Indeed it's optical not digital zoom. (The latter is better than when done in post-processing a smaller photo, as it's got the full sensor data to work with, not an approximation.)
One the megapixel wars were beginning to get as stupid as the PC megahertz wars, camera manufacturers started to selectively head down a 'super zoom' warpath. 24x isn't the top you'll find. Fuji do a 30x now (HS10&HS20).
Fortunately he's a loon who posts AC. If he were a morpher with a million different IDs, then it would be expensive to mark posts from all his IDs with a score penalty, but fortunately, all you need to do is mark AC down, and you get rid of all of his irrational ranting, and lots more besides.
Why assume the worst? Because this was a scenario pertaining to security, and your security has been proved to be insufficient a priori. That's why. Big forehead-slapping Duh!
I love your assumption that the email servers haven't been compromised. That's a great one to save time in the restoration effort, I agree, but please don't waste your time applying for an IT role anywhere near where I work.
"I then have custom IDS signatures that look for any unauthorized Remote Management & Monitoring software."
Is enumerating only a subset of badness better than, or worse than, attempting to enumerate all badness? There might be an answer at the end of a google search for "enumerating badness"...
"I have yet to see a hacker that can infect a machine using an odf file"
Have you considered the possibility that you have insufficient experience in the field?
"I'm not backing up ANY executables."
What about the executable components that can be embedded in the ODF files you are so happily backing up? Are you deliberately not backing up emails? If so, your backups are useless. If you are backing up emails, then you cannot be sure you're not backing up executables.
Your whole stance looks like you have no understanding of the problems that can be faced.
That wording places you in the UK in the 70s-80s. What you say is undoubtedly true. However, I tend to limit my film viewing to films that are over 5 years old, and have stood the test of time. Even if they aren't world-class classic movies, at least they will be good in their genre. I only remember one instance of "this really isn't doing it for me - big red button?" in 10 years. IMDB's lists can be very useful (you can tell which lists will be useful just from their names most of the time - "films I've seen" will be useless; but "classic action movies" and "best comedies" will be a thousant times more useful.)
There's pretty much no reason to even begin seeing a shit movie nowadays.
Don't forget you also have the "smack the pause button for a piss-break" feature too. (And "fast-forward over the trashy and predictable romantic scene" too.)
The Zune leap year bug was written by Freescale devs (purely as example code, IIRC). Freescale devs also contribute highly to the linux codebase. So - are Freescale devs lousy or talented?
(Disclaimer, I worked for Freescale around the time of the zune bug.)
Why not look at what he's actually said before shooting a straw man? "Coercion" is as obvious as any other word in his statement; if there's manipulation going on, there's coercion.
"Compiler architecture should be piped, with optimization as the absolute final stage."
Can't agree at all. Rewriting the source code (common subexpression elimination, inlining function calls, constant folding, single static assignment, loop rewriting) should happen early, where the highest level constructs are clearest, and therefore most easy to rewrite. That's where the big optimisations can be made - after that, you're just keyhole optimising.
F wasn't a general purpose register, it was the flags register.
Commodore64 was 6510 or other 6502 variant, I think, and had A, X, and Y registers - accumulator and 2 index registers. However, it had zero page RAM which gave you almost 256 registers.
I telecommute, and have done for 17 months (I guess I've had about 17 days in the office in that time), and I don't just live in a foreign country from my offices, it's even overseas. However, I've just been awarded a prize for being one of the more valuable team members, so clearly I've not become invisible. However, vast quantities of the work I do involves monitoring a bunch of servers over SSH, which I would be equally invisible doing no matter where I was, and discussing and deciding things over IRC, and there I'm just as noisy no matter what country I'm in.
So you'll be able to confirm that nobody with the name Mohammed has ever translated verses from the Koran into sentences like the following:
And We said: "O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in this garden, and eat freely thereof, both of you, whatever you may wish; but do not approach this one tree, lest you become wrongdoers."
Who cares about species anyway? It seems only the loons obsess over it nowadays.
The concept of a species isn't even always an absolute black and white concept to an evolutionary bioligist - see ring species (e.g. where subspecies A & B can breed, B & C can breed, C & D can breed, but A & D can't).
Just because a handful of copies of the bible in various languages were produced does not mean: a) that they were intended for the masses to have access to, rather than be preached to from; or b) that the masses could even read them even if they were accessible.
You may find the history of the English version of the bible in England an eye-opener (See, for example,/The Adventure of English/ presented by Melvin Bragg. Episode 3, IIRC). Be warned, its contents will be in direct contradiction to the stance you currently take, so you may prefer to ignore it.
My family visited me recently, and I took them to several of the local churches (for music, for art, and for general touristic reasons as much as for saying hi to mr beardy). I believe at least 3 we went to were Catholic, and I believe precisely none of those had bibles freely available for the congregation to read.
I know for a fact at least the last 2 didn't, as in the 2nd we specifically wanted to look up a verse to aid with a linguistic issue raised by one of the murals (for some odd reason here in foreignland, all the bleedin' locals speak and paint in foreignish). My father immediately linked this to Catholicism, and, sure enough, the next Catholic church we went to we were deliberately on the look-out for bibles accessible to the masses. With predictable results.
No bibles. August 2011.
Anecdotal, sure; but a data point is a data point, and it's not even an outlier.
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Indeed it's optical not digital zoom. (The latter is better than when done in post-processing a smaller photo, as it's got the full sensor data to work with, not an approximation.)
One the megapixel wars were beginning to get as stupid as the PC megahertz wars, camera manufacturers started to selectively head down a 'super zoom' warpath. 24x isn't the top you'll find. Fuji do a 30x now (HS10&HS20).
Geee, I got a stalker, ain't I lucky!
Fortunately he's a loon who posts AC. If he were a morpher with a million different IDs, then it would be expensive to mark posts from all his IDs with a score penalty, but fortunately, all you need to do is mark AC down, and you get rid of all of his irrational ranting, and lots more besides.
HTH, HAND.
Why assume the worst? Because this was a scenario pertaining to security, and your security has been proved to be insufficient a priori. That's why. Big forehead-slapping Duh!
I love your assumption that the email servers haven't been compromised. That's a great one to save time in the restoration effort, I agree, but please don't waste your time applying for an IT role anywhere near where I work.
"I then have custom IDS signatures that look for any unauthorized Remote Management & Monitoring software."
Is enumerating only a subset of badness better than, or worse than, attempting to enumerate all badness? There might be an answer at the end of a google search for "enumerating badness"...
"I have yet to see a hacker that can infect a machine using an odf file"
Have you considered the possibility that you have insufficient experience in the field?
"I'm not backing up ANY executables."
What about the executable components that can be embedded in the ODF files you are so happily backing up? Are you deliberately not backing up emails? If so, your backups are useless. If you are backing up emails, then you cannot be sure you're not backing up executables.
Your whole stance looks like you have no understanding of the problems that can be faced.
That wording places you in the UK in the 70s-80s.
What you say is undoubtedly true. However, I tend to limit my film viewing to films that are over 5 years old, and have stood the test of time. Even if they aren't world-class classic movies, at least they will be good in their genre. I only remember one instance of "this really isn't doing it for me - big red button?" in 10 years. IMDB's lists can be very useful (you can tell which lists will be useful just from their names most of the time - "films I've seen" will be useless; but "classic action movies" and "best comedies" will be a thousant times more useful.)
There's pretty much no reason to even begin seeing a shit movie nowadays.
"... and I can have a beer with my movie."
Don't forget you also have the "smack the pause button for a piss-break" feature too. (And "fast-forward over the trashy and predictable romantic scene" too.)
The Zune leap year bug was written by Freescale devs (purely as example code, IIRC). Freescale devs also contribute highly to the linux codebase. So - are Freescale devs lousy or talented?
(Disclaimer, I worked for Freescale around the time of the zune bug.)
Why not look at what he's actually said before shooting a straw man? "Coercion" is as obvious as any other word in his statement; if there's manipulation going on, there's coercion.
Yeah, but none of those countries are reliable!
$1 per Watt?
Here's my dollar - I'd like that Watt until the heat death of the universe, and beyond.
You don't think you should be measuring energy in terms of energy, rather than power?
Obligatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/963/
"Compiler architecture should be piped, with optimization as the absolute final stage."
Can't agree at all. Rewriting the source code (common subexpression elimination, inlining function calls, constant folding, single static assignment, loop rewriting) should happen early, where the highest level constructs are clearest, and therefore most easy to rewrite. That's where the big optimisations can be made - after that, you're just keyhole optimising.
Then don't write bugs! ;-p
F wasn't a general purpose register, it was the flags register.
Commodore64 was 6510 or other 6502 variant, I think, and had A, X, and Y registers - accumulator and 2 index registers. However, it had zero page RAM which gave you almost 256 registers.
All from memory...
But the Beeb came with a built-in assembler!
C9 = ret, I'll never forget that. However, that was speccy, not the beeb.
"There's a reason why a 16MHz 68000 can still run circles around a 100MHz ARM"
The reason is that you're on extremely powerful hallucinogenics. Show us the Dhrystones...
Fully agree. But my data-point is "no".
I telecommute, and have done for 17 months (I guess I've had about 17 days in the office in that time), and I don't just live in a foreign country from my offices, it's even overseas. However, I've just been awarded a prize for being one of the more valuable team members, so clearly I've not become invisible. However, vast quantities of the work I do involves monitoring a bunch of servers over SSH, which I would be equally invisible doing no matter where I was, and discussing and deciding things over IRC, and there I'm just as noisy no matter what country I'm in.
Newton was an alchemist loon. And a religious loon too. There should be no surprise he's buried in a church, he fits there quite well.
I know a rocket scientist at NASA Ames who can prove the world was created 6 millennia ago. Some folks are weird.
So you'll be able to confirm that nobody with the name Mohammed has ever translated verses from the Koran into sentences like the following:
And We said: "O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in this garden, and eat freely thereof, both of you, whatever you may wish; but do not approach this one tree, lest you become wrongdoers."
?
Who cares about species anyway? It seems only the loons obsess over it nowadays.
The concept of a species isn't even always an absolute black and white concept to an evolutionary bioligist - see ring species (e.g. where subspecies A & B can breed, B & C can breed, C & D can breed, but A & D can't).
Just because a handful of copies of the bible in various languages were produced does not mean:
/The Adventure of English/ presented by Melvin Bragg. Episode 3, IIRC). Be warned, its contents will be in direct contradiction to the stance you currently take, so you may prefer to ignore it.
a) that they were intended for the masses to have access to, rather than be preached to from; or
b) that the masses could even read them even if they were accessible.
You may find the history of the English version of the bible in England an eye-opener (See, for example,
My family visited me recently, and I took them to several of the local churches (for music, for art, and for general touristic reasons as much as for saying hi to mr beardy). I believe at least 3 we went to were Catholic, and I believe precisely none of those had bibles freely available for the congregation to read.
I know for a fact at least the last 2 didn't, as in the 2nd we specifically wanted to look up a verse to aid with a linguistic issue raised by one of the murals (for some odd reason here in foreignland, all the bleedin' locals speak and paint in foreignish). My father immediately linked this to Catholicism, and, sure enough, the next Catholic church we went to we were deliberately on the look-out for bibles accessible to the masses. With predictable results.
No bibles. August 2011.
Anecdotal, sure; but a data point is a data point, and it's not even an outlier.