Another example, the permission "read phone state and identity". Developers often say, "oh, we are not reading your phone number, just your IMEI to ensure your identity". They still have access to the phone number, why not fine-grain it and say: "ok, the IMEI, that is ALL you can see".
The upshot of this would just be that developers would make apps that refuse to run unless you give them all the permissions they want. I'm imagining something along the lines of (pseudo-code incoming):
This has to be real. Anonymous has long prided themselves on their lack of structure which allows anybody to declare themselves members of Anonymous and start doing stuff in the group's name. The upshot of this is that anybody who wants to can start their own business and capitalize on anonymous. Hell, I could open up my own fast food joint and call it Anonyburger if I wanted to.
Yes, all cool... Until they are hacked by a random foreign nation that'll have detailed information about all US soldiers.
What are they going to do with the medical records of over a million soldiers? It's not like they can discover some sort of massive "death star ventillation"-style weakness in the entire army using medical records.
...or doesn't this seem a little hypocritical in light of how the whole Wikileaks thing has been handled?
When you think about it, they haven't really handled Wikileaks at all. All they've done is take legal action against Bradley Manning for leaking sensitive information (which any organization, Government or private would do). Pretty much everything else that's happened (with Amazon, Mastercard etc) has been accomplished through bitching and moaning, not censorship and coercion.
Well, I can't back up my claims with any statistics or hard evidence, but I can say that growing up in the 00's and the late 90's I've had plenty of friends who read Japanese comics, but people who read American comics are few and far between.
I wonder if any kids read comics anymore or if they are all too busy with higher-tech pursuits?
I'm 21 years old, and I very rarely see anyone in my local comic shop who looks younger than myself (except on annual Free Comic Day), so no.
Most of my friends read Japanese Manga, and alot of them insist that Manga doesn't count as comics because there's a negative stigma associated with being a comics fan. Despite all the success that comic publishers have had with movies, they've still completely failed to convince the general population that reading comics is nothing to be embarrassed about, and that is why the industry is dying.
The military has its own private network for the real important stuff. The sorts of things you find on the internet are mostly just recruitment sites and the like.
Their products are a joke compared to what they made in the 80's. Apple is a success today because Steve Jobs has the rare ability to polish a turd, add a lowercase i to the name and make a fortune. Is the iPad the first tablet? No, but they removed the keyboard and replaced the OS with something less versatile to make it the hottest toy on the market. There have also been pda/phone combos (with touchscreens) alot longer than there have been iPhones, but Apple was able to take an existing concept with limited mass-market appeal and sell it all over the world.
Anybody else find it hilarious when governments try to make their "cyberwarfare" divisions sound badass with phrases like "30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors"?
I was recently offered a job developing Android applications. Several components of the Android platform are open-source. Ergo, my job was created by open-source software.
There is also a correction needed. Britain doesn't use "Soccer", the right term when talking about it is "Football".
What is termed "Football" on the American side should be called "Handegg" and seems to be weaklings version of Rugby.
You can say what you want about it being a weakling's Rugby, but I still think (American) Football would be really hard to play without using your feet.
Not too sure I understand all that from reading the summary but it sure does sound cool. When I think emulator, I think of NESticle, wonder how many gates it has...
Basically, debugging hardware is even more of a pain in the ass then debugging software because there are no tools like GDB that show you what's going on "under the hood", so electrical engineers have to use emulators to test out all their systems at the boolean level before they implement them in ASIC's. This is completely different from a Nintendo emulator, which would read each individual instruction and execute a group of instructions that do the same thing on the host machine.
I had to take a few classes on CPLD's and FPGA's when I was in college, and I can tell you that it took my poor PC all afternoon to emulate my designs for just 100ms. Those weren't nearly as complicated as a GPU, so it makes sense that Nvidia would need a massive supercomputer for this.
Also, "gates" probably refers to Boolean logic gates.
That would be Scotty, not McCoy. McCoy briefly appeared in the TNG pilot, where he had actually been alive since the TOS era with none of the usual Sci-Fi handwaving involved.
That one doesn't really count because the audience was never led to believe he was dead. The whole thing with him being trapped in the transporter buffer was really just a plot device to bring him into the TNG era
I think TWD is a great example because on the one occasion that somebody actually did come back (I don't want to spoil it for anybody who watches the show but not the comics) it was actually pretty awesome. I shat bricks when I saw him scarred and standing on top of a tank in his riot gear. When characters from mainstream comics like Steve Rogers or the Human Torch die and come back (I guarantee you we have not seen the last of Johnny Storm), it comes off as a stupid plot device by a company that's afraid to change the status quo that's worked so well for the last 50 years.
To play the devil's advocate, though, TWD does overuse death a bit. In the latest issue, a certain someone whose name will not be mentioned for spoiler reasons got shot in the face and appears to be on the verge of death. I found it hard to care because people die so often in this comic that it was only a matter of time.
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I don't have any sorts of plugins or extensions on Firefox right now, and I have also never been prompted to log in to view an NYT article linked by /.
Another example, the permission "read phone state and identity". Developers often say, "oh, we are not reading your phone number, just your IMEI to ensure your identity". They still have access to the phone number, why not fine-grain it and say: "ok, the IMEI, that is ALL you can see".
The upshot of this would just be that developers would make apps that refuse to run unless you give them all the permissions they want. I'm imagining something along the lines of (pseudo-code incoming):
try{
obtainfeature();
} catch (FeatureNotGrantedException) {
showErrorDialog();
endProgream();
}
who suspects that this story is entirely BS?
This has to be real. Anonymous has long prided themselves on their lack of structure which allows anybody to declare themselves members of Anonymous and start doing stuff in the group's name. The upshot of this is that anybody who wants to can start their own business and capitalize on anonymous. Hell, I could open up my own fast food joint and call it Anonyburger if I wanted to.
The issue is that a salesman did something deceptive? Have you ever bought a car? A house? Voted?
Have I ever bought a new car from my mechanic because he told me my current model is totaled?
Yes, all cool... Until they are hacked by a random foreign nation that'll have detailed information about all US soldiers.
What are they going to do with the medical records of over a million soldiers? It's not like they can discover some sort of massive "death star ventillation"-style weakness in the entire army using medical records.
...or doesn't this seem a little hypocritical in light of how the whole Wikileaks thing has been handled?
When you think about it, they haven't really handled Wikileaks at all. All they've done is take legal action against Bradley Manning for leaking sensitive information (which any organization, Government or private would do). Pretty much everything else that's happened (with Amazon, Mastercard etc) has been accomplished through bitching and moaning, not censorship and coercion.
Well, I can't back up my claims with any statistics or hard evidence, but I can say that growing up in the 00's and the late 90's I've had plenty of friends who read Japanese comics, but people who read American comics are few and far between.
I wonder if any kids read comics anymore or if they are all too busy with higher-tech pursuits?
I'm 21 years old, and I very rarely see anyone in my local comic shop who looks younger than myself (except on annual Free Comic Day), so no.
Most of my friends read Japanese Manga, and alot of them insist that Manga doesn't count as comics because there's a negative stigma associated with being a comics fan. Despite all the success that comic publishers have had with movies, they've still completely failed to convince the general population that reading comics is nothing to be embarrassed about, and that is why the industry is dying.
I believe they did something like this in the eighties with Crisis on Infinite Earths, except they didn't restart the numbering.
As for messing with the canon, it's not like they don't already constantly retcon things and release new versions of the origin stories.
The military has its own private network for the real important stuff. The sorts of things you find on the internet are mostly just recruitment sites and the like.
Their products are a joke compared to what they made in the 80's. Apple is a success today because Steve Jobs has the rare ability to polish a turd, add a lowercase i to the name and make a fortune. Is the iPad the first tablet? No, but they removed the keyboard and replaced the OS with something less versatile to make it the hottest toy on the market. There have also been pda/phone combos (with touchscreens) alot longer than there have been iPhones, but Apple was able to take an existing concept with limited mass-market appeal and sell it all over the world.
Anybody else find it hilarious when governments try to make their "cyberwarfare" divisions sound badass with phrases like "30-strong commando unit of cyberwarriors"?
I was recently offered a job developing Android applications. Several components of the Android platform are open-source. Ergo, my job was created by open-source software.
There is also a correction needed. Britain doesn't use "Soccer", the right term when talking about it is "Football".
What is termed "Football" on the American side should be called "Handegg" and seems to be weaklings version of Rugby.
You can say what you want about it being a weakling's Rugby, but I still think (American) Football would be really hard to play without using your feet.
Not too sure I understand all that from reading the summary but it sure does sound cool. When I think emulator, I think of NESticle, wonder how many gates it has...
Basically, debugging hardware is even more of a pain in the ass then debugging software because there are no tools like GDB that show you what's going on "under the hood", so electrical engineers have to use emulators to test out all their systems at the boolean level before they implement them in ASIC's. This is completely different from a Nintendo emulator, which would read each individual instruction and execute a group of instructions that do the same thing on the host machine.
I had to take a few classes on CPLD's and FPGA's when I was in college, and I can tell you that it took my poor PC all afternoon to emulate my designs for just 100ms. Those weren't nearly as complicated as a GPU, so it makes sense that Nvidia would need a massive supercomputer for this.
Also, "gates" probably refers to Boolean logic gates.
You'd have to be out of your mind to consider paying to do a technical degree these days.
Law, medicine, business - but I unfortunately do not see much of a future for engineers in North America.
Sure there is work, but you will cap out well below any other professional degree. CS is just batshit crazy.
I'm writing my MCATs in the fall..
-- BSc. EE, 2000.
That depends on where you live. Over here in DC, there is metric shit-ton of engineering jobs working for the military industrial complex.
on or near April 25, 2011.
Link doesn't say that anybody actually knew he was there, just that US troops were in the neighborhood.
I use XML for everything, you insensitive clod!
And most great artists aren't appreciated until they're dead.
Just works is all I ask. After my 5th blue screen of the day because of some f'n driver I am a bit pissed.
Yeah, I used to use Windows ME, too.
How you can claim prior knowledge of what will be useful in future, I do not know.
His PhD education was so specialised and narrow that he never learned about causality.
It doesn't matter how much you raise the resolution, Star Wars episode I is still going to be disappointing.
That would be Scotty, not McCoy. McCoy briefly appeared in the TNG pilot, where he had actually been alive since the TOS era with none of the usual Sci-Fi handwaving involved.
That one doesn't really count because the audience was never led to believe he was dead. The whole thing with him being trapped in the transporter buffer was really just a plot device to bring him into the TNG era
I think TWD is a great example because on the one occasion that somebody actually did come back (I don't want to spoil it for anybody who watches the show but not the comics) it was actually pretty awesome. I shat bricks when I saw him scarred and standing on top of a tank in his riot gear. When characters from mainstream comics like Steve Rogers or the Human Torch die and come back (I guarantee you we have not seen the last of Johnny Storm), it comes off as a stupid plot device by a company that's afraid to change the status quo that's worked so well for the last 50 years.
To play the devil's advocate, though, TWD does overuse death a bit. In the latest issue, a certain someone whose name will not be mentioned for spoiler reasons got shot in the face and appears to be on the verge of death. I found it hard to care because people die so often in this comic that it was only a matter of time.