First and foremost... a bunch of strangers on a yacht are yelling at you to get on board for no explicable reason and you just do it??? Your ass just got kidnapped!
Second: Your story is unclear... are you suggesting that there were three women in bikinis on your river raft? If you speak the way you write I find that claim dubious.
Third: Some guys in a rental yacht start yelling something about getting aboard their boat and your situational awareness tells you it's an emergency and you should get in the water???? IN A LOCK OF ALL PLACES??? Depending on the direction the lock was operating, you could have been pulled under and drown. Your fucking lucky to be alive! Remind me to never let you captain anything that floats ever!
Fourth: Suggesting that every cell phone store keep an equivalent unit on hand would have a cumulative cost in the millions, and 90% of those devices would be wasted... they would sit on the shelf until such time as the user (rarely) needs a replacement, or until the user decides to upgrade... at which point the store now has an obsolete phone on the shelf that can't be sold for profit, and is now required to buy a brand new phone to stick on the shelf to act as "back up" for the new phone just purchased. Your logic is incomprehensible. It is apparent that you have no business sense whatsoever and that you make a living only because you are surrounded by exceedingly tolerant and generous people.
THIS!!!! Click bait is exactly why they keep posting his crap!
I've been thinking for a while that I'd love to write a Bennet Hasselton parody where I argue in 1200 words why he is such an asset to/. but I can never debase myself to write 1200 words without arriving at a meaningful conclusion.
The trouble is this: We DID let Crimea go... we did nothing. Then Russia provided SAMs and the rebels shot down a civilian airliner...and we did nothing. How long do we sit this one out?
Europe cannot risk the kind of continued unchecked aggression that Russia can dish out, not if they ever hope to avoid the financial ruin that follows Communism around like a hungry dingo. This is not a movie. Stand up to Russia.
Agreed... I've read MUCH better accounts of "Scamming the scammer"... one included a call to netstat to determine the remote guy's IP address, and ended in the scammer nearly crying. If the OP wasn't AC, I'd use my mod points to randomly hunt and downmod any comments I could find from the OP.
I run the E3000 with DD-WRT... I've loved it... Runs great! no longer run it in bridged mode after moving to a new house, but it's still got nice features (albeit a bit aged now)
Sorry, to state this a little more clearly: What percentage of people do you think use facebook as their primary or only source of news? I'd bet the number is pretty high.
If only I hadn't spent my mod points yesterday, I'd mod this up. This is the point of machine learning, and probably one of the first aspects that they tackled... the numbers don't lie.
The trouble here... and the reason I don't use facebook... is that just because I like coke, doesn't mean I "Like" coke. If I want to express my affinity for a product, that doesn't mean I want to be constantly marketed to by that company. Likewise, the sleazy practice of making someone like your product before you can see some kind of content (say a video for example) that has gone viral... but until you watch the video, you aren't sure whether you "Like" (or even like) the product/company... pisses me off.
Facebook operates under the pretense that it's a good way for you to keep in touch with your friends... but their quarterly financial statements argue for the fact that it is a good way for companies to market to individuals under the pretense of them keeping up with their friends.
Your description of the myriad ways in which your feed is broken and fails to satisfy you is a proxy for the myriad ways in which Facebook is making money off you.
I'd bet dollars to pesos that the government strongly hinted to google which account they should look at to see if there is anything amiss that should be reported to the government.
The problem I take issue with here is the idea that a billion pictures a day probably flow across the Gmail system. SO in order to be able to report this, Google must have either a) developed an algorithm to spot exploited children (meaning that Google itself must have a pretty huge collection of images for developers to build a ML algorithm against... b) they are paying people to thumb through all the images in transit c) the government has provided Google with a list of convicted felons to watch... thus reducing the search space of option b
No matter how you slice it... it sets a bad precedent of varying degree. How do you achieve this without getting your hands dirty? That's what worries me.
I've used PHP for 12+ years. I have always hated how often I have to refer to reference materials because I can't remember the way a function is spelled, order of parameters, etc. I've never been able to put my finger on it exactly, but PHP has always just bothered me with it's inconsistencies. Reading the fractal post has opened my eyes! I've experienced no less than half of the issues listed, some of which I never was able to resolve why (just ended up coding around the issue). Mostly I've gotten used to using frameworks like Zend and Propel to abstract away a lot of these issues, but that's not a fix, and it's likely to introduce additional security issues.
I've tinkered around with C# for a while now, and just this last year I've gotten serious about learning it for work. The lesson I learned from reading the fractal post is this: PHP has F*cked me up and made me a horrible coder, and has ruined me from learning C# properly. I have to unlearn all the bad habits I picked up in PHP before I can effectively code in any other language.
So if I understand this correctly, the beams that form the "psudofiber" have to be intense enough to heat the surrounding air in less than a microsecond... and the signal will be pushed down the center of the pipe... so all those hoards of unholy photons that created the pipe in the first place are going to arrive at the destination a microsecond before the signal does, and they should still be nicely focused and searching for a nice electronic sensor to deposit all that energy into... Or did I miss something?
Yes, I was being facetious... giving voice to the people who hang on to this crap for no good reason.
I'm mostly just astounded by the fact that our government... who knows EVERYTHING... doesn't know where they are keeping their deadly viruses... even if they aren't weaponized.
But hey... nobody ever accused the US government of being efficient.
But you never owned it in the first place... even when you had a hard copy. You only owned a license.
Now, trying to get a replacement copy (based on your license) when your original gets damaged, is another story, but yeah, you never owned the movie.
My problem with physical media is that it's not possible to carry it all with you... so when you want to take a road trip you have to be selective and predict what your kids are going to want to watch. When kids damage the media, you are stuck purchasing another license to something you already have a license to use, and when the player you own stops working, and you can't buy another (think VHS) you are unable to continue to use the media. All these things go away if you buy a license directly from the stuido, and are guaranteed perpetual use. I don't love Netflix... their model is only going to last so long as studios still avoid doing the distribution themselves. If you want my prediction for the future, it's this:
A company will build an end to end streaming solution that includes a server and an app that has iron clad (read mostly iron clad) copy protection that allows a user to view movies from said device, and even create local copies for airplane mode and such... this company will then approach movie studios and show them this: If you buy our streaming solution, then sell licenses to your media directly, users can download the app for free, and view your movies. They then go to other content providers and do the same. If the studio doesn't want to host all that infrastructure, the company will do it as a service. The price per movie will drop as the cost of distribution is taken out of the chain, making stuff cheaper for end users, and making more money for the studio. If Netflix is the company to do this they will survive... if not, they'll die. The problem with netflix right now is that their model is subscription based, which is why I think most studios aren't on board. But if studios were getting a better cut (subscription pays too little), and customers were still getting a perpetual license (Netflix hates loosing content almost as much as I hate Netflix loosing content), then who wouldn't be happy with that arrangement?
In short, will the dinosaurs in the room please stand up? Physical media is a thing of the past... but the perpetual license is the thing that people still want. As soon as someone assuages the piracy concerns of the studio and assuages the loss of access problem for the consumer... there won't be a reason to do anything else.
...you can't possibly guarantee the destruction of every sample. We have lax tracking policies to thank for that. If we voluntarily destroy all our live samples, and some other nation doesn't, then you can bet your next paycheck someone will use that as a weapon against us and we'll be totally powerless to retaliate (or so goes the argument).
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First and foremost... a bunch of strangers on a yacht are yelling at you to get on board for no explicable reason and you just do it??? Your ass just got kidnapped!
Second: Your story is unclear... are you suggesting that there were three women in bikinis on your river raft? If you speak the way you write I find that claim dubious.
Third: Some guys in a rental yacht start yelling something about getting aboard their boat and your situational awareness tells you it's an emergency and you should get in the water???? IN A LOCK OF ALL PLACES??? Depending on the direction the lock was operating, you could have been pulled under and drown. Your fucking lucky to be alive! Remind me to never let you captain anything that floats ever!
Fourth: Suggesting that every cell phone store keep an equivalent unit on hand would have a cumulative cost in the millions, and 90% of those devices would be wasted... they would sit on the shelf until such time as the user (rarely) needs a replacement, or until the user decides to upgrade... at which point the store now has an obsolete phone on the shelf that can't be sold for profit, and is now required to buy a brand new phone to stick on the shelf to act as "back up" for the new phone just purchased. Your logic is incomprehensible. It is apparent that you have no business sense whatsoever and that you make a living only because you are surrounded by exceedingly tolerant and generous people.
Dry bag baby... learn it, use it!
THIS!!!! Click bait is exactly why they keep posting his crap!
I've been thinking for a while that I'd love to write a Bennet Hasselton parody where I argue in 1200 words why he is such an asset to /. but I can never debase myself to write 1200 words without arriving at a meaningful conclusion.
People still print???? C'mon people, get over it!
The trouble is this: We DID let Crimea go... we did nothing. Then Russia provided SAMs and the rebels shot down a civilian airliner...and we did nothing. How long do we sit this one out?
Europe cannot risk the kind of continued unchecked aggression that Russia can dish out, not if they ever hope to avoid the financial ruin that follows Communism around like a hungry dingo. This is not a movie. Stand up to Russia.
Agreed... I've read MUCH better accounts of "Scamming the scammer"... one included a call to netstat to determine the remote guy's IP address, and ended in the scammer nearly crying. If the OP wasn't AC, I'd use my mod points to randomly hunt and downmod any comments I could find from the OP.
LAME!
Bow down to my 27" tablet!!!
I'm surprised they didn't name the publication "Security weak"... but perhaps they're not the laughing type?
I run the E3000 with DD-WRT... I've loved it... Runs great! no longer run it in bridged mode after moving to a new house, but it's still got nice features (albeit a bit aged now)
Sorry, to state this a little more clearly: What percentage of people do you think use facebook as their primary or only source of news? I'd bet the number is pretty high.
So... for what percentage of Facebook users is this also true?
If only I hadn't spent my mod points yesterday, I'd mod this up. This is the point of machine learning, and probably one of the first aspects that they tackled... the numbers don't lie.
The trouble here... and the reason I don't use facebook... is that just because I like coke, doesn't mean I "Like" coke. If I want to express my affinity for a product, that doesn't mean I want to be constantly marketed to by that company. Likewise, the sleazy practice of making someone like your product before you can see some kind of content (say a video for example) that has gone viral... but until you watch the video, you aren't sure whether you "Like" (or even like) the product/company... pisses me off.
Facebook operates under the pretense that it's a good way for you to keep in touch with your friends... but their quarterly financial statements argue for the fact that it is a good way for companies to market to individuals under the pretense of them keeping up with their friends.
Your description of the myriad ways in which your feed is broken and fails to satisfy you is a proxy for the myriad ways in which Facebook is making money off you.
1. It is not possible to exert mind control over an intelligent and reasonable person simply by throttling their social media streams.
See: Russia, Iran, Syria, China... need I go on?
I'd bet dollars to pesos that the government strongly hinted to google which account they should look at to see if there is anything amiss that should be reported to the government.
The problem I take issue with here is the idea that a billion pictures a day probably flow across the Gmail system. SO in order to be able to report this, Google must have either
a) developed an algorithm to spot exploited children (meaning that Google itself must have a pretty huge collection of images for developers to build a ML algorithm against...
b) they are paying people to thumb through all the images in transit
c) the government has provided Google with a list of convicted felons to watch... thus reducing the search space of option b
No matter how you slice it... it sets a bad precedent of varying degree. How do you achieve this without getting your hands dirty? That's what worries me.
I've used PHP for 12+ years. I have always hated how often I have to refer to reference materials because I can't remember the way a function is spelled, order of parameters, etc. I've never been able to put my finger on it exactly, but PHP has always just bothered me with it's inconsistencies. Reading the fractal post has opened my eyes! I've experienced no less than half of the issues listed, some of which I never was able to resolve why (just ended up coding around the issue). Mostly I've gotten used to using frameworks like Zend and Propel to abstract away a lot of these issues, but that's not a fix, and it's likely to introduce additional security issues.
I've tinkered around with C# for a while now, and just this last year I've gotten serious about learning it for work. The lesson I learned from reading the fractal post is this: PHP has F*cked me up and made me a horrible coder, and has ruined me from learning C# properly. I have to unlearn all the bad habits I picked up in PHP before I can effectively code in any other language.
-J
"hoards of unholy photons" didn't tip you to the fact that I was being somewhat less than scientific about my analysis?
So if I understand this correctly, the beams that form the "psudofiber" have to be intense enough to heat the surrounding air in less than a microsecond... and the signal will be pushed down the center of the pipe... so all those hoards of unholy photons that created the pipe in the first place are going to arrive at the destination a microsecond before the signal does, and they should still be nicely focused and searching for a nice electronic sensor to deposit all that energy into... Or did I miss something?
Fuck you. Violence is wrong.
The irony is almost more than I can bear.
fucking telepathy
Infinitely better than regular telepathy... here here!
Yes, I was being facetious... giving voice to the people who hang on to this crap for no good reason.
I'm mostly just astounded by the fact that our government... who knows EVERYTHING... doesn't know where they are keeping their deadly viruses... even if they aren't weaponized.
But hey... nobody ever accused the US government of being efficient.
But you never owned it in the first place... even when you had a hard copy. You only owned a license.
Now, trying to get a replacement copy (based on your license) when your original gets damaged, is another story, but yeah, you never owned the movie.
My problem with physical media is that it's not possible to carry it all with you... so when you want to take a road trip you have to be selective and predict what your kids are going to want to watch. When kids damage the media, you are stuck purchasing another license to something you already have a license to use, and when the player you own stops working, and you can't buy another (think VHS) you are unable to continue to use the media. All these things go away if you buy a license directly from the stuido, and are guaranteed perpetual use. I don't love Netflix... their model is only going to last so long as studios still avoid doing the distribution themselves. If you want my prediction for the future, it's this:
A company will build an end to end streaming solution that includes a server and an app that has iron clad (read mostly iron clad) copy protection that allows a user to view movies from said device, and even create local copies for airplane mode and such... this company will then approach movie studios and show them this: If you buy our streaming solution, then sell licenses to your media directly, users can download the app for free, and view your movies. They then go to other content providers and do the same. If the studio doesn't want to host all that infrastructure, the company will do it as a service. The price per movie will drop as the cost of distribution is taken out of the chain, making stuff cheaper for end users, and making more money for the studio. If Netflix is the company to do this they will survive... if not, they'll die. The problem with netflix right now is that their model is subscription based, which is why I think most studios aren't on board. But if studios were getting a better cut (subscription pays too little), and customers were still getting a perpetual license (Netflix hates loosing content almost as much as I hate Netflix loosing content), then who wouldn't be happy with that arrangement?
In short, will the dinosaurs in the room please stand up? Physical media is a thing of the past... but the perpetual license is the thing that people still want. As soon as someone assuages the piracy concerns of the studio and assuages the loss of access problem for the consumer... there won't be a reason to do anything else.
Disney... is that you?
...you can't possibly guarantee the destruction of every sample. We have lax tracking policies to thank for that. If we voluntarily destroy all our live samples, and some other nation doesn't, then you can bet your next paycheck someone will use that as a weapon against us and we'll be totally powerless to retaliate (or so goes the argument).