Bottom line, parents make sure your children play the games that are meant for them.
This argument neglects the fact that there are many children without parents, who do not have guidance from above on making moral choices based on 'media' they have in front of them.
It is for these children that traditional religion toils, as it always has, as anti-religion zealots seem all too ready to forget. The world is not a 3.5-children-per-house-picket-white-fence...
Not just that, what the People need is their Own Corporation.
I see no reason why a corporation can't be founded to protect -all- individual details and information.
"Life Product, Inc. - we keep your details safe."
If I owned -stock- in the company that I knew had its soul purpose to protect not just my copyrighted material, but also my general 'life product' as art, then I'd be much happier having mega-corp know my weekly shopping list and able to tune its production/output accordingly...
for grandma: a nice pretty "Do..." button on it, and all the different 'actions' that can be 'done' with a computer, sitting there for grandma, with fancy big letters and nice colors, on most of the screen.
"Do..." <>>> "Write a..." [e-mail/letter/note] "Do..." >> "Watch a movie..." [on Internet / DVD] "Do..." >> "Add an Address..." [to your private book / to your web address book]
l, it doesn't make sense that paper beats rock by covering it (as it doesn't damage the rock, while on the other hand it can destroy the paper by tearing it)
yes it does.
s-p-r is a state game. whenever one of the objects changes state, it is the losing object. paper covering a rock stops it from being 'rock'. a rock, covered by paper, is not a rock. its a paper covered rock.
this story is about algorithmic composition of a fairly vivid set of features, one of which is color.
a '4-bit' representation of checkerboard requires at least -some- notion that 0=color A and 1=color B. is that notion to be encoded in a '4-bit representation of a checkerboard' or is it to be detailed in the 'checkerboard representation algorithm'?
per the grandparent, which was an attempt to stuff the entire dataset into 4 bits in lieu of small code-size, it would be appropriate to also include colour coding information in the bitmap implementation. either that, or admit defeat that small-bitmap size does not necessarily mean smaller distribution size, since the '0=color A' decision, being determined by code or set by a colormap, nevertheless still influences the total binary size of the distribution...
i'm not arguing for either case; obviously bitmap vs. algorithm is an implementation decision... but it is interesting to note the complexities of such a process in light of an apparently 'simple' optimization into 4 bits.
I don't care how 'old' you are, or what 'color your hat is', if you are on my system when you are not supposed to be, then you are going to be punished.
There is no such thing as a 'good cracker'... this 'white hat'/'black hat' bullshit is simply narcissism refined...
well meaning security person gets ass-fucked because they offered to help intitution fix security problems in return for money"
Too often the 'well meaning' part of these stories is hype. More often than not, it was a selfish, arrogant little brat-kid type who was trying to 'rule supreme over the stooopid school admins' and got upset when nobody listened to their tantrum and rants.
Some guidelines for the current situation:
- Put everything in writing, proof-read it first, then again, and spell check. Produce a professional report, not a whiny rant about why things suck.
- Send a copy of this report to your schools administrators, registered mail. Hand-deliver a copy to the school administrator, if you can, but always, always, always put everything in writing first. Always. ALWAYS.
- Be thorough and complete, and make sure you explain why you are being so thorough.
- Provide examples WHEN ASKED and not before-hand. If you attach a page full of passwords you've sniffed out of the ether, this gives you a definite disadvantage if they decide to put your head on a pike. Remember, as a student, you are just one of many in the eyes of the administrator. It may well be that the problems they try to solve involve decapitating you.
- Be courteous about this problem. It is not one single persons problem, but is in fact a group problem. Singling out one person for all the problems and mistakes of the group will do nothing but serve to make you enemies, so don't do it.
- Follow up. If there is a change as a result of your investigation, follow up and ensure it is fixed. Work as closely with the people who are responsible for this problem as you can...
Always, always, always try to remember, that a whiny rant about things sucking is not going to work as well as a detailed, professional, spell-checked report. If your report about the network problems doesn't look like homework, and doesn't shoot for an "A", then its going to get you into more trouble than you expect...
Re:Still way outdated, Apple fanatics please read.
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There's no need to pay Apple for a decent Unix experience.
Just like there was no need to pay Sun, or SGI, or MIPS, or DEC...
Me too. I ssh to mine in the morning, often forgetting to plug it in, and am still using it by the end of the day. Anyone who 'only gets an hour or so' out of their 5500 either has a bad battery, or isn't managing it right...
the 5500 is a pocket linux workstation. it will run most linux software, particularly the non-gui/server oriented stuff, just fine.
put a big CF storage card in it, and use any one of the various bluetooth hacking/logging tools to put all received packets into an onboard mySQL database, or just prune some/var/log/bluetooth_capture.log style files later when you get back to home base, where you can use rsync and such (over WLAN) to snarf the capture database/logfiles...
really an easy project, and cheap. the 5500 is an underground hit with linux folks for good reason...
Synthesizers and other forms of electronic musical instrumentation have been having the same problems as computers.
Nevertheless, the paradigms of "Page Up/Page Down" and "Parameter Left/Right", and "Patch Up/Dn", and "Edit/Play", as horrible as they are, have served 'standard interface' requirements for years. There is a 'standard user interface' in this realm, as crap as it is.
Manufacturers in this market have copied each others interface ideas freely and easily, and it has resulted in an, admittedly hodge-podge, 'general user interface' set of 'music machine hacker' chops. "Multi-mode"/"Single-mode", etc. can generally be found on most modern synth platforms. Any synth geek around knows that the patch +/- keys are the ones you look for first, then the 'filter resonance knob', or whatever.
Computers would do well to learn from the lessons of musical instruments in this regard. It never ceases to amaze me that all these TLA "Initiatives" often disregard even the most obvious examples of solutions to problems... I guess because their grants aren't "directed" to those realms.
In any case, I hope to see some interesting results from CMI. At Access, we're really interested in human/user-interface problems and good ways to solve them...
I don't believe anyone who makes such personal assessments on the basis of a few sentences discussion about an important topic ought to be doing so. Your readiness, nay willingness to pigeon-hole me as a person so readily, according to your own notions of 'rationality'... to put me in a box, and stack me on a shelf in the grave empty depths of your soul, is exactly the problem i'm talking about here.
Stop doing that, and maybe you might have a chance against Terror.
but to see only one shade of gray, and lump everybody in it.
Ermm... life is not black & white. Life is utterly, devastatingly, arbitrary...
Tell me, do you see any moral difference between Bush's America and Saddam's Iraq?
Since I have only ever learned of these two regimes' by way of their own and their enemies propaganda, I see no difference in the two. Unless I had been to Iraq and seen the atrocities Hussein has been accused of, or at least until his crimes are prosecuted in open, public world court, I cannot say for sure that I believe he is an evil man.
And neither should you.
The same goes for Bush. I have seen the effects of his policies, and I do honestly not believe that his agenda serves the people he is supposed to be serving: The American Public. I believe his despotism is just as narrowly focused, at the behest of his handlers, as Saddams' was...
America is not above the rest of the world when it comes to active propaganda, and control of the masses through hysteria, fear, uncertainty, etc. The U.S. is just as guilty of human rights violations as its politicians often accuse other countries of being... in fact, in many cases, more so. Cheney has been called before The World Court in Hague for his involvement in War Crimes... a fact very few American public appear to be aware of...
In my opinion, the U.S. does not have a moral straw to hold in its defense, and does not have a right to impose its agenda on the citizens of other nations, any more so than any other nation has.
The Project for a New American Century is a Fascist group... history will prove this true...
Mercenaries do not follow the rules of war. Every bit of propaganda that you have stated about Iraq and the Iraqi's being murderous, torturous, insane, savage people, can equally be said of these murderers who met their fate on the streets of Iraq, for all the world to see.
Ask yourself this question: Why are mercenaries operating in Iraq? Who benefits from their operations? What is it you don't know about what it was they were doing there?
(They sure as fuck were _not_ delivering food to hungry people, this has already been disproven as a media fallacy elsewhere...)
Who benefitted from having America outraged over the killing of 'civilians'^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H'contractors' being broadcast on television? How has public opinion been swayed by this event and the lies told about it?
It is not okay to kill. This is the premise of my whole argument so far. Those who are prepared to kill, and do, for whatever reason, are the Enemy of Man, a nation state unto itself...
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Bottom line, parents make sure your children play the games that are meant for them.
...
This argument neglects the fact that there are many children without parents, who do not have guidance from above on making moral choices based on 'media' they have in front of them.
It is for these children that traditional religion toils, as it always has, as anti-religion zealots seem all too ready to forget. The world is not a 3.5-children-per-house-picket-white-fence
Not just that, what the People need is their Own Corporation.
...
I see no reason why a corporation can't be founded to protect -all- individual details and information.
"Life Product, Inc. - we keep your details safe."
If I owned -stock- in the company that I knew had its soul purpose to protect not just my copyrighted material, but also my general 'life product' as art, then I'd be much happier having mega-corp know my weekly shopping list and able to tune its production/output accordingly
since the joke was -text- your preaching just made it wickeder.
so, you have code somewhere that goes:
"1 == all colors", draw this bit
and some that goes:
"0 == no colors", do not draw this bit
is it better to put the asset in the program binary or the resource binary? what difference does it make?
sorry. haven't had my cuppa yet:
s/"PAPER/"SCISSORS/
you know what i mean, anyway. do the finger cutty thing.
well, you clearly haven't played s-p-r enough, because "PAPER CUTS ITS WAY OUT!"
... ;)
i hope you win at least a few more s-p-r games with her before she gets older
for grandma: a nice pretty "Do ..." button on it, and all the different 'actions' that can be 'done' with a computer, sitting there for grandma, with fancy big letters and nice colors, on most of the screen.
..." <>>> "Write a ..." [e-mail/letter/note] ..." >> "Watch a movie..." [on Internet / DVD] ..." >> "Add an Address ..." [to your private book / to your web address book]
"Do
"Do
"Do
what would your shell idea for grandma require?
l, it doesn't make sense that paper beats rock by covering it (as it doesn't damage the rock, while on the other hand it can destroy the paper by tearing it)
yes it does.
s-p-r is a state game. whenever one of the objects changes state, it is the losing object. paper covering a rock stops it from being 'rock'. a rock, covered by paper, is not a rock. its a paper covered rock.
this story is about algorithmic composition of a fairly vivid set of features, one of which is color.
... but it is interesting to note the complexities of such a process in light of an apparently 'simple' optimization into 4 bits.
...
a '4-bit' representation of checkerboard requires at least -some- notion that 0=color A and 1=color B. is that notion to be encoded in a '4-bit representation of a checkerboard' or is it to be detailed in the 'checkerboard representation algorithm'?
per the grandparent, which was an attempt to stuff the entire dataset into 4 bits in lieu of small code-size, it would be appropriate to also include colour coding information in the bitmap implementation. either that, or admit defeat that small-bitmap size does not necessarily mean smaller distribution size, since the '0=color A' decision, being determined by code or set by a colormap, nevertheless still influences the total binary size of the distribution...
i'm not arguing for either case; obviously bitmap vs. algorithm is an implementation decision
'palettized' or not, this is one smokin' FPS
incomplete. what color is '1' and what color is '0'?
The world would really be a much better place if wisdom and common sense were a lot more common.
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The world would be a whole lot better if people like you weren't so easily led into drawing lines in the sand for people to spill their blood into
Whatever, troll.
... this 'white hat'/'black hat' bullshit is simply narcissism refined ...
I don't care how 'old' you are, or what 'color your hat is', if you are on my system when you are not supposed to be, then you are going to be punished.
There is no such thing as a 'good cracker'
Lintel.
we^H^Hthey now have a justification for the creation of a master aryan baboon race.
There are some who think this has already happened ...
well meaning security person gets ass-fucked because they offered to help intitution fix security problems in return for money"
...
Too often the 'well meaning' part of these stories is hype. More often than not, it was a selfish, arrogant little brat-kid type who was trying to 'rule supreme over the stooopid school admins' and got upset when nobody listened to their tantrum and rants.
Some guidelines for the current situation:
- Put everything in writing, proof-read it first, then again, and spell check. Produce a professional report, not a whiny rant about why things suck.
- Send a copy of this report to your schools administrators, registered mail. Hand-deliver a copy to the school administrator, if you can, but always, always, always put everything in writing first. Always. ALWAYS.
- Be thorough and complete, and make sure you explain why you are being so thorough.
- Provide examples WHEN ASKED and not before-hand. If you attach a page full of passwords you've sniffed out of the ether, this gives you a definite disadvantage if they decide to put your head on a pike. Remember, as a student, you are just one of many in the eyes of the administrator. It may well be that the problems they try to solve involve decapitating you.
- Be courteous about this problem. It is not one single persons problem, but is in fact a group problem. Singling out one person for all the problems and mistakes of the group will do nothing but serve to make you enemies, so don't do it.
- Follow up. If there is a change as a result of your investigation, follow up and ensure it is fixed. Work as closely with the people who are responsible for this problem as you can...
Always, always, always try to remember, that a whiny rant about things sucking is not going to work as well as a detailed, professional, spell-checked report. If your report about the network problems doesn't look like homework, and doesn't shoot for an "A", then its going to get you into more trouble than you expect
There's no need to pay Apple for a decent Unix experience.
...
Just like there was no need to pay Sun, or SGI, or MIPS, or DEC
Me too. I ssh to mine in the morning, often forgetting to plug it in, and am still using it by the end of the day. Anyone who 'only gets an hour or so' out of their 5500 either has a bad battery, or isn't managing it right
the 5500 is a pocket linux workstation. it will run most linux software, particularly the non-gui/server oriented stuff, just fine.
/var/log/bluetooth_capture.log style files later when you get back to home base, where you can use rsync and such (over WLAN) to snarf the capture database/logfiles ...
...
put a big CF storage card in it, and use any one of the various bluetooth hacking/logging tools to put all received packets into an onboard mySQL database, or just prune some
really an easy project, and cheap. the 5500 is an underground hit with linux folks for good reason
Disclaimer: I work for a synthesizer manufacturer.
...
Synthesizers and other forms of electronic musical instrumentation have been having the same problems as computers.
Nevertheless, the paradigms of "Page Up/Page Down" and "Parameter Left/Right", and "Patch Up/Dn", and "Edit/Play", as horrible as they are, have served 'standard interface' requirements for years. There is a 'standard user interface' in this realm, as crap as it is.
Manufacturers in this market have copied each others interface ideas freely and easily, and it has resulted in an, admittedly hodge-podge, 'general user interface' set of 'music machine hacker' chops. "Multi-mode"/"Single-mode", etc. can generally be found on most modern synth platforms. Any synth geek around knows that the patch +/- keys are the ones you look for first, then the 'filter resonance knob', or whatever.
Computers would do well to learn from the lessons of musical instruments in this regard. It never ceases to amaze me that all these TLA "Initiatives" often disregard even the most obvious examples of solutions to problems... I guess because their grants aren't "directed" to those realms.
In any case, I hope to see some interesting results from CMI. At Access, we're really interested in human/user-interface problems and good ways to solve them
I think religion is probably the greatest scam ever invented.
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Behind Health Insurance, you mean
but ... supernatural does mean 'dont know yet'.
re: rational/irrational assessments.
... to put me in a box, and stack me on a shelf in the grave empty depths of your soul, is exactly the problem i'm talking about here.
I don't believe anyone who makes such personal assessments on the basis of a few sentences discussion about an important topic ought to be doing so. Your readiness, nay willingness to pigeon-hole me as a person so readily, according to your own notions of 'rationality'
Stop doing that, and maybe you might have a chance against Terror.
but to see only one shade of gray, and lump everybody in it.
Ermm... life is not black & white. Life is utterly, devastatingly, arbitrary...
Tell me, do you see any moral difference between Bush's America and Saddam's Iraq?
...
... in fact, in many cases, more so. Cheney has been called before The World Court in Hague for his involvement in War Crimes ... a fact very few American public appear to be aware of ...
... history will prove this true ...
Since I have only ever learned of these two regimes' by way of their own and their enemies propaganda, I see no difference in the two. Unless I had been to Iraq and seen the atrocities Hussein has been accused of, or at least until his crimes are prosecuted in open, public world court, I cannot say for sure that I believe he is an evil man.
And neither should you.
The same goes for Bush. I have seen the effects of his policies, and I do honestly not believe that his agenda serves the people he is supposed to be serving: The American Public. I believe his despotism is just as narrowly focused, at the behest of his handlers, as Saddams' was
America is not above the rest of the world when it comes to active propaganda, and control of the masses through hysteria, fear, uncertainty, etc. The U.S. is just as guilty of human rights violations as its politicians often accuse other countries of being
In my opinion, the U.S. does not have a moral straw to hold in its defense, and does not have a right to impose its agenda on the citizens of other nations, any more so than any other nation has.
The Project for a New American Century is a Fascist group
Mercenaries do not follow the rules of war. Every bit of propaganda that you have stated about Iraq and the Iraqi's being murderous, torturous, insane, savage people, can equally be said of these murderers who met their fate on the streets of Iraq, for all the world to see.
...
Ask yourself this question: Why are mercenaries operating in Iraq? Who benefits from their operations? What is it you don't know about what it was they were doing there?
(They sure as fuck were _not_ delivering food to hungry people, this has already been disproven as a media fallacy elsewhere...)
Who benefitted from having America outraged over the killing of 'civilians'^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H'contractors' being broadcast on television? How has public opinion been swayed by this event and the lies told about it?
It is not okay to kill. This is the premise of my whole argument so far. Those who are prepared to kill, and do, for whatever reason, are the Enemy of Man, a nation state unto itself