Nah, the shot of the girls hanging out in the mall is there because your average nightly news watcher is a middle age man who is sexually attracted to teenage girls.
And it's also to visually equate the hookers in the video game waiting around for johns with teenage mallrat girls waiting around at the mall.
It's even better when they run stories on child pornography and show you oversexualized footage of the victims in the teaser.
"Sick, twisted fucks take advantage of six year old boys.<shot of boy wearing only underwear, looking sad> Film at eleven."
That always gets me so hot. I also like the GTA shock stories:
"Hookers and drug dealers in the new GTA? <game footage of hookers>Will Rockstar Games go to any length to get attention from sex-starved teenagers? <footage of teenage girls in mall>"
It's a little like the California energy "deregulation" debacle: The Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank, was screaming bloody murder that the "deregulation" was horseshit and wouldn't help anyone.
If the Libertarians are opposed to your "deregulation," maybe you need to take a few big steps back.
"In a decent editor" means different things to different people. By using meaningful whitespace, you are constraining people's choice of editors. But whatever. Not a huge deal.
I debate that there are less keypresses involved in whitespace formatting. Keep in mind that with curly braces, proper indentation can be determined programmatically. If something goes horribly wrong with the whitespace in my document (which often happens to me, for example when cutting and pasting code), I can simply tell my editor to correct the indentation. This takes one keystroke. I never have to enter indents or unindents. Never. Not once. You could remove my tab key, and I would continue to generate readable code. And my typing habits wouldn't need to change. If I paste code, and for some reason it looks like this:
And starting brace location is up to me and my editor too, before you gripe about that.
There's the same number of keystrokes when inputting code for the first time:
if(a) {[note lack of indents here]
do something; }[note lack of unindents here]
All I type are visible characters, spaces between keywords and variable names, and carriage returns. If someone wanted, they could make their editor put in the carriage returns. And I'm free to use an editor that does all kinds of messed up shit with my whitespace. Or not. It's up to me. Thank you.
I refuse to believe that those who think indentation-based syntax is a huge flaw don't indent anyways, in which case they're wasting their time explaining to the compiler where their indentation starts and ends with curly braces. That waste of time is the flaw, although far from a huge one.
Well, you've just assumed something about my development methodology that is incorrect. I do not indent my code. My IDE does, based on my keywords and curly braces. Make me take over whitespace formatting of my code, and I'll cry all the way home.
I like that I don't have to know what kind of ascii my text editor is making when I hit the tab key. Thank you.
Unless you can dream up a real benefit to meaningful whitespace, I'll quit being a whiny little bitch about the issue.
Ron Sega Director, Office of Defense Research and Engineering, DOD
ADVISES: Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld
WHY HE MATTERS: Responsible for bringing the missile shield to life.
TECH CRED: IEEE fellow and NASA astronaut who used to teach electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado.
ON HIS RADAR: Dominating outer space through hypersonics. He foresees superfast missiles and spaceships that can zap any target. His goal is to increase US flight capabilities by one Mach a year until 2012.
GADGET HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: It's a tie between his cell and his BlackBerry, both government-issue.
Well, these vulnerabilities have been detected long ago. They told vendors. The vendors *did* respond, by saying that they don't care at all about these vulnerabilities.
Loudly hacking the security at a trade show honestly seems like the only way to deal with this issue.
That's why it would be important to make copyright registration fantastically easy. The goal is not to prevent people from copyrighting things that they would like to copyright. The goal is to allow the public access to works that were never intended to be copyrighted.
Bill Gates is trying to do much better things than that with his 50 billion dollars.
Off the top of my head, he's trying to cure AIDS.
While I may hate some of his professional choices, if his charitable endeavors go even somewhat according to plan, I forgive him all his transgressions.
Um, the two concepts are utterly and completely unrelated to each other. They are suited to completely different purposes.
Some might argue that given the spoofable nature of TCP/IP, Symbiot's concept is suited to zero purposes, but that's orthogonal to the point:
Perhaps Symbiot considers their database of threats to be not only extremely valuable to competitors, but also extremely valuable to their targets. THEN THEY'RE GOING TO NEED SOME DRM, AREN'T THEY, SMARTIE?
There are many, many acceptable uses of DRM. Iduno if pingflooding for profit really counts as one of them, but: Pingflooding someone that you suspect of hacking is, technically speaking, completely unrelated. Pingflooding someone that you suspect of hacking is, morally speaking, way the fuck below the RIAA, Microsoft, and SCO all rolled together. So even if it were suited to the same tasks as DRM (wtf?), I wouldn't really care.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a suggestion. If you were trolling, well done.
The right way to do passive scanning is with an ethernet cable that has the tx leads removed. It is physically impossible to effect the network, as far as I understand it (not very far).
I imagine that the right way to do passive wifi scanning would require support from your driver and hardware, to ensure that you were not transmitting any packets at all.
And no, I don't know anything about Ethereal. I'll shut up now.
Why would a virus BOTHER to forge the certification?
To smear the anti-virus product's name. Seems like the smear might be more effective if they're going around acting like their signature increases the security of outbound emails.
>--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.594 / Virus Database: 377 - Release Date: 2/24/2004
Whoa. I haven't seen that in any emails before. Unless I misunderstand completely, that's really dumb. Why can't that "certification" be forged? Why would you want to create a brand that would be used to brand viruses?
I worked in a college computer lab. Every day I tried to recover one or two busted floppies. It was the only thing the Macs were good for. Their "SuperDrives" were better for recovering PC floppies than real PCs.
Floppies are less economical and less durable than CD-Rs in every way. Putting a floppy in your backpack is begging for trouble. The "correct" solution would be network drives, but even English majors figured out the next best thing: Email the file to yourself.
While your respondents sound like jackasses, you're still wrong if you think banks do this stuff perfectly (or even very well). I've had a few too many friends working in IT at banks to be so confident.
No, you completely misunderstand my point. I do not suggest a deadlock:
Alice spoofs a mail from Bill to Charlie. Charlie's C/R system challenges Bill. Bill has no C/R software.
1) That is an unsolicited commercial email, from Charlie to Bill, and is unnacceptable (especially if the challenge includes instructions on how to purchase the C/R system, as most do).
2) Bill will not respond, and thus, depending on the C/R system's design, may not be able to send legitimate mail to Charlie in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, the shot of the girls hanging out in the mall is there because your average nightly news watcher is a middle age man who is sexually attracted to teenage girls.
And it's also to visually equate the hookers in the video game waiting around for johns with teenage mallrat girls waiting around at the mall.
It's even better when they run stories on child pornography and show you oversexualized footage of the victims in the teaser.
"Sick, twisted fucks take advantage of six year old boys.<shot of boy wearing only underwear, looking sad> Film at eleven."
That always gets me so hot. I also like the GTA shock stories:
"Hookers and drug dealers in the new GTA? <game footage of hookers>Will Rockstar Games go to any length to get attention from sex-starved teenagers? <footage of teenage girls in mall>"
It's a little like the California energy "deregulation" debacle: The Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank, was screaming bloody murder that the "deregulation" was horseshit and wouldn't help anyone.
If the Libertarians are opposed to your "deregulation," maybe you need to take a few big steps back.
I debate that there are less keypresses involved in whitespace formatting. Keep in mind that with curly braces, proper indentation can be determined programmatically. If something goes horribly wrong with the whitespace in my document (which often happens to me, for example when cutting and pasting code), I can simply tell my editor to correct the indentation. This takes one keystroke. I never have to enter indents or unindents. Never. Not once. You could remove my tab key, and I would continue to generate readable code. And my typing habits wouldn't need to change. If I paste code, and for some reason it looks like this:I blink and my editor gives me:And starting brace location is up to me and my editor too, before you gripe about that.
There's the same number of keystrokes when inputting code for the first time:All I type are visible characters, spaces between keywords and variable names, and carriage returns. If someone wanted, they could make their editor put in the carriage returns. And I'm free to use an editor that does all kinds of messed up shit with my whitespace. Or not. It's up to me. Thank you.
P.S. Curlies aren't noise.
Well, you've just assumed something about my development methodology that is incorrect. I do not indent my code. My IDE does, based on my keywords and curly braces. Make me take over whitespace formatting of my code, and I'll cry all the way home.
I like that I don't have to know what kind of ascii my text editor is making when I hit the tab key. Thank you.
Unless you can dream up a real benefit to meaningful whitespace, I'll quit being a whiny little bitch about the issue.
I give them less credit for secrecy than you do:
From Wired's profile of Ron Sega:
Ron Sega
Director, Office of Defense Research and Engineering, DOD
ADVISES: Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld
WHY HE MATTERS: Responsible for bringing the missile shield to life.
TECH CRED: IEEE fellow and NASA astronaut who used to teach electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado.
ON HIS RADAR: Dominating outer space through hypersonics. He foresees superfast missiles and spaceships that can zap any target. His goal is to increase US flight capabilities by one Mach a year until 2012.
GADGET HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: It's a tie between his cell and his BlackBerry, both government-issue.
IN SUMMARY: Jerf is wrong.
Well, these vulnerabilities have been detected long ago. They told vendors. The vendors *did* respond, by saying that they don't care at all about these vulnerabilities.
Loudly hacking the security at a trade show honestly seems like the only way to deal with this issue.
Anyone who thinks Mach 7 is about travel is a horse's ass.
We need to get our planes fast enough that we don't need Turkey's permission next time we want to drop bombs in the Middle East on 15 minutes notice.
That's why it would be important to make copyright registration fantastically easy. The goal is not to prevent people from copyrighting things that they would like to copyright. The goal is to allow the public access to works that were never intended to be copyrighted.
This comment on slashdot, for example.
Well, he says he wants to give away the bulk of his money to chairtable causes before he dies.
The way he says it, I believe him.
Good enough for me.
Hey, jackass.
Bill Gates is trying to do much better things than that with his 50 billion dollars.
Off the top of my head, he's trying to cure AIDS.
While I may hate some of his professional choices, if his charitable endeavors go even somewhat according to plan, I forgive him all his transgressions.
You're lucky there isn't a '-1 Pretentious Use of "orthogonal"' moderation option.
Or a '-1, plagiarizing Charles Babbage' moderation option.
Um, the two concepts are utterly and completely unrelated to each other. They are suited to completely different purposes.
Some might argue that given the spoofable nature of TCP/IP, Symbiot's concept is suited to zero purposes, but that's orthogonal to the point:
Perhaps Symbiot considers their database of threats to be not only extremely valuable to competitors, but also extremely valuable to their targets. THEN THEY'RE GOING TO NEED SOME DRM, AREN'T THEY, SMARTIE?
There are many, many acceptable uses of DRM. Iduno if pingflooding for profit really counts as one of them, but: Pingflooding someone that you suspect of hacking is, technically speaking, completely unrelated. Pingflooding someone that you suspect of hacking is, morally speaking, way the fuck below the RIAA, Microsoft, and SCO all rolled together. So even if it were suited to the same tasks as DRM (wtf?), I wouldn't really care.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a suggestion. If you were trolling, well done.
(see subject.)
(I write network analysis software for a living)
I write VB front ends to SQL databases for a living.
I'm going to go with you on this one.
The right way to do passive scanning is with an ethernet cable that has the tx leads removed. It is physically impossible to effect the network, as far as I understand it (not very far).
I imagine that the right way to do passive wifi scanning would require support from your driver and hardware, to ensure that you were not transmitting any packets at all.
And no, I don't know anything about Ethereal. I'll shut up now.
Yeah, but I'm into hair splitting and anal posts.
Er... I provided a Google link with the correct spelling for everyone. It's not like I ever say anything more interesting than a Google link.
Searched the web for "Majel Barret". Results 1 - 10 of about 1,530. Search took 0.12 seconds.
Did you mean: "Majel Barrett"
Why would a virus BOTHER to forge the certification?
To smear the anti-virus product's name. Seems like the smear might be more effective if they're going around acting like their signature increases the security of outbound emails.
>---
>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
>Version: 6.0.594 / Virus Database: 377 - Release Date: 2/24/2004
Whoa. I haven't seen that in any emails before. Unless I misunderstand completely, that's really dumb. Why can't that "certification" be forged? Why would you want to create a brand that would be used to brand viruses?
Asimov, and I disagree completely. But whatever.
Join the society against raping the word "rape."
Amen.
I worked in a college computer lab. Every day I tried to recover one or two busted floppies. It was the only thing the Macs were good for. Their "SuperDrives" were better for recovering PC floppies than real PCs.
Floppies are less economical and less durable than CD-Rs in every way. Putting a floppy in your backpack is begging for trouble. The "correct" solution would be network drives, but even English majors figured out the next best thing: Email the file to yourself.
While your respondents sound like jackasses, you're still wrong if you think banks do this stuff perfectly (or even very well). I've had a few too many friends working in IT at banks to be so confident.
No, you completely misunderstand my point. I do not suggest a deadlock:
Alice spoofs a mail from Bill to Charlie. Charlie's C/R system challenges Bill. Bill has no C/R software.
1) That is an unsolicited commercial email, from Charlie to Bill, and is unnacceptable (especially if the challenge includes instructions on how to purchase the C/R system, as most do).
2) Bill will not respond, and thus, depending on the C/R system's design, may not be able to send legitimate mail to Charlie in the future.