Depends which windows. At least one of the NTs definately would bluescreen.
I actually had this on a function key on my mIRC client, so that if someone was trolling the IRC channel, I'd highlight their name, hit F10 (or something) and it'd kick them, ban them, then win-nuke them. More malicious types would just drop a bot into a channel and nuke everyone in there. God damn the dial-up days where wild sometimes.
I've yet to see it work well. It grouped a tonne of posts together that had wikipedia links for no reason other than wikipedia, and in another it gouped a bunch of posts together about australian electronic musician Tomas Ford together, then decided it was about Ford Motorcars (which apparently has deeply annoyed the somewhat anticorporate musician right off)
Having read thru parts of it, I could certainly understand the polices motives if they tried to ban it. Its a terrorism manual, and some of its a little more sophisticated than the spazzy "how to blow up bins at highschool" pap you used to see on the bbs.txt collections.
Its actually a fairly horrifying document, the guy has some seriously evil mental wiring. He's not planning just a war on muslims, he's rooting for the whole nuclear holocaust scenario, discusses in details things like anthrax attacks and useage of other WMDs. He's basically created in his mind a sort of white supremacist version of Al Quaida.
Whats a little scary, is that statistically speaking, white supremacists have a far more comprehensive history of terrorist attacks (The most successful terrorist organization in US history was never al quaida, but the ku klux klan) but have generally not been that successful, barring perhaps Timothy McVeighs bombing and the KKK attacks on blacks and republicans earlier in US history, and the reason for the lack of success is simply most white supremacists are frankly dumber than a bag of rocks. A manual like this however seems to be quite well researched and potentially places the ammo in white supremacists hands to become a lot more successful in their attacks on left wingers, muslims and ironically (as ABB was actually pro israel, somewhat unusually) against jewish folks.
It should't be banned, as the info is already out there, but if I where the authorities, I'd be rather worried.
Just for reference, iOS itself *does* in fact support full blown multitasking (and your quite welcome to use it in your code via posix threads and the like), however apple has decided to only allow its wierd serialized version of it on the phone because the *processor* is just too damn slow. Ultimately the iphone is #1 a telephone and under no circumstances should a user loading up 50 apps in memory slow the thing down where that functionality stops working. Unfortunately its hard enough doing ADHD task management on a full pc or mac (God only knows I'm constantly force-killing apps when facebook bloats firefox to behemoth size, photoshop chews a tonne of ram, eclipse decides to leak all over the place and all my background server tasks start destroying what sanity is left on the CPU, and I'm a computer guy. What chance does some kid on an iphone have when every one of the 200 $1 apps he downloads wants to live in the background to monitor for updates and download ads.
Its an annoying decision, but I can certainly see the reasoning behind it.
And no, its not that appropriate for a desktop computer. With that said, I'd love to see more apps take advantage of the faux multitasking serialize to disk apis in lion so that my crazy adhd "50 programs open at once" mentality would stop bringing the machine to its knees.
Yeah thats one of the big sticking points of difference between Orthodox and Liberal judaism is that you can convert in liberal judaism fairly easy whereas its an extremely complicated process (possibly not even possible) in orthodox judaism.
Its also been a big bone of contention in israel as to whether recognising converts.... well lets not go there, I detest that a modern western country still hasn't understood that the minute a government takes religion into account for citizenship your living in an undeclared theocracy. Alas.
Im going to go make a post on Google+ to my one friend on there about how my 250 friends on facebook are missing out on this wildly popular facebook killer. That is, if he ever logs in again.
Even then, a lot of EULAs rely on the end user trusting the company to Do-the-right-thing(tm) and so people just scroll and click. The problem is, in that 90 pages of turgid legalese and latin you just scrolled though , theres a clause that sells the company your soul, your children and your dog.
Its sort of a exploit that relies on the fact that if your not a lawyer, trying to take in 90 pages of lawyertalk basically amounts to a stack-smash for the brain, the brain pre-emptively firewalls it and says "fingers, just mouse click that shit, I aint reading it".
I read pretty much every contract that will involve me and money, but damned if I ever read eulas.
Which is funny you bring up religion, since the author of the paper "debunking" global warming is a creationist.
yeah my heckles got up pretty quickly reading the paper, first when I noted that one of the authors is considered a crank, and then it fairly rapidly violating the "a good scientific paper should concentrate on one scientific fact only and establish it well" rule of thumb for detecting crank science. Noting a possible error in a minor part of a certain theory and then rushing to claim it invalidates an entire field of science is a hallmark of crank science.
And modelling actually has a huge part to play in science. Its actually the only thing available to us when trying to work out future prospects. Its not "religion", and nobody in climate science treats it as beyond scrutiny regardless of the shrill claims of the denialist anti-science crowd.
Thats not how it works though. Remember all that SCO bullshit? SCO where sending around extortion letters to companies threatening to sue if they didn't pay up and when the companies would say "on what grounds?" SCO would reply "Thats confidential". Many companies paid up anyway, because its cheaper to just pay them "gtfo and leave us alone" protection racket money than get in some protracted mud wrestle with a fuckwit litigation factory.
Microsoft are currently doing a similar thing , getting companies to pay patent licencing fees on linux whilst not revealing exactly what patents are being licenced.
Its a huge racket, and MPEG-LA (Who btw have *nothing* to do with the motion picture expert group) and the stupid pricks who run the VOIP codec pools are nothing more than predators out to extract rent from other peoples hard work.
The government out act with haste to shut these companies down as rent seeking monopolist scammers who contribute nothing to the economy and actively harm innovation.
And considering the long history of governments threatening to defund scientists if they keep writing reports saying we're in trouble, believe me, not a lot of that government megabux is hitting climate science.
Family members working in the field are always complaining that they are getting political interference from politicians trying to cut their funding.
Climate science is struggling , and there are huge financial carrots being dangled for scientists to sell out their principles and start writing bogus science for oil companies. For the small fraction that have taken the carrot, I doubt they sleep well at night. Still the bills have to be paid.
Fun fact. The elderly pensioner who lived next door to me is now homeless after being credit card frauded over the internet. He was an old , not particularly literate, old man.
The company who got broken into didn't do this to him , the thief did.
Stick all the abstractions you like up your own arse and light it on fire for all I can care. The buck stops at a respectable but aged 70 year old man who last I checked is living in a squat with junkies because some punk thought it would be clever to empty his meagre pension and thus make him unable to pay his boarding house rent. Thats the bottom line.
Actually its funny you say that. My grandfather (RIP) used to code systems in DEC-Basic on those old VAX mainframes that basically ran entire petroleum refineries , and probably still do to this day. The old guy went to the grave 4-5 years ago still convinced procedural programming was a fad (God knows what the old boy made of OO).
A modern linux distro ought be able to just update with a quick shuffle of the sources.list and an apt-get update;; apt-get distro-upgrade every new release.
The lack of mysteriousness under the hood of a linux box (Its just a kernel with some drivers, some libraries, X and a desktop manager really) means that theres really not a pressing reason to ever reformat and re-install unless you've utterly monged the filesystem and even thats pretty hard to do these days with modern journaling FS's.
Actually heck, come to think of it, I don't think I've had to flatten and re-install my mac in about 4 years either. Just drop in the disk when a new version comes out and presto. Hell lion supposedly installs from the silly-ass app store thing.
In other news the police lion project was also cancelled after the cats proved more interest in tearing the police-dogs limb to limb and then feasting on the arms of the trainers.
Yep. LSD is synthesized and is structurally similar to Ergotamine, which is a treatment for migranes. Hoffman was studying derivatives from ergotamine, one can safely presume he was trying to work out what about ergotamines structure causes the migrane relief, either to create a better drug, or to avoid some of the nastier side effects of ergotamine which unfortunately can be pretty savage.
or the first time in US history, white babies are a minority.
What? Citation please?
The current statistic is around 45% of people under 5 are ethnic minorities, but , and heres the big but, a large number of those minorities are still white, like jewish folks, for instance or children of european immigrants., for instance.
That means that as a percentage , white people are still growing accounting for more than half of child births. The idea that white people are becoming a minority in the west is a popular one, but as always it remains a complete myth, usually perpetrated by racist groups too I might add.
I think your sort of missing where.NET was targetted. In my view.NET was never intended to be a replacement to the native C interfaces (MFC, COM, etc) but rather as a way of taking on the Java market for servers and Delphi/VLC market for desktop development, and succeeded in it because Java (at least at the time) was utterly unsuited to agile high turnover development, and Delphi was being tragically mismanaged, priced out of the market and being ignored in favor of utterly wierd "middleware" frameworks that nobody cared about by borland. The evidence for this all is compelling. C# had a distinct "java-ness" to it, but seemed to avoid javas worst language sins. It did however include a dot net library that out-of-the-box contained a metric tonne of useful but easy to use libraries for enterprisey-servery sort of stuff (and especially so when the workflow and soap type stuff is thrown into the mix. There was also a lot of Delphis best manners thrown in as well including an exceptionally well balanced GUI editor and widget toolkit that blew the old VB one out the water. The dot net libraries had a distinctly VLC flavor to them and in fact where designed by the same guy who designed delphi.
Delphi pretty rapidly disapeared from the mainstream, also aided by borlands ridiculous business and technical decisions (Many coders to this day hold Delphi 4 to be one of the most productive environments of all time, and later delphis to be complete messes) and Java is definately still around but arguably not the first choice anymore for doing dev on windows servers.
Microsoft put the final dagger in on this by realising what made delphi both boom and then die. Delphi took off because a generation of coders where raised on Turbo Pascal, and around the time Delphi 4 came out, Borland started putting Delphi 2 for free on magazine covers (which a LOT of my old workmates started out on) , an open source hobbyist community built amazing libraries and components and this made development bitchin' fast. But borland started pricing updates at astronomical prices. I could never convince my boss to update our Delphi 4's to 5,6 or 7 (and by that point we'd moved to linux) because the prices where just astronomical. Many thousands to get the features we needed. And there was NO WAY to be a delphi hobbyist anymore.
So microsoft comes along and basically gives dot net away. You could get free versions of vb.net and c# and whilst not totally suited to enterprise , where plenty good for hobbyists, and updating to a more enterprisey-suited visual studio (which included everything) really wasnt a huge hole in the pocket. And despite our suspicions that dot net would run like a dog compared to delphis highly optimized compiler (at one point it competed favorably with the intel C compiler) it actually ran more than good enough for pretty much everything except (at the time) high performance gaming (And to be honest, most high performance gaming was in C/C++ anyway, although I strongly suspect the old delphi compilers where infact up to the task)
Dot net is a fantastic platform. Its just a shame I cant use it on my mac. Or for that matter its a shame I cant use Cocoa on a PC, thats a pretty fantastic platform too.
Actually having had family members working in this very field in the CSIRO I can tell you that they bend over backwards to respond to FOI requests, however certain lines are and must be drawn in the sand.
Data who's release would ruin the PhD chances of a student will not be released where possible prior to the PhD process ending, because its fucking ruinous to wreck some guys 10 years of research to appease stupid anti-science denialists.
Data which belongs to private companies (as a lot of this data is) cant be released because it would be illegal, as we have a fairly strict copyright regime.
And FOI requests that are plain onerous are going to be rejected because these guys are seriously overworked already and as we learned from the letters leaked in the climate-gate frame up, much of the FOI requests coming in to these guys are nothing more than harassment.
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Almost nothing is strictly interpretted these days. Almost any language I can think of thats not hard compiled at least gets reduced to bytecode , and in many cases then JIT compiled on the fly.
Short of a bytecode compilation speed-bump, the comments won't affect a thing.
I've got the oposite problem, I want more programmers in the world so I can give my job to some kid and become his boss and get off this bloody codemonkey treadmill I've been on for 20 years.
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And of course the rule #34 version of that cartoon itself
http://goatkcd.com/305/sfw
Just to be a bit meta.
Depends which windows. At least one of the NTs definately would bluescreen.
I actually had this on a function key on my mIRC client, so that if someone was trolling the IRC channel, I'd highlight their name, hit F10 (or something) and it'd kick them, ban them, then win-nuke them. More malicious types would just drop a bot into a channel and nuke everyone in there. God damn the dial-up days where wild sometimes.
I've yet to see it work well. It grouped a tonne of posts together that had wikipedia links for no reason other than wikipedia, and in another it gouped a bunch of posts together about australian electronic musician Tomas Ford together, then decided it was about Ford Motorcars (which apparently has deeply annoyed the somewhat anticorporate musician right off)
Having read thru parts of it, I could certainly understand the polices motives if they tried to ban it. Its a terrorism manual, and some of its a little more sophisticated than the spazzy "how to blow up bins at highschool" pap you used to see on the bbs .txt collections.
Its actually a fairly horrifying document, the guy has some seriously evil mental wiring. He's not planning just a war on muslims, he's rooting for the whole nuclear holocaust scenario, discusses in details things like anthrax attacks and useage of other WMDs. He's basically created in his mind a sort of white supremacist version of Al Quaida.
Whats a little scary, is that statistically speaking, white supremacists have a far more comprehensive history of terrorist attacks (The most successful terrorist organization in US history was never al quaida, but the ku klux klan) but have generally not been that successful, barring perhaps Timothy McVeighs bombing and the KKK attacks on blacks and republicans earlier in US history, and the reason for the lack of success is simply most white supremacists are frankly dumber than a bag of rocks. A manual like this however seems to be quite well researched and potentially places the ammo in white supremacists hands to become a lot more successful in their attacks on left wingers, muslims and ironically (as ABB was actually pro israel, somewhat unusually) against jewish folks.
It should't be banned, as the info is already out there, but if I where the authorities, I'd be rather worried.
Just for reference, iOS itself *does* in fact support full blown multitasking (and your quite welcome to use it in your code via posix threads and the like), however apple has decided to only allow its wierd serialized version of it on the phone because the *processor* is just too damn slow. Ultimately the iphone is #1 a telephone and under no circumstances should a user loading up 50 apps in memory slow the thing down where that functionality stops working. Unfortunately its hard enough doing ADHD task management on a full pc or mac (God only knows I'm constantly force-killing apps when facebook bloats firefox to behemoth size, photoshop chews a tonne of ram, eclipse decides to leak all over the place and all my background server tasks start destroying what sanity is left on the CPU, and I'm a computer guy. What chance does some kid on an iphone have when every one of the 200 $1 apps he downloads wants to live in the background to monitor for updates and download ads.
Its an annoying decision, but I can certainly see the reasoning behind it.
And no, its not that appropriate for a desktop computer. With that said, I'd love to see more apps take advantage of the faux multitasking serialize to disk apis in lion so that my crazy adhd "50 programs open at once" mentality would stop bringing the machine to its knees.
Yeah thats one of the big sticking points of difference between Orthodox and Liberal judaism is that you can convert in liberal judaism fairly easy whereas its an extremely complicated process (possibly not even possible) in orthodox judaism.
Its also been a big bone of contention in israel as to whether recognising converts .... well lets not go there, I detest that a modern western country still hasn't understood that the minute a government takes religion into account for citizenship your living in an undeclared theocracy. Alas.
Im going to go make a post on Google+ to my one friend on there about how my 250 friends on facebook are missing out on this wildly popular facebook killer. That is, if he ever logs in again.
Even then, a lot of EULAs rely on the end user trusting the company to Do-the-right-thing(tm) and so people just scroll and click. The problem is, in that 90 pages of turgid legalese and latin you just scrolled though , theres a clause that sells the company your soul, your children and your dog.
Its sort of a exploit that relies on the fact that if your not a lawyer, trying to take in 90 pages of lawyertalk basically amounts to a stack-smash for the brain, the brain pre-emptively firewalls it and says "fingers, just mouse click that shit, I aint reading it".
I read pretty much every contract that will involve me and money, but damned if I ever read eulas.
Which is funny you bring up religion, since the author of the paper "debunking" global warming is a creationist.
yeah my heckles got up pretty quickly reading the paper, first when I noted that one of the authors is considered a crank, and then it fairly rapidly violating the "a good scientific paper should concentrate on one scientific fact only and establish it well" rule of thumb for detecting crank science. Noting a possible error in a minor part of a certain theory and then rushing to claim it invalidates an entire field of science is a hallmark of crank science.
And modelling actually has a huge part to play in science. Its actually the only thing available to us when trying to work out future prospects. Its not "religion", and nobody in climate science treats it as beyond scrutiny regardless of the shrill claims of the denialist anti-science crowd.
Thats not how it works though. Remember all that SCO bullshit? SCO where sending around extortion letters to companies threatening to sue if they didn't pay up and when the companies would say "on what grounds?" SCO would reply "Thats confidential". Many companies paid up anyway, because its cheaper to just pay them "gtfo and leave us alone" protection racket money than get in some protracted mud wrestle with a fuckwit litigation factory.
Microsoft are currently doing a similar thing , getting companies to pay patent licencing fees on linux whilst not revealing exactly what patents are being licenced.
Its a huge racket, and MPEG-LA (Who btw have *nothing* to do with the motion picture expert group) and the stupid pricks who run the VOIP codec pools are nothing more than predators out to extract rent from other peoples hard work.
The government out act with haste to shut these companies down as rent seeking monopolist scammers who contribute nothing to the economy and actively harm innovation.
Typing google into google doesn't prove your a man, it just makes you dangerous to the internet!
And considering the long history of governments threatening to defund scientists if they keep writing reports saying we're in trouble, believe me, not a lot of that government megabux is hitting climate science.
Family members working in the field are always complaining that they are getting political interference from politicians trying to cut their funding.
Climate science is struggling , and there are huge financial carrots being dangled for scientists to sell out their principles and start writing bogus science for oil companies. For the small fraction that have taken the carrot, I doubt they sleep well at night. Still the bills have to be paid.
Fun fact. The elderly pensioner who lived next door to me is now homeless after being credit card frauded over the internet. He was an old , not particularly literate, old man.
The company who got broken into didn't do this to him , the thief did.
Stick all the abstractions you like up your own arse and light it on fire for all I can care. The buck stops at a respectable but aged 70 year old man who last I checked is living in a squat with junkies because some punk thought it would be clever to empty his meagre pension and thus make him unable to pay his boarding house rent. Thats the bottom line.
Not really. I havent pirated an MP3 in ages. This started precisely the time it was possible for me to get DRM free MP3's and Oggs at a fair price.
Sure its a BSD. Pretty much any unix that isn't linux (or minix lol) shares DNA from the early AT&T + BSD unix's.
But I wouldn't call it a sibling anymore of the modern BSDs (It was originally), more a hipster turtleneck wearing cousin.
Actually its funny you say that. My grandfather (RIP) used to code systems in DEC-Basic on those old VAX mainframes that basically ran entire petroleum refineries , and probably still do to this day. The old guy went to the grave 4-5 years ago still convinced procedural programming was a fad (God knows what the old boy made of OO).
I miss him so much :(
Wrong mission, both of you.
Your update cycle is shorter than my uptimes.
A modern linux distro ought be able to just update with a quick shuffle of the sources.list and an apt-get update ;; apt-get distro-upgrade every new release.
The lack of mysteriousness under the hood of a linux box (Its just a kernel with some drivers, some libraries, X and a desktop manager really) means that theres really not a pressing reason to ever reformat and re-install unless you've utterly monged the filesystem and even thats pretty hard to do these days with modern journaling FS's.
Actually heck, come to think of it, I don't think I've had to flatten and re-install my mac in about 4 years either. Just drop in the disk when a new version comes out and presto. Hell lion supposedly installs from the silly-ass app store thing.
In other news the police lion project was also cancelled after the cats proved more interest in tearing the police-dogs limb to limb and then feasting on the arms of the trainers.
Yep. LSD is synthesized and is structurally similar to Ergotamine, which is a treatment for migranes. Hoffman was studying derivatives from ergotamine, one can safely presume he was trying to work out what about ergotamines structure causes the migrane relief, either to create a better drug, or to avoid some of the nastier side effects of ergotamine which unfortunately can be pretty savage.
I think your sort of missing where .NET was targetted. In my view .NET was never intended to be a replacement to the native C interfaces (MFC, COM, etc) but rather as a way of taking on the Java market for servers and Delphi/VLC market for desktop development, and succeeded in it because Java (at least at the time) was utterly unsuited to agile high turnover development, and Delphi was being tragically mismanaged, priced out of the market and being ignored in favor of utterly wierd "middleware" frameworks that nobody cared about by borland. The evidence for this all is compelling. C# had a distinct "java-ness" to it, but seemed to avoid javas worst language sins. It did however include a dot net library that out-of-the-box contained a metric tonne of useful but easy to use libraries for enterprisey-servery sort of stuff (and especially so when the workflow and soap type stuff is thrown into the mix. There was also a lot of Delphis best manners thrown in as well including an exceptionally well balanced GUI editor and widget toolkit that blew the old VB one out the water. The dot net libraries had a distinctly VLC flavor to them and in fact where designed by the same guy who designed delphi.
Delphi pretty rapidly disapeared from the mainstream, also aided by borlands ridiculous business and technical decisions (Many coders to this day hold Delphi 4 to be one of the most productive environments of all time, and later delphis to be complete messes) and Java is definately still around but arguably not the first choice anymore for doing dev on windows servers.
Microsoft put the final dagger in on this by realising what made delphi both boom and then die. Delphi took off because a generation of coders where raised on Turbo Pascal, and around the time Delphi 4 came out, Borland started putting Delphi 2 for free on magazine covers (which a LOT of my old workmates started out on) , an open source hobbyist community built amazing libraries and components and this made development bitchin' fast. But borland started pricing updates at astronomical prices. I could never convince my boss to update our Delphi 4's to 5,6 or 7 (and by that point we'd moved to linux) because the prices where just astronomical. Many thousands to get the features we needed. And there was NO WAY to be a delphi hobbyist anymore.
So microsoft comes along and basically gives dot net away. You could get free versions of vb.net and c# and whilst not totally suited to enterprise , where plenty good for hobbyists, and updating to a more enterprisey-suited visual studio (which included everything) really wasnt a huge hole in the pocket. And despite our suspicions that dot net would run like a dog compared to delphis highly optimized compiler (at one point it competed favorably with the intel C compiler) it actually ran more than good enough for pretty much everything except (at the time) high performance gaming (And to be honest, most high performance gaming was in C/C++ anyway, although I strongly suspect the old delphi compilers where infact up to the task)
Dot net is a fantastic platform. Its just a shame I cant use it on my mac. Or for that matter its a shame I cant use Cocoa on a PC, thats a pretty fantastic platform too.
Actually having had family members working in this very field in the CSIRO I can tell you that they bend over backwards to respond to FOI requests, however certain lines are and must be drawn in the sand.
Data who's release would ruin the PhD chances of a student will not be released where possible prior to the PhD process ending, because its fucking ruinous to wreck some guys 10 years of research to appease stupid anti-science denialists.
Data which belongs to private companies (as a lot of this data is) cant be released because it would be illegal, as we have a fairly strict copyright regime.
And FOI requests that are plain onerous are going to be rejected because these guys are seriously overworked already and as we learned from the letters leaked in the climate-gate frame up, much of the FOI requests coming in to these guys are nothing more than harassment.
Almost nothing is strictly interpretted these days. Almost any language I can think of thats not hard compiled at least gets reduced to bytecode , and in many cases then JIT compiled on the fly.
Short of a bytecode compilation speed-bump, the comments won't affect a thing.
I've got the oposite problem, I want more programmers in the world so I can give my job to some kid and become his boss and get off this bloody codemonkey treadmill I've been on for 20 years.