Redundant? No, it was an honest mistake and I really don't think that moderation was fair. It's quite clear he had meant to type "fr1st p0st!!!" but had his hand offset on the home row by one while he was typing. Growing up on Macs which had the little keyboard indicator nubbies under the middle fingers instead of the index fingers, I would frequently type out something in the IRCs and not realize my mistakeuntil I had already told everybody gege tgat;s wgat tiyr nin saud kast buggt!!
No no no, greater entropy-- less time. Sounds like things are still fuzzy on the specifics but I'd wager the answer is now somewhere between 29 and 38.
I dunno dude... if you polish a turd *really* hard, I mean *really* get some pressure on that thing, you could probably get a diamond when you're done with it!
I can't agree with this ideology. The fact of the matter is that MS developed a product, have had it pirated, and really should be under no moral or legal obligation to support the pirates. They already *do* provide vital security patches to pirated versions of Windows, asking that this be spread to antivirus and antimalware software just seems greedy. This is *especially* the case when there are plenty of alternatives, many free and many open. This story seems meant to drum up some anti-MS backlash where I really don't think it is warranted.
I would also argue the effectiveness of herd immunity on a medium in which any one machine is capable of connecting directly to any other machine in quick succession. The Internet is one damn big herd and for whatever percent of it this software benefits won't be significant enough to reduce the risk for those that aren't. Plus, I'd imagine a great number of people running pirated Windows are aware of the security risks.
It's a do it yourself tech course in high school... It's not supposed to be useful, it's supposed to be fascinating and hopefully get a few students more interested in pursuing further. Leave the computer basics to a computer class (or hopefully their parents...). However, the basic electricity course you described looks like it would be dead on. I can't think how often I'd need to hand wind an electric motor;)
You need to figure that you're teaching a high school class. You might have one or two students that are capable and motivated enough to get into complicated hacking and the rest that just want to get through the class. *Your* challenge is to come up with something that the majority of the class can accomplish while still allowing those handful of students to push further. I'd also argue that DIY Tech should have a stronger electronics background - most highschoolers wouldn't know how to use a multimeter... Digging into programming microcontrollers will be a stretch for a lot of your students at that grade (though admittedly I don't know what programming interfaces the devices mentioned use... If it's straightforward enough, go for it).
I'm no EE or RF guy, so I don't know how far off base this is-- but aren't Ethernet interfaces typically transistor coupled on either end so you don't have an actual phsyical grounding on either side? I'm guessing the optical isolator is supposed to sit at the edge of the cage itself so you don't have an Ethernet cable antenna going out... ?
I'm still a bit skeptical as I've worked in EMI hardened facilities where we have solid wires leaving the structure to outside antennas and it's really not possible to get a cell signal with the door closed.
Disclaimers--
1) I'm what happens when you let a software guy look at too many circuit diagrams:)
2) Cell provider is Sprint, so I'm suprised when my phone rings in my garage at home...
Jesus what is Soulskill thinking? This is supposed to be entitled "Massachusetts Allows Police To GPS Track Your Car," with the warrant mention buried down in TFA. You aren't going to get slashdotters panties in a bunch by posting an article about something going right!
All these replies and nobody got it? What have I done wrong? I have failed you all... I only hope I can learn from this failure and perhaps be less vague next time.
This is the kind of motorcycle I'm expecting him to ride.
"Built like a tank" -- Perhaps. I don't doubt at a lower speed, the Malibu would be crumpled to hell and the Bel Aire would suffer some scratches in the chrome. But, once your speed gets high enough you reach the point where regardless of how strong the steel is, it's still going to bust and bend. *This* is where the safety engineering of new cars comes into play, rather than pushing for strength, you design to disperse that energy around the occupants.
There's definitely a tradeoff here, the older more rigid body on frame designs are likely going to better handle a low speed collision and still drive away. The tradeoff is once you cross that threshold, an energy dispersing crumpling design is much more likely to let *you* walk away. We design for the big ones even though it means sacrificing the car in a minor accident.
I love a classic car as much as the next guy (probably more than a lot of the next guys:P ), and I'd cruise around in one in a heartbeat-- but it wouldn't be because I felt more safe in a large car like that. Appreciate the classics for what they are, it doesn't mean you can't appreciate modern engineering.
Replying to my own post because I realized that I insensitively disregarded those of us who live on crazy islands and drive on the wrong side of the road. Of course for them it's moot, 'cause it's mainly Americans who don't understand the drive lane/pass lane dynamics. Or so I imagine... You know, grass is greener and all, drivers are courteous and all.
When driving properly and courteously, you very rarely get tailgated because you don't allow traffic to stack behind you. There are of course exceptions, but it's for the most part a non-issue. Drive right, pass left. I think if everybody showed some respect for other drivers on the road (both ahead and behind), eventually no one would tailgate.
You may want to disregard the tailgater and that is certainly understandable-- but you can't disregard people behind or around him. A vehicle losing power on the freeway is not a simple "coast to a stop" situation. A car shutting down on the highway (particularly when not in neutral) will lose speed quickly. It will lose its power steering. It will quickly lose its brake boosting. Suddenly the tailgater is trying to operate a vehicle that is reacting vastly different from what he's used to. That certainly sucks to be him, but it sucks more to be the remainder of traffic around him dealing with a confused panicking driver in a barely functional car.
I know it's all hypothetical, and it really is fun to snicker and laugh at an asshole getting their comeuppance, but the danger to remaining traffic is too great to take this beyond "a fun idea." Also-- if somebody is stuck trying to pass you, consider your own driving. I'm not saying a tailgater's actions are right, but I'm not saying yours are, either. In general, a left lane is for passing. Don't hang out in it.
I suppose what I am getting at is that this mindset of "Either video games or drinking or movies..." is really stifling.
So is "either video games our going outside" - it's quite possible to enjoy a few hours of gaming and a few hours of biking a week. There are plenty of choices, and very few are a hard "either/or."
...but holy shit my WoW addiction is cheaper than my mountain bike addiction:(
I disagree. I think the whole point of Linux is to manage the software and files on your computer-- whether you are clueless about it or not. The OS is a tool. You should know how to use it, but it's not requisite that you know how it works. Consider an apt car example (woo car example!!!): You can operate a car just fine without knowing the inner workings of the engine. Knowing how to tweak around in there is *great* but not needed in order to drive it. I consider an operating system in a similar way. It's great to tweak around in there and get things just how you want them, but not everybody cares to go to that level and it doesn't help for you to demand that everybody does.
I may be an optimist but I see this more as "best of both worlds" than two faced. If you don't like an easy-mode distribution like Ubuntu that's fantastic-- hundreds of distributions exist out there for you to tweak to your liking. What I *do* like about the easy-mode distros is it opens up the market. Ubuntu gaining market share helps all distributions in the greater amount of software and hardware developed to work for it.
What I am enjoying about our current times for Linux is we have your great hackable distributions for the developers and the experts, *and* you have another distribution geared to just work out of the box. Binary drivers certainly don't help push free software, but opening up the OS to more hardware certainly can't hurt. More clueless users? Bring them on. It's the only way we'll be able to get more linux-native software and hardware. Without them, linux will be relegated to something only geeks use.
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Well, you may find a cheaper up front price, but you'll get gouged on the shipping.
Redundant? No, it was an honest mistake and I really don't think that moderation was fair. It's quite clear he had meant to type "fr1st p0st!!!" but had his hand offset on the home row by one while he was typing. Growing up on Macs which had the little keyboard indicator nubbies under the middle fingers instead of the index fingers, I would frequently type out something in the IRCs and not realize my mistakeuntil I had already told everybody gege tgat;s wgat tiyr nin saud kast buggt!!
Nah, it's cool. We're takin it back!
Porch Monkey 4 Life!
...indie rock musicians usually *have* jobs. It's the big label guys who don't.
Exactly, if we wanted to read the articles we'd get subscriptions to Playboy.
No no no, greater entropy-- less time. Sounds like things are still fuzzy on the specifics but I'd wager the answer is now somewhere between 29 and 38.
Well, does Australia even use the same "use it or lose it" precedent for trademarks that they use in the US?
However it goes, it's fun to watch- like playground politics. Who get's the best dirt in the sandbox today!?
I dunno dude... if you polish a turd *really* hard, I mean *really* get some pressure on that thing, you could probably get a diamond when you're done with it!
OK, I just tried that and nothing happened...
I can't agree with this ideology. The fact of the matter is that MS developed a product, have had it pirated, and really should be under no moral or legal obligation to support the pirates. They already *do* provide vital security patches to pirated versions of Windows, asking that this be spread to antivirus and antimalware software just seems greedy. This is *especially* the case when there are plenty of alternatives, many free and many open. This story seems meant to drum up some anti-MS backlash where I really don't think it is warranted.
I would also argue the effectiveness of herd immunity on a medium in which any one machine is capable of connecting directly to any other machine in quick succession. The Internet is one damn big herd and for whatever percent of it this software benefits won't be significant enough to reduce the risk for those that aren't. Plus, I'd imagine a great number of people running pirated Windows are aware of the security risks.
It's a do it yourself tech course in high school... It's not supposed to be useful, it's supposed to be fascinating and hopefully get a few students more interested in pursuing further. Leave the computer basics to a computer class (or hopefully their parents...). However, the basic electricity course you described looks like it would be dead on. I can't think how often I'd need to hand wind an electric motor ;)
You need to figure that you're teaching a high school class. You might have one or two students that are capable and motivated enough to get into complicated hacking and the rest that just want to get through the class. *Your* challenge is to come up with something that the majority of the class can accomplish while still allowing those handful of students to push further. I'd also argue that DIY Tech should have a stronger electronics background - most highschoolers wouldn't know how to use a multimeter... Digging into programming microcontrollers will be a stretch for a lot of your students at that grade (though admittedly I don't know what programming interfaces the devices mentioned use... If it's straightforward enough, go for it).
I'm no EE or RF guy, so I don't know how far off base this is-- but aren't Ethernet interfaces typically transistor coupled on either end so you don't have an actual phsyical grounding on either side? I'm guessing the optical isolator is supposed to sit at the edge of the cage itself so you don't have an Ethernet cable antenna going out... ?
:)
I'm still a bit skeptical as I've worked in EMI hardened facilities where we have solid wires leaving the structure to outside antennas and it's really not possible to get a cell signal with the door closed.
Disclaimers--
1) I'm what happens when you let a software guy look at too many circuit diagrams
2) Cell provider is Sprint, so I'm suprised when my phone rings in my garage at home...
Jesus what is Soulskill thinking? This is supposed to be entitled "Massachusetts Allows Police To GPS Track Your Car," with the warrant mention buried down in TFA. You aren't going to get slashdotters panties in a bunch by posting an article about something going right!
All these replies and nobody got it? What have I done wrong? I have failed you all... I only hope I can learn from this failure and perhaps be less vague next time.
This is the kind of motorcycle I'm expecting him to ride.
Fortunately I don't have to use it. I have Debian.
This is the part where you hop on your motorcycle and wheelie the f out of there, right? RIGHT!?!?
*Clearly* somebody has never seen 300.
Or maybe it's because Israel and India are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while Iran is...
God the northeast sucks...
"Built like a tank" -- Perhaps. I don't doubt at a lower speed, the Malibu would be crumpled to hell and the Bel Aire would suffer some scratches in the chrome. But, once your speed gets high enough you reach the point where regardless of how strong the steel is, it's still going to bust and bend. *This* is where the safety engineering of new cars comes into play, rather than pushing for strength, you design to disperse that energy around the occupants.
:P ), and I'd cruise around in one in a heartbeat-- but it wouldn't be because I felt more safe in a large car like that. Appreciate the classics for what they are, it doesn't mean you can't appreciate modern engineering.
There's definitely a tradeoff here, the older more rigid body on frame designs are likely going to better handle a low speed collision and still drive away. The tradeoff is once you cross that threshold, an energy dispersing crumpling design is much more likely to let *you* walk away. We design for the big ones even though it means sacrificing the car in a minor accident.
I love a classic car as much as the next guy (probably more than a lot of the next guys
Replying to my own post because I realized that I insensitively disregarded those of us who live on crazy islands and drive on the wrong side of the road. Of course for them it's moot, 'cause it's mainly Americans who don't understand the drive lane/pass lane dynamics. Or so I imagine... You know, grass is greener and all, drivers are courteous and all.
What's a tailgater?
When driving properly and courteously, you very rarely get tailgated because you don't allow traffic to stack behind you. There are of course exceptions, but it's for the most part a non-issue. Drive right, pass left. I think if everybody showed some respect for other drivers on the road (both ahead and behind), eventually no one would tailgate.
You may want to disregard the tailgater and that is certainly understandable-- but you can't disregard people behind or around him. A vehicle losing power on the freeway is not a simple "coast to a stop" situation. A car shutting down on the highway (particularly when not in neutral) will lose speed quickly. It will lose its power steering. It will quickly lose its brake boosting. Suddenly the tailgater is trying to operate a vehicle that is reacting vastly different from what he's used to. That certainly sucks to be him, but it sucks more to be the remainder of traffic around him dealing with a confused panicking driver in a barely functional car.
I know it's all hypothetical, and it really is fun to snicker and laugh at an asshole getting their comeuppance, but the danger to remaining traffic is too great to take this beyond "a fun idea." Also-- if somebody is stuck trying to pass you, consider your own driving. I'm not saying a tailgater's actions are right, but I'm not saying yours are, either. In general, a left lane is for passing. Don't hang out in it.
Oh give the man credit-- would *you* want to post a link to facebook on slashdot?
I suppose what I am getting at is that this mindset of "Either video games or drinking or movies..." is really stifling.
So is "either video games our going outside" - it's quite possible to enjoy a few hours of gaming and a few hours of biking a week. There are plenty of choices, and very few are a hard "either/or."
...but holy shit my WoW addiction is cheaper than my mountain bike addiction :(
I disagree. I think the whole point of Linux is to manage the software and files on your computer-- whether you are clueless about it or not. The OS is a tool. You should know how to use it, but it's not requisite that you know how it works. Consider an apt car example (woo car example!!!): You can operate a car just fine without knowing the inner workings of the engine. Knowing how to tweak around in there is *great* but not needed in order to drive it. I consider an operating system in a similar way. It's great to tweak around in there and get things just how you want them, but not everybody cares to go to that level and it doesn't help for you to demand that everybody does.
I may be an optimist but I see this more as "best of both worlds" than two faced. If you don't like an easy-mode distribution like Ubuntu that's fantastic-- hundreds of distributions exist out there for you to tweak to your liking. What I *do* like about the easy-mode distros is it opens up the market. Ubuntu gaining market share helps all distributions in the greater amount of software and hardware developed to work for it.
What I am enjoying about our current times for Linux is we have your great hackable distributions for the developers and the experts, *and* you have another distribution geared to just work out of the box. Binary drivers certainly don't help push free software, but opening up the OS to more hardware certainly can't hurt. More clueless users? Bring them on. It's the only way we'll be able to get more linux-native software and hardware. Without them, linux will be relegated to something only geeks use.