If the intent is to obfuscate the style, just run it through a few languages and back as someone already suggested. But I'm guessing they want something that doesn't look like word salad.
We call an obfuscation software
safe, if a forensic analysis does not reveal the original author of its obfuscated texts,
sound, if its obufscated texts are textually entailed with their originals, and
proper, if its obfuscated texts are inconspicuous.
Yup, right there: proper. They're basically asking for someone to write the perfect Bayesian filter beater.
Remember the car Sandra Bullock drives in Demolition Man? Gets in, drives out of the city, engages auto-pilot on the freeway. Then when she gets near her destination re-takes the wheel for the drive through the city.
Is there anyone who thinks we couldn't have this in production next year if we wanted to?
Crime is worse than it's ever been! Kids can't walk to school safely these days!
Except not, and we all know that. We just talked about it earlier this week. As media became national, then international, they started reporting every little thing that happened as though we should care, and maybe we've all started to realize that we don't actually give a shit what's happening in East Bumfuckistan.
In my perfect world if the story is important - and it better be, else why are you wasting my time telling me about it - then take the time to explain why I should care. "Because we have adorable photos of the missing girl" doesn't count.
John Oliver takes on serious issues on a weekly basis and gets ratings doing it. What he doesn't do is pander to fear-mongering and scare tactics, which just get old. Can someone other than Comedy Central please start doing this?
2. Law enforcement says "don't use Blackberry because we cracked it". Stress on the "don't use Blackberry" part ?
That's what seems odd to me. Why would police disclose that they're able to do this? Isn't this the kind of capability you'd want to keep under wraps? Almost seems like they want people to avoid BB. I wonder why.
"Darkside: The Movie" (Yes, it will have "The Movie" in the title.)
The Russian space program is capable of getting to lunar orbit and back, but they're still years away from a lander. But if they "land" on the dark side, and all communication relayed back by the orbiter is encrypted, how will anyone outside their space program know where the footage they show to world was really shot?
Maybe they're really broadcasting from the moon, maybe they're faking the whole thing.
The article said that the government might discover people enjoy having it. If they weren't already aware that people enjoyed it, they wouldn't have bothered to ban it to begin with. Why do you think there's no ban on smashing your thumb with a hammer?
County Clerk Karen Wenger said the cards that activate the push-button machines were programmed incorrectly but the problems were fixed by late morning.
And:
Voting was delayed for 30 minutes or more at some Broward County precincts, where electronic ballots were mixed up and, in one case, a poll worker unintentionally wiped the electronic ballot activators.
Now maybe I'm being naive, but why do the machines need a special card to activate them? Are they talking about the flash cards that store the ballot definitions, the flash cards that store the votes, or some other card?
If it's the cards with the ballot definitions that were messed up, these are supposed to be re-flashed after each use. If it's the cards that store the votes, there should not be any programming on the cards. If it's not one of these two, then why do you need any other card? All code on the device should be in a non-flashable ROM, with no way to alter it without opening the case. How was this problem "fixed" on-site?
As for wiping the ballot activators, if they're talking about the same cards as in the first instance, again why were these cards writable? No one at a polling place should be able to modify any code on any part of the system. Sure, it makes it harder to do maintenance. Which means you have to actually test it before deploying it.
I'm against only counting American lives lost. It's so easy to slap the label of "Iraqi" on somebody and not worry about it (as much) because they were "supposed" to die. In my book, lives lost are fellow human beings who are now dead, and the decision to invade Iraq has resulted in tens^Whundreds of thousands of casualties.
The one area of Linux ownership and use where it becomes apparent that there's an assumption that everyone who uses Linux is an expert is hardware support.
Absolutely. Bad hardware support is entirely because the people writing code for Linux don't think they should bother with device drivers. It has nothing at all to do with the fact that hardware manufacturers won't give up enough information to do it correctly.
Yup, just a bunch of 1337 haxx05z who don't want the unwashed masses using their toy.
Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopéz Aguilar says Spain is drafting a new law to abolish the existing right to private copies of material.
I know this is just a tangential point in the article, but I sure wish there was some more detail about that. Are they really trying to say that there is no such thing as first sale any more? Will all copyrighted material become licensed, not sold, by law? This is wrong and unpossible[1] in so many ways, I can't even figure out what to argue against.
WTF is a "tax" going to accomplish, other than fattening the pockets of politicians, complicating our unbelievably complicated beuracracy even more, and making the poor even poorer?
What, you think a politician needs more reason than that?
Their product isn't what they make, their product is what they sell. What they sell is impressions. So it's not the adword itself that they're selling. It's the number of times a listing is "viewed".
Sure, this is a somewhat pedantic distinction. But it's useful to always remember that an ad-supported company is not successful when produces something good, it is successful when it produces something popular. Yes, this also explains TV.
I see a contradiction here, you can only expect those rights if there's an institution in place that gives them and protects them.
No. We have the right to do anything not specifically prohibited by law. It's the government that only has the rights given to it by the people, not the other way around.
All of this work is trying to figure out how to either make vegetable oil last longer, or make hydrogenated vegetable oil less unhealthy. (No, I don't mean "more healthy".) For a little history:
Health advocates brought intense pressure against the fast food industry for its heavy use of beef fat, particularly for deep frying. Since beef fat is high in saturated fats the accepted knowledge implicated it in killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
Responding to this pressure the fast food industry decided to move to vegetable oils but quickly found them unusable. Beef fat is very durable at high temperatures and resistant to rancidity. A fry tank of beef fat will work for many days. Vegetable oils, especially the lower cost ones high in polyunsaturates, degraded quickly at high temperatures and rapidly became rancid and laden with toxins. You'd have to change the oil on practically a daily basis - very expensive.
The fast food solution is to use partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, in other words, the evil trans fats. These are so resistant to heat breakdown and rancidity a tank of fry oil can be run for as much as 40 days (with topping up) before it must be discarded.
Food processors favor trans fats for similar reasons. They provide baked goods and other products with an attractive texture, and they resist rancidity resulting in a long shelf life for the products, and you can claim "0 saturated fats" on the label (O1).
Unfortunately for both industries, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is issuing new rules requiring trans fats be included in labeling and in nutritional information sheets. The industries must be in compliance by 1 Jan 2006, which is causing a scramble to find alternatives.
Leading the charge away from trans fats are the vegetable shortening manufacturers. Crisco in particular has come up with a formula using fully hydrogenated oils (hard as a hockey puck) whipped up with enough unhydrogenated oils to achieve an acceptable texture while maintaining a level of trans fats they are allowed to call "zero".
Of course fully hydrogenated oils are in actuality saturated fats, the very thing vegetable shortening was supposed to get you away from. Do not expect a big health campaign against these saturated fats because they are made from the very vegetable oils the grain traders are promoting in their "heart healthy" advertising to replace saturated fats with.
Everything on that page is supported by heavy referencing at the bottom. Or if you really want to get scared about the modern diet, check out The Oiling of America.
In short, if you have to invent a new technology to produce it, it's probably not "food".
Or rather, it's the stupid parents. Unless letting a kid play a violent video game "obsessively" for several months is good parenting this year. But I don't think so.
I can assure you there has not been one episode her in the US where a rampage like that has been stopped by a regular citizen carrying a gun. So, you can forget about that fantasy.
Someone should tell that to the people of El Cajon and Pearl Mississippi.
On March 22, a young man opened fire on the campus with a 12-gauge shotgun. Three students and two teachers were injured. Agundez, the school's resource officer, chased the man and wounded him in the buttock and jaw.
Woodham drove his mother's car to his high school, wearing a long coat to hide his rifle. When he entered the school, he began firing rampantly, killing his ex-girlfriend Christina Menefee and her friend Lydia Dew, and wounding 7 others before Joel Myrick, the assistant principal, retrieved a pistol from his car parked off school grounds and subdued Woodham.
And that's just the first two I found in three minutes of googling. Note that I didn't take a position here. I just thought we should have the facts straight before drawing conclusions.
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If the intent is to obfuscate the style, just run it through a few languages and back as someone already suggested. But I'm guessing they want something that doesn't look like word salad.
Yup, right there: proper. They're basically asking for someone to write the perfect Bayesian filter beater.
Remember the car Sandra Bullock drives in Demolition Man? Gets in, drives out of the city, engages auto-pilot on the freeway. Then when she gets near her destination re-takes the wheel for the drive through the city.
Is there anyone who thinks we couldn't have this in production next year if we wanted to?
Crime is worse than it's ever been! Kids can't walk to school safely these days!
Except not, and we all know that. We just talked about it earlier this week. As media became national, then international, they started reporting every little thing that happened as though we should care, and maybe we've all started to realize that we don't actually give a shit what's happening in East Bumfuckistan.
In my perfect world if the story is important - and it better be, else why are you wasting my time telling me about it - then take the time to explain why I should care. "Because we have adorable photos of the missing girl" doesn't count.
John Oliver takes on serious issues on a weekly basis and gets ratings doing it. What he doesn't do is pander to fear-mongering and scare tactics, which just get old. Can someone other than Comedy Central please start doing this?
2. Law enforcement says "don't use Blackberry because we cracked it". Stress on the "don't use Blackberry" part ?
That's what seems odd to me. Why would police disclose that they're able to do this? Isn't this the kind of capability you'd want to keep under wraps? Almost seems like they want people to avoid BB. I wonder why.
"Darkside: The Movie" (Yes, it will have "The Movie" in the title.)
The Russian space program is capable of getting to lunar orbit and back, but they're still years away from a lander. But if they "land" on the dark side, and all communication relayed back by the orbiter is encrypted, how will anyone outside their space program know where the footage they show to world was really shot?
Maybe they're really broadcasting from the moon, maybe they're faking the whole thing.
The article said that the government might discover people enjoy having it. If they weren't already aware that people enjoyed it, they wouldn't have bothered to ban it to begin with. Why do you think there's no ban on smashing your thumb with a hammer?
And:
Now maybe I'm being naive, but why do the machines need a special card to activate them? Are they talking about the flash cards that store the ballot definitions, the flash cards that store the votes, or some other card?
If it's the cards with the ballot definitions that were messed up, these are supposed to be re-flashed after each use. If it's the cards that store the votes, there should not be any programming on the cards. If it's not one of these two, then why do you need any other card? All code on the device should be in a non-flashable ROM, with no way to alter it without opening the case. How was this problem "fixed" on-site?
As for wiping the ballot activators, if they're talking about the same cards as in the first instance, again why were these cards writable? No one at a polling place should be able to modify any code on any part of the system. Sure, it makes it harder to do maintenance. Which means you have to actually test it before deploying it.
Damn, I'm pissed.
From the What's That Clickin' Noise? show.
That doesn't mean we should wantonly cut down forests full of centuries-old trees, but I don't think that's a good way to battle global CO2 levels.
Absolutely. Bad hardware support is entirely because the people writing code for Linux don't think they should bother with device drivers. It has nothing at all to do with the fact that hardware manufacturers won't give up enough information to do it correctly.
Yup, just a bunch of 1337 haxx05z who don't want the unwashed masses using their toy.
[1] Not a typo.
Their product isn't what they make, their product is what they sell. What they sell is impressions. So it's not the adword itself that they're selling. It's the number of times a listing is "viewed".
Sure, this is a somewhat pedantic distinction. But it's useful to always remember that an ad-supported company is not successful when produces something good, it is successful when it produces something popular. Yes, this also explains TV.
"Madonna is okay, except for being completely lame."
"These people are so famous even I know who they are."
Damn, I wish real anchors talked like this.
Try this:
http://new.volvocars.com/wwygavt/
'Cause if you put Roseanne over Kate, you'd never see kate.
It was being blown out of something, all right, but it wasn't "proportion".
-- or --
If you think anal leakage isn't that big a deal, you probably aren't that concerned with your health to begin with.
Everything on that page is supported by heavy referencing at the bottom. Or if you really want to get scared about the modern diet, check out The Oiling of America.
In short, if you have to invent a new technology to produce it, it's probably not "food".
Now I don't have to watch the rest of Eureka to see what it is.
Or rather, it's the stupid parents. Unless letting a kid play a violent video game "obsessively" for several months is good parenting this year. But I don't think so.
Someone should tell that to the people of El Cajon and Pearl Mississippi.
Granite Hills grads honor hero:
Wikipedia: Luke Woodham:
And that's just the first two I found in three minutes of googling. Note that I didn't take a position here. I just thought we should have the facts straight before drawing conclusions.