> I don't know if anyone else remembers the
> powerglove, one of the silliest things nintendo
> ever released.
Nintendo didn't release it, a third-party did (ISTR Mattel...?)
> from a whole range of weapons (actually crappy
> cameras)
Well, in the sense that rudimentary photoreceptors are sort of like cameras, yes.
> Anyone here who codes should understand that
> more mouse movement=less efficiency.
And anyone who uses a graphical web browser should understand exactly the opposite. So?
> Mike Tyson's Punch Out really sucked when you
> actually had to punch with the glove!
Primarily because the game was designed to be played using a digital game pad, not a glove that could sense 3 discrete axes of motion. If games had been programmed specifically for the Power Glove, they would have felt a lot more natural than trying to make Mario walk to the right by moving your arm slightly to the right of an imaginary home position.
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If your ideology is "America is The Great Devil and we must destroy it", I WANT the government to be tracking you at all times. There's a vast difference between keeping a file on someone and persecuting them for their beliefs.
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Okay, they traced the 911 call to this one guy HOW? He was in a stadium with 60,000 seats, and the 911 dispatcher was able to trace the call to within one square meter? Back before cell phones had GPS? Right...
> Ads. Ads on the phone that *I* pay for. Quite
> simply, there won't be any.
Did I miss the part of the article where anyone said anything about ads? Or are you just off on a tangent?
> If any company tries to advertise themselves on
> my phone for which I pay per-minute charges,
> they'll find themselves on the ugly end of a
> lawsuit involving the "junk fax" law and some
> very bloodthirsty lawyers.
Yeah, I'm sure you and your lawyer pals have a great case against the big wealthy corportation. Good on ya for standing up for your "rights"!
If I understand you correctly, you're saying if there is one terrorist in a crowd of 10,000 people, the face recognition system will identify him, plus one other person, as terrorists. Those two people will be investigated, the innocent man will be released, and the terrorist will be thwarted.
I repeat: THE TERRORIST WILL BE THWARTED. Do you think any number of humans policing the area without this technology would be able to identify and thwart our terrorist?
> And even in the real world, if you left your
> front door unlocked and put your cheap, fake
> diamond necklace out there for everybody to see
> (roughly the equivalent of having a Perl script
> on an IIS server), I think a prosecutor would
> see the sillyness of wasting lots of resources
> on your case.
s/prosecutor/defense attorney/
IANAL, and neither are you, but if you steal that necklace it's pretty obvious you're guilty of a crime.
This would be a great idea, if Giuliani didn't already have a track record of trampling on citizens' rights?
Please don't try to excercise your freedom of press by taking pictures of the WTC wreckage, even if you're blocks away and on the proper side of the barrier. Generalissimo Giuliani has instructed the police to confiscate your camera if you do.
Also, as of 6am this morning, the entire island of Manhattan south of Central Park is one big carpool lane. I haven't heard yet what happens to single-passenger vehicles that get caught, but the entire concept makes me angry.
Re:It all seemed so clear the first time through..
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> But the passwords *were* gifted to the
> individual. They were so poorly-protected as to
> be considered public.
No.
That's like someone putting a pie out to cool on their windowsill, and you tresspass onto their backyard and steal the pie.
If they didn't want you to have the pie, they should have kept the window closed and erected a barbed-wire fence around their yard, right?
Screensavers kick in when no one is sitting in front of the computer with their hands on the home row, no. But what about in a computer lab? Rows and rows of computers with no one using them, but the other people in the room can still see the screens. Hypnotic Pepsi logos bouncing to and fro...
> Just return a copy. They'll have to throw it
> out.
Which version of reality do you live in? I'd bet most CD stores I've ever been to have a shrink wrap machine in the back room, and many others just take returned CD's knock a couple bucks off the price tag, and stick 'em in the "Bargain" rack.
> Now, if we get THOUSANDS of people doing this --
> and we can, this is slashdot we're talking
> about --
Slash-holes DO stuff? Get out! I was CERTAIN they just sit around and bitch about how terrible everything is and how someone should do something.
IANAL either, but it's pretty standard practice to include language in a contract or license to the effect of "If any clause in this document is found to be illegal, all the other clauses not affected by that finding shall remain in effect."
Please everyone, spare us the BSD vs. GPL License Advocacy War this time around... I would think the entire Slashdot community already has a basic grasp of the philosophies behing each by now.
I suspect using cultural factors against these "Islamic" terrorists (draping pig guts over them so they go straight to Hell) wouldn't prove to be much of a deterrent...
They've already proven themselves ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of many tenets of their faith... someone who commits suicide does not die as a Muslim, for example.
Simply changing time_t to an unsigned int is a great solution, if nothing happened before 1/1/70 that your computer needs to know about. That's a pretty large assumption to make.
37 years from now, how many *nix-based systems will still be running on 32-bit processors? How many systems do you think will still even be running a *nix in 37 years? 4 decades prior to right now, people were marvelling at how you could type words on the keyboard of your spankin' new PDP-1, and they'd show up on the CRT screen.
-Poot
(Actually, I'm just hoping to rake in the big bucks as a "S2^32" Conslutant in a few decades.)
> First of all, a production situation is rife
> with bureacracy and regulation. A polycarbonate
> part cannot always replace a metal or ceramic
> part [...]
Surely that's a condition of the physical specifications of the machine, not a case of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape. If the machine is such that a polycarbonate part is as appropriate for use as a metal or ceramic one, why would regulators and bureaucrats give a heck?
> If facilities can design and fabricate new
> parts, and put them into use, at various
> backwaters all over the place, this will place
> many office workers -- and, perhaps, the entire
> concept of a centralized "headquarters" -- into
> obsolescence.
So your theory is that the only function served by the headquarters of a multi-location company is to negotiate the movement of parts between disparate locations. No other departments except Requisitions ever benefit from centralization.
I will continue to listen to Good Music in all its form, whether it comes from a corporation-backed pop mega-sensation or some po'boy jackass with a 4-track in his bedroom and a page on MP3.com.
300 years ago, would you have boycotted the Brandenburg Concertos, just because Bach was on the payroll of Prince Leopold?
Re:So I will drive with my windows open, NEXT
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As for those who would claim invasion or violation of Constitutional rights, uh, driving is a privledge, not a right. They can set arbitrary requirements up until the public throws them out.
So the State can give police the right to pull my car over at any time, for any reason, and perform a comprehensive search of my vehicle? After all, I don't have any rights to protect me from unreasonable search & seizure when I'm on the road, because driving is a Priv-Ledge.
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Litmus test of a website. Read the source of the first page. Is it clean, does it have extra lines, are there mixed case tags, is the formatting consistent?
You're wrong. The questions you should be asking are: does this HTML render correctly in my browser? In other browsers? How quickly does the page load? Are there unnecessary HTML comments in the code (keep in mind, in a production environment, all HTML comments are unnecessary)?
Having mixed-case tags is completely irrelevant to the PERFORMANCE of the website. It's a non-issue when writing the HTML code, it's a non-issue when transferring the document over the wire, it's a non-issue when the browser renders the document (unless the browser validates with XHTML 1.0 Strict). The important issue is not how nice the code looks to your eyeball; it's how nicely the code WORKS.
(Please note that I am talking solely about markup languages like HTML; my comments may not be applicable if you extrapolate them to cover programming languages,)
If the buggy video drivers shipped with nearly every video card I've owned are any indication, writing a driver for such a device has to be the hardest thing in the world. I can only imagine how hard it would be for someone who DIDN'T have the hardware specs sitting right in front of them...
What good would this do, except bias the judge against Microsoft?
It is far too late in the legal process to try to introduce new examples of anti-competitive behavior. The prosecution made their case, the court made its findings of fact, and now the job of the court is to decide what repercussions are demanded by the PARTICULAR INSTANCES OF ANTICOMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR that were demonstrated already.
Also, shouldn't you verify Her Honor's address BEFORE you ask everyone to flood her mailbox with pointless letters?
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I only use 2 fingers to write email -- one on each hand, unfortunately, so I can't put the other 8 to some other use at the same time.
Just as well -- my officemates would probably look at me funny if I did.
-Poot
> I don't know if anyone else remembers the
> powerglove, one of the silliest things nintendo
> ever released.
Nintendo didn't release it, a third-party did (ISTR Mattel...?)
> from a whole range of weapons (actually crappy
> cameras)
Well, in the sense that rudimentary photoreceptors are sort of like cameras, yes.
> Anyone here who codes should understand that
> more mouse movement=less efficiency.
And anyone who uses a graphical web browser should understand exactly the opposite. So?
> Mike Tyson's Punch Out really sucked when you
> actually had to punch with the glove!
Primarily because the game was designed to be played using a digital game pad, not a glove that could sense 3 discrete axes of motion. If games had been programmed specifically for the Power Glove, they would have felt a lot more natural than trying to make Mario walk to the right by moving your arm slightly to the right of an imaginary home position.
If your ideology is "America is The Great Devil and we must destroy it", I WANT the government to be tracking you at all times. There's a vast difference between keeping a file on someone and persecuting them for their beliefs.
Okay, they traced the 911 call to this one guy HOW? He was in a stadium with 60,000 seats, and the 911 dispatcher was able to trace the call to within one square meter? Back before cell phones had GPS? Right...
Quit vectoring urban legends.
> Ads. Ads on the phone that *I* pay for. Quite
> simply, there won't be any.
Did I miss the part of the article where anyone said anything about ads? Or are you just off on a tangent?
> If any company tries to advertise themselves on
> my phone for which I pay per-minute charges,
> they'll find themselves on the ugly end of a
> lawsuit involving the "junk fax" law and some
> very bloodthirsty lawyers.
Yeah, I'm sure you and your lawyer pals have a great case against the big wealthy corportation. Good on ya for standing up for your "rights"!
If I understand you correctly, you're saying if there is one terrorist in a crowd of 10,000 people, the face recognition system will identify him, plus one other person, as terrorists. Those two people will be investigated, the innocent man will be released, and the terrorist will be thwarted.
I repeat: THE TERRORIST WILL BE THWARTED. Do you think any number of humans policing the area without this technology would be able to identify and thwart our terrorist?
Having reconstructive surgery done leaves a paper trail, though.
You can't just go to Frankie in the back alley and pay him cash to rework the bone structure of your face...
> And even in the real world, if you left your
> front door unlocked and put your cheap, fake
> diamond necklace out there for everybody to see
> (roughly the equivalent of having a Perl script
> on an IIS server), I think a prosecutor would
> see the sillyness of wasting lots of resources
> on your case.
s/prosecutor/defense attorney/
IANAL, and neither are you, but if you steal that necklace it's pretty obvious you're guilty of a crime.
-Poot
This would be a great idea, if Giuliani didn't already have a track record of trampling on citizens' rights?
Please don't try to excercise your freedom of press by taking pictures of the WTC wreckage, even if you're blocks away and on the proper side of the barrier. Generalissimo Giuliani has instructed the police to confiscate your camera if you do.
Also, as of 6am this morning, the entire island of Manhattan south of Central Park is one big carpool lane. I haven't heard yet what happens to single-passenger vehicles that get caught, but the entire concept makes me angry.
> But the passwords *were* gifted to the
> individual. They were so poorly-protected as to
> be considered public.
No.
That's like someone putting a pie out to cool on their windowsill, and you tresspass onto their backyard and steal the pie.
If they didn't want you to have the pie, they should have kept the window closed and erected a barbed-wire fence around their yard, right?
Screensavers kick in when no one is sitting in front of the computer with their hands on the home row, no. But what about in a computer lab? Rows and rows of computers with no one using them, but the other people in the room can still see the screens. Hypnotic Pepsi logos bouncing to and fro...
> Just return a copy. They'll have to throw it
> out.
Which version of reality do you live in? I'd bet most CD stores I've ever been to have a shrink wrap machine in the back room, and many others just take returned CD's knock a couple bucks off the price tag, and stick 'em in the "Bargain" rack.
> Now, if we get THOUSANDS of people doing this --
> and we can, this is slashdot we're talking
> about --
Slash-holes DO stuff? Get out! I was CERTAIN they just sit around and bitch about how terrible everything is and how someone should do something.
Why haven't you consulted a lawyer yet?
If you're waiting for Slashdot to slap you with a clue, you've already lost that $7500.
Interesting statement, Dr. Xym. "It's not GNU/Linux", indeed.
Oh I get it! "XYM" is just "RMS" ROT13'd. What a clever jape!
IANAL either, but it's pretty standard practice to include language in a contract or license to the effect of "If any clause in this document is found to be illegal, all the other clauses not affected by that finding shall remain in effect."
The question is, is THAT clause legal or not?
Please everyone, spare us the BSD vs. GPL License Advocacy War this time around... I would think the entire Slashdot community already has a basic grasp of the philosophies behing each by now.
I suspect using cultural factors against these "Islamic" terrorists (draping pig guts over them so they go straight to Hell) wouldn't prove to be much of a deterrent...
They've already proven themselves ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of many tenets of their faith... someone who commits suicide does not die as a Muslim, for example.
Simply changing time_t to an unsigned int is a great solution, if nothing happened before 1/1/70 that your computer needs to know about. That's a pretty large assumption to make.
37 years from now, how many *nix-based systems will still be running on 32-bit processors? How many systems do you think will still even be running a *nix in 37 years? 4 decades prior to right now, people were marvelling at how you could type words on the keyboard of your spankin' new PDP-1, and they'd show up on the CRT screen.
-Poot
(Actually, I'm just hoping to rake in the big bucks as a "S2^32" Conslutant in a few decades.)
> First of all, a production situation is rife
> with bureacracy and regulation. A polycarbonate
> part cannot always replace a metal or ceramic
> part [...]
Surely that's a condition of the physical specifications of the machine, not a case of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape. If the machine is such that a polycarbonate part is as appropriate for use as a metal or ceramic one, why would regulators and bureaucrats give a heck?
> If facilities can design and fabricate new
> parts, and put them into use, at various
> backwaters all over the place, this will place
> many office workers -- and, perhaps, the entire
> concept of a centralized "headquarters" -- into
> obsolescence.
So your theory is that the only function served by the headquarters of a multi-location company is to negotiate the movement of parts between disparate locations. No other departments except Requisitions ever benefit from centralization.
Fascinating.
-Poot
I will continue to listen to Good Music in all its form, whether it comes from a corporation-backed pop mega-sensation or some po'boy jackass with a 4-track in his bedroom and a page on MP3.com.
300 years ago, would you have boycotted the Brandenburg Concertos, just because Bach was on the payroll of Prince Leopold?
Having mixed-case tags is completely irrelevant to the PERFORMANCE of the website. It's a non-issue when writing the HTML code, it's a non-issue when transferring the document over the wire, it's a non-issue when the browser renders the document (unless the browser validates with XHTML 1.0 Strict). The important issue is not how nice the code looks to your eyeball; it's how nicely the code WORKS.
(Please note that I am talking solely about markup languages like HTML; my comments may not be applicable if you extrapolate them to cover programming languages,)
If the buggy video drivers shipped with nearly every video card I've owned are any indication, writing a driver for such a device has to be the hardest thing in the world. I can only imagine how hard it would be for someone who DIDN'T have the hardware specs sitting right in front of them...
What good would this do, except bias the judge against Microsoft?
It is far too late in the legal process to try to introduce new examples of anti-competitive behavior. The prosecution made their case, the court made its findings of fact, and now the job of the court is to decide what repercussions are demanded by the PARTICULAR INSTANCES OF ANTICOMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR that were demonstrated already.
Also, shouldn't you verify Her Honor's address BEFORE you ask everyone to flood her mailbox with pointless letters?
-Poot
(PS IANAL)
It is not explicitly stated whether government organizations which are not Congress (like public schools) are subject to the same constraints.
(Or at least, that's one interpretation of the whole thing...)