I only very vaguely remember the rules of building a Battletech mech, but I remember coming up with something like this. It had the ability to position itself behind other mechs from a reasonable range (was there an ability to jump? I think that's what it did), and then unload a battery of small or medium lasers into the enemy mech's back.
If you had told me when I was 12 that I'd forget these sorts of important details before I turned 30, I'd have said you were crazy.
Actually the one Molly can't see she called "worse than the boogieman". The boogieman was Sylar, whom she could see, and in fact did This is 5, informative.
Distribute 10 $10 million fortunes (a good size fortune) equally among the residents of a medium size city, and everyone gets $100. Whee! Now everyone is poor.
Sure, if that was even close to a realistic approximation of the gap between rich and poor.
I figured it out a few years ago, and you'll have to take my word for it because I don't have the numbers handy, but if you liquidated the yearly income (which I think included returns from investments, etc) of the wealthiest 5% in the United States and distributed it amongst the entire U.S. population, everyone would earn something like $150,000 a year. Again, I don't have the numbers at hand, but generally speaking: redistributing the wealth from a small percentage of the wealthiest people provides enough to allow everyone to live a very comfortable life.
I was focusing on the technical side of the argument, in that it's less efficient than making a bit-for-bit copy of the original file, but I realize now that your point was about copyright issues, not download rates.
You can simplify your example and see why it doesn't make sense by looking at it this way: if I have a database on my hard drive that stores every possible representation of 1 bit, all I need to do to recreate a remote file is download a list that gives me the number of bits, as well as the state of each bit in the remote file in sequence. I can then rebuild the file by looking up the bits in the local state database in sequence and writing the result out to a file.
Mostly blogs and mailing lists. I am in security, so I try to keep up with the latest and greatest. I have my Google homepage set up with a "Security" tab that contains the RSS feeds from: Matasano Chargen SecurityBuddha.com MSRC Blog Sunbelt Blog Securiteam Blog F-Secure blog SecurityFocus news Arbor Networks blog Websense blog Milw0rm.com exploit feed
There are some on here that are due to be removed, and some others I'd like to add. I also read mailing lists Bugtraq, Full Disclosure, DailyDave, and Funsec among others.
As an aside, the Google customized homepage has a feature where, when you add a new tab, you can have it auto-populate with content related to the name of the tab. For example, if I create a new tab called "Linux", it populates it with: Slashdot:Linux LinuxInsider LXer Linux News DistroWatch news LinuxQuestions.org...etc
My all-time favorite, which filled my young self with a sense of glee and wonder, was in the old Mac game Dark Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Castle) where the castle entrance would be decorated for Christmas if your system clock was set to December 25.
I got news for you both. The Yankees AND the Red Sox suck. Put 'em both in the AL Central, and they're fighting for third place tops. On what planet? Granted the Red Sox did poorly against the AL Central in 2006 (15-19), but the Yankees were 23-12 against the Central.
For the last 3 years, the Yankees are 61-37 against the AL Central as a whole, and the Sox are 56-45. For those years, the standings of the top 4 teams from the East and Central are as follows: 2006: NYY 97-65 MIN 96-66 DET 95-67 CWS 90-72 2005: CWS 99-63 NYY 95-67 BOS 95-67 CLE 93-69 2004: NYY 101-61 BOS 98-64 MIN 92-70 CWS 83-79
Only last year would even one of those two teams not have ended up in a MINIMUM of third place, and the Yankees would still have been firmly on top. And frankly, a lot of the stars had to align for the standings to end up so well in the Central's favor last year. If you base your argument SOLELY on the 2006 results, and completely ignore any other factors, you might be able to make half a case, but it would be a weak one.
Shouldn't the fact that we now know how to get into the AppleTV OS (via the SomethingAwful hack) mean that it's trivial to install the OSX version of MythTV frontend? Or am I missing something important?
If you are just looking for the latest "hotness" in computers it is security. But that type of job could well leave you stressed out with gray or no hair and a coronary in your early 40-50's. I know you were joking, but I just found my first gray hairs after a mere 1.5 years in the IT security field. Of course, I also have a 2-year-old at home, so that could be it as well.
For my work, I deal with a developer in another state and we have to exchange large files. From inside our network, I have way to ftp/ssh into his company servers to transfer the files. So, e-mailing is the only option. Our e-mail servers won't allow attachments that large.
So, we use gmail. It's not elegant, but we can easily send the files we need back and forth and actually get our work done. So who's to blame when your gmail account gets cracked and your company's IP gets stolen? Your sysadmins for "forcing" you to use gmail?
Tons and tons of missing the point here. The major concern about webmail is not that it's a vector through which computers can become infected with junk. The concern is mostly that it's a way for information to leak out of the company, and that there's no way to control whether it conforms to company security standards, policies, etc. A couple of posters did mention this, but seemed to approach it from the angle of "if someone wants to leak information, there are a hundred other ways to do it." These are obviously not IT security folks...those of us who deal with these issues on a daily basis know that the clueless users are just as dangerous, just by force of numbers, than any malicious ones. I am FAR more worried about confidential data being emailed to or from a Yahoo account because a user "likes it better than Outlook" or something than I am about deliberate theft. If we lock down webmail access, we are drastically reducing our risks from these sorts of incidents.
Perl newbie here.
Is it just me, or is it possible to create perfectly legible code in Perl if you use good technique, just like in any other language?
The cryptic/convoluted stuff only comes out when you try to be too cute... You're basically right. The problem is that when you've been writing Perl for a while, the shortcuts and such start to come naturally. It's not that the programmer is trying to be cute, but that the weird, unnatural-looking Perl constructs actually flow more logically once you're used to them. So while it's easier for a non-Perl programmer to read:
foreach $foo (@bar) { if($foo) { print $foo; } }
writing something like that would be painful for a Perl programmer. (Sorry, can't seem to get my indents to happen in the code block above.)
I say that whoever is going to go on this mission needs to be a complete introvert who does not need constant human interaction and can while away their time on experiments and reading. A bunch of people with mild Asperger's might fit the mold.
I, for one, welcome our new Slashdot reader astronaut overlords.
Yeah, I'm shaking in my shoes thinking that eBay might steal my identity and sell my files to the government because their software might theoretically be able to read my bus speed and AGP window size.
A++++++ A PLEASURE TO BE SPIED ON! WOULD HAVE PERSONAL INFORMATION STOLEN AGAIN!
Slashdot Mirror
I only very vaguely remember the rules of building a Battletech mech, but I remember coming up with something like this. It had the ability to position itself behind other mechs from a reasonable range (was there an ability to jump? I think that's what it did), and then unload a battery of small or medium lasers into the enemy mech's back.
If you had told me when I was 12 that I'd forget these sorts of important details before I turned 30, I'd have said you were crazy.
I love you guys.
To quote Stanford algorithms expert Donald Knuth, "Who are you? How did you get in my house?"
Wait...
You are coming to a sad realization that in Soviet Russia, new Microsoft patent meme is in ur base infringing ur patents 123 times. Cancel or Allow?
It's a Katameme!
Distribute 10 $10 million fortunes (a good size fortune) equally among the residents of a medium size city, and everyone gets $100. Whee! Now everyone is poor.
Sure, if that was even close to a realistic approximation of the gap between rich and poor.
I figured it out a few years ago, and you'll have to take my word for it because I don't have the numbers handy, but if you liquidated the yearly income (which I think included returns from investments, etc) of the wealthiest 5% in the United States and distributed it amongst the entire U.S. population, everyone would earn something like $150,000 a year. Again, I don't have the numbers at hand, but generally speaking: redistributing the wealth from a small percentage of the wealthiest people provides enough to allow everyone to live a very comfortable life.
"Land mines? Here? We're in danger. I must tell the others. Oh, no! I've been shot!"
As long as he says sibilance shall stay safe.
Nobody's forcing you to do anything. Feel free to opt out. Why are you offended that others who ARE interested are being offered the opportunity?
You guys should really resist the urge to make any more silly puns.
Ah, crap
I was focusing on the technical side of the argument, in that it's less efficient than making a bit-for-bit copy of the original file, but I realize now that your point was about copyright issues, not download rates.
You can simplify your example and see why it doesn't make sense by looking at it this way: if I have a database on my hard drive that stores every possible representation of 1 bit, all I need to do to recreate a remote file is download a list that gives me the number of bits, as well as the state of each bit in the remote file in sequence. I can then rebuild the file by looking up the bits in the local state database in sequence and writing the result out to a file.
Mostly blogs and mailing lists. I am in security, so I try to keep up with the latest and greatest. I have my Google homepage set up with a "Security" tab that contains the RSS feeds from:
...etc
Matasano Chargen
SecurityBuddha.com
MSRC Blog
Sunbelt Blog
Securiteam Blog
F-Secure blog
SecurityFocus news
Arbor Networks blog
Websense blog
Milw0rm.com exploit feed
There are some on here that are due to be removed, and some others I'd like to add. I also read mailing lists Bugtraq, Full Disclosure, DailyDave, and Funsec among others.
As an aside, the Google customized homepage has a feature where, when you add a new tab, you can have it auto-populate with content related to the name of the tab. For example, if I create a new tab called "Linux", it populates it with:
Slashdot:Linux
LinuxInsider
LXer Linux News
DistroWatch news
LinuxQuestions.org
My all-time favorite, which filled my young self with a sense of glee and wonder, was in the old Mac game Dark Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Castle) where the castle entrance would be decorated for Christmas if your system clock was set to December 25.
For the last 3 years, the Yankees are 61-37 against the AL Central as a whole, and the Sox are 56-45. For those years, the standings of the top 4 teams from the East and Central are as follows:
2006:
NYY 97-65
MIN 96-66
DET 95-67
CWS 90-72
2005:
CWS 99-63
NYY 95-67
BOS 95-67
CLE 93-69
2004:
NYY 101-61
BOS 98-64
MIN 92-70
CWS 83-79
Only last year would even one of those two teams not have ended up in a MINIMUM of third place, and the Yankees would still have been firmly on top. And frankly, a lot of the stars had to align for the standings to end up so well in the Central's favor last year. If you base your argument SOLELY on the 2006 results, and completely ignore any other factors, you might be able to make half a case, but it would be a weak one.
Shouldn't the fact that we now know how to get into the AppleTV OS (via the SomethingAwful hack) mean that it's trivial to install the OSX version of MythTV frontend? Or am I missing something important?
So, we use gmail. It's not elegant, but we can easily send the files we need back and forth and actually get our work done. So who's to blame when your gmail account gets cracked and your company's IP gets stolen? Your sysadmins for "forcing" you to use gmail?
Tons and tons of missing the point here. The major concern about webmail is not that it's a vector through which computers can become infected with junk. The concern is mostly that it's a way for information to leak out of the company, and that there's no way to control whether it conforms to company security standards, policies, etc. A couple of posters did mention this, but seemed to approach it from the angle of "if someone wants to leak information, there are a hundred other ways to do it." These are obviously not IT security folks...those of us who deal with these issues on a daily basis know that the clueless users are just as dangerous, just by force of numbers, than any malicious ones. I am FAR more worried about confidential data being emailed to or from a Yahoo account because a user "likes it better than Outlook" or something than I am about deliberate theft. If we lock down webmail access, we are drastically reducing our risks from these sorts of incidents.
The comfy chair?
The only thing that changes if you use strict in this example is throwing a "my" in front of $foo. Not sure how that improves syntactic clarity.
Try "-fyourusernamehere"
I say that whoever is going to go on this mission needs to be a complete introvert who does not need constant human interaction and can while away their time on experiments and reading. A bunch of people with mild Asperger's might fit the mold.
I, for one, welcome our new Slashdot reader astronaut overlords.
Yeah, I'm shaking in my shoes thinking that eBay might steal my identity and sell my files to the government because their software might theoretically be able to read my bus speed and AGP window size.
A++++++ A PLEASURE TO BE SPIED ON! WOULD HAVE PERSONAL INFORMATION STOLEN AGAIN!
And they mordor the gandalf before elfing the frodo!! am i rite?!? LOL