Alls I can think of when I hear stories of this web site is that Hank Hill's neighbor has finally hit his stride and is movin' on up. He's gotta be in a right proper mansion by now.
"Kahn Souphanousinphone, we would be honored if you would join our country club."
Still waiting for my own country, the US, to put up or shut up as to whether he bribed the leaker or not, the only legimitate criminal charge it could levy.
Regarding free speech, "I will not compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon."
It's not illegal to say, "You can get crack at that house over there for $20.", unless you are a paid employee of the crack house, of course.
What about a guy standing on the corner who's saying the exact same thing but is holding a sign with McDonald's advertising, which he is being paid for?
What if it's the same guy, but he says, "C'mere. I have info -- pay me for it and I'll tell you."
So sayeth an organzation that demands backdoors so they can easily spy on you, "Trust us."
I suppose this is a small improvement, but business per se is by far the lesser problem compared to overbearing government, or overbearing government at the behest of well-connected business.
1. Technical knowledge of the project. 2. Secret codes or even live, dynamic password changes. 3. A way to transmit. 4. Incredible balls because you are looking at decades in prison for destroying billions of dollars of equipment, and you will get caught.
And if you are a state-sponsored terrorist, you can expect to get caught and your bosses can expect a bombing run or three.
> "This works by putting a pulsating electrode into the soil > around a plant, which excites the plant, making any touch > to the parts of the plant a repayable signal."
Finally, nerds whose inability to get the girl has led to a useful perversion.
"I wanna hook it up to my wireless Metro phone and open and close it and turn on the lights!"
"We must let the lawyers give it the once over."
(eight months later) "Our lawyers have decided the risk is too great for you to even try it. Also, we no longer produce Metro OS for phones. If you mention your idea, you will be in violation of our NDA."
We shall see if it produces anything, or if in 5 years we read about all kinds of ideas that Microsoft declared ownership over, then shelved, from bitching employees who left in disgust.
This. They just found a clever way to jam too much information onscreen at once.
Of course it's pretty -- Spirograph drawings are!
This reminds me vaguely of Chernoff Faces, which were an attempt to give people viewing 4D or higher data a "feel" for it, since you can't really visualize 4D drawings. It takes advantage of brain circuitry for recognizing faces using many different little hard-wired things, like eye position, mouth width, and so on.
You would want a deeply-embedded, simple HW module listening in on the raw radio link for a special code, and it then initiates flashing of the main module.
If this is well-done, no matter what king kong fuckup happens on the main processor(s) you can always have the little tough guy rip it a new asshole.
I started in AI, moved on to desktop apps, and have neen doing deeply embedded automotive stuff for 10 years now.
I assure you, when a bug changes from, "Oh, post an update on the web site" to a $100 million, government-ordered recall, your priority changes quickly.
I would recomment a 3 year stint in embedded for app programmers. You'll be shocked how sloppy you are, and, more importantly, how needlessly sloppy. Many techniques can be incorporated without slowing down the freewheeling development much at all.
"Scientists are eager to find the species, known only from Facebook pictures for its distinctive bright green body and lacey wings, which vaguely spell oit the letters 'p', 'w', 'n', and 'd'."
Slashdot Mirror
> Malaysia Stages Internet Blackout To Protest New Censorship Law
Hey, Malaysia, we support you!
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Hmmmmm. It's true -- some people do prefer 7" over 9".
Alls I can think of when I hear stories of this web site is that Hank Hill's neighbor has finally hit his stride and is movin' on up. He's gotta be in a right proper mansion by now.
"Kahn Souphanousinphone, we would be honored if you would join our country club."
Still waiting for my own country, the US, to put up or shut up as to whether he bribed the leaker or not, the only legimitate criminal charge it could levy.
Regarding free speech, "I will not compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon."
It's not illegal to say, "You can get crack at that house over there for $20.", unless you are a paid employee of the crack house, of course.
What about a guy standing on the corner who's saying the exact same thing but is holding a sign with McDonald's advertising, which he is being paid for?
What if it's the same guy, but he says, "C'mere. I have info -- pay me for it and I'll tell you."
So it is economically worthwhile for the west to recycle these thngs for these expensive atoms. Fair enough.
Why hasn't some greedy capitalist taken advantage of this if it is truly profitable? Why does there need to be a law?
No disasterbatory haterages of capitalism, please. Real observations only. Why?
Meme: Business evil, stop them from minor thing.
So sayeth an organzation that demands backdoors so they can easily spy on you, "Trust us."
I suppose this is a small improvement, but business per se is by far the lesser problem compared to overbearing government, or overbearing government at the behest of well-connected business.
Why do you think they dumped billions into NASA rocketry? Or the USSR did for that matter?
Military -- The civilian stuff is just memetic misdirection to get you go go along with it.
See also cars and highways.
> [a nerd will get caught and spend] decades in prison
At least someone will finally want sex with you.
A hacker would need 4 things:
1. Technical knowledge of the project.
2. Secret codes or even live, dynamic password changes.
3. A way to transmit.
4. Incredible balls because you are looking at decades in prison for destroying billions of dollars of equipment, and you will get caught.
And if you are a state-sponsored terrorist, you can expect to get caught and your bosses can expect a bombing run or three.
> "This works by putting a pulsating electrode into the soil
> around a plant, which excites the plant, making any touch
> to the parts of the plant a repayable signal."
Finally, nerds whose inability to get the girl has led to a useful perversion.
> 'Lena' test image
Pr0n, driving tech development since cavemen fingerpainted a wall.
"I wanna hook it up to my wireless Metro phone and open and close it and turn on the lights!"
"We must let the lawyers give it the once over."
(eight months later)
"Our lawyers have decided the risk is too great for you to even try it. Also, we no longer produce Metro OS for phones. If you mention your idea, you will be in violation of our NDA."
Ya, "me too" with the skunkworks.
We shall see if it produces anything, or if in 5 years we read about all kinds of ideas that Microsoft declared ownership over, then shelved, from bitching employees who left in disgust.
This. They just found a clever way to jam too much information onscreen at once.
Of course it's pretty -- Spirograph drawings are!
This reminds me vaguely of Chernoff Faces, which were an attempt to give people viewing 4D or higher data a "feel" for it, since you can't really visualize 4D drawings. It takes advantage of brain circuitry for recognizing faces using many different little hard-wired things, like eye position, mouth width, and so on.
I clicked it -- it's for advertising on Indonesian Internet sites. Presumably it's his business.
But enough about him. How's your mom's basement?
> a document...had 90% redacted to "prevent premature unnecessary debate."
I think they meant to "prevent mature, necessary debate on who will be elected next election."
ETA to guy on Internet letting it crawl in somewhere and putting up video in 3...2...1...
You would want a deeply-embedded, simple HW module listening in on the raw radio link for a special code, and it then initiates flashing of the main module.
If this is well-done, no matter what king kong fuckup happens on the main processor(s) you can always have the little tough guy rip it a new asshole.
We do stuff like this in the auto environment.
Greaaaaaaaattt...more threads to stay away from on 4chan.
I started in AI, moved on to desktop apps, and have neen doing deeply embedded automotive stuff for 10 years now.
I assure you, when a bug changes from, "Oh, post an update on the web site" to a $100 million, government-ordered recall, your priority changes quickly.
I would recomment a 3 year stint in embedded for app programmers. You'll be shocked how sloppy you are, and, more importantly, how needlessly sloppy. Many techniques can be incorporated without slowing down the freewheeling development much at all.
Here'a my programming politick: Several programmers of both types hamhand things and cannot find their bug for hours to 2 days...
Me: "Move!"
10 minutes to 1/2 hour later: "Here."
In Soviet Russia, high school hacks you.
Although I don't like throttling, I have fewer issues with this than general throttling.
Bittorrent, despite its name, is really a background distributor, fire-and-forget. Pick your stuff and come back tomorrow.
It can be fast, but is designed to work when you're not watching it and doing something else.
"Scientists are eager to find the species, known only from Facebook pictures for its distinctive bright green body and lacey wings, which vaguely spell oit the letters 'p', 'w', 'n', and 'd'."