The bad guys have access to Norton, McAfee, Avast, AVG, MSS, Spybot, Kaspery, Linux source, OS/X, and anything else that will or won't show up in the next 10, 20, 30 years. If you can download it, then so can they.
They test their software better than "legit" developers and thus they will always win.
I used to work for a GPS tracking company, and the | was in packing the GPS stream into a byte for VHF transmission. It turned out that the tenths digit of longitude was always 0. It was part of an update to reduce the footprint. (This reduced the footprint from 98% to 92%, IIRC, which was a pretty big deal.)
It made it out through my tests, production's tests, and the test customer happened to be in a spot where the tenths digit was supposed to be zero. The reason was a formatting bug in the legacy parsing code that let you download the data. It would not put in the leading 0. Damnably, there is a highway in Rhode Island that is on a 0ths longitude place. We thought the problem was with reception, and the cleared highway had a good view of the GPS constellation. That was a good thought, but it didn't explain why the coyotes were swimming in a straight line in the harbour.
I had put the new code into the library, and we sent out hundreds of collars. One of the customers was the government of India, who wanted to put some collars on tigers to track their positions and look for poachers. The tigers all got faulty collars, and so several of them had to be tracked down and re-tranquilized.
I've killed billions of sprites in various fantastically violent ways, I've run some deep and disturbing D&D campaigns, etc. But hey, haven't humans been in a state of continuous warfare for thousands of years? Isn't the biggest expenditure in the US the military?
Real blood makes my back tense up.I have a degree, a non-replaceable job, and my work has saved thousands of lives and probably a species or two.
I think that the proper response to any comments about gamers being antisocial losers should be "go look up Child's Play."
As a Canadian who pays under 20% of his pay to taxes, I have to wonder what you're talking about. Our household income is a little over $100k/year.
I realize that it's not really a fair comparison, since my degree was heavily subsidized by tax dollars. (About $1200 in tuition per semester, now about $2500 per semester.) I graduated as an Engineer with $0 in student loans. (My family doctor had $300 (three hundred dollars) in loans, but that was 40 years ago.)
In all fairness, you also have the most powerful military in the history of the solar system.
Public health care. I've had it for my whole life. I'm Canadian.
In BC (we're hosting the Olympics in case you don't own an Atlas) we have insurance covered by the Medical Services Plan. For a family, it costs about $120 every month. Everybody must pay it, with exceptions and pro-rating for those with low incomes (basically, under $35k a year and you don't pay.).
It covers your basic medical coverage. This is everything from surgery to bandages. I was born via c-section, as were my two kids. It cost me $0. My kids were hit by a car. It cost me $65 for the ambulance. I had heart palpitations a while back; I got a Holter, stress test, ECG, and bloodwork for $0. As for waitlists, I had chest pains and had an ECG within 15 minutes of arriving at a nearby clinic (and saw a doctor with whom I had no previous relationship.)
You can get extended coverage, available privately, which will cover dental, optical, massage, prescriptions, etc. Lots of jobs include this as a perk, and will often cover those MSP premiums.
If you don't have your "public option" then you simply don't have health care. Otherwise, insurance will only be available for healthy young adults. If I understand your constitution correctly, assassination is acceptable for those who would threaten that option. It is, technically, self-defence.
Your health companies are being very odd with this -- you can set the levels of basic care, and then let people buy extended coverage. We've got that up here. We just make sure you don't have to pick which finger has to get sewn back on or make you flash a CC before you see the OR.
Hey, Canada's navy had to fire live rounds at the Spanish to get them to fuck off. They'd been stealing fish off the Grand Banks for years until we'd had enough.
I have no problem with weapons being used on Bad Guys. Life is about choices, and if you have made the kind of choices where the Navy is firing weapons at you, then it's not a big loss if we have to kick you off the planet. The guys who throw acid at schoolgirls because they're going to school aren't going to sit around and discuss the problem over croissants.
When you use weapons or surveillance on civilians -- of your own country, no less -- who have commited no crimes, then you have crossed a line. The role of the military is to protect the state, not to spy on its citizens. Everything else is feature creep.
Why is someone reading my/. posts and email when I've done nothing to deserve it? My sig's been in use for more than 10 years, with jihad put in a few years ago. (I happen to like the word, and we don't have an equivalent word in English.)
Yeah, I've used Unobtainium for years, and everyone here at work knows what's meant. (Admittedly, I'm an Engineer.) Okay, not quite true, as two foreign Engineers didn't know what it was.
In Avatar, Unobtanium was the McGuffin -- it didn't matter what it was, just that there was a reason that Homo Sapiens was on a different, hostile planet that wasn't for xenorelations. Water's plentiful on comets, any minerals would be easier to get from asteroids, since there's way less of a gravity well, and so the only reason we'd be there is either to talk to aliens or to get a rare material.
A room-temperature superconductor is pretty much the Holy Grail of Physics.
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
Canada's proposed legislation C-61 would have resulted in $20k fines for installing Linux since it would "circumvent" some DRM things.
Seriously though -- I use Linux, and I download music and movies, and sometimes I rip them from library-borrowed DVDs. At work, I do things to hurt actual, real life pirates, who are the scum of the earth, Johnny Depp's romanticized version aside. Some of the work I've done was breaking the communication pathway in a device in order to do a thing, and that end product is being used by people with guns who are engaged with real pirates. Apparently that makes ME the bad guy.
Big IP houses would love to find a model that's "pay per play, and a monthly fee, and we decide the prices, and anyone who breaks our rules should go to jail and be bankrupt" model. They are the ones that are as bad as real life pirates.
Wrong. No other manufacturer has spent so much time and money covering things up. They spent their time and money making sure there was nothing wrong in the first place.
That we know of. If Toyota had paid more or had been more subtle, we'd have never heard about the payoffs.
My kids were runover by an out-of-control Mustang about four years ago. There was nothing mechanically wrong with the car. Maybe it was driver error. I don't know, but apparently the accelerator was still stuck to the floor when the police got there. I remember how the cruise control on the cars I've owned will lower the accelerator when the CC is accelerating.
I've always blamed the firmware. Maybe that's because I'm an EE who used to write firmware for a living. (Firmware that's been in use in life-critical applications for five years with a 0% failure rate.) Odds are the code is shit and there's an edge case that nobody thought about. Maybe there's an uninitialized variable in there. I've seen it happen before. Of course, I'm not Woz-brand, so my opinion doesn't mean a thing.
For some reason, the various regulatory agencies (i.e. Engineering Associations) have been rolling over and letting the manufacturers put any code they want into public use without any thought that hey, maybe we should get someone with some credentials to look into it. I've tried to mention it to mine, no results. Maybe they're dinosaurs who think that engineering is about roads and sometimes other things, like buildings and handrails. Software can't hurt people, can it?
This problem is not limited to Toyota, and we've only just seen the beginning. I guarantee that other manufacturers are clenchinging their butts hoping that nobody in the media wonders about all the intermittent "floor mat" problems.
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The bad guys have access to Norton, McAfee, Avast, AVG, MSS, Spybot, Kaspery, Linux source, OS/X, and anything else that will or won't show up in the next 10, 20, 30 years. If you can download it, then so can they.
They test their software better than "legit" developers and thus they will always win.
I think you're missing the -i, which gives the impressive boost.
While we're on the topic, your sig is missing the second close bracket and eg.[sic] is usually spelled e.g.
Hey, when we were looking for co-op students, I looked them up on Facebook. At least one was vetted as a "douche" based on his pictures.
I was being literal.
I used to work for a GPS tracking company, and the | was in packing the GPS stream into a byte for VHF transmission. It turned out that the tenths digit of longitude was always 0. It was part of an update to reduce the footprint. (This reduced the footprint from 98% to 92%, IIRC, which was a pretty big deal.)
It made it out through my tests, production's tests, and the test customer happened to be in a spot where the tenths digit was supposed to be zero. The reason was a formatting bug in the legacy parsing code that let you download the data. It would not put in the leading 0. Damnably, there is a highway in Rhode Island that is on a 0ths longitude place. We thought the problem was with reception, and the cleared highway had a good view of the GPS constellation. That was a good thought, but it didn't explain why the coyotes were swimming in a straight line in the harbour.
I had put the new code into the library, and we sent out hundreds of collars. One of the customers was the government of India, who wanted to put some collars on tigers to track their positions and look for poachers. The tigers all got faulty collars, and so several of them had to be tracked down and re-tranquilized.
Amateurs, the lot of you.
I once created a bug where the fix involved -- and I am serious here -- shooting a tiger.
I've killed billions of sprites in various fantastically violent ways, I've run some deep and disturbing D&D campaigns, etc. But hey, haven't humans been in a state of continuous warfare for thousands of years? Isn't the biggest expenditure in the US the military?
Real blood makes my back tense up.I have a degree, a non-replaceable job, and my work has saved thousands of lives and probably a species or two.
I think that the proper response to any comments about gamers being antisocial losers should be "go look up Child's Play."
Posted from Linux, but surely I have failed.
Receive and Duplicate?
I'd rather pay them to change all the results to
"Did you mean Tiananmen Square?"
and force all GIS to "Safesearch: Off"
China then becomes a self-correcting problem.
As a Canadian who pays under 20% of his pay to taxes, I have to wonder what you're talking about. Our household income is a little over $100k/year.
I realize that it's not really a fair comparison, since my degree was heavily subsidized by tax dollars. (About $1200 in tuition per semester, now about $2500 per semester.) I graduated as an Engineer with $0 in student loans. (My family doctor had $300 (three hundred dollars) in loans, but that was 40 years ago.)
In all fairness, you also have the most powerful military in the history of the solar system.
Public health care. I've had it for my whole life. I'm Canadian.
In BC (we're hosting the Olympics in case you don't own an Atlas) we have insurance covered by the Medical Services Plan. For a family, it costs about $120 every month. Everybody must pay it, with exceptions and pro-rating for those with low incomes (basically, under $35k a year and you don't pay.).
It covers your basic medical coverage. This is everything from surgery to bandages. I was born via c-section, as were my two kids. It cost me $0. My kids were hit by a car. It cost me $65 for the ambulance. I had heart palpitations a while back; I got a Holter, stress test, ECG, and bloodwork for $0. As for waitlists, I had chest pains and had an ECG within 15 minutes of arriving at a nearby clinic (and saw a doctor with whom I had no previous relationship.)
You can get extended coverage, available privately, which will cover dental, optical, massage, prescriptions, etc. Lots of jobs include this as a perk, and will often cover those MSP premiums.
If you don't have your "public option" then you simply don't have health care. Otherwise, insurance will only be available for healthy young adults. If I understand your constitution correctly, assassination is acceptable for those who would threaten that option. It is, technically, self-defence.
Your health companies are being very odd with this -- you can set the levels of basic care, and then let people buy extended coverage. We've got that up here. We just make sure you don't have to pick which finger has to get sewn back on or make you flash a CC before you see the OR.
Yep, the bank may be a big evil corp, but the blogger has way more experience fucking someone in the ass.
Poorly chosen battle, CB.
Hey, Canada's navy had to fire live rounds at the Spanish to get them to fuck off. They'd been stealing fish off the Grand Banks for years until we'd had enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War
bass bass snare
Sorry for the delay in responding.
I have no problem with weapons being used on Bad Guys. Life is about choices, and if you have made the kind of choices where the Navy is firing weapons at you, then it's not a big loss if we have to kick you off the planet. The guys who throw acid at schoolgirls because they're going to school aren't going to sit around and discuss the problem over croissants.
When you use weapons or surveillance on civilians -- of your own country, no less -- who have commited no crimes, then you have crossed a line. The role of the military is to protect the state, not to spy on its citizens. Everything else is feature creep.
Why is someone reading my /. posts and email when I've done nothing to deserve it? My sig's been in use for more than 10 years, with jihad put in a few years ago. (I happen to like the word, and we don't have an equivalent word in English.)
It will in a Beowulf cluster.
That's okay, I kept trying to hug mercury.
Yeah, I've used Unobtainium for years, and everyone here at work knows what's meant. (Admittedly, I'm an Engineer.) Okay, not quite true, as two foreign Engineers didn't know what it was.
In Avatar, Unobtanium was the McGuffin -- it didn't matter what it was, just that there was a reason that Homo Sapiens was on a different, hostile planet that wasn't for xenorelations. Water's plentiful on comets, any minerals would be easier to get from asteroids, since there's way less of a gravity well, and so the only reason we'd be there is either to talk to aliens or to get a rare material.
A room-temperature superconductor is pretty much the Holy Grail of Physics.
It doesn't explain why the humans didn't just take the mountains and / or use orbital bombardment.
Canada's proposed legislation C-61 would have resulted in $20k fines for installing Linux since it would "circumvent" some DRM things.
Seriously though -- I use Linux, and I download music and movies, and sometimes I rip them from library-borrowed DVDs. At work, I do things to hurt actual, real life pirates, who are the scum of the earth, Johnny Depp's romanticized version aside. Some of the work I've done was breaking the communication pathway in a device in order to do a thing, and that end product is being used by people with guns who are engaged with real pirates. Apparently that makes ME the bad guy.
Big IP houses would love to find a model that's "pay per play, and a monthly fee, and we decide the prices, and anyone who breaks our rules should go to jail and be bankrupt" model. They are the ones that are as bad as real life pirates.
I'm posting this so I can look at the picture at home.
That reminds me, it's time for yoga.
Vacuum Cleaners, Inc.
The kids were released from the hospital that evening; they didn't want to keep us overnight for observation.
There's ongoing legal stuff so I can't be more specific.
Pilots call it "die-by-wire".
Wrong. No other manufacturer has spent so much time and money covering things up. They spent their time and money making sure there was nothing wrong in the first place.
That we know of. If Toyota had paid more or had been more subtle, we'd have never heard about the payoffs.
Dunno.
My kids were runover by an out-of-control Mustang about four years ago. There was nothing mechanically wrong with the car. Maybe it was driver error. I don't know, but apparently the accelerator was still stuck to the floor when the police got there. I remember how the cruise control on the cars I've owned will lower the accelerator when the CC is accelerating.
I've always blamed the firmware. Maybe that's because I'm an EE who used to write firmware for a living. (Firmware that's been in use in life-critical applications for five years with a 0% failure rate.) Odds are the code is shit and there's an edge case that nobody thought about. Maybe there's an uninitialized variable in there. I've seen it happen before. Of course, I'm not Woz-brand, so my opinion doesn't mean a thing.
For some reason, the various regulatory agencies (i.e. Engineering Associations) have been rolling over and letting the manufacturers put any code they want into public use without any thought that hey, maybe we should get someone with some credentials to look into it. I've tried to mention it to mine, no results. Maybe they're dinosaurs who think that engineering is about roads and sometimes other things, like buildings and handrails. Software can't hurt people, can it?
This problem is not limited to Toyota, and we've only just seen the beginning. I guarantee that other manufacturers are clenchinging their butts hoping that nobody in the media wonders about all the intermittent "floor mat" problems.