I've known a few contractors and they often make my annual salary in the few months of work but there are trade offs:
- Sometimes they spend months to a year trying to line up new work, their budgets can get really tight and looking for work looks a lot like just plain work to me, except there's no pay. - Sometimes they don't get paid. I was baffled by this as I'm sure you are: See, lawyers cost $5-10K to try to wrestle the money from the company, but likely the company either doesn't have the money, or still won't pay. So they have to plan to occasionally eat 3months of work (about how long it takes before you know your not getting paid) and personally bought infrastructure. - Frequently they spend weeks working nights and weekends, while I usually only do this annually when a delivery is scheduled they seem to have to do this for every other contract.
I really can't see any of the contractors I know try to fit a family into that life, but they sure do make a lot and take a ridiculous amount of vacations.
I have to disagree with you there; I can only recall eating two forms of prepared insects, but they have both been great. Roasted Peruvian jungle grubs were juicer than most meats I've tried and Australian Lemon Ants tasted like sweet lemons (I don't know the proper names of either of those). I also have a few friends who've been brave enough to eat various forms of fried or roasted insects and liked them. Raw animal meats are kinda weird, so I think it is only appropriate that I compare the prepared forms.
Also, I'm dating a vegetarian who became a vegetarian because she hated the taste of meat and thinks I'm farting, or maybe something died every time the neighbors start a bbq.
So what I'm trying to say: to each his own, let those who've never tried insects give them a chance. I for one, think they're pretty good.
You're betting on him being captured and giving the pass-phrase out when the companies he hacked don't show up to rescue him, or some other hacker breaking the encryption key so you can look at it while he goes to jail anyway.
The idea is that once he gets arrested, the other people who downloaded it may hoard the information they get out of it and his site will get shut down when you're 1/2lf way through downloading it. Then you'll have to sit around for a few years waiting for those guys to release portions of what they decrypted.
In the mean time, you're just humoring a 17year old prankster that fancies himself a l33t hax0r, haha, wouldn't it be funny if he really DID have all the data he says he has? Downloading a bunch of random data isn't abetting.
I suspect he hasn't sorted through it. e probably grabbed everything he could find on a dozen different servers / company and never bothered to cut out identical files along with all the garbage that accumulates in projects under development; e.g. versioned backups of the 80 variations of each texture the team went through to vote out later.
I suspect it still won't be useful to your average person once decrypted, until someone with way too much time on their hands goes through it, if they do at all.
those not initiated into the orders of nobility associated with "clearances"-- cannot select their government based on real, verifiable information
To get information, you need a clearance _and_ a need to know. So even with a clearance, you may not "need" to know why something is done the way it is and you certainly don't know what the other spooks across the hall are doing or why. In fact those with clearances are required to protect state secrets from themselves, for example you can't read wiki-leaks, lest you discover something they don't need you to know. those with clearances may even be less informed.
Well at my highschool, college, local library and workplace we have 2D printers and people have been printing controversial things on them forever.
-Sex toys? porn/erotica, I've seen it printed in all of the above locations. -Weapons? well, instructions to build them; printed some myself, which are probably more dangerous than the plastic shanks you could print on this thing. - Copyrighted stuff? books, pictures, etc. all the time, I've printed these things frequently in many locations.
People are just worried about new technology, but people have been abusing 2D printers for years and they will abuse 3D printers just as bad and it won't ruin society.
I suspect there won't be any trouble while people still have to pay to print things on them and can reasonably expect they'll need a knowledgeable assistant around to help them when the machine gets stuck. You do not want to be the guy who jammed the school printer with micky-mouse-dildo-guns.
People will get fun from whatever they get fun from; I don't understand a lot about watching sports or e-sports, but I'll try to share what I do.
My whole family played tennis while I went through high school. We'd sit and do homework with tennis on in the background. It's an easy way to learn plays, terminology and observe proper form. I got involved in local poker tournaments as a place to hang out with people, in a game that involves a good deal of strategy, but found I did not have the patience to watch poker tournaments, but new many of the people there did to get a better understanding of the game.
I would often watch starcraft. I was somewhere in the bottom 5% of amateur players when I played online.Watching pro-starcraft matches gives me the same advantages as above, besides the fact that watching space marines take formations to shoot acid spewing aliens is somehow entertaining to me in its own right.
I admire your decision to do something noble with your free time like reading code, but after a tough day of debugging (hopefully unintentionally) obfuscated C code, I'd often much rather kick back and watch little simulated creatures blow each other up than debug more code.
I think the hiding places analogy he used is better.
They know you've cached things in the woods on three different occasions, but they don't have the resources to find them. They tore open one cache here and found evidence of crimes and you are now ordered to show them the other two caches. The judge now orders you reveal the other two locations. If you don't comply, they can either search obvious places (dictionary attacks) or sweep the whole forest (brute force). Either way it's far harder than holding you in contempt of court.
They managed to decrypt one of them. As we know, the FBI has nothing better to do with their time, and they have a good idea of the sort of passwords he uses, so they'll probably crack the rest in a little while, if they don't just throw them in a box for the 10years he's in prison and crack them with computers that run at 2^5 times the speed of their current machines then.
Depending on what he has on there, they may not be able to lay out powerful enough threats to make him decrypt the remaining drives, but I don't think this particular guy is what most of us are really concerned about in this case. What IT professional doesn't have an encrypted drive around with hacker tools and perfectly legal stuff they don't want decrypted? Say my neighbor downloaded something sketchy and they know I frequently use his wireless...decrypt my drives for them and have it reported that I had "intricate filesystems containing zillions of porn images and suspicious tools" or spend a few months in jail for contempt? Hence why your normal/.er is all excited about the implications here.
$30 million dollars is why this is news. I've got two friends publishing Apps for their livelihoods, and combined they make half what I do as a typical developer.
There may be a lot of comments saying "this app is crap," but still no one has explained how he got $30million for it. You've theorized connections, others have theorized: anything that uses yahoo's typical interests.
Someone got rich and famous over a simple app, while all the app developers I know are scrounging by while producing much fancier apps. That is news.
Look no farther than the current site, that has long been known as slashvertisement.com.
Instead of publishing honest game reviews, let the gaming companies slip you bribes for better ratings and your attention!
Just don't let your readers find out; they are of the firm belief that all services provided to them should be from the charity of strangers' souls and free of cost.
Ok, I'm not a complete nutjob here, and I understand two parts of why they bother, first the agency is there to protect our own planet from samples coming back: if the moon or Mars supported life for a few billion years it might become horribly invasive when brought back into the paradise that is our planet, so there is that. Second, they don't want a bacteria covered microscope looking for Martian bacteria because that would kinda nullify the results.
But anyway, I care. I personally feel that we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to take life off this planet ASAP. What if earth is rendered uninhabitable by some unforeseeable cosmic event? As far as we know life is unique to this planet and it would be kinda a bummer to see it all get wiped out when there was a chance to let it restart somewhere else. I'm morally opposed to protecting other planets from ourselves.
The whole article they talk about taking care of the solar system for future research, but fuck future research; if we successfully dropped life onto another planet, that would be way more interesting than our typical: "this rock has more iron than that rock," and I really see no need to save those rocks for our great grandchildren at the expense of creating alien life.
You don't even need a conspiracy to explain why. Now this guy isn't even using certified equipment; I certainly wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.
Celebrating a "holiday" simply because it's the first day of a new year
No, it's not a celebration, it's more of a national sick day: 90% of the work force was up all night drinking way too much and if they come in, we'll spend the next week repairing the damage they did while trying to preserve their sick days.
I don't know if this is how it started, but I'm pretty sure that's why it is still there. I don't think Chinese new year needs to be a federal holiday, but if your company employs a good portion of Chinese New Year celebrators and they celebrate their new year with as much alcohol as I do, then I would recommend implementing the day after as a holiday.
Mandating these Holidays at a federal level; though, I agree that is pretty silly.
Slashdot stories seem to be rated on the number of comments they generate; a simple factual report will disappear if you don't generate 100 or so comments about grammatical errors.
Seems like a pretty sweet application of EMS though.
Why don't you start your own business, for a change?
All of the housewives (and a couple husbands) I know have some sort of business started in selling crafts, writing, landscaping or other semi-talented labor, and most of them don't make what they could be making if they were employed/contracting, some lose more money than they make.
I know several friends who started businesses with investment and several unfortunate enough to use their own.
Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that I know there are success stories of a few people that are always held up in front of us as encouragement, but I have not yet met anyone who "got rich" from starting their own business, and I've seen many try.
The tube should ameliorate some of the dangerous effects of repeated exposure to gastric acids by the sensitive tissues and teeth of the mouth and throat, so there is that...
I figured that was a good reason until I got to this part:
The user then squeezes a little plastic bag to replace that volume of stomach-stew with water.
...wait, what's wrong with the original tube they've been cramming cheeseburgers down before hand? Going number four is OK for these people as they try to lose weight, but drinking water is still too hard a road towards health?
Been there, done that: Legos are cheaper, and they haven't thrown my girlfriend out the window because I spent too much time with her rather than them.
I could go on forever with this: they don't invite their mother over to take their side in disagreements; they don't not want to play for one week out of the month...
the most n00bish form of data destruction you can imagine, and has probably only been partially successful at best.
This is why I'm here; this is seriously geek news for us privacy/forensic perverts: this will be a rare opportunity given that our nations top resources will be put on recovering this data and the media is going to demand to know every shred that was recovered, we'll actually see this method tested thoroughly.
I also find it interesting that this guy is supposedly a computer guru, and yet few assume he DBANed (or whatever kids do these days) his drives before physically destroying them, just for good measure. Of course he was also clearly crazy, so there is probably no reason or plan behind his data destruction.
At the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily, of course! There, you can not only get a double-patty burger for $1 as advertised frequently on television, radio and the internet.
I still think the more likely scenario is that nobody but those who are already using them will ever use them
Will you retract this statement if it can be shown that tomorrow bitcoin will have more users than it has today?
No, the statement started as, "The scenario is that" Then after that was proven false, it became, "The more likely scenario is that" Then it became, "I think the more likely scenario is that" Then: "Maybe, but I think the more likely scenario is that" Finally: "Maybe, but I _still_ think the more likely scenario is that"
Tomorrow: "Probably, but I still cling to the thought that today is the day that the scenario has finally become..."
My car got broken into over the weekend, everything removable down to my broken $10 sunglasses got stolen, but the thieves just piled my books on passenger seat. Glad I didn't bring my kindle that day.
"the robot is simply performing a preset action" So the story would more likely be: Out of control avatar retrieves soft-drinks for 17 not-thirsty people.
The avatar idea here is pretty cool, but not even the author seems to understand why they don't just cut to eye-tracking, instead of the whole: reading the patients mind to determine what they are looking at. It looks to me to be an easy way to over complicate an already difficult project.
I wonder how disabled you have to be to get one. I mean, what if I just really don't want to walk all the way over to the fridge, could I get one prescribed?
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I've known a few contractors and they often make my annual salary in the few months of work but there are trade offs:
- Sometimes they spend months to a year trying to line up new work, their budgets can get really tight and looking for work looks a lot like just plain work to me, except there's no pay.
- Sometimes they don't get paid. I was baffled by this as I'm sure you are: See, lawyers cost $5-10K to try to wrestle the money from the company, but likely the company either doesn't have the money, or still won't pay. So they have to plan to occasionally eat 3months of work (about how long it takes before you know your not getting paid) and personally bought infrastructure.
- Frequently they spend weeks working nights and weekends, while I usually only do this annually when a delivery is scheduled they seem to have to do this for every other contract.
I really can't see any of the contractors I know try to fit a family into that life, but they sure do make a lot and take a ridiculous amount of vacations.
I have to disagree with you there; I can only recall eating two forms of prepared insects, but they have both been great. Roasted Peruvian jungle grubs were juicer than most meats I've tried and Australian Lemon Ants tasted like sweet lemons (I don't know the proper names of either of those). I also have a few friends who've been brave enough to eat various forms of fried or roasted insects and liked them. Raw animal meats are kinda weird, so I think it is only appropriate that I compare the prepared forms.
Also, I'm dating a vegetarian who became a vegetarian because she hated the taste of meat and thinks I'm farting, or maybe something died every time the neighbors start a bbq.
So what I'm trying to say: to each his own, let those who've never tried insects give them a chance. I for one, think they're pretty good.
You're betting on him being captured and giving the pass-phrase out when the companies he hacked don't show up to rescue him, or some other hacker breaking the encryption key so you can look at it while he goes to jail anyway.
The idea is that once he gets arrested, the other people who downloaded it may hoard the information they get out of it and his site will get shut down when you're 1/2lf way through downloading it. Then you'll have to sit around for a few years waiting for those guys to release portions of what they decrypted.
In the mean time, you're just humoring a 17year old prankster that fancies himself a l33t hax0r, haha, wouldn't it be funny if he really DID have all the data he says he has? Downloading a bunch of random data isn't abetting.
I suspect he hasn't sorted through it. e probably grabbed everything he could find on a dozen different servers / company and never bothered to cut out identical files along with all the garbage that accumulates in projects under development; e.g. versioned backups of the 80 variations of each texture the team went through to vote out later.
I suspect it still won't be useful to your average person once decrypted, until someone with way too much time on their hands goes through it, if they do at all.
those not initiated into the orders of nobility associated with "clearances"-- cannot select their government based on real, verifiable information
To get information, you need a clearance _and_ a need to know. So even with a clearance, you may not "need" to know why something is done the way it is and you certainly don't know what the other spooks across the hall are doing or why. In fact those with clearances are required to protect state secrets from themselves, for example you can't read wiki-leaks, lest you discover something they don't need you to know. those with clearances may even be less informed.
Well at my highschool, college, local library and workplace we have 2D printers and people have been printing controversial things on them forever.
-Sex toys? porn/erotica, I've seen it printed in all of the above locations.
-Weapons? well, instructions to build them; printed some myself, which are probably more dangerous than the plastic shanks you could print on this thing.
- Copyrighted stuff? books, pictures, etc. all the time, I've printed these things frequently in many locations.
People are just worried about new technology, but people have been abusing 2D printers for years and they will abuse 3D printers just as bad and it won't ruin society.
I suspect there won't be any trouble while people still have to pay to print things on them and can reasonably expect they'll need a knowledgeable assistant around to help them when the machine gets stuck. You do not want to be the guy who jammed the school printer with micky-mouse-dildo-guns.
I find it a sad little world
People will get fun from whatever they get fun from; I don't understand a lot about watching sports or e-sports, but I'll try to share what I do.
My whole family played tennis while I went through high school. We'd sit and do homework with tennis on in the background. It's an easy way to learn plays, terminology and observe proper form. I got involved in local poker tournaments as a place to hang out with people, in a game that involves a good deal of strategy, but found I did not have the patience to watch poker tournaments, but new many of the people there did to get a better understanding of the game.
I would often watch starcraft. I was somewhere in the bottom 5% of amateur players when I played online.Watching pro-starcraft matches gives me the same advantages as above, besides the fact that watching space marines take formations to shoot acid spewing aliens is somehow entertaining to me in its own right.
I admire your decision to do something noble with your free time like reading code, but after a tough day of debugging (hopefully unintentionally) obfuscated C code, I'd often much rather kick back and watch little simulated creatures blow each other up than debug more code.
I think the hiding places analogy he used is better.
They know you've cached things in the woods on three different occasions, but they don't have the resources to find them. They tore open one cache here and found evidence of crimes and you are now ordered to show them the other two caches. The judge now orders you reveal the other two locations. If you don't comply, they can either search obvious places (dictionary attacks) or sweep the whole forest (brute force). Either way it's far harder than holding you in contempt of court.
They managed to decrypt one of them. As we know, the FBI has nothing better to do with their time, and they have a good idea of the sort of passwords he uses, so they'll probably crack the rest in a little while, if they don't just throw them in a box for the 10years he's in prison and crack them with computers that run at 2^5 times the speed of their current machines then.
Depending on what he has on there, they may not be able to lay out powerful enough threats to make him decrypt the remaining drives, but I don't think this particular guy is what most of us are really concerned about in this case. What IT professional doesn't have an encrypted drive around with hacker tools and perfectly legal stuff they don't want decrypted? Say my neighbor downloaded something sketchy and they know I frequently use his wireless...decrypt my drives for them and have it reported that I had "intricate filesystems containing zillions of porn images and suspicious tools" or spend a few months in jail for contempt? Hence why your normal /.er is all excited about the implications here.
That's nothing. I see stuff like this in my...er...legacy code all the time:
// Add one to the iterator
if (!tested && c == find[0]) tested = true;
I'm not even sure why this is news.
$30 million dollars is why this is news. I've got two friends publishing Apps for their livelihoods, and combined they make half what I do as a typical developer.
There may be a lot of comments saying "this app is crap," but still no one has explained how he got $30million for it. You've theorized connections, others have theorized: anything that uses yahoo's typical interests.
Someone got rich and famous over a simple app, while all the app developers I know are scrounging by while producing much fancier apps. That is news.
Look no farther than the current site, that has long been known as slashvertisement.com.
Instead of publishing honest game reviews, let the gaming companies slip you bribes for better ratings and your attention!
Just don't let your readers find out; they are of the firm belief that all services provided to them should be from the charity of strangers' souls and free of cost.
Ok, I'm not a complete nutjob here, and I understand two parts of why they bother, first the agency is there to protect our own planet from samples coming back: if the moon or Mars supported life for a few billion years it might become horribly invasive when brought back into the paradise that is our planet, so there is that. Second, they don't want a bacteria covered microscope looking for Martian bacteria because that would kinda nullify the results.
But anyway, I care. I personally feel that we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to take life off this planet ASAP. What if earth is rendered uninhabitable by some unforeseeable cosmic event? As far as we know life is unique to this planet and it would be kinda a bummer to see it all get wiped out when there was a chance to let it restart somewhere else. I'm morally opposed to protecting other planets from ourselves.
The whole article they talk about taking care of the solar system for future research, but fuck future research; if we successfully dropped life onto another planet, that would be way more interesting than our typical: "this rock has more iron than that rock," and I really see no need to save those rocks for our great grandchildren at the expense of creating alien life.
Well, it all depends on how you read it. Accidents certainly happen ALL the time to gun nuts; here's a citation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=gun+accident
You don't even need a conspiracy to explain why. Now this guy isn't even using certified equipment; I certainly wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.
Celebrating a "holiday" simply because it's the first day of a new year
No, it's not a celebration, it's more of a national sick day: 90% of the work force was up all night drinking way too much and if they come in, we'll spend the next week repairing the damage they did while trying to preserve their sick days.
I don't know if this is how it started, but I'm pretty sure that's why it is still there. I don't think Chinese new year needs to be a federal holiday, but if your company employs a good portion of Chinese New Year celebrators and they celebrate their new year with as much alcohol as I do, then I would recommend implementing the day after as a holiday.
Mandating these Holidays at a federal level; though, I agree that is pretty silly.
Slashdot stories seem to be rated on the number of comments they generate; a simple factual report will disappear if you don't generate 100 or so comments about grammatical errors.
Seems like a pretty sweet application of EMS though.
Why don't you start your own business, for a change?
All of the housewives (and a couple husbands) I know have some sort of business started in selling crafts, writing, landscaping or other semi-talented labor, and most of them don't make what they could be making if they were employed/contracting, some lose more money than they make.
I know several friends who started businesses with investment and several unfortunate enough to use their own.
Basically, what I'm trying to say, is that I know there are success stories of a few people that are always held up in front of us as encouragement, but I have not yet met anyone who "got rich" from starting their own business, and I've seen many try.
The tube should ameliorate some of the dangerous effects of repeated exposure to gastric acids by the sensitive tissues and teeth of the mouth and throat, so there is that...
I figured that was a good reason until I got to this part:
The user then squeezes a little plastic bag to replace that volume of stomach-stew with water.
...wait, what's wrong with the original tube they've been cramming cheeseburgers down before hand? Going number four is OK for these people as they try to lose weight, but drinking water is still too hard a road towards health?
Been there, done that: Legos are cheaper, and they haven't thrown my girlfriend out the window because I spent too much time with her rather than them.
I could go on forever with this: they don't invite their mother over to take their side in disagreements; they don't not want to play for one week out of the month...
There is an easy explanation for that: Sorry, but I'm going to have to bash programming a bit here, but programming in general just sucks this year.
the most n00bish form of data destruction you can imagine, and has probably only been partially successful at best.
This is why I'm here; this is seriously geek news for us privacy/forensic perverts: this will be a rare opportunity given that our nations top resources will be put on recovering this data and the media is going to demand to know every shred that was recovered, we'll actually see this method tested thoroughly.
I also find it interesting that this guy is supposedly a computer guru, and yet few assume he DBANed (or whatever kids do these days) his drives before physically destroying them, just for good measure. Of course he was also clearly crazy, so there is probably no reason or plan behind his data destruction.
Now a $1 bill will get you a burger.
Where?
At the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily, of course! There, you can not only get a double-patty burger for $1 as advertised frequently on television, radio and the internet.
Will you retract this statement if it can be shown that tomorrow bitcoin will have more users than it has today?
No, the statement started as, "The scenario is that"
Then after that was proven false, it became, "The more likely scenario is that"
Then it became, "I think the more likely scenario is that"
Then: "Maybe, but I think the more likely scenario is that"
Finally: "Maybe, but I _still_ think the more likely scenario is that"
Tomorrow: "Probably, but I still cling to the thought that today is the day that the scenario has finally become..."
Leave it in the car
My car got broken into over the weekend, everything removable down to my broken $10 sunglasses got stolen, but the thieves just piled my books on passenger seat. Glad I didn't bring my kindle that day.
"the robot is simply performing a preset action"
So the story would more likely be: Out of control avatar retrieves soft-drinks for 17 not-thirsty people.
The avatar idea here is pretty cool, but not even the author seems to understand why they don't just cut to eye-tracking, instead of the whole: reading the patients mind to determine what they are looking at. It looks to me to be an easy way to over complicate an already difficult project.
I wonder how disabled you have to be to get one. I mean, what if I just really don't want to walk all the way over to the fridge, could I get one prescribed?