The search in the app store already sucks so hard that I literally Google what I want first, and then go back and try to "trick" the app store into actually showing it to me.
I hate ads with a passion, but in this case, I doubt paid listings could seriously make it any worse.
Yes, I guess you can make arithmetics slightly faster when you allow errors, but is that where todays CPUs spend a lot of time?
Not so much in error checking, but in the choice of the algorithm itself.
As an example, Quake 3 famously used a crazy-fast inverse square root routine. It didn't give an exact answer, but rather, one "close enough" to suit its intended purpose (calculating surface normals for reflections) in software, in a quarter of the time FPUs of the era could get an answer using dedicated hardware. The FPU would always give a much more accurate answer, but not every use needs a much more accurate answer.
People speed and 99 times out of 100 they don't get caught.
The one time they do get caught, it's not "Whoops, I shouldn't have been speeding." it's "The cop got lucky that time. She won't catch me next time."
No, I don't think I won't get caught next time - I just consider it "totally worth it". I effectively pay the state $150-250 once every few years, in exchange for saving myself ten days off my daily commute (over the same threeish years between tickets). Realistically, I would need to get nailed for over a thousand bucks a year before the tickets even break even with my time savings.
I don't even bother defending my speed to the cop. I just politely hand him my well-organized paperwork to minimize the amount of time the stop wastes, he comes back with my ticket, and I go about my day.
three services, say, Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify, will cost $360, which will be a substantial cost to casual listeners.
$360 per year comes out to 30-40 CDs back from the dark ages of music - Purely in terms of cost, a pittance, really.
The bigger issue here, and the reason people never stopped pirating music - control. I have absolutely zero faith in any streaming service that music by my favorite new artist today will continue to exist in their catalog a year, ten years, forty years from now.
I will still buy physical discs as an "archival copy", when available; but when publishers screw us all (artists included) with these service-exclusive deals, it leaves only one rational option.
I've never even seen a Captcha for Google, and I really have no idea of when you'd see them, or why you'd pay to break them.
If you do a bunch of searches in quick succession, it will occasionally ask you to solve one. Seems kinda random, though, some days I can search for half an hour as fast as I can type without getting one, while others I get a captcha after my third attempt to refine the results.
why? because if it were all male voices then the same fucking story would be posted but with a twist that women are stupid so you can't use the voice for an assistant.
Worse than that. Most (all? Honestly never heard of "Xiaoice") of those services let you change the voice, with several male options available - And even when people do change them, they still pick a female voice.
You can debate the societal implications of that, but don't blame Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/etc for supplying exactly what their market asked for.
In the absence of some sort of legal judgement allowing these thugs to shake people down for cash, doesn't this just go by the plain old-fashioned name of "extortion"?
Wait, I've missed the bigger picture here! Apparently all the crypto-locker authors just need to make up a random crime to accuse people of, and then their ransomware becomes perfectly kosher, right?
Time to go write an "anti-piracy" app that only targets Rightscorp!
Quite the opposite in this case - If you have to ask (and do any mobile development at all), you haven't yet noticed that you have a large asteroid falling out of the sky directly toward your comfortable little picnic.
Not everyone will use Xamarin, but if you haven't at least evaluated it and deemed it irrelevant to your situation, you need a new career.
It denies freedoms that are otherwise perfectly reasonable, and would exist were the GPL not denying them.
Really? Cool!
Say, could you do me a solid and use all that freedom you have in the absence of the GPL to make a quick change to the Win10 source code to me? Just the teensiest tweak to a GUI default setting...
I'd do it myself, but, well... Virally tainted and all.
you know, maybe we should make crime illegal or something...
The "Dark net" doesn't just (or even primarily) mean places like Silk Road. Every corporate WAN falls under that description as well; every paywalled (or even just "login required to see anything") site on the internet counts as part of the darknet; Every 100% legitimate VPN provider offers a portal to your own private darknet; Hell, even your own home LAN could arguably count as a darknet.
The problem here has nothing to do with legality; more that "seven in 10 people" have strong opinions on issues the have no clue about.
On any road, there still needs to be room for somebody who just parked to open his door.
Nope. If you open your door into traffic and someone driving by clips it, you have caused the accident.
Irrelevant, anyway - If someone steps out from between two large vehicles, you can't go from 25 to zero faster than that person can take two steps. Physics always wins.
I don't think Slashdot is the right target audience for fitness trackers
There, I'd have to disagree (unless you meant we already tend to have toys that can serve the same purpose, in which case I guess I'd agree with that).
The supreme irony of fitness trackers, think about who you see wearing them - Not buff athletes pushing themselves to the limit, but overweight middle class desk-jockeys trying desperately to shed a few pounds.
Of course, these trackers don't actually inspire people to exercise - Instead, trackers either make people feel better about how many steps they passive take every day, or, people quickly learn to game the tracker as though a logged "step" equals actual exercise.
"See, if I rock my hand just the right way while moving the Cheeto from the bag to my mouth, it counts it as two steps! Two family-size bags and four hours of TV gives me my 10,000 steps for the day! Size 0, here I come!"
My question is, would improving security cost more than $1,600?
You want to trust recovering a substantial portion of your network to not only the honesty of the guy who wrote this, but also in the ability of a loser who can't make a living as a "real" programmer to implement a reversible cryptosystem as intended? And when the next attack doesn't want money, but instead comes from a 14YO who just wants to fuck things up, what then?
$1,600 doesn't even show up as an OpEx, it vanishes into petty cash; losing a billion dollar a year company's entire network because you didn't take even basic precautions? CIOs go to jail over incidents like that.
This didn't circumvent the court order. The order didn't apply to Joe Sixpack, it applied to a specific list of ISPs and ordered them to take a specific set of actions.
In no way does running a proxy interfere with the ability of BT to block an official list of UKIP... er, I mean, piracy sites.
I hope you're kidding. Don't reinvent the wheel - if someone else has already written the code then there's no reason to re-write it.
I hope you're kidding, and the present situation makes an excellent example of why.
Tracking down Open Source dependencies has become a complete nightmare, in many cases, because far, far too many devs unfortunately take your advice to heart. No, we shouldn't roll our own bigmath libraries, or nosql implementations. But what lazy-assed devs would import an external dependency for something as trivial as padding a string? Oh, right - Apparently thousands of them. Gee, I wonder why the business world doesn't take us seriously, despite offering them our work for the low, low price of "free"?
If being a scientist requires the ability to look dispassionately at the evidence, Hansen's not a scientist.
Fortunately, it doesn't.
You can have every bit as much zeal and fervor as a suicide bomber or Belieber, and still make a damned good scientist...
You can look at the evidence passionately, and fly into a blind rage over what it tells you... ...So long as, at the end of the day, you accept what the evidence tells you, you don't need to "like" it.
No one spends a lifetime "dispassionately" studying slime mold, for half of what they could make whoring themselves out to Big Pharma.
That's not who they're trying to attract at events like this, not any more.
You seem to have mistaken "what they say" and "what they really do".
Having an all-white male staff has become un-PC, so all the big tech companies talk up diversity and fight over the handful of women and minorities actually available in the industry.
Same goes for targeting games to testosterone-impaired teen-and-twenty-something males; so now games include "social" aspects to attract the ladies (which usually means never leaving the lobby/safe-zone chat-rooms), and a few token "serious" female/gay/furry playable characters with dialog so badly railroaded that even female/gay/furry players still opt to pick either the male or tarted-out characters.
Slashdot Mirror
If the universe ran on a grid or other regular structure there would be some slight anisotropic effects.
You mean like what we see in the CMB?
The search in the app store already sucks so hard that I literally Google what I want first, and then go back and try to "trick" the app store into actually showing it to me.
I hate ads with a passion, but in this case, I doubt paid listings could seriously make it any worse.
Yes, I guess you can make arithmetics slightly faster when you allow errors, but is that where todays CPUs spend a lot of time?
Not so much in error checking, but in the choice of the algorithm itself.
As an example, Quake 3 famously used a crazy-fast inverse square root routine. It didn't give an exact answer, but rather, one "close enough" to suit its intended purpose (calculating surface normals for reflections) in software, in a quarter of the time FPUs of the era could get an answer using dedicated hardware. The FPU would always give a much more accurate answer, but not every use needs a much more accurate answer.
People speed and 99 times out of 100 they don't get caught. The one time they do get caught, it's not "Whoops, I shouldn't have been speeding." it's "The cop got lucky that time. She won't catch me next time."
No, I don't think I won't get caught next time - I just consider it "totally worth it". I effectively pay the state $150-250 once every few years, in exchange for saving myself ten days off my daily commute (over the same threeish years between tickets). Realistically, I would need to get nailed for over a thousand bucks a year before the tickets even break even with my time savings.
I don't even bother defending my speed to the cop. I just politely hand him my well-organized paperwork to minimize the amount of time the stop wastes, he comes back with my ticket, and I go about my day.
three services, say, Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify, will cost $360, which will be a substantial cost to casual listeners.
$360 per year comes out to 30-40 CDs back from the dark ages of music - Purely in terms of cost, a pittance, really.
The bigger issue here, and the reason people never stopped pirating music - control. I have absolutely zero faith in any streaming service that music by my favorite new artist today will continue to exist in their catalog a year, ten years, forty years from now.
I will still buy physical discs as an "archival copy", when available; but when publishers screw us all (artists included) with these service-exclusive deals, it leaves only one rational option.
I've never even seen a Captcha for Google, and I really have no idea of when you'd see them, or why you'd pay to break them.
If you do a bunch of searches in quick succession, it will occasionally ask you to solve one. Seems kinda random, though, some days I can search for half an hour as fast as I can type without getting one, while others I get a captcha after my third attempt to refine the results.
why? because if it were all male voices then the same fucking story would be posted but with a twist that women are stupid so you can't use the voice for an assistant.
Worse than that. Most (all? Honestly never heard of "Xiaoice") of those services let you change the voice, with several male options available - And even when people do change them, they still pick a female voice.
You can debate the societal implications of that, but don't blame Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/etc for supplying exactly what their market asked for.
In the absence of some sort of legal judgement allowing these thugs to shake people down for cash, doesn't this just go by the plain old-fashioned name of "extortion"?
Wait, I've missed the bigger picture here! Apparently all the crypto-locker authors just need to make up a random crime to accuse people of, and then their ransomware becomes perfectly kosher, right?
Time to go write an "anti-piracy" app that only targets Rightscorp!
It doesn't matter which time zone the Slashdot editors or admins are in, or which time zone the Slashdot readers are in.
Ah, see, you missed the real prank...
Slashdot has decided to pretend its corporate HQ and the vast majority of its users operate under PDT rather than UTC.
Get it?
/ Oh, wouldja look at that, 17 o'clock, time for lunch!
If you have to ask, you shouldn't care.
Quite the opposite in this case - If you have to ask (and do any mobile development at all), you haven't yet noticed that you have a large asteroid falling out of the sky directly toward your comfortable little picnic.
Not everyone will use Xamarin, but if you haven't at least evaluated it and deemed it irrelevant to your situation, you need a new career.
It denies freedoms that are otherwise perfectly reasonable, and would exist were the GPL not denying them.
Really? Cool!
Say, could you do me a solid and use all that freedom you have in the absence of the GPL to make a quick change to the Win10 source code to me? Just the teensiest tweak to a GUI default setting...
I'd do it myself, but, well... Virally tainted and all.
Thanks!
you know, maybe we should make crime illegal or something...
The "Dark net" doesn't just (or even primarily) mean places like Silk Road. Every corporate WAN falls under that description as well; every paywalled (or even just "login required to see anything") site on the internet counts as part of the darknet; Every 100% legitimate VPN provider offers a portal to your own private darknet; Hell, even your own home LAN could arguably count as a darknet.
The problem here has nothing to do with legality; more that "seven in 10 people" have strong opinions on issues the have no clue about.
Racist.
How do you know her as anything but a white blue-eyed blonde Valley girl, except by her annoyingly long and unpronounceable name?
"Racist", right back at'cha!
There are certain areas, of course, such as near lakes or rivers, where additional care is due.
You don't see "walking 15 feet away from a continuous stream of rapidly moving multi-ton objects" as one of those areas?
As a pedestrian; there is generally no hazard from texting, and all the danger is caused by the fact there are cars
Man 'walks off cliff and plummets 60 feet to his death on Christmas Day while distracted by his cell phone'
Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
Bonnie Miller, Woman Who Fell Off Pier While Texting, Saved By Teen Rebecca Van Zant
Texting While Walking Causes More Accidents Than Texting and Driving
Want to rethink that stance?
This is exactly what the law requires that drivers do
It requires no such thing. That situation describes any urban road, with speed limits between 25 and 35MPH, not 5MPH.
On any road, there still needs to be room for somebody who just parked to open his door.
Nope. If you open your door into traffic and someone driving by clips it, you have caused the accident.
Irrelevant, anyway - If someone steps out from between two large vehicles, you can't go from 25 to zero faster than that person can take two steps. Physics always wins.
I don't think Slashdot is the right target audience for fitness trackers
There, I'd have to disagree (unless you meant we already tend to have toys that can serve the same purpose, in which case I guess I'd agree with that).
The supreme irony of fitness trackers, think about who you see wearing them - Not buff athletes pushing themselves to the limit, but overweight middle class desk-jockeys trying desperately to shed a few pounds.
Of course, these trackers don't actually inspire people to exercise - Instead, trackers either make people feel better about how many steps they passive take every day, or, people quickly learn to game the tracker as though a logged "step" equals actual exercise.
"See, if I rock my hand just the right way while moving the Cheeto from the bag to my mouth, it counts it as two steps! Two family-size bags and four hours of TV gives me my 10,000 steps for the day! Size 0, here I come!"
Cite please?
My question is, would improving security cost more than $1,600?
You want to trust recovering a substantial portion of your network to not only the honesty of the guy who wrote this, but also in the ability of a loser who can't make a living as a "real" programmer to implement a reversible cryptosystem as intended? And when the next attack doesn't want money, but instead comes from a 14YO who just wants to fuck things up, what then?
$1,600 doesn't even show up as an OpEx, it vanishes into petty cash; losing a billion dollar a year company's entire network because you didn't take even basic precautions? CIOs go to jail over incidents like that.
This didn't circumvent the court order. The order didn't apply to Joe Sixpack, it applied to a specific list of ISPs and ordered them to take a specific set of actions.
In no way does running a proxy interfere with the ability of BT to block an official list of UKIP... er, I mean, piracy sites.
I hope you're kidding. Don't reinvent the wheel - if someone else has already written the code then there's no reason to re-write it.
I hope you're kidding, and the present situation makes an excellent example of why.
Tracking down Open Source dependencies has become a complete nightmare, in many cases, because far, far too many devs unfortunately take your advice to heart. No, we shouldn't roll our own bigmath libraries, or nosql implementations. But what lazy-assed devs would import an external dependency for something as trivial as padding a string? Oh, right - Apparently thousands of them. Gee, I wonder why the business world doesn't take us seriously, despite offering them our work for the low, low price of "free"?
If being a scientist requires the ability to look dispassionately at the evidence, Hansen's not a scientist.
...So long as, at the end of the day, you accept what the evidence tells you, you don't need to "like" it.
Fortunately, it doesn't.
You can have every bit as much zeal and fervor as a suicide bomber or Belieber, and still make a damned good scientist...
You can look at the evidence passionately, and fly into a blind rage over what it tells you...
No one spends a lifetime "dispassionately" studying slime mold, for half of what they could make whoring themselves out to Big Pharma.
FWIW, not saying I consider that "right", but I won't deny the reality we can all clearly see in front of us.
That's not who they're trying to attract at events like this, not any more.
You seem to have mistaken "what they say" and "what they really do".
Having an all-white male staff has become un-PC, so all the big tech companies talk up diversity and fight over the handful of women and minorities actually available in the industry.
Same goes for targeting games to testosterone-impaired teen-and-twenty-something males; so now games include "social" aspects to attract the ladies (which usually means never leaving the lobby/safe-zone chat-rooms), and a few token "serious" female/gay/furry playable characters with dialog so badly railroaded that even female/gay/furry players still opt to pick either the male or tarted-out characters.