But but but we need Facebook. How else are we supposed to communicate with our friends?
Sadly, while this was meant in jest, there is at least one person we know that fits this description. Leave voicemail or send email all you want, and it goes into a black hole. Send her a message on Facebook? Two hour turnaround!
Mind-boggling...
I'd respond to that but I can't find the "Like" button.
if we're talking about Steve Jobs, you've missed the mark; he's where he is because he's a ruthless narcissist. When you're as driven as he is, you can make anyone accept anything.
Drive is necessary but not sufficient. Plenty of egotistical narcissists with brains end up homeless and living on the street and legions more end up living a humdrum anonymous existence. Some become rich. Some people win lotto too. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to play.
Well I just lost my dog at about 11 1/2 years old. He wasn't a puppy anymore, that's for sure - and for a labrador that always behaved like one that was hard to see. The loss was tough. As best I can tell some kind of heart attack.I was busy out for the day with a young family and put him out in the morning. When he didn't come in after lunch I thought nothing of it - he'd done that before. When I couldn't find him that night I went searching everywhere. He'd collapsed getting off an old couch we have in the back. By the time I found him he was cold and stiff. That was hard to take. But all that is selfish - *I* want him around. When I think of the dog, he still seemed happy a good amount of the time. He'd started having trouble with hip dysplasia so he couldn't jump up on things as easily anymore, and as I said he wasn't a puppy. There was nothing in him screaming "kill me now, I'm in pain". Every animal including humans feel pain as they age. That's natural. So long as there's still some quality of life I'd be in no rush to terminate it.
It seems during this economic downturn companies have started throwing caution to the wind in an attempt to ravenously feed on each others still warm carcasses. What you'll end up with is a period of heavily suppressed innovation and increasingly locked down and crippled devices, software and services no one will be willing to part with money for. It's all going to shit!
There are very specific laws and regulations dealing with where you can and can't fly hobby remote control aircraft, and not just in Australia. A small lightweight aircraft can be deadly. Even a small weight moving quickly can be very dangerous. (Heck a small treebranch fell on me at the local zoo on a windy day about a week ago and the damn thing felt like I'd been clubbed unexpectedly with a baseball bat. Presumably it fell from a good height). Add a propeller and now you have a nice mix master missle coming out of the sky at you. It's not just theoretical. People have been killed by hobby r/c aircraft. People have lost fingers on the ground just starting the things. So you're not permitted to fly above people. Now I grant you these drones will be more sophisticated and presumably have a failsafe should a control signal be lost, but things can and will go wrong. How long before someone is killed or maimed?
Except for a small portion of the populace, all of those things are better controlled via diet and exercise. Ultimately, if you're too lazy to take care of yourself, perhaps you shouldn't expect to live to be a hundred.
Legitimate question: Do you really want that last 20 years? There are healthy prosperous people at 80+ but they are the exception not the rule. Is that time you spend in your youth keeping healthy going to be repaid at the end of your life with extended misery?
So their parents, or the state should decide for them?
The euthanasia debate is complex enough when it is a terminal adult and we can't agree to what to do there. Throw a terminally ill child into the mix and it becomes extremely difficult. The issue of suffering is still there. The potential for various conflict of interests is still there. But now you have a child who has little experience, a shorter life and probably not the maturity to understand what they're doing. Very rough. As a parent I hope I'm never in that position with my children. I'd like to think I'd do the best for them regardless of the consequences to myself but I cannot imagine ending one of my children's lives or allowing anyone to without exhausting every bit of fight I have in me. Fortunately it's all hypothetical - who knows how I'd behave. Sincerely hope I never find out.
It's a bit dark to think about, but perhaps some terminally ill children might opt for euthanasia, and they would be the right age group for this kind of thing.
They're not in a position, legally or morally, to understand what they're doing and give consent to end their lives.
Leaving aside the obvious contradiction in these two statements, the scenario you described isn't really how this works. If someone did steal your card, yes they would be able to buy a few cups of coffee with it, despite not having a pin or signature.
They could go to every shop that accepts this and buy something under the limit $35. So they won't be able to buy a TV doing this. But how about stockpiling groceries? Or taking the whole gang to the local mall for takeout (limit of $35 per store guys)
Now what if my wife lost her card and didn't notice. She can sometimes go a week without using it.
Shit, that's what I get for opening a browser tab and not actually replying for seven hours: my comment below will be modded 'Redundant: -1' (when the point should be for you, 'Funny: +1')
I do that quite a bit on slashdot unfortunately. It's worse when it's a long comment and you can't be arsed re-typing it.
When a 3d printer can make a decent skimming device (or disguise one) you can't help but think the system is truly broken
Spare us the dramatics. I'm not sure what "system" you're claiming is broken, or what you expect "computer security" to do about intercepting input from a human before it ever reaches the actual computer. I think you're confused as to what an ATM "skimmer" really is- it's a physical device you place over the keypad and card-reader which harvests the data while seamlessly passing the input to the ATM itself. A camera is used to observe the display. If you've got some kind of specific idea on how to defeat such fraud, then by all means post it instead of your pointless doom-and-gloom whining.
Ever heard of 2 way verification? The ATM verifies the credit card. The credit card (or I would suggest usb dongle) should verify the ATM and not allow passthrough skimming operations.
Uh, what do you suggest? Physical security is harder than digital - you can verify a crypto signature all you want, but how do you verify that you're dealing with the bank's card reader and not a fake one? Screw that, how do you verify that the ATM itself isn't fake?
Smart credit card, small onboard chip, and PGP would be one way. Wouldn't need to be a "card" either. Could be a small USB dongle.
When a 3d printer can make a decent skimming device (or disguise one) you can't help but think the system is truly broken. Computer security has progressed in leaps and bounds - it isn't perfect and it certainly isn't idiot proof. But banks are still using hand written signatures and easily faked devices while all but ignoring the risk. Heck they're introducing pinless low value transactions at shopping centers in Australia. I'm ANNOYED that my card can be used without either a signature or a pin number verification being used. It means there's significant risk that me or my wife lose a credit card and don't immediately discover it, we'll be up for a very large sum of money. And even if we're not, we won't have access to the money while the issue is resolved.
It's not sustainable. The banks need to be held more accountable.
"Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang has stated that he aims to make Nvidia's Tegra the company's main focus, moving away from the discrete graphics that has been the company's bread and butter in the past."
Sounds like they'll balls up their graphics chips just to become another low power CPU firm. Bad plan. Bad for gamers. Bad for employees. Bad for everyone.
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Then they started hurling virtual feces
So then it would be accurate to label his experiment a bunch of steaming monkey feces?
I guess he had to use virtual monkeys because all real monkeys have progressed to randomly downloading things from bit-torrent.
There's nothing random about their downloads. Hot steaming MMMMMonkey porn!
I'm virtually impressed, virtually speechless even! The man is a virtual genius.
I wish I'd thought of it - and what a neat way to go about it.
So is it safe to say you're virtually impressed with the whole affair?
...and wouldn't it be easier to let them evolve and then one of them can BE Shakespeare 2.0?
But but but we need Facebook. How else are we supposed to communicate with our friends?
Sadly, while this was meant in jest, there is at least one person we know that fits this description. Leave voicemail or send email all you want, and it goes into a black hole. Send her a message on Facebook? Two hour turnaround!
Mind-boggling...
I'd respond to that but I can't find the "Like" button.
Why? This is not 1999. We don't "hate" javascript anymore, like we did years ago.
Now we hate flash. Get on the wave, man.
We hate everything you young wiper snapper. Get off my lawn!!!!
if we're talking about Steve Jobs, you've missed the mark; he's where he is because he's a ruthless narcissist. When you're as driven as he is, you can make anyone accept anything.
Drive is necessary but not sufficient. Plenty of egotistical narcissists with brains end up homeless and living on the street and legions more end up living a humdrum anonymous existence. Some become rich. Some people win lotto too. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to play.
You left out Oracle.
It's all just propaganda.
Well I just lost my dog at about 11 1/2 years old. He wasn't a puppy anymore, that's for sure - and for a labrador that always behaved like one that was hard to see. The loss was tough. As best I can tell some kind of heart attack.I was busy out for the day with a young family and put him out in the morning. When he didn't come in after lunch I thought nothing of it - he'd done that before. When I couldn't find him that night I went searching everywhere. He'd collapsed getting off an old couch we have in the back. By the time I found him he was cold and stiff. That was hard to take. But all that is selfish - *I* want him around. When I think of the dog, he still seemed happy a good amount of the time. He'd started having trouble with hip dysplasia so he couldn't jump up on things as easily anymore, and as I said he wasn't a puppy. There was nothing in him screaming "kill me now, I'm in pain". Every animal including humans feel pain as they age. That's natural. So long as there's still some quality of life I'd be in no rush to terminate it.
It seems during this economic downturn companies have started throwing caution to the wind in an attempt to ravenously feed on each others still warm carcasses. What you'll end up with is a period of heavily suppressed innovation and increasingly locked down and crippled devices, software and services no one will be willing to part with money for. It's all going to shit!
There are very specific laws and regulations dealing with where you can and can't fly hobby remote control aircraft, and not just in Australia. A small lightweight aircraft can be deadly. Even a small weight moving quickly can be very dangerous. (Heck a small treebranch fell on me at the local zoo on a windy day about a week ago and the damn thing felt like I'd been clubbed unexpectedly with a baseball bat. Presumably it fell from a good height). Add a propeller and now you have a nice mix master missle coming out of the sky at you. It's not just theoretical. People have been killed by hobby r/c aircraft. People have lost fingers on the ground just starting the things. So you're not permitted to fly above people. Now I grant you these drones will be more sophisticated and presumably have a failsafe should a control signal be lost, but things can and will go wrong. How long before someone is killed or maimed?
Drones? Really? Canberra already has enough speed cameras everywhere!
And elected drones too.
Except for a small portion of the populace, all of those things are better controlled via diet and exercise. Ultimately, if you're too lazy to take care of yourself, perhaps you shouldn't expect to live to be a hundred.
Legitimate question: Do you really want that last 20 years? There are healthy prosperous people at 80+ but they are the exception not the rule. Is that time you spend in your youth keeping healthy going to be repaid at the end of your life with extended misery?
So their parents, or the state should decide for them?
The euthanasia debate is complex enough when it is a terminal adult and we can't agree to what to do there. Throw a terminally ill child into the mix and it becomes extremely difficult. The issue of suffering is still there. The potential for various conflict of interests is still there. But now you have a child who has little experience, a shorter life and probably not the maturity to understand what they're doing. Very rough. As a parent I hope I'm never in that position with my children. I'd like to think I'd do the best for them regardless of the consequences to myself but I cannot imagine ending one of my children's lives or allowing anyone to without exhausting every bit of fight I have in me. Fortunately it's all hypothetical - who knows how I'd behave. Sincerely hope I never find out.
It's a bit dark to think about, but perhaps some terminally ill children might opt for euthanasia, and they would be the right age group for this kind of thing.
They're not in a position, legally or morally, to understand what they're doing and give consent to end their lives.
I run linux in a VM, till now happy with the performace. Why mess around with dual boot, grub,lilo etc?
For the same reason you don't run Linux and then Windows in a VM. Not everything works or is usable on a VM.
Stop trolling.
Leaving aside the obvious contradiction in these two statements, the scenario you described isn't really how this works. If someone did steal your card, yes they would be able to buy a few cups of coffee with it, despite not having a pin or signature.
They could go to every shop that accepts this and buy something under the limit $35. So they won't be able to buy a TV doing this. But how about stockpiling groceries? Or taking the whole gang to the local mall for takeout (limit of $35 per store guys)
Now what if my wife lost her card and didn't notice. She can sometimes go a week without using it.
A few of the languages are supported by reusing existing "Foolang in Javascript" interpreters...
I've never heard of "foolang". Is it any good?
Foolang me once, shame on you. Foolang me twice, shame on me!!!
Shit, that's what I get for opening a browser tab and not actually replying for seven hours: my comment below will be modded 'Redundant: -1' (when the point should be for you, 'Funny: +1')
I do that quite a bit on slashdot unfortunately. It's worse when it's a long comment and you can't be arsed re-typing it.
When a 3d printer can make a decent skimming device (or disguise one) you can't help but think the system is truly broken
Spare us the dramatics. I'm not sure what "system" you're claiming is broken, or what you expect "computer security" to do about intercepting input from a human before it ever reaches the actual computer.
I think you're confused as to what an ATM "skimmer" really is- it's a physical device you place over the keypad and card-reader which harvests the data while seamlessly passing the input to the ATM itself. A camera is used to observe the display. If you've got some kind of specific idea on how to defeat such fraud, then by all means post it instead of your pointless doom-and-gloom whining.
Ever heard of 2 way verification? The ATM verifies the credit card. The credit card (or I would suggest usb dongle) should verify the ATM and not allow passthrough skimming operations.
Uh, what do you suggest? Physical security is harder than digital - you can verify a crypto signature all you want, but how do you verify that you're dealing with the bank's card reader and not a fake one? Screw that, how do you verify that the ATM itself isn't fake?
Smart credit card, small onboard chip, and PGP would be one way. Wouldn't need to be a "card" either. Could be a small USB dongle.
When a 3d printer can make a decent skimming device (or disguise one) you can't help but think the system is truly broken. Computer security has progressed in leaps and bounds - it isn't perfect and it certainly isn't idiot proof. But banks are still using hand written signatures and easily faked devices while all but ignoring the risk. Heck they're introducing pinless low value transactions at shopping centers in Australia. I'm ANNOYED that my card can be used without either a signature or a pin number verification being used. It means there's significant risk that me or my wife lose a credit card and don't immediately discover it, we'll be up for a very large sum of money. And even if we're not, we won't have access to the money while the issue is resolved.
It's not sustainable. The banks need to be held more accountable.
"Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang has stated that he aims to make Nvidia's Tegra the company's main focus, moving away from the discrete graphics that has been the company's bread and butter in the past."
Sounds like they'll balls up their graphics chips just to become another low power CPU firm. Bad plan. Bad for gamers. Bad for employees. Bad for everyone.