chill, most people think 'leet' and txt slang was invented for the net or cell phones. In actuality both are just more modern dialects of the old code-speak. Code-speak was used by programmers and other hackers to imbed messages in programming and media. It usually wasn't viewable unless you used a hexeditor to look at the actual code. Most of the 'wierdness' of it's spelling was because of the massive memory limitations of the day. (Your program or computer memory might have been measured in bytes. Just bytes, no gig, no meg, no k, just bytes.) And this was the early 80s when I encountered it, and it probably goes back to the days of big iron.
And that's the useless history lesson for today, living languages aren't static things, everything about them change. Learn it, accept it, live it, or die stupid and ignorant, your choice.
Wikileaks lets people deliver info to them, they definitely don't sneak into the parliament buildings of foreign countries to install hidden computers loaded with crypto. They should really be looking at political parties, both foreign and domestic.
Big deal, think of it as pre-release publicity, for free. As long as you have an audience there will be leaks.
As to the show itself, even though I thought the old cast was fantastic, go for a new one. Obviously base it on the original British version, not that horrible American version that never got released.
And as a small note, even though I loved the show, that last thing they did,"Back to Earth", was horrible and should be forgotten with as much prejudice as possible.
The way homeland security operates, I really doubt they like the idea of somebody other than themselves having access to another communications/data method. Especially when they have so little control over its contents.
Then again it could be something like "resume.doc.exe" but if they are still on the default settings of hide extensions for known filetypes it would look like "resume.doc".
That is a default setting that needs to be changed. It's made it easy to sucker so many people over the years since Microsoft made this stupid mistake you'd think every IT in the world would automatically change it. I'd rather have a user ignoring information in front of them, then hiding it and letting the company get infected. (The first is the users fault, the second might get blamed on IT.)
There are more complicated ways using special files that exploit bugs and things, but those are a lot harder to pull off, and since I didn't see a mention in the articles saying what the file actually was, I'd check the easier and more common thing first. (It did mention that users thought it looked like a word doc, but that just tells us what the user thought, not what was actually going on.)
This has been tried several times, starting decades ago.
Even though the smell systems 'can' be very effective, they have always had the same flaw. They may have others, but there is always the same big one plaguing them. They don't have a way to clear out the air without annoying the subjects. In other words, in a very short time, they just stink!
Imagine if music players didn't end the previous musical note, the cacophony would quickly become unbearable. It's the same thing with these smell-o-vision gadgets. Sure there's a way around it, but who wants to wear a mask the whole time, or be in a freaking wind tunnel? Nobody, that's why they fail.
Come on designers! Freaking google the stupid ideas and realize why they failed so you can either fix the problems or not be stupid enough to repeat the same basic design F-Ups of the past!
I say you put in Mark Zuckerbergs home address and phone number, and see how that goes.:) He might just change his mind when he starts getting a million ad calls and junk mail per day.
Except there are a lot of lawsuit happy morons out there that don't accept responsibility for their own actions and want to sue everyone who's even peripherally involved in even the vaguest sense so long as they have money.
You've heard about the moron that ignored the warning signs, climbed over the fence (by the warning sign) and tried to pet a dolphin that bit him? (I think the article said it was really minor, maybe didn't even break the skin.) He still got 10% of the insane amount he was asking for.
How about the lady that put the McDonalds hot coffee (law requires it be a minimum temp, at least in my state) in her lap between her legs while driving? Well if you haven't she squeezed, it popped, she got burns in places you don't want burns. She ended up suing McDonalds, I don't recall the result on that one.
A real winner that happened very recently, a bicyclist was being stupid and riding at night without lights and got hit by a car. The driver of the car sued the bicycle manufacturer. I guess it was for not forcing morons to use lights at night when bicycling, I don't remember. Again, I don't know what finally happened, if it's over yet.
Here's a story that's been done many times. Somebody gets shot, rather than sue the shooter, or even the gun store/show where it was purchased, they go after the big money and try to sue the gun manufacturer. This has happened so many times I'm sure you could write a book on it. (Don't know who'd want to buy it, but still...)
Those are just a few of the stupid lawsuits that should never have happened, but because greedy people don't care who it is, as long as they think they can get some loot.
I know some of those fit the situation listed with just a few noun changes, and others were to illustrate the litigation insanity of a growing group of creeps and cretins, but I hope I got the point across. It doesn't seem reasonable to us, but those type of lawsuits aren't brought by reasonable people.
I have to agree with those that think this article was a bunch of innuendo and unsubstantiated statements.
"...when it began circulating around the world, unexplained, in mid-2009..."
I found it extremely funny when they mentioned that the worm had no explanation of it's purpose, as if that were somehow indicative of a covert and malicious nature. So, does anybody out there know of any worm, virus, trojan, or other malware that actually comes with a manifesto to explain it's existence/purpose?
By the way, all the pundits saying it would take the resources of a government to create that worm know very little about what it actually takes to make one. It did however take very intimate knowledge of the code running on those systems, so the creator probably has a copy of the source code on those machines, or the equivalent. (I'm pretty sure it's too large to be memorized by a single person.)
They don't. Even the pseudo-journalists were able to easily identify the company that made the systems Iran is using, and even which models Iran bought. Somehow I don't think anybody with a major wild hair for screwing them over had any more difficulty in finding that out.
The birthing is unlikely to have negative effects since both species are closely related, have the same approximate size, and have no known physiognomy variations that can cause issues. Unless the host mother is allergic to mammoth wool...:)
How long until they set it up so it's "extended for another year" renewal bill becomes automatically passed if it isn't voted down? They've done it on other things. It's a scam where they can refuse to vote, it automatically passes, and they can claim they didn't vote for it.
It's going to take a lot of people to metaphorically kick them in the balls repeatedly until they get the idea that maybe that nazi act needs to be retired before they'll do it.
I can't help it, every time I see that name I think it's an H.P. Lovecraft reference. I wonder if it comes with an app named Yuggoth. Or maybe in the about page it says that it was made by fun guys...
Besides the copyright stuff, If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If your program doesn't have issues, even if it's scope of functionality is limited, you don't have any pressing reasons to alter it. Not touched in a decade is a moot point with a program that just works, especially if it's something behind the scenes that users don't notice. (I know that doesn't describe WinMTR, but the principle is still valid. Some people don't like old style simple interfaces.)
Spelling has rules that are vastly ignored. To get passing grades it's years and years of rote memorization. If it were a true phonetic alphabet with no exceptions kids would have perfect spelling by 2nd or 3rd grade.
Exactly. Most people have probably never even heard the entire album, much less in the correct sequence. I only know 2 people that even have the album, and those are the old vinyl records, one of which doesn't even have a record player. Even when I was a kid, almost nobody wanted albums, but singles were rarely available, and when they were, they were overpriced.
I can type fast enough to keep notes in most of my classes, but there is no way in hell I can write that fast. Without my laptop I literally can't take notes.
As to other people seeing what's on your screen and snitching, it doesn't happen. I've had classes where people were playing Runescape the entire time. Nobody said a word, even though several people were watching intently. I didn't because I really don't care if an idiot fails the class. If you don't want to be there, then don't go, it's that simple. We're all (technically) adults in college, and besides that, the chairs in the lounge are much comfier and it has a better wifi connection.
It's censorship because they are REMOVING something that people already have legally obtained, not because they refuse to carry it in the first place. These people have bought and downloaded these legal and available books that they wanted, and then remotely deleting it from peoples libraries. (Kindle libraries, but so what, it belongs to the owners, not Amazon.)
And yes, removing it from the store (in addition but without regards to the Kindle) for reasons other than economic (product not selling would be an economic reason) or legal (court orders, or a valid worry about liability of carrying a do it yourself demolitions kit with free blasting caps) is, when applied to literature, the basic definition of censorship. (The part about doing it for legal reasons is also censorship, but is usually not addressed unless it's being done for political reasons or by decree of the government. For more examples of that, see Nazi Germany, North Korea, China, Iran and so many many other places.)
It's very unlikely they are removing these due to economic or legal reasons. There appear to be no lawsuits pending with regards to these books. Also, they are apparently selling since there are enough people complaining about them being deleted, while the costs to keep them available in the electronic inventory of the store is minuscule.
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chill, most people think 'leet' and txt slang was invented for the net or cell phones. In actuality both are just more modern dialects of the old code-speak.
Code-speak was used by programmers and other hackers to imbed messages in programming and media. It usually wasn't viewable unless you used a hexeditor to look at the actual code. Most of the 'wierdness' of it's spelling was because of the massive memory limitations of the day. (Your program or computer memory might have been measured in bytes. Just bytes, no gig, no meg, no k, just bytes.) And this was the early 80s when I encountered it, and it probably goes back to the days of big iron.
And that's the useless history lesson for today, living languages aren't static things, everything about them change.
Learn it, accept it, live it, or die stupid and ignorant, your choice.
Slashdot fell out of nerdspace years ago...
The USA is not a christian nation, it's a nation with a huge christian demographic.
Last several times I've seen anything from Al-Jazeera, it seemed to be a major propaganda engine with some heavily stilted news mixed in.
Kind of like a certain Chinese 'newspaper' you can get to on the net.
Ducks and Beavers have their little tiffs, why do you think the yearly game between them is referred to as the 'civil war'.
Wikileaks lets people deliver info to them, they definitely don't sneak into the parliament buildings of foreign countries to install hidden computers loaded with crypto.
They should really be looking at political parties, both foreign and domestic.
Big deal, think of it as pre-release publicity, for free. As long as you have an audience there will be leaks.
As to the show itself, even though I thought the old cast was fantastic, go for a new one. Obviously base it on the original British version, not that horrible American version that never got released.
And as a small note, even though I loved the show, that last thing they did,"Back to Earth", was horrible and should be forgotten with as much prejudice as possible.
The way homeland security operates, I really doubt they like the idea of somebody other than themselves having access to another communications/data method. Especially when they have so little control over its contents.
Then again it could be something like "resume.doc.exe" but if they are still on the default settings of hide extensions for known filetypes it would look like "resume.doc".
That is a default setting that needs to be changed. It's made it easy to sucker so many people over the years since Microsoft made this stupid mistake you'd think every IT in the world would automatically change it. I'd rather have a user ignoring information in front of them, then hiding it and letting the company get infected. (The first is the users fault, the second might get blamed on IT.)
There are more complicated ways using special files that exploit bugs and things, but those are a lot harder to pull off, and since I didn't see a mention in the articles saying what the file actually was, I'd check the easier and more common thing first. (It did mention that users thought it looked like a word doc, but that just tells us what the user thought, not what was actually going on.)
They were just hitting the Mickey Ds for a bite to eat. Maybe they were hoping Ronald himself would be there so they could get a happy meal. :)
I liked that. Either he's a really good speaker, or he's a mediocre speaker that's successfully put in a lot of work at getting better :)
This has been tried several times, starting decades ago.
Even though the smell systems 'can' be very effective, they have always had the same flaw. They may have others, but there is always the same big one plaguing them. They don't have a way to clear out the air without annoying the subjects. In other words, in a very short time, they just stink!
Imagine if music players didn't end the previous musical note, the cacophony would quickly become unbearable. It's the same thing with these smell-o-vision gadgets. Sure there's a way around it, but who wants to wear a mask the whole time, or be in a freaking wind tunnel? Nobody, that's why they fail.
Come on designers! Freaking google the stupid ideas and realize why they failed so you can either fix the problems or not be stupid enough to repeat the same basic design F-Ups of the past!
I say you put in Mark Zuckerbergs home address and phone number, and see how that goes. :)
He might just change his mind when he starts getting a million ad calls and junk mail per day.
I'm still leaving mine blank though.
Except there are a lot of lawsuit happy morons out there that don't accept responsibility for their own actions and want to sue everyone who's even peripherally involved in even the vaguest sense so long as they have money.
You've heard about the moron that ignored the warning signs, climbed over the fence (by the warning sign) and tried to pet a dolphin that bit him? (I think the article said it was really minor, maybe didn't even break the skin.) He still got 10% of the insane amount he was asking for.
How about the lady that put the McDonalds hot coffee (law requires it be a minimum temp, at least in my state) in her lap between her legs while driving? Well if you haven't she squeezed, it popped, she got burns in places you don't want burns. She ended up suing McDonalds, I don't recall the result on that one.
A real winner that happened very recently, a bicyclist was being stupid and riding at night without lights and got hit by a car. The driver of the car sued the bicycle manufacturer. I guess it was for not forcing morons to use lights at night when bicycling, I don't remember. Again, I don't know what finally happened, if it's over yet.
Here's a story that's been done many times. Somebody gets shot, rather than sue the shooter, or even the gun store/show where it was purchased, they go after the big money and try to sue the gun manufacturer. This has happened so many times I'm sure you could write a book on it. (Don't know who'd want to buy it, but still...)
Those are just a few of the stupid lawsuits that should never have happened, but because greedy people don't care who it is, as long as they think they can get some loot.
I know some of those fit the situation listed with just a few noun changes, and others were to illustrate the litigation insanity of a growing group of creeps and cretins, but I hope I got the point across. It doesn't seem reasonable to us, but those type of lawsuits aren't brought by reasonable people.
I have to agree with those that think this article was a bunch of innuendo and unsubstantiated statements.
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"...when it began circulating around the world, unexplained, in mid-2009.
I found it extremely funny when they mentioned that the worm had no explanation of it's purpose, as if that were somehow indicative of a covert and malicious nature.
So, does anybody out there know of any worm, virus, trojan, or other malware that actually comes with a manifesto to explain it's existence/purpose?
By the way, all the pundits saying it would take the resources of a government to create that worm know very little about what it actually takes to make one. It did however take very intimate knowledge of the code running on those systems, so the creator probably has a copy of the source code on those machines, or the equivalent. (I'm pretty sure it's too large to be memorized by a single person.)
They don't. Even the pseudo-journalists were able to easily identify the company that made the systems Iran is using, and even which models Iran bought. Somehow I don't think anybody with a major wild hair for screwing them over had any more difficulty in finding that out.
Do you think they'll have nut obsessed rodents?
:)
The birthing is unlikely to have negative effects since both species are closely related, have the same approximate size, and have no known physiognomy variations that can cause issues. Unless the host mother is allergic to mammoth wool...
So you seem rather surprised and/or disgusted that a game that was written for MS Windows uses DirectX.
I guess if a Russian book written by a Russian author went public domain you would complain that it was written with a Cyrillic alphabet.
How long until they set it up so it's "extended for another year" renewal bill becomes automatically passed if it isn't voted down?
They've done it on other things. It's a scam where they can refuse to vote, it automatically passes, and they can claim they didn't vote for it.
It's going to take a lot of people to metaphorically kick them in the balls repeatedly until they get the idea that maybe that nazi act needs to be retired before they'll do it.
I can't help it, every time I see that name I think it's an H.P. Lovecraft reference. I wonder if it comes with an app named Yuggoth. Or maybe in the about page it says that it was made by fun guys...
Besides the copyright stuff, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If your program doesn't have issues, even if it's scope of functionality is limited, you don't have any pressing reasons to alter it.
Not touched in a decade is a moot point with a program that just works, especially if it's something behind the scenes that users don't notice.
(I know that doesn't describe WinMTR, but the principle is still valid. Some people don't like old style simple interfaces.)
Spelling has rules that are vastly ignored. To get passing grades it's years and years of rote memorization. If it were a true phonetic alphabet with no exceptions kids would have perfect spelling by 2nd or 3rd grade.
Exactly. Most people have probably never even heard the entire album, much less in the correct sequence. I only know 2 people that even have the album, and those are the old vinyl records, one of which doesn't even have a record player. Even when I was a kid, almost nobody wanted albums, but singles were rarely available, and when they were, they were overpriced.
I can type fast enough to keep notes in most of my classes, but there is no way in hell I can write that fast. Without my laptop I literally can't take notes.
As to other people seeing what's on your screen and snitching, it doesn't happen. I've had classes where people were playing Runescape the entire time. Nobody said a word, even though several people were watching intently. I didn't because I really don't care if an idiot fails the class. If you don't want to be there, then don't go, it's that simple. We're all (technically) adults in college, and besides that, the chairs in the lounge are much comfier and it has a better wifi connection.
It's censorship because they are REMOVING something that people already have legally obtained, not because they refuse to carry it in the first place. These people have bought and downloaded these legal and available books that they wanted, and then remotely deleting it from peoples libraries. (Kindle libraries, but so what, it belongs to the owners, not Amazon.)
And yes, removing it from the store (in addition but without regards to the Kindle) for reasons other than economic (product not selling would be an economic reason) or legal (court orders, or a valid worry about liability of carrying a do it yourself demolitions kit with free blasting caps) is, when applied to literature, the basic definition of censorship. (The part about doing it for legal reasons is also censorship, but is usually not addressed unless it's being done for political reasons or by decree of the government. For more examples of that, see Nazi Germany, North Korea, China, Iran and so many many other places.)
It's very unlikely they are removing these due to economic or legal reasons. There appear to be no lawsuits pending with regards to these books. Also, they are apparently selling since there are enough people complaining about them being deleted, while the costs to keep them available in the electronic inventory of the store is minuscule.