Yep. I didn't understand why Apple went with 4:3 until I'd used both an iPad and a few 16:9 (or 16:10? don't remember) Android devices. 4:3 is better for pretty much every single task except watching movies, and it's not much worse for that. Web browsing especially is much nicer in 4:3; both orientations remain usable on most web sites, and there's rarely wasted space.
SSL is used on non-443 ports all the time. It's not just for HTTPS.
I'd assumed that's what encrypted Bittorrent traffic uses, though looking in to it farther it appears they use something else. It is used for encrypted peer-to-tracker communication, though. Either way, telling what a user's downloading over encrypted BitTorrent protocol is non-trivial without a peer connected to the same tracker.
Seems more likely they'll have machines sitting around on popular trackers grepping for IP addresses from blocks they own. At least if they want it to be even sort-of effective.
or if you want a movie reference to back this up, how about humans can also defect on their own with large war machines...that is the basic Hunt for Red October lesson
Easy fix—prevent the drones from sending fewer than two pings.
I find a picture or two a day on vacation is plenty, personally. Just enough to jog memories, not so many that you have to put any effort in to pruning them, and it only takes a minute or two out of each day, at worst. Maybe one or two short videos over a week, quality is nearly irrelevant (phones are fine). Just enough to capture some voices, some movements, and some sounds around you.
Never capture more than you are willing to sort/store/tag/backup when you get home, and never enough that you have to dig to find what you're looking for, even if it's decades later.
It would take 4 lifetimes to review and edit out the 99% crap that you just will never care about (in your life time).
Seriously, it's easy enough to spend more time locating, prioritizing, and cataloging media than simply enjoying it without crap like this.
Music, movies, books, photos, etc. More media is definitely not what I need in my life. I'm drowning in it as it is, and enough of it is more interesting than what I did today that I doubt I'd run out of good media to enjoy (to say nothing of actual experiences in the real world) in a dozen lifetimes, even if no more were produced starting today.
People spend hundreds to thousands of hours and shitloads of money organizing, annotating, and preserving family photos and videos, largely to no long-term end (two generations later, "who the fuck are all these people?" *throws out several boxes of photo albums*).
If you want to record your life, be ready to spend all your free time editing it and adding metadata so it's useful, or before long it'll just be a bunch of files and a hopelessly-large chore to organize it all. If you're an early adopter of this sort of thing maybe it'll be preserved by others (certainly some things like this would be important to historians) but you won't get much use out of it personally unless you're willing to devote tons of time to it.
Ever edit a wedding video? Imagine that, but a billion times more boring.
The funny thing is that not that long ago the stereotypical liberal response to a problem was to directly mandate behavior through legislation, while the stereotypical conservative response was to steer market forces through incentives and disincentives.
Now the liberals have adopted the old conservative positions, and the conservatives have decided that in no case ever can government accomplish anything, evidence be damned, so it should stop trying (unless it's blowing people up). At the same time people complain on a regular basis that our country's heading in to looney lefty socialist territory.
Or they may decide that it now too expensive to do significant engineering in the US and move everything offshore where they can pay peanuts *and* get 80 hour weeks from their workers.
Why hasn't that happened in Europe, then? 4-6 weeks of vacation + several holidays, long-ass maternity/paternity(!!!) leave, developed-world salary levels, many (all?) countries in the EU having regulations on working hours per week, etc.
Nothing could have better complimented my post somewhat upthread. Thanks. Only way it could have been better is if you'd responded directly to that one. The first paragraph in particular perfectly illustrates the insurmountable differences in both approach and level of understanding facing anyone who bothers to attempt reasoned discussion on the topic of taxation and government, especially online. The last paragraph's pretty excellent as well. I couldn't have written better.
The solution is probably either fewer two-income households/fewer single-parent households (no idea how you'd manage that), or excellent, affordable (subsidized when necessary), likely state-run day care facilities.
The latter is expensive, but not doing it is likely more expensive. Prisons aren't free, and a workforce full of dumbasses represents lost money, too.
But like most sensible policy that'd be evil socialism or something, I'm sure, so good luck making it happen here.
It's mainly difficult because it requires much greater familiarity with Greek, Latin, and Euclid than most high school graduates possess these days.
I do wonder what percentage of students studying Greek and Latin back then ever achieved the ability to read long works in either language with good comprehension and with little enough effort that it wasn't a chore, i.e. how many practiced it enough in school to use it through the rest of their lives, rather than just getting by well-enough not to look like dumbasses in class, then forgetting most of it and never using it again after graduation, as most of us (even programmers) do with the bulk of our mathematics education, for example.
Of course I'd like for government to be less wasteful. Who wouldn't? Preferring Obama to the only viable alternative doesn't mean one wants the government to spend money to little effect.
Also, the idea of Obama's having a "spell" is something you, or someone who influences your thinking, invented out of laziness.
I've seen many approaches to trying to persuade the anti-civilization, barely-understands-what-government-even-is, taxation-is-theft crowd, but I have to say, yours of simply calling this one a 3rd grader and a whiny little bitch is by far my favorite. It's something about your style—you really sell it.
I'm not kidding.
Bonus: you don't waste a bunch of time trying to bring them up to speed on 2500 years of political philosophy, the history of the last two centuries, and basic political economy.
I hardly think it's controversial to assert that English grammar is less predictable and orderly than French. I'm certainly glad I didn't have to learn English as a second language.
French probably does have more rules, though, so you're right about that.
Between seeing a FedEx guy tossing one smallish Dell-labeled box after another on to the ground from hip height as he sorted them in his truck, and watching baggage handlers at the airport tossing bags a dozen feet on to a pile, I now just assume anyone paid to move my things around is going to beat the living fuck out of them, and they probably don't even care if anyone sees it.
I've found Windows' power management to be much more reliable since Vista, though of course only OSX gets it mostly right, and that's largely because Apple controls the hardware. The only time I've ever had hibernation working close to 100% reliably in Linux (so, no crashes after resume, no blank screens, and the only broken drivers were network-related and fixable with a couple rmmod/modprobes) was on an old IBM Thinkpad, and that's only because it had a feature that let you create a special HD partition and have the BIOS handle the whole thing. It wasn't a deal-breaker back when Windows was as bad or worse, but their power management's not awful any more.
That on top of a pile of other annoyances has driven me away. To be fair I've never put much effort in to shopping for Linux-friendly hardware, but then again that sort of extra work and worry is exactly the kind of thing I'd rather avoid these days unless I'm being paid to do it.
I do still like it on the server, provided someone else is supporting the hardware and guaranteeing it'll work smoothly with Linux.
Never worry about getting multimedia, games, power management (say, hibernation), wireless drivers, etc. working on Linux ever again.
Bonus: you can probably just run Openbox or Windowmaker or something else light since you've got Windows to do most of the stuff you needed KDE/Gnome/XFCE for.
I've yet to see a feature it has that other scripting languages don't, that doesn't qualify as "cool for a 'gee, look what I can do' demo, but for the love of god never do that in production code that someone else will one day have to read". Worse, the culture seems to be all about these unreadable-and-dangerous-garbage-producing "features"—adding shit to instances so you have no idea what any given object might actually have on it at any given time, modifying prototypes of built-in objects (!!!!), anonymous functions everywhere all the time because fuck code organization, reuse, and sensible levels of indentation, etc.
So its benefits are, IMO, dubious, and in exchange for those features you have to put up with a pile of fundamental flaws (hoisting, the worst scope model ever, broken type detection, etc.) so bad that if you turned Javascript in for an undergraduate assignment in language design you'd get an F. The whole fucking language is one giant gotcha, but oooh prototypal objects!
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Yep. I didn't understand why Apple went with 4:3 until I'd used both an iPad and a few 16:9 (or 16:10? don't remember) Android devices. 4:3 is better for pretty much every single task except watching movies, and it's not much worse for that. Web browsing especially is much nicer in 4:3; both orientations remain usable on most web sites, and there's rarely wasted space.
SSL is used on non-443 ports all the time. It's not just for HTTPS.
I'd assumed that's what encrypted Bittorrent traffic uses, though looking in to it farther it appears they use something else. It is used for encrypted peer-to-tracker communication, though. Either way, telling what a user's downloading over encrypted BitTorrent protocol is non-trivial without a peer connected to the same tracker.
Deep packet inspection versus SSL, who wins?
Seems more likely they'll have machines sitting around on popular trackers grepping for IP addresses from blocks they own. At least if they want it to be even sort-of effective.
Easy fix—prevent the drones from sending fewer than two pings.
I find a picture or two a day on vacation is plenty, personally. Just enough to jog memories, not so many that you have to put any effort in to pruning them, and it only takes a minute or two out of each day, at worst. Maybe one or two short videos over a week, quality is nearly irrelevant (phones are fine). Just enough to capture some voices, some movements, and some sounds around you.
Never capture more than you are willing to sort/store/tag/backup when you get home, and never enough that you have to dig to find what you're looking for, even if it's decades later.
Seriously, it's easy enough to spend more time locating, prioritizing, and cataloging media than simply enjoying it without crap like this.
Music, movies, books, photos, etc. More media is definitely not what I need in my life. I'm drowning in it as it is, and enough of it is more interesting than what I did today that I doubt I'd run out of good media to enjoy (to say nothing of actual experiences in the real world) in a dozen lifetimes, even if no more were produced starting today.
People spend hundreds to thousands of hours and shitloads of money organizing, annotating, and preserving family photos and videos, largely to no long-term end (two generations later, "who the fuck are all these people?" *throws out several boxes of photo albums*).
If you want to record your life, be ready to spend all your free time editing it and adding metadata so it's useful, or before long it'll just be a bunch of files and a hopelessly-large chore to organize it all. If you're an early adopter of this sort of thing maybe it'll be preserved by others (certainly some things like this would be important to historians) but you won't get much use out of it personally unless you're willing to devote tons of time to it.
Ever edit a wedding video? Imagine that, but a billion times more boring.
But if the burglars are too busy stealing your guns, they might skip over your electronics.
So that advice made sense after all!
Sorry, but my best friend is a friend. Sources?
The funny thing is that not that long ago the stereotypical liberal response to a problem was to directly mandate behavior through legislation, while the stereotypical conservative response was to steer market forces through incentives and disincentives.
Now the liberals have adopted the old conservative positions, and the conservatives have decided that in no case ever can government accomplish anything, evidence be damned, so it should stop trying (unless it's blowing people up). At the same time people complain on a regular basis that our country's heading in to looney lefty socialist territory.
US politics are fucking weird.
Why hasn't that happened in Europe, then? 4-6 weeks of vacation + several holidays, long-ass maternity/paternity(!!!) leave, developed-world salary levels, many (all?) countries in the EU having regulations on working hours per week, etc.
YES! UIDs three times as high as mine are now considered low! I knew this would happen one day!
I meant complement, of course.
Fucking almost-homophones.
Nothing could have better complimented my post somewhat upthread. Thanks. Only way it could have been better is if you'd responded directly to that one. The first paragraph in particular perfectly illustrates the insurmountable differences in both approach and level of understanding facing anyone who bothers to attempt reasoned discussion on the topic of taxation and government, especially online. The last paragraph's pretty excellent as well. I couldn't have written better.
The solution is probably either fewer two-income households/fewer single-parent households (no idea how you'd manage that), or excellent, affordable (subsidized when necessary), likely state-run day care facilities.
The latter is expensive, but not doing it is likely more expensive. Prisons aren't free, and a workforce full of dumbasses represents lost money, too.
But like most sensible policy that'd be evil socialism or something, I'm sure, so good luck making it happen here.
It's mainly difficult because it requires much greater familiarity with Greek, Latin, and Euclid than most high school graduates possess these days.
I do wonder what percentage of students studying Greek and Latin back then ever achieved the ability to read long works in either language with good comprehension and with little enough effort that it wasn't a chore, i.e. how many practiced it enough in school to use it through the rest of their lives, rather than just getting by well-enough not to look like dumbasses in class, then forgetting most of it and never using it again after graduation, as most of us (even programmers) do with the bulk of our mathematics education, for example.
Of course I'd like for government to be less wasteful. Who wouldn't? Preferring Obama to the only viable alternative doesn't mean one wants the government to spend money to little effect.
Also, the idea of Obama's having a "spell" is something you, or someone who influences your thinking, invented out of laziness.
I've seen many approaches to trying to persuade the anti-civilization, barely-understands-what-government-even-is, taxation-is-theft crowd, but I have to say, yours of simply calling this one a 3rd grader and a whiny little bitch is by far my favorite. It's something about your style—you really sell it.
I'm not kidding.
Bonus: you don't waste a bunch of time trying to bring them up to speed on 2500 years of political philosophy, the history of the last two centuries, and basic political economy.
Uh, why wouldn't it be?
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I hardly think it's controversial to assert that English grammar is less predictable and orderly than French. I'm certainly glad I didn't have to learn English as a second language.
French probably does have more rules, though, so you're right about that.
OK, that makes sense—I thought you meant that our grammar in general is simpler or more orderly, which is certainly not true.
I wouldn't describe English grammar as more "regular" than French. Maybe more flexible, put it in flattering terms.
Between seeing a FedEx guy tossing one smallish Dell-labeled box after another on to the ground from hip height as he sorted them in his truck, and watching baggage handlers at the airport tossing bags a dozen feet on to a pile, I now just assume anyone paid to move my things around is going to beat the living fuck out of them, and they probably don't even care if anyone sees it.
I've found Windows' power management to be much more reliable since Vista, though of course only OSX gets it mostly right, and that's largely because Apple controls the hardware. The only time I've ever had hibernation working close to 100% reliably in Linux (so, no crashes after resume, no blank screens, and the only broken drivers were network-related and fixable with a couple rmmod/modprobes) was on an old IBM Thinkpad, and that's only because it had a feature that let you create a special HD partition and have the BIOS handle the whole thing. It wasn't a deal-breaker back when Windows was as bad or worse, but their power management's not awful any more.
That on top of a pile of other annoyances has driven me away. To be fair I've never put much effort in to shopping for Linux-friendly hardware, but then again that sort of extra work and worry is exactly the kind of thing I'd rather avoid these days unless I'm being paid to do it.
I do still like it on the server, provided someone else is supporting the hardware and guaranteeing it'll work smoothly with Linux.
Run Windows 7.
Run Linux in VirtualBox.
Never worry about getting multimedia, games, power management (say, hibernation), wireless drivers, etc. working on Linux ever again.
Bonus: you can probably just run Openbox or Windowmaker or something else light since you've got Windows to do most of the stuff you needed KDE/Gnome/XFCE for.
I've yet to see a feature it has that other scripting languages don't, that doesn't qualify as "cool for a 'gee, look what I can do' demo, but for the love of god never do that in production code that someone else will one day have to read". Worse, the culture seems to be all about these unreadable-and-dangerous-garbage-producing "features"—adding shit to instances so you have no idea what any given object might actually have on it at any given time, modifying prototypes of built-in objects (!!!!), anonymous functions everywhere all the time because fuck code organization, reuse, and sensible levels of indentation, etc.
So its benefits are, IMO, dubious, and in exchange for those features you have to put up with a pile of fundamental flaws (hoisting, the worst scope model ever, broken type detection, etc.) so bad that if you turned Javascript in for an undergraduate assignment in language design you'd get an F. The whole fucking language is one giant gotcha, but oooh prototypal objects!