You cannot be rude to a computer. It's not a human being. I've kicked a door once or twice before, and punched a fridge once (both in my own home), when I was angry and frustrated. I've never done that to a human or in public, and I will never do (excluding self-defense of course). Am I still a rude person? Also, that's a big part of growing up: testing boundaries and seeing what happens if I do this or that. Since computers don't push back and there are no consequences, I don't blame kids. They just need to learn the difference between when it's ok to do it, and when it's not. Also, parent are worried that Amazon is making their kids rude?! It's your fucking job as parents to make sure you kid grows up a decent human being. It's not Amazon's job. If your kids can't behave because you bought an Echo, don't buy Echo and stop blaming others for your own failings as a parent.
Or you can be like Bernie. Fuck, for once, there is a worthy, honest candidate, who really stands by his principles, who is not in a pocket of any corporations, who has a long history of doing the right thing, instead of going with the popular opinion of the time, and a lot of experience with politics. And he is still losing to Hillary because of the rigged democratic party (superdelegates) and a perceived "socialist" boogieman bullshit.
Windows' native programming has long had a "MAX_PATH" constant, which devs would use to create a char[MAX_PATH] to accept user input (i.e. from a save file dialog). If you suddenly start creating paths larger than this, you risk buffer overflows.
It appears Microsoft assumes that only shitty programmers write code for Windows. MAX_PATH is a compile-time constant (#define in windef.h). Even if you declare char my_path[MAX_PATH] variable (surely, you mean char my_path[MAX_PATH+1], right?), you wouldn't just pass it in into some other function expecting exactly MAX_PATH characters to be written into it, right? Surely, you'll also pass in MAX_PATH as the number of chars you are expecting to get, right? Something like strncpy( my_path, other_path, MAX_PATH ) instead of strcpy( my_path, other_path ). Right? Right?!
So, your anecdotal evidence contradicts the other person's anecdotal evidence. And? Please look up the definition of the anecdotal evidence fallacy, in case this wasn't too clear.
Really, this is voted as +5 Informative here on *Slashdot*?! Comcast are not going to be laying OC3 lines all over the place. OC3 costs so much because it is strung directly to your office building or whereever. When you are talking about the cost of bandwidth to Comcast, it is the cost of IP transit. Right now you can get a 1Gbps (with a full cabinet for your equipment) for $400/month: https://he.net/special.pdf (I have nothing to do with them other than that I used to be happy customer for a long while). If you need just IP transit (no cabinet), it goes down to $0.32/Mbps per month. To transfer 1 Tb of data per month (i.e. their current cap), you need about 4 Mbps of bandwidth. So the data cost to Comcast is roughly $1.28 for each 1Tb. So please, let's stop with the bullshit indeed.
Yep. And spectacularly embarrass himself in the process. The sad part is that there will be millions of ignorant people who will believe the overpaid and entitled, simply because he has a pulpit to stand and a microphone. See the anti-vaccine queen Jenny McCarthy.
They dug up dirt on him, he dug up dirt on them. Seems fair. I can see it being a problem if he hired thugs to rough up a few journalists to silence them. On the other hand, bringing up valid lawsuits in a legitimate court of law, at least one of which 12 independent jurors confirmed to be valid, that's fair game. Free press (or freedom of speech for that matter) doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without any repercussions whatsoever. I guess some bloggers have to learn it the hard way.
Wow, Slashdot. So my comment gets downvoted *twice* to "flamebate" and then a comment "To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each"." from a different user gets upvoted to +5 (Informative). What am I missing?
Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions.
Either these were the dumbest criminals out there to steal only $907 a few cents at a time, or at least a word or two are missing from the sentence above.
The company insists that it won't use this information against you.
Yep, sure. It won't be used *against* you. Not at all. It will be used for your convenience, to make it easier for you to find a ride at competitive price. Don't worry, we'll find a positive spin to put on it in the future. We don't want a publicity shitstorm, no siree! These are not the droids you are looking for.
Can we please stop calling everything "robots"? For something to be a robot it has to be capable of some completely autonomous action. If the only action it can do by itself is "unfold once the ice melts" and then it has to be driven by outside magnets, it's not a robot, it's a remote controlled origami in ice at best.
Who types out the entire domain names any more? I just start typing whatever I need in the address bar, and the browser autocompletes it for me to whatever was the last thepiratebay.* domain I used (right now it's.org). And if that is somehow not available, it'll take 2 more seconds to google the next dot whatever. I guess I should be glad it's not my (taxpayer) money that are wasted paying for this nonsense, since I don't live in Sweden.
So basically Google is hiring potential crash-test dummies, or if you are optimistic, driver decoys to fool the police, for $20/hour? Because I can see them paying attention to what the car is doing the first half hour, and once you have confidence that it's not crashing, I'd be on reddit... hrm, I mean, slashdot for the rest of the day.
You can get an Arduino Mini board with WiFi module for less than $10 total and have as many buttons as you like, and a replaceable/rechargeable battery. It won't be as small though.
Regardless if the driver is lying or not, this whole incident just doesn't instill a lot of confidence in Tesla's autopilot mode. Yeah, I know it wasn't in full autonomous mode, but what I mean is, clearly the car doesn't have enough sensors to see a god damn trailer in front of it. Or does the "summon" mode not use all of the sensors available? That would be even more stupid.
And if you have the old version of ImageMagick (because you are on CentOS 5, for example) which doesn't support policy.xml, you can edit delegates.xml, by removing all delegates just to be safe. The file will be somewhere around:/usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.2.8/config/
So, here's my question. If Hillary gets indicted, convicted, or goes to jail, etc., after the DNC picks her as the candidate, but before the general elections, does Bernie get to be on the ballot? Or nobody from the Democratic party goes on the ballot? Is that the Republican's strategy all along?
Apple watch? Bah. Why PS3 is so slow? It's slow to start, it's slow to load its dashboard, it's slow to load apps. Has always been, and it's getting more annoying each time I'm waiting for it. I mean, why does it take a good minute or two to load Netflix? What is it doing while booting up? Probing the hardware? It should already know everything about the hardware since the console was produced (it's the same for every console, and there is a handful of SKUs). Even if something was replaced, it should know the configuration from the last time it started. Why does it take so long to load the Netflix app?! What is it doing, exactly? When I click netflix.com on my notebook, everything comes up in a fraction of a second. And I'm pretty sure PS3 is way more powerful than my notebook on the hardware side. So, in short, it's shitty software. Including Apple watch. If they can't fix iTunes for so many years, there is really no hope.
So, this experiment shows that there are special cases when the human mind can be tricked into making choices that are not "free". How to you jump to the generalization that there is not "free will" at all from that? If you see a horse swimming, do you write an article that horses are in fact fish?
In all likelihood, this part of the story isn't even public. I highly doubt Facebook/Instagram released the technical details of the hack, and since the hacker got paid, I don't think he'll be sharing that info either. By the way, this part in the summary is particularly troubling: "Jani found he could alter code on Instagram's servers and force-delete users' posts." He could alter code on the servers? I kind of hope it was just journalists misrepresenting the truth, and it was just a simple case of the URL parameters not being sanitized correctly or something. I takes a special degree of fuckupness to allow rewriting of code on the server.
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You cannot be rude to a computer. It's not a human being. I've kicked a door once or twice before, and punched a fridge once (both in my own home), when I was angry and frustrated. I've never done that to a human or in public, and I will never do (excluding self-defense of course). Am I still a rude person? Also, that's a big part of growing up: testing boundaries and seeing what happens if I do this or that. Since computers don't push back and there are no consequences, I don't blame kids. They just need to learn the difference between when it's ok to do it, and when it's not. Also, parent are worried that Amazon is making their kids rude?! It's your fucking job as parents to make sure you kid grows up a decent human being. It's not Amazon's job. If your kids can't behave because you bought an Echo, don't buy Echo and stop blaming others for your own failings as a parent.
You mean funny as in retelling an old joke that was originally about Germans and Poland/France? http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/i...
Or you can be like Bernie. Fuck, for once, there is a worthy, honest candidate, who really stands by his principles, who is not in a pocket of any corporations, who has a long history of doing the right thing, instead of going with the popular opinion of the time, and a lot of experience with politics. And he is still losing to Hillary because of the rigged democratic party (superdelegates) and a perceived "socialist" boogieman bullshit.
Well, it's not that simple. Considering that high-voltage transmission lines don't use any copper these days.
Windows' native programming has long had a "MAX_PATH" constant, which devs would use to create a char[MAX_PATH] to accept user input (i.e. from a save file dialog). If you suddenly start creating paths larger than this, you risk buffer overflows.
It appears Microsoft assumes that only shitty programmers write code for Windows. MAX_PATH is a compile-time constant (#define in windef.h). Even if you declare char my_path[MAX_PATH] variable (surely, you mean char my_path[MAX_PATH+1], right?), you wouldn't just pass it in into some other function expecting exactly MAX_PATH characters to be written into it, right? Surely, you'll also pass in MAX_PATH as the number of chars you are expecting to get, right? Something like strncpy( my_path, other_path, MAX_PATH ) instead of strcpy( my_path, other_path ). Right? Right?!
So, your anecdotal evidence contradicts the other person's anecdotal evidence. And? Please look up the definition of the anecdotal evidence fallacy, in case this wasn't too clear.
Really, this is voted as +5 Informative here on *Slashdot*?! Comcast are not going to be laying OC3 lines all over the place. OC3 costs so much because it is strung directly to your office building or whereever. When you are talking about the cost of bandwidth to Comcast, it is the cost of IP transit. Right now you can get a 1Gbps (with a full cabinet for your equipment) for $400/month: https://he.net/special.pdf (I have nothing to do with them other than that I used to be happy customer for a long while). If you need just IP transit (no cabinet), it goes down to $0.32/Mbps per month. To transfer 1 Tb of data per month (i.e. their current cap), you need about 4 Mbps of bandwidth. So the data cost to Comcast is roughly $1.28 for each 1Tb. So please, let's stop with the bullshit indeed.
Yep. And spectacularly embarrass himself in the process. The sad part is that there will be millions of ignorant people who will believe the overpaid and entitled, simply because he has a pulpit to stand and a microphone. See the anti-vaccine queen Jenny McCarthy.
They dug up dirt on him, he dug up dirt on them. Seems fair. I can see it being a problem if he hired thugs to rough up a few journalists to silence them. On the other hand, bringing up valid lawsuits in a legitimate court of law, at least one of which 12 independent jurors confirmed to be valid, that's fair game. Free press (or freedom of speech for that matter) doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without any repercussions whatsoever. I guess some bloggers have to learn it the hard way.
I don't think "jump the shark" means what you think it mean.
Wow, Slashdot. So my comment gets downvoted *twice* to "flamebate" and then a comment "To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each"." from a different user gets upvoted to +5 (Informative). What am I missing?
Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions.
Either these were the dumbest criminals out there to steal only $907 a few cents at a time, or at least a word or two are missing from the sentence above.
The company insists that it won't use this information against you.
Yep, sure. It won't be used *against* you. Not at all. It will be used for your convenience, to make it easier for you to find a ride at competitive price. Don't worry, we'll find a positive spin to put on it in the future. We don't want a publicity shitstorm, no siree! These are not the droids you are looking for.
Can we please stop calling everything "robots"? For something to be a robot it has to be capable of some completely autonomous action. If the only action it can do by itself is "unfold once the ice melts" and then it has to be driven by outside magnets, it's not a robot, it's a remote controlled origami in ice at best.
Who types out the entire domain names any more? I just start typing whatever I need in the address bar, and the browser autocompletes it for me to whatever was the last thepiratebay.* domain I used (right now it's .org). And if that is somehow not available, it'll take 2 more seconds to google the next dot whatever. I guess I should be glad it's not my (taxpayer) money that are wasted paying for this nonsense, since I don't live in Sweden.
So basically Google is hiring potential crash-test dummies, or if you are optimistic, driver decoys to fool the police, for $20/hour? Because I can see them paying attention to what the car is doing the first half hour, and once you have confidence that it's not crashing, I'd be on reddit... hrm, I mean, slashdot for the rest of the day.
If you know what you are doing, you'd start with the jointer and then use the planer. But then again, this is slashdot editors, so all bets are off.
You can get an Arduino Mini board with WiFi module for less than $10 total and have as many buttons as you like, and a replaceable/rechargeable battery. It won't be as small though.
Regardless if the driver is lying or not, this whole incident just doesn't instill a lot of confidence in Tesla's autopilot mode. Yeah, I know it wasn't in full autonomous mode, but what I mean is, clearly the car doesn't have enough sensors to see a god damn trailer in front of it. Or does the "summon" mode not use all of the sensors available? That would be even more stupid.
Heeey! Why do you insult mules with a strap-on dildo on the head?
And if you have the old version of ImageMagick (because you are on CentOS 5, for example) which doesn't support policy.xml, you can edit delegates.xml, by removing all delegates just to be safe. The file will be somewhere around: /usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.2.8/config/
So, here's my question. If Hillary gets indicted, convicted, or goes to jail, etc., after the DNC picks her as the candidate, but before the general elections, does Bernie get to be on the ballot? Or nobody from the Democratic party goes on the ballot? Is that the Republican's strategy all along?
Apple watch? Bah. Why PS3 is so slow? It's slow to start, it's slow to load its dashboard, it's slow to load apps. Has always been, and it's getting more annoying each time I'm waiting for it. I mean, why does it take a good minute or two to load Netflix? What is it doing while booting up? Probing the hardware? It should already know everything about the hardware since the console was produced (it's the same for every console, and there is a handful of SKUs). Even if something was replaced, it should know the configuration from the last time it started. Why does it take so long to load the Netflix app?! What is it doing, exactly? When I click netflix.com on my notebook, everything comes up in a fraction of a second. And I'm pretty sure PS3 is way more powerful than my notebook on the hardware side. So, in short, it's shitty software. Including Apple watch. If they can't fix iTunes for so many years, there is really no hope.
So, this experiment shows that there are special cases when the human mind can be tricked into making choices that are not "free". How to you jump to the generalization that there is not "free will" at all from that? If you see a horse swimming, do you write an article that horses are in fact fish?
In all likelihood, this part of the story isn't even public. I highly doubt Facebook/Instagram released the technical details of the hack, and since the hacker got paid, I don't think he'll be sharing that info either. By the way, this part in the summary is particularly troubling: "Jani found he could alter code on Instagram's servers and force-delete users' posts." He could alter code on the servers? I kind of hope it was just journalists misrepresenting the truth, and it was just a simple case of the URL parameters not being sanitized correctly or something. I takes a special degree of fuckupness to allow rewriting of code on the server.