tracking a person's car without a warrant is illegal, per the SCOTUS
That SCOTUS decision says nothing of the sort. It says the police are not allowed to secretly plant a tracking device without a warrant. It says nothing at all about the legality of tracking via something on the car which is publicly visible, whether it's the license plate or just keeping track of the make, model, and specific pattern of dents your car has.
I think tracking like this is going to become de rigueur within a very few years. I don't know that I like it, but I don't see any way of stopping it. I mean, you can see the bloody plate right there in front of you. It's not like anyone could argue that they didn't know. The only way to stop this sort of tracking would be to outlaw traffic cameras, and that horse left the barn ages ago.
And how would "computer-illiterate little brother" be any less sexist? To be non-sexist you'd have to say "computer-illiterate younger sibling". Then you're merely being ageist, not sexist. To fix that you need to say "computer-illiterate twin sibling". Of course that plays into the whole "evil twin" stereotype. In fact, when you come right down to it calling any class of person "computer-illiterate" is denigrating them. Better just say "your computer-illiterate pet hamster".
Except that saying that Metro is made for an offspring-eating rodent that fouls its home with its own excrement is demeaning to the hamster.
Maybe the author should consider that engineering and managing are different skill sets. A person can be good at one of them without being good at the other. Or can enjoy one without enjoying the other.
I'm not sure why it's always considered "moving up" to go from engineering to management. Ideally they're two separate but equally important roles in the creation of a product.
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So... What's mysterious here? Legally controversial, maybe. And poorly documented, thus potentially fraudulent. But something billed as "The Mystery of the 'Only Camera To Come Back From The Moon'" ought to involve conspiracy or spies or something, not just an incomplete chain of custody.
But if X-Art doesn't own those, who does? I'm... um... asking for a friend, you see...
That's the trouble with you so-called skeptics. You refuse to listen to the alternatives after only debunking them 100 times. What if the 101st minor variant is irrefutable? You're simply sticking to your biases and not even considering it. Evidence-based, my ass.
I get the idea of keeping records in a mine. Mines are great places. There are just a lot of things in the article that don't make any sense to me. Let me stick to the sob story of what a bad work environment it is...
Just like when I worked at a large electronics firm in Illinois. In the winter I'd go in before the sun was up, be in a sea of cubicles in an interior room until evening, leave after the sun went down. There are lots of jobs where you're indoors all day with no windows.
It doesn't say anything about going outside for lunch or breaks. Are the employees locked in or something? I've been in mines, I can believe that the ride up and down the elevator might take more than the time allotted for lunch. Then again, it's "230 feet below the surface". That's about 23 stories. Lots of office buildings are taller than that, and people manage to get up and down without undue stress.
They have these new things now, called microwave ovens. You don't have to stoke the ol' Franklin stove anymore to heat your food. I have never worked in a place which had flame-cooked food. Even the places with cafeterias used electric heat. At least this place has pizza delivery and a food truck. Lots of people brown-bag it every day around here. Maybe these paper-mine workers should consider it.
And if the food prospects are really so bad I see a great private-sector opportunity for some other food delivery service. Jimmy John, you're up!
It's still a major WTF that the whole thing is still literally shuffling paper around, but the article loses all credibility for me when they try to make it sound like hell on earth for the workers.
Undoubtedly it could be safe. Hydrogen by itself is not flammable. You need to add oxygen or some other oxidizer. Try filling a dumpster-sized plastic bag with hydrogen. Shoot bottle rockets into it. They tend to puncture the plastic and explode inside -- without igniting the hydrogen. In fact it's quite difficult to get the hydrogen to ignite this way. It's only if you get lucky and get a bottle rocket tangled in the plastic and it explodes right at the hydrogen/air boundary that you get the satisfying whumph! of an explosion. And that's only because the flame melts the plastic and enlarges the hole, letting more hydrogen contact the air and creating more heat to melt more plastic... If the skin was made of a tough, non-flammable material the worst you'd get is a jet of flame, not much worse than a simple puncture of the same size.
The lesson of the Hindenburg shouldn't have been that hydrogen is particularly dangerous. It should have been that coating the skin of your airship with a highly flammable lacquer is a really bad idea.
What's that you say? NASA has discovered Bat Boy in space? Stop the presses!
Thanks, you saved me the trouble of installing it. Not allowing local storage is a deal-breaker for me.
Your homework assignment for tonight is to write 5000 words comparing and contrasting the requirement that developers allow rollback of buggy releases with the requirement that developers keep their customers up-to-date with security fixes. For extra credit, discuss the consumer benefits of being able to apply individual patches a la carte versus the engineering cost of creating and maintaining a library of patches that can be applied independent of each other.
Dude, don't you know by now that GOTO is considered harmful? And you call yourself a programmer!
This is awful! I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you! I'm going to write to my congressman and tell him... Tell him... Um...
Wait, what exactly am I supposed to be outraged about here?
You are aware that most regular grocery stores and pharmacies regularly stock homeopathic remedies, right? Boiron USA, maker of many homeopathic products, proudly advertises that their retailers include groceries Publix, Albertson's, and Safeway in addition to Whole Foods; also pharmacies CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens.
Your own grocery and pharmacy probably carry homeopathic products as well. Look especially at the "natural" cold and flu remedies, children's medicines, anti-itch and poison ivy relief, that sort of thing. They'll either say "homeopathic" on the label or have ingredients with suspicious-sounding Latin names followed by a number and letter -- "Spongia tosta 3C", "Aesculus hippocastanum 1X", etc. Here's your handy guide to the dilution scale. It's worth keeping in mind how homeopathic ingredients are labelled since not every product actually says "homeopathic". At least not in print large enough to read without a magnifying glass.
tl;dr? Yes, homeopathy is bullshit, but if you shun all stores that sell it you're going to have a rough time doing your weekly shopping.
But... Is it gluten-free?
An IDE doesn't make one a bad programmer. However, it does provide enough of a crutch to fool bad programmers into thinking they're good programmers.
Talk about a content-free article. The TSA wants industry to produce a scanner that can detect explosives unobtrusively without slowing down traffic. Well, duh. Of course they want that. And if anyone knew how to make one they would have already. The headline may as well read, "Gold Coin Giveaways May Be Coming To An Airport Near Your" based on the TSA asking for a leprechaun to produce his pot-o-gold. It's about as realistic.
Like my cat, I just pee on everything that's mine. Or that I want to be mine. Works like a charm.
Thanks for mentioning that. I'd heard of that vulnerability before. I actually have a Python implementation of the algorithm which I normally use from the command line rather than in the browser. That pretty effectively nullifies spying on the DOM. :-)
This much is true. That's why I normally use a locally-stored script, either Javascript in the form of a bookmarklet or a Python implementation of the algorithm.
For the most part I don't save or memorize passwords. I regenerate them as needed with SuperGenPass. SuperGenPass algorithmically generates passwords by hashing the site's domain name together with a single memorized password. This always generates the same password for any given site. So, I don't have to remember them or store them anywhere, I just need to know how they're generated.
But what if I'm at someone else's computer without SGP installed? The SGP website has a "mobile" version, which is just javascript that runs entirely within the browser. Go there, type in the domain and password, and generate it. (Yes, I've checked the javascript. It's not sending your password out to the mothership or saving anything locally.)
I do keep a notebook in a plaintext file with all the sites I use. This contains the domain name that the site had when I first signed up. Domain names sometimes change, or are ambiguous (ie., the same site is available via both foobar.org and foobar.com). The text file lets me keep track of what I need in order to regenerate the password.
What about sites that require periodic password changes? I use the domain and just suffix my memorized password with a sequence number. And I write the sequence number in my notebook.
What's that? Security questions? I generate the answer by hashing the question itself rather than the domain with my memorized password. And of course, I copy the question verbatim into my text file so I can regenerate the answer when I need to.
The only failing is when I hit a site that doesn't allow certain punctuation, or has length limits, or something of that nature. Then I modify the parameters that I give to SGP and write down the specific parameters that I used.
The notebook is stored on my home fileserver in an svn repository which gets backed up every night. I'm completely screwed if I ever forget my one secret, but it's one I've been using for literally decades now. It's going to be one of the last things to go when my brain develops bit rot.
The way you capitalize that makes me think the drones are programmed like...
I've been saying for a decade now that the very fact that there hasn't been a bombing of a security checkpoint line demonstrates that there certainly isn't a legion of crazed bombers trying to take down the country. Hit one security line and you'll bring American passenger travel to a screaming halt for a few days. Hit two lines and you'll shut it down for weeks. We'll piss ourselves trying to figure out how to check people for bombs before getting to the checkpoint. Don't just hit big, juicy targets like LAX and JFK -- hit a few random podunk airports too, places that no one would bother to bomb. Do that enough times so that the TSA can't effectively concentrate their defenses around the next likely target. The goal of terrorism isn't bodies, it's terror. A lower body count can be more effective if you're showing people that they can't expect to be safe anywhere.
And until this starts happening, let's just admit that the TSA is a bunch of hokum and get back to some semblance of sanity.
For me, the killer app would be if it would identify the face of who I'm talking to and overlay the name. I'm horrible at remembering names and would gladly pay $1500 for an unobtrusive real-time lookup. Even if it was limited to names already in my address book, even if it could only identify people I'd personally photographed, it would be worth it to me.
That SCOTUS decision says nothing of the sort. It says the police are not allowed to secretly plant a tracking device without a warrant. It says nothing at all about the legality of tracking via something on the car which is publicly visible, whether it's the license plate or just keeping track of the make, model, and specific pattern of dents your car has.
I think tracking like this is going to become de rigueur within a very few years. I don't know that I like it, but I don't see any way of stopping it. I mean, you can see the bloody plate right there in front of you. It's not like anyone could argue that they didn't know. The only way to stop this sort of tracking would be to outlaw traffic cameras, and that horse left the barn ages ago.
And how would "computer-illiterate little brother" be any less sexist? To be non-sexist you'd have to say "computer-illiterate younger sibling". Then you're merely being ageist, not sexist. To fix that you need to say "computer-illiterate twin sibling". Of course that plays into the whole "evil twin" stereotype. In fact, when you come right down to it calling any class of person "computer-illiterate" is denigrating them. Better just say "your computer-illiterate pet hamster".
Except that saying that Metro is made for an offspring-eating rodent that fouls its home with its own excrement is demeaning to the hamster.
Maybe we'll get lucky and find that while Comcast sucks, Time Warner actually blows. And the suck and blow will cancel out. Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Maybe the author should consider that engineering and managing are different skill sets. A person can be good at one of them without being good at the other. Or can enjoy one without enjoying the other.
I'm not sure why it's always considered "moving up" to go from engineering to management. Ideally they're two separate but equally important roles in the creation of a product.