Some company that makes booze-o-meters is more important than justice in your world?
Fuck them I say. Let them die. Constitutional rights are not for sale to pad some company's bottom line. Making good code is not that fucking hard people.
I have the feeling a few lines of code is not the real difficult part about making the things.
It's materials handling of a chemical sensory process.
A process that is well known, and easy to replicate, but hard to make reliable in a machine some pig carries around in his trunk.
This will have little or no impact on any case (they will clean up and fix the code on the next model) and little or no impact on any other manufacturers as the code is not the core difficulty in the things.
Nobody will even need to get drunk to get the code, it will be available in the first court case documents where it is reviewed, and those are public for mundane shit like DUI. So rivals will simply have to wait.
Plus, given a week or two in China the code would be in the hands of any competitors anyway. So worrying about it is stupid.
Why you idiots think the code being secret is the path to justice I don't know. Justice is both blind, and transparent or it isn't justice.
Go back to your MADD lobbying you stupid prohibitionist. (You are, only 'tards like that are willing to take away a bunch of other rights to get what they want.)
Temper your fucking concerns for shit that really matters.
Shit that, hey, you can measure without LYING about it.
Until I see more of you stupid wankers walking to work, I am going to consider any false-concern about what someone does on the internet complete garbage.
Want to save the planet? Shoot your neighbors kids in the head. Follow it up with anybody within range, and then yourself.
BOOM. Instant reduction in pollution and consumption.
It's one option that the card had something to do with it. Subby has written it that way because that is what HE thinks happened.
It could have been his mom finding the warranty card on the table trying to help the little scatterbrain out. People who don't fill out those cards, so the fact that it is missing means nothing.
He could be a damn drunk, and did it online or physically while on a bender.
The NetFlix coupon code he used (that came in the player box) could be tied to an agreement between NetFlix and Samsung. And, now he's forgotten where it came from and obviously, they would need the address at NetFlix.
There are lots and lots of ways it could have happened that the subby isn't thinking of.
COME ON, the most simple explanation is the guy is an idiot. Not that the Blu-Ray player has a mind of it's own and a GPS RFID enabled chip in it.
Aside from using the Slashdot hive mind to look for other cases, this story is completely stupid. If I want rampant raging speculation on crap, I'll go back to Fark.
The guy should be thankful Samsung gives a shit enough about their customers to bother with an update. Most manufacturers would have waited for him to get frustrated enough to look it up online or just expected him to put up with a bug in the player for it's entire lifetime.
Any big IT department is also pushing out patches at night when the computer is on.
The cost of a year of leaving the computer on (to get those patches) overnight is $75.
How much is an infected and screwed up computer costing the company (because it didn't get patched quick enough)? Maybe half a day of IT guy's time? Maybe more... depending.
There's lots of places companies can save some money by being more efficient, I think I'll look elsewhere for bigger gains first before compromising the ability to push patches during hours the office is closed.
Heck, a "quit smoking program" for the company will probably save a whole crapload more in sick time, "smoke break" time and health insurance costs than electricity used the PC ever will.
Well, it would have been nice to know. Then we could have voted one of the intelligent ones into office, instead of the son-of-AWOL retarded-chimp that landed there.
Because virus creators are shitty programmers. The shit ALWAYS jacks up the system in some way. They can't resist trying to defend themselves from "sort of informed" attempts to get rid of them and do stuff like disable the "Services" section.
Because, even if it's just a trojan dropper, eventually they get around to selling their product (i.e. the list and control of infected computers) to someone who wants to send spam with them.
Think about it, there's no other reason to make a virus except money, they HAVE to do something useful with it, and usually that means a) scam the user or b) send out spam (and in some cases host illegal files). Those things are detectable.
I know it's crazy, but if you don't happen to be looking at bullshit blogs all the time, dog scat porn and free warze and cracks, you CAN go a LONG TIME without getting infected.
I do the same thing, no protection whatsoever on my machine. I back it up so if I got something I would be back up and running easily. The only time I encountered something on my machine was when I let a bunch of friends use it during a social event, and THEY were going to porn sites.
(Usenet porn for the win)
But really, the end game is ALWAYS something useful with the machine the perp can do to get money. THATS why it always shows up.
The days of viruses that make a snotty smiley face on the screen are long over.
You should be asking, what kind of ingrateful shitbag turns around and attacks the same folks that helped free your country from the Soviets just because he disagrees with the fact that his home country INVITED the US to put military bases there.
This was plotted of course, while the US was actively in a SHOOTING WAR to help out muslems in another country (Baltics) that were being persecuted and killed by christians.
Oh, wait, it takes ANOTHER ingrateful shitbag to skip over those questions and right back into the "poor me" complex. It's clear to everybody but YOU why it's not 'freedom fighters'. Your muslem bretheren poisoned what could have been a good understanding. Don't blame the cup for the poison dumbass.
Do us all a favor o graciously arrogant one, and share with us your omnipresent definition of a journalist, be sure to highlight in particular the part that clearly carves out a blogger as not being a journalist.
It completely lies in the cerebral cortex, the spatial processing are of the brain that handles the conversation and it's connection with the world.
When there is a person driving while talking there is one world.
When there is a person driving while talking there are TWO worlds, and it takes practice to manage both well, and sometimes one context will collapse.
If it's the phone conversation collapsing, big deal.
If it's the car context, you are in deep trouble fast.
How do I know this? I felt it in my own head while doing this, and recognized it was the same type of mental problem as doing online presentations, two contexts (the presentation and the web interface) to it cause the same thing to happen.
Yes, some people can learn to do it, but if you are sitting at a desk the price of being wrong is low (you stutter in your presentation).
Most people can't do it. It is not the bloody earphone thingies, they do nothing to help, it's the goddamn conversation itself that is the problem. The other world talking about causes it. It's a single graphics pipeline card handling running on a dual-pipeline game. It just won't work without some compromises.
Hang up the bloody phone and drive numbskulls.
No, I don't do it either, I find myself losing too many important details of the drive when I do.
The Court as an entity is designed to be independent so that there are limited or no repercussions of arriving at a specific judgment- specifically so that it will not be constrained as you are suggesting.
What?
A court needs to reach uninfluenced and IMPARTIAL judgements.
A court that seeks out "specific judgements" is broken, and nothing more than yet another tool of a facist state.
There SHOULD be repercussions for being broken. OP was suggesting making "being broken" a jail sentence, not jail sentences for judgement "X".
And, this particular court is failing to drop charges when the core charges were all dropped just to save face is nothing short of blatant corruption.
Man, I can't WAIT until your kind is no longer in power in this country.
Offer up something that makes the DA "right" but is also harmless enough the alleged perp will agree to.
If the perp accepts the guilty charge for the small thing, the chances of ending up in civil court are much smaller. The perp not accepting the charge, of course could ultimately ind up in supreme court.
The sad thing is, everybody who figures out this was a bogus charge, already knew it was from the start.
Many people supposedly "in charge" of this country are still very clueless about technology (and ways it can fail).
You have a good point, note however you completely ignore one very important aspect of Palin's email break in.
Palin was breaking the law when she used that email box for official government business in an attempt to deliberately hide it. (She said so in one of the emails in the box.) The "kids photos" were a side effect of her getting busted by a vigilante out to get her for doing something illegal.
Obama, on the other hand, is probably not breaking the law using his personal phone (at least we have no evidence that he was yet).
So, "break into Palin's email" = illegal, immoral, but has vigilante righteousness.
And, "break into Obama's phone" = illegal, immoral, and the act of someone using illegal means in an attempt to "get" him as part of a partisan plot.
Unfortunately, we (collectively) are going down a road that will be tremendously hard to back out of, politicians need some privacy (just like regular citizens do) to conduct affairs, and it is rapidly getting to the point where there is always someone in power who is on the "other" side who has access. An unfortunate side effect of the bogus "war on terror", Patriot Act, and other crap.
Had Palin not broken the law, then yes, the two events would be equally bad.
Claiming that the two events are equivalent is disingenuous bullshit. So, consider yourself called on it. Go climb back under your republican rock for 4 years please.
Left, "original" = image that was heavily processed go go into a web site, either by the press after the event, or from other news story.
Right, "shopped" = large, high quality image that had a flag stuck behind it and letters enhanced. Probably as it was given to the press.
SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN YET; The original unaltered image as it came out of the camera.
Get it now? There was no "clean up". You are just seeing image editing forking and the end results of two projects that started with the same image.
Both of the images have been processed.
Open up your favorite image editing tool and mess around with typical jpg compression a bit and you can see how it will generate artifacts as on the left.
There was no "clean up" of that stuff, it's a different end presentation of the same image.
It's probably a good idea to keep top officials incidental information from leaking (like from the background of a photograph).
Remember that famous picture of the couple on the couch and the not so well hidden bottle of "anal lube" on the table nearby? Imagine that, only with some sort of tip that gives someone the last bit they need to go and do X (kill troops, distract a general because they kidnap the dog, etc.).
It's quite obviously an inserted background. Not an attempt to fool.
AND the image on the left is a compressed jpg for the web (and whomever did it did a shitty job at it) so there are lots of spots that are not "clean up" but rather "idiot writing the story doesn't understand compression" artifacts.
Yea, doctoring photos that are supposed to convey an event is bad, but doctoring one that is just supposed to remind you who the heck we are talking about is irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
Great.
They are giving Slashdot accounts to Palstinians now.
Shooting rockets at everything is your solution to everything isn't it?
Google ad words.
The "friend" clicked on an ad.
When the google ad word account is used up, it no longer appears.
Googling 101 material dude.
Want to buy a bridge?
So?
So what?
Some company that makes booze-o-meters is more important than justice in your world?
Fuck them I say. Let them die. Constitutional rights are not for sale to pad some company's bottom line. Making good code is not that fucking hard people.
Anecdote != Data
Nobody allows drunk drivers on the road.
And the person you responded to was joking.
Get counseling, you seem to need it.
I have the feeling a few lines of code is not the real difficult part about making the things.
It's materials handling of a chemical sensory process.
A process that is well known, and easy to replicate, but hard to make reliable in a machine some pig carries around in his trunk.
This will have little or no impact on any case (they will clean up and fix the code on the next model) and little or no impact on any other manufacturers as the code is not the core difficulty in the things.
Nobody will even need to get drunk to get the code, it will be available in the first court case documents where it is reviewed, and those are public for mundane shit like DUI. So rivals will simply have to wait.
Plus, given a week or two in China the code would be in the hands of any competitors anyway. So worrying about it is stupid.
Why you idiots think the code being secret is the path to justice I don't know. Justice is both blind, and transparent or it isn't justice.
Go back to your MADD lobbying you stupid prohibitionist. (You are, only 'tards like that are willing to take away a bunch of other rights to get what they want.)
Seriously.
Temper your fucking concerns for shit that really matters.
Shit that, hey, you can measure without LYING about it.
Until I see more of you stupid wankers walking to work, I am going to consider any false-concern about what someone does on the internet complete garbage.
Want to save the planet? Shoot your neighbors kids in the head. Follow it up with anybody within range, and then yourself.
BOOM. Instant reduction in pollution and consumption.
It's one option that the card had something to do with it. Subby has written it that way because that is what HE thinks happened.
It could have been his mom finding the warranty card on the table trying to help the little scatterbrain out. People who don't fill out those cards, so the fact that it is missing means nothing.
He could be a damn drunk, and did it online or physically while on a bender.
The NetFlix coupon code he used (that came in the player box) could be tied to an agreement between NetFlix and Samsung. And, now he's forgotten where it came from and obviously, they would need the address at NetFlix.
There are lots and lots of ways it could have happened that the subby isn't thinking of.
COME ON, the most simple explanation is the guy is an idiot. Not that the Blu-Ray player has a mind of it's own and a GPS RFID enabled chip in it.
Aside from using the Slashdot hive mind to look for other cases, this story is completely stupid. If I want rampant raging speculation on crap, I'll go back to Fark.
The guy should be thankful Samsung gives a shit enough about their customers to bother with an update. Most manufacturers would have waited for him to get frustrated enough to look it up online or just expected him to put up with a bug in the player for it's entire lifetime.
I just stumbled around trying to find a catalog of the number of types and design details of the number of times eyes have evolved.
Wiki has it at 6. Is this 7?
If the palestinians treated other palestinians as humans in stead of animals all this fighting was not necessary...
FIFY
You could always get a plane ticket, go join the human shields, and get run over by a bulldozer.
Think of it this way, you'd only have to pay for a one way flight, the trip back would be in the cargo hold.
Quick, someone go post this idea as a new revenue stream to Google "muse" (a few articles down).
An 800 number and Google takes your credit card to send you a copy of the Google spider results (what would be in Google Cache) in a nice zip file.
This technology will solve 1 problem for all 50 it creates in a drivers experience.
I don't drive for "experience", I drive to get from point A to point B with cargo and family, safely, and if possible without undue delay.
I'd appreciate it if you penis-deficient pieces of shit would not treat the public roads as your own private masturbatory space.
Rent some time on a track if you want to drive for "experience" asshole.
Hundreds of years of man-hours were wasted researching the epicyclical theory of the solar system too. And it was all garbage.
Only a stinking lawyer would think that spending more money on a point of view makes it right.
Get off slashdot you scum.
Any big IT department is also pushing out patches at night when the computer is on.
The cost of a year of leaving the computer on (to get those patches) overnight is $75.
How much is an infected and screwed up computer costing the company (because it didn't get patched quick enough)? Maybe half a day of IT guy's time? Maybe more... depending.
There's lots of places companies can save some money by being more efficient, I think I'll look elsewhere for bigger gains first before compromising the ability to push patches during hours the office is closed.
Heck, a "quit smoking program" for the company will probably save a whole crapload more in sick time, "smoke break" time and health insurance costs than electricity used the PC ever will.
Well, it would have been nice to know. Then we could have voted one of the intelligent ones into office, instead of the son-of-AWOL retarded-chimp that landed there.
Because virus creators are shitty programmers. The shit ALWAYS jacks up the system in some way. They can't resist trying to defend themselves from "sort of informed" attempts to get rid of them and do stuff like disable the "Services" section.
Because, even if it's just a trojan dropper, eventually they get around to selling their product (i.e. the list and control of infected computers) to someone who wants to send spam with them.
Think about it, there's no other reason to make a virus except money, they HAVE to do something useful with it, and usually that means a) scam the user or b) send out spam (and in some cases host illegal files). Those things are detectable.
I know it's crazy, but if you don't happen to be looking at bullshit blogs all the time, dog scat porn and free warze and cracks, you CAN go a LONG TIME without getting infected.
I do the same thing, no protection whatsoever on my machine. I back it up so if I got something I would be back up and running easily. The only time I encountered something on my machine was when I let a bunch of friends use it during a social event, and THEY were going to porn sites.
(Usenet porn for the win)
But really, the end game is ALWAYS something useful with the machine the perp can do to get money. THATS why it always shows up.
The days of viruses that make a snotty smiley face on the screen are long over.
You ask the wrong questions.
You should be asking, what kind of ingrateful shitbag turns around and attacks the same folks that helped free your country from the Soviets just because he disagrees with the fact that his home country INVITED the US to put military bases there.
This was plotted of course, while the US was actively in a SHOOTING WAR to help out muslems in another country (Baltics) that were being persecuted and killed by christians.
Oh, wait, it takes ANOTHER ingrateful shitbag to skip over those questions and right back into the "poor me" complex. It's clear to everybody but YOU why it's not 'freedom fighters'. Your muslem bretheren poisoned what could have been a good understanding. Don't blame the cup for the poison dumbass.
Do us all a favor o graciously arrogant one, and share with us your omnipresent definition of a journalist, be sure to highlight in particular the part that clearly carves out a blogger as not being a journalist.
Oh, and fuck off too.
It's not passengers.
It's not a second set of eyes.
It's not driving with one hand.
It completely lies in the cerebral cortex, the spatial processing are of the brain that handles the conversation and it's connection with the world.
When there is a person driving while talking there is one world.
When there is a person driving while talking there are TWO worlds, and it takes practice to manage both well, and sometimes one context will collapse.
If it's the phone conversation collapsing, big deal.
If it's the car context, you are in deep trouble fast.
How do I know this? I felt it in my own head while doing this, and recognized it was the same type of mental problem as doing online presentations, two contexts (the presentation and the web interface) to it cause the same thing to happen.
Yes, some people can learn to do it, but if you are sitting at a desk the price of being wrong is low (you stutter in your presentation).
Most people can't do it. It is not the bloody earphone thingies, they do nothing to help, it's the goddamn conversation itself that is the problem. The other world talking about causes it. It's a single graphics pipeline card handling running on a dual-pipeline game. It just won't work without some compromises.
Hang up the bloody phone and drive numbskulls.
No, I don't do it either, I find myself losing too many important details of the drive when I do.
The Court as an entity is designed to be independent so that there are limited or no repercussions of arriving at a specific judgment- specifically so that it will not be constrained as you are suggesting.
What?
A court needs to reach uninfluenced and IMPARTIAL judgements.
A court that seeks out "specific judgements" is broken, and nothing more than yet another tool of a facist state.
There SHOULD be repercussions for being broken. OP was suggesting making "being broken" a jail sentence, not jail sentences for judgement "X".
And, this particular court is failing to drop charges when the core charges were all dropped just to save face is nothing short of blatant corruption.
Man, I can't WAIT until your kind is no longer in power in this country.
It's called "saving face" in other cultures.
Offer up something that makes the DA "right" but is also harmless enough the alleged perp will agree to.
If the perp accepts the guilty charge for the small thing, the chances of ending up in civil court are much smaller. The perp not accepting the charge, of course could ultimately ind up in supreme court.
The sad thing is, everybody who figures out this was a bogus charge, already knew it was from the start.
Many people supposedly "in charge" of this country are still very clueless about technology (and ways it can fail).
Yup. Because EVERY person who expresses a bit of hope the country can be put back on track is an Obamajesus worshiping zealot whack job.
Dude, the religious whack jobs are in YOUR party. What was being chanted at that famous Palin rally? Do you remember that?
Stop projecting. Mobs of people chanting "kill him" are YOUR party asshole.
You have a good point, note however you completely ignore one very important aspect of Palin's email break in.
Palin was breaking the law when she used that email box for official government business in an attempt to deliberately hide it. (She said so in one of the emails in the box.) The "kids photos" were a side effect of her getting busted by a vigilante out to get her for doing something illegal.
Obama, on the other hand, is probably not breaking the law using his personal phone (at least we have no evidence that he was yet).
So, "break into Palin's email" = illegal, immoral, but has vigilante righteousness.
And, "break into Obama's phone" = illegal, immoral, and the act of someone using illegal means in an attempt to "get" him as part of a partisan plot.
Unfortunately, we (collectively) are going down a road that will be tremendously hard to back out of, politicians need some privacy (just like regular citizens do) to conduct affairs, and it is rapidly getting to the point where there is always someone in power who is on the "other" side who has access. An unfortunate side effect of the bogus "war on terror", Patriot Act, and other crap.
Had Palin not broken the law, then yes, the two events would be equally bad.
Claiming that the two events are equivalent is disingenuous bullshit. So, consider yourself called on it. Go climb back under your republican rock for 4 years please.
They didn't.
Left, "original" = image that was heavily processed go go into a web site, either by the press after the event, or from other news story.
Right, "shopped" = large, high quality image that had a flag stuck behind it and letters enhanced. Probably as it was given to the press.
SOMETHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN YET; The original unaltered image as it came out of the camera.
Get it now? There was no "clean up". You are just seeing image editing forking and the end results of two projects that started with the same image.
Both of the images have been processed.
Open up your favorite image editing tool and mess around with typical jpg compression a bit and you can see how it will generate artifacts as on the left.
There was no "clean up" of that stuff, it's a different end presentation of the same image.
It's probably a good idea to keep top officials incidental information from leaking (like from the background of a photograph).
Remember that famous picture of the couple on the couch and the not so well hidden bottle of "anal lube" on the table nearby? Imagine that, only with some sort of tip that gives someone the last bit they need to go and do X (kill troops, distract a general because they kidnap the dog, etc.).
It's quite obviously an inserted background. Not an attempt to fool.
AND the image on the left is a compressed jpg for the web (and whomever did it did a shitty job at it) so there are lots of spots that are not "clean up" but rather "idiot writing the story doesn't understand compression" artifacts.
Yea, doctoring photos that are supposed to convey an event is bad, but doctoring one that is just supposed to remind you who the heck we are talking about is irrelevant.